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The Power of Questions when Engaging Skeptics (with Tyler Ellis)

Tyler Ellis is an artist, an award-winning author of "Question Everything" and a keynote speaker. He is best known for his TEDx Talk, Jesus Is Not A Role Mod...

A conversation on the power of questions: Ryan Pauly talks to Tyler Ellis

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Can Christians claim to have the One, True God?

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“Imagine looking at a police lineup and telling the officer that person #4 committed the crime. What would you say if the officer responded by saying, “There are four other possible suspects… but only your guy is the right one-you’re a joke.” I don’t think you would say “Good point officer, I guess we are done here.” If this objection worked, defense attorneys could win every trial by saying “Roughly 7 billion people in the world; and only yours is the right one? You must be a genius and everyone else is dumb to not pick yours.”

There’s a reason we don’t see this objection being used with police or in court.The reason we don’t see these situations in court is that we base the innocence or guilt of a suspect on evidence. We know that not all suspects are the same, and in the same way, not all gods are the same. If there is positive evidence that a certain person committed a crime, then we have good reason to rule out all other possible suspects. We don’t use the possibility of other suspects to say that we can’t know who committed the crime. If that were true, no one would go to jail. If we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that one person is guilty, then other possible suspects are innocent. In the same way, I am convinced that we can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Christian God exists.“

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