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 = Ten Questions Christians Can't Answer
-After a couple years of running this site I tried to congeal some of what I had come up with into the article [[Ten Hard Questions (for Christians)]]. A few years after that I came up with [[Christian Steamroller]].
+The idea that Christians "can't" answer these questions is not my claim, it has been my experience. There is a cognitive dissonance in Christian Scriptural Interpretation, and these questions aim to expose that.
-Both of these articles got a little unwieldly, and I thought i would try and distill some of the essence and add some of what I have heard in the past few years.
+If Christianity is the true religion then these questions should have easy answers. I will not judge them //for you//, in fact I only seek their answer.
-If "Ten Hard Questions" is designed to expose the cognitive dissonance of Christian Scriptural Interpretation, and
+== What has been my experience with these questions?
-"Steamroller" is supposed to expose the foolish approach of presuppositionalism, then this article is to document questions that Christians simply do not have an answer for, and, if explored, would dismantle a Christian's worldview.
+The incongruence you will most often encounter is that the Christian makes a claim that scripture outright denies.
-I give you,
+There will be very little wiggle room; the passages and their immediate context will show the error in the Christian's interpretation directly, and sharply. It will be found stated outright in scripture.
-**Ten Questions Christians Can't Answer**.
+When Christians deny clear scripture, the 'proof' is invariably based on a lengthy and convoluted argument, such as an unrelated series of passages that when strung together appears to create a new narrative. If given enough time, the Christian will continue to recite passage after passage in the New Testament, and will slowly shift away from the topic at hand. They will eventually begin to reiterate the entirety of Christian theology. It should be clear that at this point they have lost the argument. So why engage in this behavior? They only wish to make you question their beliefs and reconsider theirs. They have absolutely no interest in the truth, the subject of your question, or questioning their own beliefs. If you encounter a person like this, there is nothing you can do. They're not listening.
-These are the strongest defeaters of Christianity I've seen. Some of them are slam-dunk. How would you answer them?
+I call this the [[Missionary Problem]].
-== Don't answer them in this way
-The incongruence you will most often encounter is that the Christian makes a claim that scripture outright denies. There will be very little wiggle room; the passages and their immediate context will show the error in the Christian's interpretation directly, and sharply. It will be found stated outright in scripture.
-When Christians deny clear scripture, the 'proof' is invariably based on a lengthy and convoluted argument, such as an unrelated series of passages that when strung together appears to create a new narrative. If given enough time, the Christian will continue to recite passage after passage in the New Testament, and will slowly shifts away from the topic at hand and begin to reiterate Christian theology. A further discussion or analysis of the rationale or motives for this behavior is left as an exercise to the reader.
 == 1. Why didn't Jesus fulfill the messianic prophecies?