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Would Jesus Forsake a Believer Who Worships Other Gods?

Question: According to Hosea 5:6, 9-11, and 14 God withdraws, removes protection, pours out wrath, tears to pieces because He is ticked off at Israel’s spirit of prostitution. Is it fair to say, even

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If Christians are forgiven, why are we going to be judged?

Question: It says in the Bible that those who are in Christ are free from condemnation. If this is so, why then will we face judgment? And child molesters, rapists, and murderers, are they also free from

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How can there be a hell if God is love?

Question: I have a friend I work with who told me that she doesn’t believe in hell. She said that God is love and God is everywhere, so how can there be a hell? She attends a Unity Church here in town

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Where No Man Has Gone Before (Alternative Views of the Soul’s Destiny)

Should we believe in hell?  That is, an eternal, unending torment for unbelievers?  It certainly doesn’t seem to some like something a loving God would subject nonbelievers to, no matter how evil they

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Will People Have as an Excuse Before God at the Judgment That He Did Not Open Their Minds to Their Sins?

Question: If a man makes a mistake and commits a sin but he believes in his heart that it is not a sin and it is the will of God, then God will punish him for this error despite the fact that this man

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Who Is the Destroying Angel in Numbers 16?

Question: Who exactly is the “destroyer” referenced in 1 Cor 10:10, when interpreted in light of the wording of Exo 11:4, 12:23, and 12:29 in the NKJV translation? Answer: The incident referred to

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Babel – Genesis 11:1-9

Walton, in his commentary, speaks to the issue of whether there is any other witness to the city with the tower: If we must pick a city for the project based on Mesopotamian traditions and literature,

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The Lord Comes to Execute Judgment – Jude 1:14-16

I recently had a physician who was a Muslim and I looked for an opportunity to dialogue with him about Islam and Christianity.  I referred him to the Qur’an, surah 3:50, “So fear Allah, and

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They Serve as an Example of Punishment – Jude 1:6-7

Genesis 6 describes earth in the days of Noah as being almost entirely godless, except for Noah and his family.  And during this time it speaks of the “sons of God” who desired the “daughters

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The Day of Your Watchman Has Come – Micah 7:1-7

In January 2018 the alarm in Hawaii rang out for a nuclear attack from North Korea.  It was a false alarm.  But everyone there thought the “day of watchmen” had come and disaster was imminent.

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One Should Not Preach of Such Things – Micah 2:6-13

Are we under God’s judgment?  Many would dispute that.  But one judgment God gives to disobedient nations is bad leaders (Hosea 13:11; Isaiah 3:4).  We have seen an uncommon deluge of poor, unwise,

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Take With You Words and Return to Yahweh – Hosea 14

What words must you, as an Evangelical Christian, bring to God for your repentance.  Just like the person who offends you, it is not enough to hear them say, “I’m sorry if I’ve offended

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Besides Me There Is No Savior – Hosea 13

When Ephraim spoke, there was trembling; he was exalted in Israel, but he incurred guilt through Baal and died.  And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully

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Ephraim Feeds on the Wind – Hosea 12

Evangelicalism faces the same choices as Israel.  She can return to her first love, Christ and the gospel, or continue to sell her soul for cheap to the east wind of politics and Christian Nationalism. Ephraim

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Out of Egypt I Called My Son – Hosea 11

The first part of this passage is quoted as a fulfilled prophecy concerning Jesus’ return from Egypt to Israel (Matthew 2:13-15).  GotQuestions.org does not quite get it right in explaining how

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