Letters from a Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father’s Questions about Christianity PDF
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CONTENTS PREFACE THE INVITATION: To Dad, With Hope PART I: Questions about God CORRESPONDENCE 1: Why has Christianity done so much harm? CORRESPONDENCE 2: Why is the world so full of suffering? CORRESPONDENCE 3: Is the risk of freedom worth all the suffering? CORRESPONDENCE 4: Does God know the future? CORRESPONDENCE 5: Why does God create earthquakes and famines? CORRESPONDENCE 6: Why did God create Satan? CORRESPONDENCE 7: Is your God all-powerful? CORRESPONDENCE 8: Why believe in God in the first place? CORRESPONDENCE 9: Couldn’t it all be by chance? CORRESPONDENCE 10: Why didn’t God spare your mother? CORRESPONDENCE 11: Why would an all-powerful God need prayer? CORRESPONDENCE 12: Why would God care about us little humans? PART II Questions about Jesus Christ CORRESPONDENCE 13: Why trust the Gospel accounts? CORRESPONDENCE 14: Aren’t the Gospels full of contradictions? CORRESPONDENCE 15: Who wrote the Gospels and when were they written? CORRESPONDENCE 16: How can you believe that a man rose from the dead? CORRESPONDENCE 17: How can you believe that a man was God? PART III Questions about the Bible CORRESPONDENCE 18: Why does God make believing in Him so difficult? CORRESPONDENCE 19: Why do you think the Bible is inspired? CORRESPONDENCE 20: Isn’t the Bible full of myths and God’s vengeance? CORRESPONDENCE 21: Didn’t the Catholic Church put the Bible together? CORRESPONDENCE 22: Why are there so many differing interpretations of the Bible? CORRESPONDENCE 23: What about the “holy books” of other religions? PART IV Questions about Christian Life and Doctrine CORRESPONDENCE 24: Do all non-Christians go to hell? CORRESPONDENCE 25: How could an all-loving God torture people in an eternal hell? CORRESPONDENCE 26: Isn’t the Christian life impossible to live? CORRESPONDENCE 27: How can another man’s death pardon me? CORRESPONDENCE 28: How can I be holy and sinful at the same time? CORRESPONDENCE 29: How can I be sure it’s all true? EPILOGUE I believe! A TRIBUTE STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS In loving memory of Arlyle Boyd
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