No matter who you ask, people have questions about Christianity, God, Jesus, the Bible and how each relates to our lives in today’s world. Sometimes people have questions about something they read or heard, while other times people ask questions that they really don’t care to get the answer to so that they can deflect the focus off the important points.
Whatever the issue or reason, I think it is important to ask questions, as well as seek answers. While it is much less work to ask questions than it is to answer them, it is my hope and goal to answer every serious question sent my way.
Question Topics Covered
Christianity
God
- What Does It Mean That God Is Unchanging?
- Is The Trinity Found in the Old Testament?
- Why does God need worship and obedience?
- How is God both knowable and incomprehensible?
- What’s the difference between general & special revelation?
- How is the Omnipresence of God and Pantheism Different?
- What is the Holy Spirit?
- Why Did God Create Us?
- Did God choose to make the rules so that sinners could not go to Heaven?
- Why did Jesus say “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!”? (Luke 23:36)
- If Jesus is God, why did he say we have never heard his voice or seen his form? (John 5:37)
- If Jesus is God, why did He say that “No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.”? (John 1:18)
- If Jesus is God, then who did he pray to? (Luke 5:16; Matthew 26:39; Hebrews 5:7)
- Did Jesus tell his followers that he can’t do a single thing of his own initiative? (John 5:30)
- Why did Jesus say that no one (Including him) knows when the judgment day will come, but only the Father does (Matthew 24:36)
- If God exists, should He be scientifically observable?
- Why did Jesus say that “no one is good except God alone.”? (Mark 10:18; Luke 18:19)
- Since the Father is greater than Jesus, doesn’t that mean that Jesus is not God? (Luke 23:36)
- Why did Jesus say he does nothing on his own authority? Can’t he do whatever he wants? (John 8:28)
Jesus
- Were the 500 people who saw Jesus after his resurrection believers prior to his death?
- Why did Jesus say “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!”? (Luke 23:36)
- If Jesus is God, why did he say we have never heard his voice or seen his form? (John 5:37)
- If Jesus is God, why did He say that “No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.”? (John 1:18)
- If Jesus is God, then who did he pray to? (Luke 5:16; Matthew 26:39; Hebrews 5:7)
- Did Jesus tell his followers that he can’t do a single thing of his own initiative? (John 5:30)
- Why did Jesus say that no one (Including him) knows when the judgment day will come, but only the Father does (Matthew 24:36)
- If Jesus had not yet ascended to the Father, how could He have committed His Spirit to the Father? (John 20:17)
- Why did Jesus cry out, “‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Mattew 27:46; Mark 15:34)
- Why did Jesus say, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.”? (Mark 12:29)
- If God cannot be tempted, then how was Jesus tempted? (Matthew 4:1-11)
- Why didn’t Jesus reply when asked about truth? (John 18:38)
- Why did Jesus beg God to have mercy on him and kill him before he went to the cross? (Matthew 26:39)
- Why did Jesus say that “no one is good except God alone.”? (Mark 10:18; Luke 18:19)
- Since the Father is greater than Jesus, doesn’t that mean that Jesus is not God? (Luke 23:36)
- Why did Jesus say he does nothing on his own authority? Can’t he do whatever he wants? (John 8:28)
- Why did Jesus say he was ascending to “my God and your God?” (John 20:17)
- Why did Jesus ask God to forgive his persecutors? (Luke 23:34)
- Wasn’t Jesus’ name supposed to be Immanuel? (Isaiah 7:14)
- Does the Hebrew word ‘Almah’ mean a virgin or not? (Isaiah 7:14)
- Did the author of Hebrews believe he was living in the last days? (Hebrews 1:1-2)
- Wasn’t Jesus to return within John’s lifetime? (John 21:22)
- Wasn’t Jesus to return within his listeners’ lifetimes? (Mark 13:30-31)
- Wasn’t Jesus to return within his listeners’ lifetimes? (Mark 9:1; Luke 9:27)
The Bible
- What Does It Mean That God Is Unchanging?
- What’s the difference between general & special revelation?
- Does the Bible Argue in a Circle?
- How and why do people misunderstand the Bible?
- Will the Bible answer every question we bring to it?
- Why is the Bible the basis of Christian beliefs?
- What is the Holy Spirit?
- How does what is said in Romans 9 fit into the doctrine of free will?
- Did God choose to make the rules so that sinners could not go to Heaven?
- Were the 500 people who saw Jesus after his resurrection believers prior to his death?
- What is the Bible?
- Who wrote the Bible?
- How can one possibly attribute the words foolishness and God together? God can not be foolish. (1 Corinthians 1:25)
- If Jesus had not yet ascended to the Father, how could He have committed His Spirit to the Father? (John 20:17)
- Why did Jesus cry out, “‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Mattew 27:46; Mark 15:34)
- Why did Jesus say, “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.”? (Mark 12:29)
- If God cannot be tempted, then how was Jesus tempted? (Matthew 4:1-11)
- Why did Jesus say he does nothing on his own authority? Can’t he do whatever he wants? (John 8:28)
- Why did Jesus say he was ascending to “my God and your God?” (John 20:17)
- Widows and sisters don’t inherit at all. Daughters can inherit only if their deceased father had no sons. (Numbers 27:1-11)
- Wasn’t Jesus’ name supposed to be Immanuel? (Isaiah 7:14)
- Does the Hebrew word ‘Almah’ mean a virgin or not? (Isaiah 7:14)
- Did Nebuchadnezzar or Alexander the Great destroy the city of Tyre? (Ezekiel 26)
- After Jehoiakim died, there was not supposed to be anyone to sit on David’s throne, but there was. (2 Kings 24:6; Jeremiah 36:30)
- Was God satisfied with his works? (Gen. 1:31, 6:6)
- Did the Centurion approach Jesus or not? (Matt. 8:5-13; Luke 7:1-19)
- When was the leper cleansed? (Matthew 8:2-4, 14; Mark 1:29, 40-42)
- Error in generations between Abraham and David? (Matt 1:1-17)
