November 2021

Could you address whether Pelagianism is heretical and if Augustine's definition of it is correct? [Galatians 5:17, Ezekiel 18:23, Ezekiel 33:11, Jeremiah 7:31].

What does the Calvinists say about the verse that says God "works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure?" [Philippians 2:13].

Why are so many Christians so overly interested in eschatology? [Luke 19:13, Acts 1:7, I Thessalonians 5:1, Colossians 3:17, I Corinthians 10:31].

Why do so many believe that Christians need to be raptured before the antichrist can rise, when so many evil leaders have risen in history? [John 16:33, 2 Thessalonians 16:33]

Is there two kinds of repentance-one kind granted from God and from one's own self? [Acts 11:18].

What do you think of the numbers mentioned in scripture about how many were converting being evidence that they had a formal membership in the early church? [Acts 2, I Corinthians 3:4].

If God "so loved the world", but our pastor says that we should not love this world, how does that work? [John 3:16, I John 2:15-17, 2 Timothy 4:10].

What do you say to someone who has said the prayer for repentance and salvation, but I don't see any evidence of having been "born again"? [Matthew 16:24-26, I Corinthians 6:19-20].

Did you say that there will be no people alive when Jesus returns? Doesn't scripture indicate that there will be some alive? [I Corinthians 15:51, I Thessalonians 4:17].

Why do we have to have to identify with one particular denomination among so many?

Do we need to actually say, "in the name of Jesus", when praying, or can we just be praying in His spirit? [Acts 3:6, Acts 9:34, Acts 9:40, Luke 7:14, Colossians 3:17, Acts 4:6-10].

Did Job think that God still loved him when he was in all the trials? [John 14:23].

Would you donate to a legalistic church that demands tithing?

Caller disagrees that Augustine did not believe in free will or free choice.

What scripture was Paul referring to in I Corinthians? [I Corinthians 14:3-4, 2 Timothy 3:15-16, Isaiah 53].

Before Jesus and the Holy Spirit came, would not the saved would be a very small percentage, because of the lack of light and conviction? [John 3:17, Psalm 19:1, Luke 12:47, John 19].

Why are there people who speak in tongues, but it is not a familiar and understood language? [Acts 2:8, I Corinthians 14:22, I Corinthians 14:2-4, I Corinthians 14:27, Jude 1:20].

What does the Bible say about our political involvement and when we should speak up? [Matthew 28:20, I John 3:15, Isaiah 42, Matthew 12, Galatians 6:10, Matthew 22:20-22].