Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10038 Throughout human history, tyrants have demanded visible expressions of loyalty. Nebuchadnezzar erected a ninety-foot golden statue on the plain of Dura and commanded all peoples to bow before it (Daniel 3). Roman emperors required citizens to burn incense before their images as a test of allegiance. In every age, those seeking absolute power…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60013 Hinduism is the world’s third-largest religion, with over one billion adherents, the vast majority in India and Nepal. It is also one of the oldest, with roots stretching back thousands of years. For many Western Christians, Hinduism is the most unfamiliar of the major world religions, because its assumptions about reality, the nature…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60104 Twice in the opening chapters of Revelation, Jesus singles out a group called the Nicolaitans — once commending the church at Ephesus for hating their deeds (Revelation 2:6), and once rebuking the church at Pergamum for tolerating their teaching (Revelation 2:15). The fact that Jesus mentions them by name, and that He hates…
Reading Time: 13 minutesQuestion 12045 Baptists hold a remarkable and often underappreciated distinction in the history of Western civilisation: they were among the earliest voices in the English-speaking world to call for universal religious freedom. Not mere toleration for their own group, but genuine liberty of conscience for all people, including those whose beliefs they considered deeply wrong….
Reading Time: 8 minutesQuestion 10174 When we read through the list of the twelve tribes in Revelation 7, something immediately stands out. The tribe of Dan is missing. For a book so rich in Old Testament symbolism and Jewish imagery, this omission cannot be accidental. The question we need to ask is not just “Where is Dan?” but…