The Bible Line - March 11, 2014

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Tammy Stacks, Naples, Italy

Question: This week my cousin ask me what happens when we die? Can you please help me respond to him with scripture. His question : "To be absent from the body is to be present from the Lord?" So, when we die do we instantly go to be with the Lord. Thanks so much for your help.

Trina , Shelburne, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Question: In Gen 22, God refers several times to Isaac being Abraham's only son. Why does he do that when there are other biological sons of Abraham?

Dereena, Augusta, GA

Question: What does the Seventh Day Adventist Church believe? Will there be Seventh Day Adventists in Heaven? I work with a man who is a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church and he and his family follow a church-ordained diet and other things that evangelicals do not. Is it a cult?

Kathryn Hodorowicz, Hoffman Estates , Illinois

Question: I am a believer and my husband is not. When it comes to God and praying, church, etc, my husband does not want anything to do with it. My question is what is the best way to handle a situation like this?

Christy

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Question: Dear Dr Broggi, I am currently attending a ladies bible study that our pastors wife is teaching. It is on Battle of the mind (not the one Joyce Meyers does), just a study from the Bible. A question was brought up at the last study concerning daily forgiveness and keeping short accounts with God...and the answer she gave I'm just not sure about based on certain scriptures I've read (along with others who were in the study). Anyway, she basically said that "a believer does not ever have to ask God for forgiveness for their sin, based on what took place at the cross. At the cross we were justified, redeemed, saved from our sin. She said that if I/you went and murdered someone today we would still go to heaven because we're saved. She said all the scriptures on forgiveness were for non believers. " I believe that yes christians can and do sin, and that because we are saved I think for most, Christians try to live a good life. I agree that we are forgiven at the cross therefore I have eternal security. However, when there is sin involved I feel it is only right to ask the Lord to forgive me of my sins, just as a child would ask his father to forgive him for whatever he did wrong. Also, in the Lords prayer it says to forgive us our trespass as we forgive them that trespass against us. Is she right the we are free from asking God to forgive us when we've sinned? I don't feel it is but maybe I missed something or am in the same mindset as a lot of other people.

Wanda Quinn, Terrebonne

Question: Question about "the new earth". After the destruction of this earth will there be another earth or will this be heaven?

Gerrie McNeely, Rincon, Georgia

Question: Dr. Broggi, I am interested in learning more about something I heard you comment on with regard to Sarah Young and her Jesus Calling devotional recently on a broadcast. I have it and also have the one entitled Jesus Lives. Though I was not sure of it when it first came out, a friend gave me Jesus Calling when my husband was ill with cancer and so I have used it. He has since passed away and I was recently given Jesus Lives to help with the grieving process. I am concerned that I need to stop these devotionals and just stay with my Streams in the Desert one. But, I want to know specifically what is wrong with the ones Sarah Young has done in your opinion. Thank you very much, Gerrie M.

Josh, Foster, RI - Are the two witnesses in Revelation 11 meant to be taken literally or metaphorically? I recently heard a sermon where they were interpreted metaphorically, or figuratively and it seemed a bit of a stretch to make it fit. I am not an expert on Revelation so I don't want to assume I'm right. Can you shed some light on the matter?

A listener's friend was critical of Tim LaHaye's eschatological views. What does Pastor Broggi think?

Betty, Hilton Head Island, SC Pastor, what do you think of the new book by Sarah Young called, Jesus Calling?

Dereena, Augusta, GA According to John MacArthur and others, there are several reasons why they believe in the doctrine of limited atonement. Two of these reasons are that #1 unlimited atonement makes redemption partially dependent on sinners who must believe in order to be saved which would make Christ's sacrifice incomplete and #2 if Jesus paid the penalty for sins, then if a person goes to Hell, they would have paid twice for their sins which would make God unjust. I still do believe in unlimited atonement. It makes sense to me that even though Christ died and paid the penalty for the sins of everyone, God still gives us free will to accept or reject salvation which is a demonstration of God's love for us. Hearing Dr. MacArthur's messages the past few weeks was very confusing. I respect Dr. MacArthur as a brother in Christ, but I do not understand limited atonement. Can you provide some clarification?

A listener asks Pastor Broggi to discuss the question "How can people who have never heard the Gospel be rightly condemned to hell?"

Colossians 3:23 tells us that we ought to work as "unto the Lord" but how could this have been the case under slavery?