Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10019 The law God gave to Israel through Moses at Mount Sinai has puzzled Christians for centuries. If we’re saved by grace through faith, why did God give the law? Was it a failed experiment? A temporary measure until something better came along? Or did it serve specific divine purposes that remain relevant for…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 11072 This question goes to the heart of faithful Christian parenting. Moses commanded Israel: “You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise” (Deuteronomy 6:7). The instruction of…
Reading Time: 2 minutesQuestion 8022 Scripture records conversations between humans and angels repeatedly. What needs examination is the character of those conversations and what they can or cannot tell us about our relationship with the angelic world. The answer has more practical weight than it might initially appear. Conversation as Response Every biblical conversation between a human being…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02043 Justice is one of the deep human instincts. Even people who have no settled belief in God are profoundly disturbed when wrong goes unpunished and the innocent suffer while the guilty prosper. This instinct is not accidental. It reflects something embedded in human nature — a sense that there is a moral order…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02053 If God is perfectly holy and perfectly loving, do those two things ever pull in opposite directions? The question is not merely academic. It shapes how we understand the atonement, how we relate to God in prayer, and whether the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament are…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 2075 Of all the objections raised against the God of the Bible, this one carries perhaps the most emotional force. The conquest of Canaan, in which God commanded Israel to destroy entire populations, is regularly cited as evidence that the God of the Old Testament is a deity of tribal violence rather than the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 2017 The question tends to arrive from one of two directions. Some people ask it because they have read the Old Testament and noticed that God appears to deal very differently with different people – choosing Israel over the nations, calling Abraham while seemingly overlooking his contemporaries, appearing to prefer Jacob to Esau before…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 05037 The question of free will is one of the oldest and most contested in both philosophy and theology. It matters enormously, because the answer shapes how we understand human responsibility, how we read the gospel’s commands to repent and believe, and how we think about the character of God Himself. What “Free Will”…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1051 When you start digging into biblical manuscripts, you’ll eventually come across something called the Samaritan Pentateuch. It sounds exotic and perhaps a bit intimidating, but understanding what it is and how it relates to our Old Testament is actually quite straightforward once you get your bearings. The question is this: if the Samaritans…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1056 Scripture memorisation is one of those spiritual disciplines that Christians often feel guilty about neglecting. We know we probably should do it, but life gets busy, memory feels unreliable, and we wonder if it really matters when we can just look up verses on our phones. Yet the Bible itself speaks powerfully about…