Image by succo from Pixabay In Revelation, what is the Great White Throne Judgment and how does it apply to Christians? In Revelation, there is a judgment at the end of the book called the Great White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15). Many people have questions about who will be judged…
Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay What is the divine council and who is allowed to be in it? What are Satan’s permissions and God’s allowances. The divine council appears clearly and at least two passages of Scripture. Psalm 29:1 tells the “heavenly beings” to describe glory to the Lord. These…
Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay Why did God allow Job to suffer at Satan’s hand? The book of Job starts out with information that only the reader is given. In Job 1:6-12, Satan comes from the earth to heaven to be evaluated by God. Like a proud papa, God brings…
Image by Barbara Mack from Pixabay How do I handle talking about other religions that are so close to Christianity and the Bible? How do I talk to people of other religions? Many of these religions include parts of the Bible or the full Bible. For instance, Judaism contains the…
Image by Robert C from Pixabay How does the New Testament Christian deal with the Old Testament? Our Bibles contain both the Old and New Testaments. The Old Testament is approximately 2/3 of the entire Bible. With the advent of the new covenant (Jeremiah 31:31-34), Christians must understand how the…
Image by Gerhard Janson from Pixabay I’m not much of a fighter, at least not physically. In one of my favorite movies about Martin Luther, one of his scholar friends tells the Prince, “Luther doesn’t fight with his hands. He fights with his words.” This has always defined me as…
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay What is the unpardonable sin? Jesus teaches that all of our sins are forgiven when we come to Christ and when we ask for forgiveness. But there are a couple of passages that pique our interest when we talk about the possibility of not…
Image by Selling of my photos with StockAgencies is not permitted from Pixabay Explain the two extremes of determinism and free will, Calvinism and Arminianism, TULIP, predestination, and where you stand. The question of determinism and free will has been around for a long time. Ever since the 16th century…
Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay If Adam and Eve were the first humans and Cain and Abel were their 1st offspring, how did the population grow? What about incest? Maintaining a literal view of the Bible and the book of Genesis, the only way the earth could be populated from…
Image by Subham Shome from Pixabay Methuselah was the oldest person to live in the Bible. When did he die and why? Methuselah lived to be 969 years old. He was the oldest man who ever lived according to the Bible. I’m a theologian, certainly not a mathematician. But I’ve…