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1. What does the word
'Bible' mean?
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2. I have found in the Bible
several contradictions, can you explain to me why there are these
contradictions?
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3. I heard that in the
Catholic Bible there are some books called 'Apocryphal', what are these
books?
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4. How do you explain the
fact that in the book of Proverbs, first it is written: "Answer not a
fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him" (Proverbs
26:4) and immediately after: "Answer a fool according to his folly, lest
he be wise in his own conceit" (Proverbs 26:5)?
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5. What did David mean when
he said in the Psalms: "Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me"
(Psalm 23:4)?
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6. What do these words:
"Unto the pure all things are pure" (Titus 1:15) mean?
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7. Genesis 10:31.
"These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues,
in their lands, after their nations". This passage precedes the chapter
where it is written about the Tower of Babel where God confused the language
of the whole world. The question is this: why does the author speak about
tongues? Did they have already a different tongue or was the confusing of
tongues only for a nation?
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8. Who wrote the epistle to
the Hebrews?
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9. Where in the Bible is the
well-known maxim 'God helps those who help themselves'?
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10. Your idea is based
completely on the 'Holy Scriptures'. However, who can say that the events
written in the 'Holy Scriptures' are real events?? Are there any real and I
underline real testimonies?' Perhaps all was made and written and transmitted
in order to give an answer to the things we can't know, that is, to the
mysteries of life. What do you think?
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11. Why do you believe
blindly in what the Bible says? Suppose all is untrue; suppose atheism or any
religion is true, but the religion of Jesus Christ is not true; suppose
nothing or everything is right. Why do you continue to say that only you are
right, criticizing those who don't believe?
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12. I don't feel at all
wounded by your words. Each one has his own opinion and must not force the
others to have the same opinion. It is true, perhaps you are right and I am
wrong, yet until I am not convinced I will keep my opinion. How can you say
that only you have known the truth? Who says to you that God (if He exists)
cannot lie?
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13. Would you like to
explain to me the following words of Peter (1 Peter 2:13-14), for we are
studying the first epistle of Peter and there are various interpretations?
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14. What is the mystery of
Christ, about which Paul speaks in Ephesians 3:2-5?
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15. I would like to ask you
a question which I asked myself last night [on 29th November 2000] without
finding an answer until now. Last night, while I was reading the first
epistle of Paul to Timothy I stopped for a moment to consider the verse 20 of
the first chapter: "Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto
Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme" and then I read also the
reference, that is 1 Corinthians 5:5 which says: "I have decided that such
a one ought to be delivered unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that
the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus" [translated from
the IBRV]. What does the following expression 'delivered unto Satan"
mean? Are there any similar events nowadays? And then, does the expression
"for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved"
mean that the flesh can sin and the spirit remain alive? I don't think so!
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16. Could you give me an
analysis of the first Psalm?
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17. Is the following
expression 'God put it in my heart to do this or that' a biblical expression?
Is it confirmed by the Bible?
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18. How was established in
the Bible that Noah lived 950 years, since at that time people did not know
the calendar? Was one year really composed of 12 months?
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19. If God in the second
commandment forbids us to make any carved image, or any likeness of anything
that is in heaven or that is in the earth, why was there inside the
tabernacle a curtain (the one which separated the Holy Place from the Most
Holy Place) with cherubim worked into it by a skilled craftsman? We know that
those images were not worshipped; however could we then justify the untrue
answer given by the Catholics according to which there is a difference
between the adoration to God and the veneration given to the saints, to the
dead and to Mary? And could we justify also the making of carved images and
sculptures which are put by the Catholics in their houses, and in their
places of worship, as the two cherubim were put into the Most Holy Place?
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20. What is the meaning of
these words: "The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak"?
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21. Could you explain to me
Hebrews 7:4-10?
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22. Could you explain to me
Romans 10:6-8?
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23. Why does the epistle to
the Hebrews speak of "the doctrine of baptisms" (Hebrews 6:2)? Is
it not written that there is "one baptism" (Ephesians 4:5)?
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24. Why do we have the books
of the Old Testament in our Bible, and not only those of the New Testament?
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25. Can the Bible be
understood by everybody?
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26. The apostle John says:
"if anyone comes to you and does bring this doctrine, do not receive him
into your house nor greet him" (2 John 10); what is the doctrine the
apostle refers to?
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27. The apostle Peter says
that the false teachers are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries; could
you tell me who are these dignitaries?
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28. Why does Paul say to
Timothy that Jesus has destroyed death (2 Timothy 1:10), whereas he says to
the Corinthians that the last enemy that will be destroyed is death (1
Corinthians 15:26)?
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29. Will you please explain
Romans 3:7 to me?
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30. What is the biblical
fast?
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31. Is the laying on of
hands a biblical practice?
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