Who was Achan?
I will address only Achan's sin. (I used to be a kleptomaniac before Jesus saved me--that's why this question interests me.) Achan’s first mistake was to...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
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Who was Heman in 1 Chronicles 6:33?
As indicated in the passage cited in the question, Heman was a minstrel from the priestly tribe of Levi. He was a grandson of the prophet Samuel. Because of...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
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Is it written in the Bible that a cremated body won’t rise to heaven?
No form of death or decomposition affects either the post-life existence of Christians in God's presence or the ability of God to reconstitute resurrected...
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John Appelt
What is Pascha?
‘Pascha’ is the Greek word for ‘Passover’ found 29 times in the New Testament. It was the feast commemorating the time when Israel left Egypt, Exodus...
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Richard Kean
Why did God have to test Abraham to see if he would sacrifice Isaac if He's omniscient and knows everything?
God doesn't give up his sovereignty by not choosing to know what humans will do. He was willing to take the risk of sin then to make Adam into a robot. If...
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by James Kraft
, 74 year old retired pipeline worker
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What can we learn from the thief on the cross?
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Water baptism never saved anyone. It is an outward expression of our salvation. Acts 11:16. We are baptized by the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 1:13-14. Ephesians...
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Danny Hickman
, Believer in The Gospel Of Jesus Christ
Who were the sons of God and daughters of men?
There's only one reason to leap to the conclusion that Genesis 6:1-4 is referring to something other than mortal men coupling with women and producing giant...
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Who was Heman in 1 Chronicles 6:33?
1 Chron. 6:33 These are the men who served and their sons. Of the sons of the Kohathites: Heman the singer the son of Joel, son of j Samuel,
1 Chronicles 6:1 - 81
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by Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
What is the meaning of the symbolism in Amos?
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Thank you, Shirley, and God bless you, too! One of the reasons I was so interested in this question was that I had to teach the Book of Amos to a small group...
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by Danny Hickman
, Believer in The Gospel Of Jesus Christ
Who were the sons of God and daughters of men?
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I'm with you Trish on this. I don't believe angels, fallen or otherwise, have sex. We don't read anywhere in scripture that angels, definitively, had sex...
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John Appelt
Who was Chedorlaomer / Kedorlaomer?
Chedorlaomer appears in the Bible only because of the connection with Abraham and Lot. He was the leading king of a confederacy, Genesis 14:1, that battled...
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by Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
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Why did Nicodemus go to see Jesus in the night?
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I would say that Nicodemus went to Jesus in the first place because of his realization (as he indicated in talking with Him) that Jesus was someone who had...
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by Charles Wesley Gajilly
Why did Nicodemus go to see Jesus in the night?
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I’m actually not asking why Nicodemus went to Jesus in the night, but, “WHY DID NICODEMUS GO TO JESUS IN THE FIRST PLACE?” I hope that makes sense.
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Todd Rushing
What Jesus was writing in the dirt?
It is likely (but by no means certain) that since Jesus had told the Pharisees that the one without sin should cast the first stone, he may have been writing...
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Shirley H
, Wife, mother, veteran in the spiritual war we all face!
Why is “if” someone repents we are to forgive stated here? Are we to not always to forgive whether the offender asks for forgiveness or not?
1 John 1:8: "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." Matthew 6:14: "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your...
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What was Jesus writing in the dirt when the Pharisees brought to Him a woman caught in adultery?
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What are the signs of a true believer, a Christian?
Since salvation is by faith alone, it is impossible to tell a true believer from an unbeliever. Romans 4:5. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on Him...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
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Who was Zerubbabel?
According to the genealogies in Matthew and Luke, Zerubbabel (whose name means "offspring of Babylon") was an ancestor of Jesus through Joseph's royal line...