Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02055 Why are we here? The question underlies much of the anxiety that drives people towards both religion and its alternatives. Scripture addresses it not as an abstract puzzle but as a statement of identity — telling us not just what we were made for but who made us and why that shapes every…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 5000 The word anthropology appears intimidating at first glance, but it points to one of the most practical questions theology addresses: what, exactly, is a human being? Not in the sense that evolutionary biology or social science would frame the question, but in the sense that asks what the Creator says about His own…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 05007 Few questions in ethics carry more weight than this one. When does a human life begin? It is the question underlying every discussion of abortion, every debate about embryo research, and every conversation about what we owe to the most vulnerable. Scripture addresses it, and its answer is consistent: the life in the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 05010 The way any community treats its most vulnerable members reveals something fundamental about its values. For the church, the question of how Christians should view and relate to people with disabilities is not a peripheral social concern; it goes to the heart of what the gospel says about human worth, the nature of…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 05039 Why did God create us? It is the question that underlies every other question about human existence. Before asking what we ought to do with our lives, or what awaits us after death, we need to know why we are here at all. Scripture does not answer with a single proof-text, but its…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 05041 Environmental responsibility is a genuinely contested area in contemporary Christianity. Some believers treat ecological concern as a form of baptised secularism — politics dressed in religious language. Others move so far in the opposite direction that the natural world begins to carry a quasi-sacred status Scripture does not give it. The doctrine of…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 05043 Artificial intelligence is no longer a theoretical concern for the future; it is a present reality reshaping how people work, communicate, and think. The questions it raises are genuinely new in some of their particulars, but the underlying issue is as old as Genesis: what is it that makes a human being distinctively,…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 05044 Few pastoral situations press harder on theological convictions than watching someone disappear behind advancing dementia. The face is familiar; the body is present; and yet something that once defined the person — their memory, their personality, their capacity for recognition or conversation — is gone. What does Scripture say is actually happening to…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 5029 The opening chapter of Genesis moves through the days of creation with a recurring pattern: God speaks, things exist, God declares them good. But when the creation of humanity approaches, something different happens. The narrative slows, and God speaks in the plural: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” (Genesis…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 05017 Genesis 1:26 contains one of the most theologically loaded sentences in all of Scripture: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” The presence of two terms has generated centuries of theological reflection. Do they refer to the same thing? Do they describe distinct aspects of what it means to be…