Our Ground Rules: I believe the Bible, both the OT & NT are verbally inspired by God & are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith, life & conduct. It is MY moral compass.

Our Ground Rules: If the Bible speaks clearly… I will take a FIRM STAND and not waver.

Our Ground Rules: If the Bible doesn’t speak clearly… I will look for applicable Biblical principles.

Our Ground Rules: If the Bible doesn’t say anything or I can’t find the answers… I’ll tell you that. I will give you my opinion & will let you know that is the case.

Question #1: Gambling 3 Questions to Ask Yourself

Question #1: Gambling WHEN… WHERE… WHY?

Question #1: Gambling For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. 1 Timothy 6:10

Question #1: Gambling Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith & pierced themselves with many griefs. 1 Timothy 6:10

Question #2: Eternal Judgement If God forgives our sins, why is He going to judge our sins after we die?

Question #2: Eternal Judgment Great White Throne Judgment vs. Judgment Seat of Christ

Question #2: Eternal Judgment For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, 2 Corinthians 5:10

Question #2: Eternal Judgment so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. 2 Corinthians 5:10

Question #3: Birth Control What should Christians believe about birth control?

Question #3: Birth Control God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Genesis 1:28

Question #3: Birth Control Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him. Psalm 127:3

Question #3: Birth Control Common reasons for not having more kids?

Question #3: Birth Control Don’t have enough time.

Question #3: Birth Control Don’t have enough money.

Question #3: Birth Control Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him. John 1:12

Question #4: Abortion

Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice

Question #4: Abortion Brephos | Huios | Yeled | Geber

Question #4: Abortion – Brephos He dealt treacherously with our people & oppressed our forefathers by forcing them to throw out their newborn babies so that they would die. Acts 7:19

Question #4: Abortion – Huios Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. Luke 1:36

Question #4: Abortion – Yeled The babies jostled each other within her, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So she went to inquire of the Lord. Genesis 25:22

Question #4: Abortion – Geber “May the day of my birth perish, and the night that said, ‘A boy is conceived!’ Job 3:3

Question #4: Abortion Does God recognize the pre-born child in a personal manner?

Question #4: Abortion For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. Psalm 139:13

Question #4: Abortion Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. Psalm 139:16

Question #4: Abortion Did not he who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us both within our mothers? Job 31:15

Question #4: Abortion Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Job 10:8

Question #4: Abortion Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? Job 10:9

Question #4: Abortion Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese, Job 10:10

Question #4: Abortion clothe me with skin and flesh and knit me together with bones and sinews? Job 10:11

Question #4: Abortion He decreed statutes for Jacob and established the law in Israel, which he commanded our ancestors to teach their children, Psalm 78:5

Question #4: Abortion so the next generation would know them, even the children yet to be born, and they in turn would tell their children. Psalm 78:6

Question #4: Abortion Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations. Jeremiah 1:5

Question #4: Abortion But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased Galatians 1:15

Question #4: Abortion to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, my immediate response was not to consult any human being. Galatians 1:16

Question #4: Abortion Did not one God create us? Malachi 2:10

Question #4: Abortion Did not one God create us? Malachi 2:10

Question #4: Abortion The earth is the Lord's, & everything in it. Psalm 24:1

Question #4: Abortion The Lord... forms the spirit of man within him... Zechariah 12:1

Question #4: Abortion Behold, all souls are mine, the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine." Ezekiel 18:4a

Question #5: Suicide Does someone who commits suicide go to hell?

Question #5: Suicide Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. 1 John 3:15

Question #5: Suicide Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, Romans 5:1

Question #5: Suicide through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Romans 5:2

Question #5: Suicide Suicide = Selfishness

Question #5: Suicide Not an option… There is always Hope!