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Do you feel you need to have a rebuttal when someone tries to challenge your beliefs?  I have someone very close to me in my life who no longer believes in Jesus or the Bible. They believe we are all God and one consciousness.  They just keep asking (attacking) me all these questions about the Bible and I never know how to respond. Part of me feels bad like I should know how to answer and the other part of me just knows they are not going to change their mind anyway so why waste my time in the conversation at all.  These are hard questions and I can understand where they are coming from, but is just super frustrating they way they think they "caught me" somehow for not having an answer. And the answers given are never enough.  I generally try to avoid this person right now, but they are very close to me and seek me out. It’s always hard questions like if God’s love is unconditional why did he flood the earth, why did he allow Elisha to kill 40 kids in his name, why i...

Q: I am uncertain how to word this for guidance; it will probably be fairly multi-faceted, and it needs a little personal history. To begin, I was not raised in a Christian home, and I grew up in the 80s in the Pacific Northwest (where going to church was not a culturally "normal" thing to do like it is in, say, the south). I was saved at age 25 from a very dark place. Christ absolutely rescued me from complete despair. I do love Him so. ❤️ To fast-forward, I am currently an Apologetics grad student, and I live in So. KY. My husband is a native of KY and combined between the two of us (including portions of our married life), we have lived in 10 states from almost every region of the country. Since I became a Christian in 2000, I have lived in Oregon, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New York, and (for the past 2 years) Kentucky.  This is (kind of) my question (or problem, if that is a more accurate way to label it): I find myself increasingly annoyed , as I get older, with how Christian...