The Ambassadors Forum

Why Do Christians Believe in Heaven and Hell?

By: Shawn Hart Death is that unknown day everyone is touched by. It is universal, emotional, and often, difficult to talk about. For many it is a scary day, and even for the person who has full confidence that there is a… Read More

Does the Bible condone polygamy?

Short Answer This is what the Bible says: Mark 10:6-8 – From the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two… Read More

Does the Bible condone slavery?

Short Answer The short answer is that it doesn’t. Especially not in the way that the term “slavery” is typically used today to refer to the horrendous practice of race-based oppression in the U.S that stole hundreds of thousands of Africans from the 16th through 19th centuries. The principal way… Read More

Who made God?

Short Answer The short answer? No one. No one is needed to make God because God is not a created entity. It is important to distinguish between things that are created and things that are not created. More Info This confusion often comes up in the discussion of origins. People… Read More

How can God be good when there is so much suffering?

Short Answer This question contains the implied assumption that “if God were good, then the world would be a paradise.” The perfect world that we wish existed is exactly the world God first made (Gen 1:31). But He put us in charge of it (Gen 2:15), and we made a… Read More

Are Christians “anti-science”?

Short Answer Science is “irrefutably Christian.” In other words, science is built on the Bible. God created the three building blocks that are the basic ingredients required for our modern concept of “Science”: Uniformity Creative Thought Logic Those concepts are only intellectually justified and coherently explained as part of a… Read More