My Faith — How do I know my faith is “real” enough to save me? How do I know Christianity is true and Jesus really lived? How can I have faith in someone I can’t see or touch? How do you make a leap of faith?
Extra Biblical – Could you tell me what the difference is between the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Gnostic writings? Our bookstore has them all in the New Age section. Avoid them?
Paul said “I buffet my body and make it my slave, lest possibly, after I have preached to others, I myself should be disqualified” (I Cor. 9:27), the word ADOKIMOS means to be “declared unfit,” “rejected,” and “disqualified.”
Bart Ehrman says we don’t have the original texts of the N.T. He says we only have copies of copies of copies – and these differ from each other! So what’s left? How do we know the N.T. is true?
I’ve seen internet sites that talk about Christianity being a copy of other religions like in that Zeitgeist film. But, are there some general things to tell people who are influenced by this?
The word “trinity” isn’t even in the bible. So why is a Christian supposed to believe it to be saved? How is this scriptural or biblical?
Q. Will there be animals with us in Heaven? What about our pets? (J.M.)
Balaam – The comical figure of a doddering old man, being corrected by his donkey, is stripped away and the real story unfolds before our eyes to show a hideous face of destruction.