Christology (Christ)

Question 03014 The resurrection of Jesus Christ is not an optional extra attached to the Christian faith for those who find it encouraging. It is the event on which everything ...

Question 03016 The question of why Jesus had to rise is not the same as asking why the resurrection matters, though the two are closely related. To ask why He ...

Question 60022 The claim that Jesus of Nazareth rose bodily from the dead is either the most important fact in human history or the most successful deception ever perpetrated. There ...

Question 3065 This is an excellent question, and it gets to the heart of who Jesus really is. If Jesus is God, why would He need to pray? Was He ...

Question 3064 The traditional answer is Friday, which is why we call it "Good Friday." But some have challenged this, arguing for Wednesday or Thursday instead. The debate centres on ...

Question 2071 "The Father is greater than I" (John 14:28). These words, spoken by Jesus on the night of his arrest, have been among the most contested in Christian theology ...

Question 60082 The Word of Faith movement is one of the most widely diffused streams of popular Christianity in the world today, with roots in mid-twentieth century America and branches ...

Question 03087 The book of Ruth is four chapters long and tells a story set during the period of the judges. It could be read simply as a moving account ...

Question 7086 The term "scapegoat" has passed so thoroughly into ordinary language, used to describe anyone blamed for things they did not do, that its biblical origins can become obscured ...

Question 3013 1 John 2:1 is one of those verses that manages to be both deeply pastoral and precisely theological in the same breath: "My little children, I am writing ...

Question 2013 The phrase 'eternal generation of the Son' appears in no single verse of Scripture in those exact words, and that immediately raises a legitimate question: is this a ...

Question 02030 James 1:13 states it plainly: "Let no one say when he is tempted, 'I am being tempted by God,' for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he ...

Question 3066 This question assumes something that is not quite accurate, namely that Jesus, as God, ceased to exist or ceased to function during His death. To answer properly, we ...

Question 3067 Throughout history, people have tried to enlist Jesus for their political causes. Some have portrayed Him as a social revolutionary, fighting against Roman oppression and the wealthy establishment ...

Question 3068 This might seem like a strange question, but it is worth thinking through carefully. The answer tells us something important about who Jesus was and how we should ...

Question 3075 The verse in question is Hebrews 5:8: "Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered." At first reading, this can seem confusing. If Jesus ...

Question 3078 Revelation 13:8 is one of those verses that stops you in your tracks when you read it carefully. Depending on which translation you pick up, it can sound ...

Question 13011 Gnosticism was not a single, tidy system but a collection of interconnected religious ideas that shared enough common assumptions to pose a recognisable and serious threat to the ...

Question 03084 The question is partly historical and partly a matter of honest comparison, and both dimensions deserve a direct response. But behind it lies a theological concern that is ...

Question 03085 The feeding of the five thousand is the only miracle of Jesus, apart from the resurrection, that appears in all four Gospels. Matthew 14:13-21, Mark 6:30-44, Luke 9:10-17, ...

Question 03082 The Gospels record Jesus displaying clear anger on more than one occasion. The cleansing of the temple is the most dramatic instance, but it is not the only ...

Question 03080 Nobody asks this question expecting a straightforward list of recorded occasions. The Gospels do not preserve a catalogue of Jesus' lighter moments. But the question behind the question ...

Question 03081 At first glance, Jesus cursing a fig tree for not bearing fruit looks like an overreaction to a piece of vegetation. It is one of those Gospel episodes ...

Question 03003 When people say "Jesus Christ," they are almost always using a familiar phrase without pausing to ask what "Christ" actually means. Most assume it functions something like a ...

Question 03079 The account of Jesus walking on the water tends to provoke one of two responses: either straightforward acceptance as a miraculous act by the Son of God, or ...

Question 3074 This is one of those questions that touches the very heart of who Jesus is. In John 11:35, we read the shortest verse in the English Bible: "Jesus ...

Question 3073 The virgin birth is not just a miracle to wonder at; it is theologically essential for our salvation. Without it, the entire Gospel falls apart. Some try to ...

Question 3052 You may have heard the phrase 'the historical Jesus' and wondered what it means. Is it different from the Jesus we read about in the Gospels? The term ...

Question 3053 Every religion has its founder or key figure. Buddhism has the Buddha, Islam has Muhammad, Hinduism has its gurus and avatars. So what makes Jesus different? Is he ...

Question 3054 Some groups, notably the Jehovah's Witnesses, teach that Jesus is actually the archangel Michael. They argue that Jesus is a created being, the first and greatest of God's ...

Question 3056 Genealogies can seem like the driest parts of the Bible. Lists of names, one after another, with difficult pronunciations and unfamiliar figures. Many readers skip straight past them ...

Question 3055 When you read Matthew's Gospel and Luke's Gospel, you encounter something puzzling. Both give genealogies of Jesus, but they are different. Matthew traces the line from Abraham through ...

Question 3057 Jesus was a master storyteller. When crowds gathered to hear him, he often taught through parables: short, vivid stories drawn from everyday life. The sower and the seed, ...

Question 3058 The Gospels tell us about Jesus' birth, his presentation at the Temple, the visit of the Magi, the flight to Egypt, and his family's return to Nazareth. Then ...

Question 3059 Every few years, some book or documentary claims to have discovered evidence that Jesus was married. Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code popularised the idea that Jesus ...

Question 3044 When we read the Gospels, we encounter the title 'Son of David' applied to Jesus with striking frequency. The blind call out to Him using this name. The ...

Question 3045 We use the word 'Christ' so frequently that it can almost seem like Jesus' surname. But 'Christ' is not a name – it is a title, and one ...

Question 3047 The book of Hebrews makes an extraordinary claim: Jesus, the Son of God, serves as our High Priest. This would have been a startling assertion to Jewish readers, ...

Question 3046 When John the Baptist saw Jesus approaching, he made one of the most profound declarations in all of Scripture: "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the ...

Question 3048 Some claim that Jesus never actually said He was God – that this was a later invention by the Church. They point out that Jesus often called Himself ...

Question 3036 Few phrases in Scripture carry as much weight as "the blood of Jesus." It appears throughout the New Testament as the foundation of our redemption, the means of ...

Question 3037 The question of who killed Jesus has been debated, weaponised, and misunderstood for two thousand years. It has been used to justify horrific persecution of the Jewish people ...

Question 3038 Of all the ways to execute a condemned man, crucifixion was among the most brutal, shameful, and prolonged. The Romans did not invent it, but they perfected it ...

Question 3041 After His resurrection, Jesus appeared to His disciples over a period of forty days, teaching them about the kingdom of God (Acts 1:3). Then, on the Mount of ...

Question 3043 The most common title given to Jesus in the New Testament is "Lord" — in Greek, Κύριος (Kyrios). It appears hundreds of times, far more frequently than "Christ" ...

Question 3040 The resurrection of Jesus is not only the vindication of His claims and the guarantee of our salvation — it is also the pattern for our own future ...

Question 3031 Throughout history, various groups have tried to reduce Jesus to the level of an exalted angel. Jehovah's Witnesses teach that Jesus is Michael the Archangel. Some early heresies ...

Question 3030 The temptation of Jesus in the wilderness raises a profound question. If Jesus is God, and God cannot sin, then was His temptation genuine? Can a temptation be ...

Question 3029 Colossians 1:15 describes Jesus as "the firstborn of all creation." Critics of Christianity, particularly Jehovah's Witnesses and other groups that deny Jesus' deity, seize upon this phrase as ...

Question 3028 This question strikes at the heart of who Jesus really is. If Jesus was born in Bethlehem around 4 BC, how can Christians claim He is eternal? Wasn't ...

Question 3025 The three days between Good Friday and Easter Sunday have long puzzled Christians. Where was Jesus during that time? What was He doing? The question is not idle ...

Question 3022 Jesus has not retired. Far from sitting idle in some distant corner of the cosmos, He is actively engaged in work that touches the life of every believer ...

Question 3021 It is one thing to know that Jesus rose from the dead; it is quite another to know where He is right now and what He is doing ...

Question 3027 When the eternal Son of God took on human nature in the womb of Mary, was this a temporary arrangement? Did Jesus shed His humanity when He ascended ...

Question 3019 Christianity stands or falls on the resurrection of Jesus. Paul put it bluntly: "If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in ...

Question 3015 About halfway through His earthly ministry, Jesus took three of His disciples up a high mountain, and there something extraordinary happened. His appearance changed, His glory was revealed, ...

Question 3012 Two titles appear throughout the Gospels that can cause confusion: "Son of God" and "Son of Man." Some assume they mean the same thing; others think "Son of ...

Question 3007 This question gets to the heart of what kind of humanity Jesus possessed. When Adam fell, sin entered the human race, and every descendant of Adam has inherited ...

Question 3006 We often emphasise the deity of Jesus, and rightly so. But Scripture is equally insistent that Jesus was genuinely, fully, and completely human. This is not a secondary ...

Question 3011 This is a question that naturally arises from the Gospel accounts. John's baptism was "a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins" (Mark 1:4). People came confessing ...

Question 3010 This question pushes further into the mystery of the incarnation. When exactly did Jesus become aware that He was the eternal Son of God? Did He know from ...

Question 3009 The Gospels give us only glimpses into Jesus' childhood, yet those glimpses raise fascinating questions. How did the incarnation work in practice during those early years? Did the ...

Question 3008 This question has been debated by theologians throughout Church history. If Jesus could not have sinned, was His temptation genuine? If He could have sinned, what would that ...

Question 3005 The hypostatic union is one of the most profound doctrines in all of Christian theology. It describes how Jesus Christ can be both fully God and fully man ...

Question 3004 The deity of Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which Christianity stands or falls. If Jesus is not God, then Christianity is false, and we are still in ...

Question 3076 Few words in all of Scripture carry the weight of those spoken by Jesus from the cross in John 19:30: "It is finished." In the original Greek, this ...

Question 3077 The hours between Jesus' arrest in Gethsemane and His sentencing by Pontius Pilate were filled with a series of hearings and examinations, some religious and some civil, that ...

Question 3001 This is perhaps the most important question any person can ask. It is the question Jesus Himself put to His disciples at Caesarea Philippi: "Who do you say ...

Question 3002 The question of whether Jesus had brothers and sisters has been debated throughout Church history, largely due to the Roman Catholic doctrine of Mary's perpetual virginity. Yet when ...

Question 3026 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son..." (John 3:16, KJV) This phrase has comforted believers for centuries, but what exactly does it ...

Question 7079 Isaiah 53:5 declares, "But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his ...

Question 3062 When we think of resurrection in the Bible, our minds naturally go straight to Jesus rising from the dead on Easter morning. And rightly so, His resurrection is ...

Question 3061 The resurrection stands at the very heart of the Christian faith. Without it, as Paul bluntly puts it, our faith is futile and we are still in our ...

Question 3063 Few statements in the Apostles' Creed have generated more confusion than the phrase "He descended into hell." What does it mean? Did Jesus, between His death and resurrection, ...

Question 0008 This is a question that cuts right to the heart of the matter. If theology matters, and it does, then surely some of it matters more than others ...

Question 3000 Christology is one of those theological words that can sound intimidating, but it simply means the study of Jesus. The word comes from the Greek Χριστός (Christos), meaning ...