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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Question Rehab lied when asked if the spies were in her house. Yet she found favor with God. So is it sometimes OK to lie? Answer It is never OK to lie. God clearly defined lying as a sin in the fourth of the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. By Shari Abbott, Reasons for Hope* Jesus Question Could the atonement for sin have been done another way? This question was asked in 2014, and the answer is NO! Jesus had to go to the cross and He had to die...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. There are many Bible-believing Christians who have different views on end-times events. While these events are not core doctrines, it is important to understand as much as we can about God’s complete purpose...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Question What is the Rapture? Is it Before, During or After the Tribulation? Answer Rapture is the term used to refer to the event that will take place when Jesus returns for His Church. Understand that not all...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The simple answer to this is, yes. Because Jesus is on every page of the Old and the New Testaments. Jesus told us so. After His resurrection, Jesus ascended to the Father and was glorified. Luke records that...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Skeptics and some scientists claim that there is no possible way Noah could have fit all the animals on the ark. Michael Shermer, a self-proclaimed atheist, and the publisher of Skeptic magazine and director of the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Last week we addressed a reader’s question about whether the sins of impure thoughts could condemn a Christian and keep them from entering Heaven. (Read: Will impure thoughts condemn me?) The answer in God’s word...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Question: Jesus has answered all my prayers. He has allowed me to organize and lead campground ministries, to do church services in three states and He gave me a great singing voice which I use for His honor and...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. The Antichrist and His Mark In the article What is the Mark of the Beast, we addressed that this mark will be: “his mark” — the beast/the Antichrist’s mark (Rev 14:9) received in the forehead or hand (Rev 14:9) the...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. I belong to a fellowship that I never wanted to join. It’s the Fellowship of the Fatherless. I won’t be purchasing a gift, signing a card or sharing a meal with my father on Father’s Day. He’s been with Jesus...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. What will the mark of the beast be? People have wondered about this for centuries. Could it be a tattoo? Although the Bible speaks of the mark of the beast, it must be remembered that we are not explicitly told...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Before considering the possible reasons why...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. I have been surfing the web and came across a church group that believes the resurrection was on the Sabbath (Saturday) and that worship of Jesus or His resurrection on Sunday, or any other day, is sinfully wrong...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. This is a favorite question of skeptics. In 1 Samuel we are clearly told that David is Jesse’s 8th son, but a verse in 1 Chronicles seems to contradict this. 1 Samuel 16:6-10, records Jesse presenting his seven...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Genesis 6:4 tells of giants in the earth prior to the Great Flood in Noah’s day. In the original language of the Old Testament Scriptures, the word for giant is the Hebrew word “nephiyl” from...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Q. I’ve been told that Eve was a helpmeet to Adam and that wives are to be helpmeets to their husbands. What is a helpmeet? A. The word “helpmeet” comes from the King James Version (KJV) of Genesis 2:18, in which...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Tatting Trivia Before addressing the question, “To Tat or Not to Tat,” let’s step back to the early 19th century when a very different kind of tatting was popular. Tatting was the name of a fiber art in which...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. Soul sleep is the term used to describe a teaching about the condition of the soul after death. Before going any further, let me say that this is a false teaching. It’s one that is not often spoken about, but it...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. We answered the question, “Is there a hidden message in Revelation 7? by explaining a remez found in the list of the 12 tribes in that chapter of Revelation. Genesis 5 also contains a remez. So, what’s a...
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If our resources have blessed you, please share them. There are many who call Jesus by the Hebrew name Yeshua. Is that better than using the name Jesus? What about Yahweh? We received this question from a reader: My friend consistently brings up the fact that it...
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