Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3041. The ascension of Jesus is the forgotten doctrine of the Christian faith. We celebrate the incarnation at Christmas and the resurrection at Easter, but Ascension Day passes most evangelical churches without a mention. Yet Luke thought it important enough to record twice, and Jesus told His disciples plainly that His leaving was not…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3040. The resurrection body of Jesus is the single best piece of evidence for what your own future body will be like. That is not my speculation; it is Paul’s explicit argument. Christ has been raised as ‘the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep’ (1 Corinthians 15:20), and the firstfruits of a harvest…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3039. How were Old Testament believers saved, when the cross lay centuries in their future? It is one of the best questions a thoughtful reader of Scripture can ask. Abraham died roughly two thousand years before Calvary. David never heard the name Jesus. If salvation is only through Christ’s death, as the New Testament…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3038. The crucifixion of Jesus raises a question most of us have never stopped to ask: why that particular death? If the Son of God had to die for sinners, He could in principle have been stoned like Stephen, beheaded like James, or killed in a hundred quieter ways. Instead, the eternal plan of…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3037. Who killed Jesus? It sounds like a simple historical question, the kind a detective could close in an afternoon. Roman soldiers drove the nails, so surely the case is shut. Yet the Bible refuses to leave it there, and church history shows why the question matters so much. Wrong answers to this question…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3036. The blood of Jesus is one of the most repeated themes in the New Testament, and yet I find that many Christians are hazy about what it actually means. We sing about it, we hear it invoked in prayer, and some traditions treat it almost as a magic formula. But when Peter writes…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3031. Jesus is superior to angels in a way that the New Testament, particularly the opening chapters of Hebrews, takes considerable care to establish, because a persistent confusion in the first century, and in some circles even today, has tried to place Him within the angelic order rather than far above it. Let me…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3030. The impeccability of Christ, the conviction that Jesus was actually unable to sin, raises an honest and important question. If He could not possibly have sinned, were His temptations in the wilderness and throughout His ministry genuine, or simply theatre performed for the disciples’ benefit? I want to take that question seriously rather…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3029. Firstborn over creation is one of the titles most frequently misused by groups who want to argue that Jesus was God’s first created being. Read the phrase in its actual context in Colossians, however, and it says almost the opposite of what that misreading claims. Let me show you what Paul actually means…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3028. Eternal generation is the theological term that answers what sounds, at first, like a contradiction: how can Jesus be eternal, without beginning or end, if He was also born in Bethlehem at a specific point in history? The resolution lies in carefully distinguishing two very different things Scripture affirms about Him. Let me…