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What does the Bible say about expectations?
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
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Tim Maas
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Does God hear a Muslim's prayer?
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
What is the prophecy of 1,260 days in Revelation?
It deals with the first half of the tribulation (Rev. 11:3; 1,260 days). This is the period in which the 2 witnesses minister. See Warren Wiersbe's NT...
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Anonymous
What are these "new heavens" and "new earth" in Isaiah 65:17?
Isaiah 65:17 "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.
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Anonymous
When does God refuse to hear our prayers? (Jeremiah 11:11)
Jeremiah 11:11 Therefore, thus says the Lord, Behold, I am bringing disaster upon them that they cannot escape. Though they cry to me, I will not listen to ...
Jeremiah 11:1 - 23
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Rex Halstead
Why did God forbid adultery in the Ten Commandments, yet many of the men in the Bible had more than one wife and numerous concubines?
My opinion is that they had multiple wives; however, it was classified as a sin and they had to repent of this sin. Now under the New Testament, GOD makes it...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
What is the mark of the beast (666)?
No one knows. I don't know what the number 666 means, nor do you. Not for sure. But in the future tribulation people will know for sure, undoubtedly....
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John Matthews
, Retired Professional Singer, Conductor and Seeker
Does the warning in Revelation 22:18-19 apply to the entire Bible or just the Book of Revelation?
It seems fairly certain that the addition or subtraction John of Patmos refers to are to be applied to the book of Revelation and not the entire Bible texts....
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Who are the people outside the gates mentioned in Revelation 22:15?
Outside are the dogs…and everyone who loves and practices falsehood (Revelation 22:15): The term “dogs” was sometimes used as a metaphor for people of low...
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robert waters
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Why did God tell Hosea to marry a prostitute?
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Jay Saunders
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Why did God tell Hosea to marry a prostitute?
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
What is the theme of Hebrews 3?
Since Hebrews (as the name implies) was addressed to a Jewish readership, the epistle was devoted both to presenting Christ as the fulfillment of historical...
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Shirley H
, Wife, mother, veteran in the spiritual war we all face!
Where is assurance of eternal life in the Old Testament?
The concept of eternal life or life everlasting is all through the Old Testament. Let's look... In Genesis 22 Abraham is to offer his only son as a...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Why would God be resistant to answering our prayers as Luke 11:7-9 seems to indicate?
"Phillips Brooks said that prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance; it is laying hold of His highest willingness. Persistence in prayer is not an attempt...
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George Fitt
, Spiritual Gift of Discernment
Did God create other people in addition to Adam and Eve?
Yes, of course God created more humans other than Adam and Eve. The anthropologists have discovered nine human species from fossil skeletal remains,...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
How could a third of the sun’s light be shut off? (Revelation 8:12)
I understand the point of the question from a scientific perspective, but if it was possible for God to bring a plague of darkness on the Egyptians, while at...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
How do prayer customs become meaningless ritual? (Luke 11:2–4)
I would say that, although it is commendable to be consistent and regular in prayer, the more that one repeatedly prays the same prayer or a formulaic prayer...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Why did Lot offer up his daughters to be gang raped? Why did God allow Lot's daughters to later have sex with their father?
Lot was willing to sacrifice his 2 unmarried daughters to the lust of the crowd (see Judges 19). Lot had lost his personal values in this wicked city of...
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ainsley chalmers
, Medical Research Scientist, devoted family man.
What is the Lutheran Church, and what do Lutherans believe?
Please let me know if there’s a Christian church which abides completely with the word of God. As I perused Christian church beliefs they all seem to differ....
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Gold Evangelist award!
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Why did God tell Hosea to marry a prostitute?
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
What is meant by, “He did not come by water only, but by water and blood"?
In my opinion, the references to water and blood in relation to Christ are allusions to both His human birth as well as to His baptism in water (which bonded...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
What does it mean, “Do not provoke your children to anger”?
I find the Amplified Bible's expansion upon Paul's statement in Ephesians 6:4 to be useful in regard to the question. It provides the following commentary:...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
Where is assurance of eternal life in the Old Testament?
Habakkuk 2:4 indicated that the just would live by faith -- a promise that the New Testament connects not just to this temporal life, but to the life to come...
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Matthew Beerman
Why did God tell Hosea to marry a prostitute?
When God called Hosea to marry a "wife of whoredom" he was not commanding Hosea to break God's law and marry a prostitute. To say that God called Hosea to...
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John Appelt
What age was Jehoiachin when he began his reign?
Jehoiachin was the grandson of King Josiah. Josiah had four sons, I Chronicles 3:15. The firstborn, Johanan, is never heard from again. But the other three...
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Donna Williams
How can one live a Godly life being single?
I would say, to live a godly life as a single person requires being totally dependent upon the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has been sent to help every...
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Jay Saunders
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What is the connection between prayer and fasting?
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Shirley H
, Wife, mother, veteran in the spiritual war we all face!
Why refuse to love "children of adultery"? (Hosea 2:4–5)
First, these are God's unfaithful people, not children. You can refer to them as children of God who were steeped in idolatry! In Isaiah 1:1-3 we read a...
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Shirley H
, Wife, mother, veteran in the spiritual war we all face!
What does the scripture in 2 Kings 2:11 mean? Was Elijah taken to the heaven where God and the angels live?
Elijah appears in 1 Kings 17:1. His name means, "the Lord is my God." Elijah was "on fire" for God. Moses had encountered God in the 'burning bush.' God is...
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Mark Vestal
, Proud of nothing of myself. Freed by Christ who did it all!
What is the meaning of the following phrase: "He made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ."?
Our apostle Paul answers this below in verse 8 of 1 Corinthians: (1 Corinthians 2:5-9) "5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the...
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Mark Vestal
, Proud of nothing of myself. Freed by Christ who did it all!
What does this mean: “Because God works in you both wanting and acting according to His good pleasure”?
"Pleasure", from the Greek word eudokia, is translated as purpose or intention. God works through us as he deems necessary once we have been sealed with the...
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Albert DeBenedictis
, Retired computer programmer
Do Christians believe in three gods?
I believe God consists of three distinct persons, as the Scriptures appear to indicate. Genesis 1:1 states that God commanded that the universe be created....
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Mark Vestal
, Proud of nothing of myself. Freed by Christ who did it all!
What tribe are the gentiles from?
Gentiles are not of a tribe of Israel. Gentiles are anyone outside of the nation Israel. We see that the isles of the Gentiles were created from Noah's son...
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Tim Maas
, Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
What tribe are the gentiles from?
Gentiles consist of all people who are not Jewish -- that is, who are not descended from one of the twelve sons of Jacob (whom God also named Israel (Genesis...
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S. Michael Houdmann
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Why did God send the Israelites to Egypt for 400 years?
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Albert Ogier
What does the Bible mean by 'an eye for an eye'?
Even the official teaching gets this wrong. The bible is quite clear that you “give” an eye for an eye, not have it taken from you. So if there is an...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
What should we learn from what Caiaphas said in John 11:49-50?
Caiaphas' words here in John 11:50 were ironic. He only meant that it was better that one man die than for the religious leaders to lose their positions and...
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George Fitt
, Spiritual Gift of Discernment
What is the meaning of the Parable of the Ten Virgins?
All the parables Christ told follow the same format as the parable of the sower sowing seed (Matthew 13:1-23). Replace the nouns used with Christ's intent....
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Anonymous
How could a third of the sun’s light be shut off? (Revelation 8:12)
How could a third of the sun’s light be shut off? (8:12)
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John Appelt
What does it mean to confess Jesus Christ?
Romans 10:9-10 speaks about confessing the Lord Jesus and it is thought that it is a necessary link with heart belief in order to be completely saved from...
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Mathew Anderson
Can a Christian today perform an exorcism? What does the Bible say about casting out demons?
It's worrisome to say the least that I did not read one individual here remind everyone of something that seems to be a serious problem and reoccurring theme...
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Jack Gutknecht
, ABC/DTS graduate, guitar music ministry Baptist church
Do Christians have to keep asking for forgiveness for their sins?
No, we just have to pray once, "Forgive us as we forgive everyone else. Don’t allow us to be tempted” (Luke 11:4). That is, after we have sinned, we confess...
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Maurice Harris
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Do Christians believe in three gods?
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Do Christians believe in three gods?