Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3066. Here is a question that sounds mischievous but deserves a careful answer: if Jesus is God, and Scripture says that in him ‘all things hold together’ (Colossians 1:17), then who kept the universe running between Good Friday and Easter Sunday? Did the divine nature lie dead in a tomb outside Jerusalem while the…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3029. Firstborn over creation is one of the titles most frequently misused by groups who want to argue that Jesus was God’s first created being. Read the phrase in its actual context in Colossians, however, and it says almost the opposite of what that misreading claims. Let me show you what Paul actually means…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 06059 The statement in Matthew 5:29–30 has unsettled readers since it was first spoken, which is probably part of the point. “If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11009 Work is not a consequence of the fall. It is one of the most frequently misunderstood aspects of the biblical story, because many people assume that labour is a curse imposed on humanity after Genesis 3. In fact, God gave Adam meaningful work before sin entered the picture, and Scripture treats honest work…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12056 Few parenting topics generate as much debate among Christians as physical discipline. The wider culture has moved decisively against it, and in many countries legislation now prohibits any form of corporal punishment. Yet Scripture contains explicit references to physical correction, and many faithful Christians have practised it for generations. The question is what…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11103 Gender dysphoria is the clinical term for the persistent distress a person experiences when their internal sense of gender does not align with their biological sex. The condition is real. The suffering it causes can be intense and debilitating. The question for the church is not whether to take this suffering seriously, because…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11016 The practice of memorising Scripture has declined significantly in the modern church, partly because of the availability of Bible apps and digital search tools, and partly because memorisation of any kind has fallen out of favour in Western education. But the biblical case for hiding God’s Word in the heart is strong, and…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11096 This question arises more often than it should need to, and the fact that it does reflects the influence of certain streams of Christian teaching that have set faith and medicine in opposition to one another. Some believers genuinely wonder whether consulting a doctor represents a failure of trust in God. The biblical…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 12008 The question of lying seems simple enough on the surface. The Bible says not to lie, and that should settle it. But as soon as the question is pressed into real-world situations, complexities emerge that Christians have wrestled with for centuries. What exactly constitutes a lie? Does the prohibition apply without exception? What…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12000 Ethics is one of those words that gets used constantly but rarely defined carefully. In secular culture it tends to mean something like “the general sense of right and wrong that decent people share,” which is vague enough to mean almost anything. For the Christian, the question is far more precise and far…