Show BIBLE CR ed BY THC TH VOICE PROPHECY international BIBLE 8 ab LE CASTER J question is s it really important to toys us today whether christ did or ali adt t rise from the dead i most important for it if the dead rise not then is not christ raised and if christ be not raised your faith is vain ye are yet in your sins then they also which are fallen asleep in christ are perished 1 corinthians 1516 18 Q god give this earth to satan after he made it A let us read psalm the heaven even the heavens are the lords but the earth hath he given to the children of men 0 1 believe that everything in the bible is literal am I 1 right A apparently not for we read in habakkuk for the stone shall cry out of the wall and the beam out of the timber shall answer it this clearly is figurative language for a stone or piece of I fer jr does not actually cry or 1 figurative language and prophetic symbols are often used ly by bible writers Q how could the thief on the cross be saved and go to paradise when he was never baptized or anything A we quote romans 45 but to him that not but be on him that Justi fieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness christs perfect life of righteousness which included baptism was imputed or counted to this believer for byar by grace ace are ye saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift ift of I 1 god not fiot of works lest any man should boast ephesians 28 9 Q what does it mean in daniel where it says saya to brak zm n end nd of sins who does this ai A Is is not hebrews a good explanation for then raut must 1 he 10 that is christ often have suffered since the foundation of the world but now once in the end ot of the world hath he appe appeared alred to I 1 put away sin by the sacrifice of himself and romans 83 for what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh god sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned sin in the flesh I 1 ed note address your questions tv tc the BIBLE QUESTION COLUMN the voice of prophecy box bos 55 los an angeles 53 calif bible questions of general inte interest Test will be answered in this column as space permits |