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Sufficient Reasons To Consider Leaving Christianity

Rethinking Christian beliefs.

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You can read this book one of the following ways:

  1. Read the HTML version of this book on this site starting with the Introduction, or click the desired chapter in the chapter list.
  2. Read the PDF version: Sufficient Reasons [to consider leaving Christianity] v1 (08-06-17)

The slideshow below shows the first few chapters of the PDF book.

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Chapters & Supplementary

  • #01 – Do we dare question the character and actions of a proposed God before accepting that proposed God as real?
  • #02 – Would an actual personal God use a book to introduce himself rather than simply stepping out of the shadows?
  • #03 – Does the Bible contain the doctrinal clarity we would expect of a holy book written by an actual God?
  • #04 – Would a book authored by an actual God lack the content that could have avoided so much innocent suffering?
  • #05 – Would an actual loving God act as unlovingly as does the God depicted within the Bible?
  • #06 – Does the morality of the Bible reflect the character of an unchanging God, or the product of changing cultures?
  • #07 – Would an actual God have written a book of truth missing essential elements of rational thought and belief?
  • #08 – Is the confirmation of the Holy Spirit distinguishable from an evil demon or psychological self-deception?
  • #09 – Is there actual evidence of a Holy Spirit that is supernaturally influencing Christian lives?
  • #10 – Are prayers answered in a way identical to what we would expect if there were no prayer-answering God?
  • #11 – Are the miracle claims we encounter what we would expect were there an actual God of the universe?
  • #12 – Would an actual God require the same material resources that humans do to accomplish his agenda?
  • #13 – Wouldn’t an actual personal relationship with Jesus include nonpublic knowledge about Jesus?
  • #14 – Is it possible for billions of Christians to be wrong about the existence of the Christian God?
  • #15 – Does Christianity have a successful track record in respect to its claims about the world?
  • #16 – Are Christian prophecies and their alleged fulfillment what we would expect from an actual God?
  • #17 – Would the universe exhibit any noticeable effects were the alleged Christian God to vanish tomorrow?
  • #18 – Is the Christian God sufficiently visible in nature to assign culpability if he is not thanked?
  • #19 – Does the distribution of religious beliefs we observe across societies reflect free will to choose a God?
  • #20 – What is the nature of rational belief, and is rational belief truly promoted within the Bible?
  • #21 – Is “inference to the best explanation” an appropriate approach when choosing a personal God?
  • #22 – Would an actual God endorse the type of belief promoted by the Bible and by Christians today?
  • #23 – Can an honest seeker apply two different standards of evidence to ancient and modern miracle claims?
  • #24 – Doesn’t the number of questions that Christianity answers indicate that Christianity is true?
  • #25 – Isn’t it sensible to believe in God if we have no better answer to the deep questions about life?
  • #26 – Isn’t the sense of guilt that misbehaving humans feel the convicting spirit of the Christian God?
  • #27 – How can this amazing peace and joy of the Lord I so strongly feel not be from the Christian God?
  • #28 – If I were to allow myself to doubt my current beliefs, wouldn’t that indicate I’m unstable?
  • #29 – Wouldn’t the personal introduction of a God take away my free will to reject that God?
  • #30 – Can we legitimately be held culpable for following an unrequested & unavoidable sin nature?
  • #31 – Would an actual loving God deem rational belief in the wrong God worthy of eternal damnation?
  • #32 – Is the eternal damnation described in the Bible a just punishment or wrathful vengeance?
  • #33 – Would forgiveness without bloodshed somehow violate the righteousness of the God of the Bible?
  • #34 – Can culpability for offenses be legitimately reassigned to someone other than the offender?
  • #35 – How is the three-day death of Jesus equivalent to the eternal damnation of billions of sinners?
  • #36 – How can a single offense require the penalty of eternal punishment as the Bible suggests?
  • #37 – How will there be no tears in Heaven if those in Heaven remain aware those they love are in Hell?
  • #38 – If we demonstrate the incoherency of a competing ideology, will that make Christianity more probable?
  • #39 – Doesn’t evidence for a deistic notion of a god make the biblical God more probable?
  • #40 – Don’t philosophy and cognitive science offer clear evidence for a non-physical spiritual soul?
  • #41 – Do Christians come close to clear agreement on the alleged objective morality of the biblical God?
  • #42 – Should we assess the character of an alleged God prior to accepting his moral injunctions?
  • #43 – Does the absurdity of a universe with no objective morality make a moral lawgiver necessary?
  • #44 – Does the absurdity of a universe with no ultimate justice make a God of justice necessary?
  • #45 – Are apparent biblical incoherencies simply due to the inscrutability of the Christian God?
  • #46 – Why can we not simply ascribe everything we cannot explain to God or the supernatural?
  • #47 – If we ought not place faith in the Christian God, what should we then place our faith in?
  • #48 – Wouldn’t life be meaningless and purposeless without the existence of the Christian God?
  • #49 – Can the alleged resurrection of Jesus be considered the most likely explanation of the evidence?
  • #50 – Will not the God of the Bible clearly reveal himself to all humans who honestly seek him?
  • — A — (on sincere inquiry)
  • — B — (on prophecy)
  • — C — (on ignored probabilities)
  • — D — (on the infallibility of an ideology)
  • — E — (on the inference to the best explanation fallacy)
  • — F — (on the inscrutability of the christian god)
  • — G — (on bleeding evidential loops)
  • — H — (on the confirming witness of the holy spirit)
  • — I — (on whether knowledge requires absolute certainty)
  • — J — (on methodological naturalism)
  • — K — (on falsifiability)
  • — L — (on presuppositions)
  • — M — (on confusing the immaterial with the spiritual)
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