My REACTION To These Atheist TikToks mocks atheists for claiming God’s existence is disproven by natural disasters like Indonesia’s 2004 tsunami ($15B damage) and Haiti’s 2010 quake (230K dead), while dismissing biblical poetic license as "ironic." Contradictions—Genesis 32:30 vs. John 1:18, Judges 1:19’s iron chariots—are cited alongside Luke 14:26’s divisive "hate" command. Atheist skepticism of Jesus’ miracles (water to wine, Lazarus’ resurrection) is ridiculed as cherry-picking, with demands for proof of His love or resurrection beyond doubt. The episode ends by framing religious openness as superior to atheists’ "clownish insupidity," reinforcing a defensive biblical stance. [Automatically generated summary]
This time I have to watch TikTok videos in which atheists disprove the Bible.
Good luck to them.
If they do, they win a free knife set.
So, you know, I don't know, they can go home and stick one in their forehead and open their minds.
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All right, let's take a look at these atheists disproving the Bible.
As a scientist, do you believe in God?
Every description of God that I've heard holds God to be all-powerful, very typical, and all good.
And then I look around and I see a tsunami that killed a quarter million people in Indonesia, an earthquake that killed a quarter million people in Haiti.
And I see earthquakes and tornadoes and disease, childhood, leukemia.
And I see all of this and I say, I do not see evidence of both of those being true simultaneously.
If there is a God, the God is either not all-powerful or not all good.
He cannot be all good.
Good answer.
I like the thoughtful, there's Chelsea Handler.
I like Neil deGrasse Tyson, you know, the science popularizer.
And I love them like her saying, hmm, as if no one has ever thought of this before.
It's an entire book of the Bible.
Job is asking this question and meditating on this question.
But I love the sort of, hmm, wow, wow, too bad.
There's nothing about that in the Bible.
This is called theodicy because maybe it should be called idiodicy, but it's called theodicy.
It's an entire study.
And yes, it is very, very hard for us to understand.
Now, there are lots of reasons why there is evil in the world, even though God is all-powerful and all-good.
One of the most commonly noted is because God cites freedom very, very highly because you cannot come to love God, which is your purpose and your joy and the thing that will make you into the full human being you were made to be instead of the scurvy little being you are now.
You can't love God unless you're free, utterly free to love God.
And to be utterly free, you have to live in a world that appears to you to be random.
The world doesn't appear to God to be random, but to you, it appears to be random.
And you have to live in that world.
Now, that's not very comforting when terrible things happen.
And so I never use that kind of theodicy to get past actual suffering.
But this is a huge, huge philosophical study that has gone on for years.
And I'm glad that Neil deGrasse Tyson has finally discovered it.
And Chelsea Handler is so fascinating.
All right, move on.
Oh, this is going to be fun.
The Bible says that God created man as is when it's been proven that man evolved.
There's no linguistic evidence for the Tower of Babel story.
In Leviticus, insects are described as having four legs.
Insects have six legs.
The Bible said that the mustard seed is the smallest seed.
It's not.
It also says that ants work independently from other ants when it's pretty well known by now that ants work in a colony.
Rabbits don't chew their cud.
The Bible gets the value of pie wrong.
Moses talks about Palestine in the Bible.
Palestine wasn't called that at the time.
Deuteronomy chapter 7, verses 17 to 19 talks about the kings of Israel.
Israel didn't have kings at the time.
And one of my favorites, it says that if a cattle sees a striped pole while it's pregnant, the offspring will be born striped.
Do you need more examples or are you good?
No, I've lost my faith now seeing that God could create a woman that ridiculous.
Why would he do that?
I don't know.
Why would an all-powerful, all-good God create that woman?
It cannot be all good.
I can't answer that question, so I've lost my faith.
But of course, the Bible is written by men.
It's inspired by God, but it's not like the Quran where it's like written by God.
It's written by men.
And the men sometimes, you know, like they would say things poetically, but they would also say things in exaggerated form.
And they would also make mistakes about what they were seeing because they weren't scientific men.
The question is, were they in a relationship with God?
And I think if you read the Bible closely, you will come to find out, oh, yes, they were.
But she thinks that because science, some of the science that she's thinking about comes after the Bible, that means that the people who wrote the Bible were not having an experience with God.
That's a silly thing to think.
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Insisting On Scripture00:05:06
If you think there's a contradiction in the Bible, that means you really need a Bible study.
Well, let's have one.
Everybody open up your Bibles to Genesis 32.30.
Jacob named the place Penniel, which means face of God, for he said, I have seen the face of God, yet my life has been spared.
This directly contradicts John 1.18, where it says, no one has ever seen the face of God.
It says in Matthew 19, 26, Jesus looked at them intently and said, humanly speaking, it is impossible, but with God, everything is possible.
But apparently, it's not possible for God to conquer iron chariots because it says in Judges 1.19, the Lord was with the people of Judah and they took possession of the hill country, but they failed to drive out the people living in the plains who had iron chariots.
Luke 14, 26, if you want to be my disciple, you must, by comparison, hate everyone else.
Your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, even your own life.
Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple.
Those four contradictions that took me approximately five minutes to read into.
Make sure to read your Bible.
I got to ask, I wonder how many of these people are going to become believers.
Because if you don't believe, why are you even looking at the Bible?
Why are you searching so desperately through the Bible for what you think are contradictions?
And again, I'm not a literalist, by the way.
There are some people who believe that they have to reconcile every word in the Bible.
No, I think there are legends in the Bible.
I think there are parables, obviously, in the Bible.
There are stories.
There are myths in the Bible, all of these things.
But there's an awful lot of history that has been proved to be true as well, an amazing amount.
And I just think that the fascination, the desperation is really a struggle with God.
And the thing I've learned about struggling with God is a lot of times he wins.
You better hope he wins because things go much better when God wins than when you win.
But I'm fascinated.
I'm fascinated these guys are so intensely interested.
What else?
It is 100% certain that a Jesus the Christ that performed miracles never ever existed.
I don't care what the theologians say.
I don't care about the idea of maybe a Jesus existed.
Maybe he was this way.
Maybe he was that way.
What's for sure?
No man ever turned water to wine.
We'll just have water.
No man ever raised the dead.
No human ever walked on water.
No human being, it is impossible.
In the words of Respuchia, never happened.
No, Lazarus did not come forth out of a tomb.
When a body decomposes human beings, it decomposes.
It never reverses.
Listen, if you can't believe that guy, who can you believe, right?
I mean, who could have faith after this guy?
He just told you that those things never happened.
What else is there to say?
Well, I don't even, I know I've lost my faith.
You know, one of the funny things about that video is like all Christians believe exactly what he just said.
Every Christian believes, every God-believing person believes exactly what he said.
You can't raise people from the dead.
You can't walk on water.
You can't feed 5,000 people with a loaf of bread.
We all believe that.
That's why it's called a miracle.
That's why we believe in Jesus Christ.
I couldn't do it.
However, I should say that that's why I did believe in Jesus Christ now that I've heard this guy.
I don't know his name, but now I believe in him.
Jesus loves you.
Really?
Show me.
Prove it.
One scripture where Jesus tells anybody that he loves them.
Just one.
One scripture where those words come out of Jesus' mouth.
Action speaks louder than words.
He died for us.
Really?
Really?
He didn't really die, though, did he?
He rose again.
He just had three days off.
So yeah.
Next time you say, Jesus loves you, think again.
All right.
Well, at least he got a vacation.
I swear, I swear.
About half of those people are going to become believers.
I thought that was really funny.
I just like the insistence, the absolute insistence.
They're much more doctrinaire and fundamentalist than most of the religious people I know.
You know, most of the religious people I know kind of think about things and they compare real life to faith and they worry over their faith.
But these people are absolutely certain by God.
And again, if you cannot listen to that guy sitting in his car, wherever he's sitting, telling you that Jesus doesn't love you, you know, who are you going to believe?
The Bible?
That's ridiculous.
All right.
I can't take this anymore.
I'm going home.
I'm going home to read my Bible.
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