Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12063 The question of euthanasia — the deliberate ending of a person’s life to relieve suffering — is one that medicine, law, and culture are increasingly willing to normalise. For Christians, it raises questions that Scripture addresses at the level of principle, even where it does not speak to every contemporary medical specific. The…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10200 What happens to a person in the time between death and the resurrection? It is a question that has occupied Christian thinkers across the centuries, and it is one that touches everyone who has stood at a graveside. Scripture gives more guidance on this than is often realised, though it does not answer…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10168 The question of where hell is located surfaces with regularity, often in the context of popular imagination that places it beneath the earth’s surface. It is a question that mixes legitimate biblical curiosity with assumptions drawn from Dante, medieval art, and cultural mythology. What Scripture actually teaches is more nuanced, and more sobering,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10167 The desire to know whether our departed loved ones can see us is one of the most deeply felt questions in the Christian life. It is asked at funerals, in hospital rooms, and in the quiet grief of ordinary days. The answer requires a careful handling of what Scripture says, what it does…
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: 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: 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…