Go to The Narrow Path Ministry Topic: God's Love |
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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]. |
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2024-03-22 |
Objecting to Calvinism: How can Calvinism's position that God chooses some for hell be understood to bring Him glory? [Psalm 2:4, 2 Peter 3:9, Ezekiel 33:11]. |
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2024-02-09 |
Jesus' Commandments (Law of Christ): What are the commandments of Jesus referred to in John 14-15? [John 13:34-35, Romans 13:10, Matthew 5:41, Matthew 5:23-24, Mattew 5-7, Matthew 28:20, Mark 12:30-31, Matthew 22:37]. |
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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]. |
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2023-11-07 |
Annihilation of Enemies in Old Testament: How do we square the idea of the annihilation of the many Canaanite kingdoms with the command to love our enemies and be patient, etc? [Psalm 103:8]. |
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2023-08-16 |
Blessings on the Just & Unjust: Why does God bless the unjust? [Matthew 5:43-44]. |
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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]. |
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2023-07-28 |
Unsaved People Going to Heaven: Is there any chance really good, but unsaved, people, may get into heaven? [Genesis 15:6, 1 Corinthians 4:4-8]. |
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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? |
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2023-06-27 |
"Unconditional Love" & "Amazing Grace": Were the theological concepts of "unconditional love" and "amazing grace" developed outside the Bible? [Luke 6:28-30, Matthew 5:43-45, John 3:16, 2 Peter 3:19, Ezekiel 33:11]. |
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2023-06-08 |
God Only Saves the Elect: Could you enlighten me about the view that God is only going to save "The Elect?" |
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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]. |
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2023-05-16 |
"The Sin" & "the Sinner": Are "sins" separate from "the sinner" as in the phrase "Love the sinner, hate the sin." [Romans 5:8]. God Loves & Hates: Can God love and hate at the same time? [John 15:13]. |
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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]. |
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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]. |
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2023-04-24 |
God is Our Enemy: What do you think of this pastor's statement-"The message of the Bible is that your enemy is God Himself." ? [John 3:16, 1 John 3:16, Matthew 11:19, 2 Corinthians 5:19]. |
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2023-04-20 |
God's Love Unequally Distributed: Does God love everyone equally, or does it vary depending on the person, in light of He loved Jacob and hated Esau? [Romans 9:13, Malachi 1:2-3, Hebrews 2:9]. |
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2023-01-23 |
Greater Love: Is this literally the degree of love we are to have in John 15? [John 15:13, 1 John 3:16, Philippians 2:3]. |
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2023-01-19 |
God's Relationship with Himself: Does God love Himself because He understands Himself? |
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2022-12-12 |
Loving God Unconditionally: Since God loves us unconditionally, isn't it right for us to also love Him unconditionally? [James 1:17, John 14:15, Matthew 5:45]. |
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2022-11-17 |
Bethel Church-"Reckless" Love: What do you think of the Bethel Church titling a song "The Reckless Love of God"? |
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2022-11-11 |
The Jewish People: How does God feel about the Jewish people and how does God feel about them? [Galatians 3:28, 2 Peter 3:9, I Corinthians 16:22]. |
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2022-08-02 |
Satan & Apostasy: What do you think of my response to someone who had abandoned the faith when I answered why God created Satan? |
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2022-06-06 |
Defining "Christian Love": What is the Christian definition of love, in light of the killing kind of God He was? What is your definition of love? [Genesis 6:11, John 15:13]. |
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2022-04-07 |
God Hates the Wicked in Psalms: If God doesn't hate, how then should we see the Psalm that says that God hates the wicked? [Psalm 5:4-6, Psalm 5:9-10, Proverbs 6:16-19]. We Must Hate our Mother & Father: Does the verse about hating your mother and father, just mean we must love them less, instead of really hate? [Luke 14:26, Matthew 10:37]. Soldiers Arresting Jesus: Do you think that the soldiers didn't actually fall back supernaturally, but where kneeling to worship Jesus? [John 18:6]. |
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2022-04-07 |
Unconditional Love: I disagree with you that "unconditional love" is in the Bible? [John 3:16] God's Love is Conditional: I disagree with you that that God's love is conditional, not unconditional. [John 15:9-10, Romans 5:10, Matthew 5:44, I John 4:8, I John 4:16, 2 Peter 3:9]. God Hates: Doesn't scripture indicate that God hates? [Hosea 9:15]. |
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2022-04-06 |
Atheist: Why Believe the Bible is True?: Why should we believe that the Bible is true? [Isaiah 41:21-23]. Atheist: Why Believe the Bible is God's Word: Atheist: Why should we believe that the Bible is the Word of God? Atheist: Why "love" the Bible?: Atheist: Why should we love the Bible? |
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2022-04-06 |
One or Two Demon Possessed Men?: Can you explain why the other gospels don't say that there were two demon possessed men, but only mention one. [Matthew 8:28-34 ]. Unconditional Love: Can you explain "unconditional love" and what that specifically means? [Proverbs 13:24, Proverbs 23:13-14, Luke 19:44, Matthew 23:37]. |
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2022-04-05 |
God's Mercy Toward an Unbeliever: What do you think about a friend of mine who has passed away, but was one of the finest men ever-do you think that God will have mercy? [2 Peter 3:9, Ezekiel 33:11, Ezekiel 18:23]. |
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2022-04-05 |
God is Love: How is it that God is love? [I John 4:7-21]. Steve Gregg's Lecture on God's Love: Where is your extensive lecture about love and "God is love"? Topical Lecture series; "Charisma & Character". |
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2022-02-22 |
God's Invisible Attributes: What are the invisible attributes of God? [Romans 1:20]. Best Bible Translation: What is the best Bible translation? New American Standard and New King James are among those mentioned. |
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2021-12-09 |
Baptism in "Jesus" Name Only: What do you think of the requirement to be baptized in the name of "Jesus" only? [Acts 2:38, Matthew 28:19, Romans 4:3]. "Love Your Neighbor": Who is our neighbor in regard to the instruction to "Love your neighbor"? [Luke 10:36-37, Mark 12:30-31]. |
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2021-11-02 |
God Still Loved Job: Did Job think that God still loved him when he was in all the trials? [John 14:23]. Legalistic Tithing: Would you donate to a legalistic church that demands tithing? |
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2021-09-24 |
Calvinism & the Elect: Caller shares his thoughts on God's love for us relative to Calvinism. [Amos 5:14]. |
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2021-09-24 |
Afraid of Hell & May Not be Saved: Caller shares that he is afraid that he may not be saved, and thinks he only tries to be a believer because of the fear of hell. Is there anything in the Bible that can help assure me? [I John 4:18]. Loving God More: How do you cultivate more love for God? [I John 4:19, I John 2:15, I John 4:8, Luke 10:27]. |
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2021-08-26 |
Unconditional Love & Salvation's Conditions: When we speak of "unconditional love" are we actually saying that love is unconditional, but salvation is not? Judas' Betrayal: Wouldn't have God made another way for us to be saved, even if Judas had not betrayed Him? [Luke 22:21]. |
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2021-08-09 |
God's Omniscience: If God is omniscient, would he not know who would choose Him (Caller thinks he disagrees with Steve). Recommended Topical Lecture; "God's Sovereignty and Man's Salvation." |
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2021-08-09 |
Calvinism-God Doesn't Love Everyone: How does one reconcile verses that seem to indicate that God doesn't love everyone, and yet there are others like John 3:16, that indicate that He does? [Psalm 5:5, John 3:16, Romans 5:8, Proverbs 6:16-19, Ezekiel 33:11, Romans 9:13, 2 Peter 3:9, John 15:13, I John 3:15]. |
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2021-08-05 |
God Sending the Damaged to Hell: How responsible will God hold someone who has had abuse and now has Alzheimer's? |
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2021-06-16 |
Gay Pride Month: Why does God allow Gay Pride month? LGBTW Marriages: Why are people caught up in the LGBTQ movement and so many are marrying each other? God Helping Homosexuals: Why doesn't God help gay people better so they can please Him? [Romans 12:2, Matthew 11:29-30, Matthew 7:13-14, Psalm 14:1, Proverbs 9:10, John 8:31-34]. |
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2021-06-15 |
Suicide of an Unsaved Loved One (Addict): What do you say to someone who has lost an unsaved loved one-in this case, an addict's suicide? [Luke 12:47]. |
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2021-06-14 |
God's Love=Mercy, Justice, Faithfulness: Could you direct me to your lecture where you talk about God's love being of mercy, justice, and faithfulness? Recommended Lecture: "Sermon on the Mount". [Matthew 23:23, Matthew 7:12, John 15:13, Mark 12:30-31]. |
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2021-04-16 |
God as Absolute Authority in Contrast to a Friendship with Him: How do you abide in Him, in a close and loving way, when you know that you are dealing with your king and He has absolute authority over you? [John 15, Romans 8:1, Psalms 145:8, I Corinthians 13:4-8]. |
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2021-03-22 |
Chosen People Makes God a Racist: Is God a racist because He favor His chosen people? [I Peter 2:9]. |
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2021-03-17 |
Not Doing Enough for God: As a relatively new believer, I am struggling with self-condemnation regarding how much I am doing as a Christian. What do you advise? [John 3:17, I John 3:21]. |
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2021-03-11 |
Repentance After Death: Did I hear you say that one can repent in heaven after they die? Is there any scripture to support that idea? [James 3:2}. |
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2021-03-08 |
God's Hate: Does God hate wicked people and then only loves them once they repent? [John 15:13, Romans 5:8, Romans 9:13, Genesis 29:30-31, Matthew 6:24, Malachi 1:2-3]. |
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2021-03-04 |
A Buddhist Explains His Rejection of the Christian God: A Buddhist called explains why he can't accept the Christian God. Why Would God Create the World with Such Suffering: Why did God just leave well enough alone instead of creating a world with terrible suffering? |
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2021-02-26 |
Does God Love Me Enough: Caller having suffered terrible abuse in marriages, that resulted divorces, asks, Does God love me enough, and I am forgiven? [I John 1:7]. Unforgiving Children and Other Christians: How do you deal with unforgiving Christians, and even your own children? |
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2021-02-22 |
No Free Choice: How can you say that God gives us a choice when the end result is hell? That is no choice. God Lets Evil Happen: Is it right for God to stand by and let evil happen? |
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2021-02-12 |
God's Love & Mercy: Comment that many imprisoned sinners often are products of a hard life, so Steve talks about God's love and mercy toward sinners. [Psalm 103, Romans 5:8]. |
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2021-02-04 |
God Created Bad Kids: How can God create people who will go bad and ultimately be doomed? |
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2021-02-04 |
God's Desperation: Is God desperate for a relationship with us? |
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2021-01-25 |
God's Children Suffering: Help me accept why God would continue with his plans for having children if He knew they would suffer terribly in their lives? |
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2021-01-20 |
God Creating and Then Allowing Evil & Suffering: How could an all knowing, all powerful God, create a world where there is such evil and so much suffering?
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2020-12-16 |
Enormity of God's Forgiveness & Universal Reconciliation: Caller comments on the enormity of some people's ability to forgive, thus, it supports the idea of God's love and Universal Reconciliation. From the Devil or the Flesh: How does one tell what is actually of the devil, rather than one's own selfishness or flesh? [John 8:44, I Peter 5:8]. |
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2020-12-15 |
God's Emotion: Is God emotional and is He capable of lashing out? [Exodus 33:3]. Pharisees Wanting to be Baptized by John: Why would Pharisees want to get baptized by John the Baptist? Jesus Supporting His Mother, Mary: Was Jesus supporting his mother, Mary? And why him instead of his brothers? [Luke 8]. |
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2020-12-10 |
Religious Rules & Offenses: Would you comment on the idea that Christopher Hitchens promoted "religion poisons everything"? [I John 4:7-21]. |
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2020-11-20 |
Bible That Doesn't Translate all the Greek Words for Hell: Is there a Bible translation that actually uses the proper Greek words, like Tartarus and Gehenna, instead of "hell" for all them? Image of Fire & Torture in Hell: Whenever we hear the word hell, we all envision torture in a fire, why is that? [Revelation 20:15, Revelation 10, Matthew 25:41] God Didn't Translate His Word Very Well: Is there a case to be made that God didn't do a very good job of translating His word and getting His message across to us? [Psalm 92:15]. |
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2020-10-27 |
God Hiding From Us: Why does God hide from us? Is it to humble us? [Isaiah 50:10]. |
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2020-10-27 |
Blessing Our Enemies: How do we love our enemies? [Matthew 5:38-46, Luke 6:27-28, Luke 15:32, Exodus 23:4-5]. |
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2020-09-30 |
So Many Religions, So Many Innocents: If God is such a loving God, why would He allow other religions to exist and mislead somewhat innocent people? |
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2020-09-17 |
Why Does God Let Children Die if He Can Do Miracles?: Why would God do miracles for certain people and let children die of starvation every day? Bible is Not Reliable: Caller says the Bible is not reliable, because He says He is sorry He ever made mankind. [Genesis 6:6]. |
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2020-09-02 |
Who Shall Separate Us from Christ?: Is Paul arguing that our love for God is what would prevent us from ever separating from God, and perhaps not just God's love for us? [Romans 8:31-39]. |
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2020-08-25 |
God's Chief Values: What can I look up to learn about what God wants us to value? [Micah 6:8, Matthew 23:23]. God's Idea of "Justice": Could you talk to me more about God's idea of "justice"? |
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2017-12-18 |
Loving like a Christian: We shouldn't just love as a surface issue, but doing good works & loving like a Christian. |
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2017-11-08 |
God's Eternal Mercy: Caller is fearful that he may be hell-bound, even though he knows God had infinite mercy. |
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2017-11-08 |
God's Mercy & Forgiveness: God is infinite in forgiveness, but people still have to be held accountable who scorn Him. |
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2017-02-07 |
God's Love: Is God's love unconditional? [John 3:16] |
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2017-01-31 |
God's love for Mankind: Does He really love EVERYBODY or only Israel? [John 3:16] |
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2016-10-21 |
God "hating" people: So God loved Israel more than the pagan countries? And, how does this coincide w/ what Jesus said about not hating our enemies. [Psalm 5, Matthew 5, 1 John] |
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2016-09-19 |
God Repented Making Man, Grieved Him: Someone gave me a book called, "The Story", & I read what God was saying right before the flood & how does that compare with how He loved us while we were yet sinners. [Genesis 6:6, Romans 5:8] |
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2016-08-09 |
Agape Love: Loving each other with christian brother/agape love [1 John 3:10-12] Love to Believers & Unbelievers: Are we supposed to love unblievers just as much as we are supposed to love the believer? [John 13:34, Galatians 6:10] |
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2016-08-08 |
Curse for Trying to Obey the Law: So are people under a curse if they try to obey the law instead of trust in Christ? [Galatians 3:10, Galatians 5:2] Royal Law of Love: What about the "royal law of Love", is that superior or the same as the law of the of the old law? [1 John 3] |
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2016-07-14 |
Mother Concerned about God not being for Him: Mother concerned about her son’s confusion & feeling like God is not for him. [Romans 8:31, 1 John 4:9] |
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2016-06-02 |
God Hating People: How can a God of Love actually hate people? |
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2016-05-26 |
Maturbation, Self-gratification: Is self-gratification, masturbation, considered a sin? Is it considered fornication? Unworthy to be Saved: Sometimes I feel like I'm unworthy to have salvation because I've never had a balanced Christian life even though i've known better. [Romans 5:1-11] |
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2016-05-24 |
Predestinating People to Hell: Why would a merciful God create a hell? Why make people who would go there if He knew it ahead of time? |
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2016-03-16 |
Felt Christian Love: Michael the Buddhist touched by Christian’s presence & likes the fellowship or relationships with Christians but does God fulfill
the need for love from others? |
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2015-11-13 |
Evil: Does God actually create evil? I thought God was a God of love & good? [Isaiah 45:7] |
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2015-10-19 |
God Being for Us: If God is for us, who can be against us? What does that mean? We seem to be up against a lot of foes. [Romans 8:31-36] |
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2015-10-12 |
Predestination & an Omnipotent, Omniscient God: How does God's Omniscience go because if He knew someone was going to go to Hell, why did He create him, because doesn't that make Him responsible for them going to hell? |
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2015-08-05 |
Loving Your Enemies: God was pretty severe w/ His own people, let alone His own enemies, but how do we reconcile the way He is in the New Testament? God forgets our Sin: God forgets our sins, it says in the Old Testament, the Sea of Forgetfulness, but it also says every idle word will be held against us? [Micah 7:9, Matthew 12:36] |
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2015-01-14 |
God Hates the Sin, Loves the Sinner: We've heard the saying, "God hates the sin, but loves the sinner", but there are places where it says in the Bible that God hates the wicked person. |
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2015-01-07 |
Rewards (to the Pharisees): What did Jesus mean when He said, "...they have their reward"? [Matthew 6:5] God of the OT vs the NT: The God of the Old Testament seems to be different than the God of the New Testament, is this true? |
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2013-12-30 |
Pastors being Limited to Think CLearly: It's unfortunate there's a limit sometimes on what a pastor can believe or teach within the belief system of their denomination. Predestination: Was R.C. Sproul saying that we actually DO have a choice on whether we go to hell or not? Trying to make Calvinism & Arminianism harmonize. Loved ones burning in Hell: John MacArthur & R. C. Sproul seem inconsistent about that they say about buring in eternity in hell. |
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2013-11-14 |
God's attitude Towards the Repentant & Unrepentant: What is God's attitude to a person who is not saved, & what is His attitude to a saved person? |
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2013-11-08 |
Not All God's Children: Caller was wondering if we are ALL God's children or not even if we are not believers? Does God love everyone, even non-believers? [John 8, 1 John , John 3:16] God Loving Everybody: But does God love everybody, even sinners? [John 3:16] |
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2013-09-24 |
"None Seeking after God" What does it mean that no one is seeking God? [Romans 3:10-11, Psalm 14, Psalm 51] God Failiing: If not everyone is seeking after God, isn't God failing? God Chooses People & Thief on Cross Baptized: God Chooses people, the caller thinks. Also, caller thinks the thief on the cross was baptized by public declaration. [1 Corinthians 1:26] |
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2013-08-30 |
Hell-Universal Reconciliation: The problem with the idea of universal reconciliation is that people would just want to escape hell & not be sincere, so how would it be possible? God's Love for Us: Why does God love us so much? [1 john 4:7-8, Deuteronomy 7:7-8] Hell-Eternal Torment & Annihilationism: Can you please talk about the other 2 views of hell then other than universal reconciliation? (Traditional view of Eternal torment & annihilationism.) |
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2013-08-23 |
God Failed: Caller thinks God has failed her. |
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2013-08-12 |
God's Love: Can you explain God's Love & how to love others? |
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2013-07-15 |
666 in the Old Testament: Is there any significance of 666 in the Old Testament, as with the number in Revelation? [1 Kings 10:14, Revelation 13:18] Propitiation: Can you talk about the word, "Propitiation"? [Romans 3:25, 1 John 2:2, 1 John 4:10] God Hates the Sin, but Loves the Sinner: Caller's pastor thinks God's hates the sin and the sinner who's doing the sin? [Romans 5:6] |
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2013-07-10 |
Gentiles as Second Best: How come God chose the Jews over the Gentiles? Are gentiles second best to God. [Romans 1:16, Romans 2:9-10] |
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2013-05-01 |
Justice: Caller shares a Steve Gregg quote on justice: "God cannot ignore justice without becoming an unjust God." Jesus Not Always SO Sweet: Comment; The church is mistaken about how sweet Jesus always is and the following verses show this. [Matthew 7:23, Revelation 2:22-23, Revelation 2:5, Revelation 3:16, John 14:9]. |
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2013-04-29 |
The Pain in Hell & Wrath of God: Does the imagery describing hell apply not only mentally, but also physically? And isn't God a wrathful God? [Matthew 13]. |
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2013-02-25 |
Hell: What difference does it make how God uses hell and which view of hell is correct? The Incentive of "Eternal Torment": Are we losing the incentive of "eternal torment" if we consider the possible other views of hell? [Proverbs 28:5]. Steve's book; "Hell-Three Views" |
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2013-01-11 |
Visiting the Iniquities to the 3rd & 4th Generations: what does it mean that He will visit the iniquities to the 3rd & 4th generations? [Exodus 34:6, Deuteronomy 7] Keeping His Covenant for 1000 years: God said He would keep the covenant for 1000 years. [Deuteronomy 7:9] God Loving Israel: He chose the Jews because He wanted to make them a witness to the rest of the world? (Steve never has a chance to answer this question.....he gets cutoff for the rest of the show & an old archive is played.) |
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2013-01-04 |
Putting God in a Box: Even thought we don't believe in Calvinism, we can't put God in a box saying that He can't make people do what He wants, can we? T. Austin-Sparks, Watchman & A. W. Tozer: What do you know about Sparks, watchman Less & Tozer? Did they believe in Christian mysticism? Love the Sinner, Hate the Sinner: We hear all the time the phrase, "Love the Sinner, but hate the sin", but I wouldn't find myself able to love people who murder & rape people. |