| Description |
1 online resource (218 p.) |
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Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Can I be a Christian if I don't believe the Bible is perfect, handed down directly from God to humanity without error? -- Aren't women treated poorly throughout the Bible? Why would any intelligent modern woman today even want to read the Bible? -- How can a God be all-loving yet allow people to be thrown into hell? -- What does the Bible really say about homosexuality? -- Why haven't any new books been added to the Bible in almost two thousand years? Is there a chance any new books will ever be added? Why or why not? |
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Did God write the Bible? If so, why didn't God simply create it miraculously, rather than using so many people over thousands of years to write it down? -- How do we reconcile the Old Testament command for vengeance (eye for an eye) with Jesus' command to turn the other cheek and love our enemies? -- Is there a right or wrong way to read the Bible? -- Does God justify violence in scripture? What about genocide? |
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Hell, Sheol, Hades, Gehenna, and Tartarus are all labeled as "hell" by most Christians. Are they really the same? Are they all places of fiery torment? Are such things to be taken literally, metaphorically, or as myth? -- How can we begin to take the Bible literally when it seems to contradict itself so often? -- Are Lucifer, the Adversary, Satan, the Beast, and the Antichrist all the same? If so, why use so many names? If not, what are their different roles, and who is in charge? -- Was Mary Magdalene a prostitute? -- Are there any mistakes in the Bible? Like what? |
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In some cases, Paul (the purported author of many New Testament books) seems to support women in leadership roles in church, and in others, he says they have no place. Which is it? And why the seeming contradiction? -- Are some sins worse or better than others? -- If people have to be Christians to go to heaven, what happens to all of the people born before Jesus or who never hear about his ministry? -- Why would stories about a father murdering his daughter (Judg. 11) or handing his daughters over to a crowd to be raped and killed (Gen. 19) be included in the Bible? |
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Why would God send Jesus as the sacrificial lamb of God, dying for the sins of the world, instead of just destroying sin or perhaps offering grace and forgiveness to the very ones created by God? Why does an all-powerfulbeing need a mediator anyway? -- Many Christians embrace the phrase, "I believe Jesus is the Christ, the son of the living God, and I accept him as my personal Lord and Savior," but I can't find this anywhere in the Bible. Where did it come from? |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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In John 14:6, Jesus says, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." Do people have to choose to follow Jesus to go to heaven? And what does it mean to choose his way? |
| SUBJECT |
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Popular works
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Bible fast |
| Subject |
Theology, Doctrinal -- Popular works.
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Theology, Doctrinal
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Popular works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0827244320 |
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9780827244320 |
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