If God descended to Earth as a man why are the only accounts recording this astonishing claim in the gospels? Why are there no eyewitness or objective accounts of Jesus’ divinity?
Why is the most reliable gospel written a minimum of 50 years after Jesus died by someone who never saw Him?
Why did Jesus reappear to the disciples after being resurrected as someone they didn’t recognize? (Luke 24:31,37, John 20:10-16) How does this impact the credibility of the resurrection?
Why did Jesus appear in person to quell doubters in the past but no longer does?
Why does Jesus say He judges no one (John 8:15, 12:47) if ‘the Father entrusted all judgment to the Son’? (John 5:22)
Why does Matthew 1:1-16 claim that there are 27 generations between David and Jesus and Luke 3:23-38 claim 41?
Why did Jesus pray, “nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done” if He is God? (Luke 22:42) Why did Jesus and God have conflicting ideas about the cross?
Why is Christianity so different from what Jesus preached?
Does it make sense to claim that wrongdoing can be forgiven by transferring the blame from a guilty person to an innocent one and then punish the innocent?
Why did Jesus quote a scripture ‘as it is written‘ that isn’t anywhere in the Bible? (John 7:38)
Why did Jesus have to die on the cross if people in the Old Testament were saved by their works?
Why did Jesus tell people they would not taste death before He comes again in his kingdom, over 2000 years ago? (Matthew 16:28, Mark 9:1, Luke 9:27)
Why is Coniah (also called by the Greek name Jechoniasis) listed as a direct ancestor of Jesus Christ when he was to be forever childless by God? (Jeremiah 22:28-30)
Why did Jesus say, ‘this generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled’? (Matthew 24:34) and ‘there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom’? (Matthew 16:28)
Which generation was Jesus referring to? Why have 80 generations of Christians wholeheartedly believed that Jesus’ return was imminent in their generation?
Why did the earliest Christians, the generation immediately following Jesus’ death, expect Jesus to return at any moment? (I Thessalonians 4:15-17) Why did Jesus say this on more than one occasion (Mark 9:1, Matthew 26:64, Mark 13:30) if he hasn’t returned yet?
Why did Jesus encourage the beating of slaves? (Luke 12:47) Why didn’t Jesus correct any of the Old Testament’s instructions on how to obtain slaves, (Leviticus 25:44-46), how to beat slaves, (Exodus 21:20-21) when to have sex with female slaves and how to sell one’s daughters as sex slaves? (Exodus 21:7-11)
Why did Jesus rebuke a disciple for requesting time off to go to his father’s funeral by saying ‘let the dead bury their dead’? (Matthew 8:22)
Why did Jesus waste expensive ointment on himself rather than sell it to help the poor and say, ‘Ye have the poor with you always’? (Mark 14:3-7) Why didn’t Jesus alleviate poverty?
If Jesus bears witness of himself, is his witness true (John 8:14) or not true? (John 5:31)
Why would Jesus say, ‘I can of mine own self do nothing’ (John 5:19, John 5:30) or, ‘My Father is greater than I’? if he was God? (John 14:28) Why would Luke refer to him as, ‘a man approved of by God’? (Acts 2:22)
Why did Jesus teach his disciples to love their enemies, to do good to those who hated them, to forgive the sins of others and to treat others how they want to be treated; (Matthew 5:43-48) and then after call the scribes and Pharisees sons of the devil, fools, hypocrites, serpents, and white-washed tombs (Matthew 23:13-39)? Especially if ‘whosoever shall say Thou fool, shall be in danger of hellfire’? (Matthew 5:22)
Why is the Golden Rule demonstrated by Jesus Himself so far beyond our comprehension?
Why does Jesus say He will kill children in Revelation 2:23?
Was the way to discipleship to ‘love one another’ (John 13:34-35) or to hate your father and mother, your siblings, your children, your wife and your own life? (Luke 14:26)
Why couldn’t the Comforter be present at the same time as Jesus? (John 14:16)
Why did Jesus drown innocent animals? (Matthew 8:32).
Why did Jesus refuse to heal a sick child until he was pressured by the mother? (Matthew 15:22-28).
Why did Jesus teach that marrying a divorced woman is adultery? (Matthew 5:32)
Why did Jesus teach not to work to obtain food? (John 6:27)
Why did Jesus teach not to have sexual urges? (Matthew 5:28)
Why did Jesus teach to take money from those who have none and give it to rich investors? (Luke 19:23-26)
Why did Jesus teach not to plan for the future? (Matthew 6:34)
Did Jesus led Peter, James, and John up a high mountain after six days (Matt. 17:1, Mark 9:2) or eight? (Luke 9:28)
Did Jesus tell the Lord’s Prayer before the multitudes during the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1, 6:9-13, 7:28) or before the disciples alone, and not as part of the Sermon on the Mount? (Luke 11:1-4)
Why did Jesus condemn public prayer (Matthew 6:5-6) and Paul encourage it? (I Timothy 2:8)
Did Jesus curse the fig tree before purging the temple (Mark 11:14-15,20) or after? (Matthew 21:17-19)
Why did Jesus curse the fig tree? Why didn’t He know figs weren’t in season? Why didn’t he make figs appear instead of just cursing it?
Did the effects of the curse come in to fruition immediately? (Matthew 21:9) Or the morning after? (Mark 11:12-14,20)
Why does Jesus say we should take no thought for ourselves or for tomorrow because tomorrow will take care of itself (Matthew 6:25-28, 30-34) when Paul says if a man does not provide for himself or his own he is considered disorderly ? (II Thessalonians 3:10)
Why does Jesus teach non-resistance and non-violence (Matthew 6:38-42) and then command people to take arms for coming conflict (Luke 22:36-37) and use a whip to physically drive people out of the temple? (John 2:15)
Why did Jesus say He will come back ‘with a sword in his mouth’ and a ‘robe dipped in blood’ along with an army to strike down the nations and will rule them with an iron rod’? (Revelation 1:16, Revelation 19:13)
Did a Centurion approach Jesus (Matthew 8:5-7) or not? (Luke 7:3.6-7)
Why did Jesus preach ‘peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you’ in John (14:27) and in Matthew: ‘Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household’? Or why did Jesus say, ‘he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one’? (Luke 22:36)
Did John find out Jesus was the Messiah while imprisoned? (Matthew 11:2-3) or did John already know? (John 1:29-34,36)
Was Jesus was in the tomb 3 days and 3 nights? (Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:2, Luke 24:1) or 2 days and 2 nights? (John 20:1)
Did the Transfiguration occur 6 days after Jesus made his prophecy of his second coming? (Matthew 17:1-2) Or after 8 days? (Luke 9:28-29)
Did Jesus encounter one (Mark 10:46-47) or two blind men? (Matthew 20:29-30)
Was Jesus brought an ass and a colt (Matthew 21:2-7) or a single colt? (Mark 11:2-7)
Did Simon of Cyrene carry the cross (Matt 27:32, Mark 15:21, Luke 23:26) Or did Jesus carry it alone? (John 19:17)
Did a thief on the cross believe (Luke 23:39-41) or not? (Matthew 27:44, Mark 15:32)
What were Jesus’ last words? ‘My God, My God, Why hast thou forsaken me?’ (Matthew 27:46) ‘Father, into thy hands I commend my Spirit’ (Luke 23:46) or ‘It is finished’? (John 19:30)
Did the observers at Jesus’ execution watch from afar? (Matthew 27:55-56, Mark 15:40, Luke 23:49) or did they stand next to the cross? (John 19:25)
Did Mary tell the disciples what happened (Matt 28:8) or did she tell no one because she was afraid? (Mark 16:8)
Who did Jesus first appear to? Mary? (Matthew 28:9) Cleopas? (Luke 24:15-18) or Peter? (1 Corinthians 15:5)
Does Jesus first make an appearance after Mary leaves the tomb? (Matthew 28:9, Mark 16:8-9) Or, on the road to Emmaus? (Luke 24:13)
Did Jesus permit Mary to touch Him? Yes (Matt 28:9, Luke 24:39) or no? (John 20:17)
How many times did Jesus appear to humans after his resurrection? Twice? (Matt 28:9-10,17-20) Three times? (Mark 16:9,12,14-18) four times? (John 20:14-17, John 19-23, John 26-29, John 21:1-23) or six times? (1 Corinthians 15:5-8)
How does the resurrected Jesus visit twelve disciples after Judas died? (1 Corinthains 15:5)
Did Mary go to the tomb after the sun had risen (Mark 16:2) or while it was still dark? (John 20:1)
How many people visited Jesus’ tomb? 1? (John 20:1) 2? (Matthew 28:1) 3? (Mark 16:1) Or more than 4? (Luke 24:10)
After Jesus’ crucifixion did the disciples stay in Jerusalem (Luke 24:5-7, Luke 24:49, Acts 1:4) or not? (Matthew 28:16, Mark 16:7)
Did Jesus get his disciples before (John 1:40-42, 3:22-24) or after John’s imprisonment? (Mark 1:14,16-18)
Was Jesus crucified at the third hour (Mark 15:25) or the sixth hour? (John 19:14-15)
Did Mary prepare spices for Jesus before (Luke 23:56) or after the Sabbath? (Mark 16:1) or was it Nicodemus? (John 19:39)
Why did Jesus think there was a worldwide flood (Luke 17:27) and that Adam and Eve were real people? (Mark 10:6, Matt. 19:4)
Why did Jesus promote a literal hell like a ‘furnace of fire’ with ‘wailing and gnashing of teeth’? (Matthew 13:41-42)
Why did Jesus look at his critics ‘with anger’? (Mark 3:5)
Why did Jesus say, ‘I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household’? (Matthew 10:35-36)