Top new questions this week:
|
|
I am fundamentally opposed to socialist but I was reading the Bible and came across Acts 4:32-35, where it says they practiced what looks like socialism.
Now the full number of those who believed ...
|
|
I am supportive of the death penalty and believe it to be justified biblically, but what was the Early Church Fathers (out as late as 600 AD) view of the death penalty and did they have one? I am ...
|
|
At the parish I'm visiting (within the archdiocese of Vancouver), after singing the recessional hymn (during which the cross, the priest and the altar helpers walked along the nave to the front of the ...
|
|
Let'say I was baptized in a Protestant church (for example, Presbyterian) that is in the list of churches whose baptism is recognized by the Catholic church (such as this list). But let's say I'm ...
|
|
Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians believe that the blessed Mary remained a perpetual virgin until she sadly passed away, but what was the Early Church Fathers view on the perpetual virginity of ...
|
|
According to the Catholic Church, if a Catholic's own interpretation of scripture leads to a conclusion regarding what scripture says that the Catholic Church holds is heretical (for ex., denying ...
|
|
Do Biblical Unitarians disagree with any phrases in the Apostles' Creed?
Some Christians seem to think that those who believe the Apostles' Creed are orthodox. But many also seem to believe that non-...
|
Greatest hits from previous weeks:
|
|
"...and Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with
his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour." John
4:6 ASV
It was translated as "noon" in the NIV
"......
|
|
The sainted apostle "Doubting" Thomas is called Didymus, the Twin. Indeed, Thomas also means Twin.
Thomas, called Didymus / Θωμᾶς ὁ λεγόμενος Δίδυμος (John 11:16; 20:24; 21:2)
There is no clear ...
|
|
This question is pretty much a spinoff of What does the Bible say about sex before marriage / premarital sex? because its current answer depends on the assumption that premarital sex is πορνεία (...
|
|
During bible study I noticed that Acts 8:37 was missing from my bible. Verse 36 goes straight onto verse 38. Some cursory Google searches show that this happens in the NIV but not the KJV.
Is there ...
|
|
According to Revelation 5:11, there are many:
11 Then I looked and heard the voice of many angels, numbering
thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand. They
encircled the ...
|
|
What are the names of two thieves who were crucified along with Jesus?
I was informed that their names were Dismas and Gestas. When I searched on the Internet, I got similar info.
Is it true that ...
|
|
Philippians 4:6 uses two words, possibly implying a difference between prayer and petition. Can someone explain what this difference is?
Philippians 4:6 (NIV)
6 Do not be anxious about ...
|
Can you answer these questions?
|
|
During the Arian controversy, were sacraments (especially baptisms and/or ordinations) performed by one side or the other considered invalid by their opponents? Were there any "official" ...
|
|
I was recently listening to an interview in which William Lane Craig argued that Jesus of Nazareth could not know something, but the divine logos (the second person of the trinity) could know ...
|
|
We read in Jn 5: 25-26 (NRSVCE):
Very truly, I tell you, the hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For just as the ...
|
