What should I do if I'm not sure I was saved/baptized as a child?
I have some good news for you! The moment you believed the gospel, you were sealed with the holy Spirit of promise until the day of redemption! Your earthly...
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What should I do if I'm not sure I was saved/baptized as a child?
For my whole adult life, I have fully believed and remember the feeling I had when I attended a church revival with a friend's family at nine years of age. I...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
What does it mean to acknowledge God in all your ways and He will make your paths straight?
What does it mean to acknowledge God in all your ways and He will make your paths straight? Good question! "To acknowledge God" means in the Hebrew “know...
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Why should wives submit to their husbands?
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What are the factors which make man special from all the other creatures?
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
What charges are formally brought against Jesus, and did he defend himself?
Jesus answered Pilates's question, "Are you the king of the Jews?” Of course, Herod was king of the region. But Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
What are good Old Testament scriptures for bereavement?
Good question, Maurice Penn Sr! Joshua 1:9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
What was the "Year of Jubilee"? (Leviticus 25:10, 13)
As a young man I memorized Leviticus 25:10 as an important Bible verse to know from the Thompson Chain Reference Bible. "According to Lev 25:9 a loud trumpet...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Is God fair?
Yes, He's fair! He's "a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.” (Deuteronomy 32:4).-- a verse I memorized as a collegiate through...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
What does it mean to acknowledge God in all your ways and He will make your paths straight?
The verse cited in the question is Proverbs 3:6. The verse immediately prior to it (Proverbs 3:5) says, "Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
Can we draw the conclusion from Matthew 5:28 that if a married person lusted after another in their mind, then the spouse is free to divorce them per Matthew 19:9?
God can have a higher standard for sin, because God knows individuals' thoughts. Lacking that same omniscience, human law must base crimes (or grounds for...
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Why does David write "forget not his benefits," and what exactly are they? (Psalm 103)
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Can/should a Christian who is a virgin marry someone who is not a virgin?
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What are the factors which make man special from all the other creatures?
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Mark Vestal
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Why would Jesus need to return if when we die, we already go to heaven?
Death has no power over believers as they are alive spiritually 'in Christ' now and already in heaven. We just do not have the ability to physically realize...
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How should we understand the Lion and the Lamb passage?
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Why would Jesus need to return if when we die, we already go to heaven?
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Can/should a Christian who is a virgin marry someone who is not a virgin?
A Christian who marries another Christian under the eyes of God in a Christian wedding are both virgins. They remain virgins until death parts them. Under...
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Lee McLaurin
Should the comma be placed before or after the word "today" in Luke 23:43?
I have read so many articles and comments regarding the placement of "the comma" with reference to the word TODAY in Luke 23:43. For me though, Ben...
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Fran Joa
, Interested in God and hopeful
Can we draw the conclusion from Matthew 5:28 that if a married person lusted after another in their mind, then the spouse is free to divorce them per Matthew 19:9?
Can we draw the conclusion from Matthew 5:28 (But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart....
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
What does the Bible say about a death bed conversion?
I agree that the thief on the cross (Luke 23:39-43) is perhaps the only death bed conversion recorded in the Bible. "Jesus answered the repentant thief with...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
What does hell look like? How hot is hell?
Hell is a place of darkness (Matthew 8:12). I really love darkness when I'm trying to sleep (just ask my wife)! I definitely see it as God's provision for...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
According to Revelation 16:14 can demons perform miracles?
In my opinion, the cited verse does indicate the ability of demons to perform miraculous acts, which agrees with Jesus' warnings to His followers in Matthew...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
What are good Old Testament scriptures for bereavement?
Psalm 30:5b Psalm 34:18 Psalm 147:3 Isaiah 40:9-11, 28-31 Lamentations 3:31-32
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What advice does scripture give about mental tics and OCD thoughts that loop and repeat, unbidden and unwanted?
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Who were the Samaritans?
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Aurel Gheorghe
What does it mean, "For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten"?
King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, wrote the book of Ecclesiastes late in his life. The book is a reflection on his life and what he learned. And...
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Aurel Gheorghe
What does it mean in James 2:10 that anyone who breaks one law becomes guilty of breaking them all?
James here is talking about the Ten Commandments (TC) and the importance of being obedient to God's law - not only the commandments we like but all ten of...
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What does the Bible say about a death bed conversion?
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Is God fair?
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Is God fair?
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Is God fair?
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Is God fair?
Is God fair? Yes He is! Even in the exercise of His moral justice, Scripture teaches that God does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to...
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What is meant by "the courts of our God"?
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
Who are the modern day people that the Israelites drove out of the promised land?
My understanding is that any modern-day genetic descendants of the tribes or nations that biblical Israel defeated in occupying the Promised Land would be...
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What does hell look like? How hot is hell?
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What is meant by the scripture, "for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance?"
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
How does one commune with a lukewarm Christian?
My motto has always been, first, lead by example. Leading by example is a leadership style where you model the behavior you want to see in your team members....
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J Buckareff
Who are the modern day people that the Israelites drove out of the promised land?
When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaa...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
What charges are formally brought against Jesus, and did he defend himself?
The Jewish Sanhedrin charged Jesus with blasphemy for having claimed to be the Son of God (Matthew 26:63-66; Mark 14:61-64; Luke 22:66-71). (Jesus truthfully...
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julie kal
Why did God call the people "Virgin Israel"? (Jeremiah 31:4)
The expression "virgin of Israel" is the another way of saying we must be born of God's will/born again, as opposed to be born of our self will. Being...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Why did the soldiers draw back and fall to the ground when Jesus said, "I am He," in John 18:6?
Jesus has applied to himself the divine Name of Exodus 3:14, “I AM.” Therefore this amounts to something of a theophany which causes even his enemies to...
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Renwick Harms
How old was Isaac when Abraham offered him as a sacrifice?
In my opinion, Isaac was probably 33 years old. The number one reason being the age of Jesus dying on the cross. Most Christians would agree that everything...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Did Jesus mean we should literally pluck out our eyes and cut off our hands in Matthew 5:29-30 and 18:8-9?
Did Jesus mean we should literally pluck out our eyes and cut off our hands in Matthew 5:29-30 and 18:8-9? No, obviously not, otherwise, every red-blooded...
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Carolyn Hostetter
, Wife, mother, grandmother, retired church administrator
How can believers be in the world, but not of the world?
All such good answers and better than mine. I love reading them. I look at it like this. The first time I was born, I was physically born into this world as...