List of articles in category Q & A
Title
A believer questions scriptural inerrancy
A challenge to "Why should I believe the Bible?"
A challenge to Enoch and Elijah not dying
A challenge to the deity of Jesus Christ
A complainer's potpourri 2
A God of love should not punish
A Questioner doesn’t like the implications of God knowing the future
A response to 11 Things the Bible Bans, But You Do Anyway
A Roman Catholic challenges sola fide
A word from God versus the Bible
According to the Bible, Jesus cannot be God
An infinite God cannot fit into a finite Bible
Are believers really judged for every word?
Are Bible stories true or are they fiction?
Are biblical christophanies real?
Are Christians punished with Christ?
Are peace and answered prayer only for Christians?
Are the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit all omniscient?
Are there any extra-Biblical arguments for the existence of God?
Are there any extra-biblical documents that corroborate the historical Jesus?
Are there errors in the parallel accounts of Asa?
Are there two wills in God? Divine Election and God’s will that all be saved?
Are we breaking an everlasting covenant by ignoring circumcision?
Are we predetermined to go to heaven?
Are we really any better than the animals?
Are we truly free from the dietary laws?
At what point should we not kill people in war?
Can a person be saved who holds a wrong view of salvation?
Can a person be saved without subscribing to biblical inerrancy?
Can a woman have a position of authority over a man outside the context of a church?
Can an isolated pagan be saved in this age?
Can anthroposophy coexist peaceably with orthodox Christianity?
Can God be proven by nature?
Can God lie or change?
Can God turn bad?
Can I be a Christian and not feel saved?
Can I be saved if I do not see myself as wicked?
Can non-believers invoke the name of Jesus?
Can physical objects be possessed by demons?
Can Satan fool a person so he thinks he is saved?
Can the use of Early Modern English become idol worship?
Can we change God's plan for us by using faith?
Can we prove that God is the basis for morality?
Can we trust Eusebius' evaluation of extra-biblical documents?
Can we trust our feelings when it comes to the existence of God?
Could an elect angel have redeemed us instead?
Could faith healing just be a placebo effect?
Could someone who loves God be the Antichrist?
Could the Bible be the mark of the beast?
Criticism of Got Questions Ministries' view on cultural relativism
Did Adam & Eve have true knowledge before the fall?
Did Adam’s image replace the image of God in us after the fall?
Did ancient pagan traditions affect the Christian Scripture?
Did Edward Snowden's leaky behavior go against the Bible?
Did God admit to making a mistake by creating us?
Did God commit genocide in Canaan?
Did God create us to sin?
Did God ever punish anyone without telling them why?
Did God order the slaughter of women and children in the Bible?
Did God show favoritism to the early believers?
Did God turn over the rule of the world from humans to Satan at the fall?
Did God use David's wives as mere pawns?
Did Israel borrow "Yahweh" from the Canaanites and slide into monotheism?
Did Jesus actually learn from the Father? Is there a Heavenly Mother?
Did Jesus break the Law by not stoning the adulterous woman?
Did Jesus call God Allah? Is the virgin birth an added legend?
Did Jesus contradict himself in John's Gospel?
Did Jesus die for our sins before the foundation of the world or in 30 AD?
Did Jesus endure separation from God on the cross?
Did Jesus fail to meet Isaiah's conditions?
Did Jesus go to hell? What's with all the ups-and-downs?
Did Jesus have the indwelling Holy Spirit?
Did Jesus laugh? If not, is laughter wrong?
Did Jesus suffer truly, knowing his future glory?
Did John the Baptist really know that Jesus was the Messiah?
Did sin even exist before the law?
Did sin exist before the law?
Did the ancient Jews believe in an afterlife?
Did the Epic of Gilgamesh trump the Genesis flood?
Do any OT passages irrefutably point to Jesus?
Do Christians have free will if their names are already in the Lamb's Book of Life?
Do Genesis 22:1 and James 1:13 contradict each other about temptation?
Do souls have a gender?
Do suffering and pain only come from evil actions?
Do the differing accounts of the call of the disciples make a contradiction?
Do we have free will? Does God have free will?
Do we have to repent from sin to stay saved?
Do you have any Facts-of-Life for God's Universe?
Do you need to believe that the accounts of Noah or Adam & Eve are true to be a Christian?
Does a low IQ predict sin?
Does a shared vocabulary mean that Christianity is just rehashed paganism?
Does Ezekiel chapter 29 contain failed prophecies?
Does Ezekiel chapter 30 contain failed prophecy?
Does God being the "Most High God" mean that less high gods exist?
Does God ever remove his favor from our lives?
Does God forgive the sins of non-believers?
Does God have a soul?
Does God have true free will? True enough to sin?
Does God lie by responding to contingencies?
Does God need our permission to do things?
Does God truly forgive our sins? Or does he merely reassign his wrath?
Does God's agreeing to the slaying Saul's progeny contradict Deuteronomy 24:16?
Does God's Infinite love reach into hell?
Does God's knowledge affect how he answers prayer?
Does hearing God's voice mean that we are mentally ill?
Does human nature ever change?
Does it take God time to forgive us, or is it automatic?
Does James 4 teach that we must prepend our speech with, "If the Lord wills?" Part 1
Does James 4 teach that we must prepend our speech with, "If the Lord wills?" Part 2
Does James 5:14-16 support faith-healing?
Does John the Baptist's questioning of Jesus' messiahship constitute a contradiction?
Does judgment occur immediately after death?
Does our sharing of literary archetypes reduce their impact for God?
Does predestination make Christian service moot?
Does Psalm 49:7 say Jesus could not ransom us?
Does Satan fear God?
Does Scripture change arbitrarily? Does Luke 17:34 model homosexuality?
Does Scripture put God on the hook to heal everybody all the time? (1)
Does Scripture put God on the hook to heal everybody all the time? (2)
Does sin disqualify a believer from blessings?
Does the Bible condone slavery by not decrying it?
Does the Bible give contradictory teachings about condemnation and punishment?
Does the Bible teach a 6,000 year-old Earth?
Does the Bible teach prosperity giving?
Does the Bible teach that Pi equals three?
Does the Bible teach that the earth was created before light?
Does the Gospel of Thomas dialogue with the Gospel of John?
Does the Moral Argument support more than theism?
Does the Old Testament teach that men are masters of their wives?
Does the phrase "New Testament Church" mean that there are other types of churches?
Does the post hoc fallacy affect the legitimacy of prayer?
Doesn't the New Testament teach that we should keep the Sabbath?
Doesn't the TAG argument reason in a circle?
Explanations of the word "in" in Colossians 1
Faith versus works: Galatians 2:15-16 v Matthew 5:17-20
Fifty years praying and I still haven't found God
Free will and transcendent morality challenged
Have all of Isaiah's prophecies been fulfilled? Or are we still waiting for them?
How can God's sovereign control and the creature's free will coexist?
How can I forgive people who are messing up their Christian lives?
How can Jesus be both eternal and begotten?
How can Jesus talk to God and be God?
How can we be sure the New Testament writers were giving it to us straight?
How can we identify false teachers?
How dare God kill David's child... but let David live!
How did Mainsail Ministries get its name?
How do I align my will with God's will?
How do I deal with side-issues from skeptics?
How do I deal with the insults and mocking of atheists?
How do I seek God's face?
How do our spirits relate to the Holy Spirit?
How do we handle atheists who are also geniuses?
How do we know that the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew is not authentic?
How do we know that the Red Sea parted?
How do we know the devil didn't write the Bible?
How do you respond to the Maccabean hypothesis of the book of Daniel?
How does a transcendent God relate to time?
How does God’s grace relate to human effort?
How does the United Kingdom fit into the end times?
How far can I trust the Gospel of Bartholomew?
How have you escaped a Reformed view of election?
How is it possible for Jesus to be distinct, yet to be God and Messiah at the same time?
How is it that the persons of the Trinity are both together and apart?
How much should Christians borrow from Judaism?
How should Christians handle a call to fast with outsiders?
How should we balance the Holy Spirit with God’s word in our assemblies?
How should we share the Gospel with Jewish people?
I do not see God as just when children die
I'm demonstrably saved, but it doesn't feel it
If God is light, how is it that he dwells in darkness?
If God is love and love keeps no record of wrongs, how can God judge against that very record?
If God killed children in the great flood, he is as bad as Hitler.
If Jesus was God, why did he need to pray, to eat, etc?
If Paul continued to honor the Sabbath, why do we meet on Sunday?
If Satan were not kicked out of heaven, would Adam and Eve still have sinned?
If we are not supposed to repay evil with evil, how come God does?
In the deep theological weeds with perichoresis and Ezekiel’s vision
In the light of biblical miracles, is solipsism a plausible explanation of reality?
Is "forced labor" a good translation of the slavery mentioned in Deuteronomy 20:10?
Is a sin always a sin? How about forgiven sins?
Is atheism humanity's default condition?
Is being redeemed the same as being saved?
Is Bible verse proof-texting problematic?
Is Calvinism really any different from Gnosticism?
Is ego ever appropriate in God or in people?
Is evil its own thing or the absence of good?
Is Ezekiel chapter one actually science fiction?
Is God an egomaniac? It seems like it to me.
Is God at fault for evil? How about us? How about Satan?
Is God capable of using a double standard?
Is God effectively energy?
Is God fair with salvation opportunities across cultures?
Is God the direct cause of all suffering?
Is God's love conditional?
Is it biblical to pray for the dead?
Is it especially unmerciful for God to condemn his own people, the Jews?
Is it ever okay to lie?
Is it okay to enjoy dragon imagery in fantasy considering its biblical connection to Satan?
Is it possible for a believer to remain sinless?
Is it possible for God to be a has-been god?
Is it possible that Jesus was delusional?
Is it right to praise the blood of Jesus?
Is it scriptural for a Christian woman to lead a man in a prayer?
Is it sinful to debate?
Is it true that there are no former Christians?
Is it true that there is no perfect Bible?
Is it true that we are eternally secure? Or is denying Christ the exception?
Is it wrong for Christians to burn Qurans?
Is it wrong to have sympathy for the devil?
Is James talking about the Law of Moses in his book?
Is Jesus a member of the Aaronic Priesthood?
Is Jesus Christ qualified to be the Messiah?
Is Jesus' second coming just a fall-back position for a failed ministry?
Is Messianic Judaism a good biblical model?
Is playing violent video games against the Bible?
Is Psalm 23:1 a command? Or is it a result of being a Christian?
Is redemption a Pyrrhic victory for God?
Is salvation instantaneous? Or is it a process?
Is Sanctification Monergistic or Synergistic?
Is Satan God's exact opposite?
Is seeking eternal life a selfish motive for following God?
Is sincerity in belief enough to be saved?
Is the Bible God-authored or man-authored?
Is the Bible God's only source of revelation?
Is the Bible more reliable than the Quran considering the New Testament's textual variants?
Is the Bible really useful? (2 Timothy 3:16)
Is the Bible scientifically accurate?
Is the Bible written to us? Or is it written for us?
Is the Bible wrong in saying that there is nothing new?
Is the Book of Giants authentic?
Is the creation account contradictory? Did the Bible plagiarize?
Is the Genesis story of creation a metaphor?
Is the Gospel of Mark indebted to Homer?
Is the helper in Genesis 2:18 Christ or the Holy Spirit?
Is the term Christian biblical?
Is there a universal method for getting to the biblical heart of sin?
Is universalism true? Will everybody be saved?
Isn't it unloving for God to mock the calamity of sinners?
Isn’t the idea/concept of God/Higher Power too simple to be real?
Issues with the word "every," the flood and Canaan
It doesn't make sense to love a God who allows horrible acts
James does not teach salvation through faith alone
Jesus is not qualified to redeem us because he did not bleed to death
Just which salvation doctrines are necessary?
Misunderstandings about Jesus and Melchizedek
Musical instruments in the New Testament Church
Must atheists steal from Christianity to make their worldviews work?
Must we believe in the Trinity to be Christians?
Prophecy does not prove the Gospel
Reading the Bible feels like a chore to me
Reincarnation and Past Life Regression therapy
Salvation for a medieval Roman Catholic serf
Setting aside modalism, can you explain the hypostatic union?
Should a Christian study subjects such as Greek philosophy?
Should a Christian subscribe to antinatalism?
Should Christians ever take a pro-choice position?
Should Christians serve with unbelievers?
Should Christians support Radically Extended Lifespans and Transhumanism?
Should I engage in commerce with openly homosexual people?
Should I expect that God will make me happy?
Should I strive to serve God or to avoid sin?
Should I tithe according to the Prosperity Gospel?
Should Ruth's being a Moabite have excluded David from being king?
Should same sex marriages be regulated by civil government?
Should we harmonize Scripture with science?
Should we interpret Scripture allegorically?
Should we listen to the culture or to the Holy Spirit?
Should we use our own experiences with dubious miracles to prove God’s existence?
Shouldn't we receive a copy of God's wrath and not the original?
Shouldn’t we make God’s laws our laws again?
Since Sabbath-breaking is no longer a sin, doesn't that make homosexuality acceptable, too?
Some Reasons why my Dispensationalism has been left behind (1)
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
The Jefferson Bible
The soul vs unconsciousness
The spirit of God and Holy Spirit... same thing?
The success of Islam and a large universe
The Trinity challenged by Deuteronomy 6:4
To whom do we pray? The Father only? Is it okay to pray to Jesus or to the Holy Spirit?
Was Adam weaker than Eve when he fell by her hand?
Was it God or Satan who incited David to take the census?
Was Jesus a capitalist?
Was Jesus born on December 25th?
Was Judas predestined to betray Jesus and go to hell?
Was Panthera (and not God) really Jesus' father?
Was sin imputed before the Law?
Was the Holocaust God's way of punishing the Jews for rejecting Jesus?
Were all the commandments abolished at the cross?
Were human beings designed to stay in Eden?
What are the best Bible verses for an atheist?
What are the implications of Christians disagreeing on Bible teachings?
What can we learn from sin and Satan's rebellion?
What did God mean when he called the creation good? (1)
What did God mean when he called the creation good? (2)
What did John mean by we don't need anyone to teach us?
What did Paul mean that all things should be done unto edifying in love?
What do I do when charlatans threatening my faith?
What do I do with a website that says we can lose our salvation?
What does cast your bread upon the waters mean?
What does it mean that Jesus became sin?
What does it mean to be as wise as serpents and harmless as doves?
What does the Bible say about aesthetics?
What does the Bible say about Fascism?
What does the Bible say about peaceful protesting?
What does the Bible say about truth, reality, consciousness and free-will?
What does the spirit, water and blood mean in 1 John 5:6-13?
What fables, genealogies and other gospels were Paul talking about?
What happens to the indwelling Spirit when we sin?
What happens to those who have never heard of Christ?
What is blaspheme against the Holy Spirit?
What is God like? Does he treat believers better?
What is lacking in the afflictions of Christ?
What is post-theism?
What is Progressive Covenantalism?
What is the biblical definition of the law?
What is the biblical view on specieism?
What is the difference between Dyophysitism and Miaphysitism?
What is the difference between God's omnipresence and the Holy Spirit's manifest presence?
What is the difference between the Kingdom of Heaven and Heaven?
What is the fourfold witness to Jesus Christ?
What is the gospel?
What is the issue with the supposedly added verses in the Gospel of John chapters 7 and 8?
What is the Letter of King Abgar to Jesus?
What is the nature of our accounting to God?
What is the quickening of the Holy Spirit?
What is the scope of God's forgiveness?
What kind of God would further condemn Holocaust victims?
What use Is the account of Noah and the Ark today?
What's the deal with multiple-wife families and the Bible?
What's with some New-Age adherents who claim to know Jesus' vibrations?
When did the Apostles receive the indwelling Holy Spirit?
When do our possessions become teraphim?
When does salvation happen?
When men love Jesus, is it weirdly homosexual?
Where did Lucifer get the power to disobey God?
Where did Noah’s dove find an olive branch so soon after the flood?
Where does faith come from? From God or from us?
Where is salvation's line?
Which person of the Trinity do we pray to? Jesus or the Father?
Who are the greatest persons in either trinity?
Who exactly was that in the burning bush?
Who is John William Burgon and what are his views on textual criticism?
Who is Michael Behe? Is he a Christian? What are his statements, and are they valid and Biblical?
Who is the true God?
Who or what controls our decisions? God? Our spirits? Or just material?
Why bother praying?
Why can't God make free will or love risk-free?
Why can't we think of mind reading as a spiritual gift?
Why did Bart Ehrman really leave Christianity?
Why did God change from aggressive in the OT to pacifistic in the NT?
Why did God create a rebellious people? (1)
Why did God create a rebellious people? (2)
Why did God create us knowing we would sin?
Why did God have his people kill rather than just prevent certain births?
Why did God make a hell?
Why did God make humans? I didn't ask to be born!
Why did God only have one child? Why did it have to be a boy? 1
Why did God only have one child? Why did it have to be a boy? 2
Why did God spare the young girls in Numbers 31?
Why did God tell Israel to confess ancestral sins they did not commit?
Why did Jesus say do not go to the Gentiles?
Why did Jesus say he was sent by the Father?
Why did Jesus tell his disciples to go only to the Jews?
Why did the Jews kill Jesus in the face of his miracles?
Why did they kill Jesus in spite of his miracles?
Why didn't God arrange things so people could directly access his word without always referring to the original languages?
Why didn't Jesus' flesh keep him out of Heaven?
Why do atheists continue to subscribe to evolution?
Why do Christians die since their sins are forgiven?
Why do people starve under the aegis of a beneficent God?
Why do so many people dismiss biblical truths?
Why do we need a Savior?
Why does a Holy God favor humble, backwoods folks?
Why does Ephesians 4:8 miss-quote Psalm 68:18?
Why does God make us so we will sin?
Why does Hebrews 10:5 misquote Psalm 40:6-8?
Why does the Old Testament feel like folklore?
Why don't we still have those big OT miracles?
Why don't we still keep the Sabbath? (1)
Why don't we still keep the Sabbath? (2)
Why is Joel Osteen considered a false teacher?
Why is the Bible worthy of our confidence?
Why is wisdom referred to as a “she” in Proverbs?
Why isn't God dependent morality arbitrary?
Why might reading the entire Bible turn you into an atheist?
Why not fatalism?
Why not physicalism? (1)
Why not physicalism? (2)
Why shouldn't I blame God for human suffering?
Why shouldn't I call religionists delusional, since their beliefs are irrational?
Why worship God instead of Zeus or Ra?
Why would the Bible's information about heaven be any better than someone's trip to heaven and back?
Will newer Dead Sea Scroll-type discoveries prove that the Bible is unreliable?
Will our free will to sin be restricted in heaven?
Will the Holy Spirit forsake me?
Will the stars literally fall from heaven?
With so much sin in the world, is God really on the job?