Answers to Questions Listed by Topics Beginning with the Letter "L"
Unless otherwise noted, all answers were written by Jeff Hamilton.
Language
Lasciviousness
- How do you prevent teenagers from having pre-marital sex?
- How does adultery start?
- Is it okay for boys and girls to swim together?
- What does lasciviousness mean?
- What is the spiritual impact of online pornography?
- What sexual acts should not be committed before marriage?
- What to do when a church leader preys on members
- When is it appropriate to start kissing?
Law
- Abraham wasn't baptized, so why should we need it?
- Did the apostle Paul keep the laws found in the Torah?
- Do Jews and Christians both follow the teachings of the Old Testament?
- Does a change in the Law mean God changes His mind a lot?
- Does Christ's law about divorce and remarriage apply to non-Christians?
- Does God put more weight on moral law and less on ceremonial law?
- Does the concept of right and wrong come from the nature of God?
- How can I follow God when He is so strict?
- How important is the Sabbath day?
- "I learned some life lessons from the lesson 'Why did Uzzah have to Die?' Thank you."
- I noticed the more good I do, the more I am tempted. How do I deal with this?
- If Adam and Eve did not sin, would it have been only a matter of time before someone else sinned?
- Is driving over the speed limit sinful?
- Is the covenant different from the Law?
- Is Talmudism different from Zionism?
- Questions about James 2
- Since children are no longer stoned for disobedience, homosexuality can't be called wrong either?
- Was the Law of Moses in effect while Melchizedek lived?
- Were only the sacrificial ordinance abolished from the Law?
- What constitutes a witness in the Bible?
- What is the law in Romans 7?
- When Christ spoke, "It is finished" and died on that cross, at that moment is when the New Covenant took place?
- Where do I find a list of God's laws in the Bible?
- Why can't we be free like the wind?
- Why did God put the tree in the garden if He knew man would sin?
- Why did God put the forbidden tree in the garden?
- Why does Law exist?
- Why were the Israelites not to use diverse weights?
Laziness
- Is there a passage similar to "an idle mind is the devil's workplace?"
- My nine year old is lazy and nothing seems to work.
- What does "an idle mind is the devil's workshop" mean?
Liberalism
- Are you "anti" or "liberal"?
- Can the church pay for things pertaining to the upkeep of the church building?
- Can those teaching institutionalism or liberalism be called brethren?
- Isn't a kitchen just a way to reach people with the gospel?
- Questions about the use of funds given to the church
- What do you think about the divisions among the churches?
- What do you think about the World Bible School?
- What is this business about "anti," "liberal," and "sound?"
- Would it be wrong to use the church's property for a garden?
Licentiousness
- How do you prevent teenagers from having pre-marital sex?
- How does adultery start?
- Is it okay for boys and girls to swim together?
- What does lasciviousness mean?
- What sexual acts should not be committed before marriage?
- What to do when a church leader preys on members
- When is it appropriate to start kissing?
Life
Life in Bible Times, Lifestyle
Lord's Supper
- Acts 20:7 doesn't speak of worship, does it?
- Are there passages that refer to THE Lord's Supper?
- Can fermented grape juice (wine) be used in the Lord's Supper?
- Can the Lord's Supper be taken to a shut-in?
- Could you give a sample prayer for the Lord's Supper?
- Didn't the Christians in Troas worship on the Sabbath?
- Does Acts 20:7 refer to a common meal?
- Does Mathew 26:29 mean that we shouldn't take communion?
- Does the Bible say the church worshiped on Sunday?
- How do I know which church is the one the Lord intended? And what about the Eucharist being the real body and blood?
- How do you justify using Acts 20:7 as binding the day but not the place?
- "I don't think God is against a fellowship that can supply nutrition to visitors."
- Is it acceptable to take the Lord's Supper at the evening service?
- Isn't the word "day" added to Acts 20:7?
- Should Christians sing during the Lord's Supper?
- Should I partake of the Lord's Supper if I can't focus on Jesus' death?
- Should non-Christians participate in the Lord's Supper?
- Should the Lord's Supper be served with one cup?
- Should the Lord's Supper be only taken at night?
- Since they met at night in Acts 20:7ff, does that mean Christians today should only meet at night?
- What did Jesus mean by "eat my flesh and drink my blood?"
- What do you think about my statement of belief regarding the Lord's Supper?
- What do you think about partaking of the Lord's Supper after a dinner?
- What is a "love feast?"
- Who can give communion?
- Why is grape juice a part of the Lord's Supper?
- Why must the Lord's Supper be taken every week?
- Why shouldn't the Lord's Supper be served again for late comers?
Love
- Are same sex relationships wrong if they are non-sexual?
- Can two homosexuals truly love each other?
- Could you explain what is true love?
- Did I love him too much?
- Does an old lover reappear as a man's daughter?
- Does Christian love demand a willingness to lay down your life for a friend?
- How did David and Jonathan show their love for each other?
- How do I defend against Satan?
- How do I know I am loving my brethren?
- How do you love people who are being mean to you?
- How were the Thessalonians taught by God to love one another?
- Is looking at another person and noting they are beautiful a form of lust?
- Is married love different from Christian love?
- Is romantic love a duty or an emotional thing?
- Is same gender love wrong?
- I'm still confused as what love is. Is it a feeling, an action, or both?
- Should we separate a man from his deeds, hating his sins while loving his soul?
- We're thinking about getting married, so how do I get him to be honest with himself?
- What does it mean that we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren?
- What should a wife do if she feels unloved?
- When is it appropriate to start kissing?
- When we love God, how do you define love?
Luck
Lust
- Are same sex relationships wrong if they are non-sexual?
- Did my girlfriend and I sin by trying foreplay even though we will be married next year?
- How do we distinguish between attraction and lust?
- How do you prevent teenagers from having pre-marital sex?
- How does adultery start?
- "I don't think lust necessarily leads to sexual sin."
- I keep getting strong urges to cut myself. I know it is wrong, but am I lusting for what is wrong?
- Is foreplay wrong if it doesn't lead to sex?
- Is it proper to talk about details of sex with your intended before marriage?
- Is it a sin to lust after your own wife or husband?
- Is it okay for boys and girls to swim together?
- Is looking at another person and noting they are beautiful a form of lust?
- Is looking at photographs of partially clad women sinful?
- Is Matthew 5:28 only limited to lusting after a married woman?
- Is sin causing God to be sad because we turned away from Jesus?
- I've committed to God to stop lusting, but I'm tempted daily.
- What do I do about a husband who sinned at a bachelor's party?
- What if a man feels he cannot wait to have sex?
- What sexual acts should not be committed before marriage?
- What to do when a church leader preys on members
- When is it appropriate to start kissing?
- Which book can I commit to memory to overcome sexual lusts?
Lying
- Doesn't Rahab's example prove that lying is acceptable in some situations?
- How do I get my child to be honest with me?
- How can I make my 17 year old daughter understand lying makes me distrust her?
- How do I get my boyfriend to be honest with me instead of hiding things like his occasional drug use?
- How do I spank my three boys?
- How do you handle a teenage liar?
- 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?
- If God told Satan to lie, then isn't it OK for us to lie?
- Is is acceptable to lie about being in a communist country to teach the gospel?
- Should I go ahead and spank my son?
- Should I lie for my daughter?
- "These are not lies!"
- 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?
- What are the biblical consequences to lying?
- What do I do with a 20-year-old who continues to lie?
- What does God do if you make a deal with Him and don't keep it?
- What happens if you swear to tell the truth, but you don't?
- What happens when you lie?
- What happens when you swear not to do something, but you do it anyway?
- Why were the Israelites not to use diverse weights?
- Would God be pleased with my example to my children?