Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 03014 The resurrection of Jesus Christ is not an optional extra attached to the Christian faith for those who find it encouraging. It is the event on which everything stands or falls. Paul is blunt about this in 1 Corinthians 15:17: “And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10115 Purgatory is the Roman Catholic doctrine that believers who die in a state of grace but with unforgiven venial sins or unpaid temporal punishment must undergo purification before entering heaven. While this belief has shaped Western Christianity for centuries and remains official Catholic teaching, we must ask whether it has any foundation in…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 6003 When God warned Adam about the forbidden tree, He said, “In the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:17). Adam and Eve ate, yet they did not drop dead on the spot. So what did God mean? Understanding the consequences of sin is essential for grasping both the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 05042 The Bible’s early chapters record lifespans that strike modern readers as extraordinary: Methuselah lived 969 years, Adam 930, Noah 950. Within a few generations of the flood, those figures collapse dramatically until Moses writes in Psalm 90 about seventy or eighty years as the human allotment. This is not incidental data. It raises…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 05013 When a baby or young child dies, the grief is unlike any other. Parents, grandparents, and those who love them carry questions that do not resolve easily, and the most pressing of those questions is also the most theological: where is my child now? Scripture does not provide a systematic treatment of infant…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 05012 The phrase “age of accountability” does not appear in Scripture, and yet the question it represents is one of the most pastorally urgent a minister ever faces. What happens to children who die before they are old enough to understand the gospel and respond to it? Is there a point before which a…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 3074 This is one of those questions that touches the very heart of who Jesus is. In John 11:35, we read the shortest verse in the English Bible: “Jesus wept.” But why? He knew perfectly well that within minutes He would call Lazarus out of the tomb. He knew the ending of the story…