November 2022

Can we conclude that the "mystery" in Romans 11 is there there will no longer be a "partial hardening" of the Jews as they become believers? [Romans 11:25-26, Romans 9:27, Romans 11:16-24, Romans 9-11, Galatians 6:16].

Can you clarify the timeline when Romans 11 says "until" the "fullness" of the Gentiles come in? [Romans 11:25].

What do you know about Nestorius and the controversy in the Church of the East?

Could you clarify when exactly the passover was, in light of scriptures that seem to be inconclusive? [John 16, John 19].

After we become believers, are we free from sin or are we just hopelessly bound to sin? [Romans 6:16-18, I Corinthians 6:20, Galatians 5:16, I Peter 1:18-19, Romans 8:12, Romans 8:4, Romans 13:14, 2 Corinthians 10:3, Matthew 1:21, I John 2:1, Romans 6:1].

What do you think of a pastor who says that people have to become members of a church, and that the early church was not really all the Christians in one town? [Ephesians 4:1-4].

What do Dispensationalist's think would have happened if the Jews had not rejected the Messiah and all things were not postponed?

Why did Lot's wife turn into a pillar of salt?

What does "bite the dust" mean?

Why does Satan get released again after the millennium? [Revelation 20:9-11, Colossians 2:15, Hebrews 2:14, 2 Thessalonians 2:8, Matthew 13:48].

Buddist; How can Christianity demand "belief" to be saved, when "belief" itself doesn't actually establish the truth of anything?

Could you clarify the meaning of the verse in Samuel about what David did to the people-did he torture them, or put them to work? Why would translator choose such different ways to translate this? [2 Samuel 12:31].

Why would there be this passage about not coming to bring peace, "but a sword", when it is so frightening? [Matthew 10:34-36, Micah 7:6].

Was there more that could have been included in the Bible that was not written? [John 21:25].

Why is the Zodiac and astrology considered occultic? [Job 38:32, Genesis 1].

I feel abandoned by God, and I can't seem to get in a place to get back to Him. What now? Recommends the 2-vol set of Steve's books, "Empire of the Risen Son".