When Skeptics Ask: A Handbook on Christian Evidences

CONTENTS......Page 3
THE NEED TO ANSWER EVERY MAN......Page 6
UNBELIEVERS HAVE GOOD QUESTIONS......Page 7
THE ANSWERS......Page 8
BUT WHAT ABOUT …?......Page 9
QUESTIONS ABOUT GOD......Page 10
DOES GOD EXIST?......Page 11
WHAT KIND OF GOD EXISTS?......Page 18
SOME OBJECTIONS......Page 21
QUESTIONS ABOUT OTHER GODS......Page 24
ATHEISM-WHAT IF THERE IS NO GOD?......Page 25
THEN LEFT IT ALONE?......Page 27
PANTHEISM—WHAT IF THE WORLD IS GOD?......Page 28
IS GOD’S BODY?......Page 33
IS NOT ALL-POWERFUL?......Page 36
POLYTHEISM—WHAT IF THERE ARE MANY GODS?......Page 37
WHAT IS EVIL?......Page 40
WHERE DID EVIL COME FROM?......Page 42
WHY CANT EVIL BE STOPPED?......Page 43
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF EVIL?......Page 45
DOES THERE HAVE TO BE SO MUCH EVIL?......Page 47
COULDN’T GOD MAKE A WORLD WITHOUT EVIL?......Page 48
THEN WHY DID GOD CHOOSE THIS WORLD?......Page 50
QUESTIONS ABOUT 
MIRACLES......Page 51
ARE MIRACLES POSSIBLE?......Page 52
ARE MIRACLES CREDIBLE?......Page 53
ARE MIRACLES SCIENTIFIC?......Page 55
ARE MIRACLES HISTORICAL?......Page 57
ARE MIRACLES MYTHOLOGICAL?......Page 58
ARE MIRACLES DEFINABLE?......Page 60
ARE MIRACLES VALUABLE?......Page 67
QUESTIONS ABOUT JESUS CHRIST......Page 69
WHO WAS JESUS?......Page 71
MAKE ABOUT JESUS?......Page 76
TO SUPPORT HIS CLAIMS?......Page 78
OLD TESTAMENT AND THE RESURRECTION......Page 82
JESUS ACTUALLY DIED ON THE CROSS......Page 83
JESUS ROSE BODILY FROM THE GRAVE......Page 85
JESUS APPEARED IN A RESURRECTED BODY......Page 87
WHY IS JESUS BETTER THAN OTHER TEACHERS?......Page 88
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BIBLE......Page 97
THE BIBLE CAME FROM GOD?......Page 98
HOW WAS THE BIBLE WRITTEN?......Page 100
CAN THE BIBLE BE WRONG?......Page 102
HOW WAS THE BIBLE PUT TOGETHER?......Page 106
HOW RELIABLE ARE OUR MODERN BIBLES?......Page 109
SUMMARY......Page 111
HANDLING DIFFICULT PASSAGES?......Page 112
OF THESE DIFFICULTIES?......Page 115
SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMS......Page 122
QUESTIONS ABOUT 
ARCHEOLOGY......Page 123
THE OLD TESTAMENT?......Page 124
WAS THE FLOOD A REAL EVENT?......Page 125
THE NEW TESTAMENT?......Page 137
QUESTIONS ABOUT SCIENCE AND EVOLUTION......Page 144
THE BASIC ARGUMENT AGAINST EVOLUTION......Page 146
THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE......Page 150
THE ORIGIN OF FIRST LIFE......Page 152
THE ORIGIN OF NEW LIFE FORMS......Page 155
CONCLUSION......Page 158
WHAT IS REINCARNATION?......Page 159
WHAT IS RESURRECTION?......Page 168
IS TRUTH RELATIVE OR ABSOLUTE?......Page 173
IS TRUTH CORRESPONDENT OR COHERENT?......Page 177
IS TRUTH KNOWABLE?......Page 180
IS TRUTH LOGICAL?......Page 183
QUESTIONS ABOUT MORALS
......Page 186
ARE THERE ANY ABSOLUTE VALUES?......Page 187
WHERE DO VALUES COME FROM?......Page 190
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ABSOLUTES CONFLICT?......Page 193
APPENDIX......Page 198
GLOSSARY......Page 199
SUGGESTED READINGS......Page 207