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Tim Maas
Retired Quality Assurance Specialist with the U.S. Army
I was raised as a Lutheran, but now consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I have been married for 37 years, and have two married children -- a son who is an attorney, and a daughter who is a mathematics teacher -- as well as a granddaughter who was born in April, 2019, and another granddaughter who was born on 17 February 2020. I retired in 2013 after 35 years as a Quality Assurance Specialist (Ammunition Surveillance), which is a civilian (Civil Service) career program that inspects and classifies the Army's stockpile of conventional, guided missile, and toxic chemical munitions, so that the Army has an accurate picture of the serviceability and safety of its ammunition stockpile at any given time.
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What if someone has sex before marriage but now is celibate? Is it biblically ok for that person to get married?
I would say that, regardless of a person's past behavior, if that person has...
Why did God give the Ten Commandments to his people, knowing that they wouldn’t be able to live up to them perfectly?
The laws that God gave to Israel in the Ten Commandments were not foreign to...
In what way was the land flowing with milk and honey? (Deuteronomy 26:9)
My understanding of the expression "flowing with milk and honey" is that it...
Why not take the mother bird in addition to the eggs in the nest? (Deuteronomy 22:6–7)
The way that I read the passage, it was not permissible to take eggs that the...
When Psalm 24 says, "He who has clean hands and a pure heart.. "then what does "dirty hands" mean?
In my opinion, the heart and the hands (as they are used here) are employed...
How can we get God on our side? (Deuteronomy 20:4)
I would say that the central issue for any nation is not whether God is on...
Why did people participating in idol worship deserve execution? (Deut. 17:2–5)
I would say that God made idolatry punishable by death on the same basis that...
What is the firmament theory?
The firmament theory (to the best of my knowledge) maintains (based on a...
Who was "you" that Moses was referring to in Deuteronomy? (18:15)
In my opinion, when Moses said "you", he was addressing the nation of Israel,...
How do we know that the biblical books selected are the ones God wanted selected?
Since God inspired all the writers of the Bible (2 Timothy 3:16-17), any...
Are all people considered equally valuable as children of God, or are people who were born as a result of an unplanned pregnancy not as important to God?
All human life -- whether conceived in a "planned" manner or not -- has value...
How to avoid being used by others while maintaining love?
Jesus advised His followers to not only be as innocent as doves, but also as...
What is the meaning of “See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God”?
Although Paul is not specifically named or credited as the author of Hebrews,...
When a woman has a child before marriage, does God make that woman barren after birth?
I think that it is safe to say that God does not approve of sexual relations...
Why did David order the death of the Amalekite who had come to him with news of Saul's death?
I agree that the Amalekite had (falsely) reported that he had killed Saul...
2 Samuel 1:1 - 16
1 After the death of Saul, when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag. 2 And on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul's camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage.