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Sorry, but this is patently untrue. Just choose the translation you want to use, and memorise that one! And with digital bibles, each one comes with its own built-in concordance. I've never met anyone who struggles with the differences between translations. Most people find it useful to compare...

As a general rule, God speaks through the Bible. Anyone can "hear" Him speak in this way. But occasionally He speaks directly and personally. He did so to me, once. It was a few weeks after I became a Christian (at the time, I didn't know that I was a Christian), and He told me to get baptised...

v15 (NIV): "And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross." Christ has destroyed Satan’s work; but He has also defeated Satan himself, and along with him all the spiritual powers that have held sway over the human race...

Cuneiform is not alphabetic writing but something totally different. There is however NO evidence that the Israelites possessed any written documents (even clay tablets) before the time of Moses. The earliest reference to writing in the Bible is in Exodus 17:14. In all probability, Noah lived...

Your reasoning is broadly correct. However, in Romans 6:4 the main clause is about our baptism, not Jesus' resurrection. The purpose/intention of our baptism is that we should live a new kind of life from then on. When we are baptised (Paul is assuming believer's baptism here), we identify with...

We know that alphabetic writing was invented around about the time of Moses. So Noah couldn't have written anything. The story of the Flood (and all the other stories in Genesis) had been handed down orally until Moses wrote them down. Many of them bear the marks of orally recited stories (e.g...

Nether do I. I wouldn't dismiss anything from the Bible that's factual (the gospels, the historical records). But not everything in the Bible was intended to be factual, and it would be a crude distortion to interpret it that way.

This question only ever seems to arise in certain cultures - I can't imagine it being asked in the UK. Interracial marriage here is completely normal. The reason why Israelites were forbidden to marry 'outside' was religious, not racial (because each nation had its own national god). Converts...

This doesn't follow. Not all parts of the Bible are "literal". Jesus' parables aren't true stories. The poetry (the psalms, large chunks of Isaiah and the other prophets, Song of Songs) contains a lot of metaphorical pictures that shouldn't be interpreted literally. And let's not get started on...

Personally, I think that the stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis describe real events in the early history of the human race - but they're not "literal" in the sense that if you'd been there you would have seen things happening exactly as described. Many cultures, all over the world...

There is no-one who is inherently un-savable. Homosexual behaviour is a sin, just like other sins. We are all sinners, we are all saved by grace.

Ah, I see... this isn't really about getting the translation right. It's about massaging Scripture to make it mean what we want it to mean. What about all the Scriptures that talk about the destruction of the wicked? They don't all use the word "eternal". And even I Timothy 4:10 makes a...

I haven't read the whole article, but it's obvious that the author isn't a linguist or translator. They seem surprised that a single Greek word can have many different English equivalents, when in fact that's not unusual when translating from one language into another. (Try translating the...

It's possible for the coronary arteries in the heart to go into spasm - giving you pain - but then be back to normal by the time your ECG is done. The cardiologist will be aware of such things. There may be other possible explanations too.

The Dome of the Rock was built 1300 years ago. The abomination of desolation is described as one of the final events just before Christ's return. So I don't think the two can be the same.

It depends on your church, how often they offer it. Jesus never stipulated how often we should take communion, which is why different denominations now have different traditions. The early church did it every week, at their Sunday meeting. Personally, I feel that somewhere between once a week...

If Nancy has found the right group, they are "The World Mission Society Church of God", and they have some very weird beliefs indeed (for example, that we have a Father God and a Mother God - better known as Jerusalem!) According to their website they say they believe in the Trinity, but they...

Hello, and welcome. What you describe is such a common experience. You decide to follow Christ, you look forward to being delivered from sin... and then you quickly discover that we can't shake sin off altogether in this life. Most of us have at least one besetting sin, a particular weakness...

1) Repentance is a change of attitude. Changes in behaviour follow automatically. 2) If you're wanting to repent, you are being drawn by the Holy Spirit. Repentance isn't a natural human desire. 3) It's not necessary to "feel" conviction or anything else. 4) God has promised to forgive all who...

In patriarchal times, this was undoubtedly true. Now that the earth is straining under a population of billions, we need to control our fertility to a level where the population stabilises. "Must"? I really think that this interpretation misses the point. Castration does a lot more than...