What does the Bible say of polygamy if you do not desire to be a leader in the church, or if you are just a Christian?
Jesus declared, ‘Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh.’ Matt. 19:4, [...]
Where is heaven?
There are two possible answers to this question. Firstly, there is a physical heaven composed of our atmosphere, the air we breathe, the sky, and, further still, space, where we find the sun, the moon, the stars, and all the other galaxies and celestial bodies that comprise our universe. It is certainly of this physical heaven that David [...]
Explain the parable from Luke 5:36-38 about the new and old garment.
Luke 5:36-38 "No one tears a patch from a new garment to patch an old garment. Otherwise, the new garment would be ruined, and the new patch wouldn’t match the old garment. Nobody pours new wine into old wineskins. If they did, the new wine would burst the wineskins, the wine would spill, and the [...]
Am I wrong for asking God to forgive me for my sins but I keep doing sinful things?
First of all, no, you're not wrong to ask God for His forgiveness. Those who wish to follow Christ want very much to please Him and the Heavenly Father. We read, "This is love for God: to obey his commands..." (I John 5:3) and "Just as he who called you is holy, so be holy [...]
Was grace extended to Jews only?”
At Mt. Sinai the nation of Israel entered into a covenant relationship with God. After receiving the commandments, and the promise of life if they kept them, their response was a resounding “all these things we will do.” (Exodus 24:7) But the law that they thought would bring them life was “found to be unto [...]
Where does the King James version and the New International Version Bible translate from?
Where the Old Testament is concerned, the King James Version (KJV), the New International Version (NIV), as well as most Protestant translations of the Bible are based on a single manuscript, the Leningrad Codex, produced around 1008. This Codex is our earliest complete copy of the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible. The text was primarily [...]