Hard questions : a discussion of thirty-eight basic Christian problems

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Editor's Preface How can we know God? Isn’t one religion as good as another? Can we still take the Bible seriously today? Is there any value in reading the Old Testament? Are the Gospels historically reliable? How could Jesus be both the child of Mary and the Son of God? Does the Virgin Birth really matter? What is the truth about man and the ‘fall’? Was it necessary for Jesus to die on the cross? Did Jesus really rise from the dead? Can anyone today believe that Jesus ‘ascended into heave’? Who or what is the Holy Spirit? Should all Christians seek to speak in ‘tongues’? If there is only one God, how can we believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit? Are we to take the Bible teaching about the second coming of Jesus literally? What do we know about heaven and the future life? What is meant by the resurrection of the body? Isn’t the wrath of God at variance with is love? Hell – fact or fiction? Is there really a coming day of judgment? What about the people who lived before Christ came? Isn’t it presumptuous to say that my sins are forgiven? Does God ever lead people into temptation? Is the devil a reality or a myth? Has Christianity an answer to the problem of suffering? If God is almighty, why doesn’t he do better? What does the Bible teach us about creation? Isn’t it irrational to believe in miracles? Can’t you be a Christian without going to church? Does God want our worship? Is Holy Communion really so important? Why are my prayers so often unanswered? Where does the New Testament teach that infants ought to be baptized? As I have been baptized, do I still need to be converted? What is meant by the social gospel? Is there an essential difference between a clergyman and a layman? What ought we do about people like Jehovah’s Witnesses? Why is religion so dull?