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Answer by Jay Saunders

What happens during the rapture to body parts donated by Christian organ donors to non-Christians?

Is anything impossible for our Lord God to do? He made all that you can see that man did not make yet even then he made the matter that man uses to create...

January 26 2019 2 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by Yemlu Napoleon Ngafi

How do I prepare to meet God? (Amos 4:12)

This probably is the most important question every mankind should think about. Every believer knows that the rapture will occur at any moment from now, when...

January 26 2019 Follow Vote Up

Answer by James Kraft , 74 year old retired pipeline worker

Does 1 Peter 3:21 teach that baptism is necessary for salvation?

What we have to remember is to divide the word of God correctly. Paul was ordained by God and taught the gospel of grace without works for salvation as a...

January 26 2019 1 Comments 15 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Comment by Gary Wainwright , Follower of Jesus Christ, Husband, Father, Civil Engineer

How good do I have to be to enter heaven?

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We were saved when His righteous was imputed to us (when we believed and trusted Jesus as our Lord and Saviour) therefore good works does not contribute to...

January 26 2019

Comment by Patricia Robinson

What is the origin of the different ethnicities among the human race?

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Yahveh God made Adam from the soil of the earth. I pointed out, to my son, that soil comes in different colors, sometimes depending on how deep one digs. I...

January 26 2019

Answer by James Rogers

What will happen to our bodies and souls in the rapture?

The assumption that we will have a physical body in Heaven may be inaccurate. Being made in the Image of God, who is Spirit, seems to mean that when we are...

January 26 2019 1 More Answer Follow Vote Up

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Can the devil read your mind/know your thoughts?

January 26 2019

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What does the Bible say about faith vs. fear?

January 26 2019

Answer by James Rogers

What happens during the rapture to body parts donated by Christian organ donors to non-Christians?

According to Jesus Christ we are created in the image of God. Therefore we are a soul, or spirit if you will, with a body here on earth. When we die or are...

January 26 2019 2 Comments 2 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by Kevin Honeycutt , Servant of Jesus Christ

How good do I have to be to enter heaven?

You cannot live a good enough to earn salvation, you must obey the Gospel as Jesus said 2 Thessalonians 1:8 " In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that...

January 26 2019 9 Comments 3 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Comment by Ade Kartawidjaja

Where did the woman that Cain married come from?

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Based on the book of Jubilee, Adam and Eve had 9 children. The Bible only mentioned 3 because the marriage between siblings is a taboo subject.

January 26 2019

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

Why would anyone be so cavalier about his sin? (Numbers 25:6)

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Oh, one more piece of information, where the tribe of Simeon was positioned, the Midianites camp connected. The sin of Zimri and Cozbi was most probably near...

January 26 2019

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

Why would anyone be so cavalier about his sin? (Numbers 25:6)

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Sorry, thought you were referring to Phineas. So... To be clear, this Zimri is not the Zimri of 1Kings 16:15-20. This Zimri had political aspirations. A...

January 26 2019

Comment by James Kraft , 74 year old retired pipeline worker

Does 1 Peter 3:21 teach that baptism is necessary for salvation?

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Act 11:16 Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how he said, John indeed baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized by the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 1:13...

January 26 2019

Comment by Kevin Honeycutt , Servant of Jesus Christ

What is the prayer of salvation?

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Romans is a letter written to an already saved group "church" of people. You can read what they are told they must do back in the book of Acts. Jews were...

January 26 2019

Comment by Allen Dicker

What is Taize worship, and is it biblical?

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I have studied the rise of new age practices in the church. The terms "contemplative prayer" are new age buzz words referring to centering prayer, not God...

January 26 2019

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

What happens during the rapture to body parts donated by Christian organ donors to non-Christians?

I would say that organs do not represent the "personhood" of an individual. The only possible effect that occurs to me that the transplanting of an organ...

January 26 2019 2 More Answers Follow Vote Up

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

What is the Sunday law that Ron Wyatt prophesied about on his deathbed?

To my knowledge, the term "Sunday law" refers to the predicted institution of a legal requirement for everyone to observe the Sabbath on Sunday, thus...

January 25 2019 1 Comments 1 More Answer Follow Vote Up

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How can I not go to hell?

January 25 2019

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How can I get to know God better?

January 25 2019

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

How could the heavens and the earth be witnesses? (Deuteronomy 30:19)

In my opinion, the terms "heaven" and "earth" are meant in this verse -- as they also are in other instances in the Bible -- to encompass or denote all the...

January 25 2019 1 Comments 1 More Answer Follow Vote Up

Comment by Kevin Honeycutt , Servant of Jesus Christ

What is the prayer of salvation?

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That is what you say, but here is what the Bible says, Mark 16:16 "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be...

January 25 2019

Answer by Lena Crandell

How can I help my child who was sexually abused?

Pray pray pray. Your son needs to see God in you, his primary guardian. The anger and heartache many people feel who are abuse survivors are from feeling...

January 25 2019 3 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Comment by Aurel Gheorghe

How good do I have to be to enter heaven?

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Salvation is a gift from God that we receive by grace. Jesus took the punishment for our sins upon Himself. Good works cannot save us regardless how good we...

January 25 2019

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

What is the Bible's position on social drinking?

If, as the Bible says, Psalm 104:15 King James Version (KJV) 15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man..." but also Proverbs 20:1 "Wine is a mocker an...

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How could the sun stop (Joshua 10:13-14)? Wouldn't the earth have had to stop, instead, and everything go flying off?

January 25 2019

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Why does it seem that sexual temptation is a bigger problem for men than for women?

January 25 2019

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How good do I have to be to enter heaven?

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Answer by Lena Crandell

How can I find the way to accept God as a loving father when I was raped and abused as a child?

As a child abuse survivor, I can relate to your grief and feelings of abandonment by an all-powerful, all-seeing God. My questions were, "If You truly loved...

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How do Christians make their "calling and election" certain?

January 25 2019

Comment by James Kraft , 74 year old retired pipeline worker

What is the prayer of salvation?

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Repentance for salvation is the Greek word metanoeo. It means to change your mind from what ever you were trusting to save us, to trusting in what Jesus did...

January 25 2019

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

Why would anyone be so cavalier about his sin? (Numbers 25:6)

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Phinehas, I would agree, was certainly not cavalier about his sin, but I meant Zimri, who was "one of the people of Israel [who] came and brought a Midianite...

January 25 2019

Comment by Darius C

Where did the woman that Cain married come from?

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Back then in Adam and Eve's time there was no law - no incest. And it has been mentioned above a few times that Adam and Eve were created by God; their genes...

January 25 2019

Comment by Terry Gillard , Worship Leader and Engineer

What is Taize worship, and is it biblical?

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Allen, please note there is a very great gulf between contemplative prayer which is focussed on Jesus, and Buddhist-based meditation where the mind is...

January 25 2019

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

What is Taize worship, and is it biblical?

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Allen, I believe you missed the point. Christian meditative prayer is based on God's word and not some mystic emptying of the mind to achieve some kind of...

January 25 2019

Comment by Gary Wainwright , Follower of Jesus Christ, Husband, Father, Civil Engineer

How good do I have to be to enter heaven?

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Salvation is either a gift or it must be earned (Romans 4:4). If a believer is expected to maintain their salvation then salvation is by works which is a...

January 25 2019

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

How is God a shield? (Psalm 84:11)

In Genesis 15:1, The Lord came to Abraham in a vision and said, do not be afraid, I Am your shield, your great reward. Deuteronomy 33:29, reveals that God is...

January 25 2019 3 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by James Kraft , 74 year old retired pipeline worker

How good do I have to be to enter heaven?

When we believe the gospel, First Corinthians 15:1-4, that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and that He was buried and rose again on the...

January 25 2019 1 Comments 3 More Answers Follow Vote Up

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

What are our secret sins? (Psalm 90:8)

I would refer you to Psalm 19:12, "Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from my secret faults." When we consider God in His perfection, we see how we...

January 25 2019 1 More Answer Follow Vote Up

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

What is the meaning of the cross?

To me when I think of the cross, I remember Jesus' commitment of love. I particularly think of Matthew 10:38,39: "And he who does not take his cross and...

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Answer by Kevin Honeycutt , Servant of Jesus Christ

What is the prayer of salvation?

No one is told to say a prayer or believe only. Here is what the Apostles taught to everyone: Hear-Romans 10:17, Matthew 11:15, Acts 18:8. Believe- Mark...

January 25 2019 2 Comments 5 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Comment by gary mcpherson , follower of Christ

Is Mormonism a cult? What do Mormons believe?

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They are nice, good people and we should and do pray for their salvation through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

January 25 2019

Comment by Ed Besselman

What is the Christian view of smoking? Is smoking a sin?

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Cigarette smoking won't send you to hell... but it will sure make you smell like you've been there.

January 25 2019

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

How do I prepare to meet God? (Amos 4:12)

What does it mean to prepare to meet your God? (4:12) Amos 4:12 New International Version (NIV) 12 “Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel...

January 25 2019 1 Answer Follow Vote Up