In an age without television or other leisure-time pursuits, the people of Bible times often used riddles as a form of entertainment. Like Samson, they would pose a puzzling or mystifying question or problem and see who could figure it out.
Continue reading BIBLE CUSTOMS AND CURIOSITIES (SAMSON’S RIDDLE)
Problem: The psalmist affirms that “evildoers shall be cut off.” Elsewhere (Ps 73:27; Prov 21:28), it says they will perish (see comments on 2 thess. 1:9). But does being cut off forever mean they will be annihilated?
Continue reading WHEN THE WICKED ARE CUT OFF, WHY ARE THEY ANNIHILATED?
Matthew 10:10
Problem: In Matthew, Jesus seems to say that the disciples should not take a staff, but in Mark it appears that He allows them to have one.
Continue reading Did Jesus Command that the Disciples take a Staff or Not?
Problem: There were no women for Cain to marry. There was only Adam, Eve (4:1), and his dead brother, Abel (4:8). Yet the Bible says Cain married and had children.
Continue reading WHERE DID CAIN GET HIS WIFE? “GENESIS 4:17”
Problem: Paul affirms in this text that Christ “has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.” But death is not abolished, since “death spread to all men” (Rom 5:12), and “it is appointed for men to die once” (Heb 9:27).
Continue reading IF JESUS ABOLISHED DEATH, WHY DO WE STILL DIE (1 TIMOTHY 1:10)