Yes. Most scientists who study the universe say it began about 13.8 billion years ago, in what is called the Big Bang.

If the universe had a beginning, something outside it had to start it.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Very unlikely. If a few basic settings of physics, like the strength of gravity, were even slightly different, stars could not form and there could be no life. The astronomer Martin Rees explains this in his book Just Six Numbers.

A universe set this precisely for life points to someone who meant it to be here.

…who established it and didn’t create it a waste, who formed it to be inhabited

Not yet. Scientists can see which parts of the brain are active when we feel something. They can't explain why that activity feels like anything to us. The philosopher David Chalmers called this the hard problem of consciousness.

Your mind is more than chemistry. The Bible says God made you a living soul.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

No. Religions give opposite answers to the same questions. When two of them say opposite things, at least one has to be wrong.

So it matters which one is true, and that is worth finding out.

I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Some. A vision seen by one person, or a promise about the afterlife, can't be tested. Christianity rests on a public event that can be checked: Jesus' death and return to life in Jerusalem, around AD 30. Paul wrote that if it didn't happen, the faith is worthless.

Christianity invites you to test it. That makes it worth testing.

If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

Yes. Nearly all historians, Christian or not, agree that Jesus lived. Jewish and Roman writers mention Him as well as Christian ones.

Jesus is a real figure of history, so what He said deserves a fair hearing.

…having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order

Yes. Historians count it among the surest facts about Him. Even Tacitus, a Roman historian who disliked Christians, wrote that He was executed under Pontius Pilate.

His death is solid history. What His followers said happened next is the real question.

When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified him there

Christians say yes. Around AD 55, Paul listed people who saw Jesus alive after He died, including more than 500 at one time. He added that most of them were still alive, so anyone could go and ask them.

If Jesus rose from the dead, He is who He said He was, and what He taught is true.

Then he appeared to over five hundred brothers at once, most of whom remain until now

By trusting Him. Jesus said that whoever believes Him has eternal life. It is a gift, so no one earns it by being good enough.

You can't earn your way to God, and you don't need to. You can trust Jesus today.

Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life

Here are three good places to start. Pick one, or all three.

Jesus invites you. The next step is yours.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock.