2024 A BIBLE ANSWER

Panelists: Jonathan Burns, Haston Handley, Ben Williams

#1065 – 10/20/2024

1. What is the book of life and can one’s name be blotted out?
2. I believe in Jesus, but I wish my faith could be stronger. What will help my faith to grow?
3. Are people with unbelieving children disqualified from being elders (Titus 1:6)?
4. Why was Jesus criticized for eating with “tax collectors and sinners” (Mark 2:4)?
5. How much are we commanded to give to the church?

Panelists: Jonathan Burns, Haston Handley, Ben Williams

#1064 – 10/13/2024;

1. Is the act of oath taking in courthouses or as in ordination of leaders acceptable to God in the light of the Holy Bible? Does this not conflict with Matthew 5:37?
2. Is a religious marriage ceremony absolutely necessary?
3. Does 1 Corinthians 7 teach that celibacy is better than marriage?
4. Are all forms of monuments such as ones dedicated to dead leaders and famous individuals acceptable in the light of the Scriptures?
5. Please explain the doctrine of sanctification?
6. Will the Jews be saved just by being God’s people (Romans 11:25-27)?
7. In Romans 7:14-25, is Paul describing his past or his present struggle to do what is right?

Panelists: Jonathan Burns, Haston Handley, Ben Williams

#1063 – 10/6/2024

1. Are Multiple Containers Prohibited in the Distribution of the Lord’s Supper? Why is there such a controversy regarding this matter?
2. What was a Sabbath day’s journey?
3. Will not Jesus reign forever in Jerusalem on Earth (Luke 1:32-33; Revelation 3:21; 21:2,23; Isaiah 27:13; Micah 4:7)?
4. I have been a member of a denomination for 10 years that teaches that baptism is not essential for salvation. For the past 2 years I have been going to the Church of Christ. Do I need to be baptized again?
5. In Psalm19:13, can you explain what presumptuous sins are?
6. Is a “moment of silence” in remembrance of departed souls acceptable to God?

Panelists: B. J. Clarke, Michael Clarke, Tim Glasshof

#1062 – 9/29/2024

1. In the light of Hebrews 7:1-10, should we regard Melchizedek as an Old Testament appearance of Christ?
2. In what sense are we to hate our families (Luke 14:26)?
3. What does “worship in spirit and in truth” mean (John 4:24)?
4. Is the brother at Corinth who was disciplined according to 2 Corinthians 2:5-8 the same as the incestuous man of 1 Corinthians 5:1?
5. Why is Acts 8:37 missing in a number of English versions?

Panelists: B. J. Clarke, Michael Clarke, Tim Glasshof

#1061 – 9/22/2024

1. Was their actual forgiveness of sins during the Old Testament?
2. What was the purpose of the tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9)?
3. Were the members of Achan’s family mentioned in Joshua 7:24 present only as witnesses, or were they stoned along with him?
4. Joel 2:23 and Hosea 6:3 speak of the early and latter rain. Please address this interpretation: “The ‘latter rain’ or the spring rain is interpreted as an outpouring of the Holy Spirit on God’s children. Biblical writers used the terms ‘latter rain’ and ‘former rain’ to describe the visitation of the Holy Spirit upon the church in a dispensational sense. The ‘early rain’ came at Pentecost to give power to the witness of the gospel. And another outpouring of rain will be coming at earth’s final soul harvest before the second coming of Christ?”
5. Does Sheol in Psalm 16:10 refer to the grave or to the place of departed spirits?
6. What is meant by “the times of the Gentiles” in Luke 21:24? When do they begin and end?

Panelists: B. J. Clarke, Michael Clarke, Tim Glasshof

#1060 – 9/15/2024

The Bible And Science Part 3

1. The Psalmist said “I am fearfully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14). How does the harmony of the human body’s various systems point to a creator? And did this systems have to be fully operational at the beginning or could they have developed over large amounts of time?
2. How has the field of archaeology helped to confirm the Bible against the skeptics who charge it with making historical blunders?
3. Does evolution rely heavily on certain ideas that violate the law of Biogenesis? Please explain?
4. Is there scientific foreknowledge to be found in the medical practices of the Bible?
5. Have there been well-known scientists who revered the Bible as the Word of God?

Panelists: B. J. Clarke, Michael Clarke, Tim Glasshof

#1059- 9/8/2024

The Bible And Science Part 2

1. Does the fossil record present intermediate links in favor of the theory of evolution as opposed to special creation?
2. Is our DNA evidence of an “intelligent source” behind the planning of it?
3. Job 39:26 speaks of the migratory patterns of the Hawk. How can evolution explain animal navigation?
4. Is it true that man consists of nothing but matter? How does the Bible describe the nature of man?
5. What is Theistic Evolution? Is it true that believers of it resort to manipulating the Biblical text (cf. Gen 1:1-2) in their support of evolution?

Panelists: B. J. Clarke, Michael Clarke, Tim Glasshof

#1058- 9/1/2024

The Bible And Science Part 1

1. Is it true that our universe resulted from the “Big Bang”?
2. How can astronomers predict eclipses? Does our ability to do so reflect intelligent design?
3. What is the hydrologic cycle and is it discussed in the Bible?
4. Please discuss Psalm 18:15-16, Psalm 8:8, and Job 38:16 and whether or not these passages contain scientific foreknowledge relative to the seas?
5. Does Uniformitarianism or Catastrophism better explain the earth’s features while conforming with the actual facts of geology?

#1057 – 8/25/2024

1. Is not capital punishment a violation of the New Testament commandment to love one another?
2. Will the faithful saints of the Old Testament be saved?
3. For those of us that may have loved ones that never knew Christ, if all our tears are wiped away, do we have no recollection of them at all and their eternal state in hell, or is our understanding completely different so that we no longer weep over those loved ones that are lost forever?
4. I hear people saying that they speak in tongues. I have read about “other tongues” in the Bible. What is this talking about?

#1056 – 8/18/2024

1. What should be my response as a Christian, when my boss asks me to lie for him? Sometimes he asks me to say he is not there when he is. Sometimes he dictates letters stating things I know are not true.
2. Does Ephesians 4:5 teach that the baptism of the Holy Spirit has displaced water baptism?
3. Some people claim that the appendix is a vestigial organ which is now useless but was at one time useful to our evolutionary predecessors. Is the appendix an evidence of evolution?
4. Is it a lack of faith to repeat a prayer? Is this a vain repetition such as the Lord spoke of in Matthew 6:7?
5. If faith is the gift of God as Ephesians 2:8 seems to indicate, does this mean that only those to whom this gift is given can be saved?
6. What is considered modest apparel (1 Timothy 2:9)?