Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion Q04014 Few questions in Pneumatology generate more confusion or more heat. The baptism of the Holy Spirit has been claimed as the defining subsequent experience of the Christian life by some traditions, treated with suspicion by others, and misunderstood by many who hold it as central to their spirituality. What Scripture actually teaches is…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10169 The question of where heaven is located is asked with genuine sincerity, and the honest answer is that Scripture gives us considerably less spatial information than many assume. The Bible speaks with absolute clarity about the reality of heaven, about what it is like, and about who is there. On the question of…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10167 The desire to know whether our departed loved ones can see us is one of the most deeply felt questions in the Christian life. It is asked at funerals, in hospital rooms, and in the quiet grief of ordinary days. The answer requires a careful handling of what Scripture says, what it does…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10168 The question of where hell is located surfaces with regularity, often in the context of popular imagination that places it beneath the earth’s surface. It is a question that mixes legitimate biblical curiosity with assumptions drawn from Dante, medieval art, and cultural mythology. What Scripture actually teaches is more nuanced, and more sobering,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10146 Whenever a new technology emerges, a segment of the Christian world immediately maps it onto biblical prophecy. The internet, microchip implants, artificial intelligence, digital currencies, global surveillance networks: each has been identified, at one time or another, as the fulfilment of specific prophetic passages. The question of whether modern technology is “related to”…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10166 The concept of a one-world government is embedded deeply in the prophetic landscape of Scripture, particularly in the books of Daniel and Revelation. It is also a feature of contemporary geopolitical discussion, though the biblical picture and the secular conversation are not always talking about the same thing. The question is not whether…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 7022 This is one of the most pastorally urgent questions anyone can ask, and it deserves an answer that is both theologically honest and deeply compassionate. The grief surrounding suicide is compounded by fear, and that fear is often intensified by poorly grounded teaching that confidently declares suicide an unforgivable sin. What does Scripture…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10109 The idea that heaven might be boring is remarkably common, and it is rooted in a picture of the afterlife that owes far more to medieval art and popular caricature than to anything Scripture actually describes. Clouds, harps, white robes, and an eternity of singing the same hymn on repeat: this is the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10092 Jesus told His disciples that “wars and rumours of wars” would characterise the period leading up to the end (Matthew 24:6; Mark 13:7). In every generation since, believers have looked at the conflicts of their own era and wondered whether these are the wars Jesus meant. The question of how Christians should respond…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10106 The book of Revelation describes a future religious system of staggering scope: a global religious entity that seduces the nations, persecutes the saints, and ultimately serves the purposes of the Antichrist before being destroyed by the very powers she rode to prominence. The idea of a one-world religion is not a conspiracy theory…