Exploring what the Bible teaches about the nature and attributes of God—His existence, character, sovereignty, and Trinitarian nature.
Towards the end of January 2026 you should see a number of posts here.
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 2005. God’s providence is one of the most misunderstood doctrines in the whole of Theology Proper, largely because two opposite errors keep pulling the conversation off balance. One error makes God the direct author of literally everything that happens, including sin and atrocity, as though every act of cruelty, every natural disaster, every child’s…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 2004. Open theism is the teaching that God does not exhaustively know the future, particularly the future free choices of human beings, because those choices do not yet exist to be known even by an omniscient God. On this view, the future is genuinely "open," not yet settled, and God discovers what happens alongside…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2003. God’s will is not one simple, single thing, and confusing its several different senses causes no end of pastoral confusion. When a marriage ends in unfaithfulness, or a child walks away from the faith, or a nation legalises something Scripture calls sin, people sometimes ask in genuine distress whether all of that happened…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 2002. Different views on the Trinity exist even among careful believers who fully affirm Trinitarian orthodoxy, hold firmly to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, and would never dream of calling themselves anything other than mainstream evangelical Christians. This surprises people who assume the Trinity is one settled doctrine with no internal variety at all. It is…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2001. Theology Proper is the branch of systematic theology devoted entirely to the study of God Himself: His existence, His nature, His attributes, His works, and the relationships within the Godhead. It is called "proper" not because other branches of theology are somehow improper, but because it studies God as the direct subject rather…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2000. God’s existence is not something I can prove to you the way I could prove that the kettle is boiling, by pointing at it and letting you see the steam, but that does not mean the question is unanswerable or the evidence is thin. Every person alive already lives as though something ultimate…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 1117. The imprecatory psalms are the prayers that stop most Bible readers in their tracks, the ones where the psalmist asks God to shatter an enemy’s teeth, to let their children be orphaned, or to dash infants against rocks. Psalm 137 ends this way, and it sits in the same book that gives us…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 2116. The Shema is Israel’s great confession of faith, recited morning and evening by devout Jews for three thousand years, and it stands at the head of every serious conversation about God’s oneness: “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one” (Deuteronomy 6:4). The name comes from its first Hebrew word,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2115. The oaks of Mamre witnessed one of the most remarkable afternoons in the Old Testament: the day God came to lunch. Genesis 18 opens without any drumroll – “And the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2114. The figure who wrestled with Jacob at Peniel is introduced with deliberate mystery: “And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day” (Genesis 32:24). A man – that is all the narrator will say at first. Yet by sunrise Jacob is limping away from the…