Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10147 The question of who wrote the book of Revelation is not a matter of idle curiosity. The authority of the book depends upon it. If Revelation was written by the apostle John, the last surviving member of the Twelve, then it carries apostolic authority and takes its place as the capstone of the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 01006 The words “prophecy” and “prediction” are often used interchangeably in popular conversation, but they are not the same thing. Understanding the difference is important for reading the Bible accurately, because biblical prophecy involves far more than foretelling the future, and reducing it to prediction alone strips it of much of its meaning and…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 01003 The Bible is frequently described as a prophetic book, and with good reason. A substantial portion of its content involves prophecy in one form or another, whether foretelling future events, proclaiming God’s will to a present audience, or doing both simultaneously. The sheer volume of prophetic material is one of Scripture’s most distinctive…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 02001 When Christians speak about “the doctrine of God,” they are entering the territory that theologians call Theology Proper. The name is significant. Of all the doctrines that make up the framework of Christian belief, this is the one that concerns the being, nature, and character of God Himself. Everything else in theology depends…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 60078 Sceptics sometimes ask how we can trust that the words attributed to Jesus in the Gospels are actually what He said. After all, the Gospels were written decades after Jesus’ ministry. Isn’t it possible that His words were distorted, embellished, or even invented by the early Church? How can we have confidence that…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04025 There is a real difference between reading the Bible as a piece of ancient literature and reading it as the living Word of God speaking into your situation. That difference is not primarily about intelligence or education. It has everything to do with the Holy Spirit’s work of illumination, the ministry by which…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04033 If the Bible is the Word of God, and if its authority depends on its divine origin, then the mechanism by which God produced it matters enormously. Scripture’s own testimony is that the Holy Spirit played the decisive role in the process of inspiration, ensuring that human authors writing in their own styles,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 4062 The cessationist and continuationist debate turns, at its heart, on a single exegetical decision: are prophecy and Scripture the same category of thing? If they are, then genuine prophecy today would mean adding to the Word of God — an obvious impossibility given that the canon is closed. But if prophecy and Scripture…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1070 If the Bible is truly God’s Word—inspired by Him in every part—then a natural question arises: does it contain errors? Can we trust everything it says? The doctrine of biblical inerrancy addresses this question directly, affirming that Scripture, in its original manuscripts, is entirely true and without error in all that it affirms….
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 1068 When Christians speak of the Bible as “inspired,” they mean something quite specific—something far more than calling Shakespeare inspired or saying an artist had an inspired moment. Biblical inspiration is a technical theological term describing how God produced Scripture through human authors. Understanding this doctrine is essential for grasping why Scripture carries divine…