Joe Rogan calling Christianity stupid: My Thoughts
I was just scrolling the internet when I stumbled on Joe Rogan’s podcast clip where he called Christianity a mythology and straight up f**king stupid.
To quote his exact words, he said, “Christianity at the end of the day with no proof, everything is mythology.”
“If you have some proof that there was a God, that this God had one son and he made the son come down and get the f**k beat out of him and nailed to a board so that we could all have no sin. Can you show me some studies? Do you have a box of Evidence?” he further added.
Well since I came from a mythological religion myself, it felt really funny to me since I have done a year long research just to know various world religions and finally accepting Jesus as my Lord and Savior. Yes Joe, we have studies, actually a plenty lot of them.
I am very tempted to write this article to share my thoughts and to give some really important evidences to all reading this that Joe Rogan has not researched or considered.
The Box of Evidence
Ask yourself these 3 questions which forms the boxes of evidence for Jesus’s existence.
Q1. Can Jesus be historically verified?
Jesus was one of the easiest people to research because of the way the dating years are numbered. B.C. means years “Before Christ” and B.C.E. stands for “Before the Common Era”. They are the same. And A.D. means Anno Domini — Latin for “in the year of the Lord” referring to the birth of Jesus Christ. C.E., the abbreviation for “Common Era” is used to mark time in the same way.
Jesus of Nazareth was crucified in Jerusalem under the orders of Pontius Pilate, the Governor of the Roman province of Judaea around 30–33 A.D. This is a historical fact.
The Roman Government had excellent documentation for the ones they crucified. It is purely laughable when many claim that Jesus has never existed or is a mythological character.
There are good records of 1st-century Historians mentioning Jesus in their writings. You have to deny all of history in order to deny the existence of Jesus.
Here are some of the Major Non Biblical historical record on Jesus.
Q2. Did Jesus really rise from the dead as He claimed?
It hardly matters if Jesus was in history or not if His claim of rising from the dead was not true. If Jesus actually rose from the dead, His claim of being the only Son of God carries great weight. On the other hand if the resurrection never actually happened, then Jesus can be kept with all the other historical characters who had a tragic death. The entire credibility of the Christian faith hangs on whether Jesus rose on the 3rd day or not?
Fact 1: The Discovery of Jesus’s Empty Tomb
Fact 2: The Appearances of risen Jesus after His death
Fact 3: The Disciples believed that Jesus rose from the dead.
Down through history, these historical facts were speculated to have various Naturalistic Explanations.
- The Conspiracy Theory
- Apparent Death Theory
- Displaced Body Theory
- Hallucination Theory
All these theories have no credibility to stand logical reasoning. Read my free ebook Soul Insurance for detailed explanation.
Q3. Does the message of the Bible has corrupted over time?
All of the above knowledge cannot be valid if the main source which we are believing has been corrupted. This is the answer I got of this highly skeptic question.
Jesus spoke Aramaic. And the earliest 1st-century church used to speak Hebrew at that time. But by the time the New Testament was written to be added in the Septuagint Bible, it was done in the Greek language.
The chances of sustaining the core message of Jesus in a translation of a translation before it was ever written down were skeptical for me.
And the Latin Bible: Vulgate, which was published in 381 AD lasted for more than a Millennium. Another translation from Greek to Latin before Martin Luthor brought it in the German language during the 1500s. It was mass printed thanks to the invention of the Gutenberg printer. And then from the German language, it was finally translated to the English language in 1611 by King James, available even today as the KJV. How can the message not get corrupt?
The answer is:
Jesus’s apostles at that time were multilingual. They were also experts in hearing the gospel in one language and were able to write it into another language without the message getting corrupted. They used to remember whole chapters of the New Testament.
And when the time came to add these into the Bible, they translated it to Greek. And of those Greek manuscripts, we have preserved approx 5600+ copies today with us. Just not that, we also have kept approx 10,000+ copies of the Latin manuscripts with us.
Any error in one copy could be easily be verified from other language manuscripts. The smallest time gap between the original and earliest copy is 50 years and overall the time gap between all manuscripts is 50–400 years.
To even top that up, we have 30,000 quotes from the early church fathers of the 1st & 2nd-century from the NT and you have the best case ever for the NT as the most well-attested documents in all of history. From these manuscripts, we can reconstruct the entire New Testament Bible many times over again.
When you hold a Bible in your hand today, you can be sure it is the most accurate and reliable writing in all of history. God wanted you to be sure that the Bible you read is the accurate Love letters He had written just for you. I don’t know about you but my mind was blown with all this data.
All these information are taken from my research testimony ebook Soul Insurance. This is what I had discovered when I was seeking Jesus back in 2016–17.
As a born again soul in Christ Jesus, I don't believe in blind faith. Our faith is backed up of concrete evidence and research. Historically, archeologically, logically, scientifically, supernaturally and naturally.
Joe Rogan, if you or any of your podcast team is reading this, I just want to humbly request you to read my Testimony pdf attached here and read my research in it word by word. It will change your entire belief system of everything around you.
Those who have ears to hear and mind to seek, let them research the unbiased Truth for themselves.
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