Questions and answers
Deep biblical answers to the questions people ask—about faith, life, forgiveness, fear, and salvation. With quotations from Holy Scripture and Ellen White.
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How should you correctly count 9 days, 40 days, and one year after death?
How to correctly count the days after death: the 9th day, the 40th day, and the year. Where these numbers came from, what memorial meals mean from a biblical perspective, and how to resolve a family dispute about the date.
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What is allowed and not allowed at a funeral according to the Bible?
An honest review of folk funeral traditions: kissing the deceased, phone use, mirrors, music, cleaning, a black headscarf—what is in the Bible, and what is only folk belief.
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What are the real signs before death, and what does the Bible say about them?
What to realistically expect in the final days of a loved one’s life: real physiological changes, what to say to a dying person, why superstitious omens are not biblical, and the promise of the resurrection.
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What are the gifts of the Holy Spirit and what kinds are there?
What are the gifts of the Holy Spirit, the lists in 1 Cor. 12, Rom. 12, and Eph. 4, the difference between gifts and the fruit of the Spirit, how to understand your gifts, and whether you can ask God for them.
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How should I pray for the protection of my home from war?
How to pray for the protection of your home: biblical foundations, a ready-made prayer text, a separate protective prayer against war, prayer for people who wish evil, and how to make your home a place for God.
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What Is Sin According to the Bible, and What Kinds of Sins Are There?
What the Bible calls sin, a list of the main sins (of the heart, words, actions, and neglect), whether there are “lesser” and “greater” sins, the unpardonable sin, and how to deal with a specific sin.
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Who betrayed Jesus Christ, and how did it happen?
Who Judas Iscariot was, why he betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, the sequence of events (Last Supper, Gethsemane, Judas’s kiss), and why Judas perished but Peter did not.
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What does the story of Sodom and Gomorrah mean in the Bible?
Where was Sodom located, why it was punished, Abraham’s bargaining with God, the story of Lot’s wife, and what this story teaches about God’s justice and His longsuffering.
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How should I pray correctly for help in a difficult situation?
How to pray for help: biblical promises, a ready-made text, a short prayer, and texts for specific situations (illness, finances, conflict, fear, grief).
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How should I confess according to the Bible?
What does the Bible call confession, how to prepare, a ready text, how to confess specifically, whether it needs to be repeated, and the difference between confession and repentance.
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How to write a farewell speech for a funeral?
A 5-part structure for a farewell speech, ready examples (for a mother/father, for a husband, for a soldier), tips on how to write and not break down, Bible quotes about the resurrection.
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How to pray for your husband and for the preservation of the family?
How to pray for your husband: 7 areas (health, spirit, work, protection), a ready text, a prayer for a family in crisis, what to do when your husband is at war or does not believe.
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