Glad You Asked: Answers To 28 Tough Questions Teens Are Asking About God And The Bible (That Adults Need to Know, Too) – Volume 1

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edited by: Carl Kerby & Juan Valdes

They Asked. We Answered. Now It’s Time to Equip the Next Generation.
What happens when you ask thousands of teenagers across the country their toughest questions about life, God, and the Bible? You get 28 honest, hard-hitting questions that demand real answers.

This book brings together pastors, apologists, and friends of Reasons for Hope to address what teens are really struggling with—from issues of identity and morality to science, suffering, and salvation. No sugarcoating. Just truth served with compassion and backed by Scripture.

Inside you’ll find biblical answers to burning questions like:

• “Why does God create homosexuals and then condemn them?”

• “Is pornography really that wrong?”

• “Did dinosaurs live before Adam and Eve?”

• “Why doesn’t God make Himself more obvious?”

• “What happens to babies or people who never heard about Jesus?”

• “Why do my parents shove Christianity down my throat?”

With wit, wisdom, and unwavering biblical truth, this book arms students with the confidence to defend their faith and the clarity to share it—in a culture full of confusion.

Paperback: 225 pages

 

Questions Answered:

Part One: Social/Cultural Concerns

• • Did Jesus commit suicide? Isn’t that a sin?
  • Why does God create homosexuals and then condemn them?
  • Why is pornography so wrong?
  • How did we get so many races of people?
  • Why is abortion wrong if God allows us to choose?
  • What about aliens?

Part Two: Refuting Evolution

• • How do we know what is real and what is fake?
  • How do you know something is true with absolute certainty if you haven’t witnessed it?
  • If God made Adam and Eve in the beginning, where were the dinosaurs—weren’t they before that time?
  • Did God use evolution to create the world?
  • Were cavemen and cavewomen ancestors to humans today?
  • Is the Earth 415 million years old?

Part Three: Christianity

• • How do you bring up God with your friends?
  • Is it possible that Hitler got saved before he died? That just doesn’t seem fair.
  • What about people who died before Jesus showed up? Are they in Hell? What happens to babies when they die? Are they going to Hell because they didn’t accept Jesus?
  • Do you really think that Jonah lived in a whale for three days?
  • How can I fight and overcome fear?
  • Why do my parents feel like they need to shove Christianity down my throat?

Part Four: Biblical Answers

• • How do we deal with death?
  • Is Hell really forever?
  • Were the days in Genesis really “days”?
  • Aren’t there contradictions in the Gospels?
  • How do we know the Bible hasn’t changed like the Telephone Game?
  • How can you use the Bible to prove the Bible? That doesn’t make sense!

Part Five: The Character of God

• • Why Doesn’t God make Himself more obvious? It really seems like He’s not even there.
  • I have asked God personally to help my eyesight or my birth defect, and He hasn’t. Why is that?
  • If Jesus was God, how come He didn’t know when He would return?
  • Why does a “good” God allow bad things to happen?

Formerly titled: Did Jesus Commit Suicide?  And 27 Other Questions Teen Are Asking About the Bible (that adults want to know, too)