Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04113 The question of whether God still performs miracles is one that evangelical Christians answer very differently, and the disagreement tends to generate more heat than light. One position dismisses virtually all claimed miraculous experience as enthusiastic error or deliberate fabrication. Another uses the language of miracles so freely that the word loses the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04045 There are few more striking statements in the New Testament than Paul’s declaration in 1 Corinthians 6:19: “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God?” That a human body — mortal, material, subject to hunger and tiredness and decay —…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04043 Galatians 5:16-25 contains one of the most practically important passages in Paul’s letters. In a single sustained argument, he sets out two contrasting ways of living: life driven by the flesh, and life shaped by the Spirit. The contrast is not between the irreligious and the religious. It runs through the middle of…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04040 When Jesus told Nicodemus that no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit (John 3:5), Nicodemus was baffled. The idea that a grown man could somehow be born again struck him as absurd. But Jesus was pointing to something far more radical than a…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 3065 This is an excellent question, and it gets to the heart of who Jesus really is. If Jesus is God, why would He need to pray? Was He talking to Himself? The answer lies in understanding the doctrine of the Trinity and the mystery of the Incarnation. Far from being a problem for…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02055 Why are we here? The question underlies much of the anxiety that drives people towards both religion and its alternatives. Scripture addresses it not as an abstract puzzle but as a statement of identity — telling us not just what we were made for but who made us and why that shapes every…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 3068 This might seem like a strange question, but it is worth thinking through carefully. The answer tells us something important about who Jesus was and how we should understand the relationship between Judaism and Christianity. Put simply: Jesus was a Jew. He was not a Christian. And yet Christianity is rightly named after…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 6002 If God is good and created everything, then where did sin come from? This question has puzzled believers and sceptics alike for centuries. It touches on some of the deepest mysteries of theology: the problem of evil, the nature of free will, and the character of God Himself. Scripture does not give us…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 6003 When God warned Adam about the forbidden tree, He said, “In the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:17). Adam and Eve ate, yet they did not drop dead on the spot. So what did God mean? Understanding the consequences of sin is essential for grasping both the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 6006 Why do we sin? Is it simply a matter of bad choices, poor upbringing, or environmental factors? Or is there something deeper, something fundamentally wrong with us at the core? The doctrine of the sin nature, sometimes called original sin or inherited depravity, addresses this question. It teaches that every human being is…