Question and Answer with Bob Deffinbaugh
Over the years Bob Deffinbaugh has answered many email questions about the Bible and life that Bible.org users have sent to us or to him directly after having read some of his studies. Some of them may prove to be quite helpful beyond the original questioner, thus this series will be added to from time to time for the edification of the church. Any articles in this particular series are authored by Bob Deffinbaugh and thus reflect his specific viewpoints and understanding of Scripture.
- Q. Anonymous Question
- Q. Are Paul’s instructions about Woman not teaching contextual to that time or specific situation?
- Q. Are Sinful Thoughts Equally Sinful with the Actual Deed?
- Q. Are there Second Chances After Death?
- Q. As a Christian, should I attend a same-sex union?
- Q. As a pastor in my country, with an opportunity to move to the USA, should I do it? And would I be able to still do God’s work there?
- Q. Based on Genesis 16:6 are we to blame Sarah for Hagar’s running away?
- Q. Can A Homosexual Go To Heaven?
- Q. Can I control myself from fear of death and the panic attacks I am experiencing?
- Q. Can Women Wear Pants?
- Q. Can You Give Me Some Biblical Teaching on Christian Marriage?
- Q. Can you explain the “works of the Law” phrase Paul uses in Galatians? Does this relate to modern applications of tithing, baptism, church-going, good works, etc. or should it just be more specifically applied to the Old Testament sacrifices, the priest
- Q. Can you give me some guidance on planning my funeral?
- Q. Did God Turn His Back On Jesus?
- Q. Do a man’s past (pre-conversion) sins disqualify him from a leadership role in the church?
- Q. Does 1 John 3:9 Teach that Christians Must Be Sinless?
- Q. Does Amillennialism Have Any Basis In Scripture?
- Q. Does Luke 16 Teach That Christians Cannot Consult The Dead?
- Q. Does One Have To Be Baptized And Commit Themselves To A Discipleship Program In Order To Be Saved? Is Salvation Faith Plus Works?
- Q. Does Psalm 50 allow for the “paying of a vow” to get a healing?
- Q. Does The Bible Contradict Itself In 1 Samuel 15 And 27?
- Q. Does debt affect giving in modern times in light of the Israelite tithe and slaves?
- Q. Does the Bible teach eternal burning fire for the unsaved soul or annihilation?
- Q. Does the biblical teaching about husbands and wives mean that husbands can be domineering and insensitive to their wives – not listening to their needs, desires, or opinions? Is that what submission looks like?
- Q. Don’t You Think You Are Overly Harsh In Your Description Of Jacob As A Rascal? After All, God Greatly Blessed Him, And Made Him The Father Of The Nation Israel.
- Q. Have I lost My Salvation?
- Q. How Can We Discern False Prophets?
- Q. How Can You Dismiss Speaking In Tongues From Romans 8:18-27?
- Q. How Can an Omnipresent God Be in Hell if that is Eternal Separation from God?
- Q. How Closely Are We Obligated To Follow All New Testament Commands?
- Q. How Do I Honor A Close Relative Who Is A Fool?
- Q. How Do You Know Your Interpretation is Right?
- Q. How Does 1 Kings 15:33 And 2 Chronicles 16:1 Fit Together With The Inerrancy Of The Word Of God?
- Q. How Does Divine Sovereignty And Human Responsibility Work With God Hardening Hearts?
- Q. How Does God Deal With Hard Hearts?
- Q. How Important is Baptism? (with handicap)
- Q. How Should I Handle Marriage To A Difficult Man?
- Q. How Should One Handle Church Discipline and Family Members?
- Q. How are the Nephilim/giants mentioned in Scripture after the flood to be understood if one of the reasons of the flood was to destroy that unholy mixture of demons and the daughters of men recorded in Genesis 6?
- Q. How can we discern if a ministry project is a good use of God’s resources?
- Q. How do I know God exists, when I cannot see Him? How do I know the Bible is truly God’s Word?
- Q. How do you deal with a sinning professed believer who is not a church member?
- Q. How do you justify your teaching that women should not be in leadership positions over men in the church, based upon 1 Timothy 2:12 when this instruction was addressed to Jews, and we are Gentiles?
- Q. How do you tell a Test from a Temptation?
- Q. How does the Holy Spirit and filling work?
- Q. How should Christians Seek to Understand the Mysteries of Prophecy? (such as eating unclean animals in future destroyed Babylon)
- Q. How should a Christian organization handle being embezzled?
- Q. I fear that the sins I committed before trusting in Christ were unpardonable, and thus I doubt my salvation. Could I have committed the unpardonable sin and yet have also sought to trust in Jesus?
- Q. I have OCD over making vows as a compulsion. How do I need to handle this in light of Scripture’s teaching on vows?
- Q. If I Cursed God Can I Never Be Saved?
- Q. If marriage is sacred, how do we explain God’s instructions in Exodus 21, which says that when a slave is freed, his master can keep his wife and his children (if the owner initially provided the slave with this wife)?
- Q. In Judges 14:4 it says, in effect, that God somehow brought about Samson’s marriage to the young Philistine woman. What do you make of this? Did God make Samson sin?
- Q. In Scripture, What Exactly Is A Vow?
- Q. Is Apostasy Fatal/Final?
- Q. Is It Right To Ask God For A Sign?
- Q. Is It Wrong To Have Pictures Of Jesus?
- Q. Is Our Lord’s Burden Really Light?
- Q. Is Working For Personal Gain Profaning The Sabbath?
- Q. Is it Scriptural for a church or pastor to bless a couple to live together without getting married?
- Q. Is it medically safe to engage in ten days of total fasting monthly taking only water
- Q. Is it okay to involve an unbeliever in church ministry?
- Q. Is it right for a pastor to ignore church discipline? What should be done?
- Q. Is it right to question God?
- Q. Is it wrong to be fully supported for Christian ministry work?
- Q. Is the confrontation between Paul and Peter in Galatians 2 before or after the Jerusalem Council?
- Q. Is “Volunteers” A Good Term For Non-Paid Workers?
- Q. Living Together And Marriage?
- Q. Must an Elder’s Children Be Believers?
- Q. Must one tithe/give when they are in debt?
- Q. My Life Appears To Be Such A Failure. I’ve Made So Many Mistakes, And I Seem To Be Paying For It Now. Nothing Seems To Be Going Right. What Hope Do I Have?
- Q. Questions About the Old Testament Law
- Q. Reading Deuteronomy 23:2, Is There Hope For An Illegitimate Child To Become A Christian? Are There Some People, Ethnicity's, Or Situations Beyond Hope?
- Q. Salvation is too much work and I am tired. What should I do?
- Q. Should I Divorce My Husband?
- Q. Should I leave my Church because it didn’t help in my time of Need?
- Q. Should One Attend Bible School And/Or Seminary?
- Q. Should a Sinner Leave the Church?
- Q. Should an Unbeliever Partake of Communion?
- Q. Some Questions On Leviticus, The Trinity, And Commitment To Christ
- Q. Some teach that love requires that we consistently affirm and support (enable?) those who are living sinful lives. Where does one draw the line between enabling or disciplining the wayward person?
- Q. Was God Cruel To The Egyptians At The Exodus?
- Q. What Are The Boundaries A Husband Should Observe Regarding Other Women?
- Q. What Becomes Of The Body, Soul, And Spirit Between The Time Of Death And The Resurrection?
- Q. What Denomination Does Bible.org Subscribe To?
- Q. What Do I Do About Returning Stolen Goods To A Person I Cannot Locate?
- Q. What Questions Should be asked and answered at one’s baptism?
- Q. What Should The "Tamars" (2 Samuel 13) Do?
- Q. What does the Bible say to the church, and to the individual Christian, about the role of politics in the church?
- Q. What is the best Bible translation?
- Q. What was David’s Role in the Building of the Temple?
- Q. Where And How Did Jesus Drink “The Cup Of Wrath”?
- Q. Why Couldn’t King David Build the Temple?
- Q. Why Did God Bless Solomon?
- Q. Why Did God Make His Covenant With Such Jerks?
- Q. Why Did Jesus Speak in Parables?
- Q. Why Do All Christians Condemn Other Christians to Hell?
- Q. Why Is Honey Forbidden As An Offering In The Law?
- Q. Why Is The Story Of The Woman At The Well Only In John’s Gospel?
- Q. Why does Abraham appear to be so cruel as to send Ishmael away with little food, facing the likelihood of death?
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