LIVE DEBATE: Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle vs Alex O’Connor and Phil Halper
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Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle run the extremely popular online Christian ministry @givemeananswer. Today, I team up with Phil Halper (@PhilHalper1) to debate the question, “Does the Biblical God exist?”
The debate is hosted by James from @ModernDayDebate.
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– TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Introduction
1:07 Stuart’s Opening Statement
5:13 Cliffe’s Opening Statement
10:59 Phil’s Opening Statement
17:14 Alex’s Opening Statement
24:59 Open Dialogue
1:36:52 QnA
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@CosmicSkeptic
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
Watch my previous three-hour in-person conversation with Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle: https://youtu.be/r8RZarGC8B4?si=u7ceBycq3myP0dyC
@johnryan5582
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
Alex ironically has the patient of a Saint, he is more Christ like than most who call themselves Christian.
@KentJohnsonJr
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
Very hard to watch Stuart fumble around in embarrassment. Can’t have a real debate without getting aggressive. Bad look.
@sreejithsivan1393
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
I didn't know u needed to have a possibile explanation for the afterlife or heaven to attend a funerals or to live your life.😅
@malakaithesquid8793
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
There is an argument that I think is quite plausable that was missed… There is a creator, it's just not the same one as the Christian faith, maybe this creator is flawed and thus you get suffering.
@anthrax6835
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
the way they failed to answer the animal problem is honestly ridiculous and to talk about intellectual dishonesty…
@krishandeodatt4415
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
Only if they look into a little know fact called karma and this while convo wouod be done in 15 min
@susiederkins6612
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
Alex pushed hard on the animal suffering topic and ultimately cliffes response was "I don't care about animals alex" 🤣🤣🤣
@bobthemonitor9697
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
Alarming but unsurprising to see the theist side propping up known pedophile enabler Alan Dershowitz as a moral center
@49perfectss
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
Alex just showed how to throw your opponent off the stage intellectually 😂. That was brutal
@profesnol5552
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
love coming back to this debate time to time just to see the frustration in cliffes face over the fact that someone is honestly admiting not to know the answers to all meaning in the universe.
@Userisacreature
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
I love how pissed off Christian’s get when they know they’re wrong and can’t lie their way out of it or slap a verse on it…😂😂 They’re literally yelling at these guys as they sit there calmly. 🥴 LMFAO!
@beiermb
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
Is Cliffe as stupid as he presents himself or is he just intellectually dishonest?
@RadhaRagoonanan
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
Was there anything before Jesus
@RadhaRagoonanan
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
Do you people know what is good
@RadhaRagoonanan
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
What is the great begining
@RadhaRagoonanan
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
How are we here
@EricGray-zr2es
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
Cliff and Stu are weasels and never give good, straight forward answers.
@ItsThatEffingFoxAgain
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
Mocker 1: Your a liar Jesus
Mocker 2: Yeeeah! Fraud! (5 seconds later) wait…I take that back. This guy isn't a fraud and he shouldn't be crucified!
Cliffe… seriously bro? 🤣 Play this scene out with your son and find a random person to be Jesus, and see how dumb this concept is. It's so embarrassing when these guys won't just admit the text says two different things and this is nothing like if two people witnessed a car crash and person 1 saw a car swipe a mailbox then hit another car, while person 2 standing elsewhere was blocked and didn't see the mailbox get swiped. The contradictions in the Bible are radically different. Did God ask David to take the Census, or was it Satan? How in the eff would you confuse God with Satan LOL. What's the apologetic for that, Satan disguised himself to look exactly like God? 😂
@ItsThatEffingFoxAgain
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
Cliffe said he believes non-existence cannot produce existence. That's your belief, you didn't demonstrate any truth, but also your God created existence from non-existence, since the universe did not exist at one point.
Also I doubt you know anything about science but if you seal food in a jar, mold will grow. Food is not alive, mold is! You lose, sir.
@ReynanteperezMaguimpa-z3m
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
False fallacies,
@kaepowboom9116
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
I am not a atheist but I don’t agree how god judges ppl at all and when I was little my vision of a loving god is of no violence but it seems it’s not the case
@kyverwatch
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
Someone help me out here why does Cliffe insist that Alex must have faith in "someone" to be motivated to educate himself? He got very worked up about it.
@kyverwatch
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
I just got passed the opening statement and Stuart starts out talking nothing like what I'd expect from a Christian based on words attributed to Jesus lol
@kyverwatch
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
Notice their opening statements the Christians say "I just think it makes the most sense and we need it" which has nothing to do with if it is true or not.
@carmenschubert5001
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
This moderator sucks! He just let Cliffe go on an absolute rant against Alex!
@PawsandClaws-m
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
I left christian now aethist agnostic
@PawsandClaws-m
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
Cliff is frustrated hahahaha
@luciecerna3382
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
26:39 says a white male 😂
@AtticTapes14
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 am
Christianity is pathetic
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