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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 38 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 in 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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Why would God call himself "jealous"? (Exodus 34:14)
Although the word "jealous" often evokes associations with feelings of envy,...
What does the Bible say about syncretism?
As I understand it, syncretism is based on the assumption that no one...
Why is the Babylonian exile mentioned in Matthew 1:17?
Aside from the fact that the exile was a major event in the history of Judah,...
Why would the Apostle Paul insist that married couples have regular sex "except [for one reason only] by mutual consent and for a time (of prayer)" when there may be other factors such as sickness, busyness, or fatigue? 1 Corinthians 7:5
To me, Paul is saying that, whatever the cause of the couple's sexual...
Why did Jesus say Satan will fall from heaven like lightning when research shows that lightning starts at the ground and goes to the sky?
I would say that the main points that Jesus was wanting to emphasize by...
Why were the people afraid when Jesus was performing miracles in Luke?
The people of that region were evidently not Jews (as indicated by the fact...
Why did Jezebel put on eye makeup just before she died?
In my opinion, it was possibly a vain (in the sense of both futile and...
Why was Moses the greatest prophet ever? (Deuteronomy 34:10)
Although there were many prophets who acted as God's spokesperson to Israel,...
What is the steward saying in this verse: "For my master has taken the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg"?
I would say that, as Jesus indicated in Luke 16:8, both the steward in the...
Who will stand before God and give account of his life?
There is only one God, who is therefore the God of every person on earth,...
In what way was Israel the apple of God's eye? (Deuteronomy 32:10)
"The apple of God's eye" is a figure of speech referring (as it also does...
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...