A few months back Living Stones hosted a Question & Answers night and received over a hundred questions. Many of them were addressed during our gatherings and can be found on our podcast here. For the next few weeks I will be posting up answers to some of the remaining questions that were not answered. Answers for the questions have been provided by various Living Stones Elders.
As followers, how do you reconcile yourself and your faith with the evil things done in God's name?
Evil things done in God’s name are exactly that, evil things that people attempt to justify using God’s name. But God is perfect can neither author or approve evil. See Matthew 5:48; Luke 18:19; Psalm 100:5; and Psalm 18:30. Even when people invoke God’s name, we can know that they are not acting consistent with his direction when their activity contradicts God’s character revealed in Scripture and the person of Jesus Christ.
Did Moses ever actually write any of the Old Testament? I have heard other people authored the books but were simply inspired by Moses, who in turned was inspired by God..
Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy), under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, which means that Moses was divinely inspired to produce the words comprising those books. See, e.g., 2 Timothy 3:16 and 2 Peter 1:20-21.
If God oversaw the creation of the Bible, wasn't god also overseeing the creation of the Koran and the book of Mormon and all the heretical books too?
God in his sovereignty allowed the Koran and Book of Mormon to be written, but Scripture is clear that only the Bible is written by God and indeed it teaches against adding to it in any way. See 2 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Timothy 3:16; Deuteronomy 12:32; Proverbs 30:5-6; and Revelation 22:18-19.
Because our bodies are temples, are getting tattoos/piercings a sin?
The Bible does not prohibit tattoos or piercings. 1 Corinthians 6:19 does teach that “your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God[.] You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.” Accordingly, Christians have a responsibility to exercise responsible stewardship over their bodies, but this does not necessarily preclude getting tattoos or piercings. Instead, a Christian is free to do those things if doing so does not go against his or her conscience and ultimately can be done to God’s glory. See Romans 14:23; 1 Corinthians 10:29-33.
How do you know if God is real?
God has revealed himself in Scripture and the person of Jesus Christ. Further, Romans 1:19-20 teaches that the natural world bears witness to God through its beauty, complexity, usefulness.
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