The questioner has quoted: “For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from You. When I was made in secret. And [...]
Answers about spirit
You say: If someone is saved and baptized when they are young, possibly a teenager, and later in life, they say they believe in God but when asked if they believe that Jesus died for their sins so that they may have everlasting life, and they state that they don’t know, or they guess so, [...]
It can be a great relief for someone who believes that evil spirits are around them when they come to realize that demons are not powerful intelligent malevolent beings. Demons have been the subject of other questions. They have no real existence. The Bible does not teach the superstition that illnesses are actually caused by [...]
All the gospels say that the Spirit of God descended “like a dove”. For example, As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting on him. (Matthew 3:16) and the Holy Spirit [...]
“The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” (John 3:8) I think the point being made here is that you can’t see the wind, you can only see [...]
No, the Holy Spirit is not a person. These three verses refer to the Holy Spirit speaking. To understand what this means, it is important to see what is involved in the Holy Spirit speaking. In Ezekiel 11:5, Ezekiel records how ‘the Spirit of the LORD came upon me, and he told me to say: [...]
Soul The Hebrew and Greek words that are translated as ‘soul’ in our Bibles are also translated many times as ‘life’ or ‘person’ or ‘anyone’ or ‘creature’. The word that is used depends very much on the Bible translation. For example, in Leviticus 4:2, the KJV has ’If a soul sin through ignorance against any [...]
Q. Should this verse read “the Lord is the Spirit” (ESV etc.) or “the Lord is that Spirit” (KJV)? 2 Co.3:12 Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, 13 not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being [...]
Return of an Unclean Spirit Matt.12:43 “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then it goes [...]
Q. What do you think about the slave girl who was able to foretell the future? The easy answer is that she had some form of mental illness, but this doesn’t seem to fit with the way it reads given that her owners were able to make profit from her illness… it seems to be [...]
