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2022 Q3 Questions & Answers Index

2022 Q3 Questions & Answers Index

Each timestamp link takes you directly to our weekly Q&A video where the question is asked.

 

Q3 Q&A #10

T = 00:15 Do you have a suggestion on how to witness to a Mormon?
T = 03:55 Is it biblical or cultural for a man to have his bride’s father permission to marry her?
T = 06:35 Please explain why the Bible states Jesus’s feet will not touch the ground when He come back but in Desire of Ages chapter 87
T = 08:35 Matthew 27 : 53 describes that many saints were resurrected. Are these people considered the first fruits?
T = 09:30 Do you have to discuss in detail people’s life experience, or should we use Jesus example of go and sin no more?
T = 13:15 Is it part of God’s design for us to snip things or remove things to prevent us from having children or having more children?
T = 25:15 Why didn’t Jesus write a book about who God is… Is it because he was the book?

 

Q3 Q&A #9

T = 00:10 Does Satan feel any kind of pain, hurt, compassion, or empathy for people’s suffering? and do you think the angels that chose to go with Satan are happy with their decision?
T = 01:48 When someone speaks in tongues does a demon enter them?
T = 02:30 Why was John the beloved disciple-does that mean Jesus showed favoritism?
T = 03:55 Why did Jesus curse the fig tree (Mark 11)?
T = 04:50 Please share wisdom on grieving the death of an estranged sibling with whom there wasn’t a relationship because of their abusive behavior.
T = 06:50 Will be there a moment when God’s people will need to leave the cities and flee to the countryside?

 

Q3 Q&A #8

T = 01:05 In lesson #8 you say, “So it ultimately doesn’t matter which day you go to church on. It matters what law you operate upon and how you treat others.” Please tell me I heard that wrong.
T = 07:00 Do you have any insight into why atheists and those who believe the mainstream Covid narrative always respond to questions with anger?
T = 09:40 What do you say to someone who asks why things that happened in the bible don’t happen today? Like the Jonah in the whale, Samson’s strength, red sea parting, etc.
T = 11:15 When Christ returns and we reign with Him a thousand years, who will satan be deceiving in Revelation chapter 20 when it says he will be loosed again to deceive people? Won’t everyone already have their minds made up?
T = 14:50 Does the Bible say about cremation?
T = 16:00 Do you think the global lockdown we had was the the first surrounding of Jerusalem?
T = 17:40 How do you suggest helping people heal from shame after being lured into unhealthy relationships with narcissists?
T = 21:40 Are mushrooms an original creation of God? Why? They seem to require death and decay.
T = 22:00 What are the differences & similarities between imputed and imparted “Righteousness”?
T = 24:50 Give some statements from Jones and Wagner to clarify and contrast what you mean regarding the division of 1888 is representative of today’s issue with the law.
T = 27:30 Please elaborate, based on the Design Law lens, on the notion many have that a ‘commandment, is repressive and repulsive.’
T = 30:45 What book of the Bible do you recommend to start studying first?
T = 31:05 I have an agnostic coworker that says an omniscient God can’t exist, because his premise is that, if God truely has foreknowledge, then freewill CANNOT exist. How would you answer this?
T = 32:35 Please provide insight into “the law of mutual dependence runs through all classes of society” from EGW’s “Call To Stand Apart” page 62.
T = 33:45 Why is it so hard to let go of lies believed and learn/relearn new truths?
T = 38:10 Have you ever listened to the 1967 recording by Myron Fagan?

 

Q3 Q&A #7

T = 00:25 Many religious leaders says no one has received the mark of the beast yet. Why?
T = 02:20 Why is satan and the demons, have been sinning for thousands of years, still alive?
T = 03:40 Why doesn’t Gensis say the seventh day had an evening and morning like the other 6 days?
T = 04:30 How much should I worry about whether a university issued pandemic mandate as a medical student and future healthcare provider?
T = 07:20 Can a [vaccine-free] person with natural immunity catch covid twice (or more)? Any new thoughts on this?
T = 09:00 How does fallen humanity have FREE WILL or self governance?
T = 11:00 I’m not a doctor or psychiatrist, so how do I deal with someone who has psychosis? Do I try to cast out demons like Jesus did?
T = 13:55 Did Satan become the ruler of this world when Adam sinned, as many theologians say?
T = 16:00 How does one decide what ‘truth’ is?
T = 19:25 I’m shocked at how little Bible knowledge mature church attending people have. Should I suggest they enroll in a kindergarten bible study class?
T = 21:05 Is there any blessing or special accomplishment on the seventh-day Sabbath, versus resting on any of the other days?
T = 26:25 I struggle with formal prayer, I get very distracted, and feel guilty for not taking formal time in the morning to pray. Do you have any suggestions?
T = 28:20 Explain your metaphor: “As long as there is one panda alive, pandas are not extinct” as it relates to humans and Jesus.
T = 30:20 Is it time for a homestead in the country? Should we pull our money out of out of the banks?

 

Q3 Q&A #6

T = 00:15 How do you reconcile sin being described so many ways, such as transgression of the Law, distrust, missing the mark, sickness, disharmony, etc.?
T = 01:00 According to Revelation 22 : 11, won’t there will be 4 groups of people when Jesus comes?
T = 02:35 What are your thoughts about this quote? “We don’t like science if someone suggests that earth is 4.543 billion years old, even though we can’t explain those hundreds of thousands of rock layers…”
T = 08:15 What are your thoughts about the “apocrypha?”
T = 08:33 What is your opinion on Muslims saying that no prophet of God in the Old and New Testaments taught it’s a sin to havie more than one wife?
T = 11:30 What would you say to those that say “keeping the sabbath doesn’t make you more righteous than me” or “not eating pork doesn’t make you righteous?”
T = 16:10 Could you speak to the rise of the use of psychedelics and Extasy in therapy for PTSD and other mental health issues?
T = 19:20 One of my students suggested that the blood of Jesus could be seen as dialysis (keeping toxins out of our characters), however I feel the metaphor is lacking the life-GIVING element, yes?
T = 20:56 Please share wisdom about how to help abuse survivors resolve anger toward God for not protecting them?
T = 24:07 Why did Satan lie to Eve?

 

Q3 Q&A #5

T = 00:30 Can we have both the Holy Spirit and a demon living in us at the same time?
T = 01:20 What is the difference between asking God to take the “Wheel” and asking God for power to overcome temptation?
T = 01:55 Regarding Pastor Venden’s books, I believe his illustration about Jesus taking the wheel has to do with our inability to see the road ahead, and asking Him for wisdom in making correct choices. It is in this sense that I ask Jesus to “take the wheel”.
T = 02:50 Can you give me advice of how to deal with family and teen conflicts in my home on some Sabbath mornings?
T = 06:00 My teenager no longer wants to go to church and doesn’t seem to want a relationship with God. At what point do I let my child have the freedom to choose attending church?
T = 08:00 Does John 12 : 4 prove that Judas Iscariot was really the son of Simon the ex-leper?
T = 09:40 I am trying to reconcile how Shechem raped Dinah, Jacob’s daughter, but then the Bible says he loved her.
T = 10:35 How should we understand Jesus being seen simultaneously around the world at the Second Coming if He gave up His omnipresence?
T = 12:10 Is Last Generation theology (that we can live in state of sinlessness before Jesus comes) anti-gospel? Will we continually keep sinning until Jesus comes?
T = 15:00 Has any evidence emerged that vaccine-free individuals can catch covid more than once?
T = 18:15 Do you have any book, blog, or advice on pursuing a career in your field of psychiatry?
T = 19:10 Ty Gibson (Lightbearers.org) seems to present things that are reminiscent of C&R teachings. Would You consider working together if an opportunity arose?
T = 20:00 How would you respond to an employer that desires employees to always work on Saturdays & Sundays because “seventh-day” can be “kept” on any day depending on when one starts the week?
T = 21:35 Could you please explain exodus 12 : 1-12. re. God sending an angel to kill the first born. Seems brutal, not God-like.
T = 23:40 How do I approach the lack of instruction on understanding bible texts being memorized without sounding like I am discouraging memorization?

 

Q3 Q&A #4

T = 00:05 Is it possible Job had not arrived to the place God desired him to be by God’s questions to him at the end of the story?
T = 02:20 What are righteous actions to address mandates and support non-coercive, ethical medical practice?
T = 05:28 Have there been any recent changes re. Covid-19 and broad natural immunity given all the new variants?
T = 07:53 If God was to use natural elements (hornets) to drive out the inhabitants. Wouldn’t that still be genocide?
T = 08:38 Please help me understand Exodus 15 : 26. Are the commands being written about the 10 commandments? Which ones are the decrees? Are the diseases any kind or God is talking about only the plagues of Egypt?
T = 10:30 If we love products made by a company that says they support things Christians don’t support, should we not spend money there?
T = 11:45 Jesus tells us to love everyone. I must admit people get on my nerves and I lose patience with them. How can I become more loving?
T = 15:40 When God said build me a santury after the pattern that i will show you, is the pattern the sanctuary in heaven?

 

Q3 Q&A #3

T = 00:15 What are the grounds for divorice and remarriage, according to the bible?
T = 03:10 A pastor told me Love is not God, just one of his characteristics. How do I rebute this?
T = 04:55 What death, first or second, is God referring to when he instructed Adam and Eve not to eat of the fruit of the forbidden tree?
T = 06:45 Can C&R develope “mini bible studies” to backup what it teaches through the correct law lens?
T = 08:20 Did Jesus have fear?
T = 09:12 Are the flaming sword and the tree of life and the ark of the covenant still on Earth, hidden?
T = 10:50 Do you think God (of Love) took some of Paul’s physical pain away?
T = 12:50 Is asking for a sign (fleece) from God in answer to a major decision what God wants us to do?
T = 15:23 Do people become confused by the word punishment by intertwining destruction of man and destruction of Earth?
T = 16:15 Does God learn?
T = 18:25 Was the overturning of Roe v. Wade a King of the North move?

 

Q3 Q&A #2

T = 00:10 If Jesus was punished for our sins who punished him?
T = 03:10 In the statement by Jesus in Matthew 7:8 “For every one that asketh receiveth”… is this a design law where the process of asking for a new heart actually is effectual in making the change inside of us physiological?
T = 04:47 According to Acts 24 : 27 about handling snakes and ingesting poison, is it okay to get the covid jabs?
T = 06:50 How can we simply present a God of love to Sabbath school class juniors and preteens
T = 07:30 Expand on how God has delayed or held back the death inducting damage of sin to give humanity time to see their error and to chose Life
T = 11:10 Why did Jesus have to die?

 

Q3 Q&A #1

T = 01:32 Regarding the deceitfulness of Joseph, you called it purposeful misdirection. Help me grasp this principle.
T = 07:55 Are people who’s parents didn’t teach them manners or kindness, beyond excused for their unkind/rude behavior since it was never modeled to them?
T = 09:37 When we talk about Gods plan for our lives, how do we know what our part is and what His part is?
T = 16:00 Please contrast the doctrine of “original sin” with our “terminal sin condition inherited from Adam.”

 

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Testimony 39

[This ministry is the] biggest blessing I have ever received! Your DVDs and lessons could not have come at a better time in my life. I have experienced in the past year many difficulties that, if it wasn’t for this wonderful view of God that I have discovered through this ministry, I would not have been able to respond in love and forgiveness. My heart is being transformed everyday by the Calvary-looking God you teach. Hallelujah!! I have tears in my eyes as I write, because my life has taken a complete turn from where I was heading.

I am from Central America. Most of my family is scattered in different parts of the world and all have the same view of God that I had growing up; a distant, exacting, and ready-to-punish-us-with-tragedy type of God. So, I have been translating lessons for my family and, to my surprise, they have also been sharing them with others! I can already see the difference. My brother has often said, “Thank you for sharing, I have never heard it this way!” My other family members are taking an amazing turn from a message of “repent or burn” towards a loving God, pleading to us that we won’t reject him because he loves us eternally.

Bless you for all you do.

Sofia S., Ashfield, MA, USA

 

Testimony 30

God lead me to your book “The God-Shaped Brain” while I was searching for another book about the brain and then to your interview about your book on HeartWise Ministries [where] I found out about [Come And Reason Ministries]. I’m now devouring the webcasts of your Bible studies. I have been so greatly blessed and I thank God so much for your courage to speak the Truth in love no matter what. Listening to you contrast the two opposing systems (laws) and digging deep to unearth the hidden treasures in the Bible makes me so incredibly happy and I feel very blessed to be part of your Bible Study Group although I live far away. I am just so excited that there is a group of people that is spreading the Truth about the character of God and it saddens me how few realize what our Father in Heaven is really like.

Kessy B., Australia

 

Testimony 58

I have been watching your videos in The Power of Love seminar and I must say these have liberated me and have improved my relationship with the Lord. I am no longer terrified of him as I was before following your teachings.

Thando N., South Africa

 

Testimony 36

Thank you and may God continue to bless you as you share with others the intricacies of how we are all “fearfully and wonderfully made”. I must share that you have opened a whole new world to me, and I have found tremendous healing through what you have shared in two of your books, “Could It Be This Simple?” and “The God Shaped Brain.” I praise God for what you shared, what I have learned, and how I have grown and healed! My prayer is that My Precious Jesus will be seen by others in the way I live, act, talk, etc. and they may be encouraged to know He is truly a GREAT God of LOVE, desiring that no one should perish! God Bless you in your continued endeavors to present Him as He really is!

Joleen H. GA, USA

 

Testimony 22

I have found your Bible study class lectures to be very inspiring and useful as I prepare to teach class every other week. I subscribe to the podcast and download your notes on the weeks I teach. The audio and notes are such a great help in preparing. My own understanding of God’s character has grown as I teach the class. Commendations on the thought-provoking and well-prepared material Come and Reason provides. Personally, I get excited by the tie you make between the spiritual and mental/physical domains.

A.A. Corrales, NM, USA

 

Testimony 59

I’m a native Ghanan, but am currently in France for my master’s degree. Prior to this, during my final years at undergraduate studies in Ghana, I was introduced to your ministry and I’ve been immensely blessed by what you share, especially about the Design and Imposed Laws. God richly bless you for that.

One of the first things I did when I arrived in France was to buy all four of your books. They not only helped me, but those I shared them with. I shared the message with an atheist student and I marveled at how God worked mightily in his life. Today this person shares the Love of God with others and debunks theories of who God is not. I want to share what you present in your “Heavenly Sanctuary and Investigative Judgment” pamphlet, because the message brought rest to my soul and I live today as a healthy person.

God bless you so much and your ministry.

Michael A., Ghana

 

Testimony 24

I wanted to thank you very much for presenting your understanding of God. I’ve always been troubled by this question: Why did Jesus have to die? Since my conversion I understood that The Father & Jesus are one, I did not have issues with that. But was there not any other way to save us than for Jesus to die? I guess I actually had a question about God – if He is so wise, how come He did not find another way? I did not see the real ‘beauty’  in the cross. Only when you explained the picture in the medical context, Jesus providing medicine for my selfishness, have I started to finally ‘see the light’. Thank you so much. Your seminar, “Healing the Mind,” are absolutely marvelous & have shared them with my family and many other people, including colleagues at work. Thanks, thanks, thanks. May God bless you abundantly in your ministry.

M. W., Australia

 

Testimony 76

Warm greetings from Tanzania! I just wanted to take a moment to thank you and your team at Come And Reason Ministries for the amazing work you do. Your teachings have opened my eyes to deep biblical truths and how to live them out in real life. I started following the ministry back in 2018, and ever since, my walk with God has grown so much stronger. I’ve found freedom from fear-based faith and now live with more peace and trust in Him. I’ve also been sharing what I’ve learned, especially through Bible School discussions. Your lessons are so insightful and well-explained that I try not to miss a single one. May God continue to bless the work you’re doing.
Elisha M., Tanzania, Africa

Testimony 35

I am so pleased with the response your message is receiving at my church from the middle-aged to the young adults. I have given out 100 copies of the first two seminars and there are more request every week. One of my [class members] came to me after viewing the series, grateful and impressed with how easy the message was retained. He had been a Seventh-day Adventist in fear all his life, and felt like the scales were removed from his eyes after viewing the seminars. I am so impressed by the change I see in members who have received this message, we are in one accord. However, I am sadden by the negative response of the older people. I am verbally attacked anytime I talk about imposed laws, but I believe my mission is to enlightened everyone I can. I watch your Bible Study Class on YouTube every Friday night and I feel like I am apart of the class. All of you are in one accord and I am so blessed to have found you. I pray that all of you continue to spread this message and I am committed to doing my part.

Clara S., Westfield, MA, USA

 

Testimony 52

Your unique way in spreading the truth is what we all need today. Most of us don’t recognize the contamination coming from all the lies and selfishness in the world. Because of our fear of death, we forgot how to live. Lies left and right. I was losing hope and faith, because of so many ideas that are always contradicting each other – so many questions answered by other, more complicated, questions – until I found your channel on YouTube.

You did not just give me answers, you also taught me how to answer new questions that arise in my mind. Now I see things differently. I see God’s mercy, grace, and Love everywhere, in spite of all the chaos that we all have done as humans. I don’t fear death anymore. Accepting the Truth and Love about God is truly a genuine Freedom from all the confusions, sufferings, selfishness, pain, and death.

I just wanted to say, thank you, sooooo much for revealing the real Remedy for our infected life. I have a new hope and now see the world in a different perspective!

Wheinny P., University Place, WA, USA

 

Testimony 12

I have been really blessed reading your response to the various questions on your site.

K.C., OH, USA

 

Testimony 18

The Healing the Mind DVD set tarted me on a journey that has changed my relationship with our loving God more significantly than any other study, and brought me to your book and Bible study podcasts, which I now listen to daily, thanks to the availability of archived content on your site and on iTunes.

Anonymous

 

Testimony 66

I am incredibly grateful for the transformative impact you’ve had on my life, and words cannot fully express my appreciation. Over the years, I have been an avid listener and follower of C&R and extend my heartfelt thanks for creating the C&R mobile app. It has allowed me to immerse myself in your lessons repeatedly, enabling me to grasp the profound significance about the Character of God, Design Law, the protocols for life, the reasons behind the current chaos, and Christ’s mission to restore everything. They have deeply touched me. Having studied with various churches, I came away with the perception that God is no different from the deities of ancient Greek or Roman mythology—demanding sacrifices and taking pleasure in bloodshed. Thanks to your transformative teachings, I have experienced a profound awakening to the true nature of God and the immense power of His love. It is truly a remarkable and liberating sensation to finally grasp the truth and embrace the empowering nature of God’s laws. My self-perception has become brighter and more infused with love. My journey of growth continues on a daily basis.

Chris P., Lake Mary, FL, USA

 

Testimony 62

I would like to express my thanks to the C&R team for creating a platform from which people can learn to trust in God and grow. My life is a witness to the effectiveness of this ministry. Without believing the truth about God as you have shown, I don’t know what my life would be like. I had given up on God helping me with certain sins – it was all useless. Given that the scripture is clear and God is so good, how could I have betrayed him so many times? I was a yo-yo christian; spinning up and down. My faith and enthusiasm was driven by discoveries/threats that prophecy is about to be fulfilled. But when I watched your “Healing the Mind” seminar, it was like a light finally went on. I could see God had no plan to hurt me, the danger came from sin, and that He is working to protect me and strengthen me. Thank you for allowing God to use you. The message God gave C&R saved my life!

Antony N. – Hobart, Australia

 

Testimony 25

I just want to say thank you so much for your conversations via YouTube. I regularly tune in to your lectures, “Let’s Talk” sessions, and many others. Through these I’ve found greater depth and meaning to God’s word. Thanks for all that you do and please continue. I’m currently working in the middle of Silicon Valley at Stanford University. I feel like God really has me in the right place right now and I’m sensing that your teachings might be part of it.

B. F., Silicon Valley, CA, USA