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1 Existence of God & Worldview
- 1.1Does God exist?
- 1.2Did the universe have a beginning?
- 1.3Is the universe fine-tuned for life?
- 1.4Who created God?
- 1.5Can there be objective morality without God?
- 1.6Are faith and science enemies?
- 1.7Are all religions basically the same?
- 1.8Why does God seem hidden?
- 1.9What about people who never hear of Jesus?
2 Creation & Science
- 2.1Does the Bible teach a flat earth?
- 2.2Does the Bible teach the sun orbits the earth?
- 2.3Is evolution compatible with the Bible?
- 2.4How old is the earth?
- 2.5Are the creation days literal 24 hours?
- 2.6Were Adam and Eve real people?
- 2.7Was there death before the Fall?
- 2.8Was Noah’s flood global or local?
- 2.9Could the animals fit on the ark?
- 2.10Where do dinosaurs fit?
- 2.11Can science explain the origin of life?
- 2.12Does the Bible have scientific errors (bats as birds, hares chewing cud)?
- 2.13Is intelligent design science?
- 2.14Did the Tower of Babel happen?
3 The Canon
- 3.1How was the canon formed?
- 3.2Did the Council of Nicaea pick the books?
- 3.3What is in the Book of Enoch?
- 3.4Why isn’t Enoch in the Bible?
- 3.5But Jude quotes Enoch. Doesn’t that make it Scripture?
- 3.6What in Enoch lines up with Scripture, and what doesn’t?
- 3.7Who were the Nephilim and “sons of God” (Gen 6)?
- 3.8Why don’t Protestants include the Apocrypha?
- 3.9What about the Gnostic gospels (Thomas, Judas, Mary)?
- 3.10Are there lost books of the Bible?
- 3.11Is the Ethiopian 81-book Bible the “original”?
- 3.12Is the canon closed?
- 3.13Did Moses write the Torah?
- 3.14Who wrote Hebrews?
3B The “missing books”, one by one
- 3B.1Tobit
- 3B.2Judith
- 3B.3Wisdom of Solomon
- 3B.4Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)
- 3B.5Baruch & Letter of Jeremiah
- 3B.61 Maccabees
- 3B.72 Maccabees
- 3B.8Additions to Esther and Daniel (Susanna, Bel and the Dragon, Prayer of Azariah)
- 3B.9Orthodox extras (1 Esdras, 3–4 Maccabees, Prayer of Manasseh, Psalm 151, 2 Esdras)
- 3B.101 Enoch
- 3B.11Jubilees
- 3B.122 Enoch and 3 Enoch
- 3B.13Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
- 3B.14Book of Jashar
- 3B.15Book of the Wars of the LORD; royal chronicles; records of Nathan and Gad
- 3B.16Paul’s lost letters (earlier letter to Corinth; letter from Laodicea)
- 3B.17Gospel of Thomas
- 3B.18Gospel of Judas
- 3B.19Gospels of Mary and Philip
- 3B.20Gospel of Peter
- 3B.21Infancy Gospel of Thomas
- 3B.22Protoevangelium of James
- 3B.23Acts of Paul (and Thecla)
- 3B.24Shepherd of Hermas
- 3B.25Didache
- 3B.261 Clement
- 3B.27Epistle of Barnabas
- 3B.28Apocalypse of Peter
4 Reliability of the Text & History
- 4.1Has the Bible been changed over time?
- 4.2What did the Dead Sea Scrolls show?
- 4.3What about passages missing from early manuscripts (Mark 16:9–20, John 7:53–8:11)?
- 4.4When were the Gospels written?
- 4.5Are the Gospels based on eyewitnesses?
- 4.6Does archaeology confirm biblical people and places?
- 4.7Does the Bible contradict itself?
- 4.8Did Genesis copy older myths like Gilgamesh?
- 4.9Is the KJV the only true Bible?
5 Old Testament History & Difficulties
- 5.1Did David exist?
- 5.2Did the Exodus happen?
- 5.3Did Jericho’s walls fall?
- 5.4Was the conquest of Canaan genocide?
- 5.5Does the Old Testament approve of slavery?
- 5.6Why were OT laws so harsh?
- 5.7Did people really live 900 years?
- 5.8Was Jonah really swallowed by a fish?
- 5.9Was Daniel written before or after the events it predicts?
- 5.10Did Jesus fulfil Old Testament prophecy?
6 Life of Christ
- 6.1Did Jesus exist?
- 6.2Was Jesus crucified?
- 6.3Is Jesus a copy of pagan gods (Horus, Mithras)?
- 6.4Did Jesus claim to be God?
- 6.5Did Jesus perform miracles?
- 6.6Was Jesus born of a virgin?
- 6.7When was Jesus born?
- 6.8Why do Matthew’s and Luke’s genealogies differ?
- 6.9Did Jesus have brothers and sisters?
- 6.10Was Jesus married to Mary Magdalene?
- 6.11Did Jesus travel to India in his “lost years”?
7 The Resurrection
- 7.1Did Jesus actually die? (“swoon” theory)
- 7.2How early is the resurrection claim?
- 7.3Did people really believe they saw Jesus alive?
- 7.4Were enemies and skeptics converted?
- 7.5Was the tomb empty?
- 7.6Could it have been hallucinations?
- 7.7Did the disciples steal the body?
- 7.8Do the resurrection accounts contradict?
- 7.9Did Jesus rise from the dead?
8 Theology & Doctrine
- 8.1Is the Trinity in the Bible?
- 8.2Is Jesus the only way to God?
- 8.3Why did Jesus have to die?
- 8.4Is the OT God different from the NT God?
- 8.5Do Christians have to keep the Old Testament law?
- 8.6Do Paul and James contradict on faith and works?
- 8.7Is hell eternal conscious punishment?
- 8.8Predestination or free will?
- 8.9Can you lose your salvation?
- 8.10What is the unforgivable sin?
- 8.11Are tongues and prophecy for today?
- 8.12What happens right after death?
9 Evil, Suffering & Morality
- 9.1Does evil prove God doesn’t exist?
- 9.2Why does God allow so much suffering?
- 9.3Why natural disasters?
- 9.4How can a loving God send people to hell?
- 9.5Is God good because He commands it, or does He command it because it’s good? (Euthyphro)
- 9.6Does the New Testament support slavery?
- 9.7Is the Bible sexist?
- 9.8Isn’t religion the cause of most wars?
10 Revelation & End Times
- 10.1Can we know when Jesus will return?
- 10.2Will Jesus physically return?
- 10.3Who wrote Revelation, and when?
- 10.4Should Revelation be read literally?
- 10.5What is 666 / the mark of the beast?
- 10.6Was Revelation fulfilled in AD 70? (preterism)
- 10.7Is Israel’s 1948 rebirth prophetic?
- 10.8When is the rapture: before, during or after the tribulation?
- 10.9What is the millennium?
- 10.10Who is the Antichrist?
11 Fringe Claims & Myths
- 11.1Does the Bible describe a solid dome over the earth?
- 11.2Has Noah’s ark been found?
- 11.3Are giant skeletons proof of the Nephilim?
- 11.4Were the Nephilim aliens?
- 11.5Is there a hidden “Bible code”?
- 11.6Is the Shroud of Turin Jesus’ burial cloth?
- 11.7Was there a “gap” of ages between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2?
- 11.8Was Lilith Adam’s first wife?
- 11.9Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute?
- 11.10Did Constantine invent Christianity or Jesus’ divinity?
- 11.11Is Easter a pagan Ishtar festival?
12 The Bible’s Unity & Prophecy
- 12.1How connected is the Bible?
- 12.2Is it really one story from Genesis to Revelation?
- 12.3Does the Old Testament foreshadow Jesus?
- 12.4Which prophecies did Jesus fulfil?
- 12.5Couldn’t Jesus have staged them?
- 12.6What are the odds of one man fulfilling them?
- 12.7Were the prophecies written before Jesus?
- 12.8Did Daniel predict when the Messiah would come?
- 12.9Are there fulfilled prophecies beyond Jesus?
- 12.10Why does the Bible expose its own heroes?
- 12.11Does the Bible anticipate modern science?
- 12.12How has the Bible survived and spread?
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