A questions and answers session with Sinclair Ferguson, W. Robert Godfrey, Michael Kruger, Steven Lawson, and Derek Thomas. Introduction (0:00) Questions: Why did God form woman out of the rib of man rather than create her separately? (0:45) Why is God called a jealous God in the Bible, like in Deuteronomy 5:9 9 thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah, thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me; ? (3:54) What advice would you give to young couples in their first year of marriage? What habits would you develop? (4:40) If marriage is good globally because it is good to fill the earth, then is it okay to limit the size of a family by choice, through childless marriages or by physical inability good? (7:00) Is it possible that the apostles erred in any of their writings? (12:11) If Melchizedek was a Christophany, how does his nature differ from Christ’s incarnate nature? (13:37) My mom thinks the Holy Spirit tells her things outside of Scripture, is that true? (15:55) What is one of the best ways to evangelize an unbeliever who is aware they’re going to hell, but simply do not care? (25:50) What did Jesus mean in Matthew 5:37 37 But let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: and whatsoever is more than these is of the evil `one'. let what you say simply be yes or no, anything more than this comes from evil? (27:53) Can a christian have a homosexual orientation? (32:38) Can we go to the wedding of a heterosexual couple who claim to be believers if they are already sleeping together? Are we not to the wedding of a homosexual couple? Is attendance essentially making us a witness? And, and if we are a witness at a wedding that dishonors God, is that a sin? Can it be biblically justified? (34:55) Does Christ prayer for unity in John 17 Chapter 17 1 These things spake Jesus; and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that the son may glorify thee: 2 even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that to all whom thou hast given him, he should give eternal life. 3 And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, `even' Jesus Christ. 4 I glorified thee on the earth, having accomplished the work which thou hast given me to do. 5 And now, Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. 6 I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee: 8 for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received `them', and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine: 10 and all things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine: and I am glorified in them. 11 And I am no more in the world, and these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even as we `are'. 12 While I was with them, I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I come to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy made full in themselves. 14 I have given them thy word; and the world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them from the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil `one'. 16 They are not of the world even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them in the truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou didst send me into the world, even so sent I them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. 20 Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word; 21 that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, `art' in me, and I in thee, that they also may be in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me. 22 And the glory which thou hast given me I have given unto them; that they may be one, even as we `are' one; 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me. 24 Father, I desire that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me; 26 and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them. indicate we should pursue the elimination of institutionally distinct denominations? (39:25) This session is from Upholding Christian Ethics, our 2022 National Conference: https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCut8939DdQsJI3Gw1ziAc4w/playlists Questions and Answers sessions reflect the views of the individual speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of Dr. R.C. Sproul and Ligonier Ministries. Here is our Statement of Faith: http://www.ligonier.org/about/who-we-are/what-we-believe/