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Index To Section 2 .. Reasons To Believe

 
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Belief and facts are two very different entities. Beliefs have changed innumerable time throughout history after a careful investigation of the facts. But without investigation beliefs in all manner of wrong things would have persisted, to our detriment.

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Somehow people think that genuine faith is eviscerated by knowledge and evidence. We've made a virtue out of believing against the evidence, as if that's what God has in mind for us. This is all wrong. Includes Critically Examine Everything?

Do Extraordinary Events Require Extraordinary Evidence? The Christian position only asks that we use the same reasoning and rational thought that we use to derive what are considered good conclusions in historical investigation, and apply those same means and methods to the New Testament and the resurrection of Jesus.

Does God exist? Is it possible to have an adequate conception of His being, His nature, and His attributes? How does a three-dimensional being comprehend a God, who is in a higher dimension than are we? (Several Articles)

What makes the Bible the only book we can accept as divinely inspired since it does not glow in the dark, levitate or exhibit any physical qualities that might be seen as supernatural. How can we know beyond a shadow of doubt that the Bible is and always was the only Word of God? How is it possible to determine the validity and the authenticity of the claims made by these Scriptures. (Several Articles)

Who is this Jesus? An evil lying villain, a preposterously deluded madman, the Messiah, the Son of God? Or, as some claim, an enlightened mystic/great moral teacher?  Did Jesus ever claim to be God? He certainly broke all the rules of ‘How Not to Start an Ancient Religion’ so how did Christianity thrive and grow? Jesus' bodily resurrection is the cornerstone of Christian faith. "If Christ is not risen, your faith is futile.…" (1 Corinthians 15:17).Was the Resurrection historical fact or fiction? (Section)

There is one test that we can apply to all ‘sacred writings’.... The Test Of Prophecy .. the foretelling of future events. It is a simple matter to ascertain whether such prophecies have been fulfilled or not. Includes Daniel’s prophecies, Messianic prophecies, prophecies about Israel and other Old Testament prophecies. (Several Articles)

Many events in Bible which previously passed as ‘pious tales’ were proved by archaeological excavations to be historical. In Palestine, places and towns, frequently mentioned in the Bible are being brought into the light of day and look exactly as the Bible describes them and are located exactly where the Bible says they were. (Several Articles)

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 There are and always have been tough arguments against Christianity.  How can a loving God consign people to hell or allow evil and suffering to exist? Is it bigoted or ‘politically incorrect’ to claim that Christ is the only way to God? Do miracles contradict science? ... And more. (Section)

Most critics of the Bible assume that because something is unexplained it is unexplainable. Constraints of space demand that the issues addressed in this section are the more common ones, with links to more detailed resources. (Section)

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