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: 4 minutesQuestion 02046 To many people today, combining the words “God,” “love,” and “wrath” in the same sentence feels like a contradiction. The common assumption is that a God who genuinely loves cannot be a God who is genuinely angry — that wrath and love are mutually exclusive, that one must be qualified out of existence…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 02047 The word “sovereignty” appears frequently in Christian conversation, but it carries theological freight that is worth examining carefully. Depending on which tradition uses it, it can mean quite different things — things that have profound consequences for how we understand human freedom, moral responsibility, and the character of God. Before asking what the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 02048 Providence is one of those theological words that Christians use often but rarely stop to define precisely. It comes from the Latin providentia, meaning foresight or foreknowing, but in theological usage it refers to something wider: the ongoing activity by which God sustains, directs, and governs all that He has created, working His…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 02049 Several passages in the Old Testament appear, on first reading, to describe God changing His mind. Genesis 6:6 states that “the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth.” Exodus 32:14 records that “the LORD relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.” Jonah 3:10 notes…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 02057 Molinism is a theological framework developed to explain how God can exercise complete providential control over history while human beings retain genuine freedom of choice. It has attracted considerable attention among evangelical theologians over recent decades and deserves both a fair explanation and a careful assessment. It asks genuinely important questions, though the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 02058 Middle knowledge — Latin scientia media — is the theological concept at the centre of Molinism. It refers to God’s knowledge of what any free creature would do in any possible set of circumstances, including circumstances that never actually occur. Understanding it carefully is necessary before forming a view on whether it is…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 02059 The question of whether the persons of the Trinity share one consciousness or possess three distinct consciousnesses takes us to the very frontier of what can be known about God — and, it turns out, to the frontier of what the word “consciousness” is even equipped to mean when applied to a divine…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02053 If God is perfectly holy and perfectly loving, do those two things ever pull in opposite directions? The question is not merely academic. It shapes how we understand the atonement, how we relate to God in prayer, and whether the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament are…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02056 The answer Scripture gives is a clear and unqualified no. God does not need us. Understanding why that is true — and why it is not a discouraging answer — takes us into some of the most important territory in the biblical doctrine of God. God Is Entirely Self-Sufficient Paul’s address to the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 02051 Divine simplicity is the classical theological claim that God is not composed of parts — that His attributes are not separate components assembled together to make up what He is, but are identical with His very essence. It is a doctrine with deep roots in the Christian theological tradition, and it deserves a…