FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY THE BIBLE
Click on the question below and it will take you to the answers. The words in blue are the scriptures from the Authorized King James Bible pertaining to the question. The words in green are the editor’s explanatory notes.
Religion
Don’t all roads lead to Rome? Won’t all people who believe in a god go to Heaven?
What about all the people that didn’t hear about Christ?
I have been more good than bad; won’t my good deeds just outweigh my bad deeds?
What must I do to be saved?
Is there a God?
Are there other Gods?
Science
Didn’t we evolve?
Did God create dinosaurs?
How could Noah fit all the animals on the Ark?
If there was a big flood, where is all the water now?
History
Is the Bible accurate as it pertains to history?
Health & Wellness
Should we be vegetarians?
MYTHS COMMONLY PROMULGATED ABOUT THE BIBLE AND CHRISTIANITY
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MYTH: Jesus never called himself the Christ.
MYTH: No one ever called Jesus the Christ.
MYTH: Jesus was not God, only the Son of God.
MYTH: Jesus Christ was not begotten of God, but was a son of God, just like any prophet or man.
MYTH: The Bible teaches that the earth is flat.
MYTH: The Bible was written by men and is therefore not the Word of God.
Religion
Don’t all roads lead to Rome? Won’t all people who believe in a god go to Heaven?
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; (I Timothy 2:5)
What about all the people that didn’t hear about Christ?
For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;) (Romans 2:14,15)
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. (John 8:12)
That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. (John 1:9)
Everyone is given enough light to know that there is a sovereign God, if they use that light to seek Him, they will be given more light to find Him.
I have been more good than bad; won’t my good deeds just outweigh my bad deeds?
But we are all as an unclean thing , and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; (Isaiah 64:6a)
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; (Romans 3:23)
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; (Titus 3:5)
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. (Romans 3:12)
What must I do to be saved?
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31)
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2:8,9)
And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. (Mark 1:15)
But shewed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judaea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance. (Acts 26:20)
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. (John 3:3)
Is there a God?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. (Psalms 14:1)
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good. (Psalms 53:1)
Are there other Gods?
Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. (Isaiah 44:6)
Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it ? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any. (Isaiah 44:8)
I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: (Isaiah 45:5)
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. (Isaiah 45:20-22)
Science
Didn’t we evolve?
Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. (Psalms 100:3)
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is , and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. (Exodus 20:11)
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (Genesis 1:27)
Did God create dinosaurs?
Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. 17 He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. 18 His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. 19 He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him . 20 Surely the mountains bring him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play. 21 He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. 22 The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about. 23 Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth. 24 He taketh it with his eyes: his nose pierceth through snares. (Job 40:15-24)
The above is a description of a brachiosaur. Neither an elephant or a hippopotamus have a tail like a cedar.
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? (Job 41:1)
The above is likely a large sea creature of the plesiosaur kind.
How could Noah fit all the animals on the Ark?
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female. (Genesis 6:19)
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. (Genesis 7:2)
And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. (Genesis 7:15)
All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land , died. (Genesis 7:22)
Only animals that breathed through the nostrils had to go on board, not insects, plants, and obviously, not water dwelling creatures. Also, he took on board different kinds of animals, not different species. There are about 8000 genera of animals that qualified, including extinct genera. These were going by pairs, so at least 16,000 animals had to be on board. Only about 11% of these would have been much larger than a sheep at adult size, making the median size of all animals on the ark about the size of a rat. For the animals that are quite large as adults, he would have taken their young or babies rather than the adults. The largest dinosaur egg is about 18 inches long, and the smallest is the size of a tennis ball. There are estimated to be less than 700 different dinosaur genera.
The ark measured at least 450 x 75 x 45 feet to give a volume of 1.52 million cubic feet or 43,200 cubic meters. This is about the size of 522 standard railroad stock cars, each of which can hold 240 sheep. Using the average size of a cage for the average size of the 16,000 animals to be 20 x 20 x12 inches, the 16,000 animals would only occupy 42,000 cubic feet or 14.4 stock cars. Most of the animals were 1 pair male and female, while the clean animals would be by sevens pairs. Let’s say that 50 % were “clean animals” (a extremely high and generous estimate), so instead of taking up 7.2 stock cars, these would take up about 50.4 stock cars. So in total, all the animals would take up 57.6 out of 522 stock cars. This would leave a huge amount of space for food. Even if the cages were not stacked, the animals would only have occupied less than half the floor space of the ark, which had three decks. Food and water would only take up about 20 % (15% for food, and 5%) for water. (see Woodmorappe, Noah’s Ark: A feasibility Study (El Cajon, CA: Institute for Creation Research, 1997), as quoted in The Answers Book, Ed. Don Batten (Creation Science Foundation Ltd.,1990).
If there was a big flood, where is all the water now?
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth. Psalm 104:6-9.
The water is now in the oceans. Before the flood of Noah, the mountains were high hills. After the flood, the mountains were increased in height and the ocean basins formed. If the earth’s surface was smoothly flattened out, the land would be covered by water to a depth of approximately 2 miles.
History
Is the Bible accurate as it pertains to history?
Health & Wellness
Should we be vegetarians?
Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things. (Genesis 9:3)
And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat? And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. (Luke 24:41-42)
MYTHS AND FACTS
MYTH: Jesus never called himself the Christ.
FACT: Jesus did in fact refer to Himself as the Messiah or Christ:
(John 4:25-26) The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
MYTH: No one ever called Jesus the Christ.
FACT: Many people in the Bible called Jesus the Christ:
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. (Luke 2:11)
She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world. (John 11:27)
Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. (Acts 2:36)
But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. (John 20:31)
MYTH: Jesus was not God, only the Son of God.
FACT: Jesus was fully God, and many times accepted the name God and worship:
And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. (John 20:28-29)
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory. (I Timothy 3:16)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. (John 1:1-3)
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. (John 1:10)
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)
But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. (Hebrews 1:8)
MYTH: Jesus Christ was not begotten of God, but was a son of God, just like any prophet or man.
FACT: Jesus Christ was not just a prophet. He was the begotten Son of God. He was also God in the flesh, which speaks of the mystery of the Godhead.
I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. (Psalms 2:7)
God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. (Acts 13:33)
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:14)
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. (John 1:18)
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16)
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. (John 3:18)
For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? (Hebrews 1:5)
MYTH: The Bible teaches that the earth is flat.
FACT: The Bible specifically indicates that the earth has sphericity.
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: (Isaiah 40:22)
The word used for circle is the Hebrew word Khug, which indicates sphericity.
MYTH: The Bible was written by men and is therefore not the Word of God.
FACT: The Bible was written by God, and men were used to put the word down on paper:
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: (II Timothy 3:16)
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost. (II Peter 1:20-21)
For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. (I Thessalonians 2:13)
Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. (Romans 3:2)
Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. (Proverbs 30:5)
For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. (Romans 15:4)
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. (I Corinthians 2:13)
Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. (Matthew 22:29)
