Acts 7:23 says Moses was forty years old when he left Egypt and Acts 7:30 says that it was forty years later that the angel spoke to Moses through the burning bush. So Moses would have been eighty when God called him.
How is it possible to purify your inside by giving all of it to the poor, when your inside is greedy and wicked? (Luke 11:39-41)
This passage can be difficult to understand at first sight, and it is not helped by some rather clunky translations. Let us try and unpack what is going on. Jesus condemns the Pharisees for being like a dish that is clean on the outside but dirty on the inside. That is, when you looked at […]
If I am a Christian and believe in Jesus and my wife does not, what should I do?
In 1 Corinthians 7, the apostle Paul encourages believers with unbelieving spouses to stay together, saying “the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband.” (v14). He goes on to say “For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or […]
How many wise men came to see Jesus?
The Bible does not specify how many wise men came to see Jesus. Since there were three gifts given it has often been assumed that there were three wise men (one per gift), but there may have been many more. See Matthew 2:1-12.
Is Jesus inferior to God the Father? How do you understand the following verses in terms of their relationship? 1Cor 3:23; 1Cor 15:24,28; Phil 3:21.
Jesus says “the Father is greater than I” (John 14:28). That seems pretty clear cut. The key phrase in 1 Cor 3:23 is “Christ is God’s” It expresses the idea that Christ belongs to God, in the same way that we belong to Christ. There are other verses we could turn to but the principle […]
Will pets be in the Kingdom of God?
The Bible says that you need to believe to be saved (e.g. Eph. 2:8). Animals are not able to believe, so animals cannot be saved. However, there will be animals in God’s kingdom. The prophet Isaiah has several description of God’s kingdom that include animals: 6 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the […]
Why do we have bad people on earth?
There are bad people because of free will. God wants people to love him. God made people free because you can only love if you are free to do so. But being free means that people can also choose not to love God, choose not to obey his word, choose to do bad things. This […]
How did God get his power?
God is eternal, he always had his power.
Is the message of the Bible subjective?
In one sense, everything is subjective because the one thing we can never eliminate is ourselves. This is true for every discipline, not just biblical studies. However, very few people throw up their hands and say “well let’s not even try”. Instead most scholars try very hard to eliminate subjectivity as much as possible, for […]
Why did miracles happen in the Bible but not now?
For the majority of history God hasn’t worked in obvious miracles. Relatively speaking, the Bible records only very small portions of history, sometimes interspersed by hundreds of unrecorded years, and even in those records God isn’t performing miracles all the time. You’d expect the Bible to record a fair number of miracles, though, because it […]