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: 4 minutesQuestion 5000 The word anthropology appears intimidating at first glance, but it points to one of the most practical questions theology addresses: what, exactly, is a human being? Not in the sense that evolutionary biology or social science would frame the question, but in the sense that asks what the Creator says about His own…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 5002 The Bible does not approach human sexuality and gender as peripheral matters of private preference or cultural convention. From the opening chapters of Genesis they are woven into the fabric of creation itself, part of what it means to be made in God’s image and to live as the creatures He designed. Understanding…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 5003 Contemporary gender theory has introduced a distinction that previous generations had no framework for: the idea that a person’s felt sense of their gender may differ from, and should take precedence over, their biological sex. This is now the foundational assumption of much public discourse, educational policy, and medical practice across the Western…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 5004 The question of masculinity has become genuinely contested in contemporary Western culture. From one direction comes the insistence that traditional masculine virtues are inherently problematic, expressions of privilege and domination that require deconstruction. From another, a reactive form of masculinity has emerged that confuses aggression, emotional closure, and domination with genuine strength. Neither…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 5005 To speak of biblical femininity in the current cultural moment is to invite immediate suspicion that what follows will be a list of restrictions, a theological justification of reduced expectations, or a religious endorsement of what critics would call patriarchy. None of that would be accurate. The biblical portrait of womanhood is one…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 05007 Few questions in ethics carry more weight than this one. When does a human life begin? It is the question underlying every discussion of abortion, every debate about embryo research, and every conversation about what we owe to the most vulnerable. Scripture addresses it, and its answer is consistent: the life in the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 05010 The way any community treats its most vulnerable members reveals something fundamental about its values. For the church, the question of how Christians should view and relate to people with disabilities is not a peripheral social concern; it goes to the heart of what the gospel says about human worth, the nature of…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 05039 Why did God create us? It is the question that underlies every other question about human existence. Before asking what we ought to do with our lives, or what awaits us after death, we need to know why we are here at all. Scripture does not answer with a single proof-text, but its…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 05041 Environmental responsibility is a genuinely contested area in contemporary Christianity. Some believers treat ecological concern as a form of baptised secularism — politics dressed in religious language. Others move so far in the opposite direction that the natural world begins to carry a quasi-sacred status Scripture does not give it. The doctrine of…