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Abortion
- A man got me pregnant and now won't marry me or support the child. What do I do?
- Can a Christian be involved in distributing contraceptives if it will reduce the number of abortions?
- Can I be forgiven of abortion and adultery?
- Could I get pregnant if the condom leaked?
- How can I stop being so judgmental against my sisters who had abortions?
- How do we determine who is right and who is wrong when everyone claims to take his stand from the Bible?
- How do you argue against abortion with a non-Christian? And how do you know when it is time to end a debate?
- I feel so guilty about my past sins. I just can't get them off my mind. Why do I still not feel forgiven? Is forgiveness all about feelings?
- Is abortion OK if a child has a genetic issue?
- Is abortion wrong except in the case of rape?
- Is it wrong to sell or prescribe emergency contraceptives?
- I'm pregnant after committing adultery and I don't know what to do.
- My girlfriend committed suicide when I told her I would be marrying the girl my family chose for me. I feel so empty.
- What are the differences between Catholicism and Christianity in regards to sex, abortion, and stuff?
- What can I tell a friend who is planning to have her baby aborted?
- What do I do? The woman I got pregnant wants to abort the child!
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Abraham
- How is Abraham famous? What did Abraham care about most?
- How many children did Abraham have?
- How many sons did Abraham have?
- Was Abraham a Gentile or a Jew?
- Why was Abram rewarded for lying to Pharaoh?
Abuse
- How do you help someone who is being abused, but who doesn't want help?
- I was sexually abused as a teen and now suffer from ADD related to those events. How do I change?
- I'm in an abusive relationship and I don't know what to do.
Accuracy of the Bible
- Are ancient writings unreliable because the Book of Jasher differs from the Bible?
- Are the stories in the Bible just "true myths?"
- Can you explain some apparent contradictions in the Gospel accounts?
- Could Jasher be right about Jacob spending 14 years with Eber?
- Could Stephen be making Moses out to be bigger than life?
- Could the Freer Logion also been removed from Mark?
- Could there have been a gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2?
- Did Absalom have sons or not?
- Did Jesse have seven or eight sons?
- Did King Jehoshaphat remove the high places or not?
- Did Matthew fabricate 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?
- Does the Bible teach that the sun rotates around the earth?
- Doesn't the Bible say the earth is a circle as opposed to a sphere?
- How can I be sure that the Bible is fully correct?
- How can I believe the Bible when science has proven it wrong?
- How can I know the God of the Bible isn't a myth?
- 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 so many and different people come from just two people?
- How could the Israelites have left Egypt if they crossed into the Sinai peninsula?
- How could the men with Saul hear and not hear the voice?
- 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?
- I think sex before marriage is great and the Bible is an invented story. What are you opinions?
- I've read that Joshua's conquest of Jericho and Ai could not have happened.
- If the Bible is inspired then why does it say the earth is round and in other spots speak as if it is flat?
- If the Book of Enoch isn't an authoritative book, then why is Jude in the Bible?
- Is Enoch included in Hebrews 11:13 when it said all these died in faith?
- Is everything in the Bible applicable today?
- Is Genesis just a myth based on the Epic of Gilgamesh?
- 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?
- Is there any non-biblical evidence that prove the prophecies in the Bible?
- Proof that Israel wasn't afflicted for 400 years?
- Thank for the refutation on Dan Billingsly's teachings and the information on the historical accuracy of the Bible.
- There are so many parts of the Bible that don't seem right to me.
- Was Matthew originally written in Hebrew or Aramaic?
- Was there a world before Genesis?
- What evidence is there that Paul was recognized by the other disciples or that Christ existed?
- 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 the lists in Ezra 2 and Nehemiah 7 different?
- Why are there two differing stories of creation in Genesis?
- Why did the people think Jesus was calling for Elijah?
- Why does Leviticus talk about four legged insects when insects have six legs?
- Why does the Bible contain the words of Satan?
- Why does the Bible have so much repetition?
- Why don't you use the Book of Enoch?
- Why is there a conflict between Acts 7:15-16 and Genesis 50:13?
Acts
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 I help a guy who seems down on his luck?
- How do you deal with an addict?
- I have a hard time stopping something I'm addicted to doing.
- "Tell the truth, that Alcoholics' Anonymous works."
- What about hearing voices in your head?
- What is wrong with smoking?
Adoption
- How do you repent of having sex out of wedlock and a baby is on the way?
- Is it right that a mother doesn't want the father involved in their child's life?
- Should homosexuals adopt children?
- Was Naomi related to Obed in any way?
- What does the Bible say about infertility?
Adultery
- A question about adultery
- Am I an adulteress because I married a man who had committed adultery in his past?
- Am I an exception to the rule? Has God forgiven me?
- Am I being selfish asking my wife for sex after having an emotional affair with another woman?
- Am I being used by this man?
- Am I considered an adulteress because I left my husband for another man?
- Am I gambling with my soul by living with my girlfriend while waiting for her divorce to go through?
- Am I sinning by seeing a woman who still lives with her husband, though she says they are separated?
- Am I still in adultery?
- As I grow in the Lord, I find I am struggling with my past and current sins.
- Are we still committing adultery?
- Are you familiar with Jerry Bassett's teaching on marriage, divorce and remarriage?
- Because I'm committing adultery, does that mean I can't go to heaven?
- Because of my husband's adultery, I committed adultery and then divorced him. Is my second marriage legitimate?
- Can a man, converting to Islam marry another wife?
- Can a person who married a person who had no right to marry, divorce, and marry someone else?
- Can a widow remain unmarried but have sex with a married man?
- Can adultery be forgiven? Should I tell my spouse?
- Can I be forgiven of abortion and adultery?
- Can I have sex with a woman who is willing and cannot get pregnant?
- Can I marry again after divorcing my husband for adultery, even though I once committed adultery years ago?
- Can I remarry after being divorced by my wife because of my infidelities?
- Can I remarry after both my husband and I have committed adultery?
- Can I remarry if I have committed adultery with my first husband?
- Can the adulterer marry again and that marriage be acceptable to God?
- Can the adulterer remarry after his original spouse dies?
- Can two non-Christians, involved in adultery, be baptized?
- Can we make things right after our adultery?
- Could the one person God intended for me be someone who is already married?
- Did my sins prior to my marriage cause my husband to commit adultery after our marriage?
- Do I have to divorce my husband in order to be baptized?
- Do I need to confess my adultery to my wife?
- Do I need to tell my husband all the details about my past affair?
- Do I stay with my husband or run off with my lover?
- Does God hate all adulterers and fornicators?
- Does Matthew 5:28 only apply to lusting after a married woman?
- Ever since I committed adultery and lost my marriage, it seems like I've been stuck.
- How can a church accept an improperly divorced couple?
- How can adultery be an ongoing sin?
- How can I forgive my husband of his adultery?
- How can I save my marriage?
- How can looking at pornography be adultery, especially since I'm not married?
- How could I, as a Christian, have committed adultery when I knew it was wrong?
- How do I advise a man who told me he is committing adultery?
- How do I handle what is quickly becoming an adulterous office affair?
- How do I let go of the guilt of having committed adultery?
- How do I repent of adultery when I don't feel sorry for doing it?
- How do I straighten out the mess I'm in?
- How do we get our marriage back to the way it used to be before my wife's affair?
- How do you move on when your husband leaves you for another person?
- How does adultery start?
- How long does it take to get over finding out your husband committed adultery?
- I am so miserable. I need help.
- I asked God if I should leave my marriage. Why doesn't God answer?
- I blew it again. What do I do?
- I can't make up my mind between my husband and my lover.
- I caught my husband committing incest. We are now separated, but I'm being told I owe him sex. I don't plan to return to this man, so do I owe him sex while we are separated?
- I caught my wife being intimate with another man. Can I divorce her?
- I committed adultery and had a child. How do I hold on to my marriage and be responsible for the child I brought into this world?
- I committed adultery, divorced my husband, and married another man. What should I do?
- I committed adultery, divorced my husband, and married my lover. Am I still in adultery?
- I committed adultery to force my husband to admit to his adultery and then I left him. Would God forgive me of my sin and restore my marriage?
- I didn't want to start the year with lies so I told my husband about my past affair. How can I save my marriage?
- I don't know if I should marry the man I've been living with for the last six years.
- I don't know if I should remarry my ex-husband or another man who says he loves me.
- I had several affairs, but now my husband is suggesting that we have a threesome. How should I handle this?
- I just can't understand why my husband had an affair and a child as a result.
- I just found out my husband committed adultery while he was overseas.
- I knew it was wrong, but I committed adultery. Will God forgive me?
- I know God has forgiven me, but I had committed adultery and I can't forgive myself.
- I made a mess of my marriage, having a child out of wedlock. How do I go about repairing the damage?
- I married a woman in name only so she could become a citizen of my country. I have a girlfriend and a child by her. How do I fix this mess?
- I repented of my adultery, but my wife is still planning to divorce me. What do I do?
- I think my husband is being unfaithful. What should I do?
- I was having an affair of the heart with a married woman. I broke it off, but later heard she committed adultery with another man. Am I guilty for causing her to sin?
- I was involved in porn and prostitution, but I repented since getting caught. My wife still wants to divorce me. Do I deserve a chance to show I've changed?
- If a Christian commits adultery and dies without repenting of his sin, will he go to hell?
- If a man looks admiringly at a woman without thoughts of sex, is that adultery?
- If a minister has committed adultery, should he step down even though he has repented of his sin?
- If I divorce my husband, can I marry my lover?
- If I don't tell my wife I sinned, isn't that lying?
- If the man I committed adultery with is getting divorced, can I marry him?
- Is a spouse texting people of the opposite sex, is that adultery?
- If both are commiting adultery, could either one remarry?
- Is divorce still valid for adultery?
- Is Matthew 5:28 only limited to lusting after a married woman?
- Is it a sin to have sex with my ex-husband?
- Is it wrong to divorce my wife if she moves out?
- Is our relationship adulterous because we both had unscriptural divorces from prior marriages?
- It's all my fault, but I can't stop seeing my old boyfriend.
- I'm committing adultery, but we are in love. I know it is wrong, but what do I do?
- I'm heartbroken that I have to end my marriage.
- I'm pregnant after committing adultery and I don't know what to do.
- I'm sorry for the adultery I've done, but my wife is leaving me and I don't know what to do.
- I'm trying to forgive my wife for the adultery she committed, but I'm finding it hard to forget.
- I'm trying to hold my marriage together, but my wife won't stay at home.
- I've been involved in acts of lewdness with a married man while leading a church. What do I do?
- I've been married three times. How do I straighten out my life?
- I've committed adultery and I don't know where to begin picking of the pieces of my shattered marriage.
- I've committed sexual sins, but how do I get past the feeling that I've ruined everything?
- I've made a mess out of my life. Can you give me some insight into straightening it out?
- My boyfriend committed adultery and is now divorced. Am I doomed if I marry him?
- My friend is committing adultery. Must I say something?
- My girlfriend is marrying someone she claims she is not happy with. She wants me to be her lover after she marries. I'm so confused!
- My husband and I lived a very sinful life, but now we want to change. Is our marriage still valid? Will God forgive us?
- My husband blames me for his adulteries and our divorce. How do I move past this?
- My husband cheated and I cheated. I lived with a man for years before the divorce was final. We eventually married, but did I have the right to marry again?
- My husband is committing adultery but also talking about becoming a Christian
- My husband is into porn and I suspect seeing prostitutes. What do I do?
- My husband knows I cheated, but should I tell him the details?
- My husband left me for another woman. Do I have to forgive him?
- My husband repented of his adultery, but he still works with the woman. What do I do?
- My husband was deported and I've been committing adultery with another man. What do I do?
- My mother told me my father has been having affairs for a long time. What do I do?
- My wife committed adultery. We repaired the marriage, but I still hurt. What can I do?
- My wife divorced me after she had an affair, and I can't help thinking it was all my fault.
- My wife has been committing adultery with her step-brother. What do I do?
- My wife left me six weeks ago and I am at my wits end.
- Now that I realize I am in adultery, how do I fix the problem?
- Now that my husband has died, can I marry the man I committed adultery with?
- Should I break up with my boyfriend who is about to file for a divorce?
- Should I divorce? Can I remarry?
- Should I take back my adulterous wife?
- Should I tell my ex-wife I cheated on her?
- Should I tell my husband about my adultery?
- Should I tell my husband that I committed adultery?
- Should we refuse to study with someone who is in an adulterous marriage?
- The man I committed adultery with is trying to force me to marry him. What should I do?
- Though my husband is divorcing me in order to marry another woman, he is telling everyone that I'm the one who committed adultery. How can I defend myself?
- We were doing well a few years ago, but I've slipped into sexual sins.
- What are my options after being divorced for having an affair?
- What can I do? I am new to this country and my husband is seeing another woman.
- What can I do? My ex-husband is about to marry his mistress.
- What do I do about my past affair?
- What do you advise concerning a woman who left her husband because of his adultery, but did not divorce him, and later lived in adultery herself?
- What do you think about this divorce situation I ran into in Chile?
- What if you don't have concrete evidence that your spouse is committing adultery?
- What is the difference between fornication and adultery?
- What should a husband do when his wife refuses to have sex with him?
- What to do when a church leader preys on members
- When a person doesn't know the wrong you did, is confession required?
- When my boyfriend proposed to me, he said that he had a child when he was a teenager. If I marry him, will that make me an adulteress?
- Why is my husband committing adultery?
- Who is responsbile for a child born out of wedlock?
- Who will be held accountable for committing adultery? A single woman or a married man?
- Why can't my sister get baptized?
- Why did Jesus allow divorce when the Law had a death penalty for adultery?
- Why do people tolerate adultery in the name of "forgiveness?"
- Why do you teach that a man can only have one wife?
- Why don't I feel forgiven?
- Why was David condemned for having sex with Bathsheba when he already had multiple women?
- Will God bless our attempts to restore our marriage?
- Will I be condemned for running off with another man?
Advice
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?
- I don't think I had that great of a need for baptism when I was 13. Should I get baptized again?
- Is there no salvation outside the church?
- I'm concerned that my 15 year old still doesn't want to be baptized.
- Should a mentally impaired person be baptized?
- Should becoming a Christian and getting married be postponed until people are at least 20?
- What is the age of accountability for a child?
- Why do you teach the men are born without sin?
Agnostics
Alcohol
- Am I compromising by just drinking a glass of wine a few days each week?
- Aren't the translators accurate enough so we don't have to look at the definitions of Greek words for alcohol?
- Can fermented grape juice (wine) be used in the Lord's Supper?
- Can Romans 14:21 be used to justify the use of alcoholic beverages?
- Can you tell me your source for your opening statement in "Social Drinking"?
- Could Paul have told Timothy to drink grape juice for his stomach's sake?
- Did Paul sometimes drink wine?
- Do the words "carousing" or "reveling" condemn social drinking?
- Do you have sources showing that oinos and yayin can mean both fermented and unfermented drinks?
- Does Acts 2:13-15 infer that Christians drank fermented wine?
- Does alcohol cook out when cooking with it?
- Does Matthew 5:28 apply to other sins?
- 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 can I help an abused girl who has been thrown out of her home?
- How do I get my parents to see that they are enabling my sister to be a drug user?
- How do I handle a Christian on my campus team who is repeatedly intoxicated?
- How do I handle an invitation to a party where drinks are being served?
- How do I repent for getting drunk?
- How do I say no?
- How do you answer people who try to use Jesus turning water to wine as proof for drinking alcohol?
- How do you answer someone who claims "new wine" in Acts 2:13 must be alcoholic?
- How do you deal with an addict?
- How do you quit drinking and smoking?
- "I don't think you considered all the passages regarding the use of alcohol in the Old Testament"
- I got drunk, visited a prostitute and really messed up my life. What do I do?
- I keep doing things that I know are wrong. Can you pray for me?
- I ran into an argument that "every lexicon" defines oinos as fermented drink. Do you have sources to disprove this?
- I realize now that I can be forgiven, so how do I get past the guilt?
- If gluttony and drinking are both sins, then isn't abstaining from alcohol as ridiculous as abstaining from food?
- Is there any reference to Jesus having drank to excess at any time?
- Isn't a moderate drinker still sober?
- Should a Christian eat with a non-Christian who is having alcohol with his meal?
- Since I became a Christian, I've become an alcoholic. Should I be baptized again?
- "Tell the truth, that Alcoholics' Anonymous works."
- "Thank you for explaining why social drinking is wrong."
- Wasn't wine used during the Lord's Supper?
- What about hearing voices in your head?
- What do I do about a husband that sinned at a bachelor's party?
- Why do you say that the wine at the marriage feast in Cana was grape juice?
- What about deacons not being given to much wine, doesn't this allow for a casual drink?
- What dictionary did you use to define the Hebrew words for wine in your article?
- What is wrong with drinking, so long as it is done in moderation?
- Why aren't we teaching about issues regarding how to stay saved -- moral issues like sex, drugs, alcohol, etc.?
- Why didn't Lot turn down his daughters' advances?
- Why is the qualification for deacons "not given to much wine?"
- Why shouldn't people drink alcohol?
- Why wasn't Noah condemned for getting drunk?
- Wouldn't wine need to be fortified in order to be used as starter fluid?
- Your lessons on drinking were wonderful!
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Angels
- Are cherubim angels?
- Did an angel actually stir the waters at Bethesda, or was it only a local tradition?
- Do angels have the choice to follow God or not?
- Do angels preach?
- Do humans become angels when they die?
- Is Michael the archangel and Jesus the same person?
- What is meant by the worship of angels?
- Who is the fourth individual in Daniel 3:25?
- Who is the most powerful angel?
- 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 I deal with the sins of myself and others?
- How do I manage thinking bad things about other people?
- How do you deal with an easily angered father?
- How do you handle a violent father?
- How do you handle people with hot tempers?
- I was sexually abused as a teen and now suffer from ADD related to those events. How do I change?
- Is it good in a relationship to express our true feelings so we can know each other better?
- Is it OK to divorce because of violence?
- It seems like I argue with my boyfriend every other day. How do I get peace in my life?
- My marriage is ending in divorce because of my anger and I need advice.
- Should I ask my girlfriend to marry me when we tend to argue a lot?
- What can I do about getting annoyed with people?
- What do angels look like?
- What does Jesus mean by the "last penny?"
- When is anger appropriate and when is it sinful?
- 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?
- Can't people use fake fur instead of animal skins?
- Did God clothe Adam and Eve with feathers?
- 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 big companies mistreat animals?
- Don't you feel any compassion for the suffering animals?
- Don't you feel sorry for the animals?
- Even if Jesus existed, why did he last eat herbs and fruit?
- Evidence that meat is acceptable food offends a reader
- "God wouldn't allow His creation to kill each other."
- I don't care about the Bible, but don't you see the cruelty in killing animals for food?
- If a driver purposely runs over a dog, is that murder?
- If eating meat is right, then why did Paul say he would never again eat meat?
- If God wanted us to eat meat, why did He give animals defenses?
- I'm disappointed you didn't answer my question.
- "I'm not against eating meat, I oppose the cruel treatment of animals."
- Is everything in the Bible applicable today?
- Is it bad to kill bugs?
- Is it okay to wear animal skin or furs?
- Is it sinful to mistreat animals?
- Is it wrong to raise dogs for fighting?
- 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 only reason God allowed Noah to eat meat was because it was convenient?
- Isn't the raising of animals disrespectful of the animal's life?
- Isn't vegetarianism the ideal for man?
- "Jesus is a vegan!"
- "Jesus would never be a part of religion that sacrificed animals!"
- People are really bashing the Bible and Jesus' teaching in attempting to forbid the eating of meat.
- "PETA exists because people kill animals sinfully."
- "Shame on Christians who think God ordained that they should eat meat."
- Since man was given dominion, does that justify dog fighting?
- So the Bible says it's okay to kill animals, eat them, wear their skins, and even abuse them?
- The change in food laws was an act of the Roman Catholic church.
- Was it right to put our old dog to sleep?
- "We fail terribly if we consume animals."
- What about those farmers who torture their animals?
- What did Jesus eat while he was on earth?
- What does God say about respect for life and His creation?
- What kind of skin did God make for Adam and Eve after their sin?
- Why are animals put to death when it is the person who sins?
- Why can animals be used for food, but not men?
- Why do animals have feelings if they are just food?
- Why do you feel the need to promote killing animals when God did not mandate this?
- Why do you teach about eating meat when there are more important issues in the world?
- Why don't you quote noted animal rights activists?
- You can't claim that men can eat meat because Adam and Eve did not exist!
- You can't prove that Jesus wasn't a vegetarian!
- Your article on animals will help me in a debate in my philosophy class. Thanks!
Animals
Annulment
Anointing
Antichrist
- Are all prominent theologians saying Obama is the antichrist?
- Do you think there is anything to this New World Order idea?
- "You don't understand. The antichrist is coming!"
Apocrypha
- Are any of the apocrypha truthful?
- Could Jasher be right about Jacob spending 14 years with Eber?
- Did Jesus tell the Essenes not to eat breakfast?
- How can the Book of Jasher be written in 1625 when it is mentioned in Joshua and II Samuel?
- How dare you claim that the book of Enoch is uninspired!
- Is it Ecclesiasticus or Sirach?
- Is it possible that early Christians added to the book of Enoch?
- The book of Enoch or the Constantine's church
- Were the Apocrypha books accepted as canon before the Council of Trent?
- What do you know about the "Acts of Paul and Thecla?"
- What is the difference between 1 Enoch and 2 Enoch? Did Jesus quote from 1 Enoch?
- Why does Jude contain quotes not found in the Old Testament?
- Why don't you use the Book of Enoch?
- Why have some books been left out of the Bible?
- Why isn't "The Tales of the Patriarchs" included in the Bible?
- You made mistakes in your arguments against the book of Enoch.
Apologetics
- Are the trials of Jesus historically accurate?
- Can you help harmonize Matthew 10:34 and Matthew 26:52, and also John 3:13 and II Kings 2:11?
- Can you prove God exists?
- Did God condone rape?
- Did Jesse have seven or eight sons?
- Do the gospels contradict each other regarding Jesus' empty tomb?
- Does Buddhism prove Jesus to be myth?
- Does the Bible state the world is flat?
- Does the Bible teach that the sun rotates around the earth?
- Doesn't God want us to follow parts of the Old Testament?
- Doesn't the Bible say the earth is a circle as opposed to a sphere?
- God cannot be tempted, but Jesus was tempted; so, is Jesus not God?
- How can such a loving God condemn people who have never heard of Jesus or the Bible?
- How could a just God put a man in a place where he is unable to hear about Jesus and then send him to hell?
- How could the men with Saul hear and not hear the voice?
- How do I answer someone who believes all religions are equal?
- How do I deal with skeptics?
- How do I prove that Jesus exists and the Bible is true?
- How do you answer a teacher who claims religion is not based on evidence?
- How do you answer someone who doesn't believe the Bible?
- How do you handle questions you can't understand? Does it cause you to doubt that God exists?
- How do you prove there is a God?
- How many fighting men did Joab count in Israel and Judah?
- How many years of famine did God threaten David with?
- "I believe Jesus was married and had a son."
- If everything comes from God, doesn't evil come from God?
- If there is a God, why does evil exist?
- Is there any non-biblical evidence that prove the prophecies in the Bible?
- Is there any scientific evidence that Christianity is the true religion?
- 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
- "The Bible is not meant to be read literally!"
- What advantage is there to being religious?
- What do you think about this Jesus tomb found in Jerusalem?
- When did Jehoiachin begin reigning and how long did he reign?
- Where do I find a list of God's laws in the Bible?
- Why did God order the death of children?
- Why did God prove He existed before but not now?
- Why do Christians always try to justify the Bible's error?
- Why do you believe in God? If God loves us all, why doesn't He let us all in heaven?
- Why does the Bible have so much repetition?
- Why is Solomon hearing ants absurd, but Jesus turning water into wine or Moses parting the Red Sea not?
- Would you explain what apologetic writing is?
Apostles
- Did the disciples receive the Holy Spirit at the last supper or on Pentecost?
- How can the church exist without a succession of apostles?
- 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
- Was Paul a false apostle?
- What did Jesus expect of Peter when he said to feed his sheep?
- 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 was the last to see Jesus?
- Who were the first two disciples?
Appearance
- How do I stop putting so much emphasis on physical beauty?
- Is there a gift of beauty or attractiveness?
Army
Art
- Are not pictures of Jesus and angels, or even wedding announcements, sinful because they are graven images?
- Is abstract art and thinking abstractly diving into worldly thought?
- Is art only condemned in connection with idolatry?
- What do you think about religious art?
Astrology
- Can you believe in the zodiac at least partially?
- Does the fact that the wise men followed a star mean that astrology is acceptable?
- Why were the stars and moon created?
Atheism
- As a non-believer, I found parts of two articles offensive.
- Can a Christian be friends with an atheist?
- Can the marriage of an atheist work? Is it possible to have a marriage that lasts without divorce?
- Can you comment on the video "Real proof that Jesus is not real"?
- Can you help me with some questions from an atheist?
- Can you prove God exists?
- Could you review this debate on whether God exists?
- Do atheists worship Satan?
- Do people only become religious because they were indoctrinated at an early age?
- Does the Bible state the world is flat?
- How can God be eternal if eternity is like a circle?
- How can I know the God of the Bible isn't a myth?
- How do I convince an atheist to believe in the Bible?
- How do I reach out to my atheist roommate?
- How do I teach someone who only believes in science?
- I found some statements on an atheist site that disturb me.
- If Carl Sagan was the world's smartest man, shouldn't he have a compelling argument?
- If there is a God, why does evil exist?
- If you judge atheists, then aren't you contradicting your beliefs?
- 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."
- What if I say you can't prove God is real?
- What Scripture is most useful to challenge an atheist?
- While I am not a Christian, I respect your willingness to use the whole Bible.
- Why do you feel the need to say that other religions are wrong?
- Who do you think you are telling someone the proper order for finding a spouse?
- Why won't God heal amputees?
- Would an atheist be saved if he did good deeds during his life?
Attendance
- Can I be a Christian and not go to church?
- Do you have to join a church?
- Do you think it's a sin not to go to church?
- Does a person have to attend church?
- Does God care about all the surgeries I'm going through?
- Does "not forsake the assembling of ourselves together" mean reading the Bible and learning about God and His Kingdom?
- Does the Bible teach that you don't have to congregate to go to heaven?
- Does the command to "forsake not the assembling of ourselves together" apply only to Sunday worship?
- Given the state of the church today, of course Christians are not required to attend services.
- How can I get the heart and desire to go out of my way to worship God?
- How can I stay spiritually stable?
- How can you be in a church when there isn't one in your area?
- 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?
- Is membership in a local congregation necessary for salvation?
- Is poor attendance actually a sin?
- Is staying home because of an illness "forsaking the assemblies?"
- I'm going to be going on a tour. What do I do about missing services?
- My family won't go to church because they think people will judge them for not attending. How can I get them to go with me?
- My new job interferes with going to Bible study. What do I do?
- Should failure to attend in the past be publicly confessed?
- Should I attend services elsewhere while traveling?
- Should services be missed because you have a cold?
- Should we visit my grandfather's church when we are there even though we left that denomination for the true church?
- What if you feel that a particular church is not suitable to you?
- What do we do about a sister who left after being a Christian for a year?
- What do you say to people who left the church when you run into them?
- When did evening worship services start?
- While my parents call themselves Christian, they don't go to a church. How can I do?
- Why don't you meet daily?
- Why should we go to church every Sunday?
- Would it be sin to worship in a congregation where the elders are not correct?
- "You don't know the true reasons why I don't attend!"
Authority
- A reader who believes the only reason polygamy is condemned is because the "church" condemns it.
- By what authority do you act?
- Can a bake sale be held at a church?
- Can a church buy and sell property?
- Can a hall used by a church for worship also be rented for a potluck by members?
- Can a man give a woman permission to lead a part of the worship service?
- Can a person add things to their worship so long as they don't require it of others?
- Can instrumental music be used for worshiping God on days other than Sunday?
- 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?
- Do you sell everything you have? Why do you have an air conditioned building?
- Does God put more weight on moral law and less on ceremonial law?
- How can I tell what God wants?
- How can you prove that the New Testament contains God's only pattern for worship in the Lord's church today?
- 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 do we determine who is right and who is wrong when everyone claims to take his stand from the Bible?
- How do you justify using Acts 20:7 as binding the day but not the place?
- How will male virtues be passed on without spanking?
- If something is used to praise God, then it can't be wrong, can it?
- In whose name are we to be baptized?
- Is a veil required?
- Is an implied fact as authoritative as a direct statement?
- Is being a Christian more than the things in the Bible?
- Is it by grace or by law?
- Is it wrong to use a slogan?
- Is Matthew 28:19 a part of the setting up of the church?
- Is one permitted to interpret God's commandments to bolster one's point of view?
- 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?
- "Jesus was a vegetarian because the Bible was compiled by a bunch of meat eaters."
- 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?
- Questions about the use of funds given to the church
- Should baptism be done only in Jesus' name?
- Should I stay with a congregation that pays its song leader?
- Should the Lord's Supper be served with one cup?
- Should we call on Jesus or Jehovah to be saved?
- Since I Corinthians 14:7 mentions instruments, doesn't that justify instrumental music in the worship?
- Since I Corinthians 16:1-2 was only about one need, then isn't this just an example of how a collection might be taken and not a command for us today?
- Since the church isn't the building, you can't make rules about how the building is used.
- 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 evidence is there that the Catholic church is not the one true church?
- What happened to Nathan when he said the Lord accepted David's idea to build a temple?
- 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 is the command to baptize applied to us, but not those concerning miraculous gifts?
- Why must the Lord's Supper be taken every week?
- Your article on the silence of the Scriptures help me to understand the issues better.
