Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2031. Why does God require worship, and doesn’t a God who demands to be worshipped sound uncomfortably like the insecure, glory-hungry rulers Scripture itself condemns? This is a genuinely fair question, and I think it deserves a far better answer than the tired “because He’s God and He said so” that so often gets…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2022. Masculine language for God runs through the whole Bible, “He,” “Him,” “Father,” “King,” and I am often asked why, given that God is spirit and not literally male, as I explained in my article on whether God has a gender. This question digs into the small word “He” specifically, the pronoun itself, rather…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2021. God’s gender is a live question in a culture busy renegotiating what gender even means, and I want to answer it carefully rather than reaching for the nearest slogan. Does God have a gender in any biological sense, or does He simply speak of Himself in masculine terms as an accommodation to human…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 2019. What does divine impassibility mean, and is it something the Bible actually teaches or something Greek philosophy smuggled into Christian theology? This is one of those Deep Dive questions where I want to slow down and take my time, because the traditional answer and the biblical data sit in real, sustained tension with…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2017. Does God practise divine favouritism, choosing to love some people more than others, or is that impression something we bring to the text rather than something the text actually teaches? I ask this because Scripture does describe God choosing Israel out of all the nations, calling David “a man after his own heart,”…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2014. Does God hate sinners, or does He only hate sin? It is one of those questions that sounds like a technicality until someone asks it through tears, usually because they have just been told by a well meaning Christian that God cannot stand the sight of them. I have sat with people in…