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Comment by James Kraft , 74 year old retired pipeline worker

Where (if at all) in the word of God does it say a man can continually be disobedient and still have the favor of God?

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First Corinthians 5:5 Turn such a one over to Satan to kill the flesh so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. We are all sinners to a degree...

September 18 2021

Question by Jack Gutknecht , ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church

How long were these "watches of the night"? Psalm 119:148

Psalm 119:148 (NIV) "My eyes stay open through the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promises."

Psalms 119:1 - 176

September 18 2021 2 Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by Danny Hickman , Believer in The Gospel Of Jesus Christ

What does the Bible say about the arrival of a time in which people will celebrate their sins and have no remorse over their sins?

Remorse is defined this way: Deep regret for wrongdoing. The question insinuates that there was a time when the world population had deep regret for sin, and...

September 18 2021 4 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Comment by Danny Hickman , Believer in The Gospel Of Jesus Christ

What does the Bible say about the arrival of a time in which people will celebrate their sins and have no remorse over their sins?

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The "increase of human sin" is mainly due to the increase of humans on the earth. With the increase of inventions and life lasting longer for individuals,...

September 18 2021

Answer by James Kraft , 74 year old retired pipeline worker

Why is there “no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus" (Romans 8:1-2)?

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, physical death, but the GIFT of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. The GIFT of God is eternal...

September 18 2021 2 Comments 2 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by James Kraft , 74 year old retired pipeline worker

What happens to newborn babies when they immediately die after birth? Do they go to heaven, or does something else happen to them?

All children are saved up to the age of accountability. Only God knows what that is for each child. When King David and Bathsheba lost their baby, David...

September 18 2021 1 More Answer Follow Vote Up

Comment by James Kraft , 74 year old retired pipeline worker

Who are the Wesleyans, and what are the beliefs of the Wesleyan Church?

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Any one who says you can lose eternal life, is trusting in what they do and not what Jesus has done. Matthew 7:21-23 They never did the will of His Father in...

September 18 2021

Question by Greg T

What does granted mean in John 6:65?

What does granted mean? Chosen? So us coming to salvation is even through his grace, we didnt even originate that, correct?

John 6:65

September 18 2021 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

Question by Greg T

What is the food that we are supposed to work for that endureth?

I know that salvation is not by works, but this passage says to work for the food that endureth?

John 6:27

3 Votes September 18 2021 2 Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by Grant Brown , Retired pastor, Hospice chaplain

What does the Bible say about the arrival of a time in which people will celebrate their sins and have no remorse over their sins?

In addition to the references cited above, Revelation 9:20 speaks of a future time during the great tribulation when the 6th trumpet judgement had reduced...

September 18 2021 4 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Comment by Emo Tenorio , Shomer

How should a Christian view vaccinations/vaccines?

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Why demand people with higher natural immunity get vaccinated? And insist on vaccinating children when their risk of serious virus effects is minuscule? It...

September 18 2021

Comment by James Kraft , 74 year old retired pipeline worker

Where (if at all) in the word of God does it say a man can continually be disobedient and still have the favor of God?

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First Corinthians 5:5 Turn such a one over to Satan to kill the flesh so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. This was a born again believer,...

September 17 2021

Comment by Jack Gutknecht , ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church

What are the promises of God?

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For more on God’s promises from Psalm 119; see Ps 119:41, 50, 58, 76, 82, 116, 123, 140, 148, 154, 162, 170.) It is not our promises to Him (Ps 119:57) but...

September 17 2021

Comment by James Kraft , 74 year old retired pipeline worker

What does it mean to be one flesh in a marriage?

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Lots of unbelievers have great marriages and stay together for life. That is what God intended for us to do. But whether people stay together for life or not...

September 17 2021

Comment by James Kraft , 74 year old retired pipeline worker

What does the Bible mean that we are not to judge others?

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The truth is we can not tell a believer from an unbeliever except by what they say. And many times not even that. Second Timothy 2:13. If we believe not,...

September 17 2021

Answer by Jack Gutknecht , ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church

Who is Ben Hur in the movie produced in 1959? Was he the same Ben Hur mentioned in the Bible?

Great question, Wendy! I saw that good movie, and Ben Hur might have been a "son of Hur", which is what Ben-hur means). But the Hebrew construct ben hur...

September 17 2021 1 More Answer Follow Vote Up

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Does the Bible prophesy the coming of Muhammad?

September 16 2021

Answer by Tim Maas , Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army

How could Lot’s daughters justify incest with their father? (Genesis 19:31–32)

Since God had already preserved Lot and his daughters through miraculous intervention when Sodom was destroyed, it should have given Lot's daughters faith...

September 16 2021 1 More Answer Follow Vote Up

Answer by Tim Maas , Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army

What is the belt of truth?

I would say that, in likening truth to a belt, Paul is not speaking of the truth of God's word (which he likens elsewhere in the passage to a sword), but is...

September 16 2021 Follow Vote Up

Answer by Tim Maas , Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army

How are the unrighteous being held for punishment? (2 Peter 2:9)

I would say that the point that Peter is making is that no temporal adversities that may befall the unjust or wicked, or that God may inflict upon them, in...

September 16 2021 Follow Vote Up

Answer by James Kraft , 74 year old retired pipeline worker

What is new covenant theology?

From the book of Acts to the rapture of the church is the day of Grace. Only in this dispensation of grace our sin debt is paid in full, and we can no longer...

September 16 2021 1 More Answer Follow Vote Up

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What is the belt of truth?

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Answer by Danny Hickman , Believer in The Gospel Of Jesus Christ

Why is "doing good" necessary to gain eternal life? (Romans 2:7)

Doing good isn't a prerequisite for obtaining eternal life. Romans 2:7 doesn't present a case for doing good to receive eternal life. If you get that from it...

September 16 2021 1 Comments 3 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Comment by James Kraft , 74 year old retired pipeline worker

What is the New World Order?

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The anti Christ will set up one world government, one world currency, and one world religion. He will demand that everyone take his mark and worship him....

September 16 2021

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Is it true that everything happens for a reason?

September 16 2021

Comment by James Kraft , 74 year old retired pipeline worker

Is, “If the scripture makes plain sense, seek no other sense” a good Bible hermeneutic to use in study?

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John 3:16-18 makes total sense. Believers can no longer be condemned to hell. Romans 1:16. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the POWER...

September 16 2021

Comment by Shirley H , Wife, mother, veteran in the spiritual war we all face!

How does bad company corrupt good character?

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Excellent answer! My mom-in-law used to say, “A bought lesson Is better than one given to you!" My mom used to say, "You can't put an old head on young...

September 16 2021

Question by Jack Gutknecht , ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church

How are the unrighteous being held for punishment? (2 Peter 2:9)

2 Peter 2:9 "if this is so, then the LORD knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment." Ne...

2 Peter 2:1 - 22

September 16 2021 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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How does bad company corrupt good character?

September 15 2021

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Is the Covid-19 vaccine the mark of the beast?

September 15 2021

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Is the Covid-19 vaccine the mark of the beast?

September 15 2021

Answer by Danny Hickman , Believer in The Gospel Of Jesus Christ

Does the Bible advocate arranged marriages?

No! "The Bible" doesn't advocate arranged marriages. What would be different if only "saved" people got married? Answer: Bad marriages and divorces would...

September 15 2021 2 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by Jack Gutknecht , ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church

What can we learn from the life of Hezekiah?

1. Hezekiah trusted in the Lord 2 Kings 18:5: “He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor...

September 15 2021 1 More Answer Follow Vote Up

Answer by Jack Gutknecht , ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church

What can we learn from the life of Hezekiah?

1. Hezekiah trusted in the Lord 2 Kings 18:5: “He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor...

September 15 2021 2 More Answers Follow Vote Up

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What does it mean in Rom 3:27 that boasting is excluded because of the law that requires faith?

September 14 2021

Answer by Tim Maas , Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army

How will we be "enriched in every way"? (2 Corinthians 9:11)

I would say that Paul is concentrating here not on a form or amount by which a person is enriched, nor is he preaching a so-called "prosperity gospel" --...

September 14 2021 3 More Answers Follow Vote Up

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What did Jesus mean by "whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it" in Matthew 16:25?

September 14 2021

Answer by Tim Maas , Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army

How does Christ’s blood "cleanse our consciences"? (Hebrews 9:14)

I would say that the reference is to the fact of the God-given conscience existing to allow people to recognize things that they should or should not do --...

September 14 2021 2 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by Eldon MavBeth

Is it true that everything happens for a reason?

God does not control everything that happens. He gave us a will, and the power of choice, therefore many things that happen are the result of our choices....

September 14 2021 3 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by Eldon MavBeth

Is it true that everything happens for a reason?

God does not control everything that happens. He gave us a will, and the power of choice, therefore many things that happen are the result of our choices....

September 14 2021 3 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Comment by Albert DeBenedictis , Retired computer programmer

Why is "doing good" necessary to gain eternal life? (Romans 2:7)

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Hi James. I agree with everything you wrote. There is nothing anyone can do to earn eternal life. God has provided a way for us to obtain eternal life. God...

September 14 2021

Question by Jack Gutknecht , ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church

How does Christ’s blood "cleanse our consciences"? (Hebrews 9:14)

Hebrews 9:14 (NIV) says Hebrews 9:14 New International Version 14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered...

Hebrews 9:11 - 28

September 14 2021 3 Answers Follow Vote Up

Comment by James Kraft , 74 year old retired pipeline worker

Why is "doing good" necessary to gain eternal life? (Romans 2:7)

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Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, and we all sin, First John 1:8, and we all die. Physical death. But the GIFT of God is eternal life, through Jesus...

September 14 2021

Comment by James Kraft , 74 year old retired pipeline worker

Why is "doing good" necessary to gain eternal life? (Romans 2:7)

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The same is also true for those that live highly moral lives and do good works, but have never accepted Jesus as the only way of salvation by grace. Living...

September 14 2021

Comment by James Kraft , 74 year old retired pipeline worker

Why is "doing good" necessary to gain eternal life? (Romans 2:7)

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You have to get to Romans 3 to understand romans 2. Romans 2 is showing that pagan moralizers are just as guilty as we all are. Romans 3:23 For all have...

September 14 2021

Answer by Fran Joa , Interested in God and hopeful

Why is leprosy talked about so much in the Bible?

Could it be that the Bible talks a lot about leprosy because it represents something important? Let me explain what I mean by sharing what I think is the...

September 14 2021 3 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by Albert DeBenedictis , Retired computer programmer

Why is "doing good" necessary to gain eternal life? (Romans 2:7)

No. We do not have to do works to go to gain eternal life. One obtains eternal life by recognizing one is a sinner, repents of their sinful ways, and accepts...

September 14 2021 3 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Comment by Albert DeBenedictis , Retired computer programmer

Why is "doing good" necessary to gain eternal life? (Romans 2:7)

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Hi Jack, You pose a very interesting question. We need to figure out what the Apostle Paul was trying to convey when he wrote Romans 2:7. Assuming the...

September 14 2021