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Will they? Given that God has thousands if not millions of children, all sharing similar knowledge and experiences? And surely there is a distinction between sonship by birth and sonship by adoption? The son by birth will no doubt know many more things about their father than the adopted son...

Yes. "Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God." (I Peter 3:18) "By one sacrifice He has made perfect for ever those who are being made holy" (Hebrews 10:14) In this passage, Paul is talking to the Corinthians about the kind of love that they...

Unfortunately, Christians are often guilty of using these fallacies themselves. They are evident in many threads on this site (and on other Christian forums). Often the reason behind it is desperation to prove a point (because the debater is so sure that they are right and the other person is...

Well, obviously opinions differ, don't they!

I remember (several decades ago) hearing a talk from someone who had served as a missionary in a remote part of Thailand or Burma (I can't now remember which) . In that area, neither bread nor wine were available, so for communion they used rice (dipping hands into the same bowl instead of...

I've got two interlinears, one is just the New Testament and the other is the whole Bible (Hebrew and Greek). Strangely, they haven't caused me to want to burn my NIV. Quite the reverse - they demonstrate what a good translation it is.

God's word is preserved in all the texts. The only issue is degrees of accuracy. Minor errors started creeping in as soon as the first copies were made from the original manuscripts. But minor errors don't nullify the word of God. The obsession with absolute accuracy is a relatively modern...

Mary was not a "host-womb" for a supernatural body. I agree. But Jesus had to be a genuine human being in order to be our Redeemer (a genetic relationship was a necessary qualification under the Law). Conclusion: Jesus' human body was derived (miraculously) from Mary's flesh. In modern...

From which I can only conclude that you have never read the NIV as a whole - all you ever do is compare isolated verses. And verses should never be taken out of their context. But if you insist on looking at isolated verses, you must also include those where the KJV diminishes or ignores the...

Some differences matter more than others. Whether Jesus was a specialist carpenter or more of a generalist builder makes no difference at all to us; the point was, He was a tradesman who worked with His hands. We need to remember that trades were classified differently in those days, and some...

Christian faith is not blind faith. We believe on the basis of evidence. We believe God's word because He has proved to be trustworthy. We believe that Jesus rose from the dead because of eyewitness testimony.

I'm not sure that this has anything to do with the success or failure of Adam and Eve's marriage. Their failure was in their relationship with God. In Genesis 4 we read that - despite the trauma of being exiled from Eden - they set about fulfilling their commission to multiply and fill the...

Fasting, like most other habits, takes practice. When you say that you "couldn't fast from food & drink", what exactly do you mean? Was it that you couldn't keep it up for more than a few days (or hours)? Or that you felt unwell very quickly? A fast from buying clothes sounds like a very...

In what way could I, in the 21st century, love a man who died two thousand years ago? (Or hate him, for that matter?) I see him as a terrible warning. You can be that close to Jesus - and yet turn your back on the light...

This is a more difficult question to answer; I don't think one can be as definite as "must" or "must not". Paul also states that a leader's children must be obedient and godly (Titus 1:6) - so does that exclude men who are married but childless? And as far as we know, Paul himself had neither...

The church in Crete was new, and its members were all recent converts. So it means that polygamy was common in Cretan society, not that it was a feature of the church! There is a similar situation in many parts of the world today. Men who already have more than one wife may be converted. Should...

Nothing in what Jesus says presupposes a young (6000 year-old) earth. And if God used evolution to make Man, He would still be our Creator.

This article is from the 1990s, when HIV treatment was in its infancy. Now that HIV is treatable, it no longer shortens lifespan - and so the article is seriously out of date!

Are you referring to His quote of Genesis 1:27 in Mark 10:6? "At the beginning of creation, God made them male and female" I don't see that this demands a literal understanding - for one thing, the creation of humans comes at the end of the creation story in Genesis, not at the beginning! And...

There's just one flaw in your argument. In the New Testament, the title "apostle" is not restricted to the Twelve. See Romans 16, for example, where Paul describes Andronicus and Junia as apostles; or Acts 14:14, where Luke describes both Paul and Barnabas as apostles. Not forgetting Paul himself!