Answers to Questions Listed by Topics Beginning with the Letter "P"
Unless otherwise noted, all answers were written by Jeff Hamilton.
Pacifism
Paganism
Parables
Parents
- How do you handle a controlling father?
- How do you honor an abusive parent?
- What is a Christian's responsibility to his parents?
Passover
Paul
- Could you explain the vow Paul took at Cenchrea?
- Did the apostle Paul keep the laws found in the Torah?
- How did Paul learn the gospel?
- I don't think you proved Paul to be an apostle.
- I would like to ask you about the book of Galatians and Paul.
- Was it a requirement to be married to be a member of the Sanhedrin court?
- Was Paul ever in Colosse?
- Was Paul married or a member of the Sanhedrin?
- Wasn't Paul a Nicolaitan?
- Where can I learn about Paul's work?
- Why did Paul say he left Titus in Crete?
- Why was Saul's name changed to Paul?
Pedophilia
Persecution
Perseverance of the Saints, Eternal Security
- Can you sin after receiving the Holy Spirit?
- Could you explain I Peter 1:1-5?
- How is it possible to fall from grace if you can't lose your salvation?
- Once you are saved, can you live a sin free life?
- What do you think about this group who says believers cannot lose their salvation?
- Will God allow sin to get us back?
Persistence
Peter
Pharisees
Philemon
Philosophy
Physicians, Doctors, Healers
- Should a Christian use medicinal drugs that may affect the mind?
- Who are the three doctors of the Bible?
Plants
- Does the sycamore tree still have fruit today as it did in biblical times?
- What does a broom tree look like?
Pleasure
- Is life all about God and never about us?
- What is gluttony and is all pleasure seeking activities wrong?
Police
Pornography
- Can you make some recommendations for a computer for a 14-year-old?
- Does pornography change a person?
- Doesn't Matthew 5:27-28 only apply to married people?
- I feel so guilty about my past sins. I just can't get them off my mind. Why do I still not feel forgiven? Is forgiveness all about feelings?
- I feel so stupid. I just told a child that looking at pornography was a sin and then the next evening did it myself. Can you give me some advice?
- I found out my 12 year old son is looking at pornography. How do I handle it?
- I've fallen back into pornography, how can I be confident that when I repent I'll still go to heaven?
- I have problems in my youth group. What should I do?
- I keep lapsing back into pornography and masturbation. Is there any hope for me?
- I'm addicted to pornography and masturbation. How do I stop?
- Is looking at pornography fornication?
- Is phone sex grounds for a divorce?
- Is pornography a just cause for divorce that allows remarriage?
- Is viewing pornography wrong when you are married?
- My boyfriend is addicted to porn and sex web sites. What can I do to help him?
- My husband supposedly stopped viewing pornography, but he has stopped sleeping with me. How can I trust him?
- One of my kids in my youth group is into porn, but I don't know what to do.
- What is pornography's draw?
- What is the spiritual impact of online pornography?
- Why is pornography so addictive and how can I help someone stop looking at porn?
Prayer, Praying
- Can a woman lead prayers at home when her husband is present?
- Can Satan hear our internal prayers?
- Did you get some verses wrong concerning prayer?
- Does Ephesians 6:18 teach that saints are to be intercessors between Christians and God?
- Does God respond to the prayers of the alien sinner?
- How are prayers handled when a woman's husband is not a Christian?
- How can I feel forgiven?
- How can I get God to answer my prayer?
- How can I pray without doubt when I know that sometimes I won't get what I prayed for?
- How do I get God to make me a slave to righteousness?
- How do you explain praying God's will and not your own?
- How much do we do before we let God take over?
- How should I pray to grow bigger?
- I think I'm getting too caught up in the "doing" parts of being a Christian. How can I improve?
- If you're praying for something and believe you have received it, what if it's not what God wants?
- Is it wrong to ask God for forgiveness of sins, but also have other things in mind to ask from Him?
- Is it wrong to refer to God as Jehovah in a prayer?
- Is the correct way to ask God for help is "if you are willing?"
- Should prayers only be made for things that bring God glory?
- Should we pray for Satan's salvation?
- Shouldn't we lift hands in prayer and greet with a holy kiss?
- To whom should we pray?
- What does "anointing him with oil" mean?
- What does it mean for a husband to not honor his wife?
- When I pray to God, am I praying to the Father or the Son?
- Why did Jesus ignore the Canaanite woman?
- Why do I feel so disconnected after making the sign of the cross?
- Why don't Protestants say the Rosary?
- Why is it wrong to pray to saints?
Preachers, Preaching
- Are there more Christians who actually believe the Bible?
- Can a preacher kick members out of a church?
- Can a woman be a pastor?
- Can a woman be a preacher?
- Can I use your pictures on my web site?
- Can the preacher use his time to conduct a Bible class during the worship service?
- Do abuses prove that preachers are being overused in congregations?
- Do angels preach?
- Do the elders and preachers constitute the church in decisions?
- Do you employ a full-time leader?
- Do you know of a book on being a preacher's wife?
- Does a congregation have the right to mandate what is preached?
- Does a preacher need to give?
- Does Acts 2:17-18 prove women can be preachers?
- Does it please God when we preach and teach His Word?
- Have you read the whole Bible and memorized Scriptures?
- How can I help a brother become a better teacher and preacher?
- How could a just God put a man in a place where he is unable to hear about Jesus and then send him to hell?
- How could the gospel have been preached to every creature?
- How much autonomy does a church have when its evangelist is receiving outside support?
- Is a preacher an employee of the church?
- Is is acceptable to lie about being in a communist country to teach the gospel?
- Is it wrong to pay a preacher?
- Is the point of life seeing the fruit of your labors?
- Is the Sunset International Bible Institute a trustworthy organization?
- Isn't the reason denominations want married preachers is because they confuse the office of an elder with that of the preacher?
- "It's people like you who make young people fear to turn to God for help."
- "I'm giving serious thought to becoming a preacher"
- Must a preacher teach from the Greek and Hebrew text?
- Must preachers be ordained?
- Must the duties of preaching be evenly distributed among able and qualified men?
- Should a preacher be paid to hold a gospel meeting?
- Should a preacher be referred to as "reverend?"
- Should a preacher do weddings?
- Should preachers only be supported if they are in need?
- Should a repeated adulterer be dismissed from the ministry?
- Should I get in better shape before preaching?
- Should I not make waves because of the sin in the church I'm attending because I'm only here for a short while?
- Should I stick with the program or go off to teach the gospel on my own?
- Should you only teach a subject once to a Christian who disagrees with you?
- Shouldn't you teach about principles instead of pointing out people's sins?
- Someone said I wasn't doing my duty as a preacher because I'm not always out on the street preaching. What do you think?
- Was Jesus ever long winded?
- What can be done about a preacher who puts more effort into delivery than into content?
- What do I need to know to become a preacher's wife?
- What do you think about this preacher's article? I think he is being offensive.
- What does a preacher's wife do?
- What is "mutual edification?"
- What is the function of a pastor?
- What questions should brethren ask of a man wanting to preach for them?
- What should be done when a foreign preacher asks for money?
- What would you tell an eldership who rejects a preacher because his wife wears a headcovering?
- When I get busy in school, I lose sight of God. Is that wrong?
- Where does it say that those preaching God's word would be hated?
- Where have you studied?
- Why are congregations requiring preachers to be married?
- Why isn't more time spent on spreading the golden rule?
- Wouldn't it be better to put the questions and answers on a site that doesn't mention the church of Christ?
- You can't judge others!
- You should stop bullying people about sexual sins.
- You shouldn't be so negative.
Predestination, Foreordination, Unconditional Election
- Are Christians predestined to go to heaven?
- Could God have two wills, one that tells man what to do and a hidden will where He makes some men sin to accomplish His other will?
- Could you explain "foreknew" and "predestined" to me?
- Could you explain I Peter 1:1-5?
- Did God pick Jacob for salvation before or after he was born?
- Does everything happen as God designed it or is it all by coincidence?
- Does God exist outside of time and sees all of time at once?
- If Adam and Eve did not sin, would it have been only a matter of time before someone else sinned?
- If God knows everything, then why did Jesus marvel at the centurion's faith?
- If Jesus knew Judas would betray him, why did Jesus have him around?
- Is free will and predetermined destiny contradictory?
- Is God bound by time?
- Is God's sovereignty absolute?
- Is Judaism Calvinistic?
- Is our fate predetermined?
- What do you think about predestination and free-will?
Premillennialism
- Are there sacrifices during the millennium?
- Can people receive Christ after the Rapture?
- Did the Jesuits develop preterism and futurism?
- Do you think something drastic will happen this year? Do you think the rapture will happen in the next two years?
- How do I explain the second coming?
- I am confused about premillennial theory
- If you weren't a part of the rapture and had to face the tribulation, would that shake your faith?
- In the Book of Revelation, when is Christ coming back on a cloud, before or after the tribulation?
- Is there any evidence of the rapture being written or spoken of prior to 1909 and Scofield?
- What do you believe in regards to premillennial and dispensational theories?
- What do you know about Jack Van Impe?
- What is meant by "one will be left and the other taken"?
- Who cares if the word "rapture" doesn't appear in the Bible? It is still a term used to describe a real event.
- Will Jesus come again when everyone has heard the gospel?
Preterism, Preterist, AD 70 Theory
- Are the seven church in Asia still waiting for Christ?
- Could Hegesippus have been mistaken and John was sent to Patmos in A.D. 70?
- Did the Jesuits develop preterism and futurism?
- Should all prophecies be seen as fulfilled in the past (preterism)?
- What does "end of the age" refer to?
Pride
- Is it wrong to have pride in your work?
- Is my daughter's craftiness a self-esteem issue?
- Questions about James 4
- What is pride?
- What should a teenager do to guard against pride?
Priests
- How could Samuel offer a burnt offering when he was not a Levite?
- Were all Levitical Priests left-handed?
- Were only priests allowed to offer sacrifices?
- What is the difference between a Priest and a Levite?
- What is wrong with Catholicism?
- Where does the Bible say the priesthood is given to all men?
Priorities
Profanity
Promises
- See also: Oaths
- Does God still need to keep His covenant with Abraham?
- How many promises can be found in the Bible?
- What does God do if you make a deal with Him and don't keep it?
- When and to whom was the Savior first promised?
- Why is the command to baptize applied to us, but not those concerning miraculous gifts?
- Would you help resolve a dispute over the sale of a home?
Prophecy
- A reader who doesn't believe the gifts of the Spirit have ended.
- A prophet told my fiance not to marry me. What do I do?
- Aren't prophets useless if they don't submit to the church's authority?
- Could you explain prophecy, tongue speaking, and interpretation a bit more for me?
- Does a prophet need to be an official minister before they can prophesy?
- Does Acts 2:17-18 prove women can be preachers?
- Does God speak to unbelievers?
- Doesn't Ezekiel 37 speak of the restoration of Israel before Jesus' return?
- Doesn't prophecy require an interpreter?
- Have you heard about Kim Clement?
- If Jesus knew Judas would betray him, why did Jesus have him around?
- My pastor says God told her that I shouldn't marry my fiance. What do I do?
- Questions about miraculous gifts
- Should a Bible class teacher yield the floor when someone else has a revelation?
- Should all prophecies be seen as fulfilled in the past (preterism)?
- The mistranslation of "Jesus" is the 666 in Revelation
- Was Moses a prophet?
- What about prophecy in the church?
- What did Simeon mean in Luke 2:35?
- What do you know about Jack Van Impe?
- What do you think God is telling me?
- What is the purpose of dreams?
- What is your proof that prophecy has ended?
- What prophet did God blind?
- When and to whom was the Savior first promised?
- Where does the Bible explain why Jesus' bones were not broken?
- Who are the false prophets among us today?
- Will the world end on December 21, 2012?
- "You are a false prophet"
Prostitution
- How do I help a male escort out of his sinful lifestyle?
- Is it wrong for a lonely single man to use the services of a prostitute?
Protection
Providence
- How does God influence us?
- How much do we do before we let God take over?
- Where was God's protection for those caught in the September 11th tragedy?
Psychiatry, Psychologists, Psychology
- How do I get motivated?
- Should Christians get counseling?
- What about hearing voices in your head?
- Why do I still not have control over my anger?