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When I was 16, God drew me to himself 65 years ago this summer using a preacher's messages and my own research into the Bible that God used through the Holy Spirit to convince me that Jesus' resurrection was a historical event and that the Bible, therefore, is true.

Being nice to someone doesn't need to involve lying; the fact that they are God's creations should prompt our love along with Jesus' command that we are to love our enemies.

God guided all the weather and climate to grow his people and so that we can glorify him with our actions. However, we as a nation shouldn't spend ourselves into bankruptcy to chase a questionable dream of reversing climate change.

What do you think of the following four ways to describe the theme of the whole Bible? How much of a teaching tool do you think it would be? 1. LAUNCHED--the creation of Adam and Eve. 2. LOST--Adam and Eve's rebellion (shown in humans' lives through Israel's history). 3. LOVED--Jesus' birth...

No, I don't because the outward form of the law as the national law of Israel has been done away through Jesus' one sacrifice. I think that a balanced diet with thanksgiving is what is needed; all things in moderation is my motto, which God has blessed.

Why do people have to allegorize the Bible? God is simply reassuring Abraham that his descendants through Isaac will be uncountable. Allegorizing the teachings of the Bible runs the risk of letting the Bible say whatever the student wants it to say.

Since your Jewish friend uses the New Testament to refute the Trinity, point him to the seven "I am" claims of Jesus in the Gospel of John where Jesus uses them to identify himself with the burning-bush "I Am" who appeared to Moses in Exodus 3 and 4 and to his reference to Psalm 23 when he...

Suicidal people are often afflicted with the disease of major depression. How do I know? I was one of the people with major depression that grew steadily over a seven-year period, six of which were when I was a pastor. God healed me permanently in 1987. Anyway, I didn't have any suicidal...

What about Jesus' commands in the Sermon on the Mount for us not to be angry (the same as murder), lust (the same as adultery), and worry (the same as trying to second-guess God's will), for example? When we believe and begin following Jesus, God the Father justifies us (declares us "not...

Anyone who has had babies should know that babies are born with self-centeredness, which is the essence of sin. They have to be taught that they aren't the center of their world but that God in Christ is. Romans 1 through 3:20 shows that all people are guilty before God, and Ephesians 2:1-3...

The way the Scriptures, especially Paul, put it, when we believe and are born again, God, our divine Judge justifies us, that is, gives us his verdict of "not guilty" because of Jesus' death alone (Romans 3 and 4). However, we still need to pray for God's cleansing for the sins that remain in us...

In Jewish reckoning, parts of a day are thought of as a whole day, but why do you want to split hairs? She went there on part of the third day, a little early but within the Jewish thinking.

Another way of looking at chapter 6 is to see that the previous chapter shows two lines of ancestry from Adam, Seth's and Cain's. The sons of God in Job could be the good angels with one bad "apple," Satan, as well. Anyway, I think that the mixing of the lines from believing Seth and unbelieving...

I wouldn't call Philippians 4 "one of the greatest summaries of the gospel ever composed." I would call Ephesians 2:1-10 or Romans 3 that summary. This wonderful passage summarizes Paul's commands about some of the ways we must show our deep gratitude for what Jesus has done for us. Note the...

Read the whole chapter and discover that he healed the blind man on the Sabbath. Jewish Sabbath laws forbade people from healing on the Sabbath above the shoulders, I believe. He was also breaking the Pharisees' rules against working on the Sabbath. Jesus deliberately broke their petty...

Read 1 Corinthians 12:27-31. Paul says there very clearly that not all Christians have the more-spectacular gifts like healing, but we are to seek and develop the gifts of sharing God's Word with others most of all. We must always pray for each other and leave the result up to God, but some do...

He died for all the Old Testament believers too (Hebrews 11). Pentecost's coming of the Holy Spirit was for the disciples' ability to witness (Acts 2). Jesus had already given them the Holy Spirit on Easter evening (John 20:22).

In principle, you are correct that God chose the elect to be saved before he made anything and anyone, but in practice, he enables us to believe in and follow Jesus. I think that this distinction between principle and practice would help you understand the Bible's teachings. The Bible fully...

What a horrible childhood you had to experience, McCallum!! My father was different, since he was very permissive. That was hard for me because he should have set us three boys moral limits and enforced them, but he didn't. Mom was as strict as Dad was permissive, so I was a mixed-up kid without...

I think after much meditating, studying, teaching, and preaching of God's inspired Word that the outward legal form of the OT laws are done away with because of Jesus' death (Colossians 2:13-14), but the inner principles and intentions of those laws remain for us to follow in the power of Jesus'...