I have been troubled over a book I started reading (and decided not to finish) a couple of weeks ago. I believe the author is grossly misinterpreting the Kingdom Parables, the Bema Judgment and the Church’s place/role in the Millennial/Heavenly Kingdoms. Furthermore, our sanctification “process” is equated with our Kingdom rewards, and actually states that the “outer darkness” and “weeping and gnashing of teeth” is about “believers” who are cast out of the presence of God after the Bema judgment because they failed to achieve a certain level of sanctification.

The focus is on Matthew’s parables from chapters 8:11-12, 22:13, 24:50-51, 25:12, and 25:30, and before listing these parables the author states, “Always remember the ones who were not able to inherit:”. Then the author says, after the list, “These passages are all talking about Christians! And yet none of them inherited the Kingdom. Yes, they were all in it. But they were in some other region, some other place -the darkness outside – and thus separated from the light of the Lord’s presence.”

The book goes out of its way to state that the person is still saved, and still goes to Heaven, but because they did not follow Christ faithfully they will dwell in a part of Heaven away from Him and forfeit any rewards of reigning with Him in His Kingdom.

I see that your position is that someone can believe there are other sinless persons that have existed throughout human history, and still be born again through faith alone in Jesus. I am wondering if you think a person can pray to Mary and to the various saints and also be a born-again Christian? Does praying to others besides Jesus, indicate a lack of faith in and understanding of who Jesus He is and what He has uniquely done through His death and resurrection on our behalf? Does praying to others also a indicate a denial of Him as the only possible mediator between the sinner and God the Father because of His unique sinlessness and deity?

I am having a hard time imagining an indwelt believer, not grasping the basic understanding of the unique sinlessness of Jesus and why only He is able to mediate between sinners and God. That’s almost like saying the Holy Spirit isn’t doing His job.

I believe you may have touched on this in past comments/articles, but I was wondering if you could address this head on: Does the Bible discuss a time of “Great Revival” at the end of the age? Many church leaders speak of a “great awakening” or a “wave” of revival, where the Holy Spirit is going to take the world by storm in the end times…and I’m not sure this is correct. Unfortunately.

I was hoping you could shed some light on two scriptures for me if you could:

The first being Ecclesiastes 12:6, what specifically are these objects that are being destroyed i.e. the silver cord?

The second is Amos 5:2, why does God say that Israel is fallen never to rise again?

Thank you so much for your help as always.

I take your commentary (on healing) to mean that you believe that God/Jesus heals people today on earth. Do you believe that God will heal you if you pray and are anointed with oil etc?

I worked as a nurse for 20 years and eventually sustained a life-altering injury at work that disabled me from severe back pain. I have prayed incessantly, repented, been anointed by the elders, read books on healing, had constant prayer by hundreds of believers and called out to God on a 24/7 basis begging and appropriating my healing. I have been in severe unrelenting pain now for almost a decade without healing in sight. I do not have any unconfessed sins, I hold no anger or I am not participating in any sinful acts so it cannot be me. I am a repentant, born again Christian who tithes.

SO DO YOU BELIEVE THAT CHRISTIANS CAN BE HEALED? AND IF SO, WHY HAVEN’T I BEEN HEALED?

I firmly believe that the world view of an individual is based on his spiritual condition and how important the Word of God is in his life. Because of this belief, I have encountered an argument that I have no answer on.

I believe that what the West is experiencing (innovations and technology, wealth, “stable” governments, “relative” peace, etc) is part of their spiritual heritage and what the East, Middle-east, South-America and Africa is experiencing is due to their worship of pagan gods. The eroding of the Western society is because they have turned their back on God, His word and principles.

The argument used against my view is: “Look at the great civilizations of the past – Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon, Greece, Romans, etc. and the more modern Napoleon, even Hitler and the communist regimes? There was the same things as in the West (innovations and technology, wealth, “stable” governments, “relative” peace, etc) and their end was the same as what the end of the West will be.”

How do I answer this?

I was reading your article “Case for Eternal Punishment” and found it very interesting. Though when you get down to the brass tacks of it all we as believers will really not know what Eternal Punishment will be like. I for one cannot even imagine how terrible it would be to be separated from my LORD and my GOD.

But the human nature in us all makes us so curious. I was of the mind that there would be different punishments merited out in hell along with the major punishment of separation.

I have read that once we are with the LORD and he puts the refining fire to our works what is left will show what position of authority we would have in his kingdom. The author put it that once saved always saved but we all will be doing different things when we are in the kingdom.

He was always talking vaguely of the different amounts of rewards (treasures) that each person would build up in heaven.

That got me thinking that if a person is to have eternal punishment then there would be different levels of that punishment, just as eternal life has different levels of rewards.

I was having a talk with my pastor about the belief that Mary was sinless, a view as you know held by Catholics as declared by the ineffable God decree of 1854 and the idea of the Immaculate Conception of Mary.

I was wondering if you thought that a person who believes Mary was sinless can also be a Christian. Does the view of Mary being sinless take away from Christ’s glory? Ineffable God does stress that Mary remained sinless by the power of God and not by her own deeds, however does this even change anything?

I am trying to determine what those of us who are raptured will be doing during the tribulation. John describes to us what he saw in heaven after being raptured himself. But, this is not entirely clear. What will we be doing? Will we be enjoying the presence of the Lord? Hanging out in the room the Lord has prepared for us? Or, will we be able to see the events taking place on earth? What is your view?

When I was sixteen years old I became pregnant. My future husbands parents insisted that I end the pregnancy and since it was not legal in Canada at the time they gave us the money and sent us off to New York to have it performed.

At the last minute I heard in my mind that I was strong enough to get up out of that bed and tell them I didn’t want to kill my unborn child. I had always been a very meek young girl, and for me to just do this was not in my power. I felt a presence with me that gave me that courage to tell the doctor that I had changed my mind and wanted to cancel it.

What hurts me the most is that son is now 35 years old and has told me he doesn’t know if Jesus is real. Do you think that Jesus would have gone to all the trouble of seeing me through that horrible time to save my child, but would now let him perish? How can I convince my son of His existence?