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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...

In the UK, flashing headlights usually means, "I'm giving way to you - you can pull out" (Or "come on through ", depending on the context.) In continental Europe, on the other hand, it means "Get out of my way!"

Hmmm... But if God created the human body of Jesus separately, ex nihilo, He wouldn't be a part of the human race that needed redemption - and so He wouldn't be qualified to redeem us. The Law required a Redeemer to be "of the same family." (Leviticus 25:48; Hebrews 2:11) "He shared in our...

Spiritual things aren't inherited through DNA, only physical traits. And it's not only Christians who have a spiritual inheritance. The Pharisees were "children of the devil" (John 8:44) - in a spiritual sense, not a physical or biological one! The whole of mankind inherits Adam's sinfulness...

Sin isn't inherited through DNA - there's no "sin gene". Adam in his original state had all human DNA - when he sinned, he didn't acquire any extra! Sin is a spiritual inheritance, not a biological one. I have to disagree with you (respectfully of course!) because to my mind, if Jesus didn't...

"Immaculate conception" refers to the conception of Mary (a Roman Catholic doctrine). The correct term for Jesus' coming is "virgin birth". He had no human father, but He did have a human mother and inherited His human nature from her. He would have had her DNA! So He was indeed Jewish. If...

You mean that Luke wrote his gospel under the influence of "bad doctrine"? That amounts to saying that the New Testament can't be trusted.

Was the Thief on the Cross Baptized or Not? We don't know. We are not told - and if baptism was essential to salvation, we would have been told.

Maybe. But remember that people have always suffered these kinds of problems, long before Covid or Covid vaccines came along. There are hundreds of possible causes of a high white blood cell count (any infection, or inflammation anywhere in the body), and a lot of them can cause clotting...

The adenovirus vaccines (such as the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine) can cause a (very very) few people to make antibodies against one of the many molecules that make up our blood clotting system. This causes the blood platelets to malfunction, which results in both blood clots and abnormal...

The main object of this exercise is to protect a wife from her husband's unfounded jealousy. Drinking such water would not in itself cause an abortion. It's very unlikely that it would have any serious effects at all. In effect, it's a form of "trial by ordeal" (if guilty, the woman will suffer...

Christmas is the birth of Jesus Christ! (We have a Christmas tree as part of our decorations - but it's made of plastic and we don't worship it)

All human beings are made in God's image. But none of us are physically and psychologically perfect - we all have flaws.

A very long time ago, I knew a Christian couple (married just a few years, with a small child). The husband was persistently unfaithful. As well as having another sexual partner, he spent their money (of which they didn't have much) on this other woman, and cajoled other church members into...

Because the New Testament was originally written without punctuation, a debate has arisen over whether the word ‘today’ belongs to Jesus’ opening phrase (“Truly I tell you today…”) or with His promise (“today you will be with Me in Paradise”). Technically, either interpretation could be correct...

Paul says in verse 13 that it's because the man was created "first". Not better, smarter, or more privileged, or male - just "first". That meant Adam had more knowledge and spiritual experience than Eve. She was (relatively) ignorant and naïve. She thought that she could handle Satan's...

I don't see what evolution has to do with sin. Sin came into the world via the human race. It wasn't there before. At some point in our evolution, God created His image in/on us. From then on, we became moral beings who were capable of rebellion and sin. And it wasn't long before we did sin.