the Unanswered Questions of Christianity: What Scripture, History, and Earliest Christian Sources Reveal About God, Humanity, Eternity, Our Future

What do Christians really know, and what do we only think we know?Who is God? Why did He create anything at all? Why does suffering exist? What happened during the hidden years of Jesus? What do we actually know about Mary? Are angels and demons real? What happens the moment we die? What is heaven really like? Can miracles still happen? And what do modern science and artificial intelligence reveal about the mystery of the human soul?The Unanswered Questions of Christianity confronts some of the most difficult, fascinating, and frequently misunderstood questions of the Christian faith.Drawing from Scripture, Catholic teaching, the earliest Christian writings, history, archaeology, philosophy, and modern science, Luther Valencia separates what is established from what is probable, disputed, legendary, speculative, or simply unknown.Rather than forcing certainty where the evidence does not justify it, this book asks a more demanding question: What can we actually know?Explore questions including: - Did Jesus really exist, and what historical evidence survives outside the Bible? - What happened during the eighteen largely undocumented years before His public ministry? - Did Jesus travel to India, Tibet, Egypt, or Britain? - What do the earliest sources really tell us about Mary? - Who are Satan, demons, guardian angels, and the archangels? - What happens to the soul after death? - What are purgatory, hell, resurrection, and the Beatific Vision? - Can reported miracles and apparitions be investigated seriously? - Does evolution conflict with Genesis? - Can neuroscience explain the human person? - Could artificial intelligence ever become conscious or possess a soul? - Where does science end and philosophy or theology begin?