One of our favorite editions of Connecting Faith is when you decide the topic! It happens each month when we invite Bible professors from the University of Northwestern into the studio and open the phone lines for questions on the Bible, faith and the church.
On this latest Ask the Professor, Northwestern’s Mark Muska and Brad Sickler field your questions and encourage your faith. Here are the topics we tackle:
• If Matthew is not introduced in the book bearing his name until chapter 10, who wrote the first 9 chapters?
• Should we expect to read the gospel’s chronologically—like we read most stories? If not, does that make a difference in the way we should understand them?
• In Matthew 15:24 and the discussion of the lost sheep – what should we take from the usage of the word “only”?
“God is the divine author of the Bible and scriptures. ” – Dr. Mark Muska
• What is the identity of “one like a son of man” in Revelation 14:14? And does this speak to a different time then Christ’s second coming?
• In the detailing of the seven plagues ending with the fall of Babylon in Revelation 18:2, is this the physical city of Babylon?
• Our listening friend Daniel asks about the witnesses spoken of in Revelation. Will God’s Spirit convict people of their sin at that time?
• Jan asks about Moses and how God sustained him during his journey in the wilderness.
• Wendy join us with a question on how the professors approach the debate between Calvinism and Armenian theologies in school. How do they equip students to think through the issue on their own?
