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Why don’t people live as long as Noah?
Question: I’m in 7th grade and in my Sunday school group they asked us to find out where God changed how long you could live from 9 hundred and something to 1 hundred and something and I looked and looked
Continue reading...Did singers lead all of Israel’s armies into battle?
Question: I’m trying to do some research into a concept that came to me several years ago concerning the singers and musicians leading the army of Israel into battle. I’m not coming up with much in
Continue reading...Why did Ruth lay at Boaz’ feet?
Question: What was the significance of Ruth laying at the feet of Boaz and why was he so impressed by it? Answer: In the book of Ruth we are told that a Bethlehem family left their town and country of
Continue reading...Why did the Israelites get to use tithe money to buy alcohol?
Question: In Deuteronomy 14:22-29 it says that the Israelites were to bring a tenth of their produce and flocks to the place God would choose for his sanctuary. Those who lived far away from that sanctuary
Continue reading...Does Proverbs 26:4 and 5 contradict itself?
Question: Is it my imagination of does Proverbs 26:5 directly contradict Proverbs 26:4? What’s up with that? Answer: Your imagination is playing tricks with you. Actually, many of our problems with interpreting
Continue reading...Does Proverbs 24:7 make family a secondary priority?
Question: I need some guidance on Proverbs 24:27. It says, “Finish your outdoor work and get your fields ready; after that, build your house.” I’m having some trouble with this. It’s in the
Continue reading...Does the word “serve” in Exodus 7:16 mean “worship”?
Question: I have videotape on the Old Testament. The speaker refers to the passage when Moses said “let my people go to serve their God”. The speaker translated the word serve as worship. So he was
Continue reading...Did God tell Balaam to do evil?
Question: Numbers 22:12 God tells Balaam “do not go with them” then in vs. 20 God says, “You can go with them.” But once God does give the okay, why does He hinder and block the travel by sending
Continue reading...Why did God even have the tree of life in Eden?
Question: If death is the consequence of sin, then, by implication, had there been no sin, there would be no death. Why then would God have been concerned about Adam and Eve getting to the fruit of the
Continue reading...Did Jesus visit Hell?
Question: What does the Apostle’s Creed mean when it says that Jesus descended into Hell? Answer: Sometimes the word “hell” has been used to designate the place of the dead (alternatively called
Continue reading...Why did Jesus have to experience physical and emotional pain on the cross?
Question: Why did Jesus’ penalty for “sin” need to include physical and emotional pain – why not just spiritual separation from God? Answer: First of all, I agree with you that Jesus’ penalty
Continue reading...Is the trinity like one person with three roles?
Question: Does Central not believe that God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit is like an egg, 3 parts but still one? I am Frankie the daughter, wife, mother but still the woman I was born.
Continue reading...Does suicide keep me from heaven?
Question: I have a Christian friend who battles with mental illness. She, at times, is suicidal and has attempted suicide several times. My question is, “If one commits suicide will they be forgiven
Continue reading...Is there an “Age of Accountability”?
Question: In one of my conversations with a mother of a retarded child, she told me that she was visiting a church in this area and was in a Sunday School class discussing the “age of accountability”.
Continue reading...Why do you think God required the blood of an animal for atonement of sin?
Question: Why do you think God required the blood of an animal for atonement of sin? Answer: After God confronted Adam and Eve in the garden about their disobedience, He replaced their fig leaf coverings
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