The Complete Bible Answer Book · Collector's Edition by Hanegraaff, Hank -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

BASIC CHRISTIAN THOUGHT AND SPIRITUAL GROWTH

1 What must I do to be saved? 2 What are the secrets to spiritual growth? 3 What is essential Christian doctrine? 4 What is the biblical definition of faith? 5 What is sin? 6 How can I be certain that I’ve not committed the unforgivable sin? 7 Can Christians lose their salvation? 8 Must Christians attend church? 9 How do I find a good church? 10 Why pray if God already knows what we need? 11 What are some secrets to effective prayer? 12 Why is it so crucial to pray “Your will be done”? 13 Why do people end their prayers with “Amen”? 14 Must I forgive those who refuse forgiveness?

SPIRITUAL GIFTS

15 What does it mean to say that the Holy Spirit is in you? 16 Is there a difference between indwelling and infilling ? 17 Is speaking in tongues the evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit?

HOLIDAYS

18 Should Christians celebrate Christmas? 19 How should Christians respond to Halloween? 20 Why do Christians worship on Sunday rather than on the Sabbath day?

THE NATURE AND CHARACTER OF GOD

21 Is the Trinity biblical? 22 If God is one, why does the Bible refer to him in the plural? 23 What does it mean to say that God is omnipresent? 24 Does God know the future? 25 Does God repent? 26 If jealousy is sin, how can God be jealous? 27 Does God have a gender? 28 Can God create a rock so heavy that he cannot move it?

BASIC APOLOGETICS

29 What is apologetics? 30 Is apologetics really necessary? 31 Can a person be argued into the kingdom of God? 32 What are the most significant apologetic issues? 33 How do we know that the Bible is divine rather than human in origin? 34 Is there evidence for life after death? 35 Can chance account for the universe? 36 How many explanations are there for the existence of our universe? 37 Who made God? 38 If we can’t see God, how can we know he exists? 39 What is truth? 40 Why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? 41 Is religion the root of evil? 42 If Christianity is true, why are so many atrocities committed in the name of Christ?

OLD TESTAMENT ISSUES

43 Who was Cain’s wife? 44 Does the Bible promote polygamy? 45 Does the Bible promote slavery? 46 Was Jonah swallowed by a whale? 47 How could the Bible command a rape victim to marry her rapist? 48 How could a good God sanction the stoning of a disobedient child? 49 How can Christians legitimize a God who orders the genocide of entire nations? 50 How could Pharaoh be morally responsible if God hardened his heart? 51 Does Isaiah 53: 5 guarantee our healing today?

NEW TESTAMENT ISSUES

52 Is baptism necessary for salvation? 53 Does James teach salvation by works? 54 Can an unbeliever be saved by marrying a believer? 55 Can a woman be saved through childbearing? 56 Must women be silent in church? 57 Were Mark and Messiah mistaken about mustard seeds? 58 Did Jesus make a crucial historical blunder in the gospel of Mark? 59 Do the gospel accounts contradict one another? 60 Do the genealogies of Jesus in Matthew and Luke contradict one another? 61 Was Jesus really in the grave for three days and three nights? 62 Is the New Testament canon authoritative or authoritarian? 63 Is the New Testament anti–Semitic?

HISTORICAL JESUS AND CHRISTOLOGY

64 Does the Bible claim Jesus is God? 65 Did Jesus claim to be God? 66 What credentials back up Jesus’ claim to deity? 67 How can we be sure about the resurrection of Christ? 68 What does it mean to say that Jesus ascended into heaven? 69 Was Christianity influenced by ancient pagan mystery religions? 70 Is the virgin birth miracle or myth? 71 Are images of Jesus idolatrous? 72 Was Isaiah thinking about Jesus when he prophesied the virgin birth? 73 Was Jesus married? 74 Did Jesus have any siblings? 75 Is the incarnation incoherent? 76 If God cannot be tempted, how could Jesus be tempted? 77 How can the eternal Son of God be “the firstborn over all creation”?

RELIGIONS AND CULTS

78 What distinguishes Christianity from other religions? 79 Don’t all religions lead to God? 80 What happens to a person who has never heard of Jesus? 81 How were people who lived before the time of Christ saved? 82 What is a cult? 83 Are Jehovah’s Witnesses Christian? 84 Is the New World Translation of the Bible credible? 85 Is Mormonism Christian? 86 Is the Book of Mormon credible? 87 Does Mormonism really teach that Jesus is the spirit brother of Satan? 88 Is Oneness Pentecostalism biblical? 89 What is Judaism? 90 Is Kabbalah consistent with Christianity? 91 Is the Allah of Islam the God of the Bible? 92 Is the Qur’an credible? 93 What’s wrong with Baha’i? 94 What are the basic beliefs of Buddhism? 95 What is Zen Buddhism? 96 What sets Christianity apart from an Eastern worldview? 97 What do Hindus believe? 98 What is Yoga? 99 Does the Bible really teach reincarnation? 100 Can reincarnation and resurrection be reconciled? 101 What is the New Age movement? 102 What is wrong with astrology? 103 What is Scientology? 104 Is Seventh Day Adventism orthodox? 105 What is the occult? 106 What’s wrong with Wicca?

DISCERNMENT AND ABERRANT TEACHINGS

107 Should Christians judge the teachings of their leaders? 108 Is the gospel of peace a promise of ease and prosperity? 109 Is being “slain in the spirit” consistent with a biblical worldview? 110 Are there apostles and prophets today?

SPIRITUAL WARFARE

111 Can Christians be demonized? 112 Is the “binding and loosing” of demons biblical? 113 Does Satan have access to our minds? 114 Is Satan always the cause of sickness? 115 Did demons have sexual relations with women in Genesis 6: 4? 116 Why is Satan called “the god of this age”? 117 Are generational curses biblical?

PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC APOLOGETICS

118 Are Bible Codes credible? 119 Is there a gospel in the stars?

CHRISTIANITY AND SCIENCE

120 Is the Big Bang biblical? 121 Can we be certain that evolution is a myth? 122 Did humans evolve from hominids? 123 Is archaeopteryx the missing link between dinosaurs and birds? 124 How serious are the consequences of believing in evolution? 125 Is evolutionism racist? 126 What about “theistic evolution”? 127 Did Darwin have a deathbed conversion? 128 Is intelligent design really science?

ETHICS

129 Is it ever morally permissible to lie? 130 Is capital punishment biblical? 131 Is suicide an unforgivable sin? 132 Is euthanasia ever permissible? 133 Is cremation consistent with the Christian worldview? 134 Should Christians be tolerant? 135 How do biblical ethics apply to hermaphrodites? 136 What’s the problem with pornography? 137 Does homosexuality demonstrate that the Bible is antiquated and irrelevant? 138 Should Christians use birth control? 139 Should Christians use in vitro fertilization? 140 What is abortion? 141 Should abortion be permitted in the case of rape or incest? 142 Should Christians support a ban on embryonic stem cell research? 143 Can human cloning be harmonized with a Christian worldview? 144 How should Christians think about global warming?

MONEY

145 What does the Bible teach about debt? 146 What is the biblical view of wealth? 147 Is the tithe for today?

RESURRECTION & AFTERLIFE

148 When do we receive our resurrected bodies? 149 How old will we be in heaven? 150 Will there be animals in heaven? 151 Will there be sex in heaven? 152 If heaven is perfect, won’t it be perfectly boring? 153 Are there degrees of reward in heaven? 154 Are there degrees of punishment in hell? 155 Why should I believe in hell? 156 Is annihilationism biblical? 157 What about Purgatory?

ESCHATOLOGY / REVELATION

158 Does the Bible make a distinction between Israel and the church? 159 Is “coming on clouds” a reference to Christ’s second coming? 160 Which generation is “this generation”? 161 Who are the 144,000 of Revelation? 162 Who are the two witnesses of Revelation? 163 Who is the Antichrist? 164 What is the meaning of 666? 165 Is the mark of the Beast a microchip? 166 Who or what is the great prostitute of Revelation 17? 167 Who wrote Revelation? 168 Was Revelation written before or after the destruction of the temple in AD 70?

BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION

169 What does it mean to interpret the Bible literally? 170 What is the significance of biblical typology?

FINAL THOUGHTS

171 How can I develop an eternal perspective? 172 How can a person find more Bible answers?

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