Who was Shecaniah?
2 Then Shekaniah son of Jehiel, one of the descendants of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the peoples ...
Ezra 10:1 - 4
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Jack Gutknecht
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Why did God command Israelite men to put away their unbelieving wives, but Paul said not to do so?
PROBLEM: Ezra made all the returning Israelites put away their “pagan wives” because they were “adding to the guilt of Israel” (Ezra 10:10). However, when Pa...
Ezra 10:10 - 44
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Grant Abbott
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What did Jesus mean by "whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it" in Matthew 16:25?
This passage is Jesus' challenge to all of us. What will we do about Jesus' claims about himself? He is the unique Son of God and the universal Saviour of...
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Lawrie Yinka
Is there anyone who doesn’t have a beginning of days or end of life (apart from the Holy Trinity)?
Hebrews 7:8 indicates that Melchizedek lives. Here mortal men receive tithes, but there he receives them, of whom it is witnessed that he lives (Hebrews 7...
Hebrews 7:3
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
How can I encounter God in a fresh way?
Three ways that occur to me would be: continually increasing knowledge of God through study of His revealed word in the Bible (either individually or as part...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
Who were some significant women mentioned in the Bible?
Names that come to mind (with the verse in which they are first mentioned): Eve (Wife of Adam and progenitrix of the human race)(Genesis 2:22-23) Sarah (Wife...
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Philip Blottenberger
What did Jesus mean by "whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it" in Matthew 16:25?
1 John 2.15,16 reads "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in...
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What is nominalism? What is a nominalist?
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What does the Bible say about underage drinking?
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What is the kenosis?
The term kenosis comes from the Greek word for the doctrine of Christ's self-emptying in His incarnation. The kenosis was a self-renunciation, not an...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
How do people "subdue" the earth? (Genesis 1:28)
Genesis 1:28 “subdue it, and rule over…” These terms indicate active power or rule involving physical force or effort. Active rule is not destructive, as...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
What does the Bible say about heaven?
The Bible speaks of three heavens -- the atmosphere surrounding Earth; interstellar space; and the eternal abode of God (to which Paul referred in 2...
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How long were Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden before the Fall?
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Aurel Gheorghe
Why didn't the nakedness of Adam and Eve embarrass them before the fall (Genesis 2:25)?
Many Bible commentators, both Jewish and Christian, appear to agree that before the fall Adam and Eve's nakedness was covered by divine light - in other...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
Were the sons of God fallen angels?
As suggested in the question, my understanding is that, in the opinion of early Hebrew interpreters, as well as the purported authors of apocryphal and...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Is there anything God cannot do?
I would like to add 2 things that I thought that God cannot do: 1. God’s purpose and power cannot be stopped. “And all the inhabitants of the earth are...
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Jay Saunders
Will there be animal sacrifices during the millennial kingdom?
Hebrews 10:1-18 clearly declares that Jesus is the final sacrifice for sin to those that believe in Jesus. Jesus also declared it on the cross when he said,...
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Kingsley Wagbaranta
Why didn’t God warn Adam and Eve about the serpent when they were in the Garden of Eden?
God knows tomorrow, God knew the future of man before creating man. Telling man about the serpent would have indirectly meant that the serpent is equal to...
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Scott Marino
What role should the church play in the community as a whole?
This is the mission field. The community is where the children of God, in Christ Jesus, are called to be light and salt. To serve others with a joy that...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
Were Adam and Eve real people or just myths? (Genesis 1:27)
To me, the most persuasive indication of the actual existence of Adam and Eve as individuals is contained in the various genealogies in the Bible of people...
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Scott Marino
Why didn’t God warn Adam and Eve about the serpent when they were in the Garden of Eden?
There was the stated command not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, for if so, you shall die. So it was the serpent, a divine being, part of...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
Are we in "a Daniel moment" right now with the coronavirus?
To me, the situations in the question are not strictly a parallel analogy. The actions taken by Nebuchadnezzar and Darius (which were resisted by Shadrach,...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
How do people "subdue" the earth? (Genesis 1:28)
I would say that God's command to humans to subdue the earth (prior to the fall of humanity into sin) went along with the command immediately following it,...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
Why didn't the nakedness of Adam and Eve embarrass them before the fall (Genesis 2:25)?
I believe that it was Mark Twain who said, "Man is the only animal that blushes...or needs to." Adam and Eve had no more reason to be ashamed in their...
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kel gens
Is there anything God cannot do?
God cannot be tempted: James 1:13 God cannot die: Habakkuk 1:12 God cannot be seen by mortal man: 1 Timothy 6:16, Exodus 33:20 God cannot increase in wisdom:...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Why didn't the nakedness of Adam and Eve embarrass them before the fall (Genesis 2:25)?
25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
Genesis 2:25
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Were Adam and Eve real people or just myths? (Genesis 1:27)
Genesis 1:27 "So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them."
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
How do people "subdue" the earth? (Genesis 1:28)
Genesis 1:27-28 27So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28God blessed them and said ...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Are we in "a Daniel moment" right now with the coronavirus?
According to Daniel 6, the king (or the government at the time) told Daniel what he could not do, as far as his worship was concerned. He disobeyed the gover...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
Why didn’t God warn Adam and Eve about the serpent when they were in the Garden of Eden?
God had told Adam and Eve the only things they needed to know -- that they were not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and that the...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
Why didn’t God warn Adam and Eve about the serpent when they were in the Garden of Eden?
God had told Adam and Eve the only things they needed to know -- that they were not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and that the...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
What is the biblical view of a man having a beard or other facial hair?
To me, it would be safe to conclude that the majority of men in biblical times (whether Jews or Gentiles) would have had facial hair, both from the...
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When a person has a long-standing illness and decides against further treatment, is that a sin?
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Why would the shepherd in Psalm 23:5 anoint the sheep's head with oil?
1. Bugs. Sheep are particularly susceptible to flies landing on their noses. These flies travel up the sheep’s nose and lay eggs which turn into worms that...
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Kathy Akers
Why didn’t God warn Adam and Eve about the serpent when they were in the Garden of Eden?
When Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden and were permitted to eat fruits from all trees except one, why didn’t God warn them of the serpent and his temp...
Genesis 1:1 - 31
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Ron Garbe Garbe
How long were Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden before the Fall?
I think it was a short time. Satan would have begun his attack to bring on the rebellion swiftly! They had no children before the fall, because those...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
Why would the shepherd in Psalm 23:5 anoint the sheep's head with oil?
I would say that, while the psalm starts with imagery likening God's care for His followers to the care of a shepherd for his sheep, the verse of the psalm...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
What does the Bible say about forgiving yourself?
What does God do with our sins? He has cast all my sins behind his back, removed our transgressions from us as far as the east is from the west, cast all our...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Why is John chapter 3 verse 16 popular?
I believe that John 3:16 is so popular is because it declares God's Love "For God so loved the world..." “God.” Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Why would the shepherd in Psalm 23:5 anoint the sheep's head with oil?
“Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.”
Psalms 23:5
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How would the Son be like "the snake in the wilderness"? John 3:14
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What is the Day-Age Theory?
God created the Earth and everything in it in six 24 hour periods just as the scriptures say. Evolutionists will argue that the Earth is old. "You can tell...
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Why do people reject Jesus as their Savior?
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How should we pray during this Covid-19 pandemic, bearing in mind it may be part of our sovereign Lord's plan?
When we consider what God's will might be in relation to specific events in our world, like the Covid-19 pandemic, I believe it is important that we first...
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Grant Abbott
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What does it mean that God sends rain on the just and the unjust alike in Matthew 5?
In the bible, the Holy Spirit, as the author of all scripture, uses the term "blessed" to refer to God's relationship with human beings, his creation. The...