Can a preacher direct non-believers to pray a prayer or follow his prayer of repentance and this lead to their salvation?
What are the names of Jesus' sisters?
In reading Matthew 5, I recalled some commentators placing this in the Millennium. How can this be during the Millennium if people are being "persecuted", according to verses 10 and 11?
Regarding foreknowledge, I find it inconceivable and impossible to explain how, according to the traditional doctrine of God's foreknowledge, God can know from the beginning who will be saved and who will not be saved while at the same time both of the latter have a free will in choosing their destiny. I'm open to hearing someone else explain this but after 25 years of trying to come to a Biblical and logical answer, I find none. Perhaps you can help?
On the first day, God made the light but the sun, moon and stars were not created until the fourth day. How was there an evening and morning without the sun?
I have a website for ladies, and lately we women have been studying Titus 2:3-5. This week, we are looking at the phrase "keepers at home" in particular. My very old copy of Strong's concordance defines the word "keepers" as "stayers at home; ie. domestically inclined." However, newer Bible dictionaries online define it as "workers" or "taking care of domestic affairs." I found it strange that this is the only usage of this Greek word in the Bible, at least as far as I can tell. It seems fishy that older dictionaries defined this word as "staying" at home, where more recent dictionaries seem to broaden the meaning. I wish I knew Greek myself so that I didn't have to rely on others' definitions. But in my opinion, it seems that if God was careful enough to use a highly-specific word here (so specific that it's not used any where else in the Bible), why are modern definitions so broad?
Do you have any information on Seventh Day Adventist church? I have to do a report and there are so many conflicting things on the web that I don't really know what is real and what is not!
