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Reasonable Faith Podcast

The Seven Most Googled Questions About God

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

What questions are people all over the world Googling about God and Christianity?

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0:00.0

Well, Bill, some recent research reveals the seven most Googled questions about God and the Christian faith.

0:13.0

These questions are chronicled in a book by Texas pastor, Bruce Miller.

0:18.0

The seven big questions is how I became aware of these questions.

0:22.0

Now Bill, you've spent a lifetime addressing these questions

0:26.6

but let's let's take a look at them. The questions are one why does God allow suffering

0:32.4

and evil?

0:33.4

2. Does life have a purpose?

0:35.9

3. Does God exist?

0:37.9

4. Is Christianity too narrow?

0:41.8

5. Is Jesus presented as God in the Bible. Six is the Bible reliable and seven can

0:49.7

I know God personally. Is there anything that strikes you about this list, Bill?

0:55.0

Well, I am struck at how traditional this list is. These are the

1:01.4

perennial questions. I would have thought that there would be more

1:04.8

questions about LGBT or gender issues or hot button issues of that sort, that might be comprised under number four as Christianity

1:18.0

too narrow.

1:20.3

Maybe there they're talking about Christian attitudes towards sexuality and gender and

1:27.1

things of that sort. It's hard to know what for means, but at least those questions don't overtly appear, which was a little surprising.

1:37.0

Yeah, a few things I see, Bill. First, I wonder if Jesus being God is from Muslims googling because this is from all

1:46.6

over the globe by the way there our Muslim friends are intrigued by that

1:52.1

question and that that may account for why it's in the top seven.

1:56.0

Secondly, the question about life having a purpose is interesting.

2:01.0

We did a podcast recently on Sam Harris saying that there's a crisis of meaning today.

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