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Questions & Answers 501-600

Q: #501. Was a rope tied around the ankle of the High Priest when he entered the Holy of Holies?

Q: #502. Did the priests walk barefoot while serving in the Tabernacle / Temple?

Q: #503. What did Jesus mean when He told Peter, “Satan has asked to sift you as wheat” (Lk 22:31)?

Q: #504. How many times does the New Testament mention singing?

Q: #505. Who was Theophilus (Lk 1:3)(Acts 1:1)?

Q: #506. How many centurions are mentioned in the Bible?

Q: #507. Did Isaiah really walk “naked” for 3 years (Isa 20:2-3)?

Q: #508. Why does the Bible call “the flesh” sinful?

Q: #509. Can a Christian find pleasure or enjoyment in sin?

Q: #510. Why did Paul call Ananias a “whitewashed wall” in (Acts 23:3)?

Q: #511. What does it mean to “practice” sin (1 Jn 3:9)? How do I know if I am practicing sin?

Q: #512. Does the Bible talk about birthdays? Is it wrong for Christians to celebrate birthdays?

Q: #513. What is brimstone in the Bible?

Q: #514. Why does God ask questions in the Bible if He is omniscient, and already knows the answers?

Q: #515. What does it mean to “quench the spirit” (1 Th 5:19)?

Q: #516. What is the “crown of boasting” (1 Th 2:19)?

Q: #517. How many times did Paul ask people to pray for him?

Q: #518. How many times did Paul present a defense in the book of Acts?

Q: #519. What is a “holy kiss” (Rom 16:16)(1 Cor 16:20)(2 Cor 13:12)(1 Th 5:26)?

Q: #520. How long was it from the time of Jesus’ death until He appeared to Paul on the road to Damascus?

Q: #521. How many people did Jesus appear to after His resurrection?

Q: #522. Who is called “faithful” in the Bible?

Q: #523. What does (1 Tim 2:15) mean when it says, “she will be saved in childbearing?”

Q: #524. Who was John the Baptist?

Q: #525. What is “living water” (Jn 4:10)?

Q: #526. How many of the 12 disciples were directly called by Jesus?

Q: #527. How many times was Jesus accused of “blasphemy?”

Q: #528. How many times did Jesus heal the blind?

Q: #529. How old was Paul (Saul) when Stephen was stoned?

Q: #530. How many times did Jesus cry (weep)?

Q: #531. Why did the Jews wave palm branches when Jesus entered Jerusalem?

Q: #532. In (Gen 14:14) it says that Abram “pursued them to Dan”. However “Dan” was not established until generations later. If Moses wrote Genesis as thought, or as tradition says how could this be, since Dan did not exist until long after Moses’ death?

Q: #533. What is the difference between love and lust in the Bible?

Q: #534. What is the difference between killing and murdering in the Bible?

Q: #535. What does the Bible have to say about angels?

Q: #536. What are the “spiritual gifts” mentioned in the Bible, and how do you find your gifts?

Q: #537. Why don’t most Christians observe the Sabbath day on Saturday?

Q: #538. Should Christians tithe today? What does the Bible say about tithing?

Q: #539. Why is the Resurrection of Jesus so important?

Q: #540. In what ways does the Holy Spirit help Christians.

Q: #541. What does the Bible have to say about prayer?

Q: #542. How can I find peace?

Q: #543. Can you list some of the trials that God’s prophets went through in the Old Testament?

Q: #544. How can I stop worrying? What does the Bible say about worrying?

Q: #545. What were Paul’s trials?

Q: #546. What does the Bible have to say about pride? Is pride a sin?

Q: #547. What does the Bible say about submitting ourselves to others?

Q: #548. Should Christians submit to the government?

Q: #549. What does it mean when the Bible says someone is “backsliding?”

Q: #550. Does the Bible really talk about Christians “hating” things?

Q: #551. How can I overcome temptation?

Q: #552. Didn’t God cause abortions in (Num 5:21-22,27), when it says that He would make a woman’s “womb miscarry” her baby?

Q: #553. How did people shave in the Bible? 

Q: #554. If God buried the body of Moses after he died (Deut 34:6), then how could there be a dispute between Michael and Satan over his body (Jude 9).

Q: #555. What happened to the Ark of the Covenant?”

Q: #556. In (1 Sam 5:6,9,12), it says that God “smote” the Philistines with “emerods.” What were “emerods?”

Q: #557. What was a “Sabbath days journey” (Acts 1:12)?

Q: #558. How many people were “filled with the Holy Spirit” in the New Testament?

Q: #559. Does (1 Cor 2:14) mean that no one can understand the Bible unless they have the Holy Spirit?

Q: #560. Are Ananias and Sapphira in Hell (Acts 5:1-11)?

Q: #561. How many people “gave up the ghost” in the Bible?

Q: #562. Who was Gamaliel in the Bible?

Q: #563. Did God’s presence still dwell in the Holy of Holies when the curtain was torn at Jesus’ death (Mt 27:50-51)?

Q: #564. Who was Stephen in the Bible?

Q: #565. What are other names for Jerusalem in the Bible?

Q: #566: Was Paul supposed to replace Judas Iscariot as the 12th disciple?

Q: #567. How many times did the Holy Spirit speak to people in the New Testament?

Q: #568: How many “house churches” are mentioned in the Bible?

Q: #569. How many people in the Bible had a job that was tied to their identity?

Q: #570. How many times does Luke emphasize the amount of time that a person was sick, lame, or possessed?

Q: #571. Can unbelievers (non-Christians) cast out demons?

Q: #572. What does it mean to “test” (“tempt”) God (Mt 4:7)(Lk 4:12)?

Q: #573. Who had “household idols / gods” in the Bible?

Q: #574. How many times did God give someone in the Bible a unique task that He gave to no one else?

Q: #575. Who got drunk in the Bible?

Q: #576. Was Luke a Gentile, or a Jew?

Q: #577. What is the meaning of “fell on his neck” in (Acts 20:37)?

Q: #578. What does the Bible mean in (Mt 7:6), “don’t cast your pearls before swine?”

Q: #579. Are unbelievers ever referred to as “brothers” in the Bible?”

Q: #580. How many times did prophets use a visual aid (or “prop”) to “act out” a prophecy in the Bible?

Q: #581. Why did Adonijah (1 Kin 1:50), and Joab (1 Kin 2:28) “take hold of the horns of the altar” for protection?

Q: #582. In (Dan 10:2), it says “Daniel was mourning three full weeks,” and during that time, he did not “anoint” himself (Dan 10:3). What does “anoint” mean here?

Q: #583. What is the meaning of “works meet for repentance” in (Acts 26:20)?

Q: #584. Who committed suicide in the Bible?

Q: #585. What are some Bible verses that I can share with someone who is considering suicide?

Q: #586. How many times did Jesus use “fish” to perform a miracle while He was on earth?

Q: #587. How many people were raised from the dead in the Bible?

Q: #588. How many wells were given names in the Bible?

Q: #589. How many of the Psalms do we not know the author’s name?

Q: #590. Why did Jesus expect Nicodemus to understand what being “born again” meant (Jn 3:10)?

Q: #591. Why did people “fast” in the Bible? Should Christians “fast” today?

Q: #592. What was the “strange fire” that Nadab and Abihu made in (Lev 10:1)?

Q: #593. What animals is God compared to in the Bible?

Q: #594. What animals is Satan / the Devil compared to in the Bible?

Q: #595. How many times in the Bible did God use an animal to accomplish His purpose?

Q: #596. What did Jesus “empty” Himself of when He became a man (Phil 2:7)?

Q: #597. In (Jn 20:8), when John stepped into the empty tomb of Jesus, it says John “saw and believed.” What did John “believe?”

Q: #598. In the Bible, who was tempted to sin by another person, or by Satan, and said “NO!” to that temptation?