Problem: Do the badger and rabbit chew the cud according to the Bible? But, they don’t do that. So, which is true?
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13
Mar
2023
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12
Mar
2023
Leviticus 11:5-6 – Do these animals chew the cud or not?
Problem: The Bible claims that these two animals (the rock badger and the rabbit) “chew the cud” (v.5). However, today we know that neither of these animals chew regurgitated food. Isn’t this a plain contradiction?
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11
Mar
2023
Leviticus 10:1-2 – What is the “strange fire” mentioned here?
Problem: Leviticus records, “Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective firepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on it and offered strange fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them. 2 And fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord” (Lev. 10:1-2). What was this strange fire?
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10
Mar
2023
Leviticus 8:8 – What are Urim and Thummim?
Problem: What are these sacred dice?
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09
Mar
2023
Exodus 34:6-7 – Do the sons bear the sins of the fathers or not?
Problem: In one area of Scripture, it appears that a son will bear the sins of his father, yet in other areas, it seems that that is not the case. So which is it? The answer lies, as always, in examining the context of the statements. Ultimately, the Bible has no internal contradiction. It just takes looking and reading to figure things out.
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08
Mar
2023
Exodus 32:14 – Does the Lord change or not?
Problem: Does the Lord change or not? God does not change His nature. But he does change in how he deals with people. They are different categories of change and present no contradiction.
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07
Mar
2023
Exodus 32:11-14 – Did God change his mind?
Problem: Many passages teach that God is immutable and doesn’t change his mind (1 Sam. 15:29; Mal. 3:6; Heb. 6:17; Jas. 1:17). However, this passage teaches that “the Lord changed his mind” (Ex. 32:14). Open theists argue that God doesn’t know the future, using this passage to support this theological conclusion. Does God change his mind or not?[1]
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05
Mar
2023
Exodus 31:18 – Does God have fingers?
Problem: Moses writes that the Ten Commandments were “written by the finger of God” (Ex. 31:18). The Bible also teaches that God has an “arm” (Deut. 7:19), “wings” (Ps. 91:4), “nostrils” (2 Sam. 22:9), “mouth” (2 Sam. 22:9), and “eyes” (Heb. 4:13). Does God have a physical form?
Solution: These are all anthropomorphic figures of speech. The Bible also teaches that “God is spirit” (Jn. 4:24). As faithful interpreters, we need to interpret these figures of speech in light of these clear, didactic passages of Scripture. This is a principle of grammatical-historical hermeneutics; we need to interpret the unclear portions of Scripture in light of the clear.
“And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God. (Ex 31:18 KJV)
04
Mar
2023
Exodus 25:18 – Should you make graven images or not?
Problem: The context of the “Thou shall not make a graven image” passages is dealing with the worship of false things. Exodus 20:4 states that no one is to make an image of what is in heaven, so that you may not worship them or bow down to them (20:5). This is reiterated in Leviticus 26:1. The Deuteronomy passages, contextually, are dealing with the same thing: an admonition against worshipping a false image. God does not want people bowing down before idols and worshiping false gods.
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03
Mar
2023
Exodus 25:10-22 – Did the Tabernacle worship and the ark of testimony foreshadow the work of Christ?
Problem: Many Bible readers wonder why God included such extensive chapters of Scripture to describe the ark of testimony and the Tabernacle. Why is this in the Bible? Moreover, why was the Tabernacle worship so strict? For instance, when Nadab and Abihu tried to change the worship in the Tabernacle, they were immediately killed by God! (Lev. 10:1-2) Thus God was not only detailed about these practices in the Tabernacle, but he was also strict in its observance. For this reason, Bible readers often ask: Why the specificity and strict practices?
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02
Mar
2023
Exodus 24:9-11 – Has anyone seen God or not?
Problem: In some verses of Scripture, people see God. But, in other verses, it says they cannot see God? Is this a contradiction? It is not if you understand the Trinity and the context of those verses.
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01
Mar
2023
Exodus 23:19 – Why couldn’t the Jews boil a young goat in the milk of its mother?
Problem: This commandment is not cruel, but it is unusual. Why would God make such a bizarre commandment?
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28
Feb
2023
Exodus 23:12 – Should we keep the Sabbath or not?
Problem: It was the custom of the Jews to come together on the Saturday Sabbath, cease work, and worship God. Of the 10 commandments listed in Exodus 20:1-17, only nine of them were reinstituted in the New Testament. (Six in Matthew 19:18, murder, adultery, stealing, false witness, honor parents, and worshiping God; Romans 13:9, coveting. Worshiping God properly covers the first three commandments). The one that was not reaffirmed was the one about the Sabbath. Instead, Jesus said that He is the Lord of the Sabbath (Matt. 12:8).
Exodus 20:8; 23:12; 31:15; Deuteronomy 5:12; Leviticus 26:2 and Romans 14:5; Colossians 2:16
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27
Feb
2023
Sabellianism
Sabellianism, named for its seminal proponent Sabellius (3rd century) generally is another denial of the triune nature of God which maintains a single person in the eternal godhead which is manifested in three varying aspects or modes of God. Hence the more widely known label of “modalism.”
Sabellius did hold to monotheism, the belief in one God, and also defended the deity of Jesus Christ as true God.
Where he went wrong was in the refusal to recognize that the apostolic writings taught that in nature and being of the one true God there existed three distinct persons, The Father who is unbegotten, the Son, who is eternally begotten of the Father, and the Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son.
A full exposition of the triune nature of the one true and living as well as its primary importance in the biblical Christian faith is beyond the scope of a short synopsis like this, but it is far more than simply an academic and optional affirmation.
Though Sabellius and his doctrine of God were rejected in the early with near unanimity his influence continues to this day.
Key tenets of Sabellianism include:
The rejection of the triunity of the nature and being of God as irrational.
The assertion of the oneness of God.
The affirmation of the full deity of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit.
The idea that God manifests himself in three different modes as an explanation for three persons each being recognized as God in scripture.
Modern-Day Proponents of Sabellianism:
Today, the Oneness Pentecostals, which began as an excommunicated subgroup of the assemblies of God in 1916, maintain a modified version of Sabellian modalism.
A number of individuals, largely within charismatic groups, most famously TD Jakes and the contemporary Christian music group Phillips, Craig, and Dean also hold this heretical view today.
27
Feb
2023
Exodus 22:29 – Does this passage condone human sacrifice?
Problem: The Bible explicitly condemns human sacrifice (Lev. 18:21; 20:2-5; Deut. 12:31). However, in this passage, we read: “You shall not delay the offering from your harvest and your vintage. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me” (Ex. 22:29). Is human sacrifice right or wrong, according to the Bible?