Welcome to KingDavid8.com

Hey, there.

This website is mostly aimed at providing arguments and evidence for the non-Christian, the Christian who may be struggling with what he or she believes, or those Christians who are interested in reaching out to others. These pages don't make much of an attempt to reach out to the hearts of others, but more to their heads, providing evidence and logical arguments for the existence of God and the validity of the Bible. If you want someone to reach out to your heart, Jesus can do that much better than I can.

My opinions may contradict what other Christians believe, but many of my arguments are also based on arguments given by a variety of Christian sources. I especially owe a debt of gratitude to the writings of Glenn Miller, J.P. Holding, Paul Maier, Grant R. Jeffrey, Lee Strobel, and Gerald Schroeder. Please feel free to borrow ideas or arguments of mine (since many of them were not mine to begin with), and also Contact Me if you have any questions or comments. I would love to hear from you!

Recent additions:

1/8/12 Yet another discussion with a Christ-myther.  Ends with the guy threatening to sue me!  Here it is: Discussion With Jay.
Also, the paperback of "Myth? A Response To The Arguments Against Jesus' Historicity" is available at Amazon for $7.99.  If you have an e-reader, the e-book is only $2.99.  You can get it (or my novels) at my Amazon Page

12/29/11  The paperback of "Myth? A Response To The Arguments Against Jesus' Historicity" is now for sale at CreateSpace (click here) for $7.99. You can also get the paperbacks of my novels "Doorways" (a horror novel) and "Desperate" (a suspense thriller) at Createspace as well.  You can also get the e-books for all of them at practically any e-book store (including Amazon and Barnes and Noble) for $2.99.

12/27/11  I hope you all had a merry Christmas!  I decided to publish a short children's fantasy story that I wrote years ago for my 2 oldest daughters (I wrote it before my two youngest were born).  It's told in rhyme, and is called "The Magic Castle".  The e-book is 99 cents, and it will only be available at Amazon for the time being.  Or if you'd like, you can just read it online here.

12/4/11  Apologies for it taking longer than expected, but my book "Myth?", which responds to the arguments against Jesus' existence, is finally being published.  You can purchase the e-book in all major formats at Smashwords, for the Nook at Barnes and Noble, and for Kindle on Amazon.  It is $2.99 at all locations.  The paperback should be out by the end of the month, which will be $7.99.  The cover art is by Kevin Cantrell.  If you go to my books page, I will have further information about purchasing "Myth" as it becomes available, and you can also purchase two novels I've published, "Doorways" (a horror novel) and "Desperate" (a suspense thriller).

10/9/11 I've decided to make a page where I list the books I've published and am working on, which is here - Books.  That page will provide information on where to buy the books as they become available.

10/6/11  Now this is interesting.  In a recent debate at Oxford's Natural History Museum, atheist Richard Dawkins admitted that "A reasonably respectable case could be made for a deistic God."  He's certainly not saying he believes in God, but this is far, far from his earlier claims that the universe could not possibly have a purposeful designer.  He also retracted his claim that Jesus probably "never existed".  Article here.

9/27/11  I have been doing some debating at the City Data Religion Forums.  I am in a debate on the Mithra Comparisons (I joined in on page 4) and on whether there is a reasonable argument for God (I joined in on page 31)

8/13/11  As for the Skeptic Friends Network debate, I have no idea if or when it's going to happen.  Assume it won't, and I'll post an update if it does.

7/16/11  In case you're wondering whatever happened to the debate on Skeptic Friends Network, it's been delayed, but will eventually happen (supposedly).  I'm now hearing that the opening argument will be posted in about a week.  I'll likely mirror the debate at my website, posting it verbatim on its own page.

5/24/11  The debate at Skeptic Friends Network is going to be rebooted, so that ChangingMyself has 2 weeks to post her evidence for Zeitgeist, then I will have 2 weeks to refute it.  Then we each get a week for closing arguments, and then the SFN members will vote.  The $1000 is still off the table, though.  Watch their religion forum and see what happens.

5/20/11  A Christ-myther calling herself "ChangingMyself" claims to have the evidence to win my Zeitgeist Challenge.  She asked, however, that people other than I decide whether she has met it, so she's posting the evidence at SkepticFriends.org for them to decide.  Per our agreement, I am not allowed to respond directly to her evidence, but the usual $1000 is not being offered by me (my being able to respond was a condition for the $1000).  The evidence is being posted in this thread, and the discussion over the rules is in this thread.  Feel free to join in the discussion, though you'll have to register first (it's free, and quite simple).  However, no one joining the thread after the discussion has started will be allowed to vote as to whether she's met the challenge.

5/4/11  A new page on the comparisons between Jesus and Zeus

4/19/11  There's an interesting article on whether hell is a place of eternal torment.  Article here

4/17/11  I'm in yet another debate with a Christ-myther who's having trouble dealing with the lack of the evidence.  Letters/Horus

3/31/11  I recently had a conversation with a fellow Christian over whether Christianity is reconcilable with the theory of evolution.  Letters/TheoEvolution

3/20/11  After over a year and a half, my conversation with Daniel over the evidence for Jesus' resurrection has come to an end.  For those who have been following it, the final page is here.

12/12/10 It was pointed out to me that there was a critique of my website on FreeThoughtNation.  I've responded to it here.

8/15/10  I decided to make another $1000 challenge, this one specifically related to Zeitgeist.  For this one, anyone who can provide evidence for half of Zeitgeist's claims for Horus, Attis, Krishna, Dionysus and Mithra will get the full $1000.  The challenge is here: Zeitgeist Challenge

3/26/10  A writer for Examiner.com has done an article about Christ-mythers and Acharya S, which mentions my website: Skeptics' Idea of Conspiracy (as of 4/8/10 the article was taken down, due to Acharya S complaining to the Examiner that the article was libelous towards her)

3/21/10  I got an inquiry over whether Jesus had parallels to the Greco-Roman warrior Aeneas.  I respond to it here: Copycat/JesusAeneas

2/7/10  For anyone who was following my conversation with Dan about the pro-Jesus evidence, that one recently picked up again.  The conversation begins here and the latest additions are here.  I also had a conversation about my rebuttal to Jim Walker's Christ-myther article, which is here: Letters/WalkerRebuttal.

12/10/09  I'm in a couple of interesting conversations.  One guy wants to publicly debate me on the subject of Horus: Letters/Debate.  And "Abigail" and I are discussing the idea of Jesus being based on earlier stories here: Letters/Abby.

10/17/09  A couple of new conversations.  I'm in a polite discussion with a guy who recently de-converted from Christianity over "Zeitgeist" and other issues, which is here: Letters/Zeitgeist2.  And I got a letter from a guy who says he's writing a book that will expose Christians as "delusional" here: Letters/Book.  I also got a letter from a guy who wants me to pay him the $1000 I promised in my Christ-myther challenge, but won't provide even a single piece of the evidence I require, here: Letter/Thousand2

8/21/09  I am involved in a lengthy conversation with an atheist over topics regarding the evidence for purposeful creation and for Jesus' resurrection.  See here: Letters/ReligiousThings

8/7/09  I received a letter from someone who recently de-converted from Christianity.  See here: Letters/Agnostic

7/25/09  I received a letter from someone defending atheism.  See here: Letters/Atheism

7/12/09 A few new items:  I made a page about the idea that the Gospel authors borrowed "walking on water" from Orion here: JesusOrion.  I also made pages discussing the references to Jesus by the historians Suetonius, Pliny the Younger and Phlegon, and a page discussing the claims of there being dozens of historians who should have mentioned Jesus but didn't, here: Historians.

3/24/09  I made some changes to my site.  First, I won't keep any "recent additions" on this page unless they're less than a year old.  Also, I've removed my old homepage and made this page, which was formerly called "Christian Page", my new homepage.  If you're going through my site and want to get back here, just click "Homepage" instead of "Christian Page".  I'm going to try to remove all "Christian Page" buttons from my entire site, but if you happen to see any I /haven't gotten to yet, don't click on them, since they go to a page that doesn't really exist anymore.

3/14/09  A received a letter from "Jessica" telling me about her experience with the movie "Zeitgeist" (which present lots of false claims in an effort to debunk Christianity) and how my site helped her see past its lies.  Please read it here: Letters/Zeitgeist.  I also decided to finally write a response to the movie, which is here: Zeitgeist

2/16/09  Some of the "Christ-myther" videos that you'll find on YouTube or other places contain a scrolling list of 40+ deities that Christ-mythers claim influenced the Jesus story, without giving specifics of what the parallels were.  There's a reason for that.  I made a page giving the list and a quick response to their stories, and links to specific pages for each deity.  The page is here: GodList

12/11/08  Someone has told me that visitors to my site have been harassing Acharya S.  This person changed their story about what exactly is happening (first saying that *I* was harassing her, which I've never done), so I'm not sure whether to believe him.  I did e-mail Acharya to ask her if anything like this has been happening, but she never responded.  So I'll just say that it's a good idea if anyone who talks to Acharya S or any other non-Christian avoids harassing or being rude.  It reflects negatively on all of us when this happens.

Here are some sites that aren't mine, but are still pretty cool, anyway:
(I check these links frequently to make sure they work.  Last checked on 3/23/2009)

"And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." (Genesis 1:3 KJV)

"God made all those stars out of nothing! He just went 'thbbbbt!' and there they were!" (Larry the Cucumber)

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