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Job Application Or Not?

Published: October 4, 2016 (Originally published: October 3, 2007)
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My hubby and I have an argument going like this. I feel it is wrong for a church to have a perspective worship team member, nursery worker, etc…to have to fill out a application form like when applying when one is looking for a job? My hubby says it is perfectly okay.

I have seen the apps and they ask about your past. Well, what if you were an alcoholic (like our pastor used to be) and then became born again and the Lord took the addiction away. Why should they have to put that down? Is it any of our business? I realize in today’s world we need to be careful but I thought the church was a different place than the world. Please answer this one!


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Worthy Of Being Saved?

Published: October 4, 2016 (Originally published: October 4, 2007)
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I have a question about something you wrote that the law of double jeopardy isn’t a man made law. Tell me where in the Bible this comes in to play? I do think one needs to live (ultimately) to present our bodies a living sacrifice. Revelation says that Jesus is coming back for a spotless, perfect church. I realize no one is perfect, but we must strive towards the goal. I don’t want to live and say “Yes I sinned Lord, but I accepted you as my savior before that so that’s null and void.”

Why would he say in Matthew that many will come to me saying Lord, Lord; I have done many miracles and wonders in His name, but His response is turn away from me you workers of iniquity? I think we need to always bear in mind the Lord. For as Paul wrote, there is but one sacrifice for us, lest it be like we sacrifice him twice, which is not possible. He was warning us of falling away.

If even after we accept the Lord we sin, we must still repent, right?

In the end who am I to judge another’s beliefs? I cannot judge lest i also be judged.

My ultimate goal is to reach souls, and give my testimony of how the Lord delivered my husband and myself from certain death. I want to walk worthy of the calling. I apologize, if i seem offensive. I’m wanting to seek truth.

 


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Will We Ever Know Everything?

Published: October 4, 2016 (Originally published: October 8, 2007)
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Hello and thank you for such a wonderful site. Once we are in Heaven, will we learn the answers to all the questions we have regarding why things happen the way they do on Earth, and why certain events in our life turned out the way they did?


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The Kingdom Of God

Published: October 9, 2016 (Originally published: October 17, 2008)
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What is meant by “The Kingdom of God is here or at hand”? I never heard Jesus mention this, what does that mean? Also, Jesus was always living in the kingdom of God on earth, are there lessons for us to learn or how do we relate the kingdom of God to those examples whereby he healed the sick and feed the thousands?


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Isn’t That Double Jeopardy?

Published: October 4, 2016 (Originally published: October 1, 2012)
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If every sin was paid for at the cross, why do some people have to go to hell? If Jesus was punished for their sin, why must they also be punished? It seems like double jeopardy to me.

 


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Forgiven But Still Condemned?

Published: October 4, 2016 (Originally published: March 17, 2013)
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At a bible study the other day, we discussed the fact that Jesus paid everyone’s sin debt. What we disagree on is this. The people who don’t accept the gift of Jesus Christ will either go to or are in hell, but are their sins forgiven? The reason they are condemned is because they didn’t invite Jesus into their life. Are their sins forgiven even though they are condemned?


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Forgiven But Still Condemned? Follow Up

Published: October 4, 2016 (Originally published: March 18, 2013)
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Re: Forgiven But Still Condemned. Christ died once for all and the justice of God was satisfied on the cross ~ for all mankind. So technically, yes, the debt has been paid, but as you correctly pointed out, unless we individually accept Christ’s propitiation, it remains unclaimed. From God’s point of view, the sin debt has been paid. It remains for each individual to make it effective.

I think of it as a heavenly ledger ~ both sides of the books are balanced as far as God is concerned. In eternity, there will be no unpaid sin debt for God to have to ignore. The ‘books’ will balance, as His righteousness and justice have been satisfied.


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Gap Theory Questions

Published: October 21, 2016 (Originally published: October 9, 2007)
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I always thought of the first 2 verses of Genesis as describing Earth in its early stages of development. But you say they don’t, that a gap of time between the first two verses hints that the Earth was created much earlier, that Satan and the angels came to be then, and that there was a great judgment that destroyed the Earth. How can this be? And what about all the fossils? Did they happen back before Genesis? Doesn’t Romans 5 say that sin and death entered the Earth with Adam?


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What Was John Saying?

Published: October 4, 2016 (Originally published: October 12, 2007)
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Thank you for your wonderful site. I attempt to lead an adult SS class and there are questions we have about 1 John 5:16,17. When John says that we should pray for those committing a sin that does not lead to death, (what is that sin? – I thought all sin lead to death) and then he is saying that we should not pray for our ‘brother’ who commits the sin that is leading to death – (what is that sin?).


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Saving Gentiles Before Christ

Published: October 4, 2016 (Originally published: October 12, 2007)
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My question is, how were Gentiles saved before Christ? and how did they receive the message of who God is if God worked through the Jews? In Eph 2:13 what is it referring to? It confused me because it appears to indicate that the Gentiles were not offered salvation previously.