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- Cliffe Knechtle has a great conversation with college students at a campus in the southwest US.
The "Give Me An Answer" ministry began as an outgrowth of the dialogues Cliffe Knechtle has had with students on various university campuses throughout the United States. These universities include the University of Maine, Harvard, MIT, University of Florida, University of Texas, University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota, University of California Los Angeles, University of California San Diego, Berkeley, Stanford, University of Hawaii and the University of Washington. Cliffe spoke on these campuses in front of the Student Union or Library at noon for five to ten minutes. At the close of his initial remarks, he'd open up the time for questions and answers, which usually turned into a two to four hour dialogue with students. His crowd size ranged from 25 - 500 students at a time, and between classes, new students would join the discussion. This is an extremely effective way to reach a large number of university students with the Gospel of Christ.
This guy is asking the right questions.
Also, excellent responses
Those who deny God already presumed the Bible is corrupted and has no basis at all,they even confuse it with myths.May the Holy Spirit fill them with God's love.
I always enjoyed listening to you, during these back and forth conversations/debates with the students. I used to watch, years ago, when I still lived in Bpt., CT. Now I watch from NC, and am still very blessed by your teachings. May God continue to bless you and your ministry. Ahmein! 😌🌹🙏🏽
His shirt says ..elevate Uganda ❤...I'm from Uganda... happy to be here... Praise JESUS CHRIST
Shut the heck up. The guy wearing that shirt doesn't even believe in god
To the atheist argument that people “come up” with moral values, the answer is values are not invented. They are DISCOVERED, which explain why they have remained constant throughout, and implies they have always been. Thus, proving they are absolute.
I heard Jordan Peterson casually say “discovery of values” and it clicked in me this way.
I 100% agree.
This is the same reason why 2+2=5 is one of the most irrational, erroneous, and dangerous concepts in human history. For math is not a social construct made by us. It was made as apart of this world as something we discovered
@@aviatordanz exactly. Humans aren't needed. Just thinking about it though, it's amazing that we were given life to discover these things. They're a concept that we were created to share, and understand. Something as simple as math
Thanks for sharing these discussions, I really enjoy them cliff 😁 keep them coming brother!
I sure love Cliffs’ mind. He has obviously thought through all these issues.
These videos are so interesting and informative... Thanks Cliffe.
Praise JESUS the KING of kings and LORD of lords.
Thank you!
3 massive assertions in 48 seconds: well done.
No kidding!
This pastor is a great Apologetics teacher.
Hardcore Absolute Fact: The moment any life form depends on ALL things besides God, The more chaos and decay occurs in humanity!
FACT: A huge amount if society can differentiate the significant differences between old and new testament covenants! Our schooling education is responsible for this failure! Knowledge has become too watered down toward the wisdom humanity needs to differentiate!
Amen !
Romans 1: 18-22 YOU ALL KNOW THAT GOD EXIST... YOU SUPRESS THE TRUTH IN UNRIGHTEOUS TO LIVE FOR YOUR SIN....
John 10:11
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
Cliffe brought back the real religion. The gospel about Christ, God, and the Holy Spirit ❤.
Cliffe
Because you are so used to being at the coal face where you’ve been for such a long time, you don’t actually realise you need a long holiday somewhere new, like Europe, for both you and your wife. This will greatly benefit the two of you. No preaching or teaching. Just relaxing. Ok it’s going to cost a few bucks, so what!!
But not for 3 weeks or 365 days. But for at least 3 months. Preferably more. It’s a marathon that we run and if we want to go the distance we need to pace ourselves accordingly.
Those of you in his church should organise it for your pastor.
The servant of all,
That’s me,
That’s Paul.
I'll be a guide if you need one
I suppose it’s because I am a completely uneducated person, although hopefully not an ignoramus, my views will from time to time, seem to differ, although in actuality they usually don’t, but instead they are just an amplification of the existing Christian position.
In response to the man’s comment about why there are all these existing religions, I think we should tell the guy the expanded view that explains why.
It goes like this.
If you do not have answers to the great questions in life, you cannot rule.
You can say you don’t know, but if you do someone else might come along and get the ear of 👂 ear of the people by giving them answers that they deem to be satisfactory.
A ruler cannot afford to loose the ear of the people because it then becomes possible for the one who has the ear of the people to install another ruler, and that is very dangerous to the existing rulership.
Answers given to the tribe that pertain to the great issues of life are called religion.
Although true religion according to the bible is looking after widows and orphans.
These don’t necessarily have to be the right answers however they must satisfy the tribal members.
A variety of different answers will satisfy different tribes. For instance the American Indians might like the idea of the happy hunting ground in the sky whereas it probably wouldn’t cut the mustard for the Japanese vegetarians who don’t hunt.
In other words people just make this stuff up to suit.
Pharaoh gets fed up with people eating his cats so he invents the cat God to solve the problem. Same deal with the dog God.
If they didn’t have sacred cows in India they would get eaten, and then who would pull the plow.
This and many other reasons is how come there are all these crazy religions including the 3 headed frog religion. And there’s any number of reasons why they were invented.
When Christianity 💒came along which happened to be the real deal, taking Judaism to another level, it posed a problem for existing religions because it was spreading so incredibly fast.
Judaism had always just stayed within the confines of the Jews but Christianity 💒was spreading everywhere and fast and although Rome did everything they could to stop 🛑
✋ it, feeding people to the 🦁lions, nevertheless it eventually became apparent it was unstoppable.
The reason why they tried to stop Christianity was to maintain power.
There is always the danger of the people rising up and overthrowing the establishment. But if you have the ear of the people this won’t happen.
But when they recognised that this new kid on the block called Christianity was going to go the distance and couldn’t be stopped, they did the only thing they could do, which was get control of it and run the show, which is exactly what they did with Constantine and Catholicism.
And they perverted it here and there to suit.
And then they persecuted anyone who wasn’t on board with them.
But some slipped through the cracks like the Waldenses, from whom eventually stemmed the Reformation.
Okay that’s the shortened version of why there are all these man made religions.
But Christianity isn’t a man made religion because whilst Jesus Christ was a man, He was God who became a man.
Should we be shocked out of our socks to know there is a contest going on to get the ear 👂 of the people.
There is the atheist movement that takes customers away from the God movement.
This God movement has nothing to do with true blue Christianity 💒found in the King James Bible.🎚
But the Bible prophetically states in Revelations that the God movement which is actually Antichrist is going win the race and will be 🔛🔝🔜.
It’s a sure bet.
But what does the bible say.
Matthew 22:14 King James Version (KJV)
14 For many are called, but few are chosen.
King James Version (KJV)
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the guys question about why we should listen to Paul's letters to the church was one of the best questions I've heard!
Well actually Cliffe, Jesus is all over the Old Testament. For example Joshua 5:13-15, Psalms 45:6-7 and proverbs 30:4 and these are just a view that talk about Jesus,.. obviously in some it’s easier to tell these verses about about Jesus when u also have a little knowledge from of the New Testament.
Incorrect! God gave us free will.
The questioner has a problem for every solution. You can see by his body language he’s not seeking truth. He’s searching in disbelief for a debate in which he’s losing. So eventually he grasps at straws hoping to trip up the speaker.
10:40: When did science disprove these things as having occurred?
As the guy said, "these things just dont happen".. science is simply the process of finding out how stuff works, we've never witnessed the types of things he mentioned... parting of the Red sea, people rising from the dead after 3 days. If you're claiming they DID happen then some credible evidence would be good. .. isn't the burden of proof upon you as opposed to the person you're trying to convince? If I told you I had an invisible dragon in my garage, who would the burden of proof be on to either prove or disprove it?.. extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
@@bonnie43uk Since you brought in the legal terminology, I would like to bring in legal ideologies. In a court of law the are 2 types of evidence; direct evidence and indirect or circumstantial evidence. DNA is not direct. Murder weapon is not direct. Fingerprints are not direct.
There is only 1 thing that a court considers direct evidence; eyewitness. Again, over 500 people saw people alive after He was crucified.
@@bonnie43uk if these things "don't just happen" then you're implying that they were deliberate and guided.
How do you possibly intend to infer that a brainless/mindless process can consciously guide anything to happen?
When have you EVER witnessed a circumstance where gravity was present, but an object was dropped multiple times and then at a particular moment gravity said, "If this dude drops that dumbbell ONE MORE TIME I'm not pulling it to the ground!!!"???
@@SOULSafeProductionZ I don't think you are right on that. Eyewitness evidence is notorious for being wrong, you can't always convict someone purely on the say so of an eye witness.. there are various reasons why the eyewitness testimony may be faulty, we have a propensity to get details wrong, our memory can easily make genuine mistakes concerning important facts, any psychologist will affirm this,.. type into google "Reliability of eye witness testimony". I also think you are wrong about fingerprints and DNA... this has been crucial in prosecuting thousands of suspects, it's highly reliable. Your fingerprints are unique to you..as is your DNA. Major crimes have been solved using these methods, I'd say they are far more reliable than eye witness testimony in many cases.
If it said in the bible that 700 people saw Jesus alive after he was crucified would you take that as truthful.. what makes it true? .. because it's in the Bible it's automatically true? If it said in the Bible that Jesus ascended up into heaven on a golden chariot with angels on either side, would you simply accept it as true?
@@SOULSafeProductionZ I'm implying that people make stuff up... that parting of the Red Sea, .. didn't happen because it's impossible. It's a fantastic story, I'll give the author that. How do you go about proving me wrong?
There’s something for everyone in the basket of religions; Alien leader for Scientologists, golden tablets for Morons, celestial jockey for Muslims and even a zombie figure who came back from the dead. Religions are all false and equally ridiculous. That said, there’s no law against imaginary BFF’s :)
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Lots of religions and no hope at all. What is unseen? Everything is seen what don't you understand of that? Is time unseen?
was mark really an eye witness? i though he used peters testimony?
Speculation has it that the young man who fled naked in Mark 14:51-52 in the Garden of Gethsemane the night Jesus was betrayed and captured was Mark himself. Since the Gospel of Mark is the only gospel that mentions the incident, many Bible scholars speculate that the young man was John Mark himself, the author of the Gospel of Mark.
Hahahahahahaha book of revelations crazy look whats happening man
Salvation is a free gift. you’re making it into a bargain for a lifetime of repentance and discipleship. this is the Satanic gospel of salvation by works.
I disagree
He is not claiming works rightousness;.he claiming Christ will help you desire good works after salvation.
Works will follow if you fall in love with our Creator
@@knightclan4 But the big question is this if the works do not follow are you still saved? if you are not, you have works salvation
@@panoply13 depends on how you think works are followed. also if you are denying those works to do but by text you answer is no
@@panoply13 i mean yes lol
Jesus rose into Heaven in 2 separate places at the same time . Judea and Israel .
What you ask ???
Jesus made a political statement by Resurrecting at two places by claiming Kingship of Judea and Israel .
Jesus is God and is therefore Multidimensional .
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The reason why there are 'Lots of Religions' isn't too difficult to work out. We live in an age now where we have very good answers to the kind of things that people living a long time ago knew nothing about. Rather than not have an answer, they would invoke an invisible God or sometimes many Gods to explain things. Mostly these had to do with natural disasters, floods, tsunami's, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions. In the 21st century we've now got very detailed answers to those kind of things. If any of us lived in those times, we too would believe in any of those hundreds of different Gods depending on which part of the globe we happened to be born. Many religions/cults would offer up a sacrifice to this invisible God as an offering, sometimes this would even include a child sacrifice.. giving something precious to appease God. Christianity itself is kind of based on a child sacrifice, .. that of Jesus sacrificing himself to his father.
I will give you attention bonnie dw
@@mr.s7522 All comments are welcome my friend :-)
Does my comment make sense to you, that if you and I were born lets say 3,300 years ago in Egypt, we'd believe in an Egyptian God, .. maybe we'd both be working to build one of their great pyramids, who knows. :-)
@Carlos Flores Hi Carlos, I'm definitely not hurting inside, your perception of me is totally wrong. I should add though, if you know your bible there are various passages in which it clearly states that if you pray with sincerity, your prayers *will* be answered. My father certainly wasn't an 'enemy of God'.. he was a God fearing Christian who held strong to his beliefs in the Bible till the day he died in 1993. How can I be an enemy of God if he's someone I don't believe exists?.. I don't think asking questions and doubting someone or somethings existence makes a person an enemy. I have no enemies in my life.
ps, ..I watch this channel because it's a subject I happen to be interested in. Christianity has left a deep impression on me over the years, I enjoy watching the dialogue with Cliffe and the young students, I tend to side with the students. I think it's good to ask questions. If you believe in God Carlos, I'm totally fine with that, life is tough for millions of people around the globe who are struggling to live decent lives, I can well see the appeal of an invisible God that they can believe in, regardless of whatever God they believe in. Just out of interest Carlos, how does God personally communicate with you?, and how can you be sure God is listening to you and it's not just a thought in your own head. Thanks for your comment :-)
Only possible through knowledge. You cannot invoke something you have no knowledge of. The other most likely explanation is that God revealed himself to the first humans and they passed that knowledge onto their offspring and so on so fourth. It is like the game of phone tag. The original message gets passed and distorted in time. The distortion leads to confusion and falsehood but it doesn’t change the fact of the original giver of the message.
@UCC3SMLI0XYa1aO5R2itegzg Hi Carlos, I'd be the first person to admit my understanding of scripture is poor, I've never claimed I have a good understanding of scripture. Christianity itself has split into hundreds of denominations over the centuries trying to explain scripture.. who has it right?, the Catholics?, the Protestants, the Anglicans, the Presbyterians, one pastor will tell you he has the right interpretation, another will tell you something else.. the truth is, when we read scripture we tend to read into it our own interpretation. So , you're saying this all loving God is my enemy?, as I said, I don't have any enemies. You are absolutely right in saying that just because we can't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist, it's good we can agree on that. There are lots of things I can't see but I believe exist, that's because there is good evidence to suggest they *do* exist, I don't see that with God, perhaps he exists, I can't rule it out for definite, how do we go about determining whether he *does* exist? I'm not refusing his existence, I'm simply doubting it based on lots of circumstantial evidence, it seems to me in order to believe in God, you need a lot of faith, and i don't have that.
I've said this to lots of Christians, if you and I were born in a region of the world that was steeped in a different religion and we were both raised to believe in *that* religion, it's highly possible we'd both now be followers of that faith. When we're born, as babies we don't get a say in what God we will believe in, it very much depends on our parents and region of the globe we happen to be born into, ask any Native American prior to the 16th century who Jesus was?, they wouldn't have a clue, they had their own specific beliefs and Gods.
LAST!!!!
FIRST!!!!
Your medal is in the mail
You beat me to it 9min in :)
@@robertoh.20 😜
@@robertoh.20 You're the first to comment on a comment.
FIRST and LAST is Jesus alone.
This man gives the most circular argument ever. My religion is true because my religion says the others are false. The gospels aren't written by the apostles except what paul wrote. The gospels are work of heresay and mysteries. There are sections in the gospels were nobody should've known it happened like satan testing jesus.
I recognize this comment is three years old, but the amount of consistency between the gospels, their accuracy, and historical relevancy are sufficient to subdue any concerns regarding authorship. Even if Matthew did not physically sit down and write his own book, it was still HIS gospel. It would have been his retelling of events that he would have shared, that wouldve been passed down orally, and ultimately transcribed. Likewise is the case with Mark’s gospel.
Also to consider, look at how similar they are. They both tell the same events and with astounding precision. If you and I witnessed the same event together and tried to recount it years later, we’d probably get a lot of the details wrong. And yet the gospel, despite being authored by various authors from various places have accuracy that gives credence to their authenticity.
And regarding Jesus’ temptation, I don’t imagine it would be difficult to assume that, since Jesus frequently shared his wisdom with his disciples and audiences that would hear him preach, he would have also shared his personal experiences with such people as well.
Faith in Christ is true on its own merits. If other religions want to claim truth, it is up to them to provide the evidence.
1. There are many contradictions. Who was at the tomb first? Was it empty? Who was in there? Who was told first? What did they do when they saw the tomb?. All the gospels contradict on these.
3. New york exists doesn't mean spiderman does.
4. Manuscripts can be lies. Somebody writing down lies along time ago doesn't make it true.
Why would anyone write down lies..it doesn’t seem logical
@@cabdll what if they believed it was true?
>There are many contradictions.
There is none.
>”Who was at the tomb first?” Mary Magdalene and the other women.
>”Was it empty?” All the Gospels agree that the tomb was empty.
>”Who was in there?” No one. Jesus’ body was gone.
>”What did they do when they saw the tomb?” They went back and told the disciples.
2. “New York exists doesn't mean spiderman does.” Correct. However, we weren’t talking about either New York or Spiderman.
Please note that a contradiction is not the same as a paradox. For instance, if you were to say that there are 3 comments on this CZcams comment section, you would be correct. If you were to say that there are 10 comments on this CZcams comment section, you would also be correct. However, if you were to say there are ONLY 3 comments on this CZcams comment section, you would be incorrect because there are more.
4. Manuscripts can be lies. Somebody writing down lies along time ago doesn't make it true.
Of course, but the evidence lends an enormous level of credibility to the manuscripts being accurate representations of what occurred. No other document from ancient history comes close to the Bible in manuscript evidence. You could use the same argument against all of history. And yet, we still have history departments at universities.