On the Existence of God. For Athiests, Agnostics and Skeptics: Prophecie...



Ok, first, 
that entire video erroneously calls dibs on the entirety of the concept of "God".

 That happens by pretending Christian-fundamentalists meaning of "God" is somehow the only and obvious meaning for that word. 

So let's get this cleared up first.

Arguments for deism... 
ARE NOT arguments for Christian-fundamentalist conceptualizations of "God". 

Nor do arguments for a Christian-fundamentalist conceptualizations of "God" count as arguments for a deistic "God"; nor for any other "God". 

 In fact, they don't even count as arguments for progressive-Christian conceptualizations of "God" either. 

With that being the case, 
arguments for Christianity do not serve as arguments for "God" generally. 

Thus, the title of your video should not say "On the Existence of God ...".

Instead, it should say "On The Existence Of My Own Personal Iteration Of A Christian-Fundamentalist Deity". 

However,
in the spirit of "credit where credit is due", 
kudos on including the term "skeptics".

It's good to see you recognizing that plenty of agnostic and theistic skeptics stand alongside anti-gods-ists, in calling out the fundamentalist religious niche within-which your random personal version resides. 

Moving on from there, ...

As others will explain (if they haven't already), literally nothing in the Hebrew religious texts has anything to do with Jesus. --- Late 1st-Century CE/ early-mid 2nd Century writers CE were creatively writing Fan-Fiction (not an insult. This is just simply my explanation) about "Jesus". They built upon rumor-stories they heard being locally circulated. In an attempt to create the illusion of a figure who fulfilled Hebrew Messianic prophecies, some unknown writers pulled various Hebrew texts out of context, and then misrepresented what they mean. With that, they created stories about "Jesus" saying, doing, and being someone who matches those newly fabricated meanings. It works like this: 1. Following in his older brother (James') footsteps, a self-medicating, schizophrenic, religious-fundamentalist named Joshua Ben Joseph joins an obscure Jewish-themed cult. 2. Mr Joshua Ben Joseph rises to a position of esteem within that small cult. 3. It's a doomsday cult. So after their very literal prophecies fail, they'll need to re-imagine their literal prophecies to be "spiritual metaphors". That way, their cult can rescue itself from the garbage-bin of failed apocalyptical cults. That's what all failed apocalyptic cults do after they fail. 4. Mr Joshua Ben Joseph dies. But nobody in that cult expected this to happen. And nobody outside of that cult even noticed because he died as a virtual nobody. 5. There is no cult prophecy about Mr Joshua Ben Joseph dying; let alone for anyone's sins. There is no Jewish prophecy about anyone doing any such thing either. However, his cult is about to re-interpret cherry-picked Jewish texts, to make it appear as-if he was born and died to fulfill prophecies. These "Christian" prophecies will be prophecies which were NEVER part of any Jewish religion. These b@st@rdiz@d religious concepts will be merged with intentionally-mispresented texts; texts which had absolutely nothing to do with Mr Joshua Ben Joseph, nor with anyone dying for anyone's sins. 6. Many years later, members of the new religion (which immerged due to that failed apocalyptic cult re-inventing itself) ... will make the exact arguments that you are making here. -- The only reason you see a connection between Jewish texts and "Jesus" is because the creative writers who created the legend of "Jesus" *created* connections by: 1. pulling (desperately) cherry-picked Jewish texts out of their original contexts, 2. giving those snippets new meanings, 3. writing the Jesus-character to match those new meanings, and 4. passing those new meanings off as the original meanings ... in the minds of people who lacked enough knowledge to realize those snippets from Jewish texts did NOT mean what they are now being assigned-to-mean.

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