Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02052 The word aseity comes from the Latin a se — meaning “from himself.” Divine aseity is the doctrine that God exists entirely from Himself, that He is dependent on nothing outside Himself for His being, His life, or His continued existence. He did not come into being through any prior cause. He cannot…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 2070 Genesis 6:6 records that “the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.” Jonah 3:10 states that “when God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil way, God relented of the disaster that he had said he would do to them,…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 2077 The account of Uzzah’s death in 2 Samuel 6 is one of those passages that stops readers short. A man reaches out to stop the ark from falling, an instinctive act that seems entirely reasonable and even admirable, and God strikes him dead on the spot. David is angry and afraid. Many modern…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 2079 The hardening of Pharaoh’s heart is one of the most theologically contested passages in the Old Testament, and it has been pressed into service in support of Calvinist determinism for centuries. If God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, was Pharaoh responsible for resisting? Did God create Pharaoh as a vessel for destruction and then hold…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 2073 The question touches something every thoughtful believer wrestles with. If God knows the end from the beginning and his purposes are fixed, what does prayer actually accomplish? And if he already knows what we are going to ask, and has already decided how he will respond, does the whole exercise amount to little…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 2007 The account in Genesis 2:2-3 is short and theologically rich: “And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 2029 The answer is yes — though it requires careful qualification. The full, explicitly articulated doctrine of the Trinity belongs to the New Testament, where the personal identities of Father, Son, and Spirit are disclosed with a clarity that was not available in the earlier revelation. What the Old Testament contains is not the…
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: 6 minutesQuestion 10020 Understanding the difference between conditional and unconditional covenants is essential for grasping God’s purposes throughout Scripture. This distinction affects how we read the Old Testament promises, how we understand Israel’s future, and how we apply God’s Word to our lives today. Getting this right isn’t academic theology—it shapes our whole understanding of God’s…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 3046 When John the Baptist saw Jesus approaching, he made one of the most profound declarations in all of Scripture: “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29). This title, ‘Lamb of God,’ reaches back through centuries of sacrificial imagery and forward to the eternal worship of…