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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Contributors | |
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Questions about the Christian Faith | |
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Tough Questions about God | |
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Who Made God? | |
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Why Couldn't the World Always Have Existed? | |
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How Can God Make Something out of Nothing? | |
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What Was God Doing before He Made the World? | |
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How Can There Be Three Persons in One God? | |
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How Can a Good God Send People to Hell? | |
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How Can God Be Both Loving and Just? | |
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Tough Questions about Evil | |
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What Is the Origin of Evil? | |
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What Is God's Ultimate Purpose in Allowing Evil? | |
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Wouldn't It Be Better If God Did Away with All Evil Immediately? | |
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Does the Existence of Evil Prove That God Is Finite? | |
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Is Evil Just an Illusion? | |
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Can New Age Pantheism Account for Evil? | |
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Do We Create Our Own Realities? | |
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Does Reincarnation Explain the Existence of Evil? | |
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Tough Questions about Science | |
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Are Science and Christianity Allies or Adversaries? | |
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How Should Theology and Science Relate? | |
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How Does Modern Science Describe the World? | |
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Where Did the Universe Come From? | |
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What Does the Fine-Tuning of the Universe Mean? | |
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What Does the "Many Worlds" Hypothesis Mean? | |
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What Explains the Actual Origin of Life? | |
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How Long Are the Days of Creation in Genesis? | |
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Is the Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution True? | |
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Tough Questions about Christ | |
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Are the Records of Jesus' Life Reliable? | |
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Did Jesus Ever Claim to Be God? | |
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More Tough Questions about Christ | |
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Did Jesus Really Perform Miracles? | |
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Did Jesus Fulfill the Messianic Prophecies? | |
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Did Jesus Rise from the Dead? | |
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Tough Questions about the Bible | |
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Where Did the Bible Come From? | |
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Who Wrote the Bible? | |
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Were the Biblical Authors Mere Secretaries of the Holy Spirit? | |
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What Was a Prophet in Bible Times? | |
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Could Prophets Add Their Personal Thoughts to God's Message? | |
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How Did the Prophets Get Their Messages from God? | |
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Were the Prophets Permitted to Change the Words God Gave? | |
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What Do You Mean When You Say "The Bible Is the Word of God"? | |
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How Else Does the Bible Claim to Be the Word of God? | |
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Does the Bible Actually Claim to Be the "Word of God" in So Many Words? | |
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Does the Bible Claim to Have Divine Authority? | |
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How Far Does This Divine Authority Extend? | |
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What Do You Mean When You Say That the Bible Is Inspired? | |
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Are the Very Words of the Bible Inspired by God, or Only the Ideas? | |
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Does the Bible Claim to Be Inspired on All Topics or Just Spiritual Ones? | |
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How Do Some People Misunderstand What Is Meant by the Inspiration of the Bible? | |
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How Do We Know These Misunderstandings Aren't Part of What Inspiration Covers? | |
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Isn't the Bible Also a Human Book? | |
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Does the Bible Have Errors in It? | |
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Are There Errors in Bible Manuscripts and Translations? | |
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How Can the Bible Be Both God's Words and Man's Words? | |
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Were the Biblical Witnesses Reliable? | |
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Why Does the Jesus Seminar Reject the Reliability of the New Testament Witnesses? | |
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Would the New Testament Witnesses Have Stood Up in a Court of Law? | |
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Are the Copies of the Bible Reliable? | |
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Questions about Other Faiths | |
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Tough Questions about the Bible, False Prophets, and the Holy Books of Other Religions | |
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What Evidence Is There That the Bible Is Inspired by God as It Claims to Be? | |
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Is There Any Other Evidence That the Bible Is God's Word? | |
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Haven't Psychics Made Successful Predictions Like Those Found in the Bible? | |
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Didn't Nostradamus Make Supernatural Predictions? | |
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Do Nostradamus's Predictions Fail the Test of a True Prophet? | |
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What Are the Tests for a False Prophet? | |
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Did the Biblical Authors Measure Up to These Tests? | |
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Why Can't the Holy Books of Other Religions Also Be from God? | |
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Isn't It Narrow-Minded to Claim That Only One Religion Has the Truth? | |
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Is the Old Testament Complete? | |
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What Is the Testimony of Judaism about the Completeness of the Old Testament? | |
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What Did Jesus Say about the Completeness of the Old Testament? | |
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What Did the Early Christians Say about the Completeness of the Old Testament? | |
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Did the Roman Catholic Church Add Books to the Jewish Old Testament? | |
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How Do We Know the New Testament Is Complete? | |
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What Did Jesus Promise about the Formation of the New Testament? | |
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What Did Jesus' Apostles Say about the New Testament? | |
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What Evidence Did the Apostles Show for Their Authority? | |
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Were All the Apostolic and Prophetic Writings Preserved in the New Testament? | |
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How Does the Character of God Guarantee the Completeness of the New Testament? | |
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Did the Church Carefully Preserve the Whole New Testament? | |
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Is the Whole Bible Complete? | |
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Why Are Noninspired Books Mentioned in the Bible? | |
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Do Mormons Believe That the Bible Is Inspired by God? | |
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Is There Confirmation That Mormon Scriptures Are from God? | |
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Are There Evidences That The Book of Mormon Is Inspired? | |
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Is the Qur'an the Word of God? | |
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Tough Questions about Hinduism and Transcendental Meditation | |
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Why Is There Such a High Degree of Interest in Eastern Religions among Westerners? | |
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What Are the Main Tenets of Hinduism? | |
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What Is Transcendental Meditation? | |
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Tough Questions about Yoga, Reincarnation, and Buddhism | |
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What Does Yoga Mean and What Is the Teaching Behind It? | |
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What Is Reincarnation? | |
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What Are the Beliefs of Buddhism? | |
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Tough Questions about Black Islam | |
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What Is the Current Climate of the Church? | |
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What Makes Religion "Black"? | |
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Who Founded the Black Islamic Movement? | |
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Who Was Responsible for Bringing the Message of Black Islam to the Forefront? | |
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What Social Factors Led to the Emergence of the Black Islam Movement? | |
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What Is the Unique Appeal of Islam for Blacks? | |
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Why Is the Message of Islam Appealing to African-American Males in Particular? | |
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Who Was Malcolm X? | |
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Is Islam Becoming the True Religion of the Black Man? | |
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Do Black Muslims Have Misperceptions about the Christian Faith? | |
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Does Black Islam Recognize the Deity of Jesus Christ? | |
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Should Black Muslims Be Allowed to Speak in Black Churches? | |
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How Might the Church Reach Out to Black Muslims? | |
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Resources for Digging Deeper | |
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Notes | |
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Scripture Index | |
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Subject Index | |