Reddit mentions of The Apologetics Study Bible: Understand Why You Believe

I actually have a bible called the Apologetics Study Bible haha. It doesn't give all the answers, and sometimes the answers aren't the best I think, but it does give many good answers and is a great resource to have with you.

http://www.amazon.com/Apologetics-Study-Bible-Understand-Believe/dp/158640024X

Link if you wanna buy it by any chance.

Also, for some other names, look at Ravi Zacharias, Lee Strobel (The author of the Case for Christ book I think), Norm Geisler, and John Lennox.

This is because she has somehow become involved in vampire stories. The Apologetics Study Bible has a brief bit on Lilith and vampires: "Modern-day vampires trace their origins to this verse and the mythical figure of Lilith, who was supposedly created before Eve. The legend of Lilith derives from a theory that Genesis has two creation accounts (this verse [1:27] and 2:7, 20-22). The two stories allow for two different women. Lilith does not appear in the Bible (apart from a debatable reference comparing her to a screech owl in the Hb [Hebrew] text of Is 34:14). Some rabbinic commentators, however, refer to Lilith as the first created woman, who refused to submit to Adam and fled from the garden. Eve was then created to be Adam's helper. After their expulsion from the garden, Adam reunited for a time with Lilith before finally returning to Eve. Lilith bore Adam a number of children, who became the demons of the Bible. According to kabbalistic legend, after Adam's reconciliation with Eve, Lilith took the title Queen of the Demons and became a murderer of infants and young boys, whom she turned into vampires."

This link leads to Isiah 34:14 in all English translations, because it easily shows the wide variance in translation for this verse. This variance is likely caused by different translations following different textual schools. Specifically note the rendering of "night monster."

It looks like you have a lot of questions about the bible and most of them see to revolve around contradictions, wording and interpreting the couture of that day from the standpoint of the culture of our day.

You may want to get The Apologetics Study Bible: Understand Why You Believe. It explains and adds context to a lot of the tricky parts of the Bible. And if you don't like it, then at least your better understanding of the Bible will help you make arguments that can hold some water and stand up under scrutiny. ;)

This already exists. I own it.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Apologetics-Study-Bible-Understand/dp/158640024X

If you haven't yet, look into apologetics, the study of explaining seeming inconsistencies and offenses in Christianity and the Bible.

• CARM.org
  
• MyBibleStudy.com, with cross-references to The Apologetics Study Bible
  
• The Apologetics Study Bible

Look at what's available to you. Read some things. Attend churches that focus less on it being a religion and more so it being a relationship with God. Talk to the pastors there about your issues with Christianity. Make it a priority in your life to find truth. Go where the evidence takes you. No matter where it does, you're going to have to take a leap of faith since no side can be proven totally 100% true.

I recommend Lee Strobel's Case for a Creator, and Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek's I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist, The Apologetic's Study Bible, The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics, Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels by J. Warner Wallace, and really just Apologetics in general

Hey, check out this site: http://www.str.org/site/PageServer

It is ran by a man named Greg Koukl. He is a Christian Apologist based out of California. His main goal is to make "christian ambassadors" and prep them to give clear, precise answers to some of the hardest challenges we face today. The site has great articles and study materials about almost anything that you could need. He also airs a weekly radio program called "stand to reason" which is on 2-5 Sundays. I believe he has been on the air for more than twenty years and the back catalog of free podcasts is astounding. I can tell you from personal experience that my faith has grown leaps and bounds since discovering this ministry as well as my ability to reach out to non-believers.
I was tired of only being able to give answers like "well, the Bible says" and "i was told in church that"...these arguments will get you no where. I strongly recommend checking out the site and the podcast archive as well as some of the books that they recommend.
Other than that, i saw someone mention Lee Strobel's books which are very good and worth the read. I also would suggest getting an apologetic study Bible. Here is the one I use: http://www.amazon.com/Apologetics-Study-Bible-Understand-Believe/dp/158640024X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1292216686&sr=8-1 , but that is just one of many that you can choose from.

After doing some real studying the last couple of years, I can honestly say that a lot of the "hard hitting arguments" that you mentioned, hold no water

Hope this helps.