Philip Wong

Why did God allow Satan, as repugnant as he is, his request to inflict Job, and to increase the bodily infliction twice?

Job 1:12

¹² And the Lord said to Satan, "Behold, all that he has is in your hand. Only against him do not stretch out your hand." So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.

Comment • 1 Answer • Asked January 04 2021

Noting the Last Supper's significance, why was it not recorded in the Book of John?

Comment • 3 Answers • Asked January 01 2021

How would the past queen of the south in Matthew 12:42 rise up in Jesus' time to judge and condemn Jesus' generation?

Matthew 12:42

⁴² The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

3 Comments • 1 Answer • Asked December 01 2020

Why did God allow witchcraft to seem real by allowing Samuel to rise in 1 Samuel 28?

No doubt sorcery and witchcraft were practised in those days and most of them...

1 Samuel 1:1 - 28

¹ There was a certain man from Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. ² He had two wives; one was called Hannah and the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.

Comment • 2 Answers • 1 Vote • Asked April 23 2020

How did the meat-eating predators like venomous snakes/reptiles/amphibians, and sharp clawed, sharp-toothed dinosaurs/lions/crocodiles/sharks survive on vegetation when they were designed to eat meat?

Genesis 1 : 30 “And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the...

Genesis 1:30

³⁰ And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground - everything that has the breath of life in it - I give every green plant for food." And it was so.

Comment • 2 Answers • Asked June 04 2019

If water baptism is so important, why does the Bible not reference Jesus having water-baptized the twelve apostles?

If before the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, water baptism was so prevalent and...

Comment • 2 Answers • 1 Vote • Asked March 19 2015

Why (and how) were the private conversations and inner thinking in the Bible documented in the first person?

1. Given that there were neither voice/video recorders nor “mind readers” (to...

Comment • 6 Answers • 4 Votes • Asked March 17 2014