Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07023 Baptism is a significant and serious act of Christian obedience. It is also one of the most debated subjects in Christian theology, with genuine disagreement not just about its mode but about what it actually does. The question of whether baptism is necessary for salvation goes to the heart of the gospel itself:…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 7066 Few theological debates have generated as much heat within conservative evangelicalism as the question of whether genuine saving faith necessarily includes acknowledgment of Christ’s lordship. On one side stands the position that a Jesus who is not received as Lord has not truly been received at all. On the other stands the concern…
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: 3 minutesQuestion 07029 Redemption is one of the richest words in the New Testament’s vocabulary of salvation. It draws on the world of the marketplace and the world of slavery to describe what God has done for those who trust in Christ, and it carries the weight of a completed transaction that cannot be reversed. To…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 7065 The term “Lordship salvation” describes the view that genuine saving faith necessarily includes recognition of and submission to Jesus as Lord, not merely reception of Him as Saviour. It entered widespread evangelical debate primarily through John MacArthur’s 1988 book The Gospel According to Jesus, which argued that a generation of evangelicalism had been…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 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 sins (1 Corinthians 15:17). So, what exactly do we mean when we speak of resurrection? Is it the same as the immortality of the soul?…