Table of Contents
Foreword David Limbaugh 7
Preface: How Much Faith Do You Need to Believe This Book? 13
Acknowledgments 15
Introduction: Finding the Box Top to the Puzzle of Life 17
1 Can We Handle the Truth? 35
2 Why Should Anyone Believe Anything At All? 51
3 In the Beginning There Was a Great SURGE 73
4 Divine Design 95
5 The First Life: Natural Law or Divine Awe? 113
6 New Life Forms: From the Goo to You via the Zoo? 137
7 Mother Teresa vs. Hitler 169
8 Miracles: Signs of God or Gullibility? 197
9 Do We Have Early Testimony About Jesus? 221
10 Do We Have Eyewitness Testimony About Jesus? 251
11 The Top Ten Reasons We Know the New Testament Writers Told the Truth 275
12 Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead? 299
13 Who Is Jesus: God? Or Just a Great Moral Teacher? 327
14 What Did Jesus Teach About the Bible? 355
15 Conclusion: The Judge, the Servant King, and the Box Top 377
Appendix 1 If God, Why Evil? 389
Appendix 2 Isn't That Just Your Interpretation? 402
Appendix 3 Why the Jesus Seminar Doesn't Speak for Jesus 409
Notes 412
General Index 436
Scripture Index 442