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

What is the purpose and message of psalm 121?

Although (to my knowledge) Psalm 121 was not prophetic of any later event, nor specifically cited or alluded to by any of the writers of the New Testament,...

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What does it mean that it is by grace we have been saved, through faith, and that this is not of ourselves but is the gift of God?

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

Was it God who introduced money into the world?

As I see it, the use of money arose from the need to have a medium of exchange that could represent the value of specific items, without requiring use of the...

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

Why did the curtain in the temple tear in two "from top to bottom"? (Matthew 27:51)

If the wording of the question is asking specifically about why the tear in the veil of the temple started at the top of the veil and ran vertically all the...

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

Why did the curtain in the temple tear in two "from top to bottom"? (Matthew 27:51)

Context: 50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. 51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from to...

Matthew 27:51

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What is the story of David and Bathsheba?

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What does it mean to pray without ceasing?

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

What does this verse mean: "There is one who scatters, yet increases more; and there is one who withholds more than is right, but it leads to poverty"?

I would say that the verse is speaking of individuals' attitudes and practices toward their material resources (including money), and how those attitudes and...

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

What baptism is Jesus referring to when he says "be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with" in Mk 10:39?

In my opinion, Jesus was not speaking of baptism in a sacramental or beneficial sense, but was likening the degree of His forthcoming sufferings (in which he...

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Was it God who introduced money into the world?

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Answer by Ken White

What does the Bible say about confession of sin to a priest?

Many of you are taking this too literal... I have been a Catholic my entire life and nobody ever said we HAD to confess to a priest, but the Bible is clear...

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