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Question: How can we know what God says without hearing through a human source? How can I know I am really hearing from God and not from a man or from my own imagination?

September 1, 2004

Question: How can we know what God says without hearing through a human source? How can I know I am really hearing from God and not from a man or from my own imagination? Answer: You ask one of the most important questions there is, yet it is one to...Read more

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Question: “Bibliolatry,” the belief that the written word is more important, more to be sought for answers, than the Living Word who gave it, is very prevalent in America’s churches. Have you addressed this?

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Question: Aren't many of today's Christian leaders conveying a defeatist attitude about Christian values in the United States and other parts of Western Civilization?

Question: My father abused my siblings and me...for years....How do I honor this man...who has shown no evidence of repentance at all...and when I am no longer his child, by his own vow? How do I address him as “father” or “dad” ever again?

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Question: Roman Catholic apologists...claim that the apostles' oral teaching was as authoritative as Scripture.... How do you respond?

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