1. Questions about 'Thinking"

1. What are Apologetics?

2. Why do some people prefer Experience over Reason?

3. What has been the Outworking of this?

4. How has Thoughtlessness been a further fruit?

5. How is Atheistic Bad Thinking Seen?

6. What does it take to be a Genuine Thinker?

7. What Credibility has the author of these pages?

8. What Books are there to help us?

2. Questions about 'Bad Relativistic Thinking'

1. What is a Relativism and why is it Important to Understand?

2. What is Relativism in respect of Space and Time?

3. How does Relativism Undermine Itself?

4. Why is Relativism NOT an Objection to Faith?

3. Questions about Deceptive Ways of Thinking

1. What Relevance do Graves have to do with this?

2. How should we deal with this Hypocrisy?

3. How can Post-Modernism be Deception?

4. Why is Relativism Deception?

5. Why is Universalism Deception?

6. Why is Naturalism Deception?

7. Why is Pluralism Deception?

8. Why is Multiculturalism Deception?

4. Questions about 'Truth, Knowledge & Beliefs'

1. What is Truth?

2. How does Daily Life affect our Understanding Truth?

3. Why do we need to be careful with Language when Considering Truth?

4. How do Facts differ from Knowledge and from Belief?

5. How do we go about Interpreting the 'Facts' of History?

6. How has 'Intelligent Design' opened up questions about Scientists?

7. Is it Legitimate to Question the Characters of Scientific Commentators?

8. Why is all this Important when Considering the Existence of the Bible?

9. Why is all this Important when Considering the Content of the Bible?

10. Why is all this Important when Considering the Beliefs of the Bible?

5. Questions about Science and Faith

Part A : Should Science be so sure of itself?

1. What is Science?

2. Why is Science Uncertain?

3. Why is Science about the Past, a Leap of Faith?

4. is Science Constantly Improving the World?

Part 2 : Scientific Misconceptions about Faith

5. Is God only the God of the Gaps?

6. Can't religious Experience be explained by Scientific Explanations?

7. Is there a War between Science and Religion?

8. So how can the natural world be interpreted?

9. Do Scientists Jump to Conclusions?

10. Don't Scientists Need Ethical Standards that only the Faith Community can Provide?

6. Questions about the Meaning of Life

1. What are the Options for the Beginning of Life?

2. What are the Options for Law in Society?

3. What are the Alternatives to God decreeing Law?

1. How is the 'New Tolerance' seen and heard?

2. What is Traditional Tolerance?

3. What are the Characteristics of the New Tolerance?

4. Are we to Value all Beliefs Equally?

5. How can we Distinguish between a Person and their Behaviour/Attitudes?

6. What is the Irony of the New Tolerance?

7. How does the New Tolerance Clash with Biblical Truth?

8. How does this Usher In the Death of Civilised Society?

9. What are the Consequences of the New Tolerance?

10. So how do we Counter the New Tolerance?

1. What is the charge of "Wishful Thinking"?

2. What is the first answer?

3. What is the second answer?

4. What is the third answer?

5. What is the fourth answer?

10. Questions about the Early Church - INTRODUCTION

1. Who were some of the Key Players of the First Century?

2. What was Happening in the First Century?

3. What were the Main Problems facing the Early Church?

1. What were the Main Problems facing the Early Church?

2. What were the times of Persecution in those early Centuries?

3. How do these affect our Beliefs in the Historicity of the Early Church?

PART A: THE CONTEXT

1. What were the Main Problems facing the Early Church?

PART B: THE COMPETITORS

3. What was Polytheism and why was it Important to Understand it?    

4. What was Philosophy and why was it Important to Understand it? 

5. What was Judaism and why was it Important to Understand it? 

6. What were the Mystery Religions and why was it Important to Understand them? 

7. What was the Occult and why was it Important to Understand it?

8. What was Gnosticism and why was it Important to Understand it?

1. What were the Main Problems facing the Early Church?

3. What effect did these Heresies have?

4. Who were the Main People/Groups Promoting these Heresies? 

1. Who were the earliest Leaders in the second half of the First Century?

3. What did these men achieve? 

1. Why is the Bible so important to the Christian?

2. What actually is the Bible?

3. Why can we Trust It?

4. So why isn't it always easy to Read and Understand?

5. How did the present books come to be in the Bible?

6. Further Questions for Consideration

22. Questions about the Inspiration of the Bible

1. What are the Possibilities of how the Bible came into being?

2. What is the apparent involvement of God in producing the writings?

3. What Historical Support is there for Belief in Inspiration?

4. What is meant by Inerrancy of Scripture?

1. What does the 'Canon  of Scripture' mean?

2. How has the Old Testament Canon been Agreed?

3. What Books were Excluded from the Canon?

4. What NT confirmation is given of the OT?

5. How many OT documents do we have today & how reliable are they?

6. How can we Summarise all this?

1. What is the History Covered by the Old Testament?

2. Was this Genuine History of was it Made-Up Myth?

3. Is the Old Testament to be Taken Literally?

4. How does this happen in the case of Narrative History?

5. How does this apply to Law or Teaching?

6. Should Prophecy be considered Literally?

7. What Additional Rules are there to help with Prophecy?

1. When was the New Testament Written?

2. Why was the New Testament Written?

3. How was the Teaching First Used?

4. What does Canon  mean and how did it come to be?

5. What Rules were Used to Assess Canonicity?

6. What Ancient N.T. Manuscripts do we have Today?

7. How do they Date these Documents?

8. What Additional Historical Evidence is there to Support these Documents?

1. Why are the Gospels Different?

2. How are the first 3 Similar yet Different?

3. Why is John so Different?

4. Why can we trust these accounts?

5. How can we believe the impossible happening?

6. How do Accounts about Jesus Suggest Integrity in the Writing?

1. What is a Contradiction?

2. What is a Paradox?

3. What is a Contradiction of Meaning?

4. What is a Contradiction of Fact?

5. What are Supposed Contradictions in the Bible?

Introductory Comments

31. Questions about the Revelation of God

32. Questions about God in a Material World

33. Questions about an Angry, Judgmental God

Other site sources of information about God

1. How this Subject Arises

2. Options for God's Design

3. God doesn't develop but...

4. Why Abram?

5. Why Isaac and Jacob and...?

6. What about Moses and the Exodus?

7. What about the Law of Moses?

8. And so on through the whole Old Testament

9. The Revelation so far

10. The Coming of Jesus

11. The Struggle of the Years of Church History

1. What is the conflict between Materialists and Christians?

2. What is the Mechanical World of the Materialist?

3. Why are there 'unhappy Christians'?

4. How is Biblical Christianity Different?

5. Do we know how much God intervenes in the natural World?

6. What happens when things 'go wrong' with the world?

7. So what does the Bible reveal about God's activity?

1. What is the accusation that is made?

2. What is the Nature of God described in the Bible?

3. What are the General Principles of Discipline, Correction & Judgement?

4. What are the Reasons for God's Judgement?

5. What are the forms of God's Judgement?

6. What is the Reality of God's Grace & Mercy in the Old Testament?