Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 01068 When Christians speak of the Bible as “inspired,” they mean something far more precise than the casual sense in which we might call Shakespeare inspired or describe an artist’s best work as inspired. Biblical inspiration is a technical theological term describing how God produced Scripture through human authors, and understanding it is essential…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 04067 Sanctification raises one of the most practically important questions in the Christian life. How much is God’s work and how much is mine? The popular slogan “Let go and let God” has shaped a generation of devotional thinking and remains influential in some circles, but careful reading of Scripture suggests this framing distorts…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11019 The word “disciple” appears far more often in the New Testament than the word “Christian.” That alone should tell us something about what the early church understood the normal Christian life to look like. Discipleship is not an advanced course for the especially committed. It is the basic shape of what it means…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10095 The Millennium is not the final chapter in God’s redemptive story. A thousand years of Christ’s righteous rule on earth, remarkable as that period will be, gives way to a concluding series of events that brings the present created order to its end and ushers in the eternal state. What happens at the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10122 Tartarus is the rarest of the New Testament terms for a place of punishment, occurring only once in the entire Bible, in 2 Peter 2:4. It is a word drawn from Greek mythology, and its single New Testament appearance has generated considerable discussion about who is held there, why they are there, and…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10133 The question of whether God will destroy the present creation and replace it with something entirely new, or whether He will renew and transform what already exists, has been debated by careful Bible students for centuries. It is not a question on which the whole of Christian theology hangs, but it touches on…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10154 Eschatology is not a speculative hobby for those who enjoy charts and timelines. What we believe about the future shapes how we live in the present, and the New Testament writers consistently draw ethical and pastoral conclusions from prophetic truth. The question is not whether eschatology affects daily life but whether we have…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60061 This is a question that deserves to be answered with honesty rather than defensiveness. The record of institutional abuse within churches, from the Roman Catholic scandals involving thousands of clergy, to cases within Protestant denominations, independent churches, and parachurch organisations, is genuinely appalling. Victims have been betrayed by the very people who were…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 08066 The practice of rebuking Satan and demons verbally has become so common in certain Christian circles that many believers assume it is simply what Scripture teaches. People rebuke the devil over illnesses, financial problems, traffic jams, and virtually every other inconvenience, often with great confidence and volume. But the question of whether believers…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 08085 Scripture is clear that Satan faces eternal judgement in the lake of fire (Revelation 20:10). But what about the vast host of fallen angels who followed him in rebellion? Will demons be judged separately from Satan, and does Scripture tell us anything about how and when that judgement takes place? The Judgement Prepared…