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ABC News medical editor Dr. Timothy Johnson is best known for addressing health issues on tv, but in his latest book, Finding God in the Questions: A Personal Journey (IVP), the physician and ordained Covenant minister explores questions about God and faith.

What led you to write a book like this?

Over the last ten years, I had a lot of conversations with my secular friends in the media and in medicine about my faith and what I believe. Inevitably they would ask, "What do you really believe?" Out of all the stuff that they'd heard about religion, they wanted a clear answer. So I started writing down answers to questions that would come up in those discussions.

So, what do you really believe?

The ultimate question is: Why is there something rather than nothing? When you look at the hard evidence, it is much more probable that this universe happened by design rather than by accident.

Having said that, that leaves you basically with a Creator God. So the next question for me was: How do you get from a Creator God to a personal God? In the book, I spend a lot of time wrestling with the historical record of the Bible, and particularly the Gospels-just as I've done in my personal journey over the last ten years. And I come to the conclusion that the Scriptures in general, and the Gospels in particular, are reliable guides to what Jesus actually did and said.

What do you think is the biggest obstacle to reaching unbelievers?

There are a lot of people out there that I've encountered in my secular life who are turned off by the religion of their youth and have chucked the whole thing. And then there are those who have never given Jesus a hearing at all, because all they hear is what they read in the papers about the church, and that turns them off. I want to say to them, "Look, you don't have to buy all the dogma, all the human formulations that you might have encountered. Go to the Gospels and encounter the life and teachings of Jesus." That's still the way people should come to faith.

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