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Answers to Questions Listed by Topics Beginning with the Letter "B"

Unless otherwise noted, all answers were written by Jeff Hamilton.

Baptism

A refusal to accept that salvation came to Cornelius at baptism
Abraham wasn't baptized, so why should we need it?
Am I doing the right thing by getting baptized again after being baptized as a child?
Are children being baptized just to claim growth?
Are you born again?
Aren't the references to baptism just symbolic?
Aren't you misinterpreting the Scriptures unless you teach faith alone?
Can a baptism be annulled?
Can a man be saved without baptism?
Can a person be a believer and not be saved?
Can fellowship be denied?
Can you explain all these similar phrases about dying with Christ and dying to sin?
Can you help me answer some arguments that baptism isn't necessary?
Could you explain this answer I got concerning Acts 2:38?
Did Paul really receive the Holy Spirit before his baptism?
Do you believe that baptism could be linked to grace?
Do you have to know that baptism is for the remission of sins in order to be forgiven?
Does baptism make Jesus' sacrifice insufficient for our salvation?
Does Mark 16:16 say that someone not baptized is lost?
Does regeneration and being born again mean the same thing?
Does Romans 4:9-12 indicate that we are saved prior to baptism?
Does the term "brother" indicate Saul was saved prior to baptism?
Does true faith mean the command to be baptized does not save a person?
Doesn't John 3:16 prove that you can be saved without baptism?
How can baptism be necessary when everyone doesn't have access to water, someone to baptize them, or haven't practiced it for centuries?
How can baptism save?
How can I convince a friend that baptism is required for salvation?
How can one justify being a Christian if he is not baptized?
How do I teach a stubborn person the truth about baptism?
How does a person become a new creation?
How far should a person's past be checked before baptizing them?
How was John's baptism different from Jesus' baptism?
I want to attend a different church than my parents. What do I do?
If man must be baptized to be saved, why do so many passages only mention faith?
If there is no inherited sin, then wouldn't this leave a possibility for a person to live a sinless life?
In whose name are we to be baptized?
Is it true that the purpose of baptism is not for salvation?
Is water baptism a work?
Isn't Acts 2:38 and Matthew 26:28 different in some Greek texts?
Jesus did not say he who is not baptized will be condemned, right?
Matthew 28:19 cannot refer to a Christian's baptism because it was given in the wrong place and at the wrong time.
Paul was filled with the Spirit before he was baptized, so wasn't he saved before baptism?
Please explain the "baptism of fire."
Should baptism be done only in Jesus' name?
Should I get baptized again?
Was baptism only for the Jews?
Was my husband saved at his first or second baptism?
Was the Ethiopian eunuch baptized in a pool or a river?
Were the apostles baptized?
What about the argument that "for the remission of your sins" is plural and refers back to repentance in Acts 2:38?
What about the thief on the cross?
What are the citations for Luther's quotes on Baptism?
What authority is there for re-baptism?
What if a person can't afford the fee for a baptismal service?
What is the difference between being born again and being saved?
What is the difference between water and the blood of Jesus?
What was the purpose of John's baptism?
When was baptism authorized?
Where does the Bible parallel the use of the laver to baptism?
Why did God command circumcision?

Benevolence

Can a bake sale be held at a church?
Can a church support a saint who doesn't believe as you do?
Can money be used from the church treasury to do good for non-Christians?
Can the church use its funds to send flowers?
How do you feel about giving non-monetary aid directly to a congregation?
How do you handle a family in constant financial need?
How should aid be sent to members of the church?
If the church isn't a social organization, then how are the needy cared for?
Is there any spiritual work that an individual Christian may do that the church may not?
Questions about King Joash's financial management
Should the church help a family that is constantly in financial difficulties?
What can the church do for widows?
What should be done when a foreign preacher asks for money?
Would it be wrong to accept a donation from a non-member?

Bible

Can the Bible be understood by the common man?
Can you say more about Aramaic being used in the Bible?
Do you know of any good books on how we got our Bible?
Have you studied the Bible from an academic point of view as a historical document of several communities making sense of God in their time of crisis?
How did your Bible come into existence?
How do we know how to pronounce Hebrew?
How do we know the Bible is inspired?
How do you explain that the church is the pillar and ground of the truth?
Is Mark 16:9-20 genuine?
Is reading the Bible the best place to start if you have never been religious?
Is the Bible the only source of authority?
Is the New World Translation an accurate translation?
Justifying Divorce and Remarriage by Claiming Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are Old Testament Books
Must a member of the church follow the truth?
"Thanks for your answer, but I believe in a different God"
The 100-Minute Bible? Wait a Minute!
"The New Testament was written in Hebrew, not Greek!"
What do you think about the New Living Translation?
What happened to the letter to Laodicea mentioned in Colossians 4:16?
What is the best way to study the Bible?
What is the Book of Jashar?
What is the most quoted Old Testament book in the New Testament?
What would be a good translation for children?
When did Adam, Eve, and the Bible come into existence?
Where do I find a list of God's laws in the Bible?
Which Bible is the true Word of God?
Which Bible translations are the best?
Which version of the Bible is most accurate?
Why are Samuel, Kings, and Chronicles divided into two books each?
Why did it take 35-40 years to write the Gospels?
Why do some consider the minor prophets one book?
Why do you quote from the Old Law?
Why does the Bible contain the words of Satan?
Why don't you use the Book of Enoch?
Why don't you use the King James Version?
Why was the Song of Songs written?

Bible Classes, Bible Study

Are Sunday morning Bible classes an unauthorized innovation?
Can a woman teach a teenage boy?
Could you clarify when women may speak in church?
Do you know of a source for children studies on the Internet?
Does the command to "forsake not the assembling of ourselves together" apply only to Sunday worship?
Is it a sin not to attend Wednesday night Bible study?
Is there authority for Bible classes segregated by ages?
Should material by a denominational woman preacher be used in a Bible study?

Bible Code

What do you think about my thesis?

Bishops

Can a man be both a preacher and an elder?
Must an elder have faithful children?
What is meant by an elder being the husband of one wife?
Who appoints elders?
Who removes an elder from office?

Bitterness

How do I deal with bitterness against the two fathers of my two daughters?

Blasphemy

Can a murderer be forgiven by God and still go to heaven?
Can you be forgiven after blaspheming?
How can I be assured God will forgive me?
Is it possible for a person to blaspheme today?
What is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?

Blessings

How were Isaac and Jacob blessed?
Questions about Boaz

Born Again, New Birth, Regeneration

Are you born again?
What is the difference between being born again and being saved?

Boycotts

What are your opinions about the Disney company?

Buddhism, Buddhists

Does Buddhism prove Jesus to be myth?
How do I talk to my Buddhist grandmother about Christ?
What do you think about reincarnation?