Why this page exists
Cleopas cannot become useful by researching only the questions scholars find interesting. It needs to start with the questions real people ask about God, suffering, Jesus, the Bible, science, other religions and what belief would actually mean for their life.
The first questions are intentionally broad
The first 10 are designed for seekers, agnostics, doubtful believers and people carrying wounds from religion. They are the questions most likely to open a real conversation.
The deeper questions test the engine
The next layers introduce stronger historical, scientific, philosophical and interfaith challenges. They force the system to show that its method generalises beyond the burial pilot.
A question is not a single claim
“Did Jesus rise from the dead?” sounds like one question. To answer it responsibly, Cleopas may need to examine death, burial, the identity of the burial agent, the tomb, the empty-tomb tradition, source dependence, reported appearances, early belief, alternative explanations and the limits of historical method.
How the order is chosen
The first topics are heavily hand-curated because they teach the system how to think. As beta grows, real conversations should progressively replace our assumptions about what deserves to be researched next.
1 to 10
Human questions. Broad, emotional, existential and highly likely to be asked.
11 to 20
Serious attacks. Still heavily curated, but more technically demanding.
20+
Broader research universe. Increasingly prioritised by observed user demand and evidence gaps.
Before we lock the order, experts should attack the questions too
The Question Universe itself should be independently reviewed. Reviewers can rate importance, likelihood, difficulty and priority; rewrite weak questions; identify missing subquestions; and generate their own questions before seeing ours so we can measure what we missed.
1-10 | First Gold Questions
The first ten are written from the user’s point of view, especially the agnostic, seeker and wounded person. They are deliberately broad doors into much deeper governed landscapes.
11-20 | Serious Counter-Arguments
These remain heavily hand-curated. They are likely to be raised by intelligent atheists, agnostics and believers who have moved beyond introductory questions.
21-30 | God, Existence & Reality
Build the metaphysical foundation without assuming Christianity.
31-40 | Suffering, Hiddenness & Human Experience
These questions matter intellectually and emotionally; delivery must adapt without changing evidence.
41-50 | Jesus: Identity, Teaching & History
Move from existence to identity without jumping straight to theology.
51-60 | Resurrection Evidence Landscape
The burial pilot becomes one branch inside a larger user-facing question.
61-70 | Bible: Authorship, Transmission & Reliability
A believer may care about these before debating what any passage means.
71-80 | Christian Life, Practice & Moral Claims
Users eventually ask what belief would require of them.
81-90 | Church, Power & Credibility
Institutional failures are often part of the user’s evidence landscape.
91-100 | Islam & Christianity
Prepare to test Islamic and Christian claims symmetrically rather than creating an apologetics rebuttal bank.
101-110 | Judaism & Christianity
Many Christian claims are impossible to assess properly without their Jewish setting.
111-120 | Hindu Traditions & Christianity
Address pluralism, reincarnation and alternative Jesus traditions without treating Hinduism as one monolithic system.
121-130 | Buddhism & Christianity
Focus on suffering, selfhood, ultimate reality and lived transformation.
131-140 | Other Faiths, New Movements & Religious Pluralism
Ensure the system can compare claims rather than default to the best-known religions.
141-150 | Science, Origins & Human Development
These are common door-closing objections and should be handled as science first, theology second.
151-160 | Philosophy, Morality & Meaning
These questions often sit beneath explicit religious arguments.
161-170 | Theology & Internal Christian Questions
Deep coverage matters for believers and for outsiders trying to understand what Christianity actually claims.
How this should evolve
Curated core
The earliest questions teach Cleopas how to reason, structure evidence and converse.
System-assisted expansion
The system proposes subclaims, sources and gaps. Researchers verify and adjudicate.
User-led priority
Real conversations reveal the unanswered questions that deserve governed treatment next.