Comments by "Matthew Loutner" (@Matthew_Loutner) on "More Americans are Switching Religions" video.
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@omarlittle-hales8237 Shalom and peace to you.
A couple of corrections:
1. The Trinity is ONE GOD manifesting Himself in 3 different forms.
2. The New Testament books of the Bible are thought by scholars to have been written in Greek.
3. There is nothing anywhere in the Bible foretelling the coming of Muhammed.
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We have 4 books by 4 different writers. 2 of the writers walked with Jesus and talked with Him and recorded His life, times, and teachings. We know from eye-witnesses who Jesus was, what He did and what He said.
These 4 books record the following:
1. The miraculous birth of Jesus.
2. Angels singing when He is born.
3. People spontaneously prophesying when He was born.
4. His life fulfilling various Old Testament prophecies that would come into the world and save His people from their sins.
5. He was found in the temple teaching Jewish scholars at the age of 12.
6. He brought whole new concepts to the Earth that no prophet or holy man had ever said:
a. Do not hate your enemies -- love your enemies.
b. I am here to build the Kingdom of God.
c. A man must be BORN AGAIN.
d. If you believe in Me you will be saved -- if you reject Me, you will be lost.
e. My blood will be shed and it has the power to forgive sins.
f. Jesus predicting He will die and 3 days later will resurrect Himself.
7. A 3 year description of his life, teaching, healing people and miracles.
8. His death on the cross, with the sky darkening for 3 hours, an earthquake that rent the veil in the temple from top to bottom. (not from bottom to top).
(The veil in the temple is highly significant, as it separated the room the that only priests could enter from the common assembly room.)
8. While on the cross, he forgives the sins of the thief next to Him and says, "Today, you will be with Me in paradise.
9. On Sunday morning 3 days later, his tomb is empty, the grave clothes are folded, and an angel says, He is not here. He has risen from the dead.
10. Thomas says, "I do not believe it."
Jesus shows up alive and shows Thomas the nailprints in his hands and the swordwound in his side.
11. Thomas says, "My Lord and my God!" Then worships Jesus.
Jesus does not stop Thomas from worshipping Him.
12. Jesus says to Peter, "I will build My church."
13. Jesus calls His disciples together and says:
"All authority in Heaven and Earth has been given unto me. Go into all the Earth and preach the Good News to every creature. He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but whomever does not believe shall be condemned."
14. Jesus was seen alive after His death by over 500 witnesses.
15. Then Jesus ascends into Heaven and an angel appears saying, "In the same way you just saw Him leave, He will return.
15. In acts chapter 2, the Holy Spirit descends upon the believers and gives POWER to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
16. It is recorded in the book of Acts that the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ are called Christians.
All of these things are recorded by the witnesses who were there and any book that comes along later and denies them is fake.
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@omarlittle-hales8237 Trinity is ONE GOD.
The name of Jesus in the Hebrew language is Yeshua. Translated into English it means:
I-am-salvation
"Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows:
After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit. Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly. But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying,
“Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for HE WILL SAVE HIS PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS.”
Holy Bible book of Matthew chapter 1
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"Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat on it. His countenance was like lightning, and his clothing as white as snow. And the guards shook for fear of him, and became like dead men.
But the angel answered and said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus WHO WAS CRUCIFIED. He is not here; for
HE IS RISEN, AS HE SAID.
Come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly and tell His disciples that HE IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD, and indeed He is going before you into Galilee; there you will see Him. Behold, I have told you.”
So they went out quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring His disciples word."
Holy Bible book of Matthew chapter 28
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@halimj7 We have 4 books by 4 different writers. 2 of the writers walked with Jesus and talked with Him and recorded His life, times, and teachings. We know from eye-witnesses who Jesus was, what He did and what He said.
These 4 books record the following:
1. The miraculous birth of Jesus.
2. Angels singing when He is born.
3. People spontaneously prophesying when He was born.
4. Magi from Persia see his star and travel to Judea bearing gifts and WORSHIP Him.
5. An angel appears to Joseph and tells him that Jesus "Will save your people from their sins."
6. His life fulfilling various Old Testament prophecies that a messiah would come into the world and save the nation of Israel.
7. He was found in the temple teaching Jewish scholars at the age of 12.
8. He brought whole new concepts to the Earth that no prophet or holy man had ever said:
a. Do not hate your enemies -- love your enemies.
b. I am here to build the Kingdom of God.
c. A man must be BORN AGAIN.
d. If you believe in Me you will be saved -- if you reject Me, you will be lost.
e. My blood will be shed and it has the power to forgive sins.
f. Jesus predicting He will die and 3 days later will resurrect Himself.
9. A 3 year description of his life, teaching, healing people and miracles.
10. His death on the cross, with the sky darkening for 3 hours, an earthquake that rent the veil in the temple from top to bottom. (not from bottom to top).
(The veil in the temple is highly significant, as it separated the room the that only priests could enter from the common assembly room.)
11. While on the cross, he forgives the sins of the thief next to Him and says, "Today, you will be with Me in paradise."
12. While on the cross, you have Jesus speaking to both His mother and the prophet John saying, "John, take care of my mother."
13. On Sunday morning 3 days later, his tomb is empty, the grave clothes are folded.
An angel says, He is not here. He has risen from the dead.
14. Thomas tells the other prophets, "I do not believe it."
Jesus shows up alive and shows Thomas the nailprints in his hands and the swordwound in his side.
15. Thomas says, "My Lord and my God!" Then worships Jesus.
Jesus does not stop Thomas from worshiping Him.
16. Jesus says to Peter, "I will build My church."
17. Jesus calls His disciples together and says:
"All authority in Heaven and Earth has been given unto me. Go into all the Earth and preach the Good News to every creature. He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but whoever does not believe shall be condemned."
18. Jesus was seen alive after His death by over 500 witnesses.
19. Then Jesus ascends into Heaven and an angel appears saying, "In the same way you just saw Him leave, He will return.
20. In acts chapter 2, the Holy Spirit descends upon the believers and gives POWER to the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
21. It is recorded in the book of Acts that the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ are called Christians.
That is the story. We have it recorded by eye witnesses who actually lived in the first century and walked and talked with Jesus and personally witnessed everything that happened and any book that comes along later and tries to alter the story is fake.
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@halimj7 When you call the prophet Paul and the other church leaders "anonymous sources" you are lying.
Those people all have names and are no more anonymous than Muhammed, Isaiah, or Cleopatra.
Why do you feel comfortable lying to prove your point?
Some of prophet Paul's letters even say, "I am Paul and I am writing this letter to such and such church. Greetings in the name of the Lord."
That is NOT an "anonymous" letter.
We also have the whole life story of prophet Paul as told by Luke, the investigative writer and historian.
If you want to talk anonymous sources, we should be talking Genesis and Exodus. The writer of either is never named. And everything we know about Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Noah and his 3 sons, Abraham, Sarah, Israel, Isaac, Jacob, Esau, Joseph, Noah, and Moses comes from anonymous sources. None of it can be proven to have even really happened. Everything we know about those events come from a solo anonymous writer.
In the future, I would like to see your arguments more forthright, fair, and honest.
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