Bewes - The top 100 questions : biblical answers to popular questions plus explanations of 50 difficult Bible passages

In this highly readable book, Richard Bewes provides direct, clear, concise and relevant answers to questions with which many people struggle. The material is simply and easily laid out in short bite-sized chapters and with sufficient content to be helpful to both the reader and non-reader alike. You could even use it as a basis for a daily reading over a three-month period.

The material could prove very useful for youth groups, house groups, as well as for those, both young and old, who are searching for clear, compelling and helpful answers to questions which disturb and challenge them. I learned a lot, and you will too if you buy the book!

Lindsay Brown, General Secretary, IFES

I honestly believe this book could only come from someone who has spent a lifetime in Christian ministry. It is the accumulated wisdom and illustration from decades of mulling over some very difficult questions and wonderfully it is distilled down to the key points.

Rico Tice, author of Christianity Explored

The right questions. Clear biblical answers. Having read the manuscript Im already planning who I could send copies of the book to when its published.

Peter Maiden, International Director, OM

Richard Bewes gives deeply thought-out, carefully informed answers to many of the questions most troublesome to contemporary humanity. He conveys the greatness of God and the mastery of Jesus in the stream of history. But, just as importantly, he points in the sensible, plain language to our part in seizing the kingdom of God in our time, and how we must go about it square in the midst of daily life.

Dallas Willard, Speaker and Author

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Scripture Quotations marked ESV are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, published by HarperCollins Publishers 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All Rights Reserved.

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Copyright Richard Bewes 2002

First Published in 2002
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One universe or many?

Are we on our own?

Dwarfed by the distances?

Who are we? What are we?

A womans place?

Can you explain evil?

Why am I stuck with Adam?

Extra-terrestrial beings?

The creation of viruses

Where do animals fit?

Who or what are angels?

How big was the flood?

In touch through yoga?

Back into the past?

Did the sun stop still?

What is the origin of evil spirits?

What of territorial spirits?

Were the magi astrologers?

Why doesnt God intervene?

Will the universe implode?

Any change after 2000 years?

The Trinity to other religions?

The invisible God appearing?

Where does Jesus fit in?

Should we pray to Mary?

Is faith a leap in the dark?

How does the cross affect me?

What is being born again?

Failure back to square one?

Does purgatory exist?

Is healing part of salvation?

God as Father? I cant get it

What is filled with the Holy Spirit?

What is the sin against the Holy Spirit?

What is speaking in tongues?

What happens at communion?

What about those who have never heard?

Why does God allow suffering?

Is everything fixed in advance?

Who is the Antichrist?

How did the Bible come to us?

Who authorised the Bible?

Is the Apocrypha scripture?

Is the Bible a unique authority?

No further word from God?

What about errors?

Are the gospels reliable?

What about later bits in the Bible?

Only containing Gods word?

Are the actual words inspired?

Can it have different meanings?

May a story be a legend?

Help from outside the Bible?

Where is the Bibles power?

Is daily Bible reading a must?

The Bible and listening to God?

Should the Bible be banned?

Nothing but the Bible?

What about atrocities in the Bible?

The Bible a selection process

Is Christianity the highest ethic?

How dangerous is wealth?

What is meant by spirituality?

What about forgiving the unrepentant?

Can euthanasia be Christian?

Punishment for eternity?

Safer without the missionaries?

What makes a church a sect?

How do you recognise the occult?

Fulfilment in the workplace?

Should Christians use force?

The leading of the Spirit?

Marriage a submission?

Does God allow divorce?

The rights of an unborn child?

Is sex restricted to marriage?

Same sex inclinations?

Special prayer for healing

I want to learn to pray

How to get a church praying

Jesus the only one to follow?

Who is the real Christ?

The truth in one man?

Jesus why a virgin birth?

Did Jesus rise bodily?

Evidence for the ascension?

What is Jesus doing in Heaven?

Jesus and the Holy Spirit?

How is Christ coming back?

A synthesis of traditions?

Am I a real disciple of Jesus?

Can I lose my salvation?

I want to be holy, but Im not!

What do I do when Im tempted!

Why should Christians suffer?

How important is baptism?

Why join a local church?

Why are Christians a problem?

How to help the unbeliever?

Can I be a global Christian?

Genesis 1 Six days of creation?

Genesis 2:7 Evolution?

Genesis 4:14 Other populations?

Genesis 4:17 Cains wife

Genesis 6:1-4 Marrying with angels?

Genesis 22:57 Does God feel threatened

Genesis 16:11, 12 Ishmaels blessing

Genesis 22 Why sacrifice Isaac?

Genesis 3032 The speckled goats?

Exodus 4:21 Unfair on Pharaoh?

Exodus 4:24 God attacking Moses?

Exodus 20:4 No images, no art?

Exodus 20:5 Generational guilt?