(WAM) The Hard Sayings of the Bible by Kaiser, Walter C. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Publisher’s Preface How to Use This Book General Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Lord Came to Me,” What Do They Mean? 9 10 11 12 Genesis

1–2 Elohim or Yahweh? 1–2 Poetic? Figurative? Historical? 1:28 Exploiting Nature? 2:16–17 An Unfair Test? 2:17 Why Didn’t Adam and Eve Die at Once? 2:18 A Helper for Man? 2:20–23 Why from a Rib? 3:5 Become like God? 3:16 Is Childbearing a Curse or a Blessing? 3:16 How Was the Woman Punished? 4:3–4 Did God Favor Abel over Cain? 4:17 Where Did Cain Get His Wife? 5:3–5 How Could Adam Live 930 Years? 5:4 Where Did the Wives of the Antediluvians Come From? 5:23–24 What Happened to Enoch? 6:1–4 Who Married the Daughters of Men? 6:6 Does God Change His Mind? 6:9 Was Noah Perfect? 6:19–20; 7:2–3 How Many Animals Went into the Ark? 7:19 A Worldwide Flood? 9:6 Capital Punishment Mandated by God? 9:24–25 What Was the Curse on Canaan? 11:1–9 One Language Before Babel? 12:11–13 Sarai Is My Sister? 14:18–19 Who Was Melchizedek? 16:1–4 Was It Right for Abraham to Sleep with Hagar? 16:7–12 Who Is the Angel of the Lord? 17:17; 18:12–15 Discriminatory Treatment of Abraham and Sarah? 18:19 Covenant Blessings Conditional or Unconditional? 18:20; 19:1–29 Homosexuality Condemned? 20:1–3 Sarah Is My Sister? 21:14 Was It Wrong for Abraham to Send Hagar Away? 22:1 Why Did God Test Abraham? 22:2 Sacrifice Your Son? 25:8 What Does “Gathered to His People” Imply? 26:3–5 Obedience the Way to Blessing? 26:7–11 Rebekah Is My Sister? 29:25–28 Is Polygamy Approved by God? 31:11–13 Who Is the Angel of God? 31:34 Why Did Rachel Have Household Gods? 32:20 Is Bribery Permitted? 32:23–32 With Whom Did Jacob Wrestle? 35:29 Gathered to His People? 38:26 Was Tamar Righteous? 42:7 Was Joseph Cruel to His Brothers? 46:27 How Many Went to Egypt? 48:20 How Many Tribes? 49:10 Who or What Is Shiloh? 49:29, 33 What Does “Gathered to His People” Imply? 50:19–20 Human Intentions Versus God’s Intentions

Exodus

1:5 How Many Went to Egypt? 1:15–21 Were the Midwives Right to Lie? 3:2–6 Who Is the Angel of the Lord? 3:13–15 Elohim or Yahweh? 3:18 Is Deception Ever Justifiable? 4:21 The Lord Hardened Pharaoh’s Heart? 4:24–26 Why Was the Lord About to Kill Moses? 6:3 Elohim or Yahweh? 6:16–20 How Many Generations in Egypt? 7:3, 13 The Lord Hardened Pharaoh’s Heart? 7:11, 22; 8:7 Did the Egyptian Magicians Perform Magic? 9:12 The Lord Hardened Pharaoh’s Heart? 10:1, 20, 27 The Lord Hardened Pharaoh’s Heart? 11:10 The Lord Hardened Pharaoh’s Heart? 12:35–36 Plundering the Egyptians? 12:40 430 Years for Four Generations? 14:4, 8, 17 The Lord Hardened Pharaoh’s Heart? 14:21 What Happened to the Red Sea? 20:4–6 Is Art Forbidden? 20:5 Should Children Die for Their Fathers’ Sins? 20:7 Do Not Take God’s Name in Vain? 20:8–11 Should We “Remember the Sabbath Day”? 20:13 You Shall Not Take Life? 21:2–11 Does God Approve of Slavery? 21:7–11 Is Polygamy Approved by God? 21:23–25 Eye for Eye, Tooth for Tooth? 21:28–36 Capital Punishment Mandated by God? 22:25 Is Charging Interest Permitted? 23:20–23 Who Is the Angel of the Lord? 24:9–11 Did Moses and the Elders See God? 31:18 How Were the Tablets Inscribed with the Finger of God? 33:18–23 Did Moses See God’s Back? 34:7 Should Children Be Punished for Their Parents’ Sins?

Leviticus

1:2 Are Animal Sacrifices Repulsive? 10:1–3 Why Did God Destroy Nadab and Abihu? 11:3–6 Do the Camel, the Coney and the Rabbit Chew the Cud? 16:7–10 What Was the Purpose of the Scapegoat? 18:5 The One Who Obeys My Laws Will Live? 18:18 Was Polygamy Permitted in the Old Testament? 18:22 Homosexuality Condemned? 20:1–27; 24:10–23 Is the Death Penalty Justified for All the Crimes Listed? 24:19–20 Eye for Eye, Tooth for Tooth? 25:35–38 Is Charging Interest Permitted? 25:39–55 Does God Approve of Slavery?

Numbers

4:3; 8:24 Why the Discrepancy in Ages for Levitical Service? 11:31–34 Why the Punishment of God After This Complaint? 12:3 Moses Was More Humble than Anyone Else? 13:3 Where Did the Spies Start Out? 14:18 Should Children Be Punished for Their Parents’ Sins? 20:24 Gathered to His People? 20:28 Where Did Aaron Die? 22:20–22 God Said Go but Was Very Angry Because He Went 23:19 God Does Not Change His Mind? 25:7–13 Why Was Phinehas Praised? 25:9 Twenty-three Thousand or Twenty-four Thousand? 27:13; 31:2 Gathered to His People? 32:8 Where Did the Spies Start Out? 33:30, 38–39 Where Did Aaron Die? 35:21 No Ransom for a Murderer? 33:38–39 Where Did Aaron Die?

Deuteronomy

2:30 God Made His Spirit Stubborn? 2:34; 3:6 Completely Destroy Them! 5:12–15 Should We “Remember the Sabbath Day”? 5:12–16, 21 A Different Ten Commandments? 7:1–2 Completely Destroy Them! 10:6 Where Did Aaron Die? 10:12 How to Obtain Salvation? 10:22 How Many Went to Egypt? 15:4, 7, 11 Will the Poor Always Be Present? 15:12–18 Does God Approve of Slavery? 19:21 Eye for Eye, Tooth for Tooth? 21:15–17 Was Polygamy Permitted in the Old Testament? 21:18–21 Stone a Stubborn and Rebellious Son? 23:19–20 Is Charging Interest Permitted? 24:1–4 Is Divorce Permitted? 24:16 Should Children Be Punished for Their Parents’ Sins? 29:4 The Lord Is Responsible? 31:16 What Does “Rest with Your Fathers” Imply? 32:50 Gathered to Your People? 34:5–8 Prewritten Posthumous Writing?

Joshua

2:4–6 Was Rahab Right to Lie? 6:20 Did Jericho’s Walls Really Collapse? 5:13–6:5 Whom Did Joshua See? 7:1, 10–11 Was It Achan or All Israel That Sinned? 9:8–9, 16, 18–19 Why Did Joshua Spare the Gibeonites? 10:12–14 The Sun Stood Still? 11:20 God Hardened Their Hearts? 18:8 Casting Lots Encouraged?

Judges

5:24–27 A Murderer Praised? 6:22–23 Who Is the Angel of the Lord? 6:36–40 Was Gideon Right to Test God? 9:23 God Sent an Evil Spirit? 11:30–39 Jephthah Sacrificed His Daughter? 13:21–22 Who Is the Angel of the Lord? 13:21–22 Seeing God? 14:2–4 Samson’s Marriage Was from the Lord? 17:1–2 A Thief Cursed and Then Blessed?

Ruth

3:7–9 What Happened on the Threshing Floor?

1 Samuel

1:1 Was Samuel a Levite or an Ephraimite? 1:11 Was Hannah Right to Bargain with God? 2:25 Did God Prevent Eli’s Sons from Repenting? 6:19 Death for Just Looking into the Ark? 8–12 Did God Want Israel to Have a King? 13:13–14 Would God Have Established Saul’s Kingdom? 15:11 Does God Change His Mind? 15:18 Completely Destroy Them! 15:22 Does the Lord Delight in Sacrifices? 15:29 God Does Not Change His Mind? 16:1–3 Does God Authorize Deception? 16:10–11 Did Jesse Have Seven or Eight Sons? 16:14 An Evil Spirit from the Lord? 17:12–14 Did Jesse Have Seven or Eight Sons? 17:49 Who Killed Goliath? 17:55–58 Why Did Saul Ask David’s Identity? 18:10; 19:9 An Evil Spirit from the Lord? 19:13 David’s House Has an Idol? 19:19–24 How Did Saul Prophesy? 24:5 Why Was David Upset That He Had Cut Saul’s Clothing? 28:7–8, 14–16 What Did the Witch of Endor Do? 31:4 How Did Saul Die?

2 Samuel

1:6–10 How Did Saul Die? 6:6–7 Why Did God Destroy Uzzah? 6:20 Was David’s Public Dancing Indecent? 10:18 How Many Charioteers? 12:7–8 Was David Right to Take Concubines? 12:14–18 Should Children Die for Their Parents’ Sins? 12:21–23 What Happened to David and Bathsheba’s Son? 14:27; 18:18 Did Absalom Have Three Sons or None? 20:3 Was David Right to Take Concubines? 21:1–9 Why Were Saul’s Descendants Killed? 24:1 Why Was the Census a Sin? 24:9 What Was Israel’s Population? 24:24 How Many Shekels for the Altar Site?

1 Kings

2:10 What Does “Rested with His Fathers” Imply? 2:23–25 What Was So Wrong with Adonijah’s Request? 11:1–2 Why Did Solomon Take So Many Foreign Wives? 12:24 This Is the Lord’s Doing? 18:40 Why Did Elijah Kill All 450 Prophets of Baal? 22:20–22 Is God the Author of Falsehood?

2 Kings

2:11 What Happened to Elijah? 2:23–24 A Cruel Punishment for Childhood Pranks? 3:27 Human Sacrifice Worked? 6:19 Did Elisha Lie to the Syrians? 6:21–23 Why Were the Syrians Spared? 9:6–10 Jehu Punished for Doing As He Was Commanded? 14:6 Should Children Die for Their Parents’ Sins? 22:20 Gathered to His People? 23:26 Why Did the Lord Not Turn from His Anger? 24:6 A Failed Prophecy?

1 Chronicles

1:1–9:44 Why So Many Long Genealogies? 2:13–15 Did Jesse Have Seven or Eight Sons? 3:1–9 Why So Many Wives? 6:16, 22–23, 25–26 Was Samuel a Levite or an Ephraimite? 13:9–10 Why Did God Destroy Uzzah? 15:29 Was David’s Public Dancing Indecent? 19:18 How Many Charioteers? 21:1–2, 8 Why Was the Census a Sin? 21:5 What Was Israel’s Population? 21:25 How Many Shekels for the Altar Site? 22:14 Too Much Gold and Silver?

2 Chronicles

11:2–4 This Is the Lord’s Doing? 11:20 Who Was Absalom’s Daughter? 18:18–22 Is God the Author of Falsehood? 35:22 Pharaoh Neco Spoke at God’s Command? 36:22–23 Did the Pagan King Cyrus Believe in the God of Israel?

Ezra

1:1–2 Did the Pagan King Cyrus Believe in the God of Israel? 3:8 Why the Discrepancy in Ages for Levitical Service? 4:2 Why Refuse Help to Build the Temple? 10:2–3 Let Us Send Away All These Women and Their Children!

Nehemiah

8:8 Making Clear the Book of the Law?

Esther

4:13–14 Esther—For Such a Time as This 8:11 Approval of Slaughter?

Job

1:1 Was Job Perfect? 1:6–12 Satan in Heaven? 2:1–6 Does God Put People into Satan’s Hands? 13:15 Job—Defiant or Trusting? 14:7–14 Bodily Resurrection? 19:23–27 Bodily Resurrection? 25:4–6 Man Is But a Maggot? 31:1 New Testament Morality or Old? 40:15; 41:1 Mythological Creatures?

Psalms

5:5 The Lord Hates All Who Do Wrong? 8:3 Poetic? Figurative? Historical? 8:6–8 Exploiting Nature? 11:5 The Lord Hates All Who Do Wrong? 15:5 Is Charging Interest Permitted? 16:8–10 Who Is “Your Holy One”? 18:26 Does God Practice Deception? 22:1 A Prophecy of Christ’s Passion? 37:25–26 The Psalmist Has Never Seen the Righteous Forsaken? 44:23–26 Does God Sleep? 45:6 The Throne of God or Man? 49:12–20 Man Is Like the Beasts That Perish? 49:15 Life After Death in the Old Testament? 51:5 A Sinner at Birth? 51:11–12 Who Is the Old Testament Holy Spirit? 51:16–17, 19 Does God Desire Sacrifices? 55:15 Hate Your Enemies? 59:5, 10–13 Hate Your Enemies? 68:11 Who Proclaimed the Word? 69:22–28 Hate Your Enemies? 73:2–12 Do the Wicked Prosper? 73:20 Does God Sleep? 73:24 Life After Death in the Old Testament? 74:13–14 Mythological Cosmic Conflicts? 78:13 What Happened to the Red Sea? 78:18–31 Punishment for Requesting Food? 78:58 A Jealous God? 79:6, 12 A Prayer for Vengeance? 82:1 God Presides Among the Gods? 102:25 Poetic? Figurative? Historical? 105:23–25 Is God the Author of Evil? 106:28–31 Why Was Phinehas Praised? 106:34 Completely Destroy Them! 109:6–12 A Prayer for Vengeance? 137:8–9 A Call for Revenge? 138:1 Before the Gods? 139:20 Are We to Hate Our Enemies?

Proverbs

1:7 Love God or Fear Him? 5:15–21 Drink Water from Your Own Cistern? 16:33 Casting Lots Encouraged? 17:8 Is Bribery Permitted? 21:14 Is Bribery Permitted? 22:6 Train a Child 24:11–12 Whom Are We to Rescue? 25:21–22 Burning Coals? 29:18 What Vision? 31:6–7 Give Them Beer?

Ecclesiastes

1:1 Is “The Teacher” Solomon? 2:24–26 Eat, Drink and Be Merry? 3:19–21 Man’s Fate Like the Animals? 7:16–18 Don’t Be Too Righteous or Too Wise? 12:13–14 What Does Ecclesiastes Teach?

Song of Songs

8:6–7 Love Is As Strong As Death?

Isaiah

1:11–15 Does God Desire Sacrifices? 6:1, 5 Did Isaiah See God? 6:9–10 Is God the Author of Evil? 7:14 A Virgin Shall Conceive? 10:5–6 Assyria Punished for Obedience? 14:12–14 Lucifer: Satan or the King of Babylon? 24:21–23 Millennium in the Old Testament? 25:8; 26:19 Life After Death in the Old Testament? 28:13 Do and Do, Rule on Rule? 45:1 Did the Pagan King Cyrus Believe in the God of Israel? 45:7 Is God the Author of Evil? 45:17 Israel Will Be Saved? 63:10–11 The Indwelling Holy Spirit? 63:17 God Hardens Israel’s Heart? 65:20 Death in the New Earth?

Jeremiah

6:20; 7:21–23 Does God Desire Sacrifices? 20:7 Is God the Author of Falsehood? 22:24, 30 None of Jehoiachin’s Line to Rule? 23:6 Israel Will Be Saved? 31:29–30 Children Pay for Their Parents’ Sins? 36:30 A Failed Prophecy?

Lamentations

3:38–39 Calamities Come from God?

Ezekiel

14:9 Is God the Author of Falsehood? 18:1–20 Should Children Die for Their Fathers’ Sins? 20:25 Statutes That Were Not Good? 21:4 Judgment for Both the Righteous and the Wicked? 28:11–19 The King of Tyre or Satan? 37:1–14 Who Is the Old Testament Holy Spirit? 38:1 Who Are Gog and Magog?

Daniel

1:17–2:23 Is Astrology Biblical? 7:9 Did Daniel See God? 9:24–27 A Prophecy of Christ? 11:29–35 Antiochus or Antichrist? 12:8–10 Clarity of Prophecy?

Hosea

1:2–3 Marry an Adulteress? 1:4 Jehu Punished for Doing as He Was Commanded? 6:6 Does God Desire Sacrifices? 11:8–9 Ephraim Pitied 12:3–4 With Whom Did Jacob Wrestle? 13:14 Is Death Conquered?

Joel

1:15 The Day of the Lord

Amos

3:6 Is God the Author of Evil? 4:4 Does God Encourage Sinning?

Jonah

1:4–5, 7 Casting Lots Encouraged? 1:17 Myth or History? 3:10; 4:1–2 A God Who Relents?

Micah

5:2 A Ruler from Bethlehem? 6:6–8 Salvation Through Righteousness?

Nahum

1:2–3 A Jealous God?

Habakkuk

1:5–6 Why Does God Use Pagan Nations to Judge His People? 3:16–18 Joy in All Circumstances?

Haggai

2:6–7 The Desired of All Nations?

Zechariah

3:1–2 Satan in Heaven? 6:12–13 Who Is This Branch? 11:12–13 Thirty Pieces of Silver—A Confused Prophecy? 12:10 They Will Look on Me, the One They Have Pierced?

Malachi

1:2–3 I Have Hated Esau? 1:11 The Worship of Gentiles? 2:16 God Hates Divorce 3:6 I the Lord Do Not Change? 3:10 Does Tithing Always Pay Off?

Matthew

2:1–2 Is Astrology Biblical? 4:5–10 Order of the Temptations? 4:5–10 Tempted in Every Way Like Us? 5:11–12 Rejoice in Persecution? 5:13 Saltless Salt? 5:17–20 Eternal Law? 5:22 “You Fool!” Merits Hell? 5:28 Adultery in the Heart? 5:29 Gouge Out Your Right Eye? 5:34 Do Not Swear at All? 5:39 Turn the Other Cheek? 5:44 Love Your Enemies? 5:48 You Must Be Perfect? 6:13 Lead Us Not into Temptation? 6:14–15 No Forgiveness for the Unforgiving? 6:24 You Cannot Serve Both God and Mammon? 7:6 Pearls Before Swine? 7:23 I Never Knew You? 8:5 Did the Centurion Come to Meet Jesus? 8:13 How Much Faith Do We Need? 8:20 The Son of Man Has No Place to Lay His Head? 8:22 Let the Dead Bury Their Dead? 8:28–34 Two Demoniacs or One? 8:31–32 Why No Concern for the Pigs? 9:22 How Much Faith Do We Need? 9:24 Not Dead but Sleeping? 10:5–6 Not to the Gentiles? 10:9–10 Were the Twelve to Take a Staff? 10:23 Unfulfilled Expectation? 10:28 Whom Should We Fear? 10:34 Not Peace but a Sword? 11:11 Who Is Greater Than John the Baptist? 11:12 Violently into the Kingdom? 11:27 The Father and the Son 12:30 For or Against Christ? 12:31–32 An Unpardonable Sin? 12:39 No Sign? 12:40 How Long Was Jesus in the Tomb? 13:13 Why in Parables? 13:32 How Small Is a Mustard Seed? 15:21–28 The Children First? 16:4 No Sign? 16:18–19 Peter the Rock? 16:28 What Is This Coming? 17:20 Faith Moves Mountains? 18:8–9 Pluck Out Your Eye? 18:10 Guardian Angels? 18:35 No Forgiveness for the Unforgiving? 19:9 No Divorce and Remarriage? 19:12 Eunuchs for the Kingdom’s Sake? 19:17 Why Do You Ask Me About What Is Good? 19:21 Sell Your Possessions? 19:24 Easier for a Camel? 19:30 The First Will Be Last? 20:14–15 The Rate for the Job? 20:16 The First Will Be Last? 20:20 Who Asked for the Seats of Honor? 20:30 Two Blind Men or One? 21:2 How Many Donkeys? 21:19 Why Was the Fig Tree Cursed? 21:21 Faith Moves Mountains? 21:27 Neither Will I Tell You? 22:12 What Is the Wedding Garment? 22:14 Many Are Called, But Few Are Chosen? 22:21 Render to Caesar? 23:9 Call No Man Father? 23:33 You Brood of Vipers! 24:28 There the Eagles Will Be Gathered Together? 24:34 This Generation Will Not Pass Away? 25:11–12 Why Were the Virgins Shut Out? 25:26 Salvation by Works? 26:26–28 This Is My Body and Blood? 26:63–64 You Will See the Son of Man? 27:5 How Did Judas Die? 27:9–10 Wrong Prophet? 27:37 What Was the Crime? 27:46 Why Have You Forsaken Me? 27:53 What Resurrection Happened at the Cross? 28:1–8 What Really Happened at the Resurrection?

Mark

1:2 Wrong Prophet? 1:4 What Was John’s Baptism of Repentance? 1:34, 44 Why the Secret? 2:10 The Son of Man Forgives Sins? 2:17 Not the Righteous but Sinners? 2:26 Who Was the High Priest? 2:27–28 The Sabbath for Man? 3:28–29 An Unpardonable Sin? 4:11–12 Why in Parables? 4:31 How Small Is a Mustard Seed? 5:1–20 Two Demoniacs or One? 5:11–13 Why No Concern for the Pigs? 5:34 How Much Faith Do We Need? 5:39 Not Dead but Sleeping? 5:43 Why the Secret? 6:8 Were the Twelve to Take a Staff? 6:23–27 Inviolable Vow? 7:27 The Children First? 8:12 No Sign? 8:30 Why the Secret? 8:33 Get Behind Me, Satan! 8:34 Taking Up the Cross? 9:1 What Is the Coming of the Kingdom? 9:9 Why the Secret? 9:40 For or Against? 9:43–47 Plucking Out the Eye? 9:50 Saltless Salt? 10:11–12 No Divorce and Remarriage? 10:18 Why Do You Call Me Good? 10:21 Sell Everything You Have? 10:25 Easier for a Camel? 10:31 The First Will Be Last? 10:35 Who Asked for the Seats of Honor? 10:46 Two Blind Men or One? 10:52 How Much Faith Do We Need? 11:2 How Many Mounts for Jesus? 11:14 Why Was the Fig Tree Cursed? 11:23 Faith Moves Mountains? 11:33 Neither Will I Tell You? 12:17 Render to Caesar? 13:30 This Generation Will Not Pass Away? 14:22–24 This Is My Body and Blood? 14:61–62 You Will See the Son of Man? 15:26 What Was the Crime? 15:34 Why Have You Forsaken Me? 16:1–8 What Really Happened at the Resurrection?

Luke

4:1–13 Order of the Temptations? 5:39 The Old Is Better? 6:24 Woe to the Rich? 6:29 Turn the Other Cheek? 6:35 Love Your Enemies? 7:6 Did the Centurion Come to Meet Jesus? 7:28 Who Is Greater Than John the Baptist? 7:47 Faith or Love? 8:10 Why in Parables? 8:26–39 Two Demoniacs or One? 8:32–33 Why No Concern for the Pigs? 8:48 How Much Faith Do We Need? 8:52 Not Dead but Sleeping? 9:3 Were the Twelve to Take a Staff? 9:27 The Coming of the Kingdom? 9:50 For or Against Christ? 9:58 The Son of Man Has No Place to Lay His Head? 9:60 Let the Dead Bury Their Dead? 9:62 No Looking Back? 10:18 What Is the Fall of Satan? 10:22 The Father and the Son 11:4 Lead Us Not into Temptation? 11:23 For or Against Christ? 11:29–30 No Sign? 11:41 Give What Is Inside the Dish to the Poor? 12:4–5 Whom Should We Fear? 12:10 An Unpardonable Sin? 12:33–34 Sell Your Possessions? 12:49 Bringing Fire to Earth? 12:50 Distressed Until Baptism Completed? 13:6–8 What Is the Fig Tree? 13:27 Why Shut Out? 13:30 The First Will Be Last? 14:26 Hate Your Parents? 14:34 Saltless Salt? 15:25–28 Is the Elder Brother Unreasonable? 16:9 Use Money to Make Friends? 16:13 You Cannot Serve Both God and Mammon? 16:16 Forcefully into the Kingdom? 16:17 Eternal Law? 16:18 No Divorce and Remarriage? 16:25 Woe to the Rich? 16:26 What Is the Great Gulf? 17:6 How Much Faith Do We Need? 17:19 How Much Faith Do We Need? 17:37 There the Eagles? 18:8 Will the Son of Man Find Faith on Earth? 18:19 Why Do You Call Me Good? 18:25 Easier for a Camel? 18:42 How Much Faith Do We Need? 19:30 How Many Mounts? 20:8 Neither Will I Tell You? 20:25 Render to Caesar? 21:32 This Generation Will Not Pass Away? 22:19–20 This Is My Body and Blood? 22:36 Buy a Sword? 22:67–70 You Will See the Son of Man? 23:38 What Was the Crime? 23:43 Today in Paradise? 24:10 What Happened at the Resurrection?

John

1:1 One God or Three? 1:18 No One Has Ever Seen God? 1:25 What Was John’s Baptism? 1:51 Angels Ascending and Descending? 3:5 Born of Water and the Spirit? 5:28–29 Salvation by Works? 6:53 Eating the Flesh, Drinking the Blood? 10:34–35 You Are Gods? 12:39–40 God Blinded Their Eyes? 14:6 No One Saved Without Jesus? 14:12 What Greater Things? 14:28 The Father Is Greater? 19:19 What Was the Crime? 20:1–8 What Happened at the Resurrection? 20:22 Receive the Holy Spirit?

Acts

1:18 How Did Judas Die? 1:26 Casting Lots? 2:38 Baptism for the Forgiveness of Sins? 4:12 Salvation in No One Else? 4:19 Submitting to Government? 4:32 They Shared Everything? 5:9 Testing the Holy Spirit? 7:14–15 How Many Went to Egypt? 8:1 All Were Scattered? 8:16 Baptized but Without the Holy Spirit? 12:15 His Angel? 15:29 How Kosher Should Christians Live? 16:3 Why Did Paul Circumcise Timothy? 19:2 Did You Receive the Holy Spirit? 20:23 Ignoring Prophetic Warnings? 20:35 Missing Words of Jesus? 21:21 Should Christian Jews Live like Jews? 22:16 Baptism to Wash Away Sins?

Romans

1:16 First for the Jew? 1:18 Is God Wrathful? 1:24–28 God Gave Them Over to Sin? 1:27 Homosexuality Condemned? 2:5 Is God Wrathful? 2:7 Salvation by Works? 2:12 Is God Fair to Condemn Those Who Have Never Heard? 4:9–12 Is the Church Israel? 5:3 Rejoice in Suffering? 5:9–10 Salvation: Past, Present or Future? 5:12 One Man’s Sin Means My Death? 5:20 The Law Increases Sin? 6:2, 7 Dead to Sin? 7:4 Freed from the Law? 7:14–19 A Slave to Sin? 8:28 All Things for Good? 8:29 Predestination? 9:13–15 Is God Unjust? 9:18 God Hardens Whom He Wants to Harden? 9:22 Is God Wrathful? 10:4 The End of the Law? 11:26 All Israel Will Be Saved? 11:32 God Has Bound All to Disobedience? 12:20 Burning Coals? 13:1–7 Submitting to Government? 14:15 To Eat or Not to Eat?

1 Corinthians

1:18 Salvation: Past, Present or Future? 3:17 Destroying God’s Temple? 5:5 Hand Him Over to Satan? 6:9–10 Who Inherits the Kingdom? 7:1 Is It Good to Marry? 7:10, 12 Not I, but the Lord? 7:17, 20 Remain in Slavery? 7:29 Live as Though You Had No Spouse? 8:5–6 Many Gods and Lords? 8:1–13 To Eat or Not to Eat? 10:8 Twenty-three Thousand or Twenty-four Thousand? 10:14–33 To Eat or Not to Eat? 11:3 Head of Woman Is Man? 11:7 Woman the Glory of Man? 11:10 What Is the Sign of Authority? 11:29 Discerning the Body? 11:31–32 Believers Judged by the Lord? 14:5 Should All Speak in Tongues? 14:33–34 Women to Keep Silence? 15:2 Salvation: Past, Present or Future? 15:29 Baptism for the Dead?

2 Corinthians

1:21–22 What Is the Anointing? 3:14 A Veil over Their Minds? 4:4 Who Is “The God of This Age”? 5:17 All the Old Has Gone? 6:14 Yoked with Unbelievers? 12:2 Caught Up to the Third Heaven? 12:7 What Is the Thorn in the Flesh?

Galatians

1:9 Condemning Opponents? 3:23–25 The End of the Law? 3:24–26 Is the Church Israel? 5:2 Christ of No Value? 5:12 Hate Your Enemies? 5:19–21 Who Inherits the Kingdom? 6:16 Who Is the Israel of God?

Ephesians

1:10 Universalism? 1:11 Predestination? 2:15 Abolishing the Law? 4:9–10 Christ Ascending and Descending? 5:3–5 Who Inherits the Kingdom? 5:22 Wives, Submit? 6:5–8 Did Paul Approve of Slavery? 6:12 Many Gods and Lords?

Philippians

2:6 Is Jesus God? 2:10–11 Universalism? 2:12–13 Work Out Your Salvation? 3:3 Is the Church Israel? 3:4–6 Faultless Before the Law? 3:10 Somehow Attain the Resurrection? 4:4 Joy in All Circumstances?

Colossians

1:15 Christ the Firstborn? 1:19 Universalism? 1:24 Lacking in Christ’s Afflictions? 2:18 The Worship of Angels? 3:22–25 Did Paul Approve of Slavery? 4:6 Seasoned with Salt?

1 Thessalonians

2:14–15 Anti-Semitism?

2 Thessalonians

2:3 Who Is the Man of Lawlessness? 2:7 Who Is the One Who Holds Back Lawlessness?

1–2 Timothy

1 Timothy1:17 Invisible God? 2:11–12 No Women Teachers? 2:13–15 Salvation Through Childbirth? 5:8 Worse Than an Unbeliever? 5:23 Wine for the Stomach? 6:16 Whom No One Has Seen? 2 Timothy4:14 A Call for Revenge?

Titus, Philemon

Titus1:12–13 Cretans Are Always Liars? 3:5 Salvation: Past, Present or Future? Philemon12 Did Paul Approve of Slavery?

Hebrews

1:3 What Is the Trinity? 2:10 Make the Author of Their Salvation Perfect? 4:15 Tempted in Every Way? 5:7–9 Jesus Learned Obedience? 6:4–6 Is Repentance Ever Impossible? 7:1 Who Was Melchizedek? 8:5 A Copy of What Is in Heaven? 10:14 Made Perfect? 10:26 No Forgiveness for Deliberate Sin? 11:30 Did Jericho’s Walls Really Collapse? 11:31 Was Rahab Right to Lie? 12:15 What Is the Bitter Root?

James

1:2 Are Christians Masochists? 1:13 God Does Not Tempt Anyone? 1:17 Does God Change? 2:5–7 God Chose the Poor? 2:24 Justified by What You Do? 2:25 Was Rahab Right to Lie? 4:4 Friendship with the World Is Hatred Toward God? 5:1 Woe to the Rich? 5:12 Do Not Swear? 5:14–16 Prayer Makes the Sick Well? 5:20 Saved from Death?

1 Peter

1:9 Salvation: Past, Present or Future? 2:13–14 Submitting to Government? 2:18 Slavery Approved? 3:6 Call Your Husband Master? 3:7 The Weaker Partner? 3:19 Who Are the Spirits in Prison? 3:21 Baptism Saves You? 4:1 Done with Sin? 4:14 The Spirit of Glory and of God? 4:17 Judgment to Begin with the Family of God?

2 Peter

1:4 Participate in the Divine Nature? 1:10 Make Your Calling and Election Sure? 1:19 The Word of the Prophets Made More Certain? 2:1–22 Condemning Opponents? 2:10–11 Which Celestial Beings? 2:20 Worse Off at the End? 3:10, 12 The Earth Renewed or Destroyed? 3:11–12 Speeding Up Its Coming?

1 John

2:15 Love Either the World or the Father? 2:18–22 Who Is the Antichrist? 2:27 What Is the Anointing? 2:29 Everyone Who Does Right Is Born of God? 3:9 No One Born of God Will Continue to Sin? 4:2 Confessing Christ Come in the Flesh? 4:7 Everyone Who Loves Has Been Born of God? 5:6–8 By Water and Blood? 5:14 Praying According to His Will? 5:16–17 A Sin That Leads to Death?

2 John

1 Who Is the Chosen Lady? 7 Who Are the Heretics? 10 Do Not Practice Hospitality?

3 John

7 Receiving No Help from Pagans? 11 Anyone Who Does Good Is from God?

Jude

3–16 Condemning Opponents? 7 Homosexuality Condemned? 9, 14–15 Are the Pseudepigrapha Authoritative? 24 Possibility of Falling?

Revelation

2:6 Who Were the Nicolaitans? 2:13 Where Does Satan Live? 2:15 Who Were the Nicolaitans? 6:10 A Call for Revenge? 7:4 Who Are the 144,000? 9:1 What Is the Abyss? 11:2–3 Symbolic Numbers? 12:1–3 Who Are the Woman and the Dragon? 12:7–8 Satan in Heaven? 12:11 Overcame by the Blood of the Lamb? 13:1 Who Is the Beast from the Sea? 13:18 His Number Is 666? 16:15 Blessed Is He Who Keeps His Clothes? 19:10 The Testimony of Jesus Is the Spirit of Prophecy? 20:2 Bound for a Thousand Years? 21:1 The Earth Renewed or Destroyed? 22:18–19 Protecting the Canon?

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