28. Is Religion the Real Cause of Violence in the World?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 29. Is God Genocidal?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 30. How Can a Loving God Send People to Hell?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 31. Does God Punish People Through Natural Disasters?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 32. Why Does God Allow Suffering?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 33. Why Doesn’t God Stop the Suffering Now?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 34. Does God Have Feelings and Emotions?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 35. Does God Love Everyone Regardless of Sexual Orientation?. . . . . . . . 101 36. Does God Get Involved in Politics?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 37. How Can We Know God’s Will in Our Lives?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 38. Did Jesus Really Claim to Be God?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 39. Isn’t It Arrogant to Claim that Christianity Is the Only True Religion?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 40. How Do We Know that Jesus Actually Lived?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 41. How Did Jesus Back Up His Claim to Be God?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 42. What Proof Is There that Jesus Was the Messiah?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 43. Is There Proof that Jesus Was Born of a Virgin?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 44. Is There Proof that Jesus Rose from the Dead?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 45. Why Did Jesus Need to Die?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 46. Why Is Jesus’ Resurrection So Central to Christianity?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 47. How Did People Get Right with God Before Jesus Died for Sin?. . . . . 132 48. What Is God’s Church?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 49. What Is Jesus Going to Do at His Second Coming?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 50. How Do I Personally Experience a Relationship with God?. . . . . . . . . . 139 Questions About the Bible
51. Where Did the Bible Come From?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 52. What Does It Mean that the Bible Is Inspired?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 53. Is the Bible a Product of God, Humans, or Both?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 54. Isn’t the Bible Full of Errors and Contradictions?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 55. Does the New Testament Misquote the Old Testament?.. . . . . . . . . . . . 157 56. How Do We Know that the Bible We Have Today Is Truly God’s Word?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
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