"Why I Hate Religion and Love Jesus"--The Youtube

@ThePainefulTruth Said

15 million views in a little over a week means this guy hits home. [/QUOTE

Actually, all that having 15 millon views in a week only means that it was viewed 15 million times in a week, it says little or nothing about the viewer's reactions to it. It could just as easily have been 15 million people viewing it once and deciding it was a load of rubbish.



I take it you haven't read Matthew 23 then., Jesus didn't hate anybody, however he did hate the false teachers of his day who were pulling the people away from true worship of his father. That included the Scribes, Pharisees, Saducees and all others involved with distorting the religion of his day.

As he said, his mission was primarily to the "lost sheep" of Israel who had no-one to shepherd them onrto the right path. The bible makes this perfectly clear.



Jesus was right about everything and was more than a mere human, he was perfect human, and did in fact state clearly that he was the only route to salvation, "the way the truth and the life". He also declared that no-one could come to the father except through him.




There is no such thing as Paulism. everything Paul taught echoed what Christ taught, as even Peter, who he told off so forcefully one day, acknowledged.

What Christ started was the true path back to his Father, and this was carried on by Paul and the Apostles after his death, and there were witnesses, as detailed in Acts, to show that Paul was in fact "drafted" rather forceably, into the company of the Apostles with a ministry mainly to the Nations. As Jesus told Ananias, by Holy Spirit, and recorded by the Apotles Luke at Acts 9:3-18 "Now as he was traveling he approached Damascus, when suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him, 4 and he fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him: “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” 5 He said: “Who are you, Lord?” He said: “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. 6 Nevertheless, rise and enter into the city, and what you must do will be told you.” 7 Now the men that were journeying with him were standing speechless, hearing, indeed, the sound of a voice, but not beholding any man. 8 But Saul got up from the ground, and though his eyes were opened he was seeing nothing. So they led him by the hand and conducted him into Damascus. 9 And for three days he did not see anything, and he neither ate nor drank.
10 There was in Damascus a certain disciple named An?a?ni?as, and the Lord said to him in a vision: “An?a?ni?as!” He said: “Here I am, Lord.” 11 The Lord said to him: “Rise, go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for a man named Saul, from Tarsus. For, look! he is praying, 12 and in a vision he has seen a man named An?a?ni?as come in and lay his hands upon him that he might recover sight.” 13 But An?a?ni?as answered: “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many injurious things he did to your holy ones in Jerusalem. 14 And here he has authority from the chief priests to put in bonds all those calling upon your name.” 15 But the Lord said to him: “Be on your way, because this man is a chosen vessel to me to bear my name to the nations as well as to kings and the sons of Israel. 16 For I shall show him plainly how many things he must suffer for my name.”
17 So An?a?ni?as went off and entered into the house, and he laid his hands upon him and said: “Saul, brother, the Lord, the Jesus that appeared to you on the road over which you were coming, has sent me forth, in order that you may recover sight and be filled with holy spirit.” 18 And immediately there fell from his eyes what looked like scales, and he recovered sight; and he rose and was baptized, 19 and he took food and gained strength."

As this account shows, there were more than enough witnesses to Paul's appointment.

Of course Apostate Christianity now has to try to discredit Paul with lies because he was the fiercest defender of the Christian way that there was, and was the foremost fighter against that Apostasy.



That much is true, and both sides do have "supernatural" sources, whether it be God or Satan.

There is no such thing as biblical hearsay, since it is the word of God, and has much evidence to support it despite the desperate than God himself denials of those who would like us to think they know better.To such ones the truth really is painful.

The bible is totally defensible by reason, since it is a book of reason. If it were not I for one would not have been persuaded against my teenage atheism.

@MadCornishBiker Said

Guilty of careless wording. What I intended to sat was that he hated false teachings.

@ThePainefulTruth Said



And I see you chose to avoid my challenge: "You can give no example of one reasonably verifiable miracle or revelation--and there's no difference between you saying it or the Bible saying it, both are bottomless pits where you throw your sacrifices to blind faith."

@MadCornishBiker Said

I take it you haven't read Matthew 23 then., Jesus didn't hate anybody, however he did hate the false teachers of his day who were pulling the people away from true worship of his father. That included the Scribes, Pharisees, Saducees and all others involved with distorting the religion of his day.

As he said, his mission was primarily to the "lost sheep" of Israel who had no-one to shepherd them onrto the right path. The bible makes this perfectly clear.



Jesus was right about everything and was more than a mere human, he was perfect human, and did in fact state clearly that he was the only route to salvation, "the way the truth and the life". He also declared that no-one could come to the father except through him.




There is no such thing as Paulism. everything Paul taught echoed what Christ taught, as even Peter, who he told off so forcefully one day, acknowledged.

What Christ started was the true path back to his Father, and this was carried on by Paul and the Apostles after his death, and there were witnesses, as detailed in Acts, to show that Paul was in fact "drafted" rather forceably, into the company of the Apostles with a ministry mainly to the Nations. As Jesus told Ananias, by Holy Spirit, and recorded by the Apotles Luke at Acts 9:3-18 "Now as he was traveling he approached Damascus, when suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him, 4 and he fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him: “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” 5 He said: “Who are you, Lord?” He said: “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. 6 Nevertheless, rise and enter into the city, and what you must do will be told you.” 7 Now the men that were journeying with him were standing speechless, hearing, indeed, the sound of a voice, but not beholding any man. 8 But Saul got up from the ground, and though his eyes were opened he was seeing nothing. So they led him by the hand and conducted him into Damascus. 9 And for three days he did not see anything, and he neither ate nor drank.
10 There was in Damascus a certain disciple named An?a?ni?as, and the Lord said to him in a vision: “An?a?ni?as!” He said: “Here I am, Lord.” 11 The Lord said to him: “Rise, go to the street called Straight, and at the house of Judas look for a man named Saul, from Tarsus. For, look! he is praying, 12 and in a vision he has seen a man named An?a?ni?as come in and lay his hands upon him that he might recover sight.” 13 But An?a?ni?as answered: “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how many injurious things he did to your holy ones in Jerusalem. 14 And here he has authority from the chief priests to put in bonds all those calling upon your name.” 15 But the Lord said to him: “Be on your way, because this man is a chosen vessel to me to bear my name to the nations as well as to kings and the sons of Israel. 16 For I shall show him plainly how many things he must suffer for my name.”
17 So An?a?ni?as went off and entered into the house, and he laid his hands upon him and said: “Saul, brother, the Lord, the Jesus that appeared to you on the road over which you were coming, has sent me forth, in order that you may recover sight and be filled with holy spirit.” 18 And immediately there fell from his eyes what looked like scales, and he recovered sight; and he rose and was baptized, 19 and he took food and gained strength."

As this account shows, there were more than enough witnesses to Paul's appointment.

Of course Apostate Christianity now has to try to discredit Paul with lies because he was the fiercest defender of the Christian way that there was, and was the foremost fighter against that Apostasy.



That much is true, and both sides do have "supernatural" sources, whether it be God or Satan.

There is no such thing as biblical hearsay, since it is the word of God, and has much evidence to support it despite the desperate than God himself denials of those who would like us to think they know better.To such ones the truth really is painful.

The bible is totally defensible by reason, since it is a book of reason. If it were not I for one would not have been persuaded against my teenage atheism.

@MadCornishBiker Said

As I said before, what is the point in putting evidence in front of you when I know from past experience that you will ignore it, and still carry on with your slanders against Paul and Christianity.

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So far you have not been able to point out one thing Paul taught which was inconsistent with what Jesus taught, nor will you ver be able to do so.

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Jesus put it slightly less tactfully when he told such as me (words in brackets my own interpolations). "6 “Do not give what is holy (God's word) to dogs, neither throw YOUR pearls (of Godly Wisdom) before swine, that they may never trample them under their feet and turn around and rip YOU open" - Matthew 7:6.

@ThePainefulTruth Said

What slanders? if you can show any reasonable evidence for your revealed religion, I WILL listen.

@ThePainefulTruth Said

Yes I have, but what can I do? You keep referring back to your biblical blind faith.

@ThePainefulTruth Said

I leave you to your blind bigotry. All you prove is that there is none so blind as he (or she) who refuses to see, as you have done so far.



Another biblical anomaly. He said not to throw your pearls before swine. But in the previous verse he said not to judge lest we be judged. How can we know who the swine are if we don't judge?

@MadCornishBiker Said




as always you look only to see where there may be a crack, and not to work out why the apparent crack may be there.