Here are the questions for tonight.
The Questions
1. What is worship? Is it hanging around singing? Is it meeting and greeting? Is it the sermon? What is it?
2. Does the book of Jonah have to be taken literally? Does thinking that Jonah’s three days in a whale’s belly is a literary device make Jesus’ three days in hell/the dead/the grave “fake”?
3. Most Biblical authors didn’t know they were writing scripture. How should that effect the way we read the bible? Does that diminish it in any way?
4. Being that the bible is written way back when in a land far far away how much of it can be taken as a universal and how much only as a cultural thing? For that matter Americans do not live under a king, yet Jesus is referred to as a king. Is the essence of who Jesus is a king, or a “president” meaning we chose him to be our king, or is his kingship over everyone an innate thing?
5. Do animal have souls? Do “all dogs go to heaven?”
6. What does it mean to have “faith” in Jesus, to “believe” in him?
7. Is there a stoic style separation between body and flesh? Paul seems to see things that way, is he right?