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This is the first time I have posted a video and especially a YouTube video, but this is much better than I could do:

I teach Bible to many University students, one non-Christian, 18-year-old girl said, her Atheist English teacher was having them read Job and wondered if I could help her understand it. The shallow understanding of Job makes God out to be cruel, uncaring, manipulative, playing with people...

I was in a discussion on a thread here and was shocked by a new definition of “forgiveness” which included someone always has to be punished or pay the just penalty for what was forgiven. Including the idea if a father forgives his child, then he is taking the punishment. This sounded to me...

If I say: “I want to make the world a better place”, am I also saying, “The way the world is right now is not the best it could be”? If this world right now is not the best it could be, what is keeping God from making it better? Taking the world down to the individual, we have a rich man and a...

I will be teaching an adult Bible class on Acts 5: 1-15 and have some questions about verses Acts 5: 13 No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. 14 Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number. It seems...

Been in a discussion with teenagers, could use some ideas: In their school they have non-Christian friends: some agnostic, some atheist, some Mormons, some Muslims and some Hindu. How should I direct these teens? I have said things like: They are opportunities for you to teach. You are...

When sincere Christians differ, it mostly has to do with differences in their assumptions including differences in the definitions of the same words their using. “Forgiveness” is one of those words we have different definitions for that causes “doctrinal” differences between sincere Christians...

I have been teaching Bible to University students from Communist China and after years they have become Christians. I have contacts in China and can get lots of them connected to with unregistered Christians in China. In the last year finding unregistered Christians in some places has gotten a...

There are reasons to believe more people will be attending Church on Sunday after the churches open up allowing people to congregate and there are reasons to believe fewer people will go to church after churches can congregate. What do you think will happen for your church and why?

A question can up among us about church growth, with the comment being made: “there are many ways to grow a church”. I do think there are many ways churches have grown, but is there really only one right way to grow? Is there even a way to reach 8 billion people with the gospel and should that...

My Bible class for Chinese nonbeliever College students had a hard time understanding Luke 4: 28 All the people in the synagogue were furious when they heard this. 29 They got up, drove him out of the town, and took him to the brow of the hill on which the town was built, in order to throw him...

I asked in my last thread about Christians being superstitious and got lots of answers about some Christians being superstitious. That was not what I was needing. I teach open minded highly interested non-Christian Chinese college students, who will most likely return to Communist China, Bible...

I teach Chinese Students in Dallas Universities and they say: one of the criticisms they hear in China about Christians is “Christians are superstitious”, so what would be a good come back answer to that comment? Some Christians Chinese seem to make the cross they wear or the Bible they...

Is the best answer: “Only God knows and you will have to ask Him when you get to heaven”? Could God not save anyone and be true to His nature? Could God save everyone and be true to His nature? According to some, God could just as easily and righteously save your neighbor as you, so would you...

As a spinoff from my last thread I found lots of differing ideas with “free will” and a need to ask some more questions: Does God have both the power and knowledge to create a being with the ability to make one truly autonomous free will choice and if not why not? Would God’s foreknowledge...

(staff edit ) please just show me where I being Open Theism. Just tell me: OK (consistent) or Not OK to believe, (if you say Not OK it would be wonderful to know why): Normally I would just ask questions but here is what I support at this point in my spiritual growth: 1...

As nonbelieving sinners, we all deserve to justly be tortured, humiliated, crucified and go to hell from God. The fact that Christ physically was tortured, humiliated, crucified and murdered and we physically are not, means at lease there is some kind of substitution. BUT: Is Penal...

How is it possible to both fully pay the debt off and also have God fully forgive the debt? How is it correct for God to say “Jesus paid your debt in full and I forgave your debt in full”, or did God not say or suggest that? Can a judge say: “I forgive your debt” and have your brother fully...

Is to desire and seek self-glorification a selfish desire? Did God make everything He made to bring Himself glory? Does each individual person, no matter what they do bring glory to God? Does satan bring glory to God? Can I do stuff which takes some of God’s glory away? What actions of God...

I thought up until recently most Christians believed God’s Love to be unconditional toward everyone, but by being on this board, found people who believed God does not Love some people and so I have had to rethink this conclusion. Would unconditional Love for everyone detract or add to God’s...