[.ca] Answers to Tough Questions Skeptics Ask About the ... (ISBN 084230021X)

very helpful:
This book provides tough answers to basic questions that non-Christians and Christians may have. Its not supposed to be some full apologetic reference! Its just a book giving you the basic answers to tough questions and I think that they did a wonderful job. The truth is that no matter what or how good a book is written, skeptics won't be convinced if they don't want to be. No book or debate can convince a person if they're not going to be open to God. Not everyone will be a follower of Jesus. There is such a thing as free will. The authors did a wonderful job of identifying the hard questions. They really helped me. This is a basic book for anyone wanting to understand the harder questions of the Bible. The book doesn't claim to be some all knowing reference apologetic book & its not. It just answers the basic questions that people might have like why there are two accounts of creation in the Bible, etc.

Here's Why I gave This Book 4 Stars:
First, I had a good idea what this book would be before I read it. And I was correct. It is a book that contains the thoughts and beliefs of a mainline, 'traditional' Christian. But as I disagree with most of the contents, I refuse to chastise the authors because of what appears to be a well-thought out apologetic defense of traditional Christianity. I tend to be on the more 'liberal' side of religion, but the danger in any difference of opinion is reducing that difference to name calling and condemnation of beliefs. We are living in a most chaotic time, with many traditional thoughts and beliefs about Christianity in particular and religion in general, being in question. The last thing we need in these times is the broadening of the gulf that seperates us all. This is a time for understanding and open dialogue without condemnation. If the authors, through their beliefs and theology have condemned those of us that do not fall within the parameters of that theology, then that is unfortunate, but after seventeen hundred years of Christian tradition and teaching, it is understandable. But for a liberal to do likewise is but adding fuel to a fire that is already threatening to consume us. We can all talk all we want, but the true measure of your belief is if you can live it. Perhaps if the folks that have a more liberal view of theology would make those views part and parcel of who they are in their daily lives, some of the barriers between us all would slowly crumble. It wasn't the 'answers' that the authors gave that were so disagreeable to me, but the thought that so much of what they addressed HAS a definite answer. But I'll say this, as much as I disagreed, the book forced me to think of why I disagreed. And that is the reason I gave it 4 stars.

Another ignorant literalist:
This is just another piece of ignorance written by an extreme literalist who is in way over his head. Needless to say, by "Christianity" he means the caricaturized version *he* calls Christianity. Anyone who uses his "answers" against someone who really knows their stuff will get absolutely and embarrassingly blind-sided. Marc A. Schindler Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada -- Gateway to the Boreal Parkland.