Ask Me Anything | Bible & Spirituality | Part 3
This week Pastor Les responded to your questions about the Bible and Spirituality. Each service had completely different questions so make sure to check out all 3 from this week! Questions Covered in Part 3: Pastor Les, what's your favorite part of being a pastor at Lifegate? Why does it seem like we interpret some things figuratively in the Bible and then take other things literally? Are there any writings from Jesus' time that are not in the New Testament but are still relevant for Christians to study? Does your exegesis change to suit the masses as the worlds’ culture(s) and opinion change? How do you reconcile apparent contradictions in the Bible? For example, there is a command to not kill, but then you have commands in the Old Testament to destroy cities and kill enemies. Can marijuana open the mind to the spiritual realm? When in conversation with someone who is openly agnostic or atheist about spiritual matters, what should our approach be? God sent Jesus to absorb our sin. Why did he have to go so through such a gruesome death for that to occur, when he has full control of that? Why couldn't he just snap his fingers and forgive us? How come in the New Testament Jesus never refused healing, yet it feels like now healing can seem hit or miss? How, as Christians, do we not conform to this world when we are in a culture that is twisting the word of God to live lifestyles that are contradictory to Gods Word and will?