2015 A BIBLE ANSWER

Panelists: Robert Taylor, B. J. Clarke, Bobby O’Dell

#595-10/18/2015

1. Please discuss the use of the word “Amen” both in worship and at the end of prayers?
2. Does the presence of copyists’ errors in the Bible indicate that the Bible is not the inspired Word of God?
3. Someone is always stealing my pens at school.  Is it okay to steal something back from someone who stole it from you?
4. Is the church the same as the kingdom of heaven (Mt. 16:18-19)?
5. What is meant by the gates of hell in Matthew 16:18?
6. What are the keys of the kingdom of heaven?  What is meant by binding and loosing in Matthew 16:19?  Was this only given to Peter?

Panelists: Robert Taylor, B. J. Clarke, Bobby O’Dell

#594-10/11/2015

1. How should I treat my step children’s non custodial mother when she wishes ill will upon me and uses the children as pawns?
2. Why do I have to give money at worship every Sunday?  Where does the money that I give to God at church go?
3. Acts 20:7 says they partook of the Lord’s Supper on the first DAY of the week. How then can we take the Lord’s Supper after 6 PM at NIGHT when the Bible says day? Is Sunday after 6 P.M, the first night or the second night?
4. If a person never had a scriptural marriage, and they were divorced, do they have the right to remarry? If they do remarry, is it considered a sin for the other person to marry them?
5. I feel insecure in my relationship with my fiancee.  How do I go about building confidence?

Panelists: Robert Taylor, B. J. Clarke, Bobby O’Dell

Air Dates:   #593-10/4/2015

1. Is demon possession possible today?
2. Was the Genesis flood local or world-wide?  If the answer is world-wide, where did the water go?
3. I am so tired of hearing God’s name used in vain…such as Oh my God, and in other ways.  Can you please address this?
4. Is it expedient for us to use literature published by a denominational publishing company and written by Calvinists for our Bible school curriculum instead of material written by faithful brethren?  Can it be justified on the basis that we use songbooks containing songs written by people of different religious backgrounds or that we consult denominational commentaries?

Panelists: Brent Arnold, Terence Mannis, Michael Gilbert

#592 – 9/27/2015

1. Why did Paul circumcise Timothy when he had so earnestly opposed circumcision of new converts?
2. How can you be called righteous while dwelling in wickedness (2 Pet. 2:7-8)?
3. How do you keep from thinking impure thoughts?
4. What is meant by putting a stumbling block in your brother’s way?
5. Are the days of Genesis 1 solar days of 24 hours each?

Panelists: Brent Arnold, Terence Mannis, Michael Gilbert

#591- 9/20/2015

1. How could Moses have written Genesis when writing was unknown in his day?
2. What does the Bible say about cremation?
3. What was the sin of Ananias and Sapphira?
4. In response to Acts 22:16, one person has written, “These words were spoken by ‘Ananias, a devout man ACCORDING TO THE LAW’ (v12).  They weren’t spoken by a New Testament Christian.  In this chapter, Paul is speaking of events which took place in chapter 9 some 25 years earlier.  In Acts chapter 9, Paul was saved, born again, regenerated and even called BROTHER hours before he was baptized.”   Please deal with that.
5. Is it true that the Greek word Psallo means to pluck and that its use in Ephesians 5:19 therefore authorizes the use of an instrument in church worship?

Panelists: Brent Arnold, Terence Mannis, Michael Gilbert

#590-9/13/2015

1. Who were the Nicolaitanes mentioned in Revelation 2:15?
2. How should the church respond when a member, one who has from the heart repents of his sins and obeyed the gospel, is a registered sex offender with charges involving a child, and wants to place membership with a given congregation?  Can that congregation refuse that the person the option to place membership with their respective congregation?
3. Is it correct for a woman to teach a young boy (class is 5th- 8th grade so age is 11-13) in Bible class after he has obeyed the gospel?  Would a man now have to teach the class or the young boy be pushed into an older class than has a man teaching?
4. Is it true that God set the time and fixed it so that there is nothing we can do to lengthen or shorten our lives (Ecc. 7:17)?  If this is true then why is one in jail for murder since the victim was going to die no matter why, or why commit suicide since you were going to die no matter what.

Panelists: Brent Arnold, Terence Mannis, Michael Gilbert

Air Dates:  #589-9/6/2015

1. Please explain the meaning of Mark 2:21-22?
2. Is confession before the church necessary for being negligent in attendance?
3. Do elders have the authority to give a woman permission to preach or teach over men according to First Timothy 2:12?
4. I just realized there’s something called the unpardonable sin, like the sin that God won’t forgive.  I’ve gotten mad at God before, and I think that’s the sin that is not forgivable. Will God not forgive some people because of that?

#588-8/30/2015

1. What were “the marks of the Lord Jesus” which Paul was said to bore (Gal. 6:17)?
2. Do demons still possess people today?
3. What does sanctification mean?  Does this just occur once or is it ongoing?
4. What is meant by “strange fire” which Nadab and Abihu used?
5. Does willful sin exclude one from pardon (Heb. 10:26)?

Panelists: Travis Quertermous, Johnny Mack Young, Tim Howard

#587-8/23/2015

1. What are some passages that I can use to teach my teenagers of the need to wear modest clothing? So many of their peers are not concerned with going nearly naked in public and especially while swimming.
2. Is it true according to the Bible that all faithful children of God have fellowship with one another and with God?
3. If an erring brother is rightfully withdrawn from, may any brethren have fellowship with him, knowing that he has been withdrawn from?
4. Is it possible to withdraw (or withhold?) fellowship from this erring brother who you do not personally know?
5. Please discuss Philippians 2:12,19. How, if God worketh in us, do we work out our own salvation?

Panelists: Travis Quertermous, Johnny Mack Young, Tim Howard

#586-8/16/2015

1. Doesn’t the Bible teach the doctrine of illumination, that the Holy Spirit causes the believer to understand the spiritual things or message of God?
2. Please discuss the intercession of the Holy Spirit referred to in Romans 8:26?
3. Is wealth an evil or a blessing?
4. Where is the idea of restitution taught in the Bible?