Do you have a question about God? The Bible? Life? Did you ever wonder how a good God could allow evil to happen in His creation? Have you come across a confusing verse in the Bible? Please email your question to our Pastor, Shaun LePage, at shaun@community-bible.org, or poke around on one of these excellent sites:

• Got Questions?
• Probe
• Christian Answers
• Teen Q’s
• Stand to Reason Q&A

Top 20 Most Frequently Asked Bible Questions (from GotQuestions.org) 

1. Women pastors / preachers? What does the Bible say about women in ministry?
2. What does the Bible say about homosexuality? Is it a sin?
3. What does the Bible say about tattoos / body piercings?
4. Once saved always saved? / Is eternal security Biblical? / Can a Christian lose salvation?
5. Masturbation – is it a sin according to the Bible?
6. What does the Bible say about interracial marriage?
7. Who was Cain’s wife?
8. What is the Christian view of suicide? What does the Bible say about suicide? What about a believer who commits suicide?
9. Do pets / animals go to Heaven? Do pets / animals have souls?
10. What happens after death?
11. What does the Bible say about Christian tithing?
12. What is the gift of speaking in tongues? Is it for today? What about praying in tongues?
13. What does the Bible say about dinosaurs? Are there dinosaurs in the Bible?
14. What is the importance of Christian baptism?
15. What does the Bible say about drinking alcohol? Is it a sin for a Christian to drink alcohol?
16. What does the Bible say about gambling? Is gambling a sin?
17. What does the Bible teach about the Trinity?
18. What does the Bible say about sex before marriage?
19. Where was Jesus for the three days between His death and resurrection?
20. What does the Bible say about divorce and remarriage?

Probe Ministries Q&A:

• Angels/Demons
• Bible
• Christian Life Topics
• Cults and World Religions
• Education Topics
• Gender Issue Topics
• Government / Public Policy
• Homosexuality Topics
• Marriage / Family
• Philosophy
• Personal Development / Relationships
• Origins / Science
• Sexuality Topics
• Reasons to Believe/Apologetics
• Society / Culture
• Theology

Answers to Key Questions on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (from cbmw.org):

• Why is it so important to understand and live out biblical manhood and womanhood in the home and local church?
• What does the Bible say about the roles of men and women in marriage?
• Do you believe in “mutual submission” the way Paul teaches in Ephesians 5:21, “Submit to one another”?
• What does the Bible say about leadership in the church?
• Do you deny women the right to use the gifts God has given them? Doesn’t God’s giving a spiritual gift imply that He endorses its use for the edification of the church?
• Are you saying that it is all right for women to teach men under some circumstances?
• Doesn’t Paul’s statement that “There is . . . neither male nor female . . . for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28) take away gender as a basis for distinction of roles in the church?
• How do you explain God’s apparent endorsement of women in the Old Testament who had prophetic or leadership roles?
• But what about the liberating way Jesus treated women? Doesn’t He explode our hierarchical traditions and open the way for women to be given access to all ministry roles?
• Doesn’t the significant role women had with Paul in ministry show that his teachings do not mean that women should be excluded from ministry?
• Weren’t these Bible texts written in a patriarchal culture, while the main thrust of Scripture is toward complete equality of men and women?
• Aren’t you guilty of a selective literalism when you say some commands in a text are permanently valid and others, like, “Do wear a head covering,” are culturally conditioned and not absolute?
• How can a Christian single woman enter into the mystery of Christ and the church if she never experiences marriage?
• Since many leading evangelical scholars disagree on the questions of manhood and womanhood, how can any lay person even hope to come to a clear conviction on these questions?
• If role distinctions for men and women are rooted in God’s created order, why don’t you apply the rules everywhere in secular life as in the home and the church?
• Isn’t giving women access to all offices and roles a simple matter of justice that even our society recognizes?

Robert Gagnon’s Answers to Emails on the Bible and Homosexuality I

I get a lot of email correspondence. I can only provide a small sample here. Here is a list of the email subjects with dates. For text, scroll down below. They are in order of date, most recent first:

• 6/18/10: From parents with a homosexual son
• 3/31/10: On Biology, Analogies, Jesus, and Love
• 12/11/09: Debate with a self-affirming “secular humanist”
• 12/3/09: A note of thanks
• 11/18/09: Questions from a student regarding the issue’s importance and the authority of Scripture
• 11/6/09: A Response to my “Back to the Oppressive Future” article
• 11/5-6/09: Questions about the inconsistency of opposing “gay marriage” while supporting homosexual “domestic partnership” and “sexual orientation” laws
• 10/28/09: Problems with Andrew Marin’s Love Is an Orientation
• 10/11/09: Does a person have to read ALL my writings?
• 8/4/09: To a self-identified Christian who thinks that I am being hypocritical if I do not equally strongly oppose “hate crime” protections for religion
• 7/8/09: To a self-identified “gay Christian” who is unhappy with my work
• 4/1/09: To someone who uses my work to explain why we shouldn’t listen to Scripture
• 2/24/09: On Stacy Johnson and John Stott
• 2/4/09: Responding to Spong’s arguments
• 1/25/09: Did Jesus violate Gen 1:27 and 2:24?
• 1/23/09: Question about conducting remarriages
• 1/23/09: Correspondence with an evangelical scholar at an evangelical seminary about Obama’s homosexualist political agenda
• 1/20/09: Lost on my website?
• 1/13/09: Response to an evangelical leader supportive of “gay rights” on the Crystal Dixon case
• 1/08/09: On Sin, salvation, and human merit
• 1/2/09: Response to a critic about the focus of my work
• 12/13/08: Material on women’s ordination and homosexuality
• 12/9/08: Should the government support homosexual unions?
• 5/9/08: Response to a skeptical evangelical leader who wants to know whom I have “‘delivered’ from homosexual orientations”
• 4/18/08: What about no reproduction in heaven and the existence of “complementary” homosexual unions?
• 4/16/08: A question from a seminary student about the exploitation argument
• 2/12/08: A disgruntled supporter of “inclusivity” who wants me removed from PTS
• 9/5/07: A testimony from a pastor who has dealt with bisexual urges
• 9/5/07: Is heterosexual cohabitation grounds for denying church membership?
• 6/15/07: Did Jesus Change the Law’s Stance on Capital Sentencing?
• 5/8/07: Hate Mail from an Angry Left-of-Center Pastor with a “Wonderful” Pastoral Manner
• 4/26/07: A question about eternal security and sexual immorality
• 4/25/07: Do you think I would still go to heaven when I die if I am in a lesbian relationship?
• 4/8/07: Jack Rogers and Analogies
• 3/31/07: A person with homosexual desire asks: How does one decide which commands of God in Scripture to follow?
• 3/10/07: Where have I spoken about why women’s ordination is a bad analogy for accepting homosexual practice?
• 3/10/07: Email from a father whose teenage son has “come out,” on my “Two Views” book
• 2/2/07: Why Meeting Nice “Gay” and Lesbian Persons Should Not Lead to Approval of Homosexual Practice
• 1/18/07: Jesus, eunuchs, and the allegation of a ‘gay Jesus’
• 10/17/03 (revisited 12/26/06): A heartfelt email from a woman with same-sex attractions
• 12/20/06: Where do I stand on registered homosexual partnerships?
• 12/04/06: Do I operate with a notion of mind/body dualism or “physicalism”?
• 12/04/06: How did I get so involved in the topic of homosexuality?
• 12/04/06: What’s a Layperson to Do?
• 11/17-25/06: Correspondence with a student at Eastern University promoting a “noncontextual perspective and “trusting my own judgment”
• 11/22/06: Response to a person who thinks that my non-biblical arguments are not strong
• 11/14/06: Question about books or resources for counseling persons with same-sex attractions
• 11/14/06: Differences of opinion about the relevance of menstrual law and whether the Law is abrogated in Christ
• 11/2/06: Questions about Jack Rogers’s claim that 1 Cor 6:9 does not speak against committed homosexual unions
• 10/27/06: Can one make a reasoned case against homosexual practice without citing Scripture?
• 10/16/06: Requests for clarifications on my positions regarding Gen 2, the meaning of unnatural, and the relevance of Dutch gay marriage
• 10/16/06: Questions about genetic influence and moral relevance