venkatesan Iyer

Does Jesus approve situation ethics (instead of absolute ethics), when he approves the eating of grain by his disciples?

It is emphasized that Christian faith is based on absolute ethics, not...

Matthew 12:1 - 4

¹ At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. ² But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, "Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.

Comment • 1 Answer • 1 Vote • Asked September 14 2023

How to counter the view that making both Jesus and the Bible as the Word of God leads to bibliotary?

Jesus is the living word of God. The Bible records human encounters with God....

John 1:1

¹ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

1 Comments • 3 Answers • Asked August 29 2023

How could a man born blind have committed sin at birth to deserve it?

The disciples ask Jesus, "Teacher, why was this man born blind? Was it...

John 9:2

² And His disciples asked Him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?

Comment • 2 Answers • Asked August 27 2023

What does it mean in James 2:10 that anyone who breaks one law becomes guilty of breaking them all?

James 2:10 - 12

¹⁰ For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it. ¹¹ For he who said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not murder." If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

Comment • 2 Answers • 2 Votes • Asked August 16 2023

What response can I give to my 11-year-old when he says, "I can't be a Christian because God has a standard too high to actually be a true Christian. Our sin nature is too powerful!"?

Let him discover the good news of saving grace by reading Romans. Allow him...

Comment • 7 More Answers • 1 Vote • Asked November 05 2021

Does being “born again” in John 3:3 indicate that Jesus taught reincarnation?

It is different. The Bible talks about "born again only once.” The other view...

Comment • 1 More Answer • Asked October 29 2021

Can/should a believer enlist the help of a non-Christian life coach?

There are biblical passages on unequal yoking in the context of marriages. Is...

2 Corinthians 6:14

¹⁴ Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Comment • 2 Answers • Asked January 03 2021

How can a modern scientist come to saving faith without rejecting evolution?

Example: Henry F Schaefer III. He reads about a book on Jesus when he is...

Genesis 1:1 - 31

¹ In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. ² The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Comment • 1 Answer • 1 Vote • Asked December 01 2020

What (if anything) does the Bible say about the possibility of redeeming robots who become Christians?

God is reconciling everything on earth, in heaven. How can this relate to...

Colossians 1:20

²⁰ And through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

Comment • 1 Answer • Asked November 19 2020

What is state/role of the saved one after death, before return of Jesus?

Comment • 5 Answers • 1 Vote • Asked November 07 2020

If I intentionally sin, is it a sign that I am not saved?

Ephesians 4:26

²⁶ Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger.

Comment • 1 Answer • Asked October 30 2020

What is meaning of the phrase, "...according to scriptures," in 1 Corinthians 15:3-4?

1 Corinthians 15:3 - 4

³ For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures. ⁴ That he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.

Comment • 3 Answers • 1 Vote • Asked October 26 2020

Which biblical passages can help to restore a believer's faith after being shattered by the exposure of trusted Christian leader as false?

I had a lot of trust in a celebrated Christian leader. He has been exposed to...

6 Comments • 6 Answers • 1 Vote • Asked September 24 2020

What passages of the Bible point to the modern formation of an Israel state?

1 Comments • 4 Answers • 1 Vote • Asked August 15 2020

What is the basis to claim the Bible is the only word of God?

1 John 1:1 - 10

¹ That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life - ² The life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us -

Comment • 4 Answers • 1 Vote • Asked August 09 2020