Topic Notes
- Introduction!
- Brian Holtz claims there are at least eight insurmountable problems within the extant evidence that each independently refute the Christian doctrine of a divine Jesus
- Jesus’ endorsement of the murderous immorality of Yahweh in the Torah
- Jesus’ doctrine of “eternal punishment” in the “eternal fire” of Hell
- Jesus’ failure to claim actual divinity
- Jesus’ failed prophecy of his imminent return
- Jesus’ failure to competently reveal his doctrines (concerning e.g. salvation, hell, divorce, circumcision, and diet) in his own written account or that of an eyewitness
- Jesus’ failure to perform miracles the accounts of which cannot be so easily explained as faith-healing, misinterpretation, exaggeration, and embellishment
- Jesus’ failure to attract significant notice (much less endorsement) in the only detailed contemporaneous history of first-century Palestine
- Jesus’ failure to recruit
- anyone from his family
- any acquaintance from before his baptism
- a majority of Palestinian Jews
- some of those who heard his words and witnessed his alleged miracles
- BIBLE CONTRADICTION via Infidels.org
- the Bible is ridiculous because Heaven supposedly has pillars
- Job 26:11
- LISTENER QUESTION
- Can we willfully continue to sin and still go to heaven?
Resources
Arguments Against Christianity by Brian Holtz
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