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Since there is no scientific evidence for heaven, how do we know it's real, and not just wishful thinking and human invention?        

I believe in God, and have confessed my sins, but do I NEED to be baptized to be saved? Can't I just become a member of the church?        

Don't good works show that a person is already saved? If sacraments are required for salvation, then how do you explain the good works of Christians who have never received the sacraments?        

Aren't we saved the moment we believe and confess Christ (Romans 10:9-10; Ephesians 1:13)? Sacraments are only symbolic of the salvation we have already received. They do not have any saving effect.        

The apostle Paul stresses that Abraham was justified before circumcision, not after (Romans 4:10-12). Circumcision was only a sign of the righteousness he had already received by faith. Aren't sacraments likewise only signs, with no effect?        

Transubstantiation teaches that after giving thanks, the bread and grape wine transform materially into the physical body and blood of the Lord Jesus. Consubstantiation teaches that the physical body and blood coexist with the bread and the grape wine. Wh        

Haven't believers preached the coming of Christ and the end of the world for 2,000 years? Why hasn't it happened yet?        

Why does it matter how a person is baptized? And if I've already been baptized in another church, must I be baptized again?        

The Lord Jesus instructed his disciples, "If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet" (Jn 13:14). But why is it that during the sacrament of footwashing in your church, only the ministers wash the fe        

Why was Jesus born of a virgin?