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2023 Q4 Questions & Answers Index

2023 Q4 Questions & Answers Index

Q4 Q&A #13

T = 04:55 Why can’t we let the Jews have the designation of being the 144,000?
T = 12:00 Does the resuming of temple services in 164 BC and the Temple Dedication in John 10 : 22 have any application for our time?
T = 14:30 How do I help people see a positive future, who express how tired, weary, and on-dege they are of govt lockdowns and depression-inducing weather patterns?
T = 17:30 How do I help very rules-oriented church members see God’s law as design law and to not have such a behaviorally-focused relationship with God?
T = 18:30 Am I in conflict with my new found understanding of Sabbath based on your ministry’s teachings.
T = 22:35 Is the Garden of Eden still a place on earth?
T = 25:30 How do you counsel a newly married couple that just had a baby where one parent isn’t getting their spouse’s “worship” they were used to getting before the baby arrived?

 

Q4 Q&A #12

T = 00:00 What are your thoughts on requesting non-combatant status and if your views have changed since you served?
T = 02:00 What does mean to be angry with someone “without cause” in Matthew 5 : 22?
T = 03:30 How do we introduce the right God to people who can’t understand a God who would not use power to protect himself?
T = 07:50 Do lightboxs for depression actually help?

 

Q4 Q&A #11

T = 00:25 When does the 4th Judgement (determining who goes to heaven or not) occur?
T = 04:15 How can a medical school expect to produce good physicians when we are taught that students are part of the racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion problem?
T = 08:30 When the Bible talks of Christ bearing our sins or sin, 1 Peter 2 : 24, what does this ultimately mean?
T = 09:50 Do you think that we should avoid everything that comes out of Hollywood?
T = 10:50 Would Jesus have died if he did not give up his spirit, since he was God and God cannot die?
T = 13:50 How do you handle a situation where you are being taught in a non-denominational private school that we go to heaven when we die and it is backed up with “bible proof”?
T = 15:30 What is the Laodicean lukewarm condition of Revelation 3?
T = 18:20 In addition to having a protective role with us, do our angels also have love for us?
T = 19:05 How do you think the SDA health message impacted the acceptance and delivery of the gospel?

 

Q4 Q&A #10

T = 00:10 What is your understanding of restraining evil on the global scale?
T = 03:25 What is the significance of Arron’s rod and pot of manna being placed inside the ark of the covenant?
T = 07:40 How would you answer when asked if you’re a member of a certain denomination or a christian, since there are false and true versions of both?
T = 08:50 Why doesn’t the bible record Jesus’ mission or interactions with his half brothers and sisters?
T = 11:05 What events do you think are to soon “break upon the world”?
T = 12:10 When people say “everyone has their sin” or “it’s not possible to keep the commandments” is that true? Can you have a flaw that’s not a sin?
T = 17:30 Why does it seem that most Christians get stuck at level four of moral decision making (law and order)?
T = 19:50 Can you identify who or what the beast & false prophet are in Revelation chapters 16, 19, and 20?
T = 20:15 Do you have a blog that I can share with someone who has a problem with God killing women and children?

 

Q4 Q&A #9

T = 00:10 Do demons physically enter and take control of your mind/brain or stay external and only influence behavior?
T = 06:00 Can you reconcile giving tithe to modern-day institutions not teaching truth with Jesus praising those giving their offerings to the Jewish Temple He knew was corrupt?
T = 11:40 Why can’t I connect with God? How do I connect with Him?
T = 13:00 Explain what “sinful neglect” is in EGW 3SM 258. “Pleasure seeking, ball playing, swimming, was not a necessity, but a sinful neglect of the sacred day sanctified by Jehovah.”
T = 15:30 How are we to correctly interpret Elisha’s bones resurrecting a corpse?
T = 16:30 Do you have any advice regarding taking on large debts (mortgage) during these uncertain times?

 

Q4 Q&A #8

T = 00:55 Could us being tripartite beings (mind, body, energy) help us understand how Christ saved us, having flawed biology (hardware) but flawless software (mind-psyche), so that his mind reshaped the physiology of his brain to align perfectly with the law of love through his experience?
T = 02:25 Was incarnate Jesus omniscient?
T = 06:35 How can I share that Satan alleges God can not be trusted, that God is out to punish, and that every sin must meet its punishment using only Bible verses, not Ellen White?
T = 08:55 Why did God turn Lot’s wife into a pillar of salt?
T = 10:10 Can hystrionics personality disorder be cured?
T = 11:20 Was Judas possessed by satan directly or a demon in his body or his mind? Who was Jesus giving the command to “go do what you’re going to do quickly,” Satan or Judas?
T = 12:40 Was the purpose of the OT laver a form of baptism?
T = 14:25 Do we need to complete a full set of bible studies prior to being baptized and becoming a church member?
T = 18:25 Is Mark 5 about Jesus casting demons into a heard of pigs that jump off a cliff to their death an example of demons self indicting themselves?
T = 19:35 Do you give any importance to keeping the OT feast/holy days and avoiding pagan-influenced cultural holidays?
T = 23:30 Could the thief on the cross be characterized as experiencing a baptism of death as he contemplated his future after accepting Christ’s redemption?

 

Q4 Q&A #7

T = 00:15 In Luke 1 : 6 Zechariah is said to be righteous and in verse 12, he was afraid of the angel. I thought after becoming righteous, fear is out of the heart.
T = 01:00 Where would you direct someone to be baptised when they do not want to join a church that teaches the imposed law view?
T = 02:30 Is there a difference between “in christ” and “through christ?”
T = 03:20 Why does Deuteronomy 21 : 18-21 tell people to stone a stubborn and rebellious child to death?
T = 06:25 Why is Jesus telling the cast out demons to be silent in Mark 1 : 34? Isn’t that Satan’s method?
T = 08:25 Should we take biblical lessons from a transgener person, or allow them to be church leaders?
T = 10:45 Could you do a blog on each of the chapters of the book of Daniel?
T = 13:45 Can Jesus Christ be considered Lucifer, the light bearer or conveyor/carrier of light? Is the name Lucifer a good thing that we attach an evil perception to?
T = 14:55 Can narcissistic personality disorder be cured?
T = 15:25 When Revelation 20 : 9 occurs, the fire from heaven passes through the saints and the city without harming them before devouring the wicked outside the gates. Can you provide the source for making such a statement?
T = 17:20 Please share wisdom about helping people heal from perfectionism.

 

Q4 Q&A #6

T = 00:10 What is a healthier way to think when following God, but his “open doors” don’t work out?
T = 01:50 Will the wicked raised in the second that they will wake also with their sickness (cancer, ugly sickness). Thank you for your insight
T = 03:20 What’s the lesson for us re. the deceitful, murderous, lying prophet in 1 Kings 13?
T = 05:15 How can we avoid communicating the wrong idea when we say ‘God sent or gave his son’?
T = 07:10 How do you interpret the heavenly sanctuary and prophetic timeline that ended in 1844; what happened at that time?
T = 10:40 What does it mean to surrender to Christ?
T = 11:45 How does one address a nit-picky supervior in a toxic workplace environment without offending them?
T = 13:50 What is intercessory prayer? Does it really change God’s mind OR allow Him to act in ways that He would not have otherwise been able to do?
T = 16:15 Will the wicked dead be raised at the end of the 1,000 years with same type of bodies they had upon death, e.g. diseased, crippled, paralyzed, blind, etc.?
T = 16:30 Were the demons that Jesus cast out of the demoniac freed from the pigs they entered after the pigs drowned in the lake? Can a mind be so controlled by a demon that the victim is not able to choose differently, even if they want to be healed from their tormentor?
T = 20:45 Why was the earth distroyed by water at Noah’s time and by fire at the end?
T = 22:00 Are there different types or fear or only one that all human beings suffer from that do not know God?

 

Q4 Q&A #5

T = 00:20 It is unchristian to draw boundaries to limit volunteer work for those in need who have mismanaged their time and resources?
T = 02:25 What is the best way to support Israel now at war with Hamas?
T = 09:00 Do you think God could have opened a way for the Messiah without having his people becoming killers?
T = 11:55 Is the act of helping people more for us than the person we were led to help?
T = 13:50 Does the King of the North or South both fulfill the definition of “Popery’ you provided regarding Babylon?
T = 15:05 Can being “trained” to follow the penal legal lead of a bible study guide editor be habit forming and train them what to think rather than how to think?
T = 16:00 What is the mechanism at work here mentally, physically, and spiritually that brings healing and character development when we tell God about our gratitude, questions, confessions of weaknesses, faults, mistakes, and failures?

 

Q4 Q&A #4

T = 00:30 Does God honor the decision of the terminally ill to end their lives via doctor assistance?
T = 03:00 Is “that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition” referencing Satan appearing as the Fake Jesus?
T = 06:45 if one can be saved today and not saved tomorrow, then waere they really ever saved, seeing that God knows the end from the beginning?
T = 11:00 How do you understand Isaiah 45 : 7 “God creates evil?”
T = 13:25 Please help me understand why EGW says Eve was not horror-striken to hear satan’s accusations that God is a deceiver, but the angles were.
T = 15:00 Do SDA’s believe in “original sin?”
T = 17:00 Are pilgrimages something the bible suggests is important and needed as christians?
T = 18:25 What does “Anointing” with oil actually do?
T = 22:00 What did Jesus purchase at the Cross?
T = 24:30 Are terrorists, who commit heinous crimes and torture, demon possessed and worthy of redemptive prayer?
T = 25:10 Since Mathew 24 is end time troubles and Jesus warns woe to the pregnant woman is there ever in a time when christian couples should stop trying to conceive?
T = 26:00 How do you see the current evil in Israel in relation to End time Biblical prophecy?
T = 27:50 You said “God will change my mind if i ask him.” I’m unable to DO anything. Am I still able to have that super sanctification you spoke of?

 

Q4 Q&A #3

T = 00:10 What is your opinion on “only who through faith in Christ obey all of God’s commandments will reach the condition of sinlessness in which Adam lived before his transgression?”
T = 02:20 Do you think the SDA shift from “lamb and dragon” toward “lamb to dragon” that took place around WW1 when the FBI approached church leaders and threatened them with jail time if they didn’t alter what the FBI considered “anti-american” rhetoric from our publications is valid?
T = 05:20 Explain further about the OT temple being an illustration/object lesson and not the reality of the heavenly temple itself?
T = 14:40 How can Lucifer, the anointed covering cherub now become satan, withstand God’s glory and not be destroyed by God as a consuming fire?
T = 16:10 Why didn’t God warn Adam and Eve in the garden about the talking serpent?

 

Q4 Q&A #2

T = 00:25 Is it possible for at least one of the fallen angels to be drawn to Jesus after the cross, realizing the true nature of Jesus and the true nature of Satan?
T = 03:05 Please explain Spiritual Gifts. vol 1 pg 193 re. God cannot take the slave to heaven who has been treated lower than an animal.
T = 11:25 What DESIGN LAW was deviated from in the Garden of Eden?
T = 13:45 Could have God created some other kind of location or object in the Garden of Eden, like an elevated and fenced in “swimming pool,” and set it as the test of obedience?
T = 17:00 Why did Jesus tell the man whom he healed from leprosy in Mathew chapter 8 not to tell anyone?
T = 18:40 Why is the holy spirit not mentioned in many verses where the Father and Son are?
T = 20:50 Does God allow a person brutely treated and isolated from education to miss going to heaven?

 

Q4 Q&A #1

T = 00:05 Do you think Micahel (angelic form Christ took when appearing to Abraham) also visited Melchizedek?
T = 02:20 Is God a narricist for imposing the 10 commandents on us?
T = 05:00 Why did God allow we and this Earth to age and “expire?”
T = 06:35 Will the saved have elevate priviledges in the universe?
T = 08:40 Do you tithe on employer funds given to you for moving expenses?
T = 11:35 Hasn’t the Holy Spirit always been present on Earth prior to Jesus sending him?
T = 14:20 Did God have rules and laws, like the sabbath, prior to creating Earth?
T = 15:40 Why did God create Earth and mankind and then send the “war” with Lucifer down here?
T = 20:45 Did Christ die the same second death that sinners will?
T = 23:25 Should church membership be conditional on belief in the Trinity?
T = 27:20 Was Jesus baptised so that those who can not are considered as baptised virtually?
T = 29:30 Why would God require us to keep the sabbath holy when He knew we cannot make anything holy?
T = 30:50 Why did God use violence and death, like the flood, but Jesus never killed or hurt anyone?
T = 31:35 What material should I used to prepare to talk with Jehovah’s Wittnesses?
T = 33:10 Is a committed relationship between three people, like it is between Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, healthy and in harmony with God’s design?
T = 35:15 What do you do when someone is unable or unwilling(?) to be empathetic?
T = 38:30 What is you view re. King James Version-only christians?

 

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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 50

After coming into contact with Come And Reason Ministries, I can finally say that many of my unanswered questions have fallen into place. I discovered that my view of God’s Law was “imposed laws and rules” with “imposed punishments” and that this was the major culprit of my many unanswered questions. Thanks be to God for using you and those around you to help us who have struggled with this “infection” of thought. I have now rejected the “imposed law” concept to fully embrace “Design Law”… to look thru “Design Law,” instead of “imposed law,” is a relief.

Viliami L., Australia

 

Testimony 33

I was invited over a friend’s house to see the “God and Your Brain” seminar today. I became [a christian] 36 years ago at the age of 19, but have struggled with the concept of God taking His ‘pound of flesh’ out on His Son to be appeased. Wow. Your seminar has been an incredible revelation and breath of reason and fresh air! I have your book, “The God Shaped Brain,” and it is SO eye opening. Finally, after 36 years enlightenment has come! Praise the Good Lord! What can I say, but that the Real Gospel is truly “Good News!” Thank you for your efforts in giving the Gospel a clear sound!

Paul C.,  Springfield, MA, USA

 

Testimony 14

We really appreciate your views on the judgment and they make good sense considering our free choice.

Anonymous

 

Testimony 46

Over the past couple of years God has been expanding my view of Himself and His character. Along my approximately 40-year journey, I have often had questions, but was hesitant to voice these and step outside the traditionally accepted thinking, for fear of admitting that I may in fact be eternally lost. In the recesses of my thinking has been the thought – if one blindly accepts (which is widely regarded as “real faith”) and does not question, is this really ‘truth?’ I often find it challenging to grapple with very theological ‘speak,’ but Dr. Jennings has a real gift of explaining spiritual concepts with clear practical examples. The weekly discussions are growing my Christian experience and slowly changing my view of how to live as a child of God in today’s complex world. Finally the whole Old Testament sanctuary teaching moved in my mind from fantasy to reality!

Beverly S., South Africa

 

Testimony 20

I just wanted to personally thank you for your teachings and insight into scripture. I came across your website via my cousin who suggested I look into “Healing the Mind” information. My youngest daughter has been struggling over the last couple of years and it all came to a head this spring. When I started listening to the “Healing the Mind” lectures my own life began to be transformed. I began sharing with all my daughters the concepts you laid out so clearly. I ordered your book and soaked it up. I just want to say “Thank You!” My walk with the Lord has been refreshed and renewed. Your obedience to the Lord is a blessing to so many.

R. K., Anderson, SC, USA

 

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

 

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 19

I truly believe that to know who God really is the first step to understand ourselves in a balanced and kind way, so the healing can take place. Your approach really makes sense – Thank you for your ministry!

A.M., Pittsburg, PA, USA

Testimony 2

I continue to enjoy your lessons every week. The more that I research your conclusions, the more I am convinced that the Holy Spirit has lead you to distill out the essence of human redemption. Thank you for your courageous stand for the truth.

S. G., TX, USA

 

Testimony 41

I have been blessed by your ministry. I have experienced personally, and deeply resonate with, the God of love and the beautiful picture of God’s character that you present. I have seen your seminar series on YouTube, read ‘The Journal of the Watcher’ book, used your mobile app, and also listen/study the bible study lesson with you each week. I concur with many of the thoughts and perspectives that you share. I understand your conclusions on natural laws vs imposed law and the legal/penal substitution (incorrect diagnosis). This makes perfect sense to me.

Bless you for all you do.

Melissa L.

 

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 61

I grew up in a prominent protestant church and had what I like to call religious anxiety. I’ve always had questions about God and Salvation that no one could seem to answer.  I didn’t know how to find resolution. During 2020, at the height of my anxiety, I fell to my knees and begged God to show me truth and light and to give me the hope that I’ve been longing for. Days later, I stumbled upon your online videos and it was like a veil was lifted and EVERYTHING made sense! For the first time in my almost 39 years of life, my religious/spiritual anxiety has lessened. I feel a sense of freedom and peace I’ve NEVER had before… and it’s all because my view of God has changed. Thank you!

Ashleighn C.

 

Testimony 9

I really enjoy with you the view of a gracious God. Thank you for sharing the work you are allowing the Lord to do in you.

L., Queensland, Australia

 

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