Essentially Questioning God

Essentially Questioning God is an outreach to people of various levels of belief and faith to try to come to a cohesive understanding of the complexities of life.  It looks at essential theological questions from the different aspects of belief and non-belief.  The great questions of ‘Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?’ (Artemus Ward) are brought to mind.  Questions that have troubled believers and non-believers for generations, like ‘if there were a God how could He have let this happen?’ and ‘what is really out there?’ are deeply addressed from deism, theism, agnosticism, atheism to pantheism perspectives.

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Becky Williams is a theistic believer, wife, mother, grandmother, and also a Medical Nurse for over 25 years.  She’s been exposed to various levels of belief, attended several Christian Churches while in foster care, married first to a Catholic and later to a Holistic Practitioner, but has been a Latter-day Saint all her life.  Her hobbies include genealogy, crafting and poetry. She’s the author of ‘I Love Poetry’ and has several music CDs singing praises to God: ‘Holiness To The Lord,’ ‘Merry Christmas’ and some singles.

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Table Of Contents (page numbers are for the Book/Print version):

Dedication / Acknowledgments / Disclaimer . . . v / vi

Preface . . . vii

Chapter 01: Questioning The Questioners . . . 11

Chapter 02: How Could A Loving God Allow Suffering? . . . 17

Chapter 03: How Could A Loving God Torture You For

                   Eternity For Disobedience? . . . 31

Chapter 04: Why Did A Loving God, Who Is So Perfect,

                   Create A World Where Pain Could Exist? . . . 50

Chapter 05: Why Doesn’t God Intervene To Protect The

                   Innocent? . . . 65

Chapter 06: Why Did A So-called Perfect God Make The

                   Mistake Of Creating ‘Imperfect’ Beings? . . . 78

Chapter 07: The Old Testament Is Full of Mistakes, So It

                   Can’t Be Correct . . . 87

Chapter 08: I Can’t Reconcile The Wrathful God Of The

                   Old Testament With The Creative God . . . 106

Chapter 09: Why Are There Not More Miracles In Our

                   Day As In Biblical Times? . . . 126

Chapter 10: Do Ghosts Exist?

                   Can You Talk To The Dead? . . . 136

Chapter 11: Are There Really Aliens And UFOs? . . . 146

Chapter 12: Conclusion . . . 165

References . . . 167

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Edited by Yvonne J.

Published by JoDArc Publishers.

Cover Design by JoDArc.