Letters from a skeptic : a son wrestles with his father's questions about Christianity
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Questions about God
- Correspondence 1 : why has Christianity done so much harm
- Correspondence 2 : why is the world so full of suffering
- Correspondence 3 : is the risk of freedom worth all the suffering
- Correspondence 4 : does God know the future
- Correspondence 5 : why does God create earthquakes and famines
- Correspondence 6 : why did God create Satan
- Correspondence 7 : is your God all-powerful
- Correspondence 8 : why believe in God in the first place
- Correspondence 9 : couldn't it all be by chance
- Correspondence 10 : why didn't God spare your mother
- Correspondence 11 : why would an all-powerful God need prayer
- Correspondence 12 : why would God care about us little humans
- pt. 2. Questions about Jesus Christ
- Correspondence 13 : why trust the Gospel accounts
- Correspondence 14 : aren't the Gospels full of contradictions
- Correspondence 15 : who wrote the Gospels and when were they written
- Correspondence 16 : how can you believe that a man rose from the dead
- Correspondence 17 : how can you believe that man was God
- pt. 3. Questions about the Bible
- Correspondence 18 : why does God make believing in Him so difficult
- Correspondence 19 : why do you think the Bible is inspired
- Correspondence 20 : Isn't the Bible full of myths and God's vengeance
- Correspondence 21 : didn't the Catholic Church put the Bible together
- Correspondence 22 : why are there so many differing interpretations of the Bible
- Correspondence 23 : what about the "holy books" of other religions
- pt. 4. Questions about Christian life and doctrine
- Correspondence 24 : do all non-christians go to hell
- Correspondence 25 : how would an all-loving God torture people in an eternal hell
- Correspondence 26 : isn't the Christian life impossible to live
- Correspondence 27 : how can another man's death pardon me
- Correspondence 28 : how can I be holy and sinful at the same time
- Correspondence 29 : how can I be sure it's all true
- Epilogue : I believe!