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Serve your own main course.re.

well, alrighty then.
The following are some brief answers to some frequently asked questions people have concerning the Christian faith. They are by no means exhaustive, in-depth studies of each subject. They are meant to spark you into doing deeper research on your own! They are like apologetics appetizers, similar to these dolmades here (don't ask).

This page (like our whole site) is constantly under construction. By the middle... err.. late 2001, make that early 2002, wait! late 2003! no! well SOMETIME IN THIS GEOLOGIC AGE there should be 100 questions here. If you have any you'd like to see answered, write us!

Questions

1. I've heard that carbon-14 dating cannot really be trusted to give accurate dates.

2. Is it possible that the moment of creation may be more recent because the mountains have not eroded away?

3. Why worry about the scientific accuracy of the Bible when it is clear that science and religion never mix anyway?

4. What I want is absolute proof for the existence of God. Why can't any Christian give that to me?

5. I keep running into people who claim that Armageddon is just around the corner. But people having been saying that for decades. What do you think?

6. If God created us, who created God?

7. How could Noah's ark have possibly held all the species of life on the earth?

8. Why did Jesus speak in parables?

9. The Trinity just does not seem to make sense. How can one person be two persons and three persons all at the same time?

10. Does God play favorites? Is God a Zionist because He has been supernaturally assisting the Jews?

11. If Christianity is uniquely true and clear and simple, why are there so many denominations?

12. Paul and Stephen contradict one another on the length of the Egyptian sojourn. How do you explain that?

13. Why does the Bible say that rabbits chew their cud, yet they don’t?

14. How can you tell the difference between a miracle and a natural, but unusual event?

15. Is there any supporting evidence for the miracles performed by Jesus and His apostles?

16. If life did not arise out of a primordial soup, couldn’t it have arisen out of the chemicals from oceanic steam vents?

17. If life did not arise out of a primordial soup, couldn't it have arisen out of clay structures?

18. Why was Noah asked to take only two of each kind of animal onboard the ark?

19. Why did God create us if He knew we would perpetrate evil and oppression?

20. What about the evidence for reincarnation?

21. How can a loving God condemn people to eternal torment in hell for refusing to submit to His authority? That God would punish to such an incredible degree seems utterly contrary to our notion of love.

22. Is there life on Mars?

23. Some Christians have suggested that Noah's ark still rests on top of Mt. Ararat and that its discovery will provide definitive proof of the Genesis Flood. What does the physical evidence say, and what does the Bible say?

24. How can we tell whether God or mere men were responsible for the Bible or for any other book of "holy writ?”

25. Is there a day of judgment, and if so, how will God evaluate our lives?

26. So what’s the big deal with the age of the Earth? Why is it so important?

27. You guys say you are against abortion, but what about abortion in the case of rape or incest? You surely wouldn’t force a woman to keep a child in this case!

28. Does God really want us to prove everything? Shouldn't we take some things on pure faith?

29. If you get ten people reading the Bible, you'll get ten different interpretations of it, right?

30. Everyone's interpretation of the Bible seems different. How can you tell who's right and who's wrong?

31. The Bible can say anything you want it to, can’t it?

32. Job's Leviathan and Behemoth sound like fairy tales to me.

33. Why was incest acceptable in Genesis but illegal in Exodus?

34. Why must there be a hell?

35. Why does God bless wicked people?

36. What happens to people who have never heard about Christ? If Jesus is the only way to eternal life what chance do they have? How could God judge them?

37. Where did Cain get his wife, plus all the people to build and occupy his city?

38. If God created us, who created God?

39. How can the Bible be trusted if it contains scientific errors? If the Bible includes scientific errors, either God is not totally knowledgeable about the universe and the earth, or the Bible is not the word of God.

40. Death seems so horrible. Why would a God of love make us go through such an experience?

41. Was the sun really created after the plants?

42. Is the biblical creation account out of sync in its sequence?

43. How does the Bible explain cavemen?

44. Did dinosaurs and men walk together? What is the scientific evidence, and what does the Bible say?

45. Creation or evolution - what is the truth?

46. Why did God give us a strong sex drive if He wanted us to avoid immorality?

47. Is there any evidence for or against Joshua's long day?

48. How could Adam live to 930 if he was to die on the day he disobeyed God?

49. If there is no fear in love, why are we commanded to love and fear God?

50. Why does Peter say the earth will perish when Psalms say it will last forever?

51. Why did John the Baptist deny that he was Elijah when Jesus said he was Elijah?

52. If Jesus died just before the Sabbath and was resurrected just after, why did He claim that He would remain dead for three days and three nights?

53. Who are we to believe, Paul or James? Paul says we are saved by faith alone, James that faith without works is dead.

54. Will the ark of the covenant ever be found?

55. Are angels real or fantasy?
 
 

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