Who made God? : and answers to over 100 other tough questions of faith

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This book provides answers to the most-asked questions about the Christian faith. In the quest for the truth, you need to know what you believe and why you believe it. Who Made God? offers accessible answers to over 100 commonly asked apologetic questions. Bringing together the best in evangelical a...

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Other Authors: Zacharias, Ravi K. (Editor), Geisler, Norman L. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan, [2003]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Apologetics.
Christianity > Miscellanea.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Questions about the Christian Faith
  • 1. Tough Questions about God / Norman Geisler
  • Who Made God?
  • Why Couldn't the World Always Have Existed?
  • How Can God Make Something Out of Nothing?
  • What Was God Doing before He Made the World?
  • How Can There Be Three Persons in One God?
  • How Can a Good God Send People to Hell?
  • How Can God Be Both Loving and Just?
  • 2. Tough Questions about Evil / Ronald Rhodes
  • What Is the Origin of Evil?
  • What Is God's Ultimate Purpose in Allowing Evil?
  • Wouldn't It Be Better If God Did Away with All Evil Immediately?
  • Does the Existence of Evil Prove That God Is Finite?
  • Is Evil Just an Illusion?
  • Can New Age Pantheism Account for Evil?
  • Do We Create Our Own Realities?
  • Does Reincarnation Explain the Existence of Evil?
  • 3. Tough Questions about Science / William Lane Craig
  • Are Science and Christianity Allies or Adversaries?
  • How Should Theology and Science Relate?
  • How Does Modern Science Describe the World?
  • Where Did the Universe Come From?
  • What Does the Fine-Tuning of the Universe Mean?
  • What Does the "Many Worlds" Hypothesis Mean?
  • What Explains the Actual Origin of Life?
  • How Long Are the Days of Creation in Genesis?
  • Is the Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution True?
  • 4. Tough Questions about Christ / Lee Strobel
  • Are the Records of Jesus' Life Reliable?
  • Did Jesus Ever Claim to Be God?
  • 5. More Tough Questions about Christ / Lee Strobel
  • Did Jesus Really Perform Miracles?
  • Did Jesus Fulfill the Messianic Prophecies?
  • Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?
  • 6. Tough Questions about the Bible / Norman Geisler
  • Where Did the Bible Come From?
  • Who Wrote the Bible?
  • Were the Biblical Authors Mere Secretaries of the Holy Spirit?
  • What Was a Prophet in Bible Times?
  • Could Prophets Add Their Personal Thoughts to God's Message?
  • Didn't Paul Add His Own Opinions to the Corinthians?
  • How Did the Prophets Get Their Message from God?
  • Were the Prophets Permitted to Change the Words God Gave?
  • What Is Meant When We Say, "The Bible Is the Word of God"?
  • How Else Does the Bible Claim to Be the Word of God?
  • Does the Bible Actually Claim to be the "Word of God" in So Many Words?
  • Does the Bible Claim to Have Divine Authority?
  • How Far Does This Divine Authority Extend?
  • What Is Meant by the Statement That the Bible Is Inspired?
  • Are the Very Words of the Bible Inspired by God or Only the Ideas?
  • Does the Bible Claim to Be Inspired on All Topics or Just Spiritual Ones?
  • How Do Some People Misunderstand What Is Meant by the Inspiration of the Bible?
  • How Do We Know That These Are Not Included in What Inspiration Covers?
  • Does the Whole Bible Claim to Be from God or Just Parts of It?
  • Isn't the Bible Also a Human Book?
  • Does the Bible Have Human Errors in It?
  • Are There Any Errors in Bible Manuscripts and Translations?
  • How Can the Bible Be Both God's Words and Man's Words?
  • Is the Biblical Text Historically Reliable?
  • Were the Biblical Witnesses Reliable?
  • Why Does the Jesus Seminar Reject the Reliability of the New Testament Witnesses?
  • Would the New Testament Witnesses Have Stood Up in a Court of Law?
  • Are the Copies of the Bible Reliable?
  • Part II. Questions about Other Faiths
  • 7. Tough Questions about the Koran, the Book of Mormon, and False Prophets Compared to the Bible / Norman Geisler
  • What Evidence Do We Have That the Bible Is Inspired of God as It Claims to Be?
  • Is There Any Other Evidence That the Bible Is God's Word?
  • Haven't Psychics Made Successful Predictions Like the Bible?
  • Didn't Jeane Dixon Predict President Kennedy's Assassination?
  • Didn't Nostradamus Make Supernatural Predictions?
  • Do Nostradamus's Predictions Fail the Test of a True Prophet?
  • What Are the Tests for a False Prophet?
  • Did the Biblical Authors Measure Up to These Tests?
  • If God Condemned Occultic Means, Why Did the Old Testament Priests Use Divining Stones?
  • Why Can't the Holy Books of Other Religions Be from God Too?
  • Isn't It Narrow-Minded to Claim Only One Religion Has the Truth?
  • Is the Bible Complete or Is Something Missing?
  • Is the Old Testament Complete?
  • What Is the Testimony of Judaism about the Completion of the Old Testament?
  • What Did Jesus Say about the Completeness of the Old Testament?
  • What Did the Early Christians Say about the Completeness of the Old Testament?
  • Did the Roman Catholic Church Add Books to the Jewish Old Testament?
  • How Do We Know the New Testament Is Complete?
  • What Did Jesus Promise about the Formation of the New Testament?
  • What Did Jesus' Apostles Say about the New Testament?
  • What Evidence Did the Apostles Show for Their Authority?
  • Were All the Apostolic and Prophetic Writings Preserved in the New Testament?
  • How Does the Character of God Guarantee the Completeness of the New Testament?
  • Did the Church Carefully Preserve the Whole New Testament?
  • Is the Whole Bible Complete?
  • Why Are Uninspired Books Mentioned in the Bible?
  • Is the "Real" 1 Corinthians Missing?
  • Do Mormons Believe the Bible Is Inspired of God?
  • Is This Claim of the Mormons Accurate?
  • Are Some Mormons Now Claiming the Corruption of the Bible Was Early?
  • Is There Confirmation That Mormon Scriptures Are from God?
  • Are There Evidences That the Book of Mormon Is Inspired?
  • Were the Witnesses of the Book of Mormon Credible Witnesses?
  • Did Joseph Smith Make Any False Prophecies?
  • What Other Tests of a False Prophet Did Joseph Smith Fit?
  • Is the Quran the Word of God?
  • 8. Tough Questions about Hinduism and Transcendental Meditation / L.T. Jeyachandran
  • What Are the Reasons for the High Degree of Interest in Eastern Religions So Prevalent Among Westerners?
  • What Are the Main Tenets of Hinduism?
  • What Is Transcendental Meditation?
  • 9. Tough Questions about Yoga, Reincarnation, and Buddhism / L.T. Jeyachandran
  • What Is Yoga?
  • What Is Reincarnation?
  • What Are the Beliefs of Buddhism?
  • 10. Tough Questions about Black Islam / Robert White
  • What Are the History and Philosophy of Black Islam?
  • What Is the Unique Burden of Today's Church?
  • What Makes Religion "Black"?
  • Why Islam?
  • Who Founded the Early Proto-Islamic Movements?
  • 11. More Tough Questions about Black Islam / Robert White
  • Who Were the Founders of the Black Islamic Movement?
  • Who Is Responsible for Bringing the Message of Black Islam to the Forefront?
  • Why Is the Message of Islam Appealing to African-American Males in Particular?
  • Is Islam Becoming the True Religion of the Black Man?
  • Does Black Islam Recognize the Deity of Jesus Christ?
  • Should Black Muslims Be Allowed to Speak in Black Churches?

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