Faith Q&A
How?
Short answers for young people
Questions answered by
Fr. Daoud Lamei
St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church, Heliopolis, Cairo
18 questions
The questions
- 1How did Christians move from honoring the Sabbath to Sunday despite the clear and repeated commandment “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy” ?
- 2How can we believe that Moses is the author of the 'Torah’, while it mentions incidents that happened after Moses’ death? And also while it includes passages that praise him and his personality?!!
- 3How can God forbid idolatry and the mating of idols and then command the making of statues of cherubim and the bronze serpent?
- 4How can Christians forbid homosexuality when it is an expression of one’s freedom and natural choice?
- 5How do we calculate twelve tribes of Israel if Joseph was allocated two tribes for his sons?
- 6How can one distinguish between false prophets and true ones?
- 7How could God order the annihilation of whole nations including innocent women and children as in Joshua 6 ?
- 8How could the Children of some saintly people turn up to be ungodly as happened with ‘Ed the Priest, David, the Prophet and King and others?
- 9How can Man possibly know God …while God is Unlimited & Unseen?
- 10How can we accept the orthodox interpretation of the Bible while there are so many other equally logical interpretations?
- 11How can we accept the infallibility of the Bible when there seem to be many contradictions in some of its parts?
- 12How can you expect the Bible to be authentic with no distortion/falsification while it has been made into 1000s of copies and has been freely translated to thousands of languages?!!!
- 13How can we believe the Bible stories when they clearly contradict Paleontology/Archaeology, Natural History and the Sciences?
- 14How can we calculate the age of mankind if according to the Old Testament man has been around for 5000 years B.C, whereas Science confirms that man has been on earth for longer than 10.000 years?
- 15How could we believe that at one time in history, men lived to the age of 900+?!!
- 16How could Noah's ark hold the 100s of animals and dinosaurs that it claims, if this story is real?!!
- 17How can we understand God’s dealings with Man when He passes judgment of destroying nations while He is said to be ‘The Lover of ankind’? Like His judgment over the firstborns of the Egyptians (Ex 12: 29 - 30) Wasn’t Pharaoh alone responsible for this stubbornness and rebellion?!!
- 18How can one bear sufferings and trials Without doubting the love of God?!!
Fr. Daoud Lamei, How?. St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church, Heliopolis, Cairo. 1st Edition, March 2016.