The honest answers to your hardest questions about faith
This comprehensive FAQ provides thoughtful, evidence-based responses to the most common objections skeptics raise about Christianity.
These aren't hypothetical—they're genuine concerns from thoughtful skeptics, honest seekers, and people wrestling with faith.
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34 common objections organized into 8 major categories, with both quick answers and detailed responses.
Direct, honest answers to 30+ common objections
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Scripture references for every objection
Acknowledgment of legitimate questions
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Addressing claims about proof, science, and the reliability of Christian truth claims.
Exploring questions about Scripture's reliability, relevance, and treatment of women and slavery.
Examining the historical Jesus, His resurrection, and His claims to divinity.
The problem of evil, innocent suffering, and why God allows pain in the world.
Addressing hypocrisy, historical wrongs, and judgmental attitudes in the church.
Questions about being "good enough," hell, works-based salvation, and religious pluralism.
Unanswered prayers, miracles, prosperity gospel, and why God doesn't stop sin.
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Proof comes in different forms. We have cosmological evidence (Why did the universe begin?), fine-tuning (1 in 10^100), moral reality (Why do we sense right and wrong?), and the historical resurrection of Jesus. The question isn't "Is there proof?" but "Does the evidence point toward God?" For millions of intelligent people—scientists, philosophers, historians—it does.
Evidence for God's existence takes multiple forms, none requiring "absolute proof" but rather reasonable inference from what we observe:
Cosmological: Why does the universe exist? The Big Bang points to a beginning. Everything with a beginning needs a cause.
Teleological: The universe displays fine-tuning. The odds of random chance producing a life-permitting universe are approximately 1 in 10^120.
Moral: We sense genuine right and wrong. Where does this universal moral intuition come from?
Historical: The resurrection of Jesus is the most historically attested extraordinary event of the ancient world.
No single argument "proves" God, but together they suggest the God hypothesis better explains reality than naturalism.
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25,000+ ancient manuscripts with 99.5% agreement. The Dead Sea Scrolls—1,000 years older than previous texts—show the same Bible we have today. We trust Caesar's Gallic Wars on 10 manuscripts spanning 950 years. The Bible has 25,000+ spanning only 25 years. If this standard applied equally, we'd reject ALL ancient literature.
Textual criticism shows the Bible is extraordinarily well-preserved:
The Numbers: New Testament has 25,000+ manuscripts vs. Homer (1,800), Caesar (10), or Tacitus (20). We're discussing a text WITH MORE attestation than any other ancient work.
The Dead Sea Scrolls Proof: When a Bedouin discovered ancient scrolls in 1946 near the Dead Sea, 900+ manuscripts were eventually found—some 1,000 years older than previously known texts. When scholars compared these ancient texts to modern ones, they found the same Scripture. This proves the transmission was faithful, not corrupted.
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Evolution describes HOW God created diversity. It doesn't explain WHY life exists or why the universe permits life. Many brilliant scientists (Francis Collins, George Coyne) accept both evolution AND God. The question isn't "Evolution or God?"—it's "Who created the universe that permits evolution?"
This objection conflates two different questions: mechanism and origin. Evolution (if true) explains the mechanism of biological diversity—HOW species change over time. But it doesn't answer why there's a universe at all, why physical laws exist, or why the fine-tuning permits life.
Many leading scientists accept both evolution and God: Francis Collins (Human Genome Project director), George Coyne (Vatican astronomer), and Ken Miller (biologist) all affirm evolution while believing in God.
Evolution is a tool. God could have used evolution to create. It's not inherently atheistic—it depends on philosophical assumptions we bring to it.
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Free will matters. God values human freedom. You can't have genuine love without freedom. Freedom to love includes freedom to harm. And most importantly: God didn't stay distant. Jesus experienced suffering. God entered human pain.
The problem of evil is the toughest objection. Here's why suffering is compatible with a good God:
Free Will Defense: True love requires freedom. Freedom to choose good requires freedom to choose evil. God chose to create a world with genuine freedom rather than robots.
Spiritual Growth: Character development requires difficulty. Would you want a world without challenges? Would that be better?
The Cross: God didn't answer suffering by explaining it philosophically. God answered suffering by entering it. Jesus experienced injustice, betrayal, torture, and death. God suffered with us.
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Natural laws describe how things normally work, not what CAN'T happen. Your will affects physical matter every time you raise your arm. If God exists and created natural law, God can transcend it. The laws of nature are God's laws—God isn't bound by them.
The objection assumes naturalism: "Natural laws are ultimate reality." But if God exists, natural laws are descriptions of how God usually works, not limitations on God's power.
Your Agency: Every time you decide to raise your arm, your will (non-physical) causes physical motion. You transcend the "laws of nature" constantly without violating them.
If God exists and is infinite and all-powerful, miracles aren't violations—they're expressions of God's power over creation.
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