Scripture answers
Careful answers to common Bible questions, each weighed verse by verse by who is speaking (God, Jesus, the apostles), with word-for-word verified citations. Open any question for the summary, then see SAM's full analysis.
Contested
- Was Jesus crucified on Wednesday or Friday?Contested
- Does Colossians 2:16 abolish the Sabbath?Inferred
- Is the seventh-day Sabbath binding on Gentiles?Contested
- Is baptism required for salvation?Contested
- Will there be a literal thousand-year reign (the millennium)?Contested
- Does scripture permit divorce and remarriage?Contested
- Are any foods forbidden to Christians today?Contested
- Are head coverings commanded in worship?Contested
- Can a Christian lose their salvation?Contested
- Is the Christian Sabbath Saturday or Sunday?Contested
- Is speaking in tongues for today?Contested
- Is hell eternal conscious torment or annihilation?Contested
- Is the rapture biblical?Contested
- Does the Bible teach predestination?Contested
- Did Jesus descend into hell?Contested
- Was humanity vegetarian before the flood?Direct
- Are the clean and unclean food laws of Leviticus 11 binding on Christians?Contested
- Does the Bible forbid eating pork?Direct
- Does Peter's vision in Acts 10 abolish the food laws?Direct
- Does Mark 7:19 declare all foods clean?Inferred
- What did the Jerusalem Council require Gentiles to abstain from?Direct
- Is eating blood forbidden to Christians?Direct
- Is eating meat sacrificed to idols permitted?Contested
- Does the Bible promise physical healing to every believer?Inferred
- Is sickness caused by personal sin?Inferred
- Is a failure to be healed a failure of faith?Inferred
- Did the gift of healing continue after the apostles?Contested
- What was Paul's thorn in the flesh?Absent
- Why did Paul leave Trophimus sick and tell Timothy to take wine for his stomach?Direct
- Will there be sickness after the resurrection?Inferred
- Was the Sabbath given before Sinai?Direct
- Is the Sabbath command moral law or ceremonial law?Contested
- Did Jesus break the Sabbath?Contested
- Did the early church meet on the first day of the week?Direct
Is it taught?
Canon
Christian living
Verse meaning
- What does John 1:1 mean ('the Word was God')?Inferred
- What does John 8:58 mean ('before Abraham was, I am')?Direct
- What does 1 Peter 3:21 mean ('baptism now saves you')?Contested
- What does John 3:5 mean ('born of water and Spirit')?Contested
- What does Romans 14:5 mean about esteeming one day above another?Inferred
- What does Matthew 16:18 mean ('on this rock I will build my church')?Contested
- What does James 2:24 mean ('justified by works and not by faith alone')?Inferred
- What does 1 Timothy 2:12 mean about women teaching?Contested
- What does 2 Timothy 3:16 mean that scripture is 'God-breathed'?Direct
- What does Malachi 3:10 mean about the tithe?Direct
- What does 'by his stripes we are healed' (Isaiah 53:5) mean?Inferred
- Does James 5:14-15 promise healing through prayer and anointing?Inferred
- Does Hebrews 4 teach a remaining Sabbath rest?Inferred
- Does Galatians 4:10 condemn observing days?Inferred
- What does 'the Lord's day' in Revelation 1:10 mean?Inferred
Who is Jesus?
Salvation
- Are we saved by faith alone, or by faith plus works?Inferred
- Is Jesus the only way to salvation?Direct
- Is repentance required for salvation, or is belief alone enough?Inferred
- What happens to those who never heard the gospel?Contested
- Will everyone ultimately be saved?Inferred
- Must you confess Jesus as Lord out loud to be saved?Inferred
- Can you be saved without belonging to a church?Inferred
- Does continuing to sin after conversion cost you your salvation?Contested
Death & the soul
- Are the dead conscious, or do they sleep until the resurrection?Contested
- Do believers spend eternity in heaven, or on a renewed earth?Inferred
- Is the soul naturally immortal, or can it die?Inferred
- What did Jesus promise the thief on the cross (Luke 23:43)?Direct
- What happens to a person immediately after death?Contested
- What is sheol (hades) — the grave, or a place of the dead?Inferred
- What is the second death in Revelation?Direct
- When does the resurrection happen, and who is raised?Contested
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