Who Made God? (2009) (edit title/settings)

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contributors

PART 1: QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
1. Tough Questions about God (Norman Geisler)
Who Made God?
Why Couldn't the World Always Have Existed?
How Can God Make Something out of Nothing?
What Was God Doing before He Made the World?
How Can There Be Three Persons in One God?
How Can a Good God Send People to Hell?
How Can God Be Both Loving and Just?

2. Tough Questions about Evil (Ronald Rhodes)
What Is the Origin of Evil?
What Is God's Ultimate Purpose in Allowing Evil?
Wouldn't It Be Better If God Did Away with All Evil Immediately?
Does the Existence of Evil Prove that God Is Finite?
Is Evil Just an Illusion?
Can New Age Pantheism Account for Evil?
Do We Create Our Own Realities?
Does Reincarnation Explain the Existence of Evil?

3. Tough Questions about Science (William Lane Craig)
Are Science and Christianity Allies or Adversaries?
How Should Science and Theology Relate?
How Does Modern Science Describe the World?
Where Did the Universe Come From?
What Does the Fine-Tuning of the Universe Mean?
What Does the "Many Worlds" Hypothesis Mean?
What Explain the Actual Origin of Life?
How Long Are the Days of Creation in Genesis?
Is the Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution True?

4. Tough Questions about Christ (Lee Strobel)
Are the Records of Jesus' Life Reliable?
Did Jesus Ever Claim to Be God?

5. More Tough Questions about Christ (Lee Strobel)
Did Jesus Really Perform Miracles?
Did Jesus Fulfill the Messianic Prophecies?
Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?

6. Tough Questions about the Bible (Norman Geisler)
Where Did the Bible Come From?
Who Wrote the Bible?
Were the Biblical Authors Mere Secretaries of the Holy Spirit?
What Was a Prophet in Bible Times?
Could Prophets Add Their Personal Thoughts to God's Message?
How Did the Prophets Get Their Messages from God?
Were the Prophets Permitted to Change the Words God Gave?
What Do You Mean When You Say "The Bible Is the Word of God"?
How Else Does the Bible Claim to Be the Word of God?
Does the Bible Actually Claim to Be the "Word of God" in So Many Words?
Does the Bible Claim to Have Divine Authority?
How Far Does This Divine Authority Extend?
What Do You Mean When You Say That the Bible Is Inspired?
Are the Very Words of the Bible Inspired by God, or Only the Ideas?
Does the Bible Claim to Be Inspired on All Topics or Just Spiritual Ones?
How Do Some People Misunderstand What Is Meant by the Inspiration of the Bible?
How Do We Know These Misunderstandings Aren't Part of What Inspiration Covers?
Isn't the Bible Also a Human Book?
Does the Bible Have Errors in It?
Are There Errors in Bible Manuscripts and Translations?
How Can the Bible Be Both God's Word and Man's Word?
Were the Biblical Witnesses Reliable?
Why Does the Jesus Seminar Reject the Reliability of the New Testament Witnesses?
Could the New Testament Witnesses Have Stand Up in a Court of Law?
Are the Copies of the Bible Reliable?

PART 2: QUESTIONS ABOUT OTHER FAITHS
7. Tough Questions about the Bible, False Prophets, and the Holy Books of Other Religions (Norman Geisler)
What Evidence Is There That the Bible Is Inspired by God as It Claims to Be?
Is There Any Other Evidence That the Bible Is God's Word?
Haven't Psychics Made Successful Predictions Like Those Found in the Bible?
Didn't Nostradamus Make Supernatural Predictions?
Do Nostradamus's Predictions Fail the Test of a True Prophet?
What Are the Tests for a False Prophet?
Did the Biblical Authors Measure Up to These Test?
Why Can't the Holy Books of Other Religions Also Be from God?
Isn't It Narrow-Minded to Claim That Only One Religion Has the Truth?
Is the Old Testament Complete?
What Is the Testimony of Judaism about the Completeness of the Old Testament?
What did Jesus Say about the Completeness of the Old Testament?
What did Early Christians Say about the Completeness of the Old Testament?
Did the Roman Catholic Church Add Books to the Jewish Old Testament?
How Do We Know the New Testament Is Complete?
What Did Jesus Promise about the Formation of the New Testament?
What did Jesus' Apostles Say about the New Testament?
What Evidences Did the Apostles Show for Their Authority?
Were All the Apostolic and Prophetic Writings Preserved in the New Testament?
How Does the Character of God Guarantee the Completeness of the New Testament?
Did the Church Carefully Preserve the Whole New Testament?
Is the Whole Bible Complete?
Why Are Noninspired Books Mentioned in the Bible?
Do Mormons Believe That the Bible Is Inspired by God?
Is There Confirmation That the Mormon Scriptures Are from God?
Are There Evidences That the Book of Mormon Is Inspired?
Is the Qu'ran the Word of God?

8. Tough Questions about Hinduism and Transcendental Mediation (L.T. Jeyachandran)
Why Is There Such a High Degree of Interest in Eastern Religions among Westerners?
What Are the Main Tenets of Hinduism?
What Is Transcendental Mediation?

9. Tough Questions about Yoga, Reincarnation, and Buddhism (L.T. Jeyachandran)
What Does Yoga Mean and What Is the Teaching Behind It?
What Is Reincarnation?
What Are the Beliefs of Buddhism?

10. Tough Questions about Black Islam (Robert White)
What Is the Current Climate of the Church?
What Makes Religion "Black"?
Who Founded the Black Islamic Movement?
Who Was Responsible for Bringing the Message of Black Islam to the Forefront?
What Social Factors Led to the Emergence of the Black Islam Movement?
What Is the Unique Appeal of Islam for Blacks?
Why Is the Message of Islam Appealing to African-American Males in Particular?
Who Was Malcolm X?
Is Islam Becoming the True Religion of the Black Man?
Do Black Muslims Have Misperceptions about the Christian Faith?
Does Black Islam Recognize the Deity of Christ?
Should Black Muslims Be Allowed to Speak in Black Churches?
How Might the Church Reach Out to Black Muslims?

Resources for Digging Deeper
Notes
Scripture Index
Subject Index