Answers to tough questions

Honest, evidence-based answers to the questions skeptics and seekers actually ask — about God, Jesus, the Bible, suffering, and faith. Short enough to read in a minute; each links to a deeper dive.

• Is there any evidence that God exists?
• What caused the universe?
• Why is there something rather than nothing?
• Is the universe fine-tuned for life?
• Where do morality and human rights come from without God?
• Can you be good without believing in God?
• Doesn't science disprove God?
• If God made everything, who made God?
• Isn't God just wishful thinking?
• What are Thomas Aquinas's Five Ways?
• Is there scientific evidence for God?
• What is the Kalam cosmological argument?
• What is the moral argument for God?
• What is the ontological argument?
• Is consciousness evidence for God?
• What is the argument from desire?
• What is the Leibniz contingency argument?
• Does naturalism undermine reason?
• Is religious experience evidence for God?

• Did Jesus really exist?
• Is there evidence that Jesus rose from the dead?
• Wasn't the resurrection just a legend that grew over time?
• Why does it matter that women were the first witnesses to the empty tomb?
• Could the disciples have stolen Jesus' body?
• Did the disciples just hallucinate the risen Jesus?
• Why did Paul go from persecuting Christians to dying for Jesus?
• Was Jesus copied from pagan myths like Horus and Mithras?
• What is the minimal facts argument for the resurrection?
• Why did the disciples die for their belief in the resurrection?
• Is there any evidence for Jesus outside the Bible?
• Is there any evidence that the tomb was empty?
• Why do the gospel resurrection accounts differ?
• Did Jesus really rise from the dead?
• Did Jesus appear to 500 witnesses?
• Was Jesus really buried in a tomb?
• Did Jesus predict his own resurrection?

• Has the Bible been changed over the centuries?
• Can we trust the New Testament manuscripts?
• Aren't there contradictions in the Bible?
• Were the Gospels written by eyewitnesses?
• Is there archaeological evidence for the Bible?
• Who decided which books are in the Bible?
• Why were some gospels left out of the Bible?
• When were the gospels written?
• What do the Dead Sea Scrolls prove about the Bible?
• Does the Bible condone slavery?
• How do we know the Bible is true?
• Why are there four Gospels?
• What are undesigned coincidences?
• Do the names in the Gospels show eyewitness testimony?

• Do miracles really happen?
• Does the Big Bang point to God?
• Can science explain the origin of life without God?
• Does the multiverse explain away the fine-tuning of the universe?
• Can a Christian believe in evolution?
• Does evolution disprove God?
• Did the universe have a beginning?
• Does beauty point to God?
• Is Earth specially designed for life?
• Is mathematics evidence for God?

• Did Jesus actually claim to be God?
• Isn't the Trinity a contradiction?
• Wasn't Jesus just a good moral teacher?
• Did the church invent Jesus' divinity at the Council of Nicaea?
• Did Jesus fulfill Old Testament prophecy?
• If Jesus is God, why did he pray to God and say he didn't know the day or hour?
• Where is the Trinity in the Bible?
• How many Old Testament prophecies did Jesus fulfill?
• Is the virgin birth credible?
• What is the evidence that Jesus is God?
• Why is Jesus called the Son of God?
• Is the Trinity like water, ice, and steam?
• Is Jesus God, or just a prophet?
• What is the Daniel 70 weeks prophecy?
• Doesn't the Trinity mean three Gods?
• What does 'Son of Man' mean?
• Did Jesus empty himself of his deity? (Philippians 2)
• Is the Trinity in the Old Testament?
• Was Jesus sinless?

• Is there any evidence for life after death?
• Aren't all religions basically the same?
• Isn't faith just believing without evidence?
• Is it okay to have doubts as a Christian?
• Isn't Christianity just true because you were raised in it?
• If God is real, why does he seem hidden?
• What about those who have never heard of Jesus?

• Has the Quran been changed or corrupted?
• Was Jesus a Muslim?
• Does the Bible predict Muhammad?
• Do Jehovah's Witnesses believe Jesus is God?
• Is the Mormon Jesus the same as the Jesus of the Bible?
• Do Muslims and Christians worship the same God?
• Is Jesus the same person as Michael the Archangel?
• Are Mormons Christians?
• Are Jehovah's Witnesses Christians?
• Did Jesus die on the cross, or does the Quran deny it?
• Is Jesus really 'a god' in John 1:1 (New World Translation)?
• What makes Christianity different from other religions?
• Is Islam true?
• Are there contradictions in the Quran?
• Was Muhammad a true prophet?
• What does the Quran say about Jesus?
• Is the New World Translation accurate?
• Can we trust the hadith?
• What is abrogation (naskh) in the Quran?