WHY
A Regular Guy's Honest Case for Christian Belief
by Paul Mazzapica Sr.
Is any of this actually true? Starting with physics and ending at the resurrection, WHY traces the evidence one honest step at a time.
The question most of us keep filing away.
You know the one. It arrives late at night, or out under a clear sky, or in the middle of a life that looks, from the outside, like everything is working. Simple and stubborn. Is any of this actually true?
Most of us get busy and move on. The question waits.
WHY is an honest, evidence-first investigation for anyone who has ever wondered but never quite found the time — or the right book — to follow the trail seriously. It does not start with the Bible or with faith or with anything you have to accept before the conversation can begin. It starts with physics. It moves through biology, consciousness, philosophy, history, and the most extraordinary claim ever made about a person who lived two thousand years ago.
By the end you will have seen the evidence laid out plainly, heard the strongest objections treated fairly, and reached your own conclusions. That is the only promise this book makes.
The fine-tuned universe, the information system inside a living cell, the hard problem of consciousness, and the universal human ache for meaning.
The moral law no one can quite explain away, and an honest engagement with the problem of suffering.
The move from a designer to a personal God, and the historical evidence for the resurrection, examined the way a historian would examine any ancient claim.
An honest look at every available position, and what belief actually does in an ordinary life.
Start with a Few Honest Excerpts
Ten passages, drawn straight from the manuscript.
- On honest questioning01 / 10
Is any of this actually true?
Preface - On design02 / 10
The universe looks arranged from the outside. Life looks designed from the inside.
Chapter Two - On information03 / 10
Information comes from minds. Every single time we can trace it.
Chapter Two - On longing04 / 10
Something in us refuses to believe that this is all there is.
Chapter Five - On conscience05 / 10
Nobody ever got punished, on the inside, for doing good.
Chapter Six - On suffering06 / 10
A faith that cannot survive the question of suffering is not worth much. The faith I found in the middle of losing everything has survived it.
Chapter Seven - On the search07 / 10
Is anybody there? I think the answer is yes. Not because I need it to be. Not because the alternative is too bleak to face. But because the evidence, followed honestly, keeps arriving at a someone.
Chapter Eight - On convergence08 / 10
That convergence is, for me, the most compelling thing of all.
Chapter Nine - On what we need09 / 10
I think we need God back in our lives.
Chapter Twelve - On the resurrection10 / 10
A man in first-century Judea did not have to rise from the dead, and the evidence suggests He did. I am glad I kept following the trail.
Chapter Twelve
Who this book is for.
For the skeptic.
The person who has kept the God question at arm's length for years and wants to take an honest look without feeling managed or manipulated.
For the believer.
The person who already believes but wants something genuinely good to hand to a skeptical friend or family member — something that will meet them where they actually are.
For the undecided.
The person who is somewhere in between, curious but unconvinced, who wants to think it through carefully before deciding anything.
Paul Mazzapica Sr.
Paul Mazzapica Sr. is not a pastor or a theologian — just someone who kept the God question at arm's length for most of his adult life. When he and his wife Jean lost nearly everything they had built, the noise finally stopped, and he started following the question honestly. What he found surprised him. He has been a small group leader at Countryside Christian Church in Clearwater, Florida since 2010. WHY is his second book.
“Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you the reason for the hope that you have.”
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