20 Criticisms of Christianity and Creation ANSWERED

Does Christianity lack logic, reason, and evidence? Worse, is it “the cancer of humanity”? Is the Bible “just fairy stories and ancient scribblings”? Is the God of the Bible a moral monster? Are Christians hypocrites who brainwash their children? Are they just driven by fear of punishment? Are creationists science deniers who “tell lies for Jesus”?

These, and many more, are criticisms of Christianity and biblical creation that we hear regularly. If even half of these claims were true, Christianity would be a wretched religion indeed!

But they're not true! In fact, many of these criticisms don’t even withstand low-level scrutiny, never much less serious appraisal!

Join Dr Don Batten for rapid answers to 20 common criticisms of Christianity and biblical creation.

✍️ Links and Show Notes

• Countering the Critics Q&A
• Question #1 – ‘Christianity must be wrong because of all the hypocrites in the church!’
• Question #2 – Archaeology Q&A
• Question #3 – ‘It’s not science’
• Question #4 – Is God a ‘moral monster’? 
• Question #5 – Why did God allow sin at all?
• Question #6 – What about gap theories? 
• Question #7 – 2 Peter 3:8—‘one day is like a thousand years’
• Question #8 – How to have a right relationship with God
• Question #9 – Book review: ‘The Air We Breathe: How we all came to believe in freedom, kindness, progress, and equality’
• Question #10 – Professing Christian claims creation.com is ‘full of lies’
• Question #11 – Indoctrinating children
• Question #12 – Biblical reasons to affirm the creation days were 24 hour periods
• Question #13 – Genesis 1: YÔM ≠ eon
• Question #14 – The resurrection and Genesis
• Question #15 – Loving God with all your mind: Logic and creation
• Question #16 – God, miracles, and logic
• Question #17 – The Bible: Is it guilty until proven innocent?
• Question #18 – Faith and facts
• Question #19 – Archaeology Q&A
• Question #20 – The new Earth

📚 Helpful Resources

• The Air We Breathe book
• Christianity for Skeptics book
• The Creation Answers Book
• How Christianity Transformed the World book
• Refuting the New Atheists (streaming video)

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