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The Evidence for the Deity and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

  Evidence for the Deity and Resurrection of Jesus Christ:   The evidence for the life and death of Jesus is very good, despite some prominent YouTube atheist/ sceptics attempts to tell you otherwise E.g. Aron Ra and Matt Dillahaunty, Aron Ra believing Jesus never existed [1] and Dillahaunty being essentially unsure [2] . I will endeavour to try and bring out the best evidence I think there is to show that: 1 .       Jesus existed and died by crucifixion on the order of Pontius Pilate. 2.       Jesus believed himself to be the son of God and not a late embellishment. 3.       The disciples and a certain number of the women followers believed they saw Jesus after his crucifixion, despite every reason to the contrary. 4.       Hostile witnesses – James the brother of Jesus and Paul (Saul). James thought Jesus was crazy and is an eyewitness. Saul, had a promising career in th...

The Ontological Argument

  The Ontological Argument Originally discovered by St. Anselm, this argument has been reformulated and defended by Alvin Plantinga, Robert Maydole, Brian Leftow, and others.(1) Plantinga’s version is formulated in terms of possible worlds. For those who are unfamiliar with the semantics of possible worlds, let me explain that by “a possible world” I do not mean a planet or even a universe, but rather a way reality might be. For example, if I say ‘the Prime Minister is a Prime number’, is not possible, because numbers are abstract objects and cannot possibly be identical with concrete objects like Prime Ministers in any world, and in this case, it is absurd! Like a square circle. However, if I say Joe Bloggs is King of England’ this could be possibly true in some possible world. I’ll present the version of the argument as stated by Plantinga, one of its most respected contemporary proponent God exists. Typically, the Ontological argument isn’t well understood by detractors of...