Does your present worldview provide you with an adequate sense of
meaning and purpose?

In order to be fair in the debate about matters of faith,

it's not
just the Christian who must be called to the witness stand.

Even those
who dispute or who otherwise persist in voicing skepticism about
Christianity have some questions to answer. (snip)

In order to be fair in the debate about matters of faith, it's not
just the Christian who must be called to the witness stand. Even those
who dispute or who otherwise persist in voicing skepticism about
Christianity have some questions to answer. In fact, considering the
evidence, it no doubt requires more faith to stand outside the circle
of those who believe than to join it.

In order to be fair in the debate about matters of faith, it's not
just the Christian who must be called to the witness stand. Even those
who dispute or who otherwise persist in voicing skepticism about
Christianity have some questions to answer. In fact, considering the
evidence, it no doubt requires more faith to stand outside the circle
of those who believe than to join it.

To ensure integrity, therefore,
on the part of even our readers who are not yet believers, here are a
few issues about which you too should be able to give an account.

How do you explain the high degree of design and order in the
universe?

How do you account for the vast archaeological documentation of
Biblical stories, places, and people?

Since absolutely no Bible prophecy has ever failed (and there are
hundreds), how can one realistically remain unconvinced that the Bible
is of Divine origin?

Explain David's graphic portrayal of Jesus' death by crucifixion
(Psalm 22) 1000 years previous to crucifixion being established as a
form of capital punishment?

How could any mere human pinpoint the birth town of the Messiah seven
full centuries before the fact, as did the prophet Micah?

Account for the odds (1 in 10 to the 157th power) that even just 48
(of 300) Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled in one person, i.e
Jesus.

How was it possible for the Old Testament prophet Isaiah to have
predicted the virgin birth of Jesus (Isaiah 7:14) 700 years before it
occurred?

How can anyone doubt the reliability of Scripture considering the
number and proximity to originals of its many copied manuscripts?

Are you able to live consistently with your present worldview?

Wouldn't it make better sense, even pragmatically, to live as though
the God of the Bible does exist than as though He doesn't?

In what sense was Jesus a 'Good Man' if He was lying in His claim to
be God?

Do you think that Jesus was misguided in affirming the truthfulness of
Scripture, i.e. John 10:35, Matthew 24, Luke 24:44?

If the Bible is not true, why is it so universally regarded as the
'Good Book'?

Are you aware that the Old Testament alone claims to be God's inspired
word at least 2600 times?

Did you know that the Bible has been the number one best-seller every
year since the 1436 invention of the Gutenberg printing press?

From whence comes humanity's universal moral sense?

If man is nothing but the random arrangement of molecules, what
motivates you to care and to live honorably in the world?

Explain how personality could have ever evolved from the impersonal,
or how order could have ever resulted from chaos.

If Jesus' resurrection was faked, why would twelve intelligent men
(Jesus' disciples) have died for what they knew to be a lie?

How do you explain the fact that a single, relatively uneducated and
virtually untraveled man, dead at age 33, radically changed lives and
society to this day?

Why have so many of history's greatest thinkers been believers? Have
you ever wondered why thousands of intelligent scientists, living and
dead, have been men and women of great faith?

Isn't it somewhat arrogant to suggest that countless churches and
people (including men like Abraham Lincoln) are all radically in error
in their view of the Bible?

How do you account for the origin of life considering the irreducible
complexity of its essential components?

How can the Second Law of Thermodynamics be reconciled with
progressive, naturalistic evolutionary theory?

How do you reconcile the existence of human intelligence with
naturalism and the Law of Entropy?

Why does the Bible alone, of all of the world's 'holy' books, contain
such detailed prophecies of future events?

On what basis can the Bible (interpreted as per historic Christian
orthodoxy) be challenged as a sole, final truth-standard (Galatians
1:8)?

Is it absolutely true that "truth is not absolute" or only relatively
true that "all things are relative?"

Is it possible that your unbelief in God is actually an unwillingness
to submit to Him?

Does your present worldview provide you with an adequate sense of
meaning and purpose?

How do you explain the radically changed lives of so many Christian
believers down through history?

Are you aware that every alleged Bible contradiction has been answered
in an intelligible and credible manner?

What do you say about the hundreds of scholarly books that carefully
document the veracity and reliability of the Bible?

Why and how has the Bible survived and even flourished in spite of
centuries of worldwide attempts to destroy and ban its message?

Why isn't it absurd to try to speak or even conceive of a non-existent
'God' when an existing God would, by definition, be greater?

Have you ever considered the fact that Christianity is the only
religion whose leader is said to have risen from the dead?

How do you explain the empty tomb of Jesus in light of all the
evidence that has now proven essentially irrefutable for twenty
centuries?

If Jesus did not actually die and rise from the dead, how could He (in
His condition) have circumvented all of the security measures in place
at His tomb?

If the authorities stole Jesus' body, why? Why would they have
perpetrated the very scenario that they most wanted to prevent?

If Jesus merely resuscitated in the tomb, how did He deal with the
Roman guard posted just outside its entrance?

How can one realistically discount the testimony of over 500 witnesses
to a living Jesus following His crucifixion (see 1 Corinthians 15:6)?

If all of Jesus' claims to be God were the result of His own
self-delusion, why didn't He evidence lunacy in any other areas of His
life?

If God is unchanging, wouldn't it be true that one who changes by
suddenly "realizing" that he/she is 'God' therefore isn't God?

Is your unbelief in a perfect God possibly the result of a bad
experience with an imperfect Church or a misunderstanding of the
facts, and therefore an unfair rejection of God Himself? >> Why should
I consider Christianity, if all Christians are hypocrites? / What kind
of world would you create? / How did bad things come about? / Why do
the innocent suffer? / Does God feel your pain? / Goodness of God / Is
God fair? / How can a God of love send anybody to Hell?

How did 35-40 men, spanning 1500 years and living on three separate
continents, ever manage to author one unified message, i.e. the Bible?

Would you charge the Declaration of Independence with error in
affirming that "all men are endowed by their Creator..."?

Because life origins are not observable, verifiable, or falsifiable,
how does historical 'science' amount to anything more than just
another faith system?

What do you make of all the anthropological studies indicating that
even the most remote tribes show some sort of theological awareness?

Why subscribe to the incredible odds that the tilt and position of our
planet relative to the sun are merely coincidental?

If every effect has a cause, and if God Himself is the universe (i.e.
is one with the universe, as some non-Christians suggest), what or who
then caused the universe?

What would be required to persuade you to become a believer?

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

In order to be fair in the debate about **CHOP**

In order to be fair in the debate about matters of faith, it's not
just the Christian who must be called to the witness stand. Even those
who dispute or who otherwise persist in voicing skepticism about
Christianity have some questions to answer. In fact, considering the
evidence, it no doubt requires more faith to stand outside the circle
of those who believe than to join it. To ensure integrity, therefore,
on the part of even our readers who are not yet believers, here are a
few issues about which you too should be able to give an account.

How do you explain the high degree of design and order in the
universe?

Learn more about the universe / origin of life / origin of species

/ origin of mankind

How do you account for the vast archaeological documentation of
Biblical stories, places, and people?

Reliability of the Bible - In what ways have archaeological

discoveries verified it? / Bible archaeology evidences

Since absolutely no Bible prophecy has ever failed (and there are
hundreds), how can one realistically remain unconvinced that the Bible
is of Divine origin?

Read about fulfilled biblical prophecies...

Explain David's graphic portrayal of Jesus' death by crucifixion
(Psalm 22) 1000 years previous to crucifixion being established as a
form of capital punishment?

How could any mere human pinpoint the birth town of the Messiah seven
full centuries before the fact, as did the prophet Micah?

Read the "God's Story" account of Micah describing the Messiah...

Account for the odds (1 in 10 to the 157th power) that even just 48
(of 300) Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled in one person, i.e
Jesus.

Prophecies

How was it possible for the Old Testament prophet Isaiah to have
predicted the virgin birth of Jesus (Isaiah 7:14) 700 years before it
occurred?

Read the "God's Story" account of the prophets describing the

Savior / Is the virgin birth a myth?

How can anyone doubt the reliability of Scripture considering the
number and proximity to originals of its many copied manuscripts?

Read about the importance of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls

/ Discovering the Bible videos explain the manuscript evidence and
much more

Are you able to live consistently with your present worldview?

Visit Summit Ministries for worldview comparisons...

Wouldn't it make better sense, even pragmatically, to live as though
the God of the Bible does exist than as though He doesn't?

In what sense was Jesus a 'Good Man' if He was lying in His claim to
be God?

Is Jesus Christ really God?...

Do you think that Jesus was misguided in affirming the truthfulness of
Scripture, i.e. John 10:35, Matthew 24, Luke 24:44?

If the Bible is not true, why is it so universally regarded as the
'Good Book'?

How can I know if the Bible is true?... / Is the Bible truth or

tabloid? / Can the Bible be infallible if it is written by fallible
humans?

Are you aware that the Old Testament alone claims to be God's inspired
word at least 2600 times?

Did you know that the Bible has been the number one best-seller every
year since the 1436 invention of the Gutenberg printing press?

The Bible -- an amazing book...

From whence comes humanity's universal moral sense?

If man is nothing but the random arrangement of molecules, what
motivates you to care and to live honorably in the world?

Explain how personality could have ever evolved from the impersonal,
or how order could have ever resulted from chaos.

If Jesus' resurrection was faked, why would twelve intelligent men
(Jesus' disciples) have died for what they knew to be a lie?

Is the resurrection a myth?...

How do you explain the fact that a single, relatively uneducated and
virtually untraveled man, dead at age 33, radically changed lives and
society to this day?

Learn more about Jesus' life, death and resurrection...

Why have so many of history's greatest thinkers been believers?

Have
you ever wondered why thousands of intelligent scientists, living and
dead, have been men and women of great faith?

Do real scientists believe in Creation? / Is the Bible completely

accurate, or does it contain some inaccuracies about history and
science?


Isn't it somewhat arrogant to suggest that countless churches and
people (including men like Abraham Lincoln) are all radically in error
in their view of the Bible?

How do you account for the origin of life considering the irreducible
complexity of its essential components?

Learn more about the origin of life...

How can the Second Law of Thermodynamics be reconciled with
progressive, naturalistic evolutionary theory?

Second Law of Thermodynamics - Does this basic law of nature

prevent Evolution?...

How do you reconcile the existence of human intelligence with
naturalism and the Law of Entropy?

Why does the Bible alone, of all of the world's 'holy' books, contain
such detailed prophecies of future events?

Learn more about the Bible...

On what basis can the Bible (interpreted as per historic Christian
orthodoxy) be challenged as a sole, final truth-standard (Galatians
1:8)?

Is it absolutely true that "truth is not absolute" or only relatively
true that "all things are relative?"

The Loss of Truth -- Are we living in a moral stone age?...

Is it possible that your unbelief in God is actually an unwillingness
to submit to Him?

God's plan

Does your present worldview provide you with an adequate sense of
meaning and purpose?

How do you explain the radically changed lives of so many Christian
believers down through history?

Are you aware that every alleged Bible contradiction has been answered
in an intelligible and credible manner?

More about Bible contradictions...

What do you say about the hundreds of scholarly books that carefully
document the veracity and reliability of the Bible?

Why and how has the Bible survived and even flourished in spite of
centuries of worldwide attempts to destroy and ban its message?

Recommended resource: The Indestructible Book (video)...

Why isn't it absurd to try to speak or even conceive of a non-existent
'God' when an existing God would, by definition, be greater?

Have you ever considered the fact that Christianity is the only
religion whose leader is said to have risen from the dead?

Is Christianity really unique among world religions?...

How do you explain the empty tomb of Jesus in light of all the
evidence that has now proven essentially irrefutable for twenty
centuries?

Is the resurrection a myth? / Did Christ really rise from the dead?

/ Were the witnesses hallucinating?

If Jesus did not actually die and rise from the dead, how could He (in
His condition) have circumvented all of the security measures in place
at His tomb?

Did Jesus really die? / How did Jesus die? / What is crucifixion?

<snip variations of this:>

How can one realistically discount the testimony of over 500 witnesses
to a living Jesus following His crucifixion (see 1 Corinthians 15:6)?

Maybe the witnesses were just seeing things?...

If all of Jesus' claims to be God were the result of His own
self-delusion, why didn't He evidence lunacy in any other areas of His
life?

Is Jesus Christ's character consistent with his high claims?...

If God is unchanging, wouldn't it be true that one who changes by
suddenly "realizing" that he/she is 'God' therefore isn't God?

Is your unbelief in a perfect God possibly the result of a bad
experience with an imperfect Church or a misunderstanding of the
facts, and therefore an unfair rejection of God Himself? >> Why should
I consider Christianity, if all Christians are hypocrites? / What kind
of world would you create? / How did bad things come about? / Why do
the innocent suffer? / Does God feel your pain? / Goodness of God / Is
God fair? / How can a God of love send anybody to Hell?

How did 35-40 men, spanning 1500 years and living on three separate
continents, ever manage to author one unified message, i.e. the Bible?

Can the Bible be infallible if it is written by fallible humans? /

More about the congruency of the Bible / The Discovering the Bible
videos explain the amazing authorship of the Bible and many other
evidences

Would you charge the Declaration of Independence with error in
affirming that "all men are endowed by their Creator..."?

Because life origins are not observable, verifiable, or falsifiable,
how does historical 'science' amount to anything more than just
another faith system?

What is the nature of science and scientists? / Frequently asked

questions on the Origin of Life


What do you make of all the anthropological studies indicating that
even the most remote tribes show some sort of theological awareness?

Why subscribe to the incredible odds that the tilt and position of our
planet relative to the sun are merely coincidental?

Consider: Was there a big bang?...

If every effect has a cause, and if God Himself is the universe (i.e.
is one with the universe, as some non-Christians suggest), what or who
then caused the universe?

See our Creation SuperLibrary for answer about

Creation/Evolution...


What would be required to persuade you to become a believer?

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


A college student attended a philosophy class which held a discussion
about God's existence. The professor presented the following logic:
"Has anyone in this class ever heard God?" No one spoke. "Has anyone
in this class ever touched God?" Again, no one spoke. "Has anyone in
this class ever seen God?" When no one spoke for the third time, he
said, "Then there is no God."

One student thought for a second and then asked for permission to
reply. Curious to hear this bold student's response, the professor
agreed. The student stood up and asked the following: "Has anyone in
this class ever heard our professor's brain?" Silence. "Has anyone in
this class ever touched our professor's brain?" Absolute silence. "Has
anyone in this class ever seen our professor's brain?" When no one in
the class dared to speak, the student concluded, "Then, according to
our professor's logic, it must be true that our professor has no
brain!"

The student received an 'A' in the class.

In order to be fair in the debate about matters of faith, it's not
just the Christian who must be called to the witness stand. Even those
who dispute or who otherwise persist in voicing skepticism about
Christianity have some questions to answer. In fact, considering the
evidence, it no doubt requires more faith to stand outside the circle
of those who believe than to join it. To ensure integrity, therefore,
on the part of even our readers who are not yet believers, here are a
few issues about which you too should be able to give an account.

How do you explain the high degree of design and order in the
universe?

Learn more about the universe / origin of life / origin of species

/ origin of mankind

How do you account for the vast archaeological documentation of
Biblical stories, places, and people?

Reliability of the Bible - In what ways have archaeological

discoveries verified it? / Bible archaeology evidences

Since absolutely no Bible prophecy has ever failed (and there are
hundreds), how can one realistically remain unconvinced that the Bible
is of Divine origin?

Read about fulfilled biblical prophecies...

Explain David's graphic portrayal of Jesus' death by crucifixion
(Psalm 22) 1000 years previous to crucifixion being established as a
form of capital punishment?

How could any mere human pinpoint the birth town of the Messiah seven
full centuries before the fact, as did the prophet Micah?

Read the "God's Story" account of Micah describing the Messiah...

Account for the odds (1 in 10 to the 157th power) that even just 48
(of 300) Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled in one person, i.e
Jesus.

Prophecies

How was it possible for the Old Testament prophet Isaiah to have
predicted the virgin birth of Jesus (Isaiah 7:14) 700 years before it
occurred?

Read the "God's Story" account of the prophets describing the

Savior / Is the virgin birth a myth?

How can anyone doubt the reliability of Scripture considering the
number and proximity to originals of its many copied manuscripts?

Read about the importance of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls

/ Discovering the Bible videos explain the manuscript evidence and
much more

Are you able to live consistently with your present worldview?

Visit Summit Ministries for worldview comparisons...

Wouldn't it make better sense, even pragmatically, to live as though
the God of the Bible does exist than as though He doesn't?

In what sense was Jesus a 'Good Man' if He was lying in His claim to
be God?

Is Jesus Christ really God?...

Do you think that Jesus was misguided in affirming the truthfulness of
Scripture, i.e. John 10:35, Matthew 24, Luke 24:44?

If the Bible is not true, why is it so universally regarded as the
'Good Book'?

How can I know if the Bible is true?... / Is the Bible truth or

tabloid? / Can the Bible be infallible if it is written by fallible
humans?

Are you aware that the Old Testament alone claims to be God's inspired
word at least 2600 times?

Did you know that the Bible has been the number one best-seller every
year since the 1436 invention of the Gutenberg printing press?

The Bible -- an amazing book...

From whence comes humanity's universal moral sense?

If man is nothing but the random arrangement of molecules, what
motivates you to care and to live honorably in the world?

Explain how personality could have ever evolved from the impersonal,
or how order could have ever resulted from chaos.

If Jesus' resurrection was faked, why would twelve intelligent men
(Jesus' disciples) have died for what they knew to be a lie?

Is the resurrection a myth?...

How do you explain the fact that a single, relatively uneducated and
virtually untraveled man, dead at age 33, radically changed lives and
society to this day?

Learn more about Jesus' life, death and resurrection...

Why have so many of history's greatest thinkers been believers? Have
you ever wondered why thousands of intelligent scientists, living and
dead, have been men and women of great faith?

Do real scientists believe in Creation? / Is the Bible completely

accurate, or does it contain some inaccuracies about history and
science?

Isn't it somewhat arrogant to suggest that countless churches and
people (including men like Abraham Lincoln) are all radically in error
in their view of the Bible?

How do you explain the high degree of design and order in the
universe?

How do you account for the vast archaeological documentation of
Biblical stories, places, and people?

Since absolutely no Bible prophecy has ever failed (and there are
hundreds), how can one realistically remain unconvinced that the Bible
is of Divine origin?

Explain David's graphic portrayal of Jesus' death by crucifixion
(Psalm 22) 1000 years previous to crucifixion being established as a
form of capital punishment?

How could any mere human pinpoint the birth town of the Messiah seven
full centuries before the fact, as did the prophet Micah?

How was it possible for the Old Testament prophet Isaiah to have
predicted the virgin birth of Jesus (Isaiah 7:14) 700 years before it
occurred?

How can anyone doubt the reliability of Scripture considering the
number and proximity to originals of its many copied manuscripts?

Are you able to live consistently with your present worldview?

Wouldn't it make better sense, even pragmatically, to live as though
the God of the Bible does exist than as though He doesn't?

In what sense was Jesus a 'Good Man' if He was lying in His claim to
be God?

Do you think that Jesus was misguided in affirming the truthfulness of
Scripture, i.e. John 10:35, Matthew 24, Luke 24:44?

If the Bible is not true, why is it so universally regarded as the
'Good Book'?

Are you aware that the Old Testament alone claims to be God's inspired
word at least 2600 times?

Did you know that the Bible has been the number one best-seller every
year since the 1436 invention of the Gutenberg printing press?

How do you explain the fact that a single, relatively uneducated and
virtually untraveled man, dead at age 33, radically changed lives and
society to this day?