Open Questions

From CFW Walther's Forward for Volume XIV of "Lehre und Wehre", (Teach and Defend), 1868:

"Open Questions. All doctrines revealed clearly and plainly in God's Word are, by virtue of the absolute authority of the divine Word, dogmatically fixed and binding on conscience, whether they have been symbolically defined or not. In God's church there is no justification for departing from clearly revealed Scripture truths, be their content fundamental or nonfundamental, important or apparently unimportant. Full agreement in all articles of faith constitutes the indispensable condition of church-fellowship. Persistent error in an article of faith always causes division. Full agreement in all nonfundamental doctrines is not attainable on earth, but should nevertheless be sought as goal. Those who knowingly, obstinately, and stubbornly contradict God's Word, even if only in subordinate points, thereby overthrow the organic foundation (of the faith) and must be excluded from church-fellowship."

Here is the list of "open questions" that I have found and compiled. We may never know the answers, but it sure can be fun to discuss these. Comment, thoughts options, any others?

1. In which day, or even season of the year was the world created?
2. On which day of creation week were the angels created?
3. When did the angels sin and fall away?
4. What was the sin by which some of the angels fell away from God?
5. How long were Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden before sinning?
6. Are there still, according to Gen 1:6, bodies of water above the firmament as well as under?
7. What was Cain's sin with regard to his offering?
8. What are the Behemoth and Leviathan 
9. On what day, in which year was Christ born?
10. Will the prophecy of "the man of lawlessness" in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 be fulfilled in the form of one individual man, or multiple men like the Antichrist?
11. Will the visible world be destroyed on Judgment Day according to its essence and substance, or only according to it characteristics and quality?
12. What will be the size/age of the bodies of those who died as children when they rise from the dead?
13. What is the authority of the antilogomena?
14. Does man have a tripartite or bipartite nature?
15. Is the soul transmitted to the child by the parents through natural propagation as flame from the flame (traducianism), or is each soul the result of a new creative act (creationism)?

I have some thought on some of these that I will attempt to get down in future posts.