It depends on the doubter and why and what they question and doubt.
For instance, even an atheist can see that Judaism has been right all along about Jesus and the NT and Christianity. So for them and for normative, Hebrew speaking and Torah-knowledgeable Jews, you can’t really do anything to “help” them regarding the Christian faith.
The plain reality is, Jesus is the answer to a problem that doesn’t even exist for Yahweh or his creation, and doesn’t exist anywhere in Hebrew scripture. So for anybody who believes that the “Old Testament” is true and the word of God, they can ignore or throw away the New Testament. Or study them both together to see the invention of the Christian myth from out of the Jewish life and Roman death of Jesus, and from the promiscuous Christian misuse and manipulation of Jewish scripture.
But a person needn’t even be Jewish or “believe” in the Tanakh to recognize that Christianity is false on its face, whether or not the Old Testament is actually “true” or “the word of God.” Christianity simply fails either way.
Paul probably said it best: if there was no resurrection of Jesus — which there wasn’t — then the Christian faith is in vain. Likewise if Jesus didn’t “die for sin” — which he didn’t, because nobody has any need for it. Those are Christian claims or assertions and they’re just too easy to reject and have no good reason to believe.
So for a lot of people, you can’t actually help them regarding your Christian faith.
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It depends on the doubter and why and what they question and doubt.
For instance, even an atheist can see that Judaism has been right all along about Jesus and the NT and Christianity. So for them and for normative, Hebrew speaking and Torah-knowledgeable Jews, you can’t really do anything to “help” them regarding the Christian faith.
The plain reality is, Jesus is the answer to a problem that doesn’t even exist for Yahweh or his creation, and doesn’t exist anywhere in Hebrew scripture. So for anybody who believes that the “Old Testament” is true and the word of God, they can ignore or throw away the New Testament. Or study them both together to see the invention of the Christian myth from out of the Jewish life and Roman death of Jesus, and from the promiscuous Christian misuse and manipulation of Jewish scripture.
But a person needn’t even be Jewish or “believe” in the Tanakh to recognize that Christianity is false on its face, whether or not the Old Testament is actually “true” or “the word of God.” Christianity simply fails either way.
Paul probably said it best: if there was no resurrection of Jesus — which there wasn’t — then the Christian faith is in vain. Likewise if Jesus didn’t “die for sin” — which he didn’t, because nobody has any need for it. Those are Christian claims or assertions and they’re just too easy to reject and have no good reason to believe.
So for a lot of people, you can’t actually help them regarding your Christian faith.