What unanswered questions arise as you read the Bible?

I am someone who ponders everything, have a problem with taking something at face value.
While searching for answers, “That’s just the way it is” and, “I don’t know” never sat well within me.

So I wonder with many on this site, what questions have you pondered while reading?
What verse or story do you find that is left unanswered ?

For instance, In Genesis, where did that piece of flesh come from that the Lord God patched up from the removed rib?

I am not asking this question to imply that I have any answers, just doing it for the sake of discussion and maybe some of us have wondered about the same thing.

For instance, In Genesis, where did that piece of flesh come from that the Lord God patched up from the removed rib?

In Genesis, where did that piece of flesh come from that the Lord God patched up from the removed rib?

Did Adam have a belly button?

For instance, In Genesis, where did that piece of flesh come from that the Lord God patched up from the removed rib?

With such a triumphal entry into Jerusalem, where were the riots when Jesus was arrested?

I am someone who ponders everything, have a problem with taking something at face value.
While searching for answers, “That’s just the way it is” and, “I don’t know” never sat well within me.

So I wonder with many on this site, what questions have you pondered while reading?
What verse or story do you find that is left unanswered ?

For instance, In Genesis, where did that piece of flesh come from that the Lord God patched up from the removed rib?

I am not asking this question to imply that I have any answers, just doing it for the sake of discussion and maybe some of us have wondered about the same thing.

If performing seances is supposed to raise demons, how did it raise up Samuel?

If the people of Sodom would have repented if they had seen Jesus' miracles, then why didn't He perform them for the Sodomites?

God's omniscience seems called into question when the Bible says that He was grieved over having created human beings

How is the guy who (apparently) killed his daughter as a sacrifice one of the heroes of Hebrews?

They do whatever God decides they will do.

That was before the time of Jesus' ministry on Earth.
All are without excuse. (Romans 1)

2 Peter 3:9
“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
God, in His omniscient foreknowledge, knew there would be a faithful remnant at the very end.

Same as the guy who took his son up onto the mountain. (Abraham)
Same as the guy who gave His only begotten Son. (Our Heavenly Father
Jeptha was obedient and honored his vow to the Lord. We will likely see him and his daughter in Heaven.

"They" who?




Before Abraham was, Jesus is. His not walking around in the flesh in the time of Sodom did not limit His ability to get His messages across.




That OT passage makes no allusion to this at all. It at least implies that God was surprised by the wickedness of humans. This cannot be the case, but the two passages seemingly contradict one another. The only thing I can think of is that there's something we're missing in the translation to you.




But... God never wants human sacrifice. Jesus was the only One, and He was not solely human.

Abraham was ordered by God to sacrifice his only son -- and then stopped. Jesus was obeying the orders of His Father, but He was not solely human. Jeptha did something that the old covenant folks were never supposed to do.

With such a triumphal entry into Jerusalem, where were the riots when Jesus was arrested?

"They" who?




Before Abraham was, Jesus is. His not walking around in the flesh in the time of Sodom did not limit His ability to get His messages across.




That OT passage makes no allusion to this at all. It at least implies that God was surprised by the wickedness of humans. This cannot be the case, but the two passages seemingly contradict one another. The only thing I can think of is that there's something we're missing in the translation.




But... God never wants human sacrifice. Jesus was the only One, and He was not solely human.

Abraham was ordered by God to sacrifice his only son -- and then stopped. Jesus was obeying the orders of His Father, but He was not solely human. Jeptha did something that the old covenant folks were never supposed to do.