This is a very upsetting subject. Although I have never lost an unborn child, I’ve seen the trauma and sorrow experienced by those who have and I extend my sincere sympathy to those who have experienced this loss. Firstly, it is a common misconception that people go to heaven when they die. The Bible is [...]
Answers about death
You say: I had two beautiful daughters, one had down syndrome and the other is autistic. Sarah the one who had down syndrome died five years ago from a heart condition that wasn’t treatable. Where would you say she is at? Does the Bible say anything about special needs children? also, would children who died [...]
It is no accident that this question been waiting to be answered for several weeks now. It is not easy to answer and there is need to respect the pain of those who have suffered loss. It can be presumptuous to tell someone the reasons God had for allowing bad things to happen to them. [...]
In the account in Gen 2-3 both Adam and Eve sin by disobeying God and eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. However, Eve is not mentioned in Romans 5 (though Paul does mention her elsewhere, e.g. 1 Tim 2:14). This is presumably because Paul is drawing the contrast between Adam [...]
There are millions of years of fossils showing that death was around long before Adam and Eve. In any case, it is impossible to have life without death. Anything eating plants would be causing the death of tiny animals necessary for plant life, not to mention the death of plants themselves. Then there are the [...]
Both my mother and father prayed, fasted and payed tithes and were saved for the most part of their lives. My mother really suffered badly even though she lead the holy life she did, she always preached about God and did the right thing. I don’t understand it I am sorry to hear about the [...]
Jud 1:22-23 And have mercy on those who doubt; (23) save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh. Clearly the fire cannot be completely literal; a literal fire consumes fuel, using oxygen to produce heat and smoke. Fire in this [...]
Note that the subject of suicide has already been discussed (What does the Bible say about suicide?), though not this question. Suicide is usually an act of despair by someone with depression. There are remedies for the root causes behind suicide. Taking ones own life causes enormous pain and damage to those left behind, as [...]
There are two reasons why we die: We sin, and the “wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). We inherit mortality (Romans 5:17). Since Jesus did not sin (Hebrews 4:15), only the second of these applied to him. That is, he inherited mortality because he was human. However, because he did not sin, and lived [...]
What are sin and iniquity? Sin and iniquity are words God uses to describe the wrong behaviour of people. Although they have a similar meaning, according to Robert Young’s ‘Analytical Concordance to the Bible’ (First Published 1879) their definitions are different. The words vanity, perversity, wrong, unrighteousness and lawlessness are given as further definitions of [...]
