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 06073 Can we be genuinely guilty before God for something we did not know was wrong? The question touches on the relationship between moral knowledge, intention, and accountability, and it has direct practical bearing on conscience, on the thoroughness of Christian self-examination, and on how wide the scope of God’s grace actually is. The…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 05033 Every person is familiar with the experience of conscience, even if they have never thought carefully about what it is or where it comes from. That inner voice that commends right action and condemns wrong, the sense of guilt after doing what we knew was wrong and of quiet satisfaction after doing what…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 1009 General revelation is God’s disclosure of Himself through the created order and human conscience—knowledge available to all people, everywhere, at all times. It’s what Paul describes when he writes that God’s “invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, ever since the creation of the world, in the…