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  1. How can believers be poor and rich at the same time? Revelation 2:9
  2. What happened to the gentiles before Jesus came?
  3. What witnessing principles can Christians learn from the lepers' response in 2 Kings 7:3–9?
  4. What is the role of Elihu in the book of Job?
  5. What is the meaning of the flying scroll in Zechariah 5, and how is it connected to God's judgment on thieves and liars?
  6. What did Paul mean by "dogs" in Philippians 3:2?
  7. How are believers supposed to 'learn Christ,' according to Ephesians 4:20?
  8. What does it mean that Christ "was crucified in weakness" (2 Cor. 13:4)?
  9. Why did the Lord favor Abel’s offering more than Cain’s?
  10. Why include a final warning about adding or subtracting from this book? Revelation 22:18-19


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

Does Mark 16:16 teach that baptism is necessary for salvation?

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Kevin, Mark 16:16 doesn't say "whoever is not baptized is condemned." It says 'whoever doesn't believe is condemned.' So, evidently you are misreading the...

May 10 2019

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

Should we tithe off our gross or net income?

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Gary you are being biblical which means you are telling it right. It's up to the pastors to do as you're doing and teach their congregations the truth, or...

May 10 2019

Answer by Jack Gutknecht , Arizona Bible College graduate and Dallas Seminary graduate

Who are Oholah and Oholibah in the Bible?

In the Hebrew Bible, Oholah (אהלה) and Oholibah (אהליבה) (or: Aholah and Aholibah) are pejorative personifications, i.e. contemptuous/disparaging...

May 10 2019 1 More Answer Follow Vote Up

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What does the Bible say about soul sleep?

May 10 2019

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

How did Paul and his companions purify themselves in the account of Acts 21:26?

My understanding of the purification in which Paul and his companions would have participated prior to entering the temple involved the use of a "mikvah" (or...

May 09 2019 1 More Answer Follow Vote Up

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What kind of pit was David in? (Psalm 40:2)

May 09 2019

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

Is the 7-day calendar based on Genesis 2:2-3, in which the seven day week was first mentioned?

From what I have read, although multiple cultures (such as Persia, Greece, India, China, and Babylon) in ancient times adopted or observed a calendar based...

May 09 2019 1 More Answer Follow Vote Up

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

Who are Oholah and Oholibah in the Bible?

Oholah and Oholibah were names given by God to the prophet Ezekiel to represent Israel and Judah, respectively, following the division of the original twelve...

May 09 2019 1 More Answer Follow Vote Up

Comment by Kevin Honeycutt , Servant of Jesus Christ

Does Mark 16:16 teach that baptism is necessary for salvation?

Comment:
Danny, Mark 16:16, 1 Peter 3:21, Galatians 3:27 does!!!

May 09 2019

Comment by Jack Gutknecht , Arizona Bible College graduate and Dallas Seminary graduate

Was this a physical attack? (Song of Solomon 5:7)

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I hadn't thought of that; I would guess you're right, then.

May 09 2019

Comment by Dorothy Mathieson

Why did Jesus heal only one person at the pool of Bethesda?

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To keep walking with God is the surest way to continue in the healing.

May 09 2019

Comment by Dorothy Mathieson

Why did Jesus heal only one person at the pool of Bethesda?

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To keep walking with God is the surest way to continue in the healing.

May 09 2019

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

What can we learn from Hezekiah's prayer in 2 Kings 19:14-19?

If we read a bit more in the chapter, we see that God sent a messenger to Hezekiah. He tells Hezekiah that he heard him. In 2 Chronicles 32:20, we see...

May 09 2019 Follow Vote Up

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

What is the meaning of the Parable of one desiring to build a tower, and the king who wishes to go to war with another?

The meaning of the parable of the tower and going to war with a king who's stronger starts in the beginning of the chapter of Luke 14. Jesus heals a man...

May 09 2019 Follow Vote Up

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What was the practice of casting lots?

May 09 2019

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What was the practice of casting lots?

May 09 2019

Answer by Ben Jones , Retired Professional Photographer

Why did Jesus ask the man at the pool if he wanted to get well?

Perhaps the man after being crippled for 38 years had given up hope of ever being healed, or maybe he was afraid that if he were healed he would not be able...

May 09 2019 2 Comments 3 More Answers Follow Vote Up

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Is Paul saying he wants married people to live as unmarried in 1 Corinthians 7:29?

May 09 2019

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What is Jesus Culture? Is Jesus Culture biblical?

May 09 2019

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How does God see me in Christ?

May 09 2019

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What is a concubine? Why did God allow men to have concubines in the Bible?

May 09 2019

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Who will go to heaven?

May 09 2019

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

Was this a physical attack? (Song of Solomon 5:7)

By my reading of the narrative, the events described in the passage cited in the question occurred in a dream, and thus were not an actual physical attack.

May 08 2019 1 Comments Follow Vote Up

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

Is Paul saying he wants married people to live as unmarried in 1 Corinthians 7:29?

In my opinion, Paul is saying that any Christian's relationship with God takes precedence over any human relationship -- even one as close as marriage. He is...

May 08 2019 Follow Vote Up

Answer by Gene Deloach

Is it wrong to be a Christian secretly in order to preserve your own life?

Matt 10:32-34 the words confess and deny are very specific words of action. To verbally confess has as its direct opposite action of verbally denying. I’m...

May 08 2019 10 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Comment by Chris Heier , Retired, living in Mexico and Arizona

Who is the Queen of Heaven?

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Well said, Cindy. God the Father sent our Lord Jesus not to establish an earthly Jewish Kingdom. But to establish God’s Kingdom, the church, whose head is...

May 08 2019

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What does the Bible say about the prosperity gospel?

May 08 2019

Comment by Ezekiel Kimosop

Does God require Sabbath-keeping of Christians?

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Wow, great reflections here. I believe that Jesus consummated the Sabbath when He entered His rest so that those who are in Christ are not bound by the Law...

May 08 2019

Question by Charles Crabtree

Is Paul saying he wants married people to live as unmarried in 1 Corinthians 7:29?

What is Paul really saying in this passage?

1 Corinthians 7:29

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

Does Mark 16:16 teach that baptism is necessary for salvation?

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All the members of the church I attend have been baptized, I don't have to read about the conversions in the book of Acts to know about baptism, Kevin....

May 08 2019

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On what day of the week would the breaking of bread in Acts 20:7 have taken place? Would it be on our same calendar day in modern times?

May 08 2019

Answer by Patricia Robinson

On what day of the week would the breaking of bread in Acts 20:7 have taken place? Would it be on our same calendar day in modern times?

During Apostle Paul's time, the 1st day of the week would be what is now called Sunday by the gentiles. The Hebrews called days of the week by numbers just...

May 08 2019 2 More Answers Follow Vote Up

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

Why ship your grain across the sea? (Ecclesiastes11:1)

These two verses Ecclesiastes 11:1,2 I believe are easier to understand in the KJV Bible. They read, "Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it...

May 08 2019 Follow Vote Up

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

What kind of pit was David in? (Psalm 40:2)

In my opinion, David was speaking of being lifted out of a slimy pit in a figurative sense, saying that whatever difficulties or troubles he had faced had...

May 08 2019 2 More Answers Follow Vote Up

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

Why does Paul call Jesus the first to rise from the dead when other people had been raised from the dead, such as Lazarus?

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I can only suggest that perhaps Moses and Elijah (although alive) were somehow different in their post-earthly experiences than Jesus with respect to having...

May 08 2019

Comment by Patricia Robinson

Is the 7-day calendar based on Genesis 2:2-3, in which the seven day week was first mentioned?

Comment:
Yes. However, one of the Roman emperors started an eight day week. It did not last long.

May 08 2019

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

Can man live without God?

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Continuing,... Lk 16 isn't about whether hell can be seen from heaven, or any of the other distractions this story causes to pop up into the minds of people....

May 08 2019

Question by Jack Gutknecht , Arizona Bible College graduate and Dallas Seminary graduate

What kind of pit was David in? (Psalm 40:2)

Psalm 40 New International Version (NIV) Psalm 40[a] For the director of music. Of David. A psalm. 1 I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me...

May 08 2019 3 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

Why wasn't Cain's punishment death?

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Ultimately, no one escapes the death penalty. Nothing extra is added to death when it is expedited for the purpose of spotlighting God's corrective measures....

May 08 2019

Comment by Kenneth Heck

Why does Paul call Jesus the first to rise from the dead when other people had been raised from the dead, such as Lazarus?

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Moses and Elijah appeared to Jesus , but they were not resurrected. If they had been they would have walked in physical bodies again just as Christ did....

May 08 2019

Comment by John Matthews , Retired Professional Singer, Conductor and Seeker

Why does Paul call Jesus the first to rise from the dead when other people had been raised from the dead, such as Lazarus?

Comment:
Tim, what about Matthew 17:3 ? Moses and Elijah appeared to Jesus and the apostles. Are those two resurrected?

May 08 2019

Comment by Jennifer Rothnie , Housewife, Artist, Perpetually Curious

Is the theory of Pangea possible? Does the Bible say that there was once a Pangea / Pangaea?

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It's worth mentioning that most geologists believe there were *two* super-continents at different times - first Rodinia, and later Pangaea. While some...

May 08 2019

Comment by Troy Davidson

Is the theory of Pangea possible? Does the Bible say that there was once a Pangea / Pangaea?

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PSALM 104 New American Standard Bible 6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters were standing above the mountains. 7 At Your rebuke they...

May 08 2019