Quick Answers

The Quick Answers section provides short videos (usually less than 5 minutes) answering challenges to the Christian Faith whether they take the form of external criticism or internal doubt.

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• What does the Bible say about homosexuality?
• Did God create us because He was lonely?
• Why does God let people suffer?
• Evidence doesn’t say anything. People do.
• Does the Bible say that people are born gay?
• Who is Melchizedek?
• Do Paul and James contradict each other on judging?
• The “Deadly Trilemma”: Can God be both loving and jealous?
• Does God really want us to weep and mourn?
• What does it mean that God is jealous?
• Is James 4:4 saying that Christians can’t have non Christian friends?
• What if I struggle with seeing God as good?
• Why don’t Christians follow the Old Testament laws?
• What about the stuff in the Bible that can’t be scientifically tested?
• How can we trust the Bible when it is written by fallible men?
• Hasn’t the Bible been changed?
• How can we trust that the Bible is reliable when we don’t have the originals?
• How can theology stir up our affections for Christ?
• Can there be objective morality without God?
• What makes something morally wrong?
• Can God really do anything?
• Why does God let us suffer?
• Is slavery condoned in the Old Testament?
• How is the conversion of James evidence for the truth of the Gospel?
• If God knew we would sin, then why did He create us?

 

• What is Faith?
• What does it mean to be a Christian?
• What is the proper method to interpret the Bible?
• Does the Bible accurately record the teachings of Jesus? pt1
• Does the Bible accurately record the teachings of Jesus? pt2
• Interpreting The Bible: Context, Context, Context.

Three WorldViews

• How do you know that only your religion is true if you haven’t studied all other beliefs?
• Could it be true that only God exists?
• Could it be true that only nature exists?
• What kind of God exists? (Theism & Christianity)

 

“Mythbusters” Series:

Based on the book “Don’t Check Your Brains at the Door” by Josh McDowell and Bob Hostetler, these are video summaries of the lessons from the youth group at The Church at Tree Lake examining common misconceptions about God, religion, the Bible, and Christianity.

• 3 Myths About God: Cosmic Cop, The Force, & the Vending Machine
• 3 Myths About Jesus: Good Teacher, Human OR God, & Wimpy Jesus
• Myths About Jesus (Picture Perfect & White Jesus) and The Bible (Just Another Book)
• 3 Myths About the Bible: Telephone Game, Holey Bible and Legends & Fables
• 2 More Myths About the Bible: Proven Wrong & Just Coincidence
• 3 Myths About the Resurrection: Wrong Tomb, Stolen Body, and Playing Dead
• 3 Myths About Religion: It’s All Relative, Grading on a Curve, and All Roads Lead to God
• 2 Myths About Religion and Christianity: Unscientific & Sincerity
• 2 More Myths About Religion and Christianity: I Don’t Deserve This and No Doubts Allowed
• 3 More Myths About Religion: Right Beliefs, No Brains Allowed, and Blind Faith
• 2 Final Myths Dispelled: Love and The Lone Ranger