Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 2026 The divine name that God spoke to Moses from the burning bush, the name we read in our Bibles as I AM, stands among the deepest self-disclosures in all of Scripture. When Moses asked the God of his fathers what he should say if the people demanded to know who had sent him,…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 12008 The question of lying seems simple enough on the surface. The Bible says not to lie, and that should settle it. But as soon as the question is pressed into real-world situations, complexities emerge that Christians have wrestled with for centuries. What exactly constitutes a lie? Does the prohibition apply without exception? What…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 12007 The question of whether a Christian may use force to defend themselves or others is closely related to the broader questions of war and capital punishment, but it is more personal and more immediately practical. If someone breaks into your home and threatens your family, what does Scripture allow? If a fellow believer…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10002 Once the basic principle of dispensationalism is understood, the next question follows naturally: how many dispensations does the Bible actually describe? The answer requires some care, because the number of dispensations is not the point of dispensational theology. The point is the underlying principle that God has governed His relationship with humanity through…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10030 Revelation 11 introduces two unnamed figures who prophesy for 1,260 days during the Tribulation, are killed by the Beast, lie unburied in the streets of Jerusalem, and are then raised and taken to heaven in the sight of their enemies. Their identity has been debated since the earliest centuries of the church, and…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10125 When Revelation 21:3 announces, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God,” it declares the fulfilment of a theme that runs from the opening chapters of Genesis to the closing chapters…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10149 The “book of life” is a concept that appears at several points in Scripture, from the Pentateuch through to the closing chapters of Revelation. It refers to a divine register of those who belong to God, and its implications for the doctrines of salvation, assurance, and final judgement are profound. Understanding what the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10158 Typology is one of the most important interpretive tools for understanding how the Old and New Testaments relate to one another. It is the recognition that God embedded patterns, persons, events, and institutions within the earlier stages of redemptive history that foreshadow and anticipate what He would later accomplish in Christ and in…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 60109 Antisemitism is the hatred, contempt, or systematic hostility directed at Jewish people because they are Jewish. It has taken many forms across history, from casual slander to genocidal violence, and it has often found shelter under religious, political, and even Christian banners. For the Christian, the question of whether antisemitism is wrong is…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08062 The idea of generational curses has become deeply embedded in certain streams of Christian teaching, particularly within charismatic and deliverance ministry contexts. The claim is that the sins of ancestors can pass spiritual curses down family lines, binding subsequent generations to patterns of addiction, poverty, illness, or spiritual oppression until those curses are…