Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60051 In an age of religious pluralism, many suggest that Islam and Christianity are compatible faiths—perhaps different paths to the same God. Some point to shared figures like Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, or to similar ethical teachings, as evidence of fundamental unity. But can these two faiths actually be reconciled? A careful examination reveals…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 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 that has divided careful biblical scholars for centuries. Both positions claim substantial textual support, and both are held by thoughtful, orthodox interpreters. Rather than pretending…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11065 Paul writes in Ephesians 6:12 that “we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness.” The Christian life is not a gentle stroll toward improvement — it is described in the New Testament with the language of warfare, struggle,…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11066 There is a kind of spiritual fatigue that is not produced by overwork but by accumulation — the weight of sin that has been noticed but not confessed, the prompting that has been registered but set aside, the quiet conviction that has been managed rather than acted on. Many Christians carry more of…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11067 Paul’s command to “walk by the Spirit” (Galatians 5:16) and his instruction to “keep in step with the Spirit” (Galatians 5:25) assume a kind of moment-by-moment awareness of the Spirit’s presence and movement. The New Testament pictures the Christian life as one lived in ongoing, conscious dependence on a divine person who dwells…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12062 Abortion is among the most contested moral questions in contemporary Western society, and it is one on which Scripture speaks with more clarity than is often acknowledged. The Bible does not use the word abortion, but it addresses the foundations on which any Christian answer must be built, and those foundations lead in…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12063 The question of euthanasia — the deliberate ending of a person’s life to relieve suffering — is one that medicine, law, and culture are increasingly willing to normalise. For Christians, it raises questions that Scripture addresses at the level of principle, even where it does not speak to every contemporary medical specific. The…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 60076 Yinka Oyekan is one of the more visible and genuinely complex figures in contemporary British Baptist life. He is a man of obvious energy, real commitment to evangelism, and personal warmth. He holds positions that many evangelical Baptists would recognise and share, and he holds others that sit in considerable tension with evangelical…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10200 What happens to a person in the time between death and the resurrection? It is a question that has occupied Christian thinkers across the centuries, and it is one that touches everyone who has stood at a graveside. Scripture gives more guidance on this than is often realised, though it does not answer…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11070 Depression is one of the most misunderstood experiences within the Christian community. Well-meaning believers have told sufferers that their depression is evidence of weak faith, unconfessed sin, or spiritual failure. The effect of such responses is not healing but additional pain layered on top of pain that was already unbearable. Before asking whether…