Posts Tagged with ‘bible’

Why are Christians so opposed to Homosexuality? Wouldn’t the church be in a better position to serve such people if it treated the Bible differently on this topic?

Christians who are biblical and obedient to God are in the best position to serve the LGBT community. This is because we have the liberating truth about their condition – the universal, shared fallen state of mankind, as well as the means to be redeemed out of that condition – Jesus Christ. Read Full Answer.

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I know God loves me and cares for me. But sometimes I can’t feel His love and care for me. Sometimes I can’t sense His goodness. How can I say with the Psalmist in Psalm 34:8 “Taste and see that the LORD is good!”

Let us first examine what is meant by “Taste and see that the LORD is good” in Psalms 24:8. Is this a reference to physically or emotionally feeling his love and sensing his goodness? Or does the context mean something else?

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Why do Christians believe that Jesus is God?

Christians believe Jesus was God because the bible tells us that Jesus is God and even Jesus Himself teaches that He is God.

There are many places in the bible where this claim is made. Most notable Read Full Answer.

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How can God be a God of love when the Old Testament is full of passages describing death and destruction?

It is true that God is love (1 John 4:8, 16). However, there is a common misconception that because God is love, he cannot kill people and nations or judge them for their sins.

Ray Comfort in his book The Way of the Master paints this scenario: “you are a criminal Read Full Answer.

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God created the world in 7 days, all the animals etc were created. But nothing mentioned the dinosaurs. How can that be explained?

The Scriptures make it clear in Genesis 1:24-26 that all land animals were created on day 6 of creation, on the same day man was. Dinosaurs, as land creatures, were created on the same day as man. Adam followed by Eve were created after these creatures on the same day. Sea dwelling Read Full Answer.

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How can the God of the Bible be the only way (as it claims) to be “saved” or go to heaven? Can it be that all religions except Christianity are wrong?

Whether you believe that Christ is the only way to heaven or whether you believe that there are many ways, you need to have at least 2 things:
1) an absolute truth
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What we must do if we do not want go to church?

The Scripture tell that no to forsake meeting together regularly with other believers to worship God. (Heb 10:25) Granted that there are exceptional cases to this rule (e.g. Elijah commanded by God to hide by a brook), it is not the norm for a believer. Read Full Answer.

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What’s the point of meeting every week. Is it from the Bible – or is it just tradition?

In the book of Acts, we read that the believers meet up daily and their worship of God and Christian service was not limited to just Sundays. (Luke 19:47; Acts 19:9; Acts 6:1) At the same time, we also know that the church set aside Sunday (the Lord’s Day) to come together as a congregation to worship God, break bread, and preach the Word. Read Full Answer.

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Is the bible filled with errors? If the bible is “god breathed” how can it have all of these mistakes? Could the writers then be wrong about who they thought Jesus was?

While there are certainly many skeptics out there that claim that the bible is filled with errors, a closer look at these verses has always shown that these alleged errors can be explained without advocating a contradiction of any sort. As you have not given any example of any alleged error, it is not possible for us to deal with any supposed errors. If you would ask some of these questions on the Ask Anything website, we would be able to deal with it. In the mean time, this might serve as a useful tool in research on the subject: http://creation.com/skeptics-bible-errors

The bible claims to be the inerrant and infallible word of God, and there has not been any evidence of errors in the bible. Since the bible claims to be the very Word of God, and the preservation of the text is guaranteed, there can be no errors in the scripture nor can the writers be wrong about who they thought Jesus to be.

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Since the bible has been passed down by humans from one generation to the next, how much of the truth is left?

Have you ever played a game of Chinese Whispers? This is the game where a number of people stand together in one line. A person whispers some passing information to the person next to him who then continue to pass this information to the next person and so on. At the end of the Read Full Answer.

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Is God’s existence warped by the various translations and interpretations of the Bible and with time and the changing morals of humanity?

God’s existence does not depend on man’s interpretation or translation of the text. God existed long before anything else existed. He was already there at the beginning of creation. (John 1:1) God has no need for man. He is eternal (Psalm 90:2), and does not need man to serve him. God is Read Full Answer.

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