Questions & Answers


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)?

Question 108: Is there any Scripture that clearly shows that persons were baptised who were not said to believe first?

Question 109: In referring to the Godhead, many Christians speak of divine Persons. Where does this expression come from?

Question 110: Why does Paul refer to himself as an “abortion” in 1 Cor. 15: 8?

Question 111: 1 Cor. 13: 8 says that tongues “shall cease”. When did this happen, or is it still in the future?

Question 112: Many teach that the last three feasts in Leviticus 23 are prophetic and have not yet been fulfilled. How can this be right as the second of these is the Day of Atonement which clearly refers to the Lord’s death?

Question 113: It was recently stated that Paul’s ministry of the mystery is absent from Acts. But surely this claim is disproved as he taught it in the epistles written during the time of the Acts (see Rom. 12: 4–8; 16: 25–27; 1 Cor. 12: 12–27)?

Question 114: Who is Paul identifying as Lord in “Now the Lord is the Spirit” (2 Cor. 3: 17)? Surely the use of a capital letter for the word spirit would suggest the Holy Spirit?

Question 115: In the article entitled The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, it is said that the Great Commission of Matt. 28 has nothing to do with Christianity. How is this justified from Scripture?

Question 116: If Paul wrote Hebrews why doesn’t his name appear in the introduction as in all his other epistles?

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