Please explain why the Scriptures refer to the special care of God over the fatherless and the widow and says nothing about the widower and the motherless? It seems to me that where the wife and mother is taken away it is much sadder than where the husband and father is removed from the family circle.
In many places in the Scriptures the expression "fatherless," in the original language in which the Bible was written, has the significance of bereaved or orphans. The thought is that the Lord's special care and compassion are over the weak, helpless and the bereaved ones, and not that He has less consideration for the motherless [...]
If God is omniscient, knowing the end from the beginning, how could He repent of His course in creating man? – Genesis 6:5,6
Genesis 6:5,6: (KJV) 5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.The word "repent" means [...]
If God is a God of love, as the Bible tells us, how can we understand His command to the children of Israel to utterly destroy their enemies, men, women and children?
The Land of Canaan belonged to the Israelites as it had been given to Abraham and promised to his seed as an everlasting possession. The Philistines, Amorites and others who inhabited the land at the time when Moses under Divine direction led the Israelites out of Egypt were a semi-barbarous race whose sins and iniquities had [...]
I heard a man the other day say that there are some things that God cannot do. Is that so or not?
In the very nature of things there are some things that it would be impossible for God, the great Creator, to do. Some say that it would be impossible for God to create two hills without a valley; however, we believe this could easily be accomplished by putting one hill on top of the other. [...]
Are angels mortal?
The definition of “mortal” is a state or condition of being liable to death, not a condition where death is unavoidable, but a condition where death is a possibility. The definition of “immortal” is a state or condition not liable to death, not merely freedom from death, but a condition where death is an impossibility. [...]
Are we to accept a literal flood, or do Genesis chapters 6, 7 and 8 give an account of a spiritual flood?
Scientific thought is coming more and more into harmony with the Scripture teachings as to the occurrence of an actual flood at about the time indicated in the Genesis account. From the latest investigations and research, the conclusion has been formed that this earth was, in times remote, a part of the sun, and that [...]