Sometimes sharing your faith can be tricky. Is there a way to initiate a spiritual discussion without immediately scaring someone off? Our friend and apologist Greg Koukl share a simple question you can ask to engage in a friendly yet meaningful conversation.
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@midlander4 Says:
Rather than a crappy script tree, why not bring some actual evidence guys?
@DevonWilson-n9j Says:
I don't have enough faith to be an atheist.
@dabbler1166 Says:
So.....what about Near-Death Experiences? Are they real? Are they a deception?
You've heard the story. People claim to have been "out of their body"....went through some dark "tunnel"...met some "being of Light" and felt a feeling of such deep love...had some "Life Review"....came back....no longer fears death. Usually, although some folks have reported a bad/negative experience. But here's what's weird:
For all the many testimonies we have: why is it that NO ONE asks the "being of Light":
1. Who are YOU? What is your Name? (it could lie to you, but still...why doesnt at least somebody ask?)
2. Where are we in this "tunnel". Where is everybody else? My parents, kids, husband, wife, grand-parents, etc.?
3. Are YOU God? If not, who do you serve? (No one asks. Why not?)
4. If I stay with you (the Being of Light), where will you take me?
5. Who is Jesus? Do YOU serve him? Is he higher than you? (Again, no one asks. Why not?)
Is the being-of-Light masquerading as "an Angel of Light"? Is this deception? Is there a way for us to know?
@e.n.6079 Says:
I have asked this question sometimes, and when people say that there is nothing I really don't know what to respond to that.
@gabriellameattray9778 Says:
Im curious, what do you think happens when we die?
@JamesRichardWiley Says:
Instead of introducing a faith based Bible character named "god" why not start a conversation about reality containing real people and real events?
@speedmode_ison1029 Says:
Why is there always groups of atheists/skeptics that follow content like this and comment how they disagree? Why spend your time watching videos you know you won’t like?
@jamesw4250 Says:
When we die that's it. The end. Our body begins to decay. We don't go to some presupposed afterlife.
@Theo_Skeptomai Says:
I find that the great majority, if not all, Christians do not want to _discuss_ Christ so much as to proselytize.
If anyone is interested in discussing Christ, I welcome the opportunity. But _please_ presume I understand the tenets of Christianity (I am not claiming such) far better than you, and we can proceed productively. I was a born-again evangelical Christian for eight years and do not need to be proselytized. I have read the NT in its entirety more than 30 times and no longer need to be informed as to its message.
Rather, I am interested as to why you continue to be a Christian, just as I hope you're curious as to why I eventually deconverted to a position of atheism.
@debiwallace2131 Says:
My question is. WHAT ARE YOU TRUSTING IN TO GET YOU TO HEAVEN?
@AnnoyingMoose Says:
Everyone has the right to their own opinion no matter how wrong it is.
@brianmendenhall8387 Says:
Love it Greg and Frank....that's great advice....it's somewhat intimidating to bring up the gospel in today's culture....I like also maybe saying "do you believe in an afterlife? ....heaven? It's non invasive and will definitely get your second question going into how you can show them how to have eternal life and.....how to not end up in hell suffering all of eternity
@spooky6902 Says:
Im an atheist. To answer Greg's two questions:
1. I believe when I die my conciousness will cease to exist
2. The reason I believe that is all of the evidence indicates that my conciousness is an emergent property of my functioning brain. When the brain is changed, the conciousness changes. When the brain is destroyed, the conciousness is nowhere to be found.
@stephenkaake7016 Says:
I am Jesus, thats a conversation starter
@somerandom3247 Says:
i actually like this one. fair question, and a great way to start the conversation.
I think for the person, when they die the lights go out and that's it for them. Our ability to experience in any way is tied to the functions of our body. If those functions stop, so does our ability to experience anything.
@Godlimate Says:
“You” are made up of the universe. The universe (matter & energy) exists forever. “You” exist forever.
It’s just that “You” has been quantified to a single integer based on how things are seen spatially. But what about temporally?
We’d then ask about mass. At what point does mass gained become you? At what point does mass lost become less of you and becomes someone/something else?
Are we not all connected?
I just think this individual self is borrowed from the universe. It isn’t separate or unique from the universe if that is essentially what we are made of.
So the question “where did you come from?” makes assumptions about us as unique individuals, when in fact we are constituents of a bigger whole that always existed.
@hansdemos6510 Says:
I actually think that is a good question as a conversation starter, but I dislike the obvious duplicity behind it for Dr. Turek as well as Mr. Koukl.
It is clear that although Mr. Koukl tells us to show respect for the views expressed by our interlocutor, that respect only functions as a ruse to get into proselytizing mode. This is not real respect, is it. He basically tells us to just feign respect in order to explore which weakness in our interlocutor's position we can exploit to our benefit. Mr. Koukl is only interested in his interlocutor's views to the extent that he can make use of them for his own purposes. That is a thoroughly selfish and disrespectful stance.
@newcreationinchrist1423 Says:
I like it guys! Nice approach. God bless 🙂🙏✝️
@michelangelope830 Says:
I talk to open minded people willing to tolerate different ideas that contradict your own. The truth would leave you rattled because you are deceived. It is impossible the existence of the creation without the creator, therefore God exists, however the concept of religion is so absurd that only fools willing to believe whatever for the empty promise of eternal happiness would not understand the deception. Life is not a joke that was created from nothing like atheists believe and there are eternal serious consequences for being wrong living unethically hurting God’s Creation. The debate between religious people and atheists is bloody encysted because God exists and the intelligent creator of the universe is not a personification of oneself to worship, obey and fear under threat for the empty promise of eternal happiness, because there is not life without death and happiness without unhappiness. Religious people believe that sacrificing themselves worshipping an imaginary god somehow they would be rewarded for their behavior and they are wrong because on knowing the truth they would feel deceived by a lie that looks like a lie, ridiculous, absurd, and the hell is justly for eternity, because life is not a joke and the creator took seriously the creation. To end the war in Ukraine and test how good person religion made you the discovery that atheism is a logical fallacy has to be news. Atheism is a logical fallacy that assumes God is the religious idea of the creator of the creation to conclude wrongly that no creator exists because a particular idea of God doesn’t exist. The atheist logical fallacy would test your IQ and the error in reasoning is easy to understand being honest and impossible lying to oneself. Future generations would judge humanity as the dumbest or most dishonest. The proof that atheism is a cult I escaped out of being honest is that atheists wouldn't be able to prove their own existence to themselves if the logical conclusion is that God exists and lose their children believing without questions asked that gambling causes a brain disease. Who benefits having an imbecile society that hurt innocent and vulnerable children? God is the first uncaused cause that the kalam cosmological argument talks about, everything that ever existed, exist and would exist, reality, Timeand Space transforming. God can not be deceived and justly everybody would know all reality to experience perfect hell and heaven eternally. The cult wants you ignorant believing in the impossible to hurt you.
@zerosteel0123 Says:
Amen
@Thundawich Says:
Nothings happens when you die? Why would I think that?
Because thats what we think of all other biological matter. I don't wonder whether or not the grass goes to heaven when it dies, what makes people any different?
@dokidokibibleclub Says:
Thank you Greg and Frank
@Disciple793 Says:
Answers to these 3 existential questions can give some hidden clues about where someone is at in their life. 1. Where did you come from? Why are you here? Where are you going? There is only one worldview that can answer these questions. Christianity.
@ryanrockstarsessom768 Says:
Thank you
@trinahaifa2860 Says:
Dr. T, a few days ago my new neighbor Ashley, had a pink rock with her, and she put it down on the counter. I immediately recognized it, and I started to ask several questions. Ultimately, she believed in energy, but she couldn't answer any of my questions but told me that she feels the energy.
I made all the points I've learned from you and your amazing colleagues. She finally said, "I believe in Jesus" and that she is still seeking answers. I did not want to push anymore cus I was grateful it made her think! Dr T I forgot what exact scriptures say this, but it says that you will share in the rewards for all of those who are led to beleave as a result of you even if you don't speak to them directly. Today she asked me to pray for her and asked me if I would say a blessing over her. I THINK she might have overheard me saying the Aaronic blessing to my son over the phone. I said the blessing over her! It just wasn't the right time to confirm if she accepted Jesus, but that is my next goal to ask that question.
@williamhutcheson6511 Says:
I think/believe/hope that postmortem we become incorporeal and eternal like the God that fashioned us.
@willievanstraaten1960 Says:
Greg: “0:23 “uh I'm curious what do you think happens when you die this is a genuine question”
Nothing happens. Dead means end, nothing after that.
@willievanstraaten1960 Says:
Frank: “Where you could then use these TACTICS”
Unbelievable, more apologetic tactics.
What about truth, facts, and knowledge?
@nicholasemond1388 Says:
My answer would be that I do not know. I imagine it would be nothing like before my birth but I cant’t know for sure.
@autumnknight8710 Says:
Frank, you and Greg are having a conversation regarding a topic of "first contact" with someone 'assuming' that the person is going to give you a rational answer - or answer you at all. REALLY ?
@jackalsgate1146 Says:
Christians never needed a reason (before) to start a spiritual conversation.
They just force their way in whether you like it or not; cause, it's their responsibility to save you, for your own good, of course.
@JiraiyaSama86 Says:
I can see where certain people will go with this. Especially the ones that think that there is no after. And if the thought is that there is no after, it can pretty much explain a lot of what they do.
There's so many branches that this conversation can go right into.
@jeffphelps1355 Says:
There are many people who will be eager and willing to hear the gospel. God will guide you to them. You may plant a seed that will eventually sprout many yrs later. There are things I heard 30 yrs ago that still resonate with me when it comes to the Bible😮
@NayBuster Says:
Infinite Regress Eternal (IRE):
atheists, to save themselves from the embarrassment of the worldview/their belief that:
-Something came from nothing.
Have now moved on to the belief that:
-The universe is eternal, aka without a beginning.
So let's take their atheism at face value and follow it to its logical conclusion.
Again.
-The universe is eternal. It didn't begin to exist.
-The causes of the universe itself had a cause since something non-being has a way it works which doesn't change without a cause.
-So without it would remain how it was eternally before it left an effect.
-The universe is all there is so the chain of causality is restricted solely to the universe itself.
-The universe began an eternity ago.
Basically you get somewhere without a starting point.
-That doesn't make sense.
Yes, that's the whole point.
From nonsense to nonsense. No progress.
This infinite regress can only be averted by the universe beginning to exist which can only be by God.
So by the law of excluded middle, the universe did begin to exist by God.
God, the eternal being who can cause the universe to begin to exist by choice without being bound by the laws of causality.
But by itself.
On the contrary, you get a non-being eternal universe with an infinite regress of causality. The progress without a beginning, an impossibility.
-Why can't X? Why is X impossible? Prove it.
Because and it is proven by the non-existence of a possibility for X.
Example: A possibility to undo the past does not exist, so it's impossible to undo the past.
Basically we have God, a possibility where the contrary, no God, is impossible.
-If "everything" has to begin to exist, then what caused God to begin to exist?
Loaded question.
-Special pleading.
Double loaded, first prove how the same standards of a non-being like the eternal universe's has to apply to an eternal being.
You don't insist someone to disprove your rebuttal which is an assertion which you haven't proven.
Which is basically defending atheism in action in a nutshell.
@MrFirstdance2000 Says:
My opening question to anyone..."How are things between you and God?" Their answer, no matter what it is, will tell you exactly what the conversation should be!
@frankcardano4142 Says:
What does he mean about all of this going on right now?
@mikejurney9102 Says:
In other words, you want us to pretend that we don't have an agenda when we fain questioning about an issue that has been firmly established in our minds.
@cisuminocisumino3250 Says:
Ecclesiastes 12:7
"and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it."
2 Corinthians 5:8
"We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."
@MarkKamoski Says:
Saint Jude, pray for us.
@kinggenius930 Says:
Sorry Frank, I don't have enough evidence to be a Christian
@thatomofolo452 Says:
Campus
@larzman651 Says:
I just talk about GOD and some people join in. Where am I going when I die? Heaven. That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the LORD JESUS and shalt believe in thy heart that GOD raised him from the dead thou shalt be Saved 🙌 for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation
@festushaggen2563 Says:
Judging by how most people reacted to C-19 3 years ago, I'd say there's a gripping fear of death. There's good reason for the unbelievers fear though. For one, they've been told by the science community that they'll be annihilated because they're only here by way of a cosmic accident but moreso, deep down they know God exists, that they're not right with Him and that He will hold them accountable for their lives according to His laws.
What should drive them to the cross in repentance instead drives them to make irrational decisions like covering their mouths on demand and taking experimental shots. Only God can bring peace to that fearful heart.
@jaymichael91 Says:
I don't think anyone knows for certain. So, I only have HOPE it'll be the greatest experience I've ever had, and I'll be as aware as I am now.
@macmac1022 Says:
#1 If you were brainwashed would you know it?
#2 If someone said they had a test for brainwashing, would you want to take it?
#3 If they then said, if you cannot answer these questions, that means your brainwashed, would you be giving it 100% effort to answer those questions?
All criminals are caught red handed of murder 100% guilty and show no remorse. The judges always apply the perfect amount of punishment. All things being equal and for arguments sake.
Now I will give an example. There are 4 judges and 10 guilty criminals. Judge #1 orders punishment for all 10 criminals and does not forgive without punishment a single one. Judge #2 forgives without punishment all 10 criminals. Judge #3 forgives without punishment 9 of them and punishes 1 of them. Judge #4 punishes 9 of them and forgives without punishment 1 of them.
#1 Which judge is the most/maximally just?
#2 Which judge is the most/maximally forgiving?
#3 Is judge #3 either most/maximally forgiving or most just?
#4 Is judge #4 most/maximally forgiving or most just?
#5 Is it possible for any judge to be both most/maximally forgiving and most/maximally just?
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