Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 08114 The Bible does not give a precise count of the angels God has created, but it provides enough language to establish that their number is extraordinarily vast. The consistent impression Scripture gives is of an innumerable host, a created order so immense that human counting cannot contain it. The Biblical Language of Multitude…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8021 The question of whether angels can be seen draws on a wealth of biblical material and touches on some genuinely fascinating aspects of how the spiritual and physical realms intersect. That people in Scripture saw angels is unambiguous. What needs examining is what kind of seeing was involved, and whether similar experiences remain…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 1082 For centuries, sceptics dismissed much of the Bible as myth and legend. They claimed that people groups mentioned in Scripture never existed, that cities described were fictional, and that events recorded were invented. Then the archaeologists got to work. Time and again, the spade has confirmed what Scripture recorded, silencing critics and strengthening…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 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 the central event of all history. But Scripture records other instances where people were raised from the dead, both before and after Jesus’ own resurrection….