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Christianity for People Who Aren’t Christians

Uncommon Answers to Common Questions

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Christianity for People Who Aren’t Christians

By: James Emery White
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Are you tired of getting the standard cookie-cutter answers to questions you aren't even asking?

This candid book offers uncommon answers to both classic and bleeding-edge questions you may have about Christians and Christianity, such as:

Is there a God?

Why do the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus matter?

Why is there so much suffering in the world?

Why do Christians think there is only one way to know God?

How do I reconcile the Bible's picture of Christ's followers with the actual Christians I know who have disappointed me?

Covering such topics as astrophysics, social justice, and acceptance of the LGBTQ community, this one-of-a-kind book is perfect for anyone skeptical of Christianity who values honest answers to their honest questions.

©2019 James Emery White (P)2019 Baker Publishing Group Christianity Resurrection
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As a recently baptised Christian I loved this book !! So well explained and relatable , with some humour thrown in. Highly recommend to all who are curious or new to Christianity

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This book came at just the right time for me! There are many chapters that really resonate with me - so much so, that I will have to buy the Kindle book, to bookmark and highlight sections that I wish to share with friends.

I’m currently someone who can’t get past the: ‘Can I commit?’ stage and the ‘Will I be genuine?’ mindset. There is a chapter addressing all of these issues and more (including Intolerance - another challenge for me).

You don’t walk away from this book without thinking about what is covered. I would like to have an Atheist or Agnostic friend read (or listen) to this, so that we can discuss it. This would make an ideal Book Club, book!

Try this out, wherever you are in your thoughts about Christianity - it won’t hurt you - it will at the very least, help you to understand your Christian friends and perhaps, yourself!

Required Reading...

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The moment that the narrator uttered the words "Second Law Of Thermodynamics," I groaned with frustration and despair. And sure enough, the author immediately trotted out the same decrepit old, long debunked strawmen that "Something Can't Come From Nothing" and "If The 'Big Bang' Was An Explosion, Then What Exploded & Who Caused It?" Because after all, "Every Cause Must Have A Causer."

From there, the author proceeds to fill out the bingo card by countering the obvious question of "Well Then, Who Caused/Created God?" by pointing out that God is 'The' creator who exists outside of space and time, so it's not special pleading because he's magic.

The universe is 'Fine Tuned' for human life?... Take a shot.

Watchmaker?... Take a shot.

Every building must have a designer?... Take a shot.

Complexity and order in the universe mean that there 'Must' be a creator?... Take a shot.

Evolution = Time + Chance?... Take a shot.

A mousetrap being the go-to example of Irreducible Complexity?... Take a shot.

Micro Evolution vs. Macro Evolution?... Take a shot.

How did life come from non-life?... Take a shot.

Universal/Objective Morality?... Take a shot.

In short then, if you've spent 'ANY' time listening to Atheist counter-apologetics in the last few decades or even spoken to an Atheist who has, then you've heard all of this and the explanations as to why every word of it is a fallacious strawman which Christians still repeat ad nauseum. And that's not even mentioning the strawman of insisting that if we can't accept Christianity because of the existence of suffering and evil in the world, then we can't accept Atheism either. Because supposedly according to Atheism, human progress should be making the world better and reducing Evil and suffering every single day. To which I reply that...

a) That's not a tenet or precept of Atheism.

b) The world 'IS' getting better! Because although the sensationalist nature of the news makes it appear that the opposite is the case, the rates of poverty, war, crime and other social Evils are indeed going down as science reduces the harm caused by 'Natural Evils' such as natural disasters and disease. And,

c) That claim intentionally misses the point that it's not the existence of evil and suffering in itself which causes us to reject the existence of God, but the paradox of evil and suffering existing in a world supposedly created by an omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent being which has the power and desire to prevent it, yet still chooses not to.

To which of course, the Christian answer to the question of why God allows evil and suffering to exist is... you guessed it... 'Free Will.'...Take a shot. ...As if a child dying of cancer is somehow their own fault or that of Humanity as a whole, simply because Eve ate the wrong fruit.

And then, to counter the claim that God never should have created us in the first place if he knew that this would be the result, comparing the deliberate curse and act of punishment that was kicking Adam & Eve out of the garden to the natural process of a loving father 'Letting Go' of his children as they grow up? Once again, committing a deliberate bait and switch. Because the correct analogy would be a spiteful and vindictive father kicking his 3-year-old daughter out of the house for the crime of disobedience and watching her suffer needlessly until she admits that she's a worthless sinner who doesn't deserve his 'Love.' To which he rewards her by allowing her back into the house to praise and thank him for his divine benevolence for the rest of Eternity

In the end then, while I joke about making this book a drinking game, if anyone actually did that in real life, then they'd die of alcohol poisoning! And I strongly recommend using the print version of this book as toilet paper or kindling instead.

Painfully Fallacious Apologetics Bingo

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