I'm Pastor Mike Winger and this is Bible Thinker the program dedicated to thinking

biblically about everything. This is about the danger of seeking to disprove Christianity.

I really mean that.

I want to take this and have a nuanced view of this topic,

but the danger basically in seeking to disprove Christianity is that you find what you want.

People often just find what they want.

Now I'm not talking here about people who have sincere questions and they're genuinely

seeking, like I really am trying to find truth.

I'm talking about a different person when you add on to that an element of

and man I really don't want this thing to be true.

That is a spiritually dangerous position and we're going to talk about how Jesus responds to those who ultimately are pretending they want evidence.

Maybe they even think they want evidence. They think it's real that this is where they're seeking.

But this is like a plague on the internet. I don't know if you've noticed.

But I've been plenty of witnessing and sharing with people where when they ask tough questions

and then they get good, what are really are good answers, not just pat answers, good answers to tough questions, and you realize

they liked the question better than the answer.

And so they just change the subject, right?

When I get a questioner who gets a good answer and they're actually more bothered with an answer than they are with silence, that's when I'm like, okay, what's going on?

This is giving us an understanding of stubborn unbelief and what we can do about it.

And because I'm amazed as I read this passage, this thing 2,000 years ago,

Jesus' conversation here with these guys, that it's so relevant today in our culture right now today. It's

radically relevant. I'm always amazed by that. I'm not surprised by how relevant the

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