2020 A Bible Answer

Panelists: Rick Knoll, Serge Shoemaker, Corey Sawyers

#827-3/29/2020

1. How can we help our children cope with peer pressure?
2. Do we stand before God in Judgment upon death or later?
3. Does 1 Corinthians 1:7 teach that spiritual gifts will continue until the second coming of Christ?
4. In Matthew 5:18, to what was Jesus referring by the jot and the tittle?
5. Does Matthew 18:15-17 apply to a teacher who has taught false doctrine publicly?

Panelists: Rick Knoll, Serge Shoemaker, Corey Sawyers

#826 – 3/22/2020

1. What does it mean to worship God in spirit and in truth?
2. What do we need to know about a congregation before we attend there?
3. What did Paul mean in Romans 1:17 when he said that in the gospel is revealed the righteousness of God from faith to faith?
4. What is the implication of Jeremiah 22:30 for the doctrine that Christ will someday reign on David’s literal throne in Jerusalem?
5. What was the purpose of the gift of speaking in tongues?

Panelists: Rick Knoll, Serge Shoemaker, Corey Sawyers

#825-3/15/2020

1. Would humming be authorized during the singing of a song?
2. How were the books of the Bible selected and compiled, and how were the decisions made as to what would be distributed as the Word of God?
3. Please address this statement on tithing: “Even though this was a part of the law of the covenant of Israel in the Old Testament, I don’t think that everything God demanded of his people in the Old Testament is abrogated if the New Testament is silent about it. I would say that if the tithe were abrogated, we would expect to have an explicit teaching in the New Testament that says tithing is no longer in effect…I would say that, in the absence of any evidence of a repeal, tithing carries though into the New Testament.”
4. My Christian husband has quit attending worship which has really upset me. What should I do in this situation?
5. Why is it important for two people who love each other to take wedding vows in a formal ceremony? By just living together, if we decide to break up later, then we don’t have to go through all the legal entanglement of the courts and family and church.

Panelists: Rick Knoll, Serge Shoemaker, Corey Sawyers

#824-3/8/2020

1. Should the Christian be involved in sports gambling?
2. In Acts 20:7, are they supposed to have eaten the Lord’s supper on Saturday night according to the Jewish method of counting time? Please see the New English Bible rendering?
3. What does the Bible teach about our responsibility to pay taxes to the government?
4. When Jesus says, “Be ye perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect,” does that mean we can attain perfection, and should we?
5. Please explain what you understand Christ meant by “the keys of the kingdom” (Mt. 16:19)? Does the last clause of the same verse give the apostles the right to make laws for the church, or what does it mean?

Panelists: Rick Knoll, Serge Shoemaker, Corey Sawyers

Air Dates: #823-3/1/2020;

1. Does the Church of Christ believe in the Trinity?
2. Does the Church of Christ reject the Old Testament?
3. Why did God hate Esau?
4. Did David kill Goliath with the stone or with the sword?
5. Does the Bible say anything about euthanasia?

Panelists: Andy Brewer, Charles Taylor, Terence Mannis

#821- 2/16/2020

1. How would Luke 11:24-26 apply to us today?
2. Can you define the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel and referred to by Jesus in Matthew 24:15?
3. What is the significance of the Day of Pentecost?
4. How can a person put a stumbling block in their brother’s way?
5. Are the children of an elder to be in Christ?

Panelists: Andy Brewer, Charles Taylor, Terence Mannis

#820- 2/9/2020

1. Is restitution essential to repentance?
2. Does Acts 20:7 have reference to the Lord’s supper? If so, they didn’t eat it on the first day of the week?
3. Of whom was Paul speaking in 2 Corinthians 12:2,3 and what is the third heaven?
4. Should we confess our sins to one another as it says in the book of James?
5. Please discuss the family gods which Rachel stole and hid by sitting on them. What are these and why did she do this?

Panelists: Andy Brewer, Charles Taylor, Terence Mannis

#819- 2/2/2020

1. When the Bible says the body returns to dust and the spirit returns to the Lord what happens to the soul?
2. Is it true that God doesn’t pay attention to anyone’s prayers until they have received the gift of the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38)?
3. In Matthew 7:22-23, how could Jesus not know people even though they claimed to have done many wonderful works?
4. I am opposed to abortion because it is a sin, and I have friends or acquaintances who are opposed as well, but they vote for candidates who support abortion. Should they do this?
5. Do the first and last of Matthew 19:30-20:16 refer to the Jew and the Gentile? If so, who were the laborers that came in at the third, sixth, and ninth hours?

Panelists: Rocco Pierce, Howell Ferguson, Kevin Thomason

#818- 1/26/2020

1. Please explain Romans 5:12? Is all humanity born into sin because of Adam’s fall?
2. What does it mean to worship God in spirit and in truth?
3. What does Paul mean in 1 Corinthians 14:38 when he says if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant?
4. Was all of Paul’s writings inspired? What about 1 Corinthians 7:25?