Does God Exist?: And 51 Other Compelling Questions About God and the Bible

by Bobby Conway

Overview

Do you ever find yourself stumped by questions about God, questions that sound like this...

• If God is good, why is there evil?
• How can a loving God send people to hell?
• And who made God anyway?

Or maybe you've wrestled with hard-to-answer questions about the Bible, such as...

• Aren't there contradictions in the Bible?
• How can I trust the Bible if men wrote it?
• Isn't the Bible full of myths, like Jonah and the whale?

Leading apologist Bobby Conway will help you discover, Q&A style, answers that are life-changing. And make no mistake—never has the culture and the church been in greater need of understanding who God is and what the Bible has to say to every one of us.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780736962629
Publisher:	Harvest House Publishers
Publication date:	04/01/2016
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Bobby Conway is lead pastor of Life Fellowship Church near Charlotte, NC. He is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary (ThM), Southern Evangelical Seminary (DMin), and is a PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham, England. He is the author of The Fifth Gospel and Doubting Toward Faith and is the founding host of The One-Minute Apologist (www.oneminuteapologist.com. Bobby and his wife, Heather, are speakers for Family Life’s “Weekend To Remember”marriage conferences. They live in North Carolina with their two teenagers, Haley and Dawson.

Table of Contents

Foreword 7

Introduction 9

1 Does God Exist? 11

2 Who Made God? 14

3 Did God Create the World to Boost His Own Glory? 17

4 God, Who Are You? 20

5 Will There Be Sex in Heaven? 23

5 What's the Big Deal About Premarital Sex? 25

7 What's Wrong With Pornography? 29

8 Is Masturbation a Sin? 32

9 Is Drinking Alcohol a Sin? 35

10 Is It Okay to Smoke Marijuana? 38

11 Can Marijuana Be Used Medicinally? 41

12 Is Cross-Dressing Permissible? 43

13 Does the Bible Approve of Sex Changes? 45

14 Who Is the Trinity? 48

15 What Is Modalism? 50

16 Is Jesus God? 52

17 Does John 1:1 Teach That Jesus Was God or "a" god? 55

18 Could Jesus Have Sinned? 58

19 Does Prophecy Confirm Jesus as Messiah? 61

20 What Does Begotten Mean? 63

21 Who Is the Holy Spirit? 66

22 What Is the Role of the Holy Spirit? 69

23 How Do I Discover My Spiritual Gifts? 72

24 How Do I Study the Bible? 75

25 Can We Adapt the Bible to Our Tastes? 79

28 How Should a Christian Vote? 81

27 Does God Approve of Homosexual Behavior? 84

28 Did Love Win in the Supreme Court Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage? 87

29 Does the Bible Approve of Polygamy? 90

30 Can Tolerance Be a Good Thing? 92

31 Are Christians Narrow-Minded? 94

32 Is the Future Hopeless for Today's Youth? 97

33 What Is Sin? 99

34 Is Abortion a Sin? 102

35 Is God a Genocidal Maniac? 105

38 How Does Evil Reveal the Greatness of God? 108

37 If God Is Good, Why Is There Evil? 110

38 Why Did God Allow Stoning? 113

39 Is God an Angry God? 116

40 Is the God of the Old Testament the Same God of the New Testament? 119

41 Will Heaven Be Boring? 122

42 What Is Hell in a Nutshell? 124

43 Is Purgatory Biblical? 127

44 What Are the Marks of a Cult? 129

45 Should Christians Burn the Koran? 132

46 Do All Religions Lead to Heaven? 134

47 Is Baptism Necessary for Salvation? 137

48 What Is Apologetics? 139

49 What Is the Heart of Apologetics? 142

50 Resurrection: Fact or Fiction? 145

51 Is There Evidence for the Resurrection? 148

52 How Do I Deal With My Doubts? 151

About the Author 155