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2024 Q1 Questions & Answers Index

2024 Q1 Questions & Answers Index

Q1 Q&A #13

T = 00:10 What does “pleading and interceding” mean in Romans 8 : 34 if it’s not Jesus trying to change God’s mind?
T = 04:50 Are we seeing the repercussions of Protestantism’s rejection of science and nature in religious education by using coercive power to maintain orthodoxy?
T = 05:50 It would appear that Satan is now confined and emprisoned only to our world; are we the jury in his trial?
T = 10:00 Timothy 3 : 16 says ALL scripture is inspired by God. Does this mean we should take the Bible word for word as from God?
T = 12:35 How do I answer those who genuinely believe that the dead are being judged because their ‘accounting’ books have to be balanced so the more they work, the more their debts are “paid off?”
T = 13:55 How could David’s pebble kill Goliath unless God stepped in and performed some sort of miracle?
T = 15:10 Let me clarify my question last week… how did Satan convince the angels they were under some IMPOSED law that he cited causing their distrust of God? Adam/Eve were under God’s IMPOSED law not to eat the fruit.
T = 20:50 What is the final end time Elijah message and who proclaims it? The 144,000?
T = 22:30 I was taught that the next day starts at sunset, but sunset is not night or evening, because it’s still light out. Am I wrong in teaching others this?
T = 24:30 Why would anyone prefer Roman law over Design law? Is it possible people are drawn to Roman law because it’s a system that doesn’t lead them to giving up on self, and putting God and others first?
T = 25:45 Why does it seem that the design law perspective tends to resonate more with non-Adventists than Adventists as a whole?
T = 27:50 If God is a consuming fire of conviction to the wicked, why wasn’t Satan consumed in heaven when he rebelled against God?
T = 30:00 If the result of sin is death, how could sin have been immortalized if the sinner ate from the tree of life?

 

Q1 Q&A #12

T = 00:10 Are the Ten Commandments, that were placed in the ark in the earthly temple’s most holy place, also in the heavenly sanctuary’s ark? Since Jesus told us there is no marriage in heaven, why would the commandments, such as “do not commit adultery,” need to be placed in the heavenly sanctuary if there is no marriage in heaven?
T = 03:55 What is the Old Covenant and what is the New Covenant?
T = 06:25 Is it possible to hold a natural law construct and still rely on our own performance/merits?
T = 08:25 Did ALL first death experiences come because of God’s direct action?
T = 14:05 Is the message of the great controversy between God and Satan unique to to Adventism?
T = 14:50 Will there be many “Elijahs” taking the message to the last days world?
T = 19:20 Can we apply Ellen G. White’s words from 150 years ago to today environment?
T = 23:15 Where is it stated in the Bible that a sinner must be punished because he is a sinner.

 

Q1 Q&A #11

T = 00:10 What exactly is the cause of death that Jesus destroyed at the cross?
T = 03:30 Where are the characters of the lost retained if they aren’t written in the book of life? They need to be somewhere in order to be “downloaded” for the 2nd resurrection, right?
T = 05:35 In Revelation 19 : 19-21, why is the beast and the false prophet thrown into the lake of fire at the second coming?
What’s the difference between the lake of fire and the sword out of the mouth of Jesus?
T = 08:55 What did satan say God is lying about and can’t be trusted to the angels in heaven?
T = 11:00 Is The Book of Enoch valid?
T = 11:20 Right before Jesus comes, will we see more people turning to Him or more people turning away from Him?
T = 13:00 Rev 18 : 6 talks about Babylon reaping a double portion. What might that look like?
T = 14:00 Why did Jesus quote Psalm 22, rather than using His own words?
T = 15:35 The New Jerusalem is called “the bride, the Lamb’s wife,” but invited guests to the wedding cannot also be the bride, right?
T = 16:45 How would you comfort the remaining family about their loved one who committed suicide?
T = 17:35 What do you say to someone who is very excited about “recently” discovered books of Scripture?
T = 19:30 Is guilt the same thing as knowing right from wrong?
T = 19:55 Do you anticipate special opportunities for delusion through the use of AI?

 

Q1 Q&A #10

T = 00:40 I’m struggling with where God wants me worship; at a tiny SDA with no connection, at a sunday-keeping with connection, or online?
T = 03:10 In Revelation 20 : 12, are there two separate books: the book of life and the book of damnation?
T = 04:45 How is the design law message of Come and Reason expanding to the rest of the world from your metrics and evidence?
T = 08:50 Would you please discuss and provide a Design law definition of inspiration?
T = 10:10 While Satan was still in heaven, what law was he insinuating doubt about to the angles? (see Patriarchs & Prophets, 37)
T = 12:20 Have you responded to the Fulcrum7 article evaluating the teachings of Tim Jennings?
T = 14:25 How do I know if I am breaking one of the design laws? Is there a list of such laws?
T = 14:45 What was Jesus’ purpose in physically breathing on the discples in John 20 : 22?
T = 16:00 Why do humans have a proclivity to doubt God rather than Satan?
T = 16:50 How does Patriarchs and Prophets, pg 728 correlate with God’s retributive judgement of punishment on the wicked through the 7 last plagues?
T = 19:00 You have said that the christian world believes they are declared righteous but there is no change in behaviour, however I have not seen this. Can you expand on your position?
T = 24:15 When I completely surrendered myself to God, I immediately gained the victory over all of my besetting sins. Do you and the Come and Reason audience experience this power of deliverence?
T = 25:30 When God puts the unrepentant to sleep, and then are raised in the second resurrection, how can they continue living where they left off? Aren’t they condemned to eternal death, instead?
T = 27:35 Isn’t there another little book in rev 10:10?
T = 28:30 When others lie about us, and family believes them, what do we do when family is not willing to listen to our side?

 

Q1 Q&A #9

T = 00:15 What did Jesus mean when he said in John 16 : 7 “if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you…” when there are places in the OT that clearly say the Holy Spirit was working in people’s hearts?
T = 02:20 Is there anything different about your understanding of God’s character vs Graham Maxwell?
T = 03:30 Is Dan 9 : 24 speaking about Messiah making an end to sin during the middle of the 70th prophetic week the same as Matthew 1 : 21, “He will save His people from their sins?”
T = 04:10 Why does David and Bathsheba’s newborn child have to die as a consequence of David’s sin? (2 Sam 12 : 13)
T = 08:40 I am right to call someone out hen they make a public statement that I viewed as incorrect?

 

Q1 Q&A #8

T = 00:10 Is there a place for all the recent coddling/protecting against “traumatic” event or have we become too weak to handle reality?
T = 01:20 Didn’t Christ do a role reversal with Satan by comeing to Earth as a man?
T = 02:10 How does “Christ being made strong in our weakness” work?
T = 02:45 Why was God so specific about washing the organs of sacrifical animals and the pleasant aroma of the burning flesh?!
T = 06:05 Explain the other set of books mentioned in Revelation 20 : 12, the Great White throne Judgment, and the books from which the wicked are judged according to the deeds recorded therein.
T = 07:40 Is the evidence of Jesus coming to Earth as a man, dying, and rising again, proof that God had already forgiven us?
T = 08:40 How are we to understand EGW’s “When Satan tempts you, breathe not a word of doubt… to others… every doubt you express… is a seed that will germinate and bear fruit in the life of others”, which is contrary to being open/honest with counselors?
T = 14:00 How could Jesus heal Aeneas, resurrect Dorcas, and raise Lazarus without seeking their consents?
T = 15:35 If Jesus was our Substitute on the cross, then why do we continue to die?
T = 18:05 Did the different races develop in Adam or was it part of the curse on Canaan, Noah’s grandchild or at the Tower of Babel>
T = 19:15 What will this look like? “The gospel (truth and love) of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come (Matt 24 : 14).
T = 21:40 Can a sinner “become” righteous while still being a sinner?
T = 22:40 How do you rebute the postion that God made sin available so Lucifer and 1/3 of the angels could chose it?

Q1 Q&A #7

T = 00:15 Why did God use a bronze staff shaped as a serpent to represent Christ?
T = 02:10 What does “Upon Christ as our substitute and surety was laid the iniquity of us all” mean?
T = 06:30 Please explain the account of temptation of Jesus. Was it an hallucination, dream, or actually and physically real?
T = 11:10 How can we help people one level of moral decision-making below were we are understand what we are talking about re. Design Law?
T = 17:40 Why didn’t Satan receive any immediate punishment for disguising himself as or getting the serpent to deceive Eve?
T = 20:20 Why do Chrisitans overwhelmingly prefer to use the pagan Babylonian names given to Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, rather than their real Hebrew names?

 

Q1 Q&A #6

T = 00:15 Is there any truth to organized fasting during evangelistic series that seek to guilt-trip attendees into baptism?
T = 01:30 Did Ellen White always write under Holy Spirit’s inspiration? How do we know what was inspired and what was not? Did she ever changed her views on matters of doctrines and if she did, which ones?
T = 08:20 You have said that bad things/pain come from either Satan, stuff just happens, or from God disciplining. Is it reasonable to say that all the pain that just happens is really a derivative of Satan’s influence?
T = 10:45 I was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer with 6 months to 5 years to live. What does hospice do? It seems to fly-in-the-face of God’s design law for a natural death.
T = 13:00 At what age do you let a wayward child go their own way such?
T = 16:30 Does Isaiah 58 : 1-9 describe true fasting?

 

Q1 Q&A #5

T = 00:15 Since Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one, why don’t all 3 of them know the time of Jesus coming, only the Father?
T = 01:10 What is a design law explanation of Exodus 4 : 24-26? where God wanted to kill Moses, but his wife circumsized their son and then God changed his mind.
T = 04:45 Why does Jesus call it a “new” command when he tells his disciples to love one another just before his crucifixion in John 13?
T = 05:15 At the very end, when the wicked are about to attack the Holy City and fire reigns down, is that God destroying them?
T = 07:25 How can I not feel loss of all confidence and affection for God when he is able, but does not prevent bad things from happening to me or others?
T = 10:35 Explain how the Ten Commandments are a transcript of God’s character, and the fourth Commandment is the only one that will last throughout eternity?
T = 15:35 Should fasting be a part of our Christian life like praying and giving? Are we missing blessings when we fail to fast?
T = 16:00 How we can have emotional compassion toward those holding onto lies that are toxic to them and their witness, yet not come across as “Holier than thou”?

 

Q1 Q&A #4

T = 00:07 Help me understand why Christ wasn’t created by God and that Holy Spirit isn’t simply a manifestation of God and Jesus’ life force.
T = 04:45 Please explain why you say we hide behind a covering of some type. What about Zechariah’s statement about God covering us in a righteous covering?
T = 07:50 If we pay our tithe and all other bills and we can afford it and not go into debt over it, is it wrong to like and want to buy designer items?
T = 09:15 Based on EGW’s many counsels on not using caffeine, why do you advise using in your Aging Brain book?
T = 17:15 Why did King David instruct his son, Solomon, to seek revenge for him? Though God gave him wisdom, why did Solomon execute his dad’s last wishes?
T = 19:35 Does the Great White Throne judgment happen in heaven or in the sky on Jesus’ way back to earth at the end of the 1000 years?
T = 24:40 How do you explain to a rape victim that God did not want to violate the law of liberty and so didn’t prevented the rape, but at other times He did prevent evil acts from occurring?
T = 30:05 Please describe ways to reduce or heal adult repetitive night terrors in someone suffering from complex PTSD.
T = 34:10 Do you think our ways of thinking and remaining defects of character are healed instantly as a result of getting new “hardware” (translated or resurrected bodies) or a process of both new hardware and a sin-free environment?
T = 37:20 Since Jesus was the Word Who became flesh and dwelt among us AND since it is “In Him that we live and move and have our being,” is it wrong to assume that we are all alive inside the Mind of Christ?

 

Q1 Q&A #3

T = 00:13 Please give a more detailed explanation of why Jesus didn’t die the first death.
T = 01:25 Please share your analysis of a popular metaphor about salvation called The Donut Story.
T = 03:30 Please explain Genesis 9 : 5-6, where God says that man is to take the life of any person who murders another human.
T = 04:10 Explain the symbolism of Jeremiah 27 re the bronze pillars and bronze sea being carried away to Babylon.
T = 05:20 Why would God allow bible translators to use legal and confusing words?

 

Q1 Q&A #2

T = 00:15 Do you see Nehemiah 12 : 27 a metaphor referring to the same cleansing and Levitical role for those coming out of Babylon?
T = 04:20 What does it mean in Luke 22 : 36 where Jesus tells his disciples that if they don’t have a sword, they should sell their cloak and buy one?
T = 05:20 How can we effectively EXPLAIN the transition between God using what appears to be IMPOSED laws in the OT and Design Laws?
T = 07:10 What is a good lexicon for studying?
T = 08:45 What is the meaning of “unceasing prayer?”
T = 09:15 Are the Behemoth and Leviathan in Job 40 & 41 literal animals or figurative/metaphor?
T = 10:15 Is viewing home videos and slides shows of home pictures damaging to a 2 and a half year old?

 

Q1 Q&A #1

T = 01:10 Is there any benefit at all in a church owning a Formula 1 race car team? How is that relevant to the Gospel?
T = 01:50 What happens with the different resurrections from the Second Coming onward?
T = 02:50 What happened in 1844 and how the cleansing from sin is different from the cleansing of sin that was occurring before 1844?
T = 03:25 Do you agree that the dramatic changes in climate, now more intense than ever, population explosion, and mismanagement of natural resources the result of the four winds being loosened?
T = 10:30 Who is the real Sabbath-keeper, an Adventist pastor seeking to disfellowship a parishioner who works a non-medical job on sabbath or a Sunday-keeper seeking God’s blessing on non-sunday-keepers?
T = 12:10 Is heaven a metaphor, or does it have a literal meaning, is a physical place, with physical buildings and physical landscape?
T = 14:30 How do I rebutt my Christian friends that believe God, or His representatives (Angels), killed all the Asyrians (2 King 19 : 35) proving that he does directly punish sin, validating their belief in hell?
T = 16:00 Did God wait to bless the seventh day until after he finished resting on it (thus blessing it on the first day of the second week)?
T = 19:50 Please explain how Jacob deceived Esau in Genesis it was Esau who agreed, under no duress, to Jacob’s terms?
T = 22:30 Were there any children before Cain and Able?

 

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I am blown away by the truth that you present. God’s Design Law makes so much sense! You have validated my impression that, if God is love, He would not kill those who don’t want to know him. If God gives us choice, then how can He destroy us if our choice is not to follow him. Thank you for opening my eyes and heart to the pure love of God seen through Jesus. The love I now have for Jesus is deeper and free from condemnation. My heart has been opened to love others as Jesus loves me. May God continue to bless your God-given insight into His word and your ministry. The truth has set me free!

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Your seminars are still inspiring and changing our lives and we continue to share the principles we have learned from you. Your ministry has changed our lives!

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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.

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Testimony 54

I had a lot of pressure, as a pastor’s kid, to conform and be “good.” I was good at being “good.” I thought my life was going along well until it all started falling apart and I could not figure out why! In my search for “why is this happening to me, God?” I came across your book, “Could it be this Simple,” and God started revealing to me the many distortions I held about His character, His principles, and how He has designed His universe to operate. I remember thinking, “Wow, I have had this all backwards.” I was happy and angry all at the same time. Happy to have the light of truth break through the darkness, revealing a wonderful, beautiful way of understanding God and His plan for His children, and angry, because I felt deceived and cheated by the church, my family, and myself!

My heart thrills when I listen to your bible study lessons. Literally I have gone from death to life. It is a journey I look forward to every day, as God reveals areas this distortion affects. Praise GOD! I will ever be grateful to God for this ministry and your cooperation with the Spirit!

Karen S., Portal, AZ, USA

 

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I can’t even begin to thank you and your ministry enough for introducing me to the Truth about a loving and merciful God! I have my daughter and her in-laws to thank for sharing with me “The God-Shaped Brain” as well as your website. I listen to the Bible study class lessons on my daily walk. May God continue to bless your thirst-quenching ministry!

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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 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 17

The blessings of clarity and understanding you and your class inspire me to take from the word of God have impressed upon me so greatly the true, loving character of our Creator. I have found amazing freedom and joy through building a stronger, more intentional relationship with Him. What is new is that this is now a relationship built on love, reverence and respect rather than fear and obligation, and as such my eyes have been slammed OPEN as I am continually impressed by the manifestations of God’s true character in His provisions for fallen man.

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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 48

I just want to tell you how blessed I have been reading “The Remedy!” It has become a daily part of my devotional relationship with God. In it I have found a God of love and a God that loves me! The bible has come alive for me! It is the first time that I can say that I have felt hope fill my heart as I have read God’s word. This is good news I can share! Thank you, Dr Jennings! Thank you for your heart for others. I can’t put into words how this has set me free! It has strengthened my trust and love for God.

Jason H.

 

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!

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Testimony 57

You have helped make sense of thirty two years of confusion. The material you freely provide reorganized so much of my life into such a beautiful pattern that has always been hinted at from within, but misguided with my training and what I was experiencing externally. My filipno parents, who were converted from Catholicism to SDA, were sincere and did their best to raise me the right way and I have deep respect for them. However, being immigrants and not understanding the language made for a difficult transition as I was growing up, which also applied to my spiritual growth as I learned the patterns of religion. I have been listening to as many bible study classes and reading blog posts as my time in a work truck will allow, searching for the practical applications of where spirituality and reality meet, and I thank you for helping me find that. You have helped me reach a point in which I can truly say that I love God, that I believe He loves me, and, like David, I delight in His law. God bless.

Emmanuel V., Calgary, AB Canada

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Thank you! I love listening to the Come And Reason Ministries Bible study classes and am using some of your notes to get the lessons together that I will be teaching. You always have such good quotes and Bible texts and pull things together to make good sense.

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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.

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Your teachings about our heavenly Father have changed my life. Thank you sooooooo very very much! I know He’s doing some serious healing in my heart and life and I look forward to each new day to learn something new about Him and to just hear you speak about Him. Thank you, forever.

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