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Teaching/Witnessing F.A.Q’s

(using 2 Tim 3:16, John 3:16, 1 Tim 3:16)

  • Statement: “Man wrote the Bible!”

    • Answer: 2 Tim 3:16 says, all scripture is given by the inspiration of God, not man.
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    Statement: “The bible is just a fictional story, what is it good for?”

    • Answer: 2 Tim 3:16 says, not so, It is useful for proper beliefs, for teaching us what is right and wrong, for strongly telling us that certain things that we do in everyday living is not right and proper, for teaching us what we should be doing, and for teaching us the proper and correct way to live.
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    Statement: “God is distant and angry, how can he love me?”

    • Answer: John 3:16 says God loves the world, and he loved it so much, he sent his son to prove it. For those who believe in his son, not only will they never die, but they will be eternally alive in Heaven, with Jesus Christ.
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    Statement: “Bad things happen in the world, and have happened to me. Why does God allow these things if he loves me?”

    • Answer: John 3:16 says that God Loves you and he loves you so much that he allowed his only son, Jesus Christ, to die so we would be free from sin and have eternal life in Heaven. There is evil in the world and why should we blame God? Why not blame the Devil. He is the one who causes bad things to happen. God also promises that one day he will separate us from the ones who did evil and did not regret what they did. Also, since man was given the second greatest gift of “free will”, when we do not listen to him, bad things can happen to us. Example: God does not want us to pollute the world but when we do not listen, pollution makes us ill. That is not God’s fault.
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    Statement: “I have lost so much and have hurt so much. What has God ever lost and how does God understand my hurt?”

    • Answer: John 3:16 God had only one son, and although we suffer loss, God lost his one and only son. Jesus also lost a close friend and was so sad, that the shortest verse in the Bible is: “Jesus Wept”. I am sure that God was very hurt to see his son have to die on that cross, especially when he did no wrong.
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    Statement: “I don’t need Jesus, I am a good person, I am going to Heaven.”

    • Answer: John 3:16 says, only if you believe in Jesus Christ will you have a place in Heaven and only in you believe, will you not die. There is no other way.
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    Statement: “I believe in God, and that is good enough.”

    • Answer: John 3:16 says that is not good enough. God tells us that we must believe in the one he sent, and that is his son, Jesus Christ and that is pretty fair as God clearly proved that in Christ, he was God in the flesh so it is only fair we look at the facts and believe, in order to receive our rewards.
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    Statement: “Jesus was just a man, he was not God. God is in Heaven and Jesus is dead and in the ground so he was surely just a man.”

    • Answer: 1 Tim 3:16 says, God took on a body of flesh, and walked this earth. That flesh was called, Jesus Christ, and that flesh was God, not a man, case closed.
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    Statement: “They say that Jesus died and come back to life. There is no way that could be true. No one every came back to life. He must have been in a deep sleep or in a coma. He was a man.”

    • Answer: 1 Tim 3:16 clearly says that Jesus was manifest in the flesh, killed for no reason nor crime, and then cleared of his charges when God brought him back to life and he then went to Heaven.
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    Statement: “I do not believe in Angels, they are from fiction or mythology or out of story books. They are not real.”

    • Answer: 1 Tim 3:16 says Jesus was seen by Angels. He was the Lord, (head) of Angels, and they were messengers who worked for him.
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    Statement: “There are many kinds of people in the world”

    • Answer: Not really as 1 Tim 3:16 speaks of Gentiles (non-Jews). Either a person in the world is a Jew, and if not, they are Gentiles. Further more, in Christ, either you believe in him and are saved, or you do not believe in him, and you are unsaved. Jesus preached to the world and the Gentiles believed in him and received him and his message and Jesus, as King of the Jews, was Jewish and as “God in the Flesh”, he was “the Messiah.”
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    Statement: “I don’t believe in this Jesus person.”

    • Answer: “1 Tim 3:16 says the world believed in him, and hopefully you will research Jesus Christ and will find out that, “He is the real deal.” A softdrink company calls a pop, “The real Thing” so we can and should call Jesus Christ, “The Real Deal.”
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    Statement: “I don’t believe in Jesus, or God, or Heaven. If there ever was a man called Jesus, he is dead and in the ground. He is just like everyone else who ever died.”

    • Answer: 1 Tim 3:16 is clear, he was God in the Flesh, and God took him home to Glory (Heaven) as 1 Tim 3:16 says, therefore how could he still be on earth in the ground?
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    Statement: “I heard that Jesus is on the earth right now and is invisible.”

    • Answer: 1 Tim 3:16 says, not so. He is in Heaven as God received him to be home there at his right hand.
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    Statement: “Where is Jesus now? Did they not find his body somewhere in Jerusalem?”

    • Answer: Again, 1 Tim 3:16 is clear. He is in Heaven. Case Closed.
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    Statement: “All that you say is from a book called the Bible. I do not believe in the Bible or what it says.”

    • Answer: 2 Tim 3:16 clearly says that the Bible was given to us by God.
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    Statement: “But I do not believe in God so why should I believe in the Bible?”

    • Answer: 2 Tim 3:16 quotes Psalm 14:1 and tells us that we are foolish to not believe in God. Our future depends on finding out who Jesus Christ is, and believing in him. God cares so much for us, he then wants us to get the message as a parent is concerned for a child who is doing dangerous things and getting into trouble. We tell our kids that they are foolish and if they do not stop, they will get into a lot of trouble or hurt. God in Psalm 14:1 shows how worried and concerned he is for us and bluntly tells us,
      “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.”
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