Ten Questions That a Theist Can’t Answer

Turnabout is fair play

As a followup to an essay from last year in which I answered “Ten Questions That an Atheist Can’t Answer” (you can read that essay here), I thought I would now pose the opposite: ten questions that a theist can’t answer. Let’s see how well my theist readers fare. (NB: Seeing that Christianity has the largest number of adherents of all the religions in the world, my questions are directed primarily toward Christians with a nod toward Biblical writings, though it does seem to me that any Muslim — and therefore a believer in Jahannam — could respond to questions 9 and 10.)

1. “In the beginning, God created the heaven and the Earth.” Nice opening line. “And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” Love that “darkness was upon the face of the deep.” Also, that comma after “form” is great. It’s beautiful writing. Actually, it’s more the case that the King James Version is a beautiful translation. But never mind that. Instead, notice that the Bible opens with a wildly bold assertion: that God created the Universe. As far as I know, this claim is never substantiated anywhere in the Bible. We’re only encouraged to assume that God created the Universe, and then let things go on from there. But if the Bible is supposed to be the go-to source on how existence came to be, bold…