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Question: Scripture describes that Jesus Christ was scourged by Pontius Pilate before His crucifixion (Matthew 27:26; Mark 15:15; John 19:1). Was there any special meaning behind this scourging?

Question: Most professing Christians believe that the saved will go to heaven at death. But they have little or no idea about what they will do in heaven. What does the Bible teach is the reward of the saved?

Answer: The belief in “going to heaven” at death is not only held by most professing Christians. People all over the world, of many religions, cling to a belief in some kind of afterlife—some type of “reward” or blissful afterlife after death.

Question: In Acts 10:9–16, is God giving Christians permission to eat what were previously considered “unclean” meats (as defined in Deuteronomy 14:3–21 and Leviticus 11:1–47)?

Answer: What was the purpose of the vision God gave to the Apostle Peter? Was God showing that He was now making “clean” the meats He had previously said were “unclean”? Or was there a different purpose for this vision?

Question: Christians are supposed to teach Jesus Christ and Him crucified, and that He rose from the dead. Why, then, does your magazine so often quote the books of the Old Testament?

Question: In the book of Job, we read, “But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding” (Job 32:8). Later in the chapter, Job says, “the spirit within me compels me” (v.18). Do these Old Testament references refer to God’s Holy Spirit, or to an “immortal soul” within human beings?