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• Question: Is it wrong for me to desire companionship since my husbands death?
  • Dear Mr. Hill,
  • I am a widow of approximately 7.5 months. Being a relatively young female, age 40 at the time of my husband's death, it has been my desire to have a companion in my life once again. I have recently met a very compassionate and wonderful Christian man who I have so very much in common with (he lost his brother to cancer within the past 18 months) Is it wrong for me to desire this companionship? Is there a time frame that is expected before I meet someone new? I am very happy in this newly budding relationship and don't feel that I'm doing anything wrong though I do get some flack from certain family members. Please advise what the right approach to this situation would be in a Christian way.
  • Thank you!
  • Sincerely
  • Kimberley
• Answer: (click here to see the answer)
  1. Dear Kimberly,
  2. I am 69 years old. I recommend that you enjoy the company of this wonderful Christian man. I encourage you to take your time and get to know him very well. Get to know his pastor and family. Meet his friends.
  3. If it is possible, learn what his and your temperaments are and find out more about each other. I would recommend that you take the Meyer Briggs Temperament Indicator to find out what your temperaments are. If you become serious, seek a good pastor for marriage counseling.
  4. If you have any other questions, let me know.
  5. Love in Christ,
  6. Bob Hill
• Question: Remarriage after divorce
  • I was married to a non believer for 17yrs, I had always believed in God, but was unaware of the born again experience an in receiving Jesus until after I divorced.
  • I remarried a much younger man, we are both Christian, I fear where it says if one remarries, makes the partner an adulterer.
• Answer: (click here to see the answer)
  1. Dear Mrs. Kelleher,
  2. Do not fear. In the dispensation of Grace, because we have been baptized by the Holy Spirit into Christ’s death, we have been freed from all sin after we believed in Christ as our Savior. This is shown in Rom 6:3-11,14 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 5 For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves of sin. 7 For he who has died has been freed from sin. 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him, 9 knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more. Death no longer has dominion over Him. 10 For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 11 Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
  3. Also, since we are not under law, but under grace (Rom 6:14), we are not under the marriage laws on divorce and remarriage. This doesn’t mean they have no meaning, it just means the blood of Christ has freed us from the penalty of death. We don’t try to keep those laws. Instead, we should focus on loving God and allow Him to fill us with His love. Then we by faith should let His love show in our lives.
  4. But in the dispensation of grace, when the law is no longer in power for believers, God wants the husbands, according to Eph 5:25-33, to “love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, 26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, 27 that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. 28 So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself. 29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church. 30 For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones. 31 “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 32 This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself.”
  5. 1 Co 6:7,12 says, “Now therefore, it is already an utter failure for you that you go to law against one another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated? 12 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.”, but this is not the problem. God, indeed, hates divorce. Under Christ’s interpretation of the law in Matthew 5, there was only one ground for divorce: Mat 5:31,32 “Furthermore it has been said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.”
  6. An important passage on this subject is found in 1 Co 7:10-28 Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to depart from her husband. 11 But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to divorce his wife. 12 But to the rest I, not the Lord, say: If any brother has a wife who does not believe, and she is willing to live with him, let him not divorce her. 13 And a woman who has a husband who does not believe, if he is willing to live with her, let her not divorce him. 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. 15 But if the unbeliever departs, let him depart; a brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases. But God has called us to peace. 16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife? 17 But as God has distributed to each one, as the Lord has called each one, so let him walk. And so I ordain in all the churches. 18 Was anyone called while circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Was anyone called while uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised. 19 Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but keeping the commandments of God is what matters. 20 Let each one remain in the same calling in which he was called. 21 Were you called while a slave? Do not be concerned about it; but if you can be made free, rather use it. 22 For he who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord's freedman. Likewise he who is called while free is Christ's slave. 23 You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men. 24 Brethren, let each one remain with God in that state in which he was called. 25 Now concerning virgins: I have no commandment from the Lord; yet I give judgment as one whom the Lord in His mercy has made trustworthy. 26 I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress – that it is good for a man to remain as he is: 27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. 28 But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh, but I would spare you.
  7. God seems to say it is all right to get remarried if a person is divorced: Let’s look at 1 Co 7:27,28 again, “Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. 28 But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh, but I would spare you.” This shows us that the sin is in the divorce. If you remarry, you have not sinned. This doesn’t mean God wants us to sin or divorce. He wants us to live for Him freely. I’ve been married to my wife, Joan, for 46 years. We were not married to anyone else, before, so this is not a defense I am making for myself. It is the way grace operates.
  8. In Christ,
  9. Bob Hill
• Question: leaving one for another inside the breathren
  • There is a minister ,who has marital problems for years,and my wife,also with marital problems caused by my sinful ways who have decided to get together.First I have repented,and turned from those ways,asked for and recieved forgiveness for my sins.I am trying desperately to make things up with my wife,but frankly don't blame her for leaving me.Anyway is there a scripture on leaving one for another inside the breathren?
  • Thank you and please reply,
  • Danny Pennington
• Answer: (click here to see the answer)
  1. Dear Danny,
  2. Jesus Christ, the Person in the Godhead who created all things, had a high view of sex. He condemned lustful fantasies. I would say that what is going on in your life, your wife’s and this minister is covered in the Bible. It is wrong. First, Mat 5:27,28 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” Some of the biggest problems with lust are, it is a desire of the flesh, and it denies relationship. Lust turns the other person into an object, a non-person. Christ condemned this.
  3. More important to your situation, Christ responded to a question on divorce by forbidding it in Mat 19:3-7 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?” 4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” 7 They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command [Moses didn’t command, he regulated the action that was taking place.] to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?” Deu 24:1-4 “When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, 2 when she has departed from his house, and goes and becomes another man’s wife, 3 if the latter husband detests her and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her as his wife, 4 then her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.] Christ’s response to their question continues in the 8th verse: “He said to them, ‘Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.’”
  4. The Bible also condemns adultery and premarital sex. Adultery is immoral sex when you’re married. Lev 20:10 “The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death.” We don’t have those laws in America, but those were God’s commandments under the law. This is also addressed in Pro 6:32: “Whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; He who does so destroys his own soul.”
  5. Premarital sex is porneia, fornication, or sexual immorality. [Porneia, fornication, may include adultery, but adultery doesn’t include fornication.] God addresses this for the body of Christ in Col 3:5,6 “Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience.”
  6. Another principle which is strongly stated in Heb 13:4, is this: “Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.” Because you sinned, it doesn’t make the minister’s marriage to your wife all right. 1 Co 7:1-6 addresses sex in a marriage: Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render to his wife the affection due her, and likewise also the wife to her husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. 5 Do not deprive one another except with consent for a time, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again so that Satan does not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 But I say this as a concession, not as a commandment.
  7. God’s will is for you and your wife to be reconciled rather than the minister take your wife, according to 1 Th 4:3-8: “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. 7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. 8 Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.”
  8. The answer to your problem is learning to love your wife as Christ loves the church. You should do this with a knowledge of God’s word. Read Ephesians 5, and love her. Talk with her and seek counsel with a different pastor if she will go with you. You should dwell on God, His love, and His wonderful person. Meditate on His attributes and by an act of faith allow the Holy Spirit to work out love in your life.
  9. In Christ,
  10. Bob Hill
• Question: Is it ok for a white person to date a black person?
  • Dear Bob,
  • is it ok for a white person to date a black person
  • Sincerely,
  • Jessi
• Answer: (click here to see the answer)
  1. Dear Jessi,
  2. My son married a black girl. He was very much in love with her, however, she never seemed secure in our family. Their marriage ended in divorce. There are two children. They are now teenagers. They feel strongly that they are black. We love them, but they don’t seem to love us. We probably don’t know how to make them feel like they belong.
  3. From God’s viewpoint, Moses married an Ethiopian woman. They are known to be black. The account is in Num 12:1-8 Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman. 2 So they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.) 4 Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tabernacle of meeting!” So the three came out. 5 Then the Lord came down in the pillar of cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both went forward. 6 Then He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, make Myself known to him in a vision; I speak to him in a dream. 7 Not so with My servant Moses; He is faithful in all My house. 8 I speak with him face to face, even plainly, and not in dark sayings; And he sees the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?”
  4. From this passage, we see that the Lord called Aaron and Miriam to Him and reproved them for speaking against Moses. If interracial marriage were wrong God would have said so. But God did not condemn Moses. Because God loves the whole world, He doesn’t care about color. God did care about intermarriage with some of the inhabitants of Palestine, but I think that was because of idolatry and the fallen angels.
  5. We all came from Adam through Noah. So, we are all related. If we are saved, we are all members of the same body, the body of Christ.
  6. In Christ,
  7. Bob Hill
• Question: Is it O.K. to get remarried after a divorce?
  • Hello,
  • If a husband divorces his wife and their was adultery, can the spouse remarried. He just didnt want to be married anymore.
• Answer: (click here to see the answer)
  1. Dear Jer3116,
  2. My heart goes out to you. God hates divorce, but He says in His word - Mat 5:32: “But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery.” Now, that passage is in the dispensation where they were still under the law. God still hates divorce, but in this dispensation He inspired Paul to write in 1 Co 7:27-28: “Are you bound to a wife? [Are you married?] Do not seek to be loosed [divorced]. Are you loosed from a wife? [Are you divorced?] Do not seek a wife. 28 But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh, but I would spare you.”
  3. I believe, from this Scripture that it is O.K. to remarry.
  4. In Christ,
  5. Bob Hill
• Question: Is interracial marriage against Gods will?
  • Bob,
  • I have been raised in church since I was a very small girl, and never recall even hearing anything about interracial marriage. I know that some people believe strongly against it, and then others say that it is a matter of your own heart. I have been burying myself in the Bible for a while now trying to find an answer, but there seems to be nothing in there on that topic. It only talks about oneness and the importance of marriage of all people, and it talks against prejudice, so I have basically come to the conclusion that God doesn't care if you marry interracially, as long as the marriage is His will. I was just wondering if you have ever come across anything that might be able to give me a little more to stand on. Thank you so much.
  • Courtney Blakeman
• Answer: (click here to see the answer)
  1. Dear Courtney,
  2. Moses married an Ethiopian woman. They are known to be black. The account is in Num 12:1-8 Then Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married; for he had married an Ethiopian woman. 2 So they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth.) 4 Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tabernacle of meeting!” So the three came out. 5 Then the Lord came down in the pillar of cloud and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam. And they both went forward. 6 Then He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, make Myself known to him in a vision; I speak to him in a dream. 7 Not so with My servant Moses; He is faithful in all My house. 8 I speak with him face to face, even plainly, and not in dark sayings; And he sees the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?”
  3. From this passage, we see that the Lord called Aaron and Miriam to Him and chewed them out for speaking against Moses. If interracial marriage was wrong God would have said so and He did not condemn Moses. Because He loves the whole world, He doesn’t care about color. God did care about intermarriage with some of the inhabitants of Palestine, but I think that was because of idolatry and the fallen angels.
  4. We all came from Adam through Noah. So, we are all related. If we are saved, we are all members of the same body, the body of Christ.
  5. In Christ,
  6. Bob

• Question: What is the relevance of Deu 24:1-4 to divorce and remarriage today?
  • Explain the meaning of Deuteronomy 24:1-4 and its relevance to the issues of divorce and remarriage today.
• Answer: (click here to see the answer)
  1. Deu 24:1-4 was a principle that God required Israel to live by.
  2. Deu 24:1-4 When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, 2 when she has departed from his house, and goes and becomes another man's wife, 3 if the latter husband detests her and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband dies who took her as his wife, 4 then her former husband who divorced her must not take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the LORD, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
  3. But in Rom 6:14,15 it says "For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace. 15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!"
  4. One of the passages that is for us today is in Paul's epistle to the Corinthians. 1 Co 7:25-28 Now concerning virgins: I have no commandment from the Lord; yet I give judgment as one whom the Lord in His mercy has made trustworthy. 26 I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress -- that it is good for a man to remain as he is: 27 Are you bound to a wife? [Are you married?] Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? [Are you divorced?] Do not seek a wife. 28 But even if you do marry, you have not sinned; and if a virgin marries, she has not sinned. Nevertheless such will have trouble in the flesh, but I would spare you.
  5. In Christ,
  6. Bob Hill
• Question: A question about pre-marital sex
  • Dear Bob,
  • My daughter is 20 years old and still a virgin. She has a boy friend that has asked her for sex. I taught my daughter that she should wait for marriage before having sex. He say's there's nothing wrong with it. Is there anything in the bible to support the fact that she should wait for marriage. And that sex sin before marriage is wrong Please answer. Thank you in advance.
  • Alva
• Answer: (click here to see the answer)
  1. Dear Alva,
  2. The Bible shows that it is sin to have sex before marriage. It is called fornication in the Bible. Here are some portions of the Bible where this is talked about.
  3. 2 Sam 13:8-14 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was lying down. Then she took flour and kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes. 9 And she took the pan and placed them out before him, but he refused to eat. Then Amnon said, "Have everyone go out from me." And they all went out from him. 10 Then Amnon said to Tamar, "Bring the food into the bedroom, that I may eat from your hand." And Tamar took the cakes which she had made, and brought them to Amnon her brother in the bedroom. 11 Now when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said to her, "Come, lie with me, my sister." 12 But she answered him, "No, my brother, do not force me, for no such thing should be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing! 13 And I, where could I take my shame? And as for you, you would be like one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king; for he will not withhold me from you." 14 However, he would not heed her voice; and being stronger than she, he forced her and lay with her.
  4. Mat 5:27-28 "You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not commit adultery.' 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
  5. Mat 19:17-19 So He said to him, "Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments." 18 He said to Him, "Which ones?" Jesus said, "'You shall not murder,' 'You shall not commit adultery,' 'You shall not steal,' 'You shall not bear false witness,' 19'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"
  6. Gal 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  7. Eph 5:3 But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints. The World Biblical Commentary says “The exhortation here in Ephesians has no specific situation in view but generalizes about “all impurity.” ajkaqarsiva is usually associated with sexual sin, and four of the above references have the term in combination with (fornication) porneiva (cf. 1 Th 4:3, 7; Gal 5:19; 2 Co 12:21; Col 3:5). Because of the context, pleonexiva, “covetousness,” should also be taken as the sort of unrestrained sexual greed whereby a person assumes that others exist for his or her own gratification.”
  8. 1 Co 6:18-7:2 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? 20 For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. 7:1 Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
  9. 2 Ti 2:22 Flee also youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
  10. The definition for the word fornication as found in Bauer, Gingich and Danker Greek Dictionary [edited] is as follows: porneiva, a", hJ (Demosth.+; LXX, Philo, Test. 12 Patr.) prostitution, unchastity, fornication, of every kind of unlawful sexual intercourse. It is differentiated from adultery. It also means the sexual unfaithfulness of a married woman Mt 5:32; 19:9. It is caused by lust D 3:3. dia; ta;" porneiva" 1 Cor 7:2. ejk p. gennhqh`nai be an illegitimate child, a bastard
  11. In Christ,
  12. Bob Hill
• Question: Is drinking and pre-marital sex wrong?
  • Hello,
  • I have a friend at work who posed a question that I can't answer. Could you please help me? He is a liberal Lutheran void of the Holy Spirit. He thinks that God is not opposed to drinking, even to the excess, because Jesus knowingly made wine for the wedding. (Jesus' first miracle) Apparently, my friend says that Jewish weddings were notorious for getting fallen down drunk. He reasons that Jesus couldn't be opposed to excessive drinking once in awhile with friends, because Jesus made the booze for the wedding guests. I tried to share Romans 14 and 15 that I had just learned about at church. But he didn't buy it. (Also, we are to avoid all appearances of evil.)
  • Also, (and this is weird) but my friend does not see where in the bible Jesus says that sex as an adult couple who are not married is wrong. He does not accept where Jesus in John 4 lovingly reprimands the Samaritan woman who has been divorced 5(?) times and the man she was with wasn't even her husband. He says that Jesus was displeased with her lifestyle-the divorces. How could I defend the biblical commonsense Christian positions? Thanks for all your help,
  • Teresa
• Answer: (click here to see the answer)
  1. Dear Teresa,
  2. Christ had some rigid views when it comes to the things your friend brought up. In Mat 5:27-28, Christ said: “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”
  3. Similarly, when God inspired Paul to write Ephesians, he wrote: Eph 5:17-18 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit. Christ said: Matt 19:17-19 “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.” 18 He said to Him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “ ‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ 19 ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
  4. When Paul wrote Rom 13:8-10, he said: “Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ ‘You shall not covet,’ and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 10 Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”
  5. Finally, Paul wrote in Gal 5:19-25: Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
  6. In Christ,
  7. Bob Hill
• Question: Are Psychics bad? and other questions.
  • Dear Bob
  • Are psychics bad, are they even real?
  • Is God male or male and female?
  • Is the Devil the angel Lucifer?
  • Thank You,
  • Shanna
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  1. Dear Shanna,
  2. Psychics seem to be allied with Satan. Lev 19:31 says, “Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the LORD your God.” Because they were involved with satanic activity, God gave severe instructions in Lev 20:6,27 “And the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from his people. 27 A man or a woman who is a medium, or who has familiar spirits, shall surely be put to death; they shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall be upon them.”
  3. God is always referred to in the masculine gender, but that doesn’t mean He is masculine like a human male. However, when God the Son became Christ, He took on a masculine form of humanity.
  4. I believe the devil in the fallen angel Lucifer according to Isa 14:12-15 “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! 13 For you have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north; 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’ 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.”
  5. In Christ,
  6. Bob Hill
• Question: Is it a sin to get a tattoo?
  • Mr. Hill,
  • First of all, very nice web site.
  • I've been doing research on tattoos. I did not know at the time several years ago that tattoos were not pleasing to the bible. Now feel as if I have sinned unknowingly.
  • I found the knowledge of the Lord's disapproval of tattoos when researching a new tattoo. I was looking at getting a new tattoo. One of cross to symbalize Christ. So that I could have a permenant representation of my beliefs for the rest of my mortal life. Is this wrong? I am confused on this topic any help that you can give would be a tremendous help.
  • Thank you,
  • Cary Brewton
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  1. Dear Cary,
  2. I am biased. I don't like tattoos on people, especially Christians. In Lev 19:26-28, it says "You shall not eat anything with the blood, nor shall you practice divination or soothsaying. 27 You shall not shave around the sides of your head, nor shall you disfigure the edges of your beard. 28 You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the Lord."
  3. However, when we read the biblical material written by God through Paul for the body of Christ, we find in Rom 6:14 that we, the body of Christ, are not under the law. Rom 6:14 "For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace."
  4. Therefore, I would counsel you to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit because He is always guiding us Christians. That's what Rom 8:14 says, "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God."
  5. In Christ,
  6. Bob Hill