Godless Priests and Prophets
- What could induce prophets in Jeremiah's day to fall into such corruption as to "strengthen the hands of evildoers?"
- Is it wrong for prophets to become rich, such as Jeremiah is denouncing?
- Is the church doing enough to care for orphans today?
Jeremiah in the Stocks
- Why do so few people respond positively to prophets?
- Do genuine prophets have to be unpopular? Are prophets sent by God only when people have strayed from Him, or are they sent in good times also with happy messages?
- Do passages of the Bible have to be in chronological order?
A Fire in His Bones
- Is any part of a prophet's message his own, or does it all come from God? Can a prophet add anything to what God asks him/her to say?
- If a prophet declines to deliver a message given by God will he/she be punished for that? How free is a prophet to accept or decline a call from God to be a prophet?
- Why would Jeremiah accuse God of deceiving him (when people opposed him) since God had warned him that he would face opposition?
"Cursed Be the Day"
- Is it okay to curse the day one was born such as Job and Jeremiah did?
- Is it okay for Jeremiah to dodge the actual prohibition (cursing father and mother) by cursing the happy man who brought the glad news of his birth from his mother to his father?
- Can people who commit suicide be in heaven?
Plans Against the Prophet
- Does the illustration of the potter who can remake a pot that is marred in his hand teach that there is always hope for a person or nation? Or is there a point beyond which there is no hope? Could Judas have repented and been saved?
- Is guilty feelings an indication that there is still opportunity to repent?
- Are prophecies conditional even if no condition is stated?
