Understanding major world religions from a biblical perspective.
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60007 We live in a world of religious diversity. Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism, and countless other faiths claim the allegiance of billions of people. In an age of tolerance and pluralism, many find it offensive to suggest that Christianity alone is true. Are not all religions essentially the same? Do they not all…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60051 In an age of religious pluralism, many suggest that Islam and Christianity are compatible faiths—perhaps different paths to the same God. Some point to shared figures like Abraham, Moses, and Jesus, or to similar ethical teachings, as evidence of fundamental unity. But can these two faiths actually be reconciled? A careful examination reveals…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60080 On the surface, certain strands of Eastern Orthodox teaching and New Age spirituality appear to say something strikingly similar: that human beings can become divine. The Orthodox doctrine of theosis, or deification, speaks of humanity participating in the divine nature. New Age spirituality claims that we are already divine, needing only to awaken…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 7069 The question of salvation divided Western Christianity in the sixteenth century and has not been formally resolved since. The Protestant Reformation turned fundamentally on the question of how a person is justified before God, and the Council of Trent, convened by Rome between 1545 and 1563, responded by issuing specific condemnations of the…