What should we learn from the life of Gomer in Hosea?
The story of Hosea and Gomer is several stories wrapped into one. Just as Paul, in the New Testament, compares God's love for us and our relationship with...
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Bryan Naidoo
, Post graduate and pastor
What does it mean that Satan masquerades as an angel of light?
Did Satan not say to Eve in the garden, "Who said you cannot touch or eat?" That is the role of Satan, to pretend to be the light, yet he is full of...
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Didn’t John the Baptist know Jesus when Jesus met him at the Jordan River?
I am watching Jesus His life on the history channel.
Matthew 3:14
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What should we learn from the life of Timothy?
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What does it mean that the Bible is inspired?
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What is the curse of Jeconiah?
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by Danny Hickman
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Is it wrong for a married couple to have sex just for pleasure?
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To believe that sex for pleasure is not right is to believe that pleasure of any kind is not right, in my opinion. Almost everything we do we do to get a...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
How does God prove himself holy? (Ezekiel 28:25)
I would say that, in the verse cited in the question, the word "holy" is being used not in the sense of being sinless (which it can also mean, depending on...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
How does God prove himself holy? (Ezekiel 28:25)
NIRV The Lord and King says, “I will gather the people of Israel together from the nations where they have been scattered. That will prove that I am holy. I ...
Ezekiel 28:25
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by Shantkumar S. Kunjam
, An Indian, Mennonite Church, Pastor, Administrator, Bishop,
What should we learn from the story of the rich man and Lazarus?
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I agree with your answer, Michael, but you have not emphasized the most important teaching of the parable. The whole chapter 26 of Luke's Gospel is devoted...
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How did the sun’s shadow go back? (Isaiah 38:7–8)
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by Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
How did the sun’s shadow go back? (Isaiah 38:7–8)
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I love your answers, Mr. Tim Maas!
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by James Kraft
, 74 year old retired pipeline worker
How do I get the image of God as imposing and angry out of my mind?
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God does chasten his children. We can make our heavenly father angry at us. Just like our earthly fathers chastened us, so will our heavenly father chasten...
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What is the Biblical concept of righteousness?
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Do we become angels after we die?
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Steve Verley
What does it mean that no one can know the Father except those the Son is willing to reveal Him to?
Rosemary, I am one to whom the Son chose to reveal the Father, and I think the answer is much simpler than we think. If Jesus revealed the Father to someone...
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Shirley H
, Wife, mother, veteran in the spiritual war we all face!
What did God mean when he said, "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee" in Jeremiah 1:5?
I believe that every individual is a product of God's creative activity. Each one formed, known of God. By Christ's blood, as followers, believers, we are...
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by James Kraft
, 74 year old retired pipeline worker
Does God love everyone or just Christians?
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John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life; he that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. We all...
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What is the Biblical concept of righteousness?
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Richard Marks
Who am I supposed to choose when put in a situation between my own child or my husband, who is not my son's biological father?
This problem arises because of the first issue of not understanding what marriage covenant requires. Too often a woman, or the man, marries out of necessity...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
Is it right to cover sins or not? --Proverbs 28:13
I would say that (as the verse from Proverbs cited in the question indicates) attempting to "cover" known personal transgressions -- although such...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Is it right to cover sins or not? --Proverbs 28:13
Proverbs 28:13: He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. The problem here is this: God warn...
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by Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
What does it mean that the LORD is one?
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In regard to the comment above, I would say that God is indeed an eternal and omnipresent Being who does involve Himself in earthly or human affairs, and who...
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n.l. pearson
, bible study teacher/revealer of the WORD
Why does unbelief appear to be increasing in the world today?
The increase in disbelief has been coming for as long as I can remember; our enemy, the devil is very busy (he started in the Garden of Eden). Now we have...
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by William Strowder
What does it mean that the LORD is one?
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I respectfully disagree. In my opinion, it means that The Lord is one with all things, at all times and in all places. It's similar to the Greek mathematical...
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Adeep Srivastava
, A Christian
Why did God destroy so many people—including wives and children—for the sins of a few? (Numbers 16:21-35)
During the Old Testament even the keepers of laws (mere human beings) were allowed to kill a person if the person committed a terrible sin. They were allowed...
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Bryan Naidoo
, Post graduate and pastor
Can restoration occur after a pastor has been caught in a scandal?
This question has been argued by many learned scholars. Some quote the restoration of King David after committing adultery and murder, claiming there is room...
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by David Green
, Baptist deacon and lay preacher who enjoys leading worship.
Why is the science community so opposed to creationism?
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My experience of rsponding to "difficult" questions about the origin of life, without wishing to be patronising or dumbing down the question, is to put it...
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Derrol PORTER
, Emancipated by the Liberating King
What is the Biblical concept of righteousness?
I would like to sum up what I have read in these answers. Righteousness has a two facet application when it comes to Christianity. First, there is Positional...
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Do we have two or three parts? Body, soul, and spirit?
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
What's left in place of Tyre today? Ezekiel 26:14
From Ezekiel 26:14, "never be rebuilt" is best understood to mean that Tyre's glory and prestige would never be restored. It took Nebuchadnezzar 13 years to...
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What is the sea of glass mentioned in Revelation 4:6 and 15:2?
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What is the second death?
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
How did the sun’s shadow go back? (Isaiah 38:7–8)
Of course, one possibility for the believer is that it is just something that God miraculously made to happen (as He had earlier in the case of Joshua...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
What's left in place of Tyre today? Ezekiel 26:14
Aside from the ruins of the ancient city of Tyre that remain in modern times, my understanding is that the the city's former location corresponds to the site...
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What is the New King James Version (NKJV)?
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
What's left in place of Tyre today? Ezekiel 26:14
14 I will make you like the top of a rock; you shall be a place for spreading nets, and you shall never be rebuilt, for I the Lord have spoken,’ says the Lor...
Ezekiel 26:14
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
How did the sun’s shadow go back? (Isaiah 38:7–8)
4 And the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying, 5 “Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: “I have heard your prayer, I h...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
What is the New King James Version (NKJV)?
The NKJV was commissioned in 1975 (BTW, the year I graduated from seminary) by Thomas Nelson Publishers. One-hundred-and-thirty respected Bible scholars,...
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by Shantkumar S. Kunjam
, An Indian, Mennonite Church, Pastor, Administrator, Bishop,
What is the purpose of marriage?
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Thanks, Michael, for the nice answer. I believe that, though the word 'marriage' is not used for the marriage of Adam and Eve, it was a marriage and the...
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by Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
What is God saying in this verse that, "I have given you cleanliness of teeth"?
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Mr. Maas, I had to laugh at your saying, "At first reading, the phrase cleanness of teeth" (which is apparently the literal word-for-word translation of the...
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Do we receive mansions in heaven?
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by Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
What is God saying in this verse that, "I have given you cleanliness of teeth"?
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"3. Prepare your hearts (1 Sam 7:3; Chr. 29:18)," did you mean 1 Chr. 29:18 or 2 Chr. 29:18?
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by Chris Heier
, Retired, living in Mexico and Arizona
Is handing out gospel tracts a good evangelism method?
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I recently received a tract while waiting for lab work at the hospital. An elderly gentleman handed me a leaflet about God's Peace and a chocolate Kiss. He...