Questions & Answers


A second series of queries relating to what the Bible teaches

"The Lord will give thee understanding in all things" (2 Tim. 2: 7).

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Question 101: Surely the prohibition in 1 Cor. 14: 34, 35 is for the wives not to chatter rather than being a prohibition against women in general speaking?

Question 102: Why is it said that out of the original congregation only Joshua and Caleb entered the land of Canaan, when we read of the death and burial of Eleazar in “mount Ephraim” (Josh. 24: 33)?

Question 103: Rom. 11: 2 says that “God has not cast away his people whom he foreknew” and yet v15 seems to imply that Israel has been cast away. How is the apparent contradiction explained?

Question 104: In the light of Matt. 16: 20, 21, do the words “I will build my assembly” (Matt. 16: 18) imply Jew and Gentile equal in one body along the lines of Eph. 2: 16?

Question 105: What is meant by marrying "in [the] Lord" (1 Cor. 7: 39)?

Question 106: Why do Paul’s epistles often open with salutations from both the Father and the Son, but never the Holy Spirit?

Question 107: What is the force of the words “on earth” in the Scripture “But that ye may know that the Son of man has power on earth to forgive sins” (Matt. 9: 6)?

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