And I hope those friends of Ark and John Zande can take it up.
A fellow named Dr. Ray Higgins has asked that anyone who can prove with validity that Jesus lived and walked out da grave to present that evidence to him and he will pay all your living expenses until his last.
Since I don’t claim to have as much money, any one with this information will get a standing ovation from my clan😁.
And a bonus question. Most if not all Christians take Christmas day(25th December) as the birth date of Jesus but Easter shifts depending on the weather. One asks, if as Paul alludes in Corinthians, if Jesus is not risen, then the faith is in vain, why is Easter not taken seriously?
In the video below, he repeats the challenge from 20:24
Random thoughts 
Good on Dr. Ray!
And Easter has to shift because you can’t have Carnaval in bad weather.
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So Easter is just an excuse to have a 3 day carnival
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4 days for Sao Paulo, 7 days for Rio, a month (or two) for Bahia 😉
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Now, that’s how to have a carnival. 2 months of carnivalling
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And chocolate bunnies. Please, don’t forget the chocolate bunnies.
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Brilliant!
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Brilliant! I’ll put my house in the pot and cry ”All-in”.
Where’s Pastor Mel, Branyan , Pastor Rob-someone and Wally?
Come on,Mak, I’ll bet you can whistle louder than me? Cal ’em up!
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I can’t stand CS. I don’t think he ever wants to communicate. The rest, man, I don’t know how you can not go crazy talking to them about the same thing and them giving you the same answers
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I can tolerate it for a while, but then I have to go outside and bang my head to come right!
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$Amen$ brother! I likes this guy!
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Someone should take him up on his challenge. I will be there to cheer the person on
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if you look at the calendar, Christmas falls suspiciously close to the Winter Solstice ( the longest night of the year), and Easter is vaguely related to the Spring Equinox. I’ve always suspected, too, that the 40 days of Lent coincide neatly with the Jewish Passover and Christmas with Hannukah. A tad too pat, if you ask me.
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I think the only way to make Christianity acceptable to some believers was to adopt some of the feast days
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Finding friends of Ark snd Zande? This is a tough one…
Would any Christians care to bet their houses on it? Belief is only comfort food. Push comes to shove none of them would make that bet.
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Whenever Christians are asked to make a bet, most have the standard reply they shouldn’t test god. Religion has fail-safe valves
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Most of us know that what is now celebrated as Christmas was earlier the Roman festival of Saturnalia. Easter is a descendant of the Jewish festival of Passover. And Donald Duck’s birthday was originally the Feast of Fools! Naked hugs!
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Blasphemy!
Christmas is the date of birth of Jesus Hubris Christ, the first
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IKR! And I am the Wizard of Oz! 🙂
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Easter is NOT a descendant of Passover, but a wrong replacement. Only 25% of the assemblies sent representatives to Nicea to go on Emperor Constantine’s payroll–and in addition to selling out the Sabbath (which the other 1500 assemblies were keeping) they sold out to the Roman holiday of Ishtar, a fertility goddess (hence the rabbits and eggs). They wanted to distance themselves as far as possible from Judaism, to ingratiate themselves and grab their chance to become the office “state” church. This was Constantine’s plan to unify his army–and thereby–his empire. His officers were keeping to paganism in order to climb politically and socially, but his foot soldiers who had more contact with local indigenous persons were becoming believers. This way, he kept everybody on the same page, while duping the believers into compromise. It was then only a short shift to Mithra’s birthday on December 25, and now lately to even Halloween in the churches.
Deuteronomy 12:4 “Do not worship the LORD your God in the way these pagan peoples worship their gods.
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Good Lor … whoops! Good grief! This man has OVER 100 videos. How did you determine which one included his challenge??
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It’s a miracle, Nan, a miracle
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well, orginally Moses only wanted a few days off and then the whole story had the fish becoming bigger and bigger until the silly thing ended up with things that no one can show ever happened. So it’s just as stupid as Groundhog Jesus who comes out of his hole in the ground to see his shadow or your sins or whatever.
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The story tellers didn’t expect their stories taken seriously
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The should just have left their Jesus in the sky where he went
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This is a ridiculous challenge! (It’ll be like taking money from a garden slug after cutting all his legs off~!)
Proof?
Just go read your Bible, dammit!
It’s all in there, right from Adam and Eve in the beginning through to the very end of eternity.
You don’t get no more comprehensive than that.
If you can’t read (dum atheists mostly can’t) there’s lots of educated priests and things to help. Sheesh …
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Just claim the money now and share with me.
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No! That would be a selfish thing to do and not in the spirit if Christian charity at all.
I’m going instead to pledge any monies I might acquire in the future to the Pope so that he can use it wisely to sucker the poor, the tired, the diseased widows and orphaned children of the world …
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that would be very mean of you. the pope presides over on of the richest organizations in the world and should you pledge that money to him, it will be used to buy the silence of the nuns who were abused by priests and bishops, and you wouldn’t want that, would you?
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a lot of Christians who really follow Jesus shall never celebrate the pagan feasts Christmas and Easter. Jesus was born the 17th of October so why celebrate his birthday on the day of the god of light in December?
Jesus really died and was taken out of the dead. We can remember that but most of all we should keep to the holy or set apart days given by God, and the resurrection-day is not such a day. For sure Easter bunnies and chocolate eggs have nothing to do with the coming out of the grave by Jesus.
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how did we get beyond did Jesus exist to his being born on 17th october.
do we have the long form birth notification
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It was the 18th of October when he was born!!! Sweet Jeebus! WHY, oh, WHY, can’t people get this straight?!
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It was October the 19th. The 18th was the onset of labour
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I stand corrected.
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Most people confuse these two dates
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Easy to do, as they are so close to each other on the calendar. 🙂
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I know. Could have been better to have a a day in between 😂
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Oh, I totally agree. 🙂
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Or just have a no day between 18th and 19th
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Brilliant idea!
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There are enough civic papers and we have all the accounts of what happened around that time, like the census, meteorite rain and / or special shooting stars, killing of children under 2 years of age on behalf of the Roman emperor, and the writing about the animals being outside so that Joseph and Mary could sleep in a stable or shed.
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Who writes about killing of the children. I haven’t read anything of the kind
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That is the reason why Joseph and Mary escaped to Egypt.
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Laughs in Egypt
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13 And they, having gone back, lo, the messenger of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, Having risen, take to thyself the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there till I speak to thee; for Herod is about to seek the young child to destroy him.
14 And having risen, he took to himself the young child and his mother by night, and turned back in Egypt:
15 And was there till the death of Herod: that it might be completed having been spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
16 Then Herod, seeing he was deluded by the magi, was very angry, and having sent, destroyed all the children which in Bethlehem, and in all its bounds, from two years and under, according to the time he examined thoroughly of the magi.
17 Then was completed that spoken by Jeremiah the prophet, saying,
18 A voice was heard in Rama, wailing, and weeping, and much lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, for they are not.
19 And Herod having died, behold a messenger of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,
20 Having risen, take to thyself the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel; for they seeking the soul of the young child have died.
21 And having risen, he took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.
22 And having heard that Archelaus reigned over Judea, instead of Herod his father, he was afraid to go there; and having received intimation of the divine will in a dream, he turned back into the parts of Galilee.
23 And having come, he dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be completed spoken by the prophets, That he shall be called a Nazarite.
Smith, J. E. (Trans.). (1876). The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally from the Original Tongues (Mt 2:13–23). Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company.
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Wow.
So you are quoting the bible?
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Yes, because that is the Book of Wisdom by which we live.
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you are a funny person
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Luckily there are funny people in this world. 😉
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Because you do not seem to know what happened in that part of the Roman Empire at the time of Jesus, and this Book of books says it all in a condensed form.
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hahaha
book of books you say
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@christadelphians–blah…blah…blah, etc.
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