When I first came back to faith in Jesus, I wanted to make sure I wasn't being naive. In the past I thought it sounded like a fairy tale or coping mechanism because that's what the outside world tells you it is. Christianity gets mocked constantly, and I didn't want to be "THAT GUY" stuck in a delusional religion. I spent many of my adult years mocking people in church, not thinking about God and when I did think, about God, I would wonder if He was even real and ultimately I would lean towards the answer "I don't know, but I think it's fake". I was consistently thinking that people who talked a lot about Jesus did it for money and were just NUTS and LOONEY. And now, I went from a beloved content creator with a die-hard loyal fanbase of over 25m subscribers to what feels like half of them thinking I'm experiencing "religious psychosis" 🤣😂 I'm able to give them grace and apply compassion and understanding because I was there once too. (I may fail sometimes btw 😅) But how did I get here? By digging. By investigating. After I announced faith in Jesus publicly, at the same time of me worshipping, going back to church, reading and studying, I also started looking into the claims against Christianity. The objections I once thought destroyed Christianity started falling apart the deeper I investigated them. Not because there are no difficult questions, but because Christianity can actually withstand difficult questions. Truth usually does 😉. This makes it's easy for me to now proclaim Jesus is the Truth. And this video is just ONE small reason I believe in Him. To the people who say, "We don't need evidence, that's why it's called faith," o dont think biblical faith means closing our eyes to evidence. Look at Qumran. The Dead Sea Scrolls contain biblical manuscripts dating from roughly the 3rd century B.C. to the 1st century A.D. They survived in the dry, dark caves of the Judean Desert for around 2,000 years. Think about that. Documents hidden away for nearly two millennia, discovered in modern times, allowing us to compare biblical texts separated by roughly a thousand years of manuscript history. You can call that coincidence. I see God's providence. I see a God who allowed His Word to survive for generations of people who would question it, investigate it, test it, and compare it. And I'm one of those doubters. I didn't get here by shutting my brain off. I got here because I started using it. I serve a great God. A real God. And He has revealed Himself in Jesus Christ. Jesus is not one truth among many. He is the truth. I believe very other god is false and a lie to distract us from the truth. No other god has the amount of evidence to support it's existence like Jesus. #archeology #prophecies #manuscripts #history #believe
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