Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60071 Christian Zionism is the belief, held by many evangelical Christians, that the modern state of Israel represents a fulfilment of biblical prophecy and that God’s covenant promises to the Jewish people, including the promise of the land, remain in force and will be fully realised in the future. It is a position that…
Reading Time: 8 minutesQuestion 60048 Few theological errors have achieved the global influence of what is commonly called the prosperity gospel; also known as the health-and-wealth gospel, word of faith teaching, or name-it-and-claim-it theology. This movement, which emerged in mid-twentieth-century America and has since spread to virtually every continent, promises adherents that faith properly exercised will result in…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60066 British Israelism is the belief that the Anglo-Saxon peoples of the British Isles, and by extension the United States and other English-speaking nations, are the direct biological descendants of the ten lost tribes of Israel. It is a teaching that sounds appealing to anyone who wants to see their national story woven into…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 07037 The phrase “eternal covenant” appears at several points in Scripture and raises an important question: what does it mean for a covenant to be described as eternal, and how does this concept relate to the broader storyline of God’s dealings with humanity? The answer reaches into the deepest foundations of biblical theology, touching…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 01021 The book of Revelation has generated more confusion, more speculation, and more wildly divergent interpretations than perhaps any other book in the Bible. Yet it opens with a blessing: “Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written…
Reading Time: 8 minutesQuestion 7000 Few passages in Scripture have generated as much theological discussion as Ephesians 2:8-9. The debate centres on a grammatical question with enormous theological implications: when Paul writes “and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God,” what exactly is the gift? Is it faith itself that God gives us? Is it…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60098 The claim that Peter and Paul preached fundamentally different gospels is associated with a strand of dispensational teaching sometimes called ultra-dispensationalism or hyper-dispensationalism. In its more extreme forms, this teaching argues that only Paul’s letters, sometimes only his prison epistles, constitute the relevant Scripture for the church today, since Peter was preaching a…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 9002 The word “church” is thrown around quite loosely today. People talk about “going to church” as if it were simply a building or a Sunday morning activity. But what does the Bible actually mean when it speaks of the Church? This is a question that deserves careful attention because understanding what the Church…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 3039 If salvation comes only through faith in Jesus, what about all those who lived before He came? Were Abraham, Moses, David, and the prophets saved? If so, how? They never heard the name of Jesus. They never knew about the cross. How can the death of Jesus two thousand years ago have any…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1121 Pretribulationism, the view that the Church will be raptured before the seven-year tribulation period, is sometimes accused of being a recent invention with little biblical support. Critics say it was invented by John Nelson Darby in the nineteenth century and read into Scripture rather than derived from it. But is this fair? How…