Does truth exist? Does God exist? Are miracles possible? Is the New Testament True? Find out how the scientific, archeological, and historical evidence point to “YES” with Dr. Frank Turek streaming LIVE from Utah Valley University (Student Life & Wellness Center) in Orem, UT. The presentation is followed by Q&A.
⏱ 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗦/𝗦𝗘𝗚𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 ⏱
0:00 – Audience
9:43 – Intro
10:40 – Presentation
19:52 – Does Truth exist?
42:45 – Does God exist?
1:21:30 – Are miracles possible?
1:29:10 – Is the New Testament true?
1:54:20 – If Jesus is sinless, how do we reconcile Jesus eating a non-kosher meal in Genesis?
1:56:00 – If Jesus took our punishment of eternal suffering, why isn’t he suffering eternally?
1:58:25 – Can witchcraft affect Christians?
2:00:44 – If God is all-powerful but allows evil, is he still good?
2:06:33 – If the universe cannot have an infinite past, how can God?
2:08:15 – How to find the right approach when sharing the gospel?
2:12:06 – Who created evil and what is its purpose?
2:17:04 – How can we have free will if all our steps have already been planned?
2:20:55 – Does a good God harden people’s hearts?
2:23:52 – How can I respond to people who doubt the divinity of Jesus?
2:37:13 – Did God create the universe because He was lacking something?
2:39:44 – How can I live out my Christian life in a way that my non-believing family might be open to Jesus?
2:44:42 – What is your opinion on capital punishment?
2:46:43 – If God knew everything, why create the world and then start over again after the flood?
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No faith required considering the epicurean paradox. Some would try to escape the paradox with free will, but logic dictates free will (choice selection) must be deterministic.
To God be the glory.
I don’t have enough evidence to be a Christian
Jesus Saves.
I love watching the q and a's on these. Basically he admits he doesn't know why God allows evil but thinks babies dying could lead to a good thing… If u don't know why or don't ask, then that's why people take issue with ur God and evil.
He also admits he doesn't know how God can create time in a universe since they wouldn't have a time to do it in…
I'm glad he is finally admitting he doesn't know alot of this. Well that's why we don't believe ur thing
Just a quick thought for today. It has to do with getting to know who God is. I can already hear you protest, "I know God, we have a relationship and talk all the time." Well, hear me out.
Do you know that creation is the most excruciating, torturous act for God to have undertaken? You've heard atheists say that there cannot be a just and good God with all the evil that is evident on the earth, right? And then we Christians cringe and try to reconcile, justify, explain and sort through a multitude of scriptures to show that this does not dispense with reason in our belief system. But, it remains a sore point, even if it is inevitable.
You see, it is true that God had to create the possibility for evil, he had to allow both life and death, blessing and curse, if there was to be any free will or choice. And, love would be meaningless unless it was a free choice. When the Bible proclaims that God creates good and evil, it doesn't mean that he perpetrated the evil acts, but he allows the evil to exist as perpetrated by men. He also allows the natural order of things, as corrupted and interfered with by men and angels alike to form the natural disasters and mindless evil we see in creation.
It is true that God does not interfere with these realities by sticking his finger in the pie every time evil occurs. If he did, there would be no reliable law, no cause and effect and no science. As already stated, there would also be no choice, no consequence to actions and no love.
But, God suffers the incredible agony of the evil he allows – all of it – every day in all its excruciating fullness and detail. As Pablo Picasso famously said, "every act of creation is first ask an act of destruction." So God had to first destroy and daily destroys and deconstructs his own nature in order to endure the creation. But he has a limit.
At the time of Noah, the word says – Gen 6:5 "The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. 6The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled." This is the torture our loving Father endures moment-by-moment in order that He may have communion (a simple loving relationship and discussion/prayer) with at least a small number of the people he created.
Before you suffered injustice or pain, before Yeshua hung on the cross, God has suffered every intolerable torture and pain ever inflicted in creation. All with the purpose of knowing you. But the time of fullness is near, when God will say, "enough!" Seek the LORD today, before the curtain closes on this act. Spend some time with the Creator and let him know how you appreciate his sacrifice for you.
TRUST GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS,……………AMEN
History and prophesies prove the bible , for example The statue of Nebuchadnezzar', The destruction of the Jewish temple it happened as JESUS said it would,
Poor girl "I just believe what I believe." That is an example of true blind faith. Even if the evidence were to tell her that Jesus is God, she would still deny it.
That is why I would rather argue with atheists than with a religious person who is stubborn in believing what they believe 'and that's that', regardless of the evidence.
I truly feel bad for them.
I mean, if there really is no God, I wouldn't stay stubborn in my beliefs. I would be an atheist. But the evidence for God is so good, that I can't rule him out. And in my own life experiences I have experienced supernatural things. As a kid I used to live in a haunted house. It was a 50/50 thing. Some days things would move around and you would hear noises during the night. Our dishes were being moved around, chairs, the electric stove would tik like if someone was trying to turn it on, but no one was near it, and at one point while I was taking a shower with my little brother, I felt someone touch my butt. The door was locked, I was at the end of the shower and I had a full view of my brother so I know it wasn't him who did it. So then I thought that maybe it was my older brother messing with me or that it was one of my cousins who were there at the time. I even opened the shower a bit to peak out, but there was no one there. I only realized after we were done and got out that the door had been locked the whole time so no one could have gotten in regardless of how fast it happened. And then other times nothing would happen for weeks. My older brother even saw a pale girl on the stairs once.
But even the atheists aren't sure if there is a God or not. Science focuses on the material, not on the supernatural/immaterial realm. That's why we'll never truly know what gravity is. It's an immaterial thing. All we can ever describe it as is "A force."
Guys I always download these podcasts. Why is there no option to download?
Amen "the only thing you can't lose is Jesus" glory to King Jesus.
Romans 5:1-2 💝
2:16:26 All true Christians would be alive because of our justification in Jesus Christ, glory to King Jesus. 👑
Romans 5:1-2
Like to se him do a Ted Talk
The Mormons Theology: He said, “For we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do” (2 Nephi 25:23).
The Word of GOD Romans 11:6 "And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.
When engaged in apologetics these days I find it easier now that I have separated my faith from Judaism, and so therefore I don't have to answer for the usual questions that arise from what was said in the Old Testament except to explain as below:
I feel as though I have good footing based upon Hebrews 1: 1-2 and 2 Corinthians 3:6.
If Jesus is The Father revealed then I should have no personal moral conflict between his life and his testimony by the other New Testament authors, as opposed to anything contradictory which Moses Isaiah et al, have written about the nature of God.
Most of the New Testament was written for the express purpose of divesting new believers from Judaism and the law. It's incredible how much that in modern Western society we have re-embraced and depended ourselves upon that very thing which we were delivered from by the complete work of the Cross.
FRANK, DO YOUR THING AN, SAVE AS MANY AS YOU CAN.
To be…
The last guy had a mafia boss look and aura.
What a whole load of garbage
//2:39:44 – How can I live out my Christian life in a way that my non-believing family might be open to Jesus?//
I wouldn't worry. It's quite likely that non-believing family members:-
a. Get though life as well as do believers, and
b. Have very good reasons for rejecting the claims of believers.
Besides, if any did become believers, there is every chance that according to other Christians, that newfound belief would be damnable heresy. If a non-believing family member could be helped in some way by taking on religious belief, then fine. But don't count on it. Christians and Christendom have an awful lot of cleaning up of their own houses to do first, before they can realistically point the finger at the rest of the world.
It doesn’t take faith to be an atheist.
You have been doing this long enough know that saying such a thing is misrepresenting atheism. As well and many of the things you talk about regarding science and scientists and atheists.
I encourage any theists out there to engage in honest respectful adult conversation about these things. Learn to ask us about the what and why’s and such and then listen to the responses. Getting your information about atheists from an apologist never works out.
If you want to talk about atheism or science or then let’s have a good respectful dialogue.
Highly educated people; wanting to know the truth; what about the books that you write to entrap the innocent force them to go to court you know they cannot afford an attorney and you get the money that they were filing a claim for justice is blind I don't think so you know what I'm talking about have truth!!!.
In your opening statement Dr. Frank you mention things that were right and wrong. You mention a country invading another unprovoked sovereign country. Where are you referring to the evil country of Russia invading the kindhearted ( Child porn capital of the world) Ukraine? Or was it the wonderful Christian nation America invading Iraq and killing a half 1 million children in which Madeleine Albright says it was all worth it? Please respond. Be careful when you mix world politics with the Bible.
Keeping going Dr Frank Turek God be with you
What you get here is Frank promoting his favorite book – an anonymous collection of Hebrew literature from Bronze Age tribes living on the Sinai Peninsula.
His doctorate is in Bible study.
Morality is just an opinion. It is.