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3B The “missing books”, one by one

3B.1TobitDebated(yellow)
Links to: 3.8
3B.2JudithDebated(yellow)
Links to: 3.8 4.7
3B.3Wisdom of SolomonDebated(yellow)
Links to: 3.8
3B.4Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)Debated(yellow)
Links to: 3.1
3B.5Baruch & Letter of JeremiahDebated(yellow)
Links to: 3.8
3B.61 MaccabeesDebated(yellow)
Links to: 3.8 5.9
3B.72 MaccabeesDebated(yellow)
Links to: 8.12
3B.8Additions to Esther and Daniel (Susanna, Bel and the Dragon, Prayer of Azariah)Debated(yellow)
Links to: 3.8 5.9
3B.9Orthodox extras (1 Esdras, 3–4 Maccabees, Prayer of Manasseh, Psalm 151, 2 Esdras)Debated(yellow)
Links to: 3.8 4.2
3B.101 EnochSettled(green)
Links to: 3.4 3.7
3B.11JubileesSettled(green)
Links to: 3.11 3.4
3B.122 Enoch and 3 EnochSettled(green)
Links to: 3.4
3B.13Testaments of the Twelve PatriarchsSettled(green)
Links to: 3.13
3B.14Book of JasharSettled(green)
Links to: 3.10
3B.15Book of the Wars of the LORD; royal chronicles; records of Nathan and GadSettled(green)
Links to: 3.10 3.5
3B.16Paul’s lost letters (earlier letter to Corinth; letter from Laodicea)Settled(green)
Links to: 3.10 3.12
3B.17Gospel of ThomasSettled(green)
Links to: 3.9 4.4
3B.18Gospel of JudasSettled(green)
Links to: 3.9
3B.19Gospels of Mary and PhilipSettled(green)
Links to: 6.10 11.9
3B.20Gospel of PeterSettled(green)
Links to: 7.8
3B.21Infancy Gospel of ThomasSettled(green)
Links to: 6.5 6.11
3B.22Protoevangelium of JamesSettled(green)
Links to: 6.6 6.9
3B.23Acts of Paul (and Thecla)Settled(green)
Links to: 4.1
3B.24Shepherd of HermasSettled(green)
Links to: 3.1
3B.25DidacheSettled(green)
Links to: 3.1
3B.261 ClementSettled(green)
Links to: 3.1
3B.27Epistle of BarnabasSettled(green)
Links to: 3.14
3B.28Apocalypse of PeterSettled(green)
Links to: 8.7 10.4

4 Reliability of the Text & History

4.1Has the Bible been changed over time?Settled(green)
Links to: 4.2 4.3 4.9
4.2What did the Dead Sea Scrolls show?Settled(green)
Links to: 4.1 5.9
4.3What about passages missing from early manuscripts (Mark 16:9–20, John 7:53–8:11)?Settled(green)
Links to: 4.1 4.9
4.4When were the Gospels written?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 4.5 7.2 3B.17
4.5Are the Gospels based on eyewitnesses?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 4.4 7.8
4.6Does archaeology confirm biblical people and places?Settled(green)
Links to: 5.1 5.3 6.1
4.7Does the Bible contradict itself?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 6.8 7.8 2.12
4.8Did Genesis copy older myths like Gilgamesh?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 2.8 2.14
4.9Is the KJV the only true Bible?Settled(green)
Links to: 4.1 4.3

5 Old Testament History & Difficulties

5.1Did David exist?Settled(green)
Links to: 4.6 5.2
5.2Did the Exodus happen?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 5.3 4.6
5.3Did Jericho’s walls fall?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 5.2 5.4
5.4Was the conquest of Canaan genocide?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 9.2 8.4
5.5Does the Old Testament approve of slavery?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 9.6 5.6
5.6Why were OT laws so harsh?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 8.5 8.4
5.7Did people really live 900 years?Open(red)
Links to: 2.4 2.6
5.8Was Jonah really swallowed by a fish?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 6.5 7.9
5.9Was Daniel written before or after the events it predicts?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 4.2 3B.6 10.3
5.10Did Jesus fulfil Old Testament prophecy?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 6.4 7.9

6 Life of Christ

6.1Did Jesus exist?Settled(green)
Links to: 6.2 6.3 4.6
6.2Was Jesus crucified?Settled(green)
Links to: 7.1 6.1
6.3Is Jesus a copy of pagan gods (Horus, Mithras)?Settled(green)
Links to: 11.11 11.10
6.4Did Jesus claim to be God?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 8.1 5.10
6.5Did Jesus perform miracles?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 1.1 7.9 3B.21
6.6Was Jesus born of a virgin?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 3B.22 6.7
6.7When was Jesus born?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 6.6 11.11
6.8Why do Matthew’s and Luke’s genealogies differ?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 4.7 2.6
6.9Did Jesus have brothers and sisters?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 3B.22 7.4
6.10Was Jesus married to Mary Magdalene?Settled(green)
Links to: 3B.19 11.9
6.11Did Jesus travel to India in his “lost years”?Settled(green)
Links to: 3B.21 6.3

7 The Resurrection

7.1Did Jesus actually die? (“swoon” theory)Settled(green)
Links to: 6.2 7.5
7.2How early is the resurrection claim?Settled(green)
Links to: 4.4 7.3
7.3Did people really believe they saw Jesus alive?Settled(green)
Links to: 7.6 7.4
7.4Were enemies and skeptics converted?Settled(green)
Links to: 6.9 7.3
7.5Was the tomb empty?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 7.7 7.1
7.6Could it have been hallucinations?Settled(green)
Links to: 7.3 7.5
7.7Did the disciples steal the body?Settled(green)
Links to: 7.5 7.9
7.8Do the resurrection accounts contradict?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 4.7 4.5 3B.20
7.9Did Jesus rise from the dead?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 6.5 1.1 10.2

8 Theology & Doctrine

8.1Is the Trinity in the Bible?Settled(green)
Links to: 6.4 11.10
8.2Is Jesus the only way to God?Settled(green)
Links to: 1.7 1.9
8.3Why did Jesus have to die?Settled(green)
Links to: 7.9 6.2
8.4Is the OT God different from the NT God?Settled(green)
Links to: 5.4 5.6
8.5Do Christians have to keep the Old Testament law?Settled(green)
Links to: 5.6 8.6
8.6Do Paul and James contradict on faith and works?Settled(green)
Links to: 8.5 8.9
8.7Is hell eternal conscious punishment?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 9.4 3B.28
8.8Predestination or free will?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 8.9 1.9
8.9Can you lose your salvation?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 8.8 8.10
8.10What is the unforgivable sin?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 8.9
8.11Are tongues and prophecy for today?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 3.12
8.12What happens right after death?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 3B.7 8.7

9 Evil, Suffering & Morality

9.1Does evil prove God doesn’t exist?Settled(green)
Links to: 9.2 1.1
9.2Why does God allow so much suffering?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 9.1 9.3 1.8
9.3Why natural disasters?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 2.7 9.2
9.4How can a loving God send people to hell?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 8.7 1.9
9.5Is God good because He commands it, or does He command it because it’s good? (Euthyphro)Settled(green)
Links to: 1.5
9.6Does the New Testament support slavery?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 5.5
9.7Is the Bible sexist?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 7.5 11.9
9.8Isn’t religion the cause of most wars?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 5.4 1.7

10 Revelation & End Times

10.1Can we know when Jesus will return?Settled(green)
Links to: 10.2 10.8
10.2Will Jesus physically return?Settled(green)
Links to: 7.9 10.1
10.3Who wrote Revelation, and when?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 10.6 3.12
10.4Should Revelation be read literally?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 10.5 10.9 3B.28
10.5What is 666 / the mark of the beast?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 10.10 10.6
10.6Was Revelation fulfilled in AD 70? (preterism)Debated(yellow)
Links to: 10.3 10.5
10.7Is Israel’s 1948 rebirth prophetic?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 10.9 5.10
10.8When is the rapture: before, during or after the tribulation?Open(red)
Links to: 10.9 10.1
10.9What is the millennium?Open(red)
Links to: 10.8 10.4
10.10Who is the Antichrist?Open(red)
Links to: 10.5

11 Fringe Claims & Myths

11.1Does the Bible describe a solid dome over the earth?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 2.1 2.2
11.2Has Noah’s ark been found?Settled(green)
Links to: 2.8 2.9
11.3Are giant skeletons proof of the Nephilim?Settled(green)
Links to: 3.7 11.4
11.4Were the Nephilim aliens?Settled(green)
Links to: 3.7 3.6
11.5Is there a hidden “Bible code”?Settled(green)
Links to: 5.10
11.6Is the Shroud of Turin Jesus’ burial cloth?Open(red)
Links to: 7.5 4.6
11.7Was there a “gap” of ages between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 2.5 2.4
11.8Was Lilith Adam’s first wife?Settled(green)
Links to: 2.6 3.10
11.9Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute?Settled(green)
Links to: 3B.19 6.10 9.7
11.10Did Constantine invent Christianity or Jesus’ divinity?Settled(green)
Links to: 3.2 8.1 6.4
11.11Is Easter a pagan Ishtar festival?Settled(green)
Links to: 6.3 6.7

12 The Bible’s Unity & Prophecy

12.1How connected is the Bible?Settled(green)
Links to: 12.2 12.3 4.1
12.2Is it really one story from Genesis to Revelation?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 12.3 5.10 10.2
12.3Does the Old Testament foreshadow Jesus?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 12.2 5.8 12.4
12.4Which prophecies did Jesus fulfil?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 5.10 12.5 12.6
12.5Couldn’t Jesus have staged them?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 12.4 4.5 6.2
12.6What are the odds of one man fulfilling them?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 12.4 12.5
12.7Were the prophecies written before Jesus?Settled(green)
Links to: 4.2 5.9 12.4
12.8Did Daniel predict when the Messiah would come?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 5.9 12.4 10.6
12.9Are there fulfilled prophecies beyond Jesus?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 12.8 5.9 4.4
12.10Why does the Bible expose its own heroes?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 7.5 4.5
12.11Does the Bible anticipate modern science?Debated(yellow)
Links to: 2.12 2.1 11.5
12.12How has the Bible survived and spread?Settled(green)
Links to: 4.1 4.9