Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07032 The phrase ordo salutis is Latin for “order of salvation,” and it refers to the logical sequence of the various elements involved in a person coming to salvation and continuing in the Christian life. It is a theological framework rather than a biblical phrase, but the question it addresses is thoroughly biblical: does…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08103 This is a question that carries real urgency for the person asking it, and it deserves an answer that is both pastorally compassionate and biblically clear. Involvement in the occult can range from seemingly innocent activities like consulting horoscopes or using Ouija boards to deep engagement with spiritism, witchcraft, divination, or Satanism. Whatever…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60072 Few movements in modern church history have proved more persistently influential or more theologically problematic than the Latter Rain revival of the late 1940s and the doctrine of the Manifest Sons of God that grew from it. Though the names may be unfamiliar to many Christians today, the ideas continue to circulate widely,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 7068 The Free Grace movement is a strand of evangelical theology arguing that saving faith consists simply in believing God’s promise of eternal life to the one who trusts in Christ, with repentance, commitment to discipleship, and acknowledgment of Christ’s lordship all understood as belonging to sanctification rather than to justification. It is not…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04105 Before a person can receive the gospel, something must happen to them. The good news of forgiveness is only recognisable as good news to someone who knows they need it, and that recognition, the deep, personal awareness of sin before a holy God, does not arise naturally in human beings. It is the…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 06066 This question touches one of the deepest fault lines in all of theology — the relationship between God’s purposes and the existence of evil in His creation. Scripture affirms with remarkable plainness that God can and does bring good out of evil. It also affirms with equal plainness that God is not the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60098 The claim that Peter and Paul preached fundamentally different gospels is associated with a strand of dispensational teaching sometimes called ultra-dispensationalism or hyper-dispensationalism. In its more extreme forms, this teaching argues that only Paul’s letters, sometimes only his prison epistles, constitute the relevant Scripture for the church today, since Peter was preaching a…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 60008 In a marketplace of competing worldviews and religions, what sets Christianity apart? Is it simply one option among many, differing from others only in cultural expressions and historical accidents? Or is there something fundamentally distinctive about the Christian faith? As we shall see, Christianity is unique in ways that no other religion can…
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Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 9004 Few questions have divided Christians more than the question of infant baptism. Some denominations practise it; others reject it entirely. Some see it as essential for salvation; others view it as a harmful distortion of the gospel. Where should we stand? As always, our authority must be Scripture, not tradition or sentiment. What…