Questions Skeptics Ask

Introduction

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Bible

• Can we trust the New Testament as a historical document?
• Since the NT writers were biased, can we trust what they wrote?
• Hasn't the Bible been rewritten so many times it can't be trusted?
• Wasn't the New Testament written hundreds of years after Christ?
• What is the gospel of Q and does it prove the Gospels are false?
• Why isn't there other evidence of the massacre of the babies?
• Why isn't there any record of millions of Jews wandering in the desert?
• Do the lost books of the Bible prove that the Bible has been altered?
• Is there non-biblical evidence of a day of darkness at the crucifixion?
• When were the gospels written and by whom?
• Doesn't Mithra prove that Christians borrowed from this myth?

Evil in the world

• Why must innocent children die at the hands of other people?
• If there is a good God, why is there evil and suffering in the world?
• Why type of God would kill the firstborn of Egypt?

God

• Why did God create us if He is self-sufficient?
• Why did God create us with sin in the world?
• If God knew people would sin why did He make them?
• Why should God make people knowing they are going to hell forever?
• What type of God would kill the firstborn of Egypt?

Government

• Should we obey governments that are bad?

Jesus

• Jesus was a magician who made people hallucinate about His miracles
• Jesus only appeared to have died on the cross - Swoon Theory
• The disciples stole Jesus' body and faked His resurrection

Miscellaneous

• Why believe in a religion that had the Inquisition and Witch Trials?
• How can you trust a book that is nothing but myth?
• Why should I go to hell if I am sincere?
• Why is slavery permitted in the Bible?
• Why is Jesus the only way to heaven/God?
• What makes you think Christianity is the only way to God?
• Why do you believe in Jesus but not Santa Claus?
• I believe in reincarnation, so why do I need Christianity?
• Did they really live that long in Genesis?