Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10174. The tribe of Dan is missing from the list of sealed tribes in Revelation 7, and once you notice it you cannot unnotice it. Twelve tribes are named, twelve thousand from each, and Dan is not among them. Manasseh appears instead, and Ephraim is absent too, which means John’s list is not the…
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: 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: 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: 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…