Question & Answers | April 29, 2015

Question & Answers | April 29, 2015

Everyone has questions, and tonight, we tried to get down to some answers! We hope you find our answers and well-thought out as we found your questions!
Included below are some of the questions we did our best to answer.
Who picked the Books of the Bible? What was the criteria for selection?
Is there any truth in the Apocrypha? If so, how much, if at all, should they be looked into?
What does it mean when it says “Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he made war and how he reigned, indeed they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.” in 1 Kings 14:19 and other places throughout 1 & 2 Kings?
We believe that when we die we go to heaven immediately; other people believe that when we die we go into a “sleep” or dormant state until Jesus comes back. What is the scripture on which we base our belief and, on what, does the opposing view base their belief?
Where are all of the people who died from the beginning (Adam and Eve) to the time when the law was given? Are they in heaven? On what rules/laws were they judged?
I’ve always struggled with the idea that there are millions of people who, because of an accident of birth, were born (and died) into cultures that are not Christian cultures (Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, etc.). I can’t believe that none of them go to heaven because of the way they were raised; it was all they knew. What is your belief on this topic?
How does a parent explain the death of a loved one, with the child knowing about Jesus at an understanding level age of 4? Specially if the child has some anxiety around death! One day my daughter woke up and said mommy I am glad you and, daddy are not dead. Prior to this question her grandpa had passed away about a year before she asked this!
With increasing demand from the LGBT community for equal rights, what safeguards do we have to prevent our church form being put in a bad light?
How can Jesus have died on Friday and have been resurrected on Sunday and that be three days in the tomb?
If someone has fallen back from God, how can they get their relationship back on track with God?
What does God look like?
How does one really explain the spiritual gift of tongues to Christian in a way it can be understood?
How and where do we start to explain who the Lord, and Jesus is? How do we help teach her to have a relationship with the Lord, and how to help her understand everything at age appropriate level, specially since we have not been able to be at church for awhile due to her being sick!
How would you approach someone who has gone through a lot of difficult things in their life and has become angry with the Lord? How would you explain that it is not God who causes bad things to happen?
How do you know when you’re hearing God’s voice?