The big questions, answered honestly.
Plain-English answers to life's biggest questions about God, meaning and suffering, from a thoughtful Christian perspective. Every answer includes the strongest objections.
Is there a God?
Many thoughtful people, past and present, have concluded that the best explanation of reality is a personal God. Several independent lines of evidence…
Suffering & EvilWhy does God allow suffering?
This is the most painful question on the list, and it deserves honesty before argument. Christianity does not deny suffering or call it unreal. The Bible…
Meaning & PurposeWhat is the meaning of life?
Asking about the meaning of life usually means asking three things. Does my life matter? Is there a purpose I was made for? Is there a story bigger than…
Suffering & EvilWhat is evil?
We all recognize evil: genocide, child abuse, betrayal. Defining it is harder. The classic Christian answer, developed by Augustine and Aquinas, is that…
Suffering & EvilThe problem of evil
The problem of evil is the most serious objection to belief in God. It comes in two forms. The logical problem claims that God's existence and the…
Arguments for GodThe Kalam cosmological argument
The Kalam cosmological argument was developed by medieval Islamic philosophers and has been popularized by William Lane Craig. It is simple: 1. Whatever…
Arguments for GodThe moral argument for God
Nearly everyone believes that some things are really right or wrong, whatever any person or culture thinks. Torturing children for fun is wrong. Kindness…
Meaning & PurposeDoes life have a purpose?
A purpose is what something is for. Hammers, hearts and eyes all have functions. The question is whether human lives have a purpose built in, or whether…
ChristianityIs Christianity true?
Christianity is unusual among religions because it stakes everything on a historical event. The apostle Paul wrote that if Christ has not been raised,…
ChristianityWhat happens after death?
Every culture has asked what lies beyond death. Materialism says nothing: consciousness ends when the brain stops. But there are reasons to doubt that…
Science & FaithCan science and faith coexist?
Many people assume science and religion are at war. Historians of science largely reject that "conflict thesis." Modern science grew up mostly in a…
Meaning & PurposeWhy are we here?
"Why are we here?" can mean two things. How did we get here, which is a question for physics and biology? Or what are we here for? The second is the…
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