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  1. How can we carry the death of Jesus in our bodies (2 Corinthians 4:10)?
  2. What does the Bible say about a married man becoming close friends with a single woman who has bad intentions?
  3. Why did God choose someone whose family worshipped Baal (Jg. 6:25)?
  4. Did Jeremiah fear God might let him down (Jeremiah 15:19)?
  5. Should a spouse physically leave their spouse to be near their child?
  6. Who is John MacArthur? Are his beliefs and teachings biblical?
  7. Who named Adam?
  8. What parts of early Christian worship have completely disappeared from modern services?
  9. Has everyone been kidnapped by sin?


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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?

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What is the Deutero-Isaiah theory? Was the Book of Isaiah was written by multiple Isaiahs?

May 14 2020

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

Is there anyone who doesn’t have a beginning of days or end of life (apart from the Holy Trinity)?

I think that Hebrews 7:3 is a statement about Melchizedek's likeness to Jesus. Notice the phrase,"made like unto the Son of God." Hebrew. 7:8, refers to...

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Why is living together before marriage considered living in sin?

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Why do people reject Jesus as their Savior?

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Why do people reject Jesus as their Savior?

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Does Jesus have a beginning?

May 13 2020

Answer by Grant Abbott , Child of Father, Follower of Son, Student of Spirit

How can I encounter God in a fresh way?

The disciples did not experience God in a fresh way until they responded to Jesus mission to “Follow Me”. Once they did they experienced first-hand the...

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Who was Cain's wife? Was Cain's wife his sister?

May 13 2020

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

Is there anyone who doesn’t have a beginning of days or end of life (apart from the Holy Trinity)?

As I interpret relevant passages, Melchizedek was both a king (of Salem) and a distinguished priest of God who (as the verse cited in the question notes) may...

May 13 2020 1 More Answer Follow Vote Up

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

Who was Shecaniah?

To the best of my knowledge, the Bible does not elaborate on Shecaniah's background, other than to say (as noted in the passage cited in the question) that...

May 12 2020 Follow Vote Up

Answer by Sally Gecks

What does the Bible say about dealing with difficult people?

The way I deal with difficult people is to love as well as I can and to not allow myself or anyone else to be taken advantage of. I certainly don't do this...

May 12 2020 4 More Answers Follow Vote Up

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

Why did God command Israelite men to put away their unbelieving wives, but Paul said not to do so?

In my opinion, the two situations are not strictly analogous. By my understanding, Paul (who was the apostle to the Gentiles) was speaking of a situation...

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

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

May 12 2020 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

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

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

May 12 2020 2 Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by Grant Abbott , Child of Father, Follower of Son, Student of Spirit

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...

May 12 2020 8 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Question by 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

May 12 2020 2 Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by 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...

May 12 2020 1 More Answer Follow Vote Up

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

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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Answer by 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?

May 11 2020

Answer by 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...

May 11 2020 3 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by 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...

May 10 2020 2 Comments 1 More Answer Follow Vote Up

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

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...

May 10 2020 1 Comments 8 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by 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,...

May 10 2020 4 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by 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...

May 10 2020 11 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by 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...

May 10 2020 Follow Vote Up

Answer by 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...

May 10 2020 2 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by 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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Answer by 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,...

May 10 2020 1 Comments Follow Vote Up

Answer by 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,...

May 10 2020 1 More Answer Follow Vote Up

Answer by 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...

May 10 2020 3 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by 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:...

May 10 2020 8 More Answers Follow Vote Up

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

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."

May 10 2020 3 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

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 ...

May 10 2020 2 Answers Follow Vote Up

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

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...

May 10 2020 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

Answer by 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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Answer by 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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