January 2023

What are my obligations for tithing? Recommended; article on "Tithing'. [Galatians 6:6, 1 Corinthians 9:14, Malachi 3:8-12].

Why do we not find Calvinism an unacceptable heresy? [Romans 1:16].

Is Pope Benedict XVI in Heaven or Hell? What determines that someone will go to hell? [1 Corinthians 4:5, 1 Corinthians 13:9, James 3:1]

Atheist caller challenges Steve as to why he won't announce who he thinks will go to hell (like the Pope)?

Did Jesus Christ commands us to love one another and why would it be such an important commandment? [Ephesians 5:1, 1 John 4:8, Galatians 5:22, Romans 5:5, Romans 13:8-10].

How do you look at the pronoun question and how it may relate to not taking a husband's last name?

How do I address my grand-daughter if she won't take her husband's last name? Should I call her by her husband's name or her maiden name as she prefers? [Genesis 5:2].

Are there two different jugments-"Great White Throne Judgment" and the "Bema Seat" held at different times? [John 5:28-29, Acts 24:15, Revelation 20:5-6, Revelation 20:13, John 5:24, Ephesians 2:2, Colossians 2:13, 2 Corinthians 5:10, 1 Peter 1:17, 2 Timothy 4:1].

Can you speak to the necessity of understanding Lordship in Christian counseling for Christian marriages? [2 Timothy 2:3].

Could you speak to the chronological confusion in the Gospel of John relative to the baptism of Jesus and the Temptation in the wilderness in contrast to the other gospels? [John 1:19-51, Acts 2].

What is your take on the story of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery not being in the earliest manuscripts? [Luke 23, John 7:53-8:11].

A pastor said that God won't give us any commandments we can't keep, but didn't Paul teach us that we can't keep the commandments without Jesus? [Romans 8:4, Galatians 5:16].

Can you give me a brief overview of "Dispensational" theology and how it relates to the Old & New Testaments? [Exodus 19:5, Galatians 3:28, Romans 11:26, Romans 9:27, Romans 11:5].