Questions

What's with the blood?

This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Matthew 26:28

What about other religions and lifestyles?

Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 14:6

What of all the dead children? What of natural disasters? What about disease, and the poor and countless other forms of suffering? Where is God? What is His answer for all this?

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
Matthew 15:19

With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.
Proverbs 11:19

Though he brings grief, He will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love. For He does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men.
Lamentations 3:21

For the creation was subjected to futility – not willingly but because of God who subjected it – in hope that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children. For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers together until now.
Romans 8:20

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist any more – or mourning, or crying, or pain, for the former things have ceased to exist.
Revelation 21:4

Can I enjoy life as a believer in Christ?

I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!
John 15:11

What if my friends / family / wife / boss don't accept me?

Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.
Luke 12:51

How does a mythical blood sacrifice on a cross two thousand years ago impact my life?

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."
Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength
1 Corinthians 1:18

But I have done really awful stuff. Can God really forgive and love me?

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness
1 John 1:9

I am not that bad, really. I am not a thief, rapist or a murderer. So why do I need this?

All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;
Isaiah 64:6

There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God
Romans 3:22