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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 | |