
Questions About the Bible
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How do we know the Bible is the Word of God and not just a human book?
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Hasn't the Bible been changed or corrupted over centuries of copying?
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Who decided which books go in the Bible, and was that process trustworthy?
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Why were books like the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Judas left out of the canon?
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Does the Bible contain errors, contradictions, or discrepancies?
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Is the Bible historically accurate? Does archaeology support or contradict it?
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How can the Bible be authoritative if it was written by fallible humans?
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What is the difference between verbal plenary inspiration and other theories of biblical inspiration?
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Doesn't the Bible support genocide?
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How do Christians know which parts of the Bible are prescriptive (binding today) and which are merely descriptive?
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Why are there so many different English Bible translations, and does that undermine reliability?
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How do we know we have what was originally written (the science of textual criticism)?
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Is the Bible anti-women (misogynistic)?
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Why does the Bible endorse or tolerate practices we now consider immoral (polygamy, animal sacrifice)?
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How should Christians interpret Genesis 1-2 — literally or figuratively?
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Did Moses really write the Pentateuch, or is the documentary hypothesis (JEDP) correct?
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Are the Gospels eyewitness accounts, or were they written too late to be reliable?
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How do the Dead Sea Scrolls affect our confidence in the Old Testament text?
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Is the New Testament reliable given that the earliest manuscripts date to decades after Jesus?
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Why does the Bible seem to describe a geocentric universe and other outdated cosmology?
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What is the relationship between the Old Testament and the New Testament (Law vs. Grace)?
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Are there genuine prophetic predictions in the Bible, or were they written after the events?
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Why does the Book of Revelation seem so bizarre and contradictory, and how should it be interpreted?
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Why are there disputed (deuterocanonical) books in the Catholic Bible not found in Protestant Bibles?
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Can the Bible be used as evidence for its own authority, or is that circular reasoning?



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