Answers to Questions Listed by Topics Beginning with the Letter "H"
Unless otherwise noted, all answers were written by Jeff Hamilton.
Hair Styles
- Does it matter how long was Jesus' hair?
- Doesn't I Corinthians 11 prove that Jesus couldn't have had long hair?
- How long does a woman's hair have to be?
- Is it a sin for a woman to dye her hair colors such as red, blue, or green?
- Is it a sin to shave off one's beard?
- Isn't long hair on men a sign of rebellion only since the 1960's?
- Should a Christian shave his head for a dead relative?
- There are people in the Bible with long hair, so it can't be wrong.
- Was the standard for priests to have short hair and trimmed beards?
- What do the Scriptures say about dreadlocks?
- What is wrong with men having long hair?
- Why are we not supposed to cut the sides of our hair?
- Why do even non-Christians look down on men with long hair?
- Why were men in Jesus' day required to have beards and not shave?
Handicapped
- Does God give an extra reward to the unfortunate?
- How does God handle the prayers of those who do not have much mental capacity?
- How long do I pray for a cure for my TMAU?
- If you can't work due to illness, should you not eat?
- Is God going to reject me because I'm handicapped?
- Is there no salvation outside the church?
- I'm tired of living with this medical condition.
- Should a mentally impaired person be baptized?
- Should I divorce my husband because I am handicapped?
- Why did God force me to live with autism when I don't want it?
- Why doesn't God restore my hearing?
- Will I be handicapped in heaven?
Happiness
- Can I reach heaven with all this negativity in my life?
- I don't know if I should sacrifice my happiness to stay with my wife
- I feel the Lord doesn't want me to be happy because He has not sent me a wife
- I have been suicidal for years. I have so many problems and I don't like who I am.
- I just want a happier environment for my child and I
- Why do people seem happy living in sin?
Harassment
Hatred
Head Covering
- Are men permitted to wear a hat during worship services?
- Can a woman wearing a covering work in a store selling alcohol?
- Could Paul have argued against a Jewish tradition in I Corinthians 11:1-16?
- Could the veil just be a symbol of the husband and not a physical veil?
- Do you allow women to teach or lead prayer in the assembly as long as they wear a covering?
- Does the use of unique words in I Corinthians 11 change the meaning of this passage?
- How do I decide who is right about head covering?
- How does a woman start wearing a covering?
- If Priscilla can be used as an example of head covering, why not of women serving communion?
- Is a head covering needed for all prayers or only during worship?
- Is a veil required?
- Is it okay for a Christian to wear a Kippah?
- Is the head covering a local custom because it is only mentioned once?
- Is the covering in I Corinthians 11 an article of clothing?
- I'm looking for a "veiling" church. What denomination are you?
- Should a head covering be worn all the time?
- Should women use head coverings when praying?
- Thank you for this article on head covering.
- What if the husband is convinced of the head covering, but his wife isn't?
- What is the history behind the articles on head covering?
- What would you tell an eldership who rejects a preacher because his wife wears a head covering?
- When did women stop covering their heads during worship?
- When does head covering apply?
- Where can I find a head covering?
- Why do some women not wear a head covering?
- Why do some women wear a cloth on their heads during worship?
Health
- Any ideas what is wrong with me?
- Cunnilingus is injurious to health!
- Did God in Bible days not let disease and disability affect people in His church?
- Do women have menstrual pains because of Eve's sin?
- Does smoking menthol cigarettes cause erectile dysfunction?
- How do we handle sexual intimacy when my husband has diabetes?
- I believe some people are born with homosexual tendencies.
- I'm addicted to pornography and masturbation. How do I stop?
- Is being addicted to caffeine a sin?
- Is "Cleanliness is next to godliness" in the Bible?
- Is it wrong to work at McDonalds or sell Twinkies?
- Should I trust in God for my healing and not seek the aid of a doctor?
- What does the Bible say about having a fetish?
- What is wrong with smoking?
- Where does it say that a man can't be with his wife during her monthly periods?
Health and Wealth Gospel
Hearing
- How do I know if I'm doing what God wants me to do?
- Is reading the Bible the best place to start if you have never been religious?
Heaven
- Are the new heaven and new earth been already made or will it be created in the future?
- Are there degrees of rewards and punishment?
- Do you know anything concerning the eastern gate in reference to heaven?
- Does the tree of life still exist?
- How can John not know what we will be like in I John 3:2?
- How many are going to heaven?
- How many souls will fit in heaven?
- If the rapture happens, will we still be able to marry and have children?
- If there are no tears in heaven, then what about our memories of those who did not make it?
- Is the point of life seeing the fruit of your labors?
- Is the reference to a new earth given so we can understand heaven better?
- What does it mean to "inherit the kingdom of God?"
- What is the Christian's Sabbath?
- What is the difference between seeking and striving to enter the narrow gate?
- What is the purpose of the new earth?
- What will heaven be like?
- When did the concept of eternal life, heaven and hell first get mentioned in the Bible?
- Why does Hebrews 4:9 speak of the Sabbath rest remaining if the Sabbath observance is no longer required?
- Will there be sex in heaven?
Hebrews
- Is the “day” in Hebrews 10:25 Sunday or the day Jesus returns?
- Why does the Hebrew writer contrast Mount Sinai to Mount Zion?
- Why was Timothy put in prison in Rome?
- Would you explain Hebrews 13:10-13?
Hell
- Are there degrees of rewards and punishment?
- Can you answer some questions about Satan and Hell?
- Have some people visited hell in a near-death experience?
- Is God's presence felt in hell?
- Is "hell" a proper translation of "Gehenna"?
- Is it "away from the presence of the Lord" or "coming from the presence of the Lord" in II Thessalonians 1:9?
- "Of course God sends people to hell, but hell doesn't exist!
- Punished in Jesus' presence or away from his presence?
- When did the concept of eternal life, heaven and hell first get mentioned in the Bible?
- What does "gnashing of teeth" refer to?
- What is meant by "where the worm dieth not?"
- What is the punishment for the unrepentant sinner on Judgment Day?
- What sends you to hell?
- When was Hell created?
- Where does it say that if you reject Jesus you will spend eternity in hell?
- Where does the idea that Hell is a place of torment come from?
- Where is hell?
- Will sinners physically burn in hell?
- You're right. Christians need a healthy fear of hell.
Hermeneutics
Hezekiah
Hinduism
- How can I be a Christian in a Hindu family?
- How do I handle marrying a Hindu?
- Is it wrong to look at images of Hindu gods?
- Is the book Bhagavad-Gita inspired and true?
- Isn't Hinduism older than Judaism? And other questions about early history.
- I'm not certain I'm worthy of the girl I want to marry
- Jesus only followed Judaism because he was born in it. Doesn't Jesus want his followers to remain in whatever religion they were born into?
- "Jesus was a vegetarian because the Bible was compiled by a bunch of meat eaters."
- Should a Christian do yoga?
- Should I participate in my parents' Hindu burial ceremonies?
- What are chakras?
- What is the oldest recorded religion?
History and Geography
- Are the twelve Jordan crossing stones still visible today at Gigal?
- At what gate was Stephen stoned?
- Can we use the writings of the early Christians?
- Can you help me figure out the reigns of the kings of Israel and Judah?
- Could Hegesippus have been mistaken and John was sent to Patmos in A.D. 70?
- Could the Israelites have crossed the Red Sea in one night?
- Could the 40 years in the wilderness begin from original Passover?
- Did Ahaziah begin to reign in the eleventh or twelfth year of Joram's reign?
- Did Asa and Jehoshaphat's reigns overlap in Judah?
- Did Christians have similar religious freedoms under Rome as the Jews?
- Did Isaiah's prophecy that Damascus would cease being a city fail?
- Did Laodicea have cold and hot water?
- Did the Egyptians keep Hebrew slaves?
- Do I understand the history of the Temple accurately?
- Do we know the year Jesus was crucified?
- Do you know of some good visuals on Herod's family tree?
- Does history record Herod killing the children?
- Doesn't the Scriptures say that Edom took over Israel's identity?
- How big was Jerusalem?
- How can the world be 6,000 years old when there are empires and dynasties that are older?
- How can you say there is no symbolic meaning in the name "Hebron?"
- How could Herod, an Idumean, end up ruling Israel?
- How did Israel get across land they were forbidden to travel if they came from the Sinai Peninsula?
- How do you know that Ham was the youngest son?
- How far did Jesus carry the cross?
- How long did it take for Jacob's children to be born?
- How long did the exodus from Egypt take?
- How long would it have taken Israel to reach Canaan if they had not wandered for 40 years?
- How many people were in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost?
- If Daniel was the third ruler in Babylon, who were the first two?
- Is Assyria the same as Syria today?
- Is Rephidim and Kadesh Barnea the same place?
- Is the third river from Eden the Hiddekel or the Tigris?
- Is there no such thing as prehistoric times?
- Isn't Hinduism older than Judaism? And other questions about early history.
- Isn't Ur in Syria?
- I'm confused by the story of Athaliah.
- I've always heard about the three waves of the Babylonian captivity, but where is this found?
- My map shows Baal Zephon to be on the Mediterranean Sea, so doesn't this prove the crossing of the Red Sea to be allegorical?
- The Moabites and Amorites refer to which country?
- Was Job a Gentile?
- Was Mark Peter's son?
- Was the famine mentioned in II Kings 8:1 the same famine mentioned in II Kings 6:24-31?
- Were Esau and Ishmael's descendants considered Gentiles?
- Were Jesus and his family refugees?
- Were the Kenites descendants of Cain?
- What about other cultures that have different creation and flood accounts?
- What about the claim that camels were not used during Abraham's time?
- What books would you recommend reading in the Old Testament?
- What did the stone tablets with the Ten Commandments look like?
- What do you know about the Kenites?
- What does "Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem?" mean?
- What happened between Israel and Edom to cause Amaziah to invade them?
- What happened to Barabbas?
- What happened to Ishmael's descendants?
- What is the oldest recorded religion?
- What was Jerusalem and Galilee like at the time of Jesus?
- What was the climate like when Jesus was alive?
- What was the climate like in the time of Jesus?
- What was the source of the water used to fill the bronze sea?
- What were the requirements for being member of the Sanhedrin?
- When did Adam, Eve, and the Bible come into existence?
- When was the great flood?
- When was the Sanhedrin council convened?
- Where did Aaron die?
- Where is Edom today?
- Where is the ancient city of Babylon located today?
- Where would Golgotha be located?
- Which book is the oldest in the Bible?
- Who are the descendants of the Canaanites?
- Who did Aaron lead to the promise land?
- Who is Gallio, mentioned in Acts 18:12?
- Who is the Queen of the South?
- Who was Flavius Josephus?
- Who was Herodias' daughter?
- Why aren't Samuel's sons counted among the judges?
- Why did ancient cultures lose the story of God?
- Why did Nehemiah have to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem? What happened to it?
- Why did Paul say he left Titus in Crete?
- Why did Paul say Sinai was in Arabia?
- Why was Haman's face covered?
- Why would kings name their children after other kings?
Hobbies
Holidays
- Can't man give glory to God by creating holidays?
- Do Christians celebrate Yom Kippur?
- Do the churches of Christ observe Palms Sunday?
- Do you perpetuate the myth of Santa Claus?
- Doesn't Acts 12:4 mention Easter?
- Is it a sin to celebrate the New Year?
- Is it sinful to listen to a song against Christmas?
- Is it wrong to want to smash pumpkins in protest of Halloween?
- Isn't the Nicene creed wrong and don't most Christians celebrate Christmas on the wrong day?
- Should Christ be put into Christmas?
- Should Christians celebrate Christmas at all?
- Should churches observe Advent?
- Where does God say not to celebrate Jesus' birth?
Holiness
Holy Spirit
- Are people who rejected the ministry of the Holy Spirit not Christians in actual fact?
- Are the baptisms in the New Testament Spirit baptisms or water baptisms?
- Can one receive the Holy Spirit without baptism?
- Can you explain the gifts mentioned in Ephesians 4:11-16?
- Can you explain the indwelling of the Holy Spirit?
- Can you sin after receiving the Holy Spirit?
- Did the disciples receive the Holy Spirit at the last supper or on Pentecost?
- Does the baptism of the Holy Spirit give you power to fight sin?
- Does the Spirit indwell only through the word without any supernatural means?
- Does the Holy Spirit come to us at our baptism?
- Does the Holy Spirit really come inside a person at conversion or only upon a person?
- Does the Spirit of God come upon all men?
- Does the Spirit physically indwell a person?
- How can I be filled with the Holy Spirit?
- How can I get closer to God and be filled with the Spirit?
- How can you know you are filled with the Spirit?
- How do I correct a misunderstanding that the Holy Spirit is the Bible?
- How does God influence us?
- How does someone know if they have the Holy Spirit?
- How does the Holy Spirit testify to people today?
- How many gifts did the early Christians receive from the Holy Spirit?
- I want to see a girl, but I think God wants me here. What should I do?
- If the Holy Spirit is a part of the Godhead, then why isn't He on the throne in Revelation 22:1?
- If the Lord only speaks through the Bible, why was the Spirit promised in John 16:13?
- I'm coming off of drugs, but I had cursed the Holy Spirit, can I ever be forgiven of this?
- Is it a contradiction that Jesus said he would send the Holy Spirit, but he also said some would see him coming in his kingdom?
- Is it possible for a person to blaspheme today?
- Is Jesus, the Father, and the Spirit three manifestations of the same one Spirit?
- Is the Holy Spirit Jesus?
- Is the Spirit only given to the obedient?
- Is the temple of the Spirit the Christian or the church?
- Must a person fall when hands are laid on them?
- Must you speak in tongues to have the Holy Spirit?
- My relationship with God has always been a roller coaster
- Paul was filled with the Spirit before he was baptized, so wasn't he saved before baptism?
- "The spirit cannot be God"
- Was Jesus created since he is the firstborn of creation?
- Were the apostles filled with the Spirit twice?
- What are the gifts of the Holy Spirit?
- What does "praying in the Spirit" mean?
- What is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit?
- What is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?
- What is the difference between spiritual gifts and miraculous gifts?
- What is the role of the Holy Spirit today?
- When does the gift of the Holy Spirit come, after repentance or baptism?
- When Paul asked the Ephesians if they had received the Holy Spirit, what was he referring to?
- Where does it say the Holy Spirit is God?
- Why aren't we following the Holy Spirit?
- Why did Jesus say that unless he went away, the Comforter could not come?
- Why don't you believe that the Spirit actively dwells in the believer today?
- Why haven't you written about the Comforter?
Homosexuality
- A denial that homosexuality is condemned in the Scriptures
- A Roman Catholic priest attempts to defend homosexuality
- Am I doomed to hell? Is it a sin to be gay?
- Any suggestions on how to combat a proposal to ordain homosexuals in the ELCA?
- Are girl - girl relationships condemned?
- Are homosexuals going to hell because they found themselves to be homosexual, yet remain chaste?
- Are same sex relationships wrong if they are non-sexual?
- Because of your answers, I'm going to follow Satan
- Can a person be born gay?
- Can homosexuals have a godly marriage?
- Can I as a homosexual change if I start going to church?
- Can I live with my former homosexual partner if we don't have sex?
- Can the passage about homosexuality in Romans 1 and the one about the Jews and Gentiles in Romans 11 be compared since they both talk about what is natural or contrary to nature?
- Can two homosexuals truly love each other?
- Can you answer some questions about my coming out as a homosexual?
- Did I mess myself up with gay pornography?
- Didn't Jesus say some are born homosexual?
- Do brain region sizes or pheromones prove homosexuality is genetic?
- Do I have any hope of being forgiven of my homosexuality?
- Do I tell my fiancé that I had homosexual sex in my past?
- Do I tell my friend that homosexuality is wrong?
- Do these studies on homosexuality have any meaning?
- Does a former homosexual have to marry a woman to prove he is no longer a homosexual?
- Does Galatians 3:28 support gender diversity?
- Does God hate gays and bisexuals?
- Does I Peter 4:8 defend homosexuality?
- Does it bother you that kids are killing themselves because you teach against homosexuality?
- Does Romans 14 mean homosexuals should be accepted without passing judgment?
- Does the definition of marriage change?
- Don't you dare change my mind, but why is homosexuality bad?
- Given the way homosexuals are treated, why would anyone choose to live their life being hated, unless they can't help it?
- God wouldn't put unnecessary restrictions on people.
- Has science proven that homosexuality is caused in the womb?
- How can God condemn homosexuals when He made them that way?
- How can God condemn love between two people?
- How can it be said that homosexuals and lesbians practicing sexual touching such as hand jobs is sinful?
- How can Solomon say that multiple sexual partners is bad when he had hundreds of wives?
- How can the Scriptures apply to me? Aren't we called to love each other?
- How do I bring up that homosexuality is wrong to someone I'm teaching?
- How do I deal with my lesbian daughter?
- How do I deal with people trying to convince me to go back into homosexuality?
- How do I explain why I didn't attend the wedding of my gay cousin?
- How do I get someone to believe the truth about homosexuality?
- How do I help a friend away from homosexuality?
- How do I object to homosexuality without getting fired?
- How do I overcome my attraction to men?
- How do I overcome my homosexual behavior?
- How do I speak to my friends who are homosexuals?
- How do I stop my masturbating to gay pornography?
- How do we make a stand against homosexuality?
- How do we treat our daughter who says she is now a homosexual?
- I believe some people are born with homosexual tendencies.
- I have been involved in homosexuality. Will it effect my salvation?
- I have concerns about the Catholic church's teachings on celibacy for priests, women's status in the church, and the condemnation of homosexuality.
- I have only had sex with guys but don't consider myself gay
- I left homosexuality, but should I take the risk of joining a church and possibly being rejected?
- I overcame sexual abuse and homosexuality when I became a Christian, but now I find myself slipping back into my old ways.
- I prefer other women. Does that mean I'm not saved?
- "I think the Bible treats homosexuals worse than other so called sins."
- I want to give up homosexuality, but a part of me wants to go back, but I also don't want to go back
- I wouldn't mind being married, but I'm not sexually attracted to women
- If God did not intend for us to share our affections with those of the same sex, then why did He let it be at all possible for me to enjoy the company of another woman than that of a man?
- If homosexuality isn't genetic, then is heterosexuality genetic?
- If I have had sex with the same gender and what gay porn, does that mean I am a homosexual?
- If other sins in the Old Testament are no longer sins, then isn't homosexuality also not a sin?
- Is being gay a sin or is the act of having relations with the same sex a sin?
- Is giving a client a hand job as part of a massage a sin?
- Is homosexuality a race?
- Is homosexuality a sign of mental illness?
- Is homosexuality innate or natural for some people?
- Is it a sin to let another man touch me during the night?
- Is it wrong to cause children to feel guilty over same-sex attraction?
- Is my ex-husband, who became a homosexual, lost?
- Is not the homosexual act and the person one and the same?
- Is same gender love wrong?
- "It's mean to say homosexuality is a sin!"
- "It's your fault that people are biased against homosexuality"
- I'm afraid my son is gay
- I've decided that I can't change my "gayness." Do you think God accepts this?
- I've tried to get out of homosexuality several times, but I keep falling back into it. I feel that I'm out of hope.
- My almost 18 year old daughter appears to be seeing a lesbian. What can I do?
- My cousin wants to be saved, but he is waiting for God to give him an experience so he can stop being gay. What should he do?
- My friend claims that Romans 1:26-27 is not condemning loving, committed homosexual relationships
- My friend just told me he is homosexual. What do I do?
- Please remove your homophobic statements.
- Should homosexuals adopt children?
- Should I go to my aunt's civil union?
- Should I leave a denomination that accepts homosexuality?
- Should I let a congregation know that the preacher's son is homosexual?
- Should someone who says he is gay lead singing in a congregation?
- Since children are no longer stoned for disobedience, homosexuality can't be called wrong either?
- "Telling people that homosexuals can change is doing them harm"
- "The sins of Sodom were not homosexual."
- The text doesn't say that the men of Sodom wanted to force sex on the strangers
- Was the death penalty for homosexuals only referring to hell?
- Were the man's actions in Judges 19:22-24 wrong?
- What do I do? A friend propositioned me
- What do we do if our daughter tells us she is gay?
- What do you do when people say it is wrong to speak out against homosexuality?
- What do you say when someone comes out of the closet?
- What do you think of the President supporting gay marriage?
- What exactly is sodomy?
- What gives you the right to teach that homosexuality is wrong when you can't be sure you're right?
- What is there to repent for in being homosexual?
- What kinds of homosexuality does the Bible mention?
- What should Christians do about the Supreme Court's ruling regarding gay marriage?
- Where can I find an article on how homosexuality is not a part of a Christian's lifestyle?
- Where do you draw the line?
- Where does Christ ever mentions homosexuality ... in the red letters?
- Where does homophobia come from?
- Where does it say that a person who approves of homosexuality is also condemned?
- Where does the Bible say homosexuality is a sin?
- Where does the Bible talk about homosexuality?
- While stoned, I received and gave oral sex. Does this mean I'm a homosexual?
- Why are you cherry picking laws from Leviticus to condemn homosexuality?
- Why can't two women or two men marry and become one flesh?
- Why don't a lot of Christians accept homosexuals?
- Why is it a sin to be gay?
- Why was Jerusalem compared to Sodom?
- Why would a person choose to suffer as a homosexual? It can't be a choice.
- Why would God allow me to be born a homosexual?
- Why would God make homosexuality pleasurable if it was wrong?
- Would my husband have crossed the line by having sex with another guy because he is a cross dresser?
- You only oppose homosexuality out of ignorance
- Your article on homosexuality was a little harsh, but it's dead on.
- Your question and answer on homosexuality really helps.
Honesty
- I don't feel right about a past event, how do I correct it?
- Is it wrong to report less than what something cost so as to pay less taxes?
- I'm not certain if I should go through with this.
- See also: Lying
Honor
- Am I loving God and giving Him glory?
- How can we conclude that a person is glorified?
- I haven't been respectful to my parents in the past. Am I condemned because of this?
- Is it wrong to send a note honoring a man on his birthday?
- What does "honor" mean in I Peter 2:17?
- What is honor and respect?
- Where in the Old Testament does it say to honor others more than yourself?
- See also: Manners
Hope
- Can a person have faith without hope or hope without faith?
- Isn't eternal life guaranteed? So how can we talk of hope?
- What is "the hope of His calling"?
- Will faith and hope still exist in heaven?
Hosea
- Was Gomer the same woman mentioned in Hosea 3?
- Was Hosea's wife a harlot and were some of her children not his?
Hospitality
- Did I miss a chance to be hospitable?
- Does someone need to invite people into their homes to practice hospitality?
- Is there a possibility of being kind to an angel or are we just entertaining for angels to watch?
Humility
- How do you humble yourself in front of the Lord?
- Is chutzpah a part of biblical faith?
- What does it mean to be converted and become like children
- What is pride?
Humor
- Are you saying that it is OK for a preacher to tell jokes behind the pulpit if they are of a clean sort?
- I started out joking with a coworker, but it has gotten out of hand. How do I stop it?
- Is all lying bad?
- Is joking lying?
