Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 6019 Jeremiah 17:9 is one of the most searching verses in the Old Testament: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” It is the kind of statement that either strikes the reader as obviously true or provokes significant resistance, depending on how comfortable they are with a…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 5003 One of the most pressing questions of our age concerns the relationship between biological sex and personal identity. Is it possible for someone to be “born in the wrong body”? Can a person’s inner sense of being male or female differ from their physical reality? These questions would have been incomprehensible to previous…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 5007 This question lies at the heart of some of the most contested ethical debates of our time, from abortion to embryonic stem cell research to in vitro fertilisation. Yet it is not merely a political question; it is a deeply theological one. How we answer it reflects our view of God, of human…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12062 Abortion is among the most contested moral questions in contemporary Western society, and it is one on which Scripture speaks with more clarity than is often acknowledged. The Bible does not use the word abortion, but it addresses the foundations on which any Christian answer must be built, and those foundations lead in…
Reading Time: 2 minutesQuestion 8025 The idea that people become angels when they die is deeply embedded in popular culture and in a great deal of casual Christian conversation. When a child dies, grieving parents are sometimes told that God needed another angel. When a believer passes away, someone will often say they have their wings now. However…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 04097 The relationship between biblical sanctification and what contemporary psychology calls character formation or psychological maturity deserves careful handling. There are genuine points of contact, observations from psychology that illuminate what Scripture has always said, and areas where the two frameworks diverge at a fundamental level. The task is knowing which is which, rather…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02055 Why are we here? The question underlies much of the anxiety that drives people towards both religion and its alternatives. Scripture addresses it not as an abstract puzzle but as a statement of identity — telling us not just what we were made for but who made us and why that shapes every…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 13012 The episode in Genesis 9 following the flood is brief, strange, and deeply uncomfortable. Noah becomes drunk, lies uncovered in his tent, his son Ham “sees the nakedness of his father” and tells his brothers, Shem and Japheth cover Noah carefully without looking at him, and when Noah awakes and learns what happened…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 02085 The term “common grace” describes the benefits God extends to all people regardless of whether they are in a saving relationship with Him. It is distinguished from saving grace, which transforms the soul and brings about new birth, and it raises a genuine question: can someone who has never trusted Christ still perceive…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 5000 The word anthropology appears intimidating at first glance, but it points to one of the most practical questions theology addresses: what, exactly, is a human being? Not in the sense that evolutionary biology or social science would frame the question, but in the sense that asks what the Creator says about His own…