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

What was in a "writing kit"? (Ezekiel 9:2)

Context: Ezekiel 9 New International Version (NIV) Judgment on the Idolaters 9 Then I heard him call out in a loud voice, “Bring near those who are appoin...

Ezekiel 9:2

October 08 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

Why would Israel’s sons come from afar? (Isaiah 60:4) Why will Israel's sons be so far away (Isaiah 60:4)?

4 “Lift up your eyes and look about you: All assemble and come to you; your sons come from afar, and your daughters are carried on the hip. 5 Then you will l...

Isaiah 60:1 - 22

October 08 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

Question by Mogobo Kgomo

What does the Bible say, if anything, about donating blood?

Will donating blood cause me to enter into a covenant with the person who receives my blood?

October 08 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

Question by Carl Buckalew

Can we pray for those who have died?

3 Votes October 08 2019 Follow Vote Up

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

Why did Job say creatures and the earth "teach" us? (Job 12:7–10)

7 “But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; 8 or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you...

Job 12:7 - 10

October 08 2019 2 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

What is "lovingkindness" (Psalm 103:4)?

4 Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;

Psalms 103:4

October 07 2019 2 Answers Follow Vote Up

Question by Nick Pyen

What does the Hebrew word spelled aleph tav mean? It occurs over 7000 times in the OT but is never translated into English.

Can/do we know the meaning and/or any significance of this word? I have heard possibilities which seem to add depth of understanding verses like Rev 1:8 or ...

1 Vote October 06 2019 1 Comment 4 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

How was the "hand of the Lord" upon Ezekiel? (Ezekiel 1:3)

3 The word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the Lord wa...

Ezekiel 1:3

October 04 2019 4 Answers Follow Vote Up

Question by cindy simons

Where was Zechariah when he wrote this book?

Zechariah 1:1

October 04 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

Was Jonah’s message of doom untrue? (Jonah 3:4)

4 Jonah began by going a day’s journey into the city, proclaiming, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.” Jonah 3:4, NIV

Jonah 3:4

October 03 2019 2 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

How did God send his word to Jonah? (Jonah 1:1)

Jonah 1-2 New International Version (NIV) Jonah Flees From the Lord 1 The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh...

Jonah 1:1

October 03 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

When is it right to disobey authority? (Acts 4:19)

Context, Acts 4:18-20 18 Then they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John replie...

Acts 4:19

October 03 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

Why did God curse the ground? What is this "cursed earth"?

17 To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the...

Genesis 3:17 - 19

1 Vote October 02 2019 2 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

Why did Jonah run from God? (Jonah 1:3)

But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went ab...

October 02 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

Why could Ruth take grain belonging to others? (Ruth 2:2)

2 And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.”

Ruth 2:2

October 02 2019 2 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

How was Babylon like a threshing floor? (Jeremiah 51:33)

33 This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “Daughter Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled; the time to ...

Jeremiah 51:33

October 02 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

Who ate Edom’s bread? (Obadiah 1:7)

Obadiah King James Version (KJV) 1 The vision of Obadiah. Thus saith the Lord God concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the Lord, and an ambassador i...

Obadiah 1:7

October 01 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

How is Christ the "atoning sacrifice"? 1 John 4:10

10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

1 John 4:10

October 01 2019 2 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

Why would people live among the rocks? (Obadiah 1:3)

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rocks and make your home on the heights, you who say to yourself, ...

Obadiah 1:3

September 30 2019 2 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

Who was God's war club in Jeremiah 51:20?

Jeremiah 51:20 NIV "You are my war club, my weapon for battle- with you I shatter nations, with you I destroy kingdoms, 21 with you I shatter horse and ride...

Jeremiah 51:20 - 23

September 30 2019 3 Answers Follow Vote Up

Question by Sani Joshua

How do we baptize people into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit?

The emphasis according to this part of scripture with regard to my question, for me, is baptizing them INTO the name.

Matthew 28:19

September 30 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

Why would God starve his people spiritually? (Amos 8:11–12)

11 “The time is coming when I will send famine on the land. People will be hungry, but not for bread; they will be thirsty, but not for water. They will hung...

Amos 8:11 - 12

September 27 2019 2 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

What were Jordan’s thickets? (Jeremiah 49:19)

19 “Like a lion coming up from Jordan’s thickets to a rich pastureland, I will chase Edom from its land in an instant. Who is the chosen one I wil...

Jeremiah 49:1

September 27 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

Why did the Teacher mention the value of companionship? (Ecclesiastes 4:9–12)

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 King James Version (KJV) 9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. 10 For if they fall, the one wi...

Ecclesiastes 4:9 - 12

September 27 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

Does God make people to be doomed? (Proverbs 16:4)

4 The Lord works out everything to its proper end— even the wicked for a day of disaster.

September 26 2019 2 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

Why does God sometimes seem to act like a jealous lover? (Hosea 2:13–14)

13 I will punish her for the days she burned incense to the Baals; she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, but ...

Hosea 2:13 - 14

1 Vote September 26 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

What "great things" did Baruch want for himself? (Jeremiah 45:5)

Context: A Message to Baruch 45 When Baruch son of Neriah wrote on a scroll the words Jeremiah the prophet dictated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of ...

Jeremiah 45:1 - 5

September 25 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

How did God remember Rachel? (Genesis 30:22)

22 Then God remembered Rachel; he listened to her and enabled her to conceive.

Genesis 30:22

September 24 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

What was the bridal week? (Genesis 29:27)

Context: 26 Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one. 27 Finish this daughter’s bridal week; ...

Genesis 29:27

September 24 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

What does it mean to be greedy as the grave? (Habakkuk 2:5)

Habakkuk 2:5 5indeed, wine betrays him; he is arrogant and never at rest. Because he is as greedy as the grave and like death is never satisfied, he gathers ...

Habakkuk 2:5

September 23 2019 2 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

Why ask God to remember? (Psalm 25:6)

Psalm 25:6 King James Version (KJV) 6 Remember, O Lord, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

Psalms 25:6

September 23 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

Question by Paul Thomas

What does "fruit of our lips" mean in Hebrews 13:15?

Hebrews 13:15

1 Vote September 23 2019 3 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

Can I love God and love the world? 1 John 2:15; Matthew 6:24; Romans 6:22

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.

Romans 6:22

September 22 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

Did Israel really offer human sacrifices? (Hosea 13:2)

Context: The Lord’s Anger Against Israel 13 When Ephraim spoke, people trembled; he was exalted in Israel. But he became guilty of Baal worship a...

Hosea 13:2

September 22 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

Had God forsaken David? (Psalm 22:1–2)

Context: Psalm 22 King James Version (KJV) 22 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roar...

Psalms 22:1

September 22 2019 2 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

Why leave the poor behind? (2 Kings 24:14)

Context: 2 Kings 24:10-14 KJV 10 At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged. 11 A...

2 Kings 24:14

September 21 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

How can rebellion make people stumble? (Hosea 14:9)

Who is wise? Let him discern these things! Who is discerning? Let him understand them! For the ways of the Lord are right; the godly walk in them, but in t...

Hosea 14:9

September 21 2019 3 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

What was a "scribe’s knife"? (Jeremiah 36:23)

0 What was a "scribe’s knife"? (Jeremiah 36:23) Context: 20 After they put the scroll in the room of Elishama the secretary, they went to the king in the ...

Jeremiah 36:23

September 20 2019 3 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

Does Psalm 91:8 mean that after a Christian dies, he will see the wicked punished?

Psalm 91:8 (Contemporary English Version) 8And with your own eyes you will see the punishment of the wicked.

Psalms 91:1 - 16

September 19 2019 3 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

Must people seek God before he seeks them? (Jeremiah 29:13)

13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

Jeremiah 29:13

1 Vote September 16 2019 2 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

How was Josiah able to overcome negative influences and do what was right? (2 Kings 22:2)

How was Josiah able to overcome negative influences and do "what was right"? (2 Kings 22:2) 2 Kings 22 New International Version (NIV) The Book of the La...

2 Kings 22:2

September 16 2019 2 Answers Follow Vote Up

Question by Gregory Jones

Why did Jesus say you can't serve two masters, you will hate one and love the other?

Why is it such an extreme to both ends of the spectrum? No middle ground?

Matthew 6:24

1 Vote September 16 2019 3 Answers Follow Vote Up

Question by Scott Williams

Does God promise to protect us?

1 Vote September 14 2019 3 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

Was God justified in bringing charges against Israel in the prophecy of Hosea, e.g. Hosea 4:16-17; 7:8-9, 11; 10:1; 12:1, 8?

16 The Israelites are stubborn, like a stubborn heifer. How then can the Lord pasture them like lambs in a meadow? 17 Ephraim is joined to idols;...

Hosea 4:16 - 17

September 14 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

How had the Israelites’ altars become “altars for sinning”? (Hosea 8:11–13)

11 “Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings, these have become altars for sinning. 12 I wrote for them the many things of my law, but t...

Hosea 8:11 - 13

September 12 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

Hosea 1:2—How could a holy God who condemns harlotry command Hosea to marry a harlot?

Hosea 1:2 2When the LORD began to speak through Hosea, the LORD said to him, "Go, marry a promiscuous woman and have children with her, for like an adulterou...

Hosea 1:2

1 Vote September 11 2019 5 Answers Follow Vote Up