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What Is Apologetics?	Kenneth D. Boa
How Apologetics Changed My Life!	Lee Strobel
Christ: The Fulfillment of Prophecy	D. James Kennedy
Writing History—Then and Now	Kirk Lowery
Numbers in the Bible	Kirk Lowery
The Chronology of the Kings of Israel and Judah	Kirk Lowery
Are the Days of Genesis to Be Interpreted Literally?	Ted Cabal
Can Evolution Explain Ethics?	Mark Linville
Have Darwinism and Dawkins Disproved God?	Stephen C. Meyer
Are the Biblical Genealogies Reliable?	Kenneth A. Mathews
Did Those Places Really Exist?	E. Ray Clendenen
What are the Foundations of Islam?	Joshua Lingel
Does the Old Testament Teach Salvation by Works?	E. Ray Clendenen
Is Mormonism Compatible with the Bible?	Chad Owen Brand
Does the Bible Provide Guidance Regarding Genetic Engineering?	Scott B. Rae
Can Religious Experience Show That There Is a God?	R. Douglas Geivett
Are Miracles Believable?	Ronald H. Nash
Is the Old Testament Ethical?	Christopher Wright
The Uniqueness of Israel’s Religion	E. Ray Clendenen
Does the Bible Affirm Open Theism?	John M. Frame
Who Wrote the Pentateuch and When Was It Written?	Daniel I. Block
Does the Bible Provide Ethical Guidance for Business?	Scott B. Rae
How Can Modern Medicine Relate to the Old Testament?	John A. Bloom
Has Christianity Had a Bad Influence on History?	Alvin J. Schmidt
Does the Bible Condone Genocide?	Matt Flannagan
Does the Bible Affirm That Animals Have Rights?	Steve W. Lemke
What Did Jesus Have to Do with Violence?	Mark Durie
Is the Old Testament Trustworthy?	Walter C. Kaiser Jr.
How Should We Handle Unresolved Questions About the Bible?	Paul Copan
Why Does God Hide Himself?	Kenneth T. Magnuson
Is Psychology Biblical?	John Coe
What Is the Occult?	Leonard G. Goss
Has the Bible Been Accurately Copied Down Through the Centuries?	Norman L. Geisler
How Do We Decide Between Contrary Expert Opinions?	Timothy Pickavance
Can Biblical Chronology Be Trusted?	E. Ray Clendenen
What Does the Bible Teach About Angels?	Ron Rhodes
Aren’t All Religions Basically the Same?	Craig J. Hazen
Does the Existence of the Mind Provide Evidence for God?	J. P. Moreland
Don’t Christian Missionaries Impose Their Culture on Others?	Philip J. Sampson
How Can We Know the Bible Includes the Correct Books?	Norman L. Geisler
Does the Bible Demean Women?	Sharon James
How Can God Have All Power and Be Loving and Yet There Be Evil?	Gregory E. Ganssle
What Does the Bible Say About Euthanasia?	Nigel Cameron
Didn’t the Church Oppose Galileo?	Mark A. Kalthoff
Does the Bible Teach the Abuse of Nature?	Steve W. Lemke
What Does the Bible Teach About Human Beings?	Russell D. Moore
Does the Cosmological Argument Show There Is a God?	J. P. Moreland
Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder?	David A. Horner
Does Science Support the Bible?	Walter L. Bradley
If God Made the Universe, Who Made God?	Paul Copan
How Should a Christian Understand the Age of the Earth Controversy?	Ted Cabal
How Should We Assess Global Warming?	Cal Beisner
Does the Bible Provide Guidance Regarding Human Cloning?	R. Albert Mohler Jr
What Does the Bible Say About Abortion?	Nigel Cameron
What is the Transcendental Argument for God’s Existence?	Doug Powell
What Is a Worldview?	Ronald H. Nash
Is Logic Arbitrary?	David K. Clark
How Should a Christian Relate to a Scientific Naturalist?	J. P. Moreland
Intellectuals Who Found God	Chad Owen Brand
Is the Bible Sexually Oppressive?	Josh D. McDowell
Does the Bible Support a Just War?	Norman L. Geisler
Can God’s Actions Be Detected Scientifically?	C. John Collins
Is God Arrogant and Egotistical?	Paul Copan
How Can the Bible Affirm Both Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom?	Bruce A. Ware
How Does Christianity Relate to Hinduism?	Ravi Zacharias
How Does Christianity Relate to the Baha’i Faith?	Douglas R. Groothuis
How Has Archaeology Corroborated the Bible?	Walter C. Kaiser Jr.
Don’t Religious Beliefs Just Reflect Where One Was Raised?	Paul Copan
Is God a Male?	Chad Owen Brand
How Does Christianity Relate to Other Eastern Religions?	Winfried Corduan
What Does It Mean to Say, “Jesus Is Messiah”?	Walter Russell
Does the Bible Teach Annihilationism?	J. P. Moreland
Does the “New Physics” Conflict with Christianity?	Jeremy Royal Howard
What Is the Relationship Between Science and the Bible?	J. P. Moreland
Does the Design Argument Show There Is a God?	William A. Dembski
What Does the Bible Say About Economic Justice?	Scott B. Rae
What Does the Hebrew Bible Say About the Coming Messiah?	Michael Rydelnik
What Is New About the New Atheism?	David Glass
How Should a Christian Understand Postmodernism?	Douglas R. Groothuis
Does the Bible Teach That Everyone Will Be Saved?	Gregory Alan Thornbury
Does the New Testament Misquote the Old Testament?	Paul Copan
Does the Bible Contain Errors?	Paul D. Feinberg
How Should a Christian Respond to Islamic Jihad?	Nabeel Qureshi
Who Are You to Judge Others?	Paul Copan
Has Neuroscience Underminded Warrant for Believing in the Soul?	J.P. Moreland
Are Biblical Miracles Imitations of Pagan Myths?	Gary R. Habermas
How Should We Treat New Challenges to the Christian Faith?	Gary R. Habermas
Is the New Testament Trustworthy?	Darrell L. Bock
The Trinity: Is It Possible That God Be Both One and Three?	Douglas K. Blount
Has Historical Criticism Proved the Bible False?	Thomas R. Schreiner
Can We Still Believe in Demons Today?	Clinton E. Arnold
Is There Evidence for Undesigned Coincidences Supporting Biblical Truth?	Tim McGrew
Why Would a Good God Send People to an Everlasting Hell?	Paul Copan
Can God Create a Stone Too Heavy for Him to Lift?	Charles Taliaferro
What About “Gospels” Not in Our New Testament?	Graham H. Twelftree
Could the Gospel Writers Withstand the Scrutiny of a Lawyer?	John Warwick Montgomery
What About Those Who Never Heard About Christ?	Chad Owen Brand
Does the Bible Teach That There Is a Purgatory?	Chad Owen Brand
Did Jesus Teach an Ethic of Pacifism?	Daniel R. Heimbach
Are the Teachings of Jehovah’s Witnesses Compatible with the Bible?	Robert M. Bowman Jr.
How Is the Transformation of Jesus’s Disciples Different from Other Religious Transformations?	Gary R. Habermas
Aren’t the Gospels the Product of Greek Thinking?	Ronald H. Nash
Can the Gospel Be Presented Across Cultures?	John Mark Terry
Are Jesus’s Claims Unique Among the Religions of the World?	Gary R. Habermas
Is There Evidence for Life After Death?	Hank Hanegraaff
More Evidence for Life After Death?	J. P. Moreland
How Does the Bible Relate to Islam?	Barbara B. Pemberton
Can Something Be True for You and Not for Me?	Paul Copan
How Should a Christian Deal with Doubt?	Gary R. Habermas
Did the Apostles Die as Martyrs?	Sean McDowell
Can Naturalistic Theories Account for the Resurrection?	Gary R. Habermas
Does the Disciples’ Conviction That They Saw the Risen Jesus Establish the Truth of the Resurrection?	Gary R. Habermas
What Is the Christian Identity Movement?	R. Alan Streett
How Can We Engage in Cross-Worldview Communication?	Ravi Zacharias
How Should a Christian Relate to Those in Non-Christian Movements and Religions?	Alan W. Gomes
What Should a Christian Think About Near-Death Experiences?	Gary R. Habermas
What Is Natural Law?	Paul Copan
Does the Moral Argument Show There Is a God?	Paul Copan
What About Those Who Have Never Heard About Christ?	William Lane Craig
How Does One Develop a Christian Mind?	J. P. Moreland
Did Secretaries Write the New Testament Books	Randy Richards
Why So Many Denominations?	Charles Draper
How Does the Holy Spirit Relate to Evidence for Christianity?	Gary R. Habermas
What Does the Bible Teach About Homosexuality?	Scott B. Rae
How Should a Christian Relate to Culture?	Charles Colson
Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?	William Lane Craig
What Are Self-Defeating Statements?	J. P. Moreland
Are Scientology and the Bible Compatible?	Philip R. Roberts
How Does the Bible Relate to Judaism?	Larry R. Helyer
How Can Jesus’s Death Bring Forgiveness?	Chad Owen Brand
How Can We Know Anything at All?	Garrett DeWeese
The Incarnation: Could God Become Man Without Ceasing to Be God?	James A. Parker III
How Should a Christian Relate to the New Age Movement?	Ted Cabal
Does the New Testament Contain Forgeries	Randy Richards
How Should a Christian Understand the Role of Government?	Charles Colson
What Does It Mean That God Inspired the Bible?	Gordon R. Lewis
What Is Divine Revelation?	Gordon R. Lewis
Does the Bible Teach Reincarnation?	Paul Copan
How Can the Bible Affirm Both Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom?	William Lane Craig
What Are the Three Laws of Logic?	J. P. Moreland
Isn’t That Just Your Interpretation?	Paul Copan
Can a Christian Have Assurance of Salvation?	Chad Owen Brand
Is Christian Science Compatible with the Bible?	Robert B. Stewart
What Are Common Characteristics of the New Religious Movements?	Leonard G. Goss
Isn’t Christianity Intolerant?	Paul Copan
Does the Bible Teach That Humans Are More Than Their Bodies?	J. P. Moreland
How Does a Christian Converse with a Buddhist?	Ravi Zacharias

TWISTED SCRIPTURE NOTES (WRITTEN BY R. ALAN STREETT)

1 Corinthians 15:1-8,14-18,19

2 Thessalonians 2:1-4

NOTABLE CHRISTIAN APOLOGIST BIOGRAPHIES

Anselm of Canterbury	Ted Cabal
Aquinas, Thomas	David A. Horner
Athanasius of Alexandria	Ted Cabal
Augustine of Hippo	Ted Cabal
Butler, Joseph	Ted Cabal
Irenaeus of Lyons	Ted Cabal
Justin Martyr	Ted Cabal
Lewis, C. S.	Ted Cabal
Origen	Ted Cabal
Paley, William	Ted Cabal
Pascal, Blaise	Ted Cabal
Van Til, Cornelius	John M. Frame

OTHER MATERIAL

Contributors

Introduction to the Christian Standard Bible

Annotated Bibliography

CSB Concordance

CHARTS AND MAPS

Timeline of Apologists and Notable Works

Selected Important Old Testament Archaeological Finds

Selected Important New Testament Archaeological Finds

Manuscript Authority of the New Testament Compared to Other Classical Works

Naturalism vs. Theism Chart

Comparison of World Religions

Comparison of New Religious Movements

Hebrew Kings Chronology

The Tribal Allotments of Israel

The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah

Israel in the Time of Jesus

The Passion Week in Jerusalem

Paul’s Missionary Journeys

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