Updated 8/12/00

Questions and Answers:

The following Questions and Answers deal with some difficult areas that come up and challenge the Christians' faith. If you feel I've missed the boat on any of these, please feel free to e-mail me (wilson@srv.net). If you have a question that you would like answered in this section, send me that as well.

Q1: Why do bad things happen to good people (asked by a college sophomore whose close friend died at 20)?

Q2: Aren't you Creationists just splitting hairs? I mean, after all, what difference does it make what philosophy a person has, as long as he's a good person?

Q3: How many ice ages do you think the earth has had?

Q4: Many criticisms I read about Creationist or other Fundamentalist beliefs come from Evangelicals. I can understand the World attacking us, but why do so many of the Evangelicals? Is it an intellectual attitude or an egotistical "I'll-straighten-out-the-Church-for-Christ"?

Q5: I'm a geologist and a Christian, and you Creationists are ignoring abundant evidence that the earth is at least 4.5 billion years old. How do you justify that?

Q6: I don't think psychic powers are of God, but what about psychics who predict the future, know things about strangers, or do miracles?

Q7: What if I think God is telling me to do something stupid?

Q8: Why doesn't God answer my prayers?

Q9: Why is the divorce rate for Christians no different than that for the rest of America… or even Communistic Russia?

The following question was added 2/25/98.

Q10: What is happening to the Church?!

Added 2/19/99.

Q11: I believed in God once. Then my world was completely trashed. I prayed desperately and God did not answer. Why should I believe in Him anymore?

Added 2/5/00 (Sorry I've been out of contact so long)

Q12: America has been labeled a "Post Christian" culture because we have left our Christian roots so far behind. What can we do about this?

Q13: Which is the true version of the Bible?

 

Added 8/12/00

Q14: Where do dinosaurs fit in the time scale of a young earth?

The following topics will be addressed in the future, along with any questions you send in:

Were the ancient peoples smarter than today?

How old is the earth?

Have we evolved?

Does life exist on other planets?

Isn't Christianity responsible for more wars and deaths than any other philosophy?