Questions for Honest Christians to Consider – J.R.B., 1889
Republished from our predecessor publication Lucifer the Light Bearer
1. Is the God you worship a tangible, material, space-filling being, in the image of a man?
2. If not, is He a nebulous, transparent, illusory thing, which vanishes at the first attempt to grasp it?
3. Or, is He a mere force, existing everywhere throughout the vast universe?
4. What good reason have you to believe the Bible of the Jews 18 entitled to any more respect,
as a book of revelation, than the twenty-six other Bibles which have been presented to the nations
of the earth as infallible guides in faith and practice?
5. If the crucifixion of sixteen oriental gods, before the beginning of the Christian Era, was not sufficient to
save the world, how can you be satisfied that the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth will accomplish the work?
6. How is it possible for you to believe that Jesus 18 God or the Son of God, when the circumstantial
evidence in the first chapter of Luke shows conclusively that he was the son of a certain priest named
Zacharias, the husband of Elizabeth, Mary having spent “three months” in his house just e before she
was found to be in an interesting condition?
7. Do you believe the matter of which this and all other planets is composed
has always existed, or that there was a time when it was created out of nothing?
8. If it was created out of nothing, what was your God doing
the infinite time extending back from the work of creation?
9. If it has always existed, is it not reasonable to believe that it possessed the power inherently to develop
by evolution all the different manifestations of vegetable and animal life which appear upon the globe
10. Has not the false idea, that there is such a thing as supernatural power, converted
myriads of men and women into wretched, trembling slaves; deluged the world with
blood; clogged the wheels of the car of progress; filled every community with ecclesiastic
tax-gatherers; and created more human misery than all other causes combined?
