Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10167 The desire to know whether our departed loved ones can see us is one of the most deeply felt questions in the Christian life. It is asked at funerals, in hospital rooms, and in the quiet grief of ordinary days. The answer requires a careful handling of what Scripture says, what it does…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10109 The idea that heaven might be boring is remarkably common, and it is rooted in a picture of the afterlife that owes far more to medieval art and popular caricature than to anything Scripture actually describes. Clouds, harps, white robes, and an eternity of singing the same hymn on repeat: this is the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04057 The resurrection of the dead is at the heart of Christian hope, and it is easy to speak of it in terms of God’s power without attending to the specific way the New Testament describes how that power operates. When Scripture speaks about resurrection, the Holy Spirit is presented not merely as a…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10115 Purgatory is the Roman Catholic doctrine that believers who die in a state of grace but with unforgiven venial sins or unpaid temporal punishment must undergo purification before entering heaven. While this belief has shaped Western Christianity for centuries and remains official Catholic teaching, we must ask whether it has any foundation in…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 5026 Few questions excite and perplex people in equal measure as this one. What exactly will the resurrection body be? Will it be physical? Will it look the same? Will it be subject to the same limitations as the present body? Paul addresses the question head-on in 1 Corinthians 15, and his answer is…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 05013 When a baby or young child dies, the grief is unlike any other. Parents, grandparents, and those who love them carry questions that do not resolve easily, and the most pressing of those questions is also the most theological: where is my child now? Scripture does not provide a systematic treatment of infant…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 3040 The resurrection of Jesus is not only the vindication of His claims and the guarantee of our salvation — it is also the pattern for our own future resurrection. When Jesus rose from the dead, He did not return as a ghost or a spirit. He rose bodily, physically, tangibly. And the body…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 3022 Jesus has not retired. Far from sitting idle in some distant corner of the cosmos, He is actively engaged in work that touches the life of every believer every single day. Understanding what Jesus is doing right now in heaven is not merely an academic exercise; it is immensely practical and deeply comforting….
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 3021 It is one thing to know that Jesus rose from the dead; it is quite another to know where He is right now and what He is doing. The ascension of Jesus is not simply the end of His earthly ministry but the beginning of something wonderful for every believer. Where is Jesus…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 10061 One of the most common questions about heaven concerns whether we will recognise our loved ones there. Will families be reunited? Will friendships continue? Or will we be so transformed that earthly relationships become meaningless? Scripture gives us good reason to believe that we will indeed recognise one another in heaven, and that…