Pastor Bryan answers the following questions about the Bible:
0:57 - What day did God create angels/Satan during creation? When did Satan sin and fall?
3:28 - Did the Jews know or have reason to believe that the Messiah would be sinless?
6:25 - Are demons capable of repentance and having genuine faith? If they are, would it do them any good?
10:07 - How should we think through God hardening Pharaoh's heart?
14:07 - Where do our souls come from?
21:14 - Is there a distinction between the twelve apostles and others in Scripture who are also called apostles?
25:03 - Is the destruction of Damascus in the Bible? When is this to happen? Is it a sign of the end times? What is the significance of this event? Why was it prophesied about?
30:40 - When will the judgement/bema seat of Christ take place? Will it be a physical event or a spiritual event? Will there be any element of guilt of believers at the Bema seat? Will saints who lived through the tribulation stand before Christ at the Bema seat? Would you say that the church age ends at the rapture?
Will all of Israel repent and come too see that Jesus is Messiah by the end of the tribulation?
Will only Gentile nations be judged at the sheep and goat judgement?
Will the sheep and goat judgement include only the people who lived through the tribulation?
Do you think believers will be spectators at the Great White Throne judgement?
35:34 - What are your thoughts on attending a church that believes in infant baptism with a relative? Would it be wrong to go, or would it show support or approval of their practice?
June 2021 Bible Q&A
Selected Scripture
June 13, 2021 • Bryan Hughes
July 2021 Bible Q&A
July 13, 2021 • Bryan Hughes
Pastor Bryan answers the following questions about the Bible: 0:48 - Please explain the man wrestling with Jacob in Genesis 32. What is the significance to us? 13:59 - Could you give a historical account of some of the major events that have transpired in Jerusalem? 26:05 - There seems to be a discrepancy in the genealogies in Matthew and Luke in regard to the father of Shealtiel? 30:21 - What are the distinctions between New Covenant Theology and Covenant Theology, as well as the differences between New Covenant Theology and Dispensational Theology? How does a New Covenant church compare to GBC doctrinally?
February 2020 Bible Q&A
February 9, 2020 • Bryan Hughes
Pastor Bryan answers questions on these topics: 20:25 - Why do Jewish people break a glass at the end of a wedding ceremony? 24:53 - What is a biblical yet gentle way to interact with non-believers who have lost a loved one? 30:21 - What are the main basic differences between the "word of faith" movement, the "prosperity gospel" movement, and the charismatic movement? 38:08 - How did Paul obtain Roman citizenship? 43:14 - Where does scripture say that angels sing? 46:33 - Titus 2: How does God's grace teach us to put off and put on? 50:09 - Why did the Corinthians want to reject Paul as an apostle? Was it him personally, or his teachings? 52:55 - To what extent is being shy a normal part of a child's personality, and how much is something they need to overcome as a sin? 57:20 - Would you please comment on John 14:12 with regard to believers doing miracles and signs as Jesus did?
January 2020 Bible Q&A
January 12, 2020 • Bryan Hughes
Pastor Bryan answers questions on these topics: 17:11 - When did the calendar that includes BC and AD begin? 19:13 - When and how did the terms CE and BCE start to be used? 21:02 - What would the apostles' names have sounded like? 22:28 - What would the number one reason be for us as Christians to be pro-life? 23:39 - How should we apply the principle of women not teaching in the church? 30:39 - How do we address the issue of marijuana? 34:11 - Genesis 1: Last Sunday, you taught that God is Spirit and doesn't have a body. How then are we created "in His image"? 37:28 - What language did Adam and Eve speak? 38:49 - Leviticus 27: What does the term "destruction" mean in verse 29? 42:18 - What might be some interesting things about the Jewish culture that we might not know? 50:43 - How do we reconcile passages that describe the heart as deceitful and desperately wicked with passages that say our hearts as believers have been changed and cleansed? 53:10 - Are Jewish people still obligated to keep circumcising their children in order to be included in the Abrahamic Covenant? 54:32 - 2 Chronicles 36, 2 Kings 24: How could an 8-year old king do evil in the sight of the lord? 56:56 - On a personal note, do you like Q&A? Why or why not?