Here is a selection of links to articles and websites that defend the validity of Christianity and the Bible.
Topics include:
This page may be especially useful for college students. Apparently, it's been discovered that many people raised as Christians lose their faith when they go to college. The articles linked to here will hopefully persuade people that Christianity and the Bible have not been discredited by science, research and reason after all. I put this page together because when some people lose their faith in Christianity, they experience a life crisis that can even cause severe depression. I don't believe there's any need for people to lose their faith, and I seek to demonstrate why. It may be that some people would be happier not being Christians. For such people, reading this will probably not be beneficial, so feel free not to. But for people who are disturbed that their faith may be being threatened, the page may be a comfort.
If you're experiencing depression or stress at the moment, for whatever reason, it also might be best not to look at these links now, since you may find it difficult to concentrate on the details of the in-depth articles linked to here, which is just a common symptom of depression and stress, and some contain material you may find especially upsetting if you're a bit upset to begin with. You could visit our self-help material first if you like, which covers depression, life-damaging worry, panic attacks, phobias and OCD, marriage problems, bullying and teasing, grief and other things: Free Self-Help to Recover From Some Life-Damaging Problems.
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Note: This section is not meant to condemn atheism or evolution, but merely to refute the claim so often made that religion and especially Christianity is the cause of all or most wars, and the reason for all the executions of people accused of witchcraft. The items about witch killing are put here to demonstrate that the Christian Church did not have a monopoly on it, for it happens in non-Christian cultures, and for a variety of reasons, most of them non-religious. Similar reasons may possibly have motivated the Church to a large extent.
(News articles are indicated by the added information of their source and date.)
The articles linked to in the rest of this section could provide more of an idea of what some of the Pagans of biblical times might have been engaged in, and indicate that biblical warnings against various Pagan practices are still very much valid nowadays.
(Note: Modern Western-style Pagans will not engage in the gruesome practices described in the articles linked to above.)
Note: This section is not intended to condemn other religions, but merely to respond to the often-made challenge: "Why is Christianity or the Bible any better or any more likely to be from God than any other religion or religious book??"
Incidentally, anyone wondering why it's worth bothering to spend time and effort defending Christianity when we could be using the time to do Christian things like helping people instead may gain a partial insight by reading some of the articles linked to in the rest of this section and putting two and two together!
The purpose of this subsection is to illustrate that disillusionment with and misunderstanding of Christianity can result partly from the psychological damage and misleading teaching done in churches where power is abused or doctrines are made up.
For those who would like to retort, "But Christianity can influence people to do bad things as well", please visit or revisit some of the articles in the section: Answers to Allegations that the Bible and God are Immoral Because of Suffering, Hell, Injustice and Atrocities.
Right! By the time you've read all those, you should be confident that if any query hasn't been answered here, it probably will be somewhere on the Internet! :-)
You may think that after studying several of the articles linked to here, you know enough to engage in debate with non-Christians with confidence. However, many people who raise objections to various things in the Bible do so not because they're actually concerned about those issues or they're making sincere inquiry, but because they wish to discredit the Bible as a whole, perhaps because they think they have the right to do something they feel it condemns as immoral and they don't like the fact that it condemns it, or they feel threatened by it. Such people appear to imagine their objections will trip the Christian up, or show to them the unfairness of their beliefs, confirming them in their superior contempt for the Bible, which will often be fuelled by ignorance of issues such as why laws that seem harsh today would have been expedient in the social climate of the day when they were written, or the complexities of punishment in the after-life. The objections can be mere smokescreens hiding their real agenda, or pawns in the furtherance of it. Thus, a Christian can become involved in lengthy debate over issues that actually have little relevance to the other person, since their objection is to the authority of the Bible itself, not really to all those lesser issues their bringing up, which they're merely using as tools to further their aim of discrediting the Bible. Thus, when a Christian answers them well, it will frustrate their agenda, and of course will annoy them, as no one likes to lose an argument, so they may resort to grosser means of trying to win the argument or to discredit the Christian. Thus, Christians may be angered by the tactics and the futility of debating those who don't want to listen. Anger can be detrimental to the mental well-being, and such debates can be an unhelpful distraction from doing more positive, worthwhile things. Thus, anyone who wants to debate non-Christians should go into such debates with caution.
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