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Answers to Questions Listed by Topics Beginning with the Letter "A"

Unless otherwise noted, all answers were written by Jeff Hamilton.

Abortion

Could I get pregnant if the condom leaked?
What can I tell a friend who is planning to have her baby aborted?

Accuracy of the Bible

Can you explain some apparent contradictions in the Gospel accounts?
Could there have been a gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2?
Did Jesse have seven or eight sons?
Did King Jehoshaphat remove the high places or not?
Did Matthew fabricated a prophecy to support his claim that Jesus was the Messiah?
Did people normally tie a scarlet cord on a twin at birth?
Do historians and the Bible disagree?
How can Solomon's writings be God's words?
How could Jesus be in the grave three days and nights if he died on Friday and rose on Sunday?
How could Samuel offer a burnt offering when he was not a Levite?
How could the Israelites have left Egypt if they crossed into the Sinai peninsula?
How do I answer someone who believes all religions are equal?
How do we know the Bible is inspired?
How many horsemen did David kill?
How old is the world?
Is everything in the Bible applicable today?
Is God referred to as Satan?
Is Mark 16:9-20 genuine?
Is Matthew 28:19 a part of the setting up of the church?
Is the Bible male oriented
Is the Bible the only source of authority?
Proof that Israel wasn't afflicted for 400 years?
Was Matthew originally written in Hebrew or Aramaic?
Was there a world before Genesis?
What happened to the letter to Laodicea mentioned in Colossians 4:16?
When did Ahaziah begin his reign?
When did Saul reign in Israel?
Where are Cush and Havilah today?
Where can I find information about the falling of Jericho's walls?
Where did Cain get his wife?
Where is the garden of Eden?
Where is the Tower of Babel?
Which Bible translations are the best?
Which thief went to Paradise?
Why are the New Testament quotes of the Old Testament different?
Who is the uncle of Moses?
Who made the discoveries regarding oceanic springs and innumerable stars?
Why are there two differing stories of creation in Genesis?
Why did the people think Jesus was calling for Elijah?
Why does the Bible contain the words of Satan?
Why don't you use the Book of Enoch?

Addiction

Help in overcoming smoking
How can I go from feeling so much peace and joy to the exact opposite?
How do I defend against Satan?
How do you deal with an addict?
"Tell the truth, that Alcoholics' Anonymous works."
What about hearing voices in your head?
What is wrong with smoking?

Adultery

A question about adultery
Am I being selfish asking my wife for sex after having an emotional affair with another woman?
Can adultery be forgiven? Should I tell my spouse?
Do I stay with my husband or run off with my lover?
Does God hate all adulterers and fornicators?
How does adultery start?
If the man I committed adultery with is getting divorced, can I marry him?
Is divorce still valid for adultery?
Is it a sin to have sex with my ex-husband?
Is our relationship adulterous because we both had unscriptural divorces from prior marriages?
Should I tell my husband about my adultery?
What do you think about this divorce situation I ran into in Chile?
What to do when a church leader preys on members

Advice

Where did you learn to give counsel?

Age of Accountability

Are children being baptized just to claim growth?
Are children truly innocent?
Are people born good and do bad things, or are they born bad and do good things?
At what age is a person accountable?
Can small children commit morally wrong acts?
Does "honoring your mother and father" mean following their religious beliefs?
Is there no salvation outside the church?
What is the age of accountability for a child?
Why do you teach the men are born without sin?

Agnostics

How do you teach the Scriptures to an agnostic?

Alcohol

Am I compromising by just drinking a glass of wine a few days each week?
Did Paul sometimes drink wine?
Do the words "carousing" or "revelling" condemn social drinking?
Does Acts 2:13-15 infer that Christians drank fermented wine?
Does Romans 14 give the liberty to drinking alcoholic beverages?
Does the blessing of wine outweigh its dangers?
Doesn't Ephesians 5:18 imply that some use of alcohol is permitted?
Doesn't the Bible indicate that God accepts alcohol?
How can dances at a wedding reception be bad?
How do you deal with an addict?
I ran into an argument that "every lexicon" defines oinos as fermented drink. Do you have sources to dispove this?
If gluttony and drinking are both sins, then isn't abstaining from alcohol as ridiculous as abstaining from food?
Isn't a moderate drinker still sober?
"Tell the truth, that Alcoholics' Anonymous works."
"Thank you for explaining why social drinking is wrong."
What about hearing voices in your head?
What do I do about a husband that sinned at a bachelor's party?
What is wrong with drinking, so long as it is done in moderation?
Why shouldn't people drink alcohol?
Wouldn't wine need to be fortified in order to be used as starter fluid?

Angels

Are cherubim angels?
Do angels preach?
Is Michael the archangel and Jesus the same person?
What is meant by the worship of angels?
Who was the angel that Jacob wrestled with at Jabbok?
Who were the sons of God in Genesis 6:4?

Anger

Any suggestions for handling an angry member?
How do you handle people with hot tempers?
Which antidepressant is best for the treatment of drug addiction and for dealing with anger?
Why do I still not have control over my anger?

Animal Rights

Can we love and care for animals?
Do you honestly think man is God's most powerful creation?
Does Abel's sacrifice prove meat was eaten before the flood?
Doesn't Ecclesiastes 3:19 teach that there is no difference between men and animals?
Don't you feel any compassion for the suffering animals?
Don't you feel sorry for the animals?
Evidence that meat is acceptable food offends a reader
"God wouldn't allow His creation to kill each other."
I'm disappointed you didn't answer my question.
Is everything in the Bible applicable today?
Is it okay to wear animal skin or furs?
Is killing animals limited to only when needed for skins and meat?
Is the commandment "You shall not kill" or "You shall not murder"?
Isn't it a contradiction when God changed His mind about the eating of animals?
Isn't the raising of animals disrespectful of the animal's life?
Isn't vegetarianism the ideal for man?
Since man was given dominion, does that justify dog fighting?
Was it right to put our old dog to sleep?
"We fail terribly if we consume animals."
What did Jesus eat while he was on earth?
What does God say about respect for life and His creation?
Why are animals put to death when it is the person who sins?
Why do animals have feelings if they are just food?
Your article on animals will help me in a debate in my philosophy class. Thanks!

Animals

What type of animals did they have in Jesus' time?

Apocrypha

Is it possible that early Christians added to the book of Enoch?

Apologetics

Can you prove God exists?
Did Jesse have seven or eight sons?
Do the gospels contradict each other regarding Jesus' empty tomb?
Does Buddhism prove Jesus to be myth?
How do I answer someone who believes all religions are equal?
How do I deal with skeptics?
How do you prove there is a God?
"I believe Jesus was married and had a son."
If there is a God, why does evil exist?
Isn't it a contradiction when God changed His mind about the eating of animals?
Justifying Divorce and Remarriage by Claiming Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are Old Testament Books
What advantage is there to being religious?
What do you think about this Jesus tomb found in Jerusalem?
Where do I find a list of God's laws in the Bible?
Would you explain what apologetic writing is?

Apostles

Did the disciples receive the Holy Spirit at the last supper or on Pentecost?
How did Paul learn the gospel?
How did the twelve apostles die?
I don't think you proved Paul to be an apostle.
Objections to Paul's apostleship
What did Paul mean by "chiefest of the apostles"?
What does the Bible tell us about Matthew's life?
What were the names of Jesus's twelve apostles?
What were the professions of the twelve apostles?
Were the apostles baptized?
Were the apostles educated?
Where were the apostles from?
Who were the first two disciples?

Army

May a Christian serve in government?

Art

What do you think about religious art?

Astrology

Why were the stars and moon created?

Atheism

Can you prove God exists?
Do people only become religious because they were indoctrinated at an early age?
How do I convinence an athiest to believe in the Bible?
If there is a God, why does evil exist?
I've had sex. I don't believe in God. So you probably hate me, but that's a sin too.
"Mixing Scriptures with lectures about sex is ridiculous."
While I am not a Christian, I respect your willingness to use the whole Bible.
Why won't God heal amputees?
Would an atheist be saved if he did good deeds during his life?

Attendance

Does a person have to attend church?
Does the command to "forsake not the assembling of ourselves together" apply only to Sunday worship?
How can I get the heart and desire to go out of my way to worship God?
How do I handle attending services when there are family outings planned?
How do you handle problems with attending services?
How does a disfellowshiped Christian worship God?
I don't feel like attending Wednesday night Bible class. Do you think it is a sin?
Should failure to attend in the past be publically confessed?
When did evening worship services start?

Authority

A reader who believes the only reason polygamy is condemned is because the "church" condemns it.
Can a bake sale be held at a church?
Can a hall used by a church for worship also be rented for a potluck by members?
Can money be used from the church treasury to do good for non-Christians?
Can the church sponsor the growing of tobacco to raise funds?
Did the apostle Paul keep the laws found in the Torah?
Do Jews and Christians both follow the teachings of the Old Testament?
Does God put more weight on moral law and less on ceremonial law?
How can you trust early Christian writers when you disagree with them on some topics?
How did the early church know what to do and how are we to determine what we are to follow?
How will male virtues be passed on without spanking?
In whose name are we to be baptized?
Is a veil required?
Is it wrong to use a slogan?
Is Matthew 28:19 a part of the setting up of the church?
Is playing an instrument for a person's own enjoyment scriptural?
Is the Bible our highest standard for living?
Is the Bible the only source of authority?
Isn't a kitchen just an way to reach people with the gospel?
Isn't it better to embrace the Salvation Army as part of God's gift to humanity?
Matthew 28:19 cannot refer to a Christian's baptism because it was given in the wrong place and at the wrong time.
Must a member of the church follow the truth?
Should baptism be done only in Jesus' name?
Should the Lord's Supper be served with one cup?
Should we call on Jesus or Jehovah to be saved?
What are your thoughts on the silence of the Scriptures?
What do you think about my thesis?
What does it mean to honor your father and mother?
What is wrong with Catholicism?
When are examples binding?
Who rules the world, God or Satan?
Why are there different denominations?
Why do some women wear a cloth on their heads during worship?
Why must the Lord's Supper be taken every week?