Anthropology (Humanity)

Question 12027 Whether sex is a biological reality or a social construct has moved from academic seminars to primary schools in about two decades, which is remarkably fast for an ...

Question 11059. Psychology and Scripture is a subject that produces more heat than light in most Christian conversations, and I have watched believers land in two equally unhelpful ditches. On ...

Question 5011.Can we trust our hearts? Our culture answers before the question is finished: follow your heart, be true to yourself, you do you. It is the closest thing the ...

Question 6019. Jeremiah 17:9 says the heart is deceitful above all things, and the doctrine of the deceitful heart has been used to prove a great deal that Jeremiah never ...

Question 5007. Ask me when human life begins and I will not reach first for a laboratory or a law court. I will reach for the Bible, because the question ...

Question 5045 Whether human beings consist of two parts — body and soul/spirit — or three distinct parts — body, soul, and spirit as separate entities — is a question ...

Question 2055. God created us, and the reason why sits underneath most of the anxiety that drives people towards religion in the first place, and towards its alternatives too. Why ...

Question 60093. Cain's wife has been produced as a knockout blow against Genesis since at least the seventeenth century, and she is still being produced today, usually with an air ...

Question 13012. Noah's nakedness is one of those passages people read quickly and hope nobody asks about. A righteous man plants a vineyard, gets drunk, lies uncovered in his tent, ...

Question 5000. Biblical anthropology sounds like an intimidating phrase, but it names one of the most practical questions theology ever asks: what, exactly, is a human being? The word comes ...

Question 5001. The mind and brain question sits at one of the most interesting crossroads of science and Scripture. Neuroscience has mapped the brain in astonishing detail, tracing the neural ...

Question 5004.Ask ten people to define biblical masculinity and you will get a dozen answers, most of them borrowed from culture rather than Scripture. One camp gives us the swaggering ...

Question 5005.Biblical femininity is one of those subjects where the caricatures arrive before the Bible does. One stereotype paints the godly woman as a doormat, decorative and silent; the reaction ...

Question 5006.God created us male and female, and Genesis announces it not as biology trivia but as theology of the highest order. The statement sits inside the Bible's very first ...

Question 5010.How the church treats people with disabilities reveals what it really believes about the image of God. Not what it prints in its statement of faith, but what it ...

Question 05039. Why did God create us? Scripture answers that God created us out of the overflow of His own love, for His glory and for our joy, and I ...

Question 05041. The imago Dei is the doctrine that determines how a Christian should think about the environment, and I want to show you why it steers us safely between ...

Question 05042. Human longevity is one of those subjects where the Bible’s early chapters startle the modern reader, and the questions they raise deserve straight answers. Methuselah lived 969 years ...

Question 05043. Human consciousness has become an urgent theological topic, because machines now imitate so much of what we do that many people are asking whether anything distinguishes us at ...

Question 05044. The relationship between brain and soul becomes intensely practical the day someone you love starts to disappear behind dementia, a stroke, or a brain injury. The face is ...

Question 05045. Are soul and spirit two words for one thing, or two distinct parts of you? That is the heart of the long debate between dichotomy, the view that ...

Question 5024. To be made from dust is Scripture's blunt, unflattering, and strangely comforting description of what we are. "Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ...

Question 5025. The breath of life is what turned a beautifully shaped pile of dust into a living man. "Then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ...

Question 5026. Resurrection bodies are the great forgotten hope of the Christian faith. Ask the average believer what happens after death and you will hear about souls going to heaven, ...

Question 5028. Body and soul belong together; that is the short answer to the body and soul question, and almost every error on this subject comes from pulling them apart ...

Question 5029. God's image is the single most important truth about you that you did not choose, earn, or vote on. "So God created man in his own image, in ...

Question 5030. The human soul is spoken of everywhere and defined almost nowhere. We say a singer has soul, that a ship sank with all souls aboard, that someone sold ...

Question 5031. The human spirit is the dimension of you that was made for God Himself, and it is the least understood part of human nature. We hear plenty about ...

Question 5033. The human conscience is the courtroom God built into every human heart. Long before a missionary arrives or a Bible is opened, something inside a person prosecutes and ...

Question 6074. Original sin is the doctrine that describes what happened to the human race through Adam's fall and what every one of us has inherited as a result. It ...

Question 5035. Are we born sinners, or do we become sinners later by imitation and bad choices? Stand in any toddler group for an afternoon and you will have empirical ...

Question 5037. Free will is one of those subjects where philosophers tie knots, theologians draw swords, and ordinary believers quietly wonder what they are allowed to think. So let me ...

Question 5038. The purpose of life is the question every human being carries, whether they ever say it aloud or not. It surfaces at three in the morning, at gravesides, ...

Question 6075. Total depravity is one of the most misunderstood terms in Christian theology, and a good deal of the misunderstanding is caused by the word total. The doctrine does ...

Question 5013.The question of babies who die is not an academic one, and I refuse to treat it academically. It is asked at gravesides small enough to break your heart, ...

Question 5017.The words image and likeness in Genesis 1:26 have generated more theology per syllable than almost any pair in the Bible, and one of the first questions people ask ...

Question 5012.The age of accountability is the idea that a child is not held responsible before God for accepting or rejecting the gospel until they are capable of genuinely understanding ...

Question 5018.Psalm 8 begins under a night sky, and you can almost see David leaning on his shepherd's staff, looking up. When I look at your heavens, the work of ...

Question 5019.Whether animals have souls sounds like a child's question, usually asked through tears over a dead pet, but it opens onto real theology, and the Bible's answer is more ...

Question 5020.Humans and angels are the Bible's two great orders of rational creatures, and comparing them is one of the most clarifying exercises in theology. Popular culture muddles them endlessly: ...

Question 5021. To be wonderfully made is not a compliment David pays himself in Psalm 139; it is worship he pays to his Maker. "I praise you, for I am ...

Question 5023. Human personhood is the question beneath nearly every moral battle of our age, though it rarely gets named. Abortion, euthanasia, embryo research, artificial intelligence, the treatment of the ...

Question 5022. Human dignity is the worth that belongs to every human being simply because God made us in His own image, and that single sentence carries more weight than ...

Question 5008.Spiritual perception is a real capacity, and the Bible is remarkably precise about how much of it an unregenerate person actually has. Get this question wrong in one direction ...