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🗓️ 29 August 2022
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0:00.0 | Let's go to this first clip from Paul Gia. He claims to be an ex-Christian. He's now an atheist. |
0:08.4 | We've interacted with some of the material that he's presented before. Quite popular. Here's that first clip. |
0:14.8 | His response to your answer to Kyle. |
0:18.2 | Yesterday, I was out walking my pup and I heard the new episode, I guess we would call it, |
0:24.8 | of the reasonable faith podcast with William Lane Craig. It's one of my regulars that I visit. |
0:30.0 | And yesterday's podcast, William Lane Craig admitted something that I didn't think that any Christian |
0:35.8 | would ever actually openly admit. So I mainly want to share with you something that I think is |
0:42.2 | amazing. So to recap there, the person who has sent in a question to Dr. Craig's podcast is |
0:48.0 | currently a Christian, but is saying, hey, Christianity is a very costly endeavor. And he listed off |
0:53.6 | some things you have to do. I would add in there as someone who has now a former Christian that |
0:59.1 | Christianity demands the focus of your entire life. And given that we know we have one life, |
1:04.6 | we are not guaranteed any more life than that. So to spend the one life you have in full devotion |
1:09.3 | to that set of propositions of truth claims, that is a huge gamble because we will not get a |
1:15.9 | deal. Yeah, this is a description of the negative costs of Christian belief. And again, |
1:21.6 | I so disagree with Paulogia about the character of the Christian life. |
1:28.3 | That isn't descriptive of my Christian life, Kevin. I don't think you are either. The Christian |
1:33.6 | life is a life of abundant joy and meaning and purpose. Yes, it demands total commitment, |
1:41.7 | but then you are given the peace and love and purpose of God that fills your life during this |
1:51.5 | life. So that even if it ended at the grave, you will have had a wonderful life in this world. |
1:59.6 | Now, that isn't critical to my argument, or I'm willing to grant that these are negative |
2:06.6 | costs that need to be subtracted from the great benefit of Christian belief. If it's true, |
2:13.6 | because if Christian belief is true, then you have this infinite gain to be made of eternal life |
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