Frequently Asked Questions
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If you look at a building, you know there had to be a builder because buildings can’t build themselves and if you look at a painting, you know there had to be a painter because paintings can’t paint themselves. If you look around at creation, birds, trees flowers, the marvels of the human eye with one hundred and thirty six million light sensitive cells consisting of rods and cones, male, female, etc. you know there had to be a Creator because creation can not create itself!
Psalm 19 says “The Heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows forth His handiwork.”
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Biblical slavery is different from the modern chattel slavery. In Israel a slave wasn’t someone who had been kidnapped and sold into slavery but it was someone who found themselves in debt and submitted himself to being a servant to pay off the debt rather than to be put into debtors prison. In times of war, Israel took slaves from a defeated enemy as did the U.S and Britain during and after the Second World War
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According to the Encyclopedia of Wars, out of the 1,763 wars recorded in history, only a little over 7% were caused by religious motivations, and most of that 7% were stated by Islam. That means that 93% of wars were actually political wars (First WW, Second WW, the Korean War and Vietnam War).