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In Deuteronomy 20:10, why did the children of Isreal need to offer peace to their enemy?

By my reading of this passage, the requirement to offer peace applied only to future conflicts in which Israel might be involved with nations that were...

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In Deuteronomy 20:13, why were the children of Israel instructed to kill men only?

Deuteronomy 20:13

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In Deuteronomy 20:10, why did the children of Isreal need to offer peace to their enemy?

They had specifically left their land to do battle with the enemy. Why did they then need to first offer peace?

Deuteronomy 20:10

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When one marries one makes a vow to love cherish and obey. The Bible seems to speak against vow making. Therefore should we not make the marriage vows?

As I understand the passage in question, Jesus was not condemning or forbidding the taking of formal oaths or vows in settings such as courts of law,...

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

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Where did the word "Christian" come from?

As recorded in Acts 11:26, the name "Christians" was first applied to the church at Antioch (in the modern-day country of Turkey), where the members had been...

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Answer by Michael Tinsley , Retired Army veteran. Love my Bible (Jesus) and fishing.

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How can I overcome being "burnt" by the church in the past and have a renewed passion for church and a desire to attend church again?

Being 'burnt' by the church you attended was probably done by only a few people, not the whole congregation. You gave no details but, if some people in the...

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Where did the word "Christian" come from?

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When one marries one makes a vow to love cherish and obey. The Bible seems to speak against vow making. Therefore should we not make the marriage vows?

Matthew 5:34

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Why did God let my house burn down in a fire?

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Is it necessary to fully understand the Gospel to go to heaven? Is it enough to believe it, even if we do not fully understand it?

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Are the demons the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim?

The idea that demons are the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim, is a storyline echoed by the writings of many early church fathers as well as the Jewish...

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Does God, according to Isaiah 45:7, Lamentations 3:38 and Amos 3:6, create evil?

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Are Christians supposed to pray to angels?

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

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Will a person go to hell if he/she is divorced and remarried?

According to Jesus in Mark 3:28-29, the only sin that cannot be covered by faith in Christ for eternal life is the complete and final rejection of the...

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What is child like faith?

My short answer is this: God wants us to have a 'quality' of faith that is pure, real(genuine) and without scrutiny! (Mark 10:14-15) tells us that Jesus was...

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How can I get to know God better?

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Will a person go to hell if he/she is divorced and remarried?

Is divorce a mortal sin that would lead one to lose their salvation?

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What age will everyone be in Heaven?

May I suggest that the same way God created Adam (and Eve) that he would recreate us in a similar fashion. They were perfect before Satan deceived them.

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What does it mean to be humble?

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Is it necessary to fully understand the Gospel to go to heaven? Is it enough to believe it, even if we do not fully understand it?

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Can demons attach themselves to non-living/inanimate objects?

I would like to rephrase the question slightly to offer a fuller understanding of demonic activity in the world. "Can demons use non-living or inanimate...

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How are people destroyed from a lack of knowledge?

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

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What does the bible about enduring when you are somewhere you do not want to be?

Followers of God and of Christ have found themselves in unwanted situations since Biblical times to the present day for a variety of reasons -- not only...

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Does "God hate shrimp"?

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What is transubstantiation?

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What is epistemology?

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What does the bible about enduring when you are somewhere you do not want to be?

Acts 12:5

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What is love (fruit of the Holy Spirit)?

This is what I hope to show you, in Scripture, about God’s love (agape in the Greek): 1. That God is agape. 2. That agape is one and the same as God’s glory....

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How can one mature in faith yet have the faith of a child?

Do not confuse the size of a child to the size of their faith. A child have great faith. A child will trust and believe whatever you tell them. Until we...

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What does it mean to grieve / quench the Holy Spirit?

Based on Eph. 4:29-32, (by which only a small token of the entire book of Ephesians needs to be studied) if you have accepted Christ as your Savior, then...

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Who is really 'playing God' - the doctor who euthanizes a dying patient, or the doctor who extends the life of a terminally ill patient?

This question causes me to think of the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, the Physician's symbol of the snake and torch belong to him. In the United...

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What is the grace of God?

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What is Soteriology?

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What is the emerging / emergent church movement?

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What is the emerging / emergent church movement?

The "emergent church" is old-fashioned liberalism in hip dress. In fact, it's just old-fashioned "strifes over words" in slick, modern dress. They play...

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Why do people reject Jesus as their Savior?

By God's will some are destined to salvation and some are not. If I could have saved myself, I would have; however I was spiritually dead, dead, dead. I...

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What can we learn from the thief on the cross?

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Is Luke 16:19-31 a parable or an account of events that actually occurred?

The context of the story remains very clear, even if we do not believe it in its literal sense, that after this life on earth there is no second chance given...

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How does the famine in Amos 8:11-12 relate to today's situation of having over 200 modern Bible versions?

I haven't read all the English versions of the Bible and didn't know there are over 200 translations. I've read parts of at least 20 versions and found...

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Does Acts 2:38 teach that baptism is necessary for salvation?

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How does God handle His anointed who have fallen but repented?

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How do I pray for the health of a non-believer?

And Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee, saw fishermen who were fishing and mending their nets Peter, Andrew,James and John. Jesus said to them follow me and...

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What can we learn from the thief on the cross?

We can learn a few things here: First is that God always repects the will of man. Second we see the will of man so strong determining his destination. Third...

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