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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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Is there a Bible contradiction in Psalm 5:5? Psalm 5:5 states, “You [God] hate all workers of iniquity.” However, John 3:16 says God loves the world. Don’t these verses contradict each other?
God is holy, which means that He cannot tolerate or permit the existence of...
What does it mean to "overcome" the world in 1 John 5:4?
John is using the same sense in regard to speaking of the world in this verse...
Why compare offspring to stars? (Genesis 15:5)
I can think of multiple possible reasons why God used the stars as a...
How does God view how easy it is for us to sin in our minds and how hard it is to control our thoughts, even if we don't act on our bad thoughts?
In my view, evil thoughts that enter our minds are a work of the devil and...
What does 2 John 1 mean when it talks about receiving people into your home who aren't believers?
To me, what John is saying here is that a teacher who is already deliberately...
What should I do if my church of 300 is still meeting in spite of the state governor asking people to refrain from large gatherings due to COVID-19?
To me, attending worship services under the current circumstances (even as a...
What’s wrong with standing up for our rights (Luke 6:29–30)?
The potential problem with Christians "standing up for their rights" is that,...
What did Jesus mean when He said, "When you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will dress you and carry you where you do not want to go."
As John 21:19 (the verse following the verse cited in the question) notes,...
What is wrong with being a grouchy giver? (as opposed to a "cheerful giver" in 2 Cor. 9:7) The job still gets done.
The thought expressed in the verse cited in the question is not unique to...
How could Jesus be made sin when He was sinless? (2 Corinthians 5:21)
The type of action of which Paul was speaking was prefigured in the Old...
Does "Zion" here refer to heaven? (Isaiah 35:10)
As with many prophetic passages from the Old Testament, I would say that the...
Was this prophecy fulfilled by Jesus (Isaiah 35:5–10)?
Although Jesus did not quote the words of the cited verses exactly (as He did...
What is the crown of glory (1 Peter 5:4)?
In this passage, Peter is addressing the elders among the Christians to whom...
How does God guide us (Psalm 23:3)??
I would say that the primary means by which God guides us are 1) by His...
How does God refresh our souls (Psalm 23:3)?
Aside from the ways in which the thought in this verse is expressed in the...