The Bible Answer Book

If you listen to Hank regularly, most of the questions and answers in here would be familiar. With these set of biblically-based, short and sweet answers, it keeps you answering questions for the Christian faith. If you don't listen to Hank or just discovering Christianity, the book is so simple that practically anyone can grasp the message and immediately come to true knowledge of God, His attributes and promises to us - believers in the one true faith - Christianity. All-in-all, this book and its brother -BAB vol.2, will solidify your biblical knowledge, prepare you to identify truth-benders' urban legends and non-biblical doctrines and then prepares you to be able to give answers to all those who asks, why we believe what we believe...with confidence, gentleness and respect! When you know the truth, you are then set free! A must for all that love the truth of God.

This book is a must read! It will strengthen your understanding of the word of God and provide insight that you may have never had. It will become your companion and friend for all of life's situations. We purchased four copies to give to family and friends!

This book gives answers to a lot of tough Bible questions. Having been a Christian for a great deal of time (over a decade and a half as of the writing of this review), and having been interested in apologetics for the better part of a decade, this book contains many questions that you will most likely be asked as a Christian, and many questions that many Christians are confused on. True enough, the answers given are pretty concise (2 pages or so for the most part); however, I think that they are more than adequate to answer to the question. If the reader would like to read more on a particular topic, each answer suggests further resources on the topic, many of which are also available from the Christian Research Institute. I doubt that many people reading this review know the answer to all the questions in this book (I must confess, before reading this book, I didn't), particularly in an increasingly Bible-illiterate society. Highly recommended.

Hank's done it again. At first I thought "Why am I paying $20 for a leather-bound question and answer booklet"? The reason: it's a real great way to start conversation with an unbeliever, or even to use for study with a believer regardless of the length of time they've been in Christ. It really is a gorgeously-made book, and won't suffer the wear-and-tear that all of our other mini-bible knowledge books have suffered. The book covers 81 base questions, but leads to the study of infinitely more. Included are questions pertaining to... Doctrine ("How Can I be certain that I've not committed the unforgivable sin?" and "Can a Christian lose their salvation?"), modern political agendas ("Should Christians celebrate Christmas?" and "What is abortion?") and cults and other religions ("Is the New World Translation of the Bible Credible?" and "Is the Allah of Islam the God of the Bible?"). Although I agree with most of Hank's assessments, there are so many issues covered that every Christian will have a difference of opinion at some point. Under the question "Is the tithe for today?" Hanegraaff admits "Of all the questions asked to answer, this is beyond a doubt the most difficult. Not only because the subject of tithing is hotly debated, but because I must confess that I personally have not always been faithful in giving a tenth or more to the work of the Lord. And I am not alone. Research demonstrates...." (p.74) Yadda, yadda. In my humble opinion, Hanegraaff presents this particular information in an unbalanced fashion, quoting Malachi 3:8 and fourth century's Jerome.... When Hank could of rather quoted Deuteronomy 14, which tells us that "tithe" is specifically produce from the Holy Land of Israel (not money to be used as a modern-day temple tax), and furthermore that the tithe was in part to be eaten by the family who brought the tithe, could be sold for strong drink, and was used to feed the poor, widows, foreigners, and orphans as well as the Levitical priests (Deut. 14:22-29). As far as the early church (before Jerome comes on the scene hundreds of years later) there is no record of Christians collecting a "ten-percent church tax" to build churches, pay pastors, etc. Furthermore Hank cites the writings of Randy Alcorn, when he could have also mentioned the awesome book "Should the Church teach Tithing" by Russell Earl Kelly. To be fair to Hank, though, if you search the topic on equip.org, there are other articles contradictory to Hank's personal opinion. Overall, Hank's final plea is that Christian's give joyfully not just to church, but to help those less fortunate as well. Can't argue with that. One another topic, Hank's answer to "Did Demons have sexual relations with women in Genesis 6:4?", ..."I believe the better interpretation is that "sons of God" simply refers to the godly descendants of Seth, and "daughters of men" to the ungodly descendants of Cain" (p.108). In fact, a good many bible teachers, from Chuck Smith of

For the purpose that this book was written, it's great. Hank hanegraaff the host of the bible answer man broadcast and the president of the CRI has done a service to the body of Christ with this little book. The book is thicker but smaller that the Covering, means you can stick it in your pocket and go. Answers lots of questions and great for babes in Christ. The answers are short but sweet. The book is not meant for indepth study but gives great resources for more detailed study of the Word of God. The book is a beautiful book and I really do recommend it. Good work Hank .