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: 6 minutesQuestion 3028. Eternal generation is the theological term that answers what sounds, at first, like a contradiction: how can Jesus be eternal, without beginning or end, if He was also born in Bethlehem at a specific point in history? The resolution lies in carefully distinguishing two very different things Scripture affirms about Him. Let me…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3026. Only begotten Son is a phrase that has caused more confusion than almost any other title given to Jesus, because in ordinary English “begotten” sounds like it describes a beginning, a moment when the Son came into existence. That is precisely the wrong conclusion to draw, and getting it right matters enormously for…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3004. The deity of Jesus is the foundation Christianity stands or falls on. If Jesus is not God, Christianity collapses and we remain in our sins. If He truly is God, then His words carry final authority, His death has infinite value, and His promises are as certain as God’s own character. So what…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3001. The identity of Jesus is, I think, the one question none of us gets to avoid indefinitely. Jesus put it to His own disciples at Caesarea Philippi, and He still puts it to every person who hears about Him: “But who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15). People have offered plenty…