Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12062 Abortion is among the most contested moral questions in contemporary Western society, and it is one on which Scripture speaks with more clarity than is often acknowledged. The Bible does not use the word abortion, but it addresses the foundations on which any Christian answer must be built, and those foundations lead in…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 12063 The question of euthanasia — the deliberate ending of a person’s life to relieve suffering — is one that medicine, law, and culture are increasingly willing to normalise. For Christians, it raises questions that Scripture addresses at the level of principle, even where it does not speak to every contemporary medical specific. The…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8031 The word “demon” appears frequently in the Gospels and throughout the New Testament, yet the origin of these beings is not explicitly stated in a single definitive passage. The identity of demons has generated genuine debate among biblical scholars, and understanding where the biblical evidence points matters both for accurate theology and for…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8034 Reports of disturbing physical manifestations attributed to demonic presence have circulated throughout church history and continue into the present, ranging from objects moving to visible apparitions. Understanding what Scripture actually says about demons and physical form requires distinguishing carefully between what angels can do, what demons appear to do, and what the biblical…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8020 Few questions generate more fascination and more confusion than whether angels still appear to people today. The subject sits at the intersection of genuine biblical expectation and a great deal of speculation, wish-fulfilment, and outright fabrication. That angels appeared repeatedly throughout both Testaments is beyond dispute. That the Bible nowhere says such appearances…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8021 The question of whether angels can be seen draws on a wealth of biblical material and touches on some genuinely fascinating aspects of how the spiritual and physical realms intersect. That people in Scripture saw angels is unambiguous. What needs examining is what kind of seeing was involved, and whether similar experiences remain…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8010 Few figures in the Old Testament are as theologically significant and as frequently misunderstood as the Angel of the LORD. He appears at burning bushes, at the threshing floor, to barren women and wrestling patriarchs, and in each case the encounter is unmistakably more than a meeting with a created messenger. He speaks…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8016 Genesis 6:1-4 is one of the most disputed passages in the Old Testament. The “sons of God” who take human wives and produce the Nephilim have generated interpretive controversy for centuries, but the most exegetically consistent reading points in a clear direction when the relevant evidence is laid out carefully. The Three Main…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60091 The Canaanite conquest narratives in Joshua are among the passages most frequently raised as moral objections to the Old Testament, and they deserve honest engagement rather than evasion. The texts describe God commanding the Israelites to destroy the Canaanite populations of the promised land, including women and children, and to leave no survivors…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 7099 This question gets to the heart of the Gospel. If God is all-powerful and merciful, why couldn’t He simply forgive our sins without requiring the death of His Son? Couldn’t an omnipotent God just declare us forgiven and be done with it? The cross seems so brutal, so extreme. Was it really necessary?…