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Confronting Christianity

12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion

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Confronting Christianity

By: Rebecca McLaughlin
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Religion's decline in the modern world turns out to be a myth.

Christianity is the most widespread global belief system and promises to remain so well into the future. But for many educated Westerners, biblical Christianity is a dangerous idea - challenging some of their deepest beliefs.

Channeling state-of-the-art research, personal stories, and careful biblical study, Confronting Christianity explores 12 questions that keep many of us from considering faith in Christ. Look more closely, McLaughlin argues, and the reality of suffering, the complexity of sexuality, the desire for diversity, the success of science, and other seeming roadblocks to faith become signposts. Jesus becomes not a relic from the ancient world but our modern world's best hope.

©2019 Rebecca McLaughlin (P)2019 eChristian Christianity Morality
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helpful answers to common questions confronting Christianity,includes personal stories and quotes from other relevant testimony on the grace of God offered to his beloved people, even when we don'tdeserve it, good food for thoughts

Relatable and accesable

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Great perspectives and some very useful metaphors I will definitely use in my life.
I will admit though, I struggled to follow some parts only because of the technical language but it was easy to catch up with.
Overall I greatly enjoyed listening to this book. It is well balanced with spiritual outlook and factual evidence making sense of both.

Loved it

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Well written and narrated by the author. She has an engaging personal story. The book contains lots of good illustrations and also looks at what the Bible has to say on each topic.
The twelve questions/chapters in the book are:
1 Aren't We Better Off without Religion?
2 Doesn't Christianity Crush Diversity?
3 How Can You Say There's Only One True Faith?
4 Doesn't Religion Hinder Morality?
5 Doesn't Religion Cause Violence?
6 How Can You Take the Bible Literally?
7 Hasn't Science Disproved Christianity?
8 Doesn't Christianity Denigrate Women?
9 Isn't Christianity Homophobic?
10 Doesn't the Bible Condone Slavery?
11 How Could a Loving God Allow So Much Suffering?
12 How Could a Loving God Send People to Hell?
I think this is an excellent read for both Christians and non-Christians.

CT's 2020 Apologetics/Evangelism Book of the Year

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Rebecca bravely engages with the reasons we all find for dismissing the Christian Story. She is deeply transparent and vulnerable in the way she seeks answers to hard questions. If you don't believe, you owe it to yourself to at least hear clearly what you think you are rejecting. If you do believe, you will cry with joy as you see with compelling clarity the beauty of the story you are part of.

Captivating

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I just loved everything about this book. Expertly and lovingly written. I will definitely recommended to my friends.

Great book!

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simply one of the most honest, compelling, confronting and beautiful books I have read. Rebecca threads a needle, being at once unapologetic for her faith while at the same time, through her deternined vulnerability, exuding empathy with all.

read this book

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An incisive, clear and well researched look at some of the biggest objections to the Christian faith today. Very, very well done.

Exceptional coverage

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Rebecca’s gentle, thoughtful and intelligent approach to discussing each of the big topics she tackles has given me the courage to do likewise. Some chapters demanded that I sit down and read them to my young adult children to help them navigate the world into which they have been born. Ahhh, but we are here for such a time as this!

Insightfully discussed.

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A truly inspired book, with passion balanced with research. Probably one of the best I have ever been exposed to.

Thought provoking and accurate. In my humble opinion.

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This book is compelling. I would highly recommend and am looking forward to listening again. Thank you, R.McLaughlin.

Susan

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