Question of the Week: What does the Bible mean when it calls something unclean?
Verses: Leviticus 15:25-27

There are two words for unclean in the Hebrew language. The first refers to a moral uncleanness that implies an uncleanness before God. This is known as guilt that mars someone after committing adultery or murder. The second refers to bodily uncleanness that simply requires a bodily cleansing and a time of separation in God’s law from public places. This is what’s being referred to when someone in considered ceremonially unclean after childbirth, a monthly cycle, or coming in contact with a dead body. It’s not referring to sin in any way.

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Question of the Week: What did Jesus mean when He said that we would do greater works than He did?
Verses: John 14:12
Jesus was speaking to His disciples the very night He would be arrested about the work He would continue through them even though He was physically absent from them. This continued work of the Holy Spirit in their lives would allow God to work through the disciples for the same purpose He worked through Jesus during His time on Earth, to show people the character of God and their need for salvation. Since in the very sentence Jesus specifies why God will work through them instead of Him, the question is what Jesus meant by “greater.” Of all the things Jesus accomplished in this world, these three stand out as the most significant. He lived the perfect life, demonstrated His authority over all creation as God, and resurrected Himself from the dead to provide a means of salvation for all mankind. Obviously the disciples wouldn’t do greater things than this in terms of substance, so by process of elimination the other way “greater” is commonly used makes the most sense. Jesus didn’t tell His disciples they would do greater works than Him in substance, but because He was only here for 3 years, the quantity of things God would do through them would be greater than the things He had time to do Himself.

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Question of the Week: What is Hell and why is it so miserable?
Verses: James 1:17, Revelation 20:15

Hell is described many different ways. It’s been called the Lake of Fire, Outer Darkness, the Second Death, and Gehenna. However, all of these allusions are just describing things and places you wouldn’t want to be apart of. Hell by definition is this; an eternal existence separated from God. God is the source of every good thing. So following the implications of that reality, separation from Him includes separation from everything that comes from Him. What makes drowning torture is the absence of oxygen. What makes starving torture is the absence of food. What makes Hell comparable to things like eternal fire, darkness, and death is because the source of peace, light, and life is not there. Jesus has restored our relationship with God to make sure that won’t happen. It is an existence we were never created for. God has given you the option. His advice is to choose life.

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Question of the Week: Why is God sad about the things that occur in history if He knew they were going to happen?
Verses: Genesis 6:6, Matthew 23:37-39
God is omniscient, which means He knows everything. Our perspective is finite. We don’t know the future and hardly remember everything about our past. This makes it difficult to understand God’s responses to certain things since we can’t understand what an omniscient perspective would be like. We can, however, understand a perspective of love. God doesn’t want to see His creation hurt, but won’t violate their free will committing the actions that He already knows they’ll make. Our cynical perspective assumes that because God knows the choices we’ll make, He won’t be hurt by them since they weren’t a surprise to Him. However, scripture makes it very clear that though God knows the all horrible things that will happen in history, it doesn’t change how much He cares for us. That’s why His heart is broken when He sees His creation suffer. He won’t stop loving us no matter what we do. In the same way, that’s why God doesn’t love us any less even though He knows all of the sins we’ll ever commit. God’s omniscience doesn’t cancel out His love, it demonstrates it as unconditional.

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