“All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, for training in righteousness.”
2 Timothy 3:16 (CSB)
“Above all, you know this: No prophecy of Scripture comes from the prophet’s own interpretation, because no prophecy ever came by the will of man; instead, men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.”
2 Peter 1:20-21 (CSB)
1. Is the Bible a fairy tale because it mentions unicorns?
“And the unicorns shall come down with them. And the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.”
Isaiah 34:7 (KJV)
“Many have undertaken to compile a narrative about the events that have been fulfilled among us, just as the original eyewitnesses and servants of the word handed them down to us. So it also seemed good to me, since I have carefully investigated everything from the very first, to write to you in an orderly sequence, most honorable Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty of the things about which you have been instructed.”
Luke 1:1-4 (CSB)
2. What is wrong with mixing polyester and cotton?
“You are to keep my statutes. Do not crossbreed two different kinds of livestock, sow your fields with two kinds of seed or put on a garment made of two kinds of material.”
Leviticus 19:19 (CSB)
3. What’s wrong with shrimp cocktails and pork loins?
“When he went to the house away from the crowd, his disciples asked him about the parable. He said to them, ‘Are you also lacking in understanding? Don’t you realize that nothing going into a person from the outside can defile him? For it doesn’t go into the heart but into the stomach and is eliminated’ (thus he declared all foods clean).”
Mark 7:17-19 (CSB)
4. Is slavery a sin?
“When a man sells his daughter as a concubine, she is not to leave as the male slaves do. If she is displeasing to her master, who choose her or himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners because he acted treacherously toward her. Or if he chooses her for his son, he must deal with her according to the customary treatment of daughters”
Exodus 21:7 (CSB)
“Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as you would Christ. Don’t work only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing God’s will from your heart. Serve with a good attitude, as to the Lord not to people”
(Ephesians 6:5).
“There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female; since you are all one in Christ.”
Galatians 3:28 (CSB)
5. Why would God want a girl to marry her rapist?
“If a man encounters a young woman, a virgin who is not engaged, takes hold of her and rapes her, and they are discovered, the man who raped her is to give the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she will become his wife because he violated her. He cannot divorce her as long as he lives.”
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 (CSB)
