Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02007 The seventh-day rest of Genesis 2:2-3 raises a question that surfaces repeatedly in Bible study groups and Sunday school classes. If God is omnipotent and never grows weary, why does Genesis say He rested? Did the Creator need a break? The answer reveals something important about what biblical rest actually means and why…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 2008 The question of whether God speaks today, and how He does so, sits at the intersection of several significant theological debates. Cessationists argue that God speaks exclusively through Scripture now that the canon is complete and that the gifts of the Spirit, including prophecy, have ceased. Many charismatics emphasise direct divine communication through…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 2010 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 1:7), and it is also one of the most persistently misunderstood concepts in the Bible. Two errors recur in how people handle it. The first is to sentimentalise it — to insist that fearing God simply means respecting Him or standing in…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 2011 Ask a group of Christians whether God speaks to Himself and you will likely get some puzzled looks. The question seems either too obvious to bother with or too speculative to answer. In reality it touches something genuinely profound about the nature of the Trinity, and Scripture gives us more material to work…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 2012 The question feels almost presumptuous at first glance, as if we are asking to be compared with the eternal Son. But the reason people ask it is usually deeply personal: does God’s love for me carry any real weight, or is it simply what is left over after the infinite love within the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 2013 The phrase ‘eternal generation of the Son’ appears in no single verse of Scripture in those exact words, and that immediately raises a legitimate question: is this a doctrine the church developed to explain what Scripture teaches, or is it an addition that goes beyond what Scripture says? The answer matters, because the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04015 The phrase ‘the procession of the Holy Spirit’ sounds abstract enough that most Christians assume it belongs to the world of academic theology and has little to do with their daily experience of God. That impression is understandable but mistaken. What is at stake in this doctrine is the Spirit’s genuine identity as…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 2015 Theology has a way of making apparently abstract questions surprisingly practical, and this is one of them. The question is whether the pattern we observe in salvation – the Father planning, the Son dying, the Spirit applying – tells us something permanently true about who God is, or whether these were roles adopted…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 2017 The question tends to arrive from one of two directions. Some people ask it because they have read the Old Testament and noticed that God appears to deal very differently with different people – choosing Israel over the nations, calling Abraham while seemingly overlooking his contemporaries, appearing to prefer Jacob to Esau before…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 2018 Few theological questions carry more emotional weight. Behind the abstract formulation often lies something very personal: a parent who died without faith, a sibling who walked away from the church, a friend who never responded to the gospel no matter how many conversations took place. The question asks why an all-loving God would…