Questions are GOOD

So… what’s your big question? What is it that you’ve always wanted to ask about God, faith, or life in general?

At Living Hope, we’re not afraid of the big questions. In fact, we believe that you can’t find “the answer” without asking good, hard questions. And we know that you’ve got ‘em! So we’re inviting you to ask your big questions, and we’re going to devote several weeks to looking for good answers together. The series starts September 17, as Living Hope celebrates its 6th birthday.

UPDATE:

Now you can use the menu on the right to jump to the different weeks in the series. Read the notes & join the discussion!

UPDATE 2:

We’re over halfway through the series now, so we’ve run out of room for new questions. However, if your question didn’t get asked, or you have a new question, and you’d like to discuss it, feel free to share it here. Or you could email or call Pastor Rich directly. He’d love to hear from you.

14 Responses to “Questions are GOOD”

1Submitted on Sunday
September 8th, 2006 @ 11:49 pm

If accepting Jesus is the way to Heaven, then what happens to infants that die? and pets?
2Anonymous
September 16th, 2006 @ 10:47 am

How can it be possible that Hitler can get into heaven?
3Anonymous
September 16th, 2006 @ 10:48 am

Why can’t the Bible explain the dinosaurs?
4Anonymous
September 16th, 2006 @ 10:50 am

When we go to heaven, will we see other people as how we remember them last? Or remember them in their youth, or will we know it’s them without visually seeing them? Will there be grass, like earth?
5Anonymous
September 16th, 2006 @ 10:51 am

Why, oh why, does God hate gay people? Why?
6Anonymous
September 16th, 2006 @ 10:54 am

If God is perfect, how could he create imperfection? And if Adam and Eve were created perfect, how did they make the mistake of taking the fruit from the garden? Perfection does not make mistakes!
7Anonymous
September 16th, 2006 @ 11:03 am

Why does my Christian life not get better? It seems to always stay the same.
8Anonymous
September 16th, 2006 @ 11:06 am

How do you reconcile the violence and intolerance the Christian God exhibits in the Old Testament (i.e., Levitical law) with the compassion, love, and tolerance of Jesus in the New Testament? How does a perfect, omniscient God go from a stance of violent war against sinners to forgiveness and understanding?
9Anonymous
September 16th, 2006 @ 11:07 am

If Jesus suffered for us, why are all the Jews, who suffered as much or more than Christ, burning in hell???
10Anonymous
September 16th, 2006 @ 11:08 am

How do I get to physically live forever?
11Anonymous
September 16th, 2006 @ 11:09 am

When does it end?
12Nate
September 16th, 2006 @ 4:57 pm

What is faith? Given a theological problem, how is “It’s my faith,” a reasonable explanation or solution? Is not faith simply the substitution of reason with that of emotion? When is faith ever called in a moment of certainty? Why should we respect faith? How is faith, if in any way, a sufficient epistemological tool. What does faith do for us, and why does it do it? How is that all forms of people (remember nearly every spiritual body claims faith as a reason to believe) can – while using the same tool of faith – come to entirely different spiritual conclusions?
13Nate
September 16th, 2006 @ 5:01 pm

What reason – which is proportional to rationalism, logic, and evidence – does anyone have to believe in a God? If there exists no reason, shouldn’t we all not believe?
14rich
October 7th, 2006 @ 12:49 pm

Just so everyone knows, we received about 50 more questions on Sunday the 17th. Obviously we won’t be able to address them all in this series… but just because you don’t see your question listed in the sidebar doesn’t mean we’re not addressing it! Some of these questions are getting discussed along with related questions, while others will have to wait for future messages.

And don’t forget that you can discuss each week’s questions by clicking those links!