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In the genealogies of  Matthew and Luke, on the surface there appears to be some difficulties. In Luke chapter 1, how can we be assured that Luke is tracing the genealogy of Jesus through Mary’s decent? And also can you recommend a book that deals in depth with the genealogies of Matthew and Luke and attempts to harmonize them?

I want to ask you, in Genesis 6, if the Nephilim giants didn’t survive the flood, how come when Caleb and Joshua and the spies went to Canaan, they found the Nephilim giants there? And also, why are there so many interpretations of Genesis 6?

The question I have is [concerning] Matthew 5:42, “Give to him who asks of you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you.” Does that mean we give to everybody that asks of us?

In Isaiah 55:1, where God says, “Come, you who have no money, buy and eat.” But I have no money; how can I buy?

Can a person bring glory to God and not be in God’s will?

There are several places in Scripture where it says, “It repenteth God that He made man”; “It repenteth Him that He made Saul king”; and if I could squeeze in another one that’s related to Saul, God sent, on several occasions, an evil spirit to Saul. Can you comment on all that?

My question is on Romans 6:3-4…could you explain how that fits into the whole picture of the Gospel? I am quite familiar with the deity of Christ and the Trinity and the bodily resurrection and 1 Corinthians 15, but what is it when you accept Christ into your heart and how is that transferred and could you kind of go over the Gospel and explain it?

Could you talk about the proper place for the "sinner's prayer" (inviting Jesus into you life to be your Savior), perhaps as a demonstration of faith, but not equal to faith, and could you also explain the dangers in the misleading use of the "sinner's prayer" and receiving Christ, and perhaps touching on Revelation 3:20 as well?

You have made a statement on one of your tapes, "that anyone who says, that they can get to heaven any other way than through Jesus Christ, really doesn't understand the gospel."  Later you stated, with regard to ECT (Evangelicals and Catholics Together Unity Movement), that, ". . . . of those men that were arguing from ECT's side (reuniting Evangelicals and Catholics), these men understand the gospel, but what they are really not willing to commit to is the fact that Jesus Christ is the only way to get to heaven."  My question to you, in respect to these men, who in the past we have consider great theologians, what is the bottom line as far as the pronouncements of Scripture against these men?

"What is our responsibility to the government, to let our legislators know how we feel?"

Sunday night, "On the Christian's Responsibility to Government," you used the example of the Early Church as a standard for the Christian community these days.  Well, about the tenth observation made by the historians, in that day, was that the Early Church was indifferent to the world's temporal materialism and political systems.  Now, my questions is, how does the "Salt Shaker" stand in relation to the example set by the Early Church, which basically segregated themselves from government?

Do you think a Christian can become a police officer—with the power to kill if necessary, having such powerful position in this worldly kingdom, which, according to Scripture, is not of our own?