Questions & Answers - Good News Staff - April 1982

Good News Staff

Question 1: How should a Christian honor unbelieving parents? How can one honor and respect parents who are not following God's ways? Can we look to them for leadership and example when they are doing things that are not really right in God's eyes? Question 2: Is it wrong to plant crops according to the phases of the moon or the signs of the zodiac? Question 3: Who are the 24 elders mentioned in the book of Revelation? Question 4: In Luke 14:26 Jesus is quoted as saying: "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and Sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." What did Jesus mean? Question 5: I have been told that God's ministers should not be called "Reverend." Why is this? Question 6: Will God hear and answer my prayers even though I am not yet baptized? Should I pray at all? - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library