Addressing the 100 QuestionsThis is the workbook to accompany the Silver Book. After studying the question at hand, use these worksheets to outline your speech. If you have a chance to practice this in club or for others, include their feedback in the end. For each page:

1. Thesis: Write one sentence stating the purpose of your speech. All your point will affirm this thesis.

2. Points: Put ideas for your outline here. Example cards are in the Silver Book. Each “point” is one section of your speech.

3. Illustrations/Quotations: Write the sources and locations of quotations you would like to use in your speech. Illustrations are stories or metaphors that will help explain your points.

4. View Feedback: Put any useful comments you received from friends, family members, and judge ballots. These will help improve your performance throughout the year.

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Define and defend the significance of the trinity.Thesis

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Define and defend the significance of the omniscience of God.

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Define and defend the significance of the omnipotence of God.

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Define and defend the significance of the omnipresence of God

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Define and defend the significance of the transcendence of God

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Define and defend the significance of the immanence of God.

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Define and defend the significance of the eternality of God.

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Define and defend the significance of the immutability of God.

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Define and defend the the significance of the infinite nature of God.

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Define and defend the significance of the holiness of God.

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Define and defend the the significance of the righteousness of God.

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Define and defend the significance of the justice of God.Thesis

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Define and defend the significance of the sovereignty of God.

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Define and defend the the significance of the mercy of God.

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Define and defend the significance of the grace of God.Thesis

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In what ways has God revealed Himself to man?Thesis

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If God is real, why can't people see or touch Him?Thesis

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If God is holy, why did He allow sin in the world?

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How can God be both merciful and just? Thesis

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Open theology states that God is constantly changing and growing with His creation. Respond to this idea.

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Why is the unchanging nature of God critical to who He is?

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Where did God come from?Thesis

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Analyze and respond to the statement, “The existence of God and of a future life is everywhere recognized in Africa.” David Livingstone

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Analyze and respond to the statement, “The Old Testament God is a God of hate, while the New Testament God is a God of love.”

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Analyze and respond to the statement, “Gods are fragile things. They may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.” Chapman Cohen

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Analyze and respond to the statement, “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.” Voltaire

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Analyze and respond to the statement, “What we believe about God is the most important thing about us.” A. W. Tozer

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Analyze and respond to the statement, “God is merely an impersonal force in the universe. He is untouchable and unapproachable.”

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Analyze and respond to the statement, “God set the universe in motion, but He has no interest in it.”

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Analyze and respond to the statement, “If God understands my humanity and sin nature better than I do, why does He still hold me accountable for what I cannot help doing?”

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Define and defend the significance of the inerrancy of Scripture.

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Define and defend the significance of verbal, plenary inspiration of Scripture.

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Define and defend the significance of the divine inspiration of Scripture.

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Define and defend the significance of the biblical canon.Thesis

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Define and Defend the Significance of the Sufficiency of Scripture.

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Explain the meaning and significance of higher criticism and lower criticism.

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Jesus clearly demonstrated His belief in the authority of Scriptures. Defend this statement with evidence.

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If the Bible was written by men, how can it be written by God?

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How did the church decide what should be included in the Canon of Scripture?

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How can the Bible be trustworthy when it has been translated so many times?

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What is the foundation for accurate Bible translation? Thesis

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Provide evidence for the historical accuracy of the Bible. Thesis

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Does it matter whether the entire Bible isn’t true? Can we accept some parts of it and not others?

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How can an “infallible” book come from fallible men?Thesis

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Why should the Bible be trusted if it is full of contradictions?

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Analyze and respond to the statement, "No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means.” George Barnard Shaw

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Analyze and respond to the statement, “The Bible is no different than any other holy book.”

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Analyze and respond to the statement, “The Bible is simply the work of a great conspiracy, where people sought to create a religion of their own.”

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Analyze and respond to the statement, “The Old Testament is merely a set of myths made up by the Jewish people to establish a national identity and give themselves a feeling of superiority.”

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Analyze and respond to the statement, "The Bible supports oppression of slaves and women."

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Analyze and respond to the statement, “The Bible is a guidebook. It was never intended to be taken literally.”

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.” Isaac Asimov

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.” Mark Twain

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Explain the meaning and significance of the image of God.

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Explain the meaning and significance of the depravity of man.

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Explain the meaning and significance of original sin.Thesis

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Explain the meaning and significance of the sin nature.Thesis

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Explain the meaning and significance of sanctification.Thesis

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Explain the meaning and significance of repentance. Thesis

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Explain the meaning and significance of regeneration. Thesis

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Do all men have a longing for God?Thesis

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Do all men have a conscience? Thesis

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If God is invisible, (1 Timothy 1:17) how can man be made in the image of God?

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If man is inherently sinful, why do most men lead relatively good lives?

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What is the purpose of man?Thesis

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What is the destiny of man? Thesis

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Why would a loving God create Hell?Thesis

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What is the essential duty of man?Thesis

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What is meant by the “Fall of Man,” and how does it impact man’s relationship with God?

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Evaluate and respond to the following statement, “All men were born with ten fingers and toes, but no one was born with the knowledge of God.” Voltaire

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Evaluate and respond to the following statement, “…whatever a man sows, this he will also reap..” Galatians 6:7b (NASB®)

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Evaluate and respond to the following statement, “Heaven is only a state of mind.”

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Evaluate and respond to the following statement, “Heʼs only human.” (as a justification for sin and the need for leniency).

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Evaluate and respond to the following statement, “When man dies, he simply ceases to exist. There is no immortality or eternal life.”

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.” Martin Sheen

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.” Isaac Asimov

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “Man is not of divine origins, nor is he headed that way; he is not perfect, nor is he perfectible. He is what he is; by nature formed.”

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Explain the meaning and significance of justification.Thesis

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Explain the meaning and significance of atonement.Thesis

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Explain the meaning and significance of propitiation. Thesis

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Explain the meaning and significance of redemption.Thesis

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How can a man know God?Thesis

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Can a man become right with God by keeping the Ten Commandments?

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Isn't it narrow-minded to believe there is only one way to Heaven?

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Why does man need salvation? Thesis

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What does it mean to be adopted as a child of God? Thesis

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Can a Christian have assurance of his salvation?Thesis

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “It doesn’t matter what you believe as long as you are sincere.”

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “There are many roads to God.”

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “Every charitable act is a stepping stone to Heaven.” Henry Ward Beecher

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “I commune best with God when I am out in nature. I don’t need organized religion to feel close to God.”

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “I know that all of the good vibes he sent out will return to carry him off to a better place.”

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “Religion is a private matter.”

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 (ESV)

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “God helps those who help themselves.”

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “Preach the gospel always; if necessary, use words.” St. Francis of Assisi

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Analyze and respond to this quotation from the Quran: Surah 28:67, “However, the one who has repented in this life, and believed, and done good deeds may hope to be among those who will achieve salvation.”

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Analyze and respond to this bumper sticker, “BORN OK THE FIRST TIME.”

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Analyze and respond to the statement, “At the center of the Christian tradition since the first church, there have been a number who insist that history is not tragic, hell is not forever, and love, in the end, wins and all will be reconciled to God.” Rob Bell

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Define and defend the significance of the deity of Christ.Thesis

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Define and defend the significance of the Virgin Birth.Thesis

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Define and defend the significance of the Incarnation.Thesis

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Define and defend the significance of Jesusʼ claim that He is “the Son of Man.”

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Define and defend the significance of Jesusʼ claim that He is “the Son of God.”

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Define and defend the significance of Jesus as the Mediator.

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Define and defend the significance of Jesus as the Messiah.

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Define and defend the significance of Jesus as the Word of God.

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Define and defend the significance of Jesus as the Lamb of God.

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Why is the Resurrection essential to the Christian faith?Thesis

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If God is infinite, how could He limit Himself in the person of Christ?

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The Bible presents Jesus as both God and man. Why is this central to the Christian faith?

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Why did Jesus have to die to provide salvation for men?Thesis

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What evidence is there for the historical existence of Jesus?

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How do we know that Jesus really died? Didn’t he just swoon on the cross and then become revived in the coolness of the cave where they buried Him?

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What evidence is there for the resurrection of Jesus? Thesis

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Did Jesus attain deity by His sacrificial death, or was He God from the beginning?

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If Jesus is God, what did Jesus mean by, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “Jesus’ life and death are merely examples to us that we should all live sacrificial lives.”

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “Jesus was a good man and a good teacher, but certainly not the Son of God.”

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus?” John Clayton

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.” James Lee Burke

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ; no hope without it.” Theologian J. Gresham Machen (right before his death)

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Analyze and respond to the following statement, “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” Mahatma Gandhi

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