Question The Christian and Higher Education
I have a Christian friend who teaches high school science. Evolutionary propaganda fills the textbooks. He presents the authors’ viewpoints and clearly labels them as “theory.”

Then, using legitim...

Question What Was the Gift of Tongues?
No, it wouldn’t. Note the following factors:

1. The term “unknown” is not in the original text. It was added by the King James translators. It is unwarranted and unnecessary.

2. The nature of ...

Question What Is the Significance of the Fish Symbol?
The fish became a symbol of Christianity in the early days of the post-apostolic church. It is frequently carved on the walls of the catacombs beneath the ancient city of Rome.

The Greek word for ...

Question Did Mary, Jesus’ Mother, Ever Sin?
The Catholic Church teaches two errors with reference to Mary’s alleged sinlessness:

1. It argues that the mother of Jesus was conceived “immaculately,” meaning she did not inherit, as others supp...

Question Should Christians Have All Things in Common?
No, it does not. Rather, Luke testifies to the voluntary, loving, and selfless disposition of Christians in Jerusalem:

““Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and n...

Question Is It a Sin for a Christian To Be Depressed?
Could anxiety be sinful? Yes, if we accept the testimony of Jesus and respect Paul’s apostolic command.

But the Bible certainly acknowledges that life’s complications can be depressing. The words ...

Question Did God Reward Midwives for Lying?
First of all, the midwives may have told the truth. It may have been that the Hebrew women, fearing the king’s commandment, did not call for the midwives in a timely way.

Second, one is not obliga...

Question Does God Change His Mind?
To begin with, it is important to refresh our minds with those principles that identify an actual discrepancy.

The law of contradiction briefly stated is this.

“A thing cannot both be and not be ...

Question Do Psychics Really Have Mystic Powers?
The short answer to your question is this: psychics have no power, either to predict future events or to cause what they predict to come to pass. You are wise to avoid them.

To flesh out the answe...

Question How Many People Were in Jerusalem When Jesus Was Crucified?
There are conflicting data. We offer the following for your consideration:

In his book The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, Alfred Edersheim estimates that the population of Jerusalem in the N...

Question How Many People Died in Noah’s Flood?
The Genesis narrative indicates that Adam and Eve were charged with the responsibility to multiply and fill the earth (Gen. 1:28).

After some ten generations of human history, a span of at least 1...

Question How Did the Samaritan Woman Know About the Messiah?
The Samaritans accepted only the Pentateuch (Genesis through Deuteronomy) as Scripture, yet they confidently anticipated the Messiah. In the Temple court, Peter preached:

““Moses indeed said, A pr...

Question Are We Resurrected from the Dead When We Obey the Gospel?
Before we obey the gospel, we are dead in sin (Eph. 2:1). But the question is, to what does this refer: the physical body or a spiritual condition?

It refers, of course, to our spiritual conditio...

Question Was Christ Raised from the Dead on Sunday or Saturday?
There are three important reasons this language does not mean Jesus was raised from the grave on Saturday.

Compare the Witness TestimonyThe first thing we need to do is compare the Gospel accounts...

Article Belief as Used in the Book of Acts
A study of the word “belief” as it is utilized in the book of Acts.
Question Are Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit “God” in Nature?
As a general rule, we refrain from commenting on specific problems congregations or individuals may be having. Regardless, I must say that an individual who teaches what this question represents is...
Article Dallas Professor Rebuffs Common Quibble on “Eis”
In a new volume on Greek grammar, Dr. Daniel Wallace (of the Dallas Theological Seminary), has made a monumental concession which devastates a common denominational rationalization relative to the meaning of eis in Acts 2:38.
Question What about Braided Hair?
In Paul’s letter to Timothy, he instructs his young protege to teach:

“that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or p...

Question Do the Scriptures Authorize Multiple Cups?
Sincere though these people are, their approach to the Scriptures in this regard is flawed.

When the New Testament speaks of the cup in observing communion, it is not the literal container that is...

Question Was God Cruel to Animals?
Whenever a command of Jehovah appears frivolous or unreasonable, we need to study the matter more closely. The Lord always does what is right (Genesis 18:25), regardless of how the situation might ...