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Topic: Bible Reliability
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2021-12-03 King James Version Only Acceptable Translation: As a "King James Only" person, I think that God only wants one "Word of God", and I don't understand why we don't just take it on faith that the Word we have in KJV is correct?
2021-10-29 History, Authorship & Origins of the Torah: What do you think about the differing opinions of the history, authorship and origins of the Torah?
Masoretic Text or Septuagint: Is the Masoretic Text or Septuagint more reliable?
2021-10-15 Salvation without Repentance: Could you explain what is meant by "the gift of God is without repentance"? [Romans 11:29, John 3:5].
King James Bible Version Only: What do you think about a church who thinks that the King James Bible is the only acceptable Bible to use? Recommended book; "The King James Only Debate" by James White
2021-08-30 Reliance on Catholic Tradition: How do I refute the Catholic idea that we need to rely on tradition in addition to scripture?
2021-08-25 Jesus' Virgin Birth: If someone denies that Jesus was "virgin born"?
2021-08-06 Authorship of the Gospels: What do you think of the theory that the writers of the gospels were not the actual authors?
2021-06-24 Biblical Mathematical Calculations: Isn't it realistic to think that some of the biblical mathematical calculations, such as in the 70 weeks in Daniel's prophecy and Cyrus' Decree?
2021-06-08 Authenticity of 2 Peter: What evidence is there that 2 Peter is an authentic writing to share with someone who thinks Paul is a false apostle?
2021-04-29 "Principle of First Mention": Does the Bible reveal the truth according to the "Principle of First Mention", which suggests that the first mention in the Bible reveals sufficient truth on any subject?
Book of Jasher: What about the "Book of Jasher" mentioned in Joshua? [Joshua 10:13, I Chronicles 29:29].
2021-04-14 Closed Canon of Scripture: Why do you believe in a closed Canon of scripture?
Bible's Construction Subjective: Do you think the way the Bible was constructed was really subjective?
2021-04-14 Closed Canon of Scripture: Why do you believe in a closed Canon of scripture?
Bible's Construction Subjective: Do you think the way the Bible was constructed was really subjective?
2021-02-23 Evidence the Bible is True: What is the minimum amount of evidence that we need to prove the truth of the resurrection and bible record?
The Talmud: What is the Talmud and when was it written?
Ist Century History of Jesus: Are there any first century writings about Jesus?
2021-02-02 Supernatural Alteration to Scripture: Has the Bible been supernaturally altered, changing verses in the King James Version to say something different than it had before. Do you think it has to do with the strong delusion? [Isaiah 11:6, Matthew 24:41, Luke 17:35, 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12].
2020-12-28 The Bible as the Word of God: What are some good arguments to convince unbelievers that the Bible is the Word of God?
2020-11-23 Elijah & Jehoram: How do you deal with Elijah writing Jehoram after he had already left earth? [2 Chronicles 21:12].
2020-11-20 Bible That Doesn't Translate all the Greek Words for Hell: Is there a Bible translation that actually uses the proper Greek words, like Tartarus and Gehenna, instead of "hell" for all them?
Image of Fire & Torture in Hell: Whenever we hear the word hell, we all envision torture in a fire, why is that? [Revelation 20:15, Revelation 10, Matthew 25:41]
God Didn't Translate His Word Very Well: Is there a case to be made that God didn't do a very good job of translating His word and getting His message across to us? [Psalm 92:15].
2020-11-05 Various Bible Manuscripts Compared: Is there a good book that consolidates all the various manuscripts to help sort out the differences?
Better Evidence Should Have Been Left to Confirm the Bible's Reliability: Does it not seem like Jesus should have left better evidence that the Bible is true?
2020-11-04 Bible Reliability Questioned by Atheist: A long-time Atheist friend of mine has challenged the reliability of the Bible because it has been translated so many times. How would you respond to him?
Testing Prophets Today: Since someone prophesied that Trump would win this election, should we test those that give prophecies? If so, how would you go about testing it before it evidences itself?
2020-10-27 All Scripture is Inspired: What does the verse about scripture actually say in the Greek? [2 Timothy 3:16].
2020-10-13 NIV Bible Translation: What do you know about the NIV Bible, as I have heard some distressing things about missing text and some of those translators? [Romans 8:1].
2020-10-02 Evidence that Christianity is Not True: Is it not evidence that Christianity is not true since there are those that wish to feel something from the Holy Spirit and they don't? [James 1:7 Matthew 8:26].
Losing Faith: How can one continue to believe in something that they don't see evidence of?
The Resurrection isn't a Historical Fact, it's a Supernatural claim: Caller says that the resurrection isn't a historical fact, and doesn't it require more evidence to claim the supernatural?
2020-09-25 Forcing One to Believe the Bible is the Word of God: How can you force someone to believe that the Bible is the word of God?
2020-09-24 Objectivity and Reason: How does one objectively determine whether one or the other person is being reasonable?
Is the Bible True?: Is it not difficult to objectively reason that the Bible is true?
2020-09-17 Why Does God Let Children Die if He Can Do Miracles?: Why would God do miracles for certain people and let children die of starvation every day?
Bible is Not Reliable: Caller says the Bible is not reliable, because He says He is sorry He ever made mankind. [Genesis 6:6].
2020-09-15 Bible Manuscripts; Received or Majority Texts: Could share your view about the controversy between the Received and the Majority Texts? [Mark 16:9-20, John 8:1-11, I John 5:8]
2020-08-04 Being Critical of the Faith One Has been Taught & Determining the Non-negotiables: Would you offer some guidance about how to be critical of the faith views one has been taught, and have confidence to explore truth and know what is essential to keep?
Critically Cross-examining the Scriptures: How does one remain spiritually safe, and avoid offending God, when critically cross-examining the scriptures?
Nonsensical Scripture Resolved: If you run across some scriptures that seem nonsensical, how do you process through that?
2020-08-04 Being Critical of the Faith One Has been Taught & Determining the Non-negotiables: Would you offer some guidance about how to be critical of the faith views one has been taught, and have confidence to explore truth and know what is essential to keep?
Critically Cross-examining the Scriptures: How does one remain spiritually safe, and avoid offending God, when critically cross-examining the scriptures?
Nonsensical Scripture Resolved: If you run across some scriptures that seem nonsensical, how do you process through that?
2020-07-13 Books Removed from the Bible: Why did church leaders remove some of the books of the, such as, Enoch, and Maccabees?
2020-07-06 The Bible-The Word of God: How do I respond to someone who wants to know where the Bible says that it is the word of God?
2020-07-06 Bible-The Word of God: Caller comments on verses about the Bible coming by the hand of God.
2020-07-03 The Trinity: What list of things to believe would we make regarding the essentials of the faith and the "Trinity"? [I John 4:15].
Inerrancy of the Bible: How should we be view the claim that the Bible is inerrant? [I Corinthians, 2 Timothy 3:16].
Character of God in Conflict with Old Testament: Can you help me with my struggle with some of the Old Testament passages that seem to conflict with the character of God? [Luke 24:25, John 5:46].
2020-07-03 The Trinity: What list of things to believe would we make regarding the essentials of the faith and the "Trinity"? [I John 4:15].
Inerrancy of the Bible: How should we be view the claim that the Bible is inerrant? [I Corinthians, 2 Timothy 3:16].
Character of God in Conflict with Old Testament: Can you help me with my struggle with some of the Old Testament passages that seem to conflict with the character of God? [Luke 24:25, John 5:46].
2020-06-29 Bart Ehrman Video: Bart Ehrman thinks the Bible was just handed down from Heaven in immaculate form, & Steve asked who actually believes that, & caller points out that that is what his church taught.
Ordination & Seminary What is your opinion of ordination and seminary training its relationship to competency when teaching the Bible?
Leah, Rachel, Jacob & Laban: Was Laban always planning to substitute Leah for Rachel, or could it have been a last minute decision because she had not found a husband by then? [Genesis 29].
2020-06-25 Death Angel: Is death an angel, based on Hebrew mythology?
Catholic Church & Their Traditions: Has the Catholic Church changed many things in the faith in order to gain more control?
The Apocrypha: Should one read the Apocrypha?
2020-06-17 "Father, Forgive Them"-Manuscript Variance: The "Father, forgive them..." verse does not appear in all of the manuscripts, would you speak to that? [Luke 23:34].
2020-06-16 Ten Commndments & Bible Contradictions: An atheist brought up contradictory lists of the Ten Commendments in Exodus. How would you respond? [Exodus 34].
2020-06-16 Scripture Variances in Translations: Could you clarify the variance between translations regarding Jesus as the Son? [John 1:18].
2020-06-11 Gift of Prophecy Today: If the canon of scripture is complete, then how can there be a gift of prophecy today? If so, what does it look like? [Acts 21].
Gift of Prophecy Defined: Is the gift of prophecy about making predictions? [I Corinthians 14:29, I Thessalonians 5:20-21, I John 4:4].
2020-05-28 Why is Not More Being Written in the Bible Today: Why are God's people not still writing more to add to the Bible?
2020-05-26 The Sermon on the Mount: What should I consider when sharing "The Sermon on the Mount" with introducing someone to Christianity?
The Unity Church and the Gospels as True Historical Events: How do you affirm that the gospels are true historical events to someone being drawn to the Unity Church? [John 19, Luke 1].
2020-04-30 Dangerous Bible Translation Differences: Would you comment on the excluded passages in some of the translations which I maintain indicate dangerous doctrines. [Luke 4:4, Deuteronomy 8, I John 5:7-8].
2020-04-22 Jesus' Words Recorded: How did Jesus' words actually get recorded? How could they remember His exact words and get it on paper?
2020-04-21 Convincing a Skeptic: How would you convince a skeptic that the rumbling of the mountain wasn't just a volcano erupting? [Exodus 19:14f].
2020-04-16 Bible Stories-Untrue Fables: My 12-year-old grandson thinks that much of the Bible is not true, but fables, what would you say to him?
2020-04-16 Bible Books Removed from the Bible: Could you talk about when some of books of the Bible was removed?
2020-04-03 The Bible - "The Message": Do you know anything about the translation of the Bible called "The Message" (paraphrases)?
Abortion Comment: Comment about the ramifications of abortion.
Life Application Bibles: What do you know about the Keen Application Bible?
2020-04-02 Irrefutable Fulfilled Prophesy: Are there some prophetic passages that are particularly convincing to the skeptic? [Isaiah 53, Psalm 22, Daniel 7-10].
2020-03-25 Book of Hebrews' Authorship & Credibility: The book of Hebrews' authorship is unknown, right? So why is it in the Bible? [Hebrews 13:23].
2020-03-17 New Testament Reliability: Did the Catholic church alter the New Testament? Is it still trustworthy?
2020-03-13 Clarity from God for Guidance: Will scripture, or the Holy Spirit, always teach and lead you? Or are there times when it will be unclear? [Acts 16:6-7, Proverbs 3:6].
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