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In the Old Testament God sent down fire from Heaven every time a sacrifice was consumed.  However, in the Old Testament, there are at least seven very significant recorded occurrences of fire from Heaven: Fire from Heaven destroyed Job’s flocks (Job 1:16). Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by fire from Heaven (Gen 19:24, Luke 17:29)….

Titus 1:7  For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine… We interpret “not given to wine” to mean not allowing wine to influence one’s thinking, words, or actions, in any way or to any extent.  The Bible does not disallow wine.  In fact,…

This question is often asked because one wonders if, as a Christian, they will have to give up a sin that they enjoy or take on a task they don’t want to do. God has given you a free will, so He will not make you give up anything. However, His Holy Spirit will convict…

This question is a favorite of skeptics. Cain was a member of Adam’s family. After Cain killed his brother Abel, the Lord put a curse on him and drove him from the land, into the land of Nod, east of Eden, where he took a wife. Since there were no other people on earth at…

The short answer: God did. God is the author of all Scripture, and the Bible is the collection of that Scripture. Perhaps a better question is this: How were those books recognized and collected? The collecting of the manuscripts that now make up the Holy Bible occurred as books were circulated among the people of…

The Scriptures are clear that those who believe in Jesus will be saved (see John 1:12). But what about those who live in unreached people groups? First Timothy 2:4 clearly states that God “wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.” Acts 17:26-27 asserts that God has determined…

Re-birth is one of the most important doctrines of our faith. When sin entered the world through Adam, the spiritual life of his soul died. In John 3:3, when Jesus told the Pharisee Nicodemus that he must be born again to see the kingdom of God, Jesus was saying that his soul was in need…

Paul said that he was commissioned by Jesus to preach the gospel (see 1 Cor. 1:17) and the gospel message predates Paul, so it could not have originated with him. The gospel message is presented throughout the Bible, from the prophecies of the One to come, to Paul’s writings about the life, death, burial, and…