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Jesus is The Only Way to God How can Christians make such ‘offensive’ and ‘exclusive’ claims? The answer is relatively simple. Although anyone can claim to be divine, be divinely inspired, or have mystical visions or experiences, only Jesus’ claims were substantiated by both prophecy and miracles. Details of His life were not only foretold many hundreds of years before He was born, but he performed miracles to authenticate His message, and made quite a few prophecies of His own.
The Problem of Evil. The existence of evil is one of the greatest challenges to Christianity. Does evil exist and, if it does, where does it stem from, and why doesn't a supposedly all-good & all-powerful God do something about it?
Natural Disasters The sheer scale of many natural calamities and the resulting death, destruction and human misery can not only tests the faith of even the firmest believer, but causes many others to question God’s goodness or even His very existence. It is doubtful that any answer will be completely emotionally satisfying nonetheless there are Biblical answers that not only meet the criteria of reason, but refute most of the banal platitudes peddled by those that apparently speak before they give the matter a modicum of thought.
Jesus And World Peace The Bible’s undeniable connections between Jesus and peace cause many to assume that bringing peace to the world was something Christ was supposed to do. However, in Jesus' reply to His own rhetorical question in Luke 12 He unequivocally stated that his earthly ministry was not to bring peace to the earth. This seems to flatly contradict everything the Bible says about Him and peace and has been pointed out by the already skeptical as an example of a clear contradiction in the Scriptures. In actuality world peace is the will of God - but not yet.
Can God Kill the Innocent? It is inappropriate for men to take innocent life simply because we are robbing other human beings of a God-given gift and we are not to play God in that regard. But clearly God can play God. There is nothing patently immoral about the Creator of life taking away life. It's immoral for us because when we take life we are exercising a prerogative reserved for God alone. Includes Thou Shalt Not Kill - Does God Violate His Own Commandment?
Joshua's Conquest: Was It Justified? The Bible confirms that God allowed or even ordered the killing of thousands of people - the first born of Egypt, the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah, and Canaan being the most prominent examples. If according to the Old Testament it is immoral to take the life of another human being isn't this an open and shut case for the hypocrisy of the God of the Bible?
Why Did God Allow The Killing Of All The First Born Of Egypt? People who kill other people’s babies deserve to die. Therefore the ancient Egyptians deserved to die. Still, God showed them mercy for years, giving them time to repent.
The Hardening of Pharaoh’s Heart To properly understand what happened to Pharaoh, we need to understand the different words that are translated into “hard” or “harden”.
Does Picking Up Sticks Deserve the Death Penalty? In truth, only God could have known what would have happened if this man’s disobedience had gone unpunished, and what would have happened if his punishment was not the death penalty.
Aaron’s Sons - Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar: One of the more inexplicable events in the Bible was when Aaron’s two eldest sons Nadab and Abihu were struck dead by the Lord because they violated one of the Lord’s very specific instructions. However, Eleazar and Ithamar - Aaron himself along with his two younger sons deliberately disobeyed God's instructions, but were not struck down. In fact, God blessed their lives and the lives of their descendants. Why? Why did two perish and two prosper?
The Real Murderers: Atheism or Christianity? The assertion is that religion has caused most of the killing and bloodshed in the world. There are people who make accusations and assertions that are empirically false. This is one of them. Includes Secularism.. The Most Evil Philosophy Known To Human Government.
Hypocrisy In The Church The church is full of hypocrites So how can Christianity be true?
Hell: God’s Torture Chamber? Most Christians believe that the Bible teaches that sinners will suffer eternal punishment in hell. This has led to a considerable amount of difficulty in sharing the faith because most non-Christians believe that a God who would torment people in hell for all eternity is monster worse than Hitler and, quite understandably, they want nothing to do with Him. Since either Heaven or Hell is the final and eternal destination of every one of us, the importance of these two subjects cannot possibly be overstated. In fact, it is imperative that we thoroughly and completely understand, not man's teachings, but what the Bible says about heaven and hell. When it comes to hell, the deeper one delves into the subject, the less persuasive the argument in favor of the traditional view becomes.
Children In Hell? What does the Bible say?
How Much Sin Can God Forgive? Is God within His rights, as it were, to forgive minimal crimes but not within His just rights to forgive extreme crimes?
Hitler and Mother Teresa: What kind of God would allow a Hitler to go to heaven if he finally came to believe in Jesus, and a Mother Teresa to go to hell if she didn't?
Miracles - Impossible violations of the laws of nature?
The Bible and Slavery: Can we determine with accuracy what the Bible really says on the topic of slavery? Does the Bible condemn it as a social injustice? Does the Bible condone the practice? And how does the Bible's position on slavery mesh with the idea of a loving God?
God is a Chauvinist: Women in the Bible did little but ‘submit’ to their husbands” - Nothing could be further from the truth.
Polygamy In The Bible: There are a growing number of Christians who believe that Polygamy is an acceptable practice, based on 1) it was practiced by some of the Old Testament patriarchs 2) The Bible does not specifically condemn it, and 3) Because God permits and regulates the practice, He must condone it. However the question that has to concern the New Testament believer is not what Jacob or Elkanah did, but what God’s original design for marriage was.
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Questions Skeptics Ask: Most critics of the Bible assume that because something is unexplained it is unexplainable. When a scientist comes across an anomaly in nature he doesn’t give up on science. How many NASA scientists resigned when they found rings around Jupiter which was contrary to all scientific explanations? When the Bible has been proven to be accurate over and over again in hundreds of details the burden of proof is on the critics, not on the Bible.
Evolution: Many believe in evolution for the simple reason that they think science has proven it to be a ‘fact’ and, therefore, it must be accepted.
Atheism: To claim you know there is no God is to claim you have exhaustively searched every part of every universe and dimension with an infallibly accurate method of detecting every non-physical entity that could possibly exist.
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