Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60015 The New Age movement is not a single organisation with a headquarters, a leader, or a creed. It is a broad, loosely connected collection of spiritual beliefs and practices that emerged in Western culture during the 1960s and 1970s and has since permeated mainstream culture to a degree that many people absorb its…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08103 This is a question that carries real urgency for the person asking it, and it deserves an answer that is both pastorally compassionate and biblically clear. Involvement in the occult can range from seemingly innocent activities like consulting horoscopes or using Ouija boards to deep engagement with spiritism, witchcraft, divination, or Satanism. Whatever…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 08087 The idea that Jesus preached to demons during the period between His death and resurrection has a long history in Christian thought and is closely connected to the interpretation of 1 Peter 3:19. Did Jesus descend to the realm of the dead and address demonic beings, and if so, what was the purpose…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 08084 The Bible presents Satan as genuinely active in relation to human sin: not a mere symbol of moral evil but a personal, intelligent adversary with specific strategies and identifiable methods. It is equally clear that his activity never removes human responsibility. Both halves of that picture are essential, and collapsing either one distorts…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8007 Human beings are mortal. We are born, we live for a time, and we die. But what about angels? Are they immortal beings who will exist forever, or can they be destroyed? Scripture gives us some fascinating insights into the nature of angelic existence and what awaits both the faithful and the fallen…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 8006 This question strikes at the very nature of moral responsibility and the origin of evil. If angels are simply programmed to obey God, how could some have rebelled? If they have genuine freedom to choose, what does that mean for their service to God? The existence of fallen angels demonstrates that the answer…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11065 Paul writes in Ephesians 6:12 that “we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness.” The Christian life is not a gentle stroll toward improvement — it is described in the New Testament with the language of warfare, struggle,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 8044 Paul’s statement in 2 Corinthians 2:11 that “we are not ignorant of his designs” carries the implication that there is something to know — that Satan does not operate randomly but follows recognisable patterns that careful attention to Scripture can identify. The word translated “designs” or “devices” in various versions is the Greek…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8045 The capacity of Satan and his agents to perform supernatural signs is something Scripture addresses plainly, though not always in terms that modern readers find comfortable. The question touches directly on how believers distinguish genuine divine activity from its counterfeits, and it matters considerably in a religious environment where supernatural experience is sometimes…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8043 The name Beelzebub, or more accurately Beelzebul, is one of the more arresting titles applied to Satan in the Gospels, and its appearance in the controversy over Jesus’ exorcisms reveals both the depth of the Pharisees’ hostility and the extraordinary accusation they were prepared to make. Tracing the name back to its origins…