The question and the answer
Twelve questions. Twelve answers.
Each question as people really ask it, and the answer the Bible gives, with the verse that says it. Each answer is one statement of Anvoy’s Foundational Values.
The question
The answer
Verse
Foundational Value
Creation or evolution? Real science, or biased science?
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In the beginning GodWhether everything made itself, and whether the people who say so are looking at the evidence or away from it.
Genesis 1:1
Does God exist, and who is He?
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He is, and He can be knownEveryone believes something about where all this came from. Nobody starts out neutral. And if He is there, who is He?
Psalm 19:1
If God is good, why evil and suffering, and the violence of the Old Testament?
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Very good, then brokenIf God is good and God is strong, why does it hurt this much? And why does the Old Testament read the way it does?
Romans 5:12
Is Jesus God, and did He rise from the dead?
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He is Lord, and He roseA good teacher does not say what He said. Either He was lying, or mad, or He is who He claimed. The tomb decides it.
1 Corinthians 15:3–4
Why did Jesus have to die?
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The just for the unjustIf God loves everyone, why a cross? Why not just forgive? Because forgiveness is never free; somebody always pays.
1 Peter 3:18
Is Christianity unique? One true faith, and the others?
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One God, one MediatorEvery religion cannot be true at once; they contradict each other about God, death and how to be saved. So which one?
John 14:6
Is the Bible God's Word? Is it accurate and reliable?
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God-breathed, and it standsA book written over centuries, by dozens of people, on three continents, copied and translated, and it holds together.
2 Timothy 3:16
Is there universal truth, and where does it come from?
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One truth for allWhether there is one truth for everybody, or only "your truth" and "my truth", and whether anybody can be good without God.
John 14:6
What is the meaning of life? Who am I?
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Made on purposeWhether your life has a purpose that was there before you were, or only the one you make up; and whether you are more than your brain.
Ephesians 2:10
If God is loving, how can He send people to hell?
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Not willing that any should perishWhether a loving God can also be a judge, what hell is for, and what happens to people who never heard.
2 Peter 3:9
What happens when I die? Do I have an undying soul?
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A soul that goes onThe one appointment nobody misses, and whether the one who keeps it is only a body.
Hebrews 9:27
If the church is God's, why so many hypocrites and denominations?
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Sinners being made newWhether the people who follow Jesus disprove Him, and why one Spirit has produced so many churches.
Ephesians 4:4–6