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How do I pray?

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Is God compassionate or ferocious (Lamentations 3:22)?

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Is it possible that someone could serve God for the wrong reasons? If yes, why and how?

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Who is "them" in 1 John 4:4 that the children have overcome?

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Who is "them" in 1 John 4:4 that the children have overcome?

August 17 2024

Answer by Jack Gutknecht , ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church

How is it rational to proclaim that breaking one law is breaking all of the whole law?

Good question, Venkatesan! I often dramatically ask people, "Do you know what James, the half-brother of Jesus said?" And then I quote James 2:10. I like...

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Answer by Leslie Coutinho

Why do I face the consequences of Adam's sin when I did not eat the fruit?

Genesis 2:17: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest therefore thou shalt surely die....

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Why would family and friends abandon one who suffers (Job 19:13-20)?

August 17 2024

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Why would family and friends abandon one who suffers (Job 19:13-20)?

August 17 2024

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

What kind of fruit can we bear in old age (Psalm 92:14-15)?

Jesus said that the two greatest commandments are to love God and our neighbor (Mark 12:29-31). Even in the face of constraints placed by age on physical...

August 16 2024 Follow Vote Up

Answer by Jack Gutknecht , ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church

Why would family and friends abandon one who suffers (Job 19:13-20)?

Also, besides the answer already given that Job deserves the suffering he has experienced, are 2 other possible answers: (1) Some "friends" and even family...

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What kind of fruit can we bear in old age (Psalm 92:14-15)?

14 They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green, 15 to declare that the Lord is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteo...

August 16 2024 1 Answer Follow Vote Up

Answer by Albert DeBenedictis , Retired computer programmer

What is the best way for Christians to deal with the question of homosexuality if Jesus states that we are to love our neighbors as we love ourself?

How should a church deal with a homosexual attending church services? The Bible says that Christians are to love others and not hate (Romans 13:8-10; 1...

August 14 2024 1 Comments 8 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by Janet Austin , Lover of God. Right to the Soul, author

Since God withholds forgiveness, can we?

No, you are not allowed to withhold forgiveness. Perhaps the way to respond is to say to yourself, and maybe to them, we are all broken clay pots; we all...

August 14 2024 6 More Answers Follow Vote Up

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

Why would family and friends abandon one who suffers (Job 19:13-20)?

I would say that Job's family and friends "gave up" on him because he repeatedly refused to accept their "starting premise" that God must be evil to have...

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

How is it rational to proclaim that breaking one law is breaking all of the whole law?

God's attribute (and thus His "way") is holiness -- the total absence of sin. It takes only one instance of disobedience to compromise that totality. That's...

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How do I pray?

August 14 2024

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How is it rational to proclaim that breaking one law is breaking all of the whole law?

Should we accept that it seems irrational but it is God's way?

James 2:10

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What does it mean that "the marriage bed is to be undefiled"?

August 13 2024

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What should be the mission of the church?

August 13 2024

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

Was the pre-incarnate form of Jesus absent from Heaven during His humanity in the flesh on earth?

In my opinion, omnipresence (such as being in heaven and on earth simultaneously) was an attribute of Christ prior to His bodily incarnation that He gave up...

August 13 2024 Follow Vote Up

Answer by Billy P Eldred

Why did the Israelites need manna if they had flocks/herds of animals that they could eat?

As has been said, we don't know the full answer to this question but here is my simple explanation. First, there were many Israelites. It wouldn't take much...

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Does a Christian rest until the rapture or is he in heaven at the time of his death?

August 12 2024

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Is God compassionate or ferocious (Lamentations 3:22)?

August 12 2024

Question by Greg Frost , Hungry learner ...never full of the Word.

Was the pre-incarnate form of Jesus absent from Heaven during His humanity in the flesh on earth?

As Jesus was in Mary's womb, the Angel of the Lord appeared in a dream/vision to Joseph on 3 occasions (the NASB reads "an angel of the Lord" Matt 1:20), whi...

Matthew 2:13

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

Why does Job say, "The Lord gives and takes," and does it work in the New Testament?

Job 40:2,7: "Shall the one who contends with the Almighty correct Him?...Now prepare yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me." We...

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Answer by Kevin Honeycutt , Servant of Jesus Christ

How can we experience true freedom in Christ?

What must we do to be free? Let us look at what the Apostles told everyone they must do, to be free, Hear- Romans 10:17, Matthew 11:15, Acts 18:8, Acts 28:28...

August 12 2024 1 Comments 2 More Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by Susan Jurich

Would remarriage after a divorce still be considered adultery if abuse is involved?

What a heartbreaking place is the home and marriage of two professing Christians with young children who all attend church together. Watching the father...

August 12 2024 6 More Answers Follow Vote Up

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

Is God compassionate or ferocious (Lamentations 3:22)?

From the analogy of a human standpoint, a parent may love his children more than words can express, but that does not prevent the parent from disciplining...

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Should a Christian raise a child with the other parent but they are not married?

August 11 2024

Answer by Paula Fether , Lifelong student of the scriptures

Does a Christian rest until the rapture or is he in heaven at the time of his death?

This is, in my opinion, a good concise response from Stack Exchange - Biblical Hermeneutics: Greek uses the order of words to indicate prominence. If a word...

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How can I learn to trust that God is in control?

August 11 2024

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

Does a Christian rest until the rapture or is he in heaven at the time of his death?

One useful discussion presenting another perspective on this issue that I have come across (and that I have mentioned previously on ebible.com) has been a...

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How can I know if something is a sin?

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What is general revelation and special revelation?

August 10 2024

Answer by Jack Gutknecht , ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church

Is God compassionate or ferocious (Lamentations 3:22)?

I think God is mainly compassionate: Isaiah 54:10 says, quoting God, "For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not...

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Is God compassionate or ferocious (Lamentations 3:22)?

This and many other verses in Scripture describe God as merciful and compassionate, slow to wrath, and plentiful in kindness (cf. Ps 103:8 ; James 5:11; 1 J...

Lamentations 3:1 - 66

August 10 2024 2 Answers Follow Vote Up

Answer by Bennie Harrell

Does a Christian rest until the rapture or is he in heaven at the time of his death?

We must remember there are no punctuation marks in the original manuscripts. In Jesus' remarks to the thief on the cross, with bible teaching on death,...

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Answer by Donna Williams

What does it mean in Genesis 9:4: "But you must never eat any meat that still has the lifeblood in it"?

It means that eating any flesh with the blood still in it was a sin, and any person who disobeyed the commandment would be cut off or put to death. I believe...

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What does the Bible say about setting goals?

August 10 2024

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Why does Job say, "The Lord gives and takes," and does it work in the New Testament?

Jesus, in teaching about forgiving, used the parable of the unforgiving servant. This shows one example of God taking away what was given. Matthew 18:21-35...

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Answer by Jack Gutknecht , ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church

What is meant by " ... whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas." (Psalm 8:8)?

"The paths of the seas," according to Matthew Maury, mean that "the oceans have subsurface currents with regular circulation patterns—the “paths of the seas”...

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I am a parent; how can I let go of my adult children?

August 09 2024

Answer by Mark Vestal , Proud of nothing of myself. Freed by Christ who did it all!

Why does Job say, "The Lord gives and takes," and does it work in the New Testament?

We are told a few things in scripture about what is going on today (Eph 3:2). God's "grace is sufficient" (2 Cor 12:7-10). Believers have been gifted "all...

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

Why does Job say, "The Lord gives and takes," and does it work in the New Testament?

As indicated in the book of Job, God gave Satan the power to take away the blessings that Job had been given in order to prove that Job's uprightness and...

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