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Topic: God's Attributes (Character)

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2024-05-10 Those Who Never Hear the Gospel: What happens to those who have never heard of Jesus or the Gospel? [Matthew 16: 27, Matthew 25:31-46, 2 Corinthians 5:10, 1 Peter 1:17, Revelation 20:12, James 2:14-26, Galatians 5:6, James 4:6, Proverbs 3:34, Luke 18:14, 1 Corinthians 4:5]
The Gospel Heard by Everyone - Before the Last Day: Can the “End Times” not happen until everyone has heard the gospel? [Matthew 24:14].
2024-05-09 Mercy for David & Severity for Ananias & Sapphira: Though I believe God is just, I struggle with the disparity between the story of David getting away with adultery and murder and yet, Ananias and Sapphira are struck down for only lying. Can you comment?
2024-03-27 Can't Lose Salvation & God's Love for those in Hell: If we can't be separated from the love of God, how would some be not loved in hell? [Romans 8:38-39,1 John 4:8, John 4:24, 1 John 4:16, 1 John 1:5-7, Matthew 23:37, Ezekiel 33:11].
2024-03-14 God's Love from Eternity Past: How should I understand the idea that God loves every individual in eternity past, even before they existed (outside of time)? [Galatians 1:15-17, Jeremiah 1:5].
2024-02-02 Satan's Repentance: Do you think the Devil could or would ever be converted? [Revelation 20:10].
God's Concern about Offending: Do you think that God ever is concerned about offending some people? [Matthew 15:12, 2 Peter 3:9, Ephesians 4:15, Galatians 5:11].
2024-01-25 Seeing God's Goodness in Everything: Should I be seeing God's goodness in everything and not see evil anymore?
2024-01-15 Knowing God: Shouldn't we be able to understand God and what He is doing?
2024-01-05 A Jealous God: Is jealously set apart for God alone (to exhibit)? [Exodus 20:5, Jeremiah 31:31-33, Proverbs 6:34, Galatians 5:26].
2023-12-28 The Ways of God: What are the "ways of God" and does a pastor or leader need to know them? [Psalm 103:7, Romans 3:1, Ephesians 5:1, Leviticus 20:7, 1 Peter 1:15-16].
2023-12-21 Difficulties with Calvinism: Wouldn't God's grief disprove Calvinism ... as would taking away of our free will would make us not made "in the image of God" unless He doesn't have free will? [Genesis 6:5-6, 1 Timothy 6:16, Genesis 1:26-27].
2023-12-21 God Killing the Prophet in the Old Testament: Why would God kill a prophet for not listening when he let David get away with what he did? [1 Kings 13, Exodus 4:24-26].
2023-12-18 Contradictions in the Bible: Can you explain the seeming contradictions in scripture about "none holy" and yet we are to be holy, and his "mercy endures forever" and yet apparently it doesn't extend to those that miss the rapture. [1 Peters 1:15-16, 1 Samuel 2:2, Psalm 136:1-2].
2023-12-15 God's Character in the Old Testament (Contrasted to Jesus): Do you think that God's character is wrongly depicted in the Old Testament and those scriptures should not be trusted in the same way we trust the New Testament because Jesus is so much more loving? [Matthew 5:17-18, John 5:46-47, Matthew 19:14, Romans 6:23].
2023-12-01 Wine & Water: Why didn’t God reveal to people that if you boiled water, you wouldn’t have to put wine in it to disinfect it? [1 Timothy 5:23]
2023-11-22 Agnostic Considers God a Serial Killer: Is not God a serial killer for not intervening in this terrible world where people have to die? Should He not be held accountable for all the suffering? [Romans 8:18, 2 Corinthians 4:17-18].
2023-10-24 Contradictions about the Trinity: If there is one God and Jesus prayed to God, and Jesus is His Son, how can this be? How can God have died on the cross, if God can't die? [James 1, James 2:19, 2 Corinthians 5:19, 1 Timothy 3:16, Philippians 2:6].
2023-10-24 Modalist, Oneness, Trinitarian Views of God: What is the differences between the different views of God-Modalist, Oneness, and Trinity? [John 14:23].
2023-10-04 God as an Angel: Is God an angel? Or can He be an angel? [Acts 7:30, Exodus 3-4].
2023-10-02 God Created a Liar: How can God create a being that can lie, if God Himself cannot lie? [John 8:44, Hebrews 6:18].
Hell-Contradiction of God: Is it a contradiction of God's love to create hell to be a place of eternal conscious torment? Rec: topical lectures on Three Views of Hell or Steve's book on Hell.
2023-09-22 God's Immortality: Is it your understanding that God is "not mortal" rather than His being immortal? Does "immortal" require that one would die first, therefore, God would not be "immortal," but instead "not mortal." [1 Timothy 6:16].
2023-09-19 "Emptied Himself:" Of what did Jesus "empty Himself?" [Philippians 2:5-7].
2023-09-14 God's Foreknowledge & Free Will: Does God know everything I am going to do? If so, then how can I have free will?
2023-09-13 Comprehending the Eternal God: When someone cannot begin to understand God's eternal existence and timelessness, do you have any suggestions for a response?
2023-09-07 God's Foreknowledge: Does God know everything in the future, or just all the possibilities and the possible people that will exist, because He is beyond time? [Amos 3:7-8].
2023-09-07 God as "One" vs. "Three in One": Why is it essential that God is "One?"
2023-08-31 The Trinity & Trichotomy: Have you ever heard of the Trinity being paralleled to Jesus as Flesh, Spirit as Spirit, and God as the Soul?
God as the Beginning or the First: Could scripture be referring to God as the first of all the Gods to come, rather than the only or first in importance? [Isaiah 43:10]
City of Refuge & Death of High Priest: Could you explain the concept of the "city of refuge" and its correspondence to the death of the high priest?
2023-08-16 Blessings on the Just & Unjust: Why does God bless the unjust? [Matthew 5:43-44].
2023-08-08 All Good From God: Is all good in me (like my gentle spirit) from God? [James 1:17, Matthew 7:11].
2023-08-02 God Giving Up on a Man: Are you familiar with G. Campbell Morgan? Do agree that God will never give up until a man dies, or can God give up on someone? [Romans 1:28].
2023-07-19 Loss of a Disabled Child & God's Character: How can we be assured of the salvation of a child with disabilities, who has died, and was not baptized as an adult? [Mark 10:14-16, Romans 1:18, John 3:19, Ezekiel 33:11, Ezekiel 18:23].
Vasectomy (Birth Control): Is there anything in scripture about the morality of a vasectomy, as I am troubled by having had one?
2023-07-14 The Old Testament Violent God: Could you explain the disparity between the God of the Old Testament and Jesus of the New Testament (particularly relative to racism, wars, and violence)? [Genesis 14, Genesis 6, 2 Peter 3:9].
2023-06-29 An Egocentric God: How would you respond to someone who says that God is totally self-interested and egotistical, expecting everything to be about worshipping Him? [Psalm 113:6, Psalm 8:3-9].
2023-06-07 God's Control Over Life & Death: Does God really have control over life and death? - Whether an accident, a soldier, a baby, a suicide, etc. [Psalm 34:7-8].
2023-05-30 Immutable (Unchanging) God: Could you explain the apparent contradiction with the claim that Jesus/ God never changes, but when Jesus came, He "emptied Himself?" [Genesis 18:1ff, Philippians 2:7-11].
2023-05-25 God Not Looking So Good: How do you deal with Moses looking more noble than God in Exodus 32? [Exodus 32:14, Genesis 18:16-33, Jeremiah 18:7-10].
2023-05-16 God's Vengeance in the Old Testament: Why didn't you answer the lady about why God seems so vengeful in the Old Testament? [John 14:9, Colossians 1:15, Hebrews 1:3].
2023-05-15 God's Vengeance vs God's Love: Can you help me deal with the contradiction between the Old Testament God that seems to be vengeful, but we say he is a God of Love? [Leviticus 9:22-24, Acts 12:23, Acts 5:1-11, Exodus 23:4-5, Proverbs 25:21].
2023-05-10 Regarding Views of Hell: How do you interpret Matthew 25 about everlasting punishment in light of the alternate views of hell? [Matthew 25:46].
God's Wrath vs God's Love: Isn't God's love for his own, equal to His wrath for His enemies? [John 3:16].
2023-05-09 God's Care for His People: In scripture are we to more faith in God, or in His promises. Is it God's character or His promises that assures us of His care and provision for us? [Matthew 6:25-34, Matthew 6:33, Psalm 34:9-10, Psalm 84:11, Psalm 37:35].
2023-04-11 Saved by Grace-Kept by Works: Are we saved by grace, and kept saved by works? {Ephesians 2:8-10, Titus 2:14, 2 Peter 1:4, Galatians 5:17, 2 Corinthians 3:18].
Grace: What is "grace?" [John 1:14-16, 1 Peter 4:11, 1 Corinthians 12:8-10, 1 Corinthians 15:10, 1 Corinthians 3:10, Hebrews 4:16].
2023-03-09 Various Kinds of Law in Scripture: Could you clarify the differences betwee civil law, ritual or ceremonial law and moral law? [Leviticus 18, Leviticus 20, Matthew 23:23].
2023-01-12 Jesus' Ability to Sin: Could Jesus have sinned? If He could not have, then the temptation doesn't mean as much. [1 Timothy 2:5, James 1:13, John 11:14-18, Hebrews 2:5-18, Philippians 2:7, Hebrews 4:15].
2022-12-22 God's Power: What is God's power-in His hands, His words, or what? [1 Thesslonians 2:13].
2022-12-21 Hell-3 Christian Views: Which of the "three views of hell" discussed in your book on Hell, do you think has the most evidence? [Matthew 25:31-46, 1 Timothy 6:16, Romans 2:7, John 3:16, 1 Timothy 2:4, 2 Peter 3:9].
2022-10-17 Jesus Not to Repent: Could you break down the scripture about Jesus "not a man that he should lie or repent verse"? [I Samuel 15:29, Numbers 23:19].
2022-09-22 God knowingly Created an Evil People He'd Send to Hell: Why did God create a people, who He knew would be wicked, then kill them in genocide or send them to hell? Is that not twisted?
2022-08-24 Kenosis Theory (Emptying): Do you think that the "Kenosis Theory" must be believed or is it heresy? [John 1:14, Philippians 2:7]
2022-08-19 Steve Gregg in the Northeast: How often do you go to the northeast?
Time & Eternity: Do you think that "time" and "eternal" are synonymous?
"I Am": Do you think that the statement, "I Am", indicates God's eternal nature? [Genesis 1].
2022-05-13 God's Attributed Compared to a Mother: What do you think of a worship band commenting that "God is a good mother"?
2022-04-12 "All Things Work Together for Good": Would you elaborate on the verse about "all things work together for good" in Romans 8? [Romans 8:28, Ephesians 5:20, I Peter 1:7, Matthew 10:29].
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