What is eternal security?
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat is eternal security? Can we lose our salvation? No! is the emphatic answer.
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Who is Jesus?
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 3001 This is perhaps the most important question any person can ask. It is the question Jesus Himself put to His disciples at Caesarea Philippi: “Who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15). Your answer to this question determines your eternal destiny. It is not enough to know about Jesus; you must know…
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Should Christians obey the Levitical law?
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 07109 The book of Leviticus contains some of the most detailed legislation in the Hebrew Bible, covering sacrifices, priesthood, ritual purity, dietary regulations, festivals, and civil ordinances. Christians have struggled across the centuries with how to relate this material to their own discipleship. Some treat the moral provisions as still binding, others extract a…
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What does it mean that Jesus is our High Priest?
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 03047 The book of Hebrews develops the high-priestly ministry of Christ more fully than any other portion of Scripture, yet many Christians have only a vague sense of what it means that Jesus is our High Priest. The doctrine is not peripheral devotional language. It is one of the great explanations of how the…
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Why does God seem different in the Old and New Testaments?
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 02061 Many readers come to the Bible with the impression that the God of the Old Testament is harsh and judgemental while the God of the New Testament is loving and gentle. This perception has fuelled everything from second-century Marcionism to modern dismissals of the Old Testament as sub-Christian. The reality is that the…
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Why did God rest on the seventh day if He doesn’t get tired?
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02007 The seventh-day rest of Genesis 2:2-3 raises a question that surfaces repeatedly in Bible study groups and Sunday school classes. If God is omnipotent and never grows weary, why does Genesis say He rested? Did the Creator need a break? The answer reveals something important about what biblical rest actually means and why…
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In what sense does the Mosaic law still speak to Christians today?
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 01166 If the Mosaic Law has ended for the believer as a covenant, the question naturally follows: in what sense does it still speak? Christians do not ignore Leviticus or treat the Decalogue as cultural artefact. The Old Testament law continues to address the church, but the manner in which it speaks is different…
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How apply OT law today?
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07042 The question of how Christians should apply Old Testament law sits at the heart of Christian discipleship and has divided sincere believers for centuries. Some argue the moral law remains binding while ceremonial and civil portions have been set aside. Others insist the believer is wholly free from the Mosaic Law in every…
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What is the role of the law for Christians today?
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11089 The question of what role the Mosaic law plays in the life of a Christian is not a new one. Paul spent considerable effort addressing it in his letters to Rome and Galatia, and the confusion has not diminished since. Christians who grew up in traditions that emphasise law-keeping and Christians who react…
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What is the Abrahamic covenant and why is it significant for eschatology?
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10005 The covenant God made with Abraham in Genesis 12, 15, and 17 is one of the most consequential moments in the entire biblical narrative. Everything that follows in the story of redemption, from the formation of Israel to the coming of Christ to the shape of the prophetic future, is connected to what…
