Hallway of Questions
[Modified: Apr 2012]
Tough Questions:
Most Recent
couple of postings (since last update to this list in Jul
2010...sigh):
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Old
Testament Issues:
- Questions about the OT/Tanaach as a
document (e.g., authorship, dating, transmission)
- Questions
about the character of God
- Questions
about
matters of fact
- Questions
about
possible contradictions
- Questions
about theology or interpretation
New Testament Issues:
- Questions about the New Testament as
a document (e.g., authorship, dating, transmission,
accuracy)
- Questions about the character of
Jesus
- Questions
about matters of fact
- Questions about possible
contradictions
- Questions
about theology or interpretation
- Questions
about NT backgrounds
Post-NT Issues:
- Questions about the Canon
- Questions
about the early church and its beliefs/praxis
- Questions
about the social/religious context of the early church
Theological Issues:
- Does God condone slavery in the
Bible? (OT) [and NT there too]
- Would the culpability of human
non-intervention in violent crime imply that God's
non-intervention (due to theodicy reasons) was proof that
God was either malevolent or impotent?
- Did God arbitrarily decide who to save
and who to condemn?
- Does being born in a Western
culture unfairly predetermine that you will become a
Christian?”
- Does God's judgment in time unfairly
compromise someone's 'free will'?
- Doesn't Paul's argument in
Romans 9 pretty clearly indicate that people's free
choices are determined by God--without consideration of free
will, etc.?
- How
did the Gentiles get in the
picture if the Jews were the 'chosen ones'?
- Is
God a self-centered and insecure
glory-hog, because He created an entire universe just
to sit around and praise Him?
- Did God make evil? [the tiniest
you will ever see here!]...somebody
disagreed
- How do textual errors in modern
bibles impact 'inerrancy'?
- "How can God not lie, and still
Deceive the Wicked?"
- "Was Jesus' death a violation of the
commandment against human sacrifice?"
- "But isn’t “Penal Substitution”
actually illegal (if not immoral)??"
- What is the 'right' kind of faith?
- The difference between righteousness
and holiness?
- On getting back to the 'primitive
church'?
- Does the Bible advocate abstinence from
alcoholic beverages?
- What if Jesus had sinned?
- If God cannot look upon sin, how
can the Holy Spirit be present inside the
believer?
- How could Jesus be around sin, as a holy
God?
- Is it okay to offer Prayer and
Worship to Jesus, and not just to the Father?
- Why does God not punish people like He
did in the OT?
- Are there any limits to the evil a
believer can experience?
- What use was Jesus' death on the
Cross?
- If sins are forgiven, how will
Christians be judged?
- Isn't
Jesus
admitting that the Unpardonable
sin could be committed today?
- Did
Christ die on the Cross for Satan?
- Why can't God just forgive sin,
instead of demanding justice?
- What kind of a choice is THAT--Love
Me or Burn?!
- Evidence for the existence of the soul
- What
about
Those Who Haven't Heard The
Gospel
- are all the past great non-Christian
religious leaders who REJECTED Christ languishing in Hell
right now?
- "is
the Bible "as violent" as the
Quran/Hadith?"
- Jesus' Death as God's Small Price
to Pay?
- Wouldn't a heresy inside the Bible
be a fatal flaw in the Christian system?
- The Hardening of Pharaoh's
Heart
- God is Wrathful, Vengeful, Jealous, and
Angry every day--and you want me to have a relationship
with Him?!
- Why didn't God stop the process
before it started, if He knew of the massive amounts of
suffering that would befall many of His creatures?? (5
part series)
- What is "repentance"?
- Does female "pain-prone"
reproductive physiology indicate that God apparently hates
women?
- Do
evil
spirits come from dead God-haters?
- "Isn't an infinite/eternal punishment
for a finite/temporal sin-crime a bit
disproportionate???!"
Philosophical Issues:
- A
major 75+, multiple section document on Knowing the Truth of the Christian
Position--major issues.
- Is there evidence for the existence
of 'spirits' and some 'spiritual dimension'?"
- Do unconscious processes
(automaticity) undermine the Christian faith?"
- Added
part two to "How do you decide between competing
revelations?"
- Why doesn't God give us Proof?
(the person to whom I wrote the response was very appreciative! I wrote a response to Adam, trying to
answer some of his follow-up questions).
- Does complexity REALLY require a
“more complex” cause?
- "if Christianity is true, why does it
need so much defending? And why doesn't God make it
clearer?" (5 parts)
- How can a good God allow Natural Evil?
- "Can you provide any evidence towards
the existence of God?"
- Does being born in a Western
culture unfairly predetermine that you will become a
Christian?”
- How could finite language be used of
an infinite God?
- Does incomplete knowledge mean God is
unknowable?
- If God is infinite, how can there
still be room for us?
- “Isnt
there
a “God part of the Brain” that
proves all this Jesus stuff is untrue? (a tiny 7k)
- A 'standard' question on foreknowledge
and free-will
- God, evil, and the OK City tragedy
- Why does life have to prey on other
life?
- Objections: to disprove is NOT to prove
the opposite
- Why can't God just forgive sin,
instead of demanding justice?
- "does the savagery of predation in
nature show that God either isn't, or at least isn't
good-hearted?"
- Series:
Most common errors skeptics make in
apologetics, followed by an outline of a piece (VERY
incomplete) on Most common errors
believers make in apologetics.
- Series:
How I decide between competing claims
to religious truth or competing claims to
revelation.
- Understanding "Faith," and
"Believing" our Understanding...
- Series:
'theodicy
section':
Questions
relating to Islam
Other/Multiple-area/Misc
Issues:
The Christian
ThinkTank...[http://www.Christianthinktank.com] (Reference Abbreviations)