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The Big Book of Bible Difficulties: Clear and Concise Answers from Genesis to Revelation

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I've sometimes bought a commentary or other book just to get insight into a single passage. This book tackles many of the more difficult in a single book. What I like here is that you aren't just given the opinions of the authors, but will sometimes see other solutions they may not agree with. So you don't always feel like you're being force fed the authors position but instead given pertinent information to digest for yourself. With a page or less devoted to most passages you're not going to get in depth exegesis here, but you will find decisive insight that often clears things up. You can dig deeper elsewhere if necessary.

5 stars for being a handy study aid.

I have not read enough of this book to give a fair opinion on it. I will say though, I bought this book thinking that it was a brand new Q/A book about bible difficulties and it ended up not being such. This book is a republication of an older book titled, When the critics ask, a popular hand book on bible difficulties by Norman L. Geisler and Thomas Howe - published in 1992. I checked and compared both books and it had the same information. (UPDATE: another reviewer wrote down that there are 12 new entries that weren't found in the older book that I'm referring to). The book does say on one of the beginning pages that it's a republication of the other book I mentioned but I felt misled because there was no way for me to check that on Amazon.com and the book was passed off as if it's brand new and not a republication. I was looking for a Q/A and commentary bible difficulties book that would present current issues that skeptics are using to discredit the bible, like about the stories of Jesus being a copy of other ancient myths, etc.

Maybe there's not that many newer criticisms of the bible or ones that are that different from the older criticisms but I still would rather look for more up-to-date book on objections to the Bible.

Norman Geisler and Thomas Howe do a great job helping us all figure out the difficulties. It was a great idea to mix up a philosopher with a bible professor. There aren't that many books on this subject, and I've heard good things about Geisler so I choose him over Ron Rhodes and a few others who had also written books on this subject. I'd have to say I made the right choice here.

Genesis starts off with the basics, such as the who married Cain and so forth. Geisler and Howe get to the very bottom of everything and I am amazing on how they use their references in other parts of the bible to back up their claims. This book will sharpen your skills in regards to coming up with an exegesis for those tough questions. At first look people will see a "supposed" contradiction, but when you actually do some studying on it, you find out why the specific scripture or passage is what it is, and in the end how the scripture makes more sense after you read it again and compare with another part of the bible.

This book can be read at the Beginner or Intermediate level of apologetics, or you can simply use this to learn more about the bible itself. Perhaps you will come up with a different interpretation this time.

I highly recommend this, as a must have for this subject.

I have had this product for a few weeks and find it very helpful covering difficult questions on the Bible. You are given answers and Scripture verses to back up the answers. This is a great tool to use but the best place to find answers is the Bible itself. I still would recommend this book to anyone needing help with tough questions.

This is an execllent book which gives you a concise overview of some key verses in the Bible. It is a Must read for any serious Bible student.

There is so much junk out there, this is definitely worth taking a look at. Some explanations are reaching IMO, and we don't have to give people an explanation to every verse but rather a reason for the hope that we have. Decide to serve the Lord no matter what and this will help you but if your loyalty to God only goes as far as your next question; this will only delay unbelief. Keep in mind the bible was written thousands of years ago so there are some things we will never fully understand but the very important things are clear to us.

I have learned a lot from this book. A lot of questions I had concerning the Bible have been answered by the writers of this book who understand theology. Bravo! Looking forward to another book...it could be entitled, " The Most Misinterpreted Verses of the Bible". Sure to be a "best seller"!

Gives helpful and well researched answers to Biblical passages that some have found difficult to understand. Premised on (1) God does not contradict Himself, and (2) The Bible is reliable.

Geisler is always a nice reading as it comes to Bible study. Nice book, organised, I don't think it will disappoint anyone. I don't believe it is exhaustive, but ellucidates a lot of doubts people keeps asking us about the Bible.

A very good study companion for your bible study. Provides clear and concise explanations for various bible versus that are often taken out of context.