Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10125 When Revelation 21:3 announces, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God,” it declares the fulfilment of a theme that runs from the opening chapters of Genesis to the closing chapters…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04034 The relationship between Jesus and the Holy Spirit during the earthly ministry is one of the most theologically significant and pastorally instructive areas of New Testament study. Jesus is fully God, the eternal second Person of the Trinity. And yet, during His incarnate life, He chose to live in dependence on the Spirit…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 03017 Most Christians use the names “Jesus” and “Christ” interchangeably, and there is nothing wrong with that. But the two words are doing very different things. One is a personal name; the other is a title of office. Understanding the distinction opens up something genuinely rich about who he is and what God was…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 3060 It is one of the most natural questions anyone could ask about Jesus: what did He actually look like? We have countless paintings, films, and artistic depictions, but how accurate are they? The honest answer may surprise us, and it leads us to reflect on something far more important than physical appearance. The…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 3065 This is an excellent question, and it gets to the heart of who Jesus really is. If Jesus is God, why would He need to pray? Was He talking to Himself? The answer lies in understanding the doctrine of the Trinity and the mystery of the Incarnation. Far from being a problem for…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 2069 If God knows all things, every event from eternity to eternity and every possible outcome of every unchosen choice, is there anything genuinely new in his experience? Can he be surprised, delighted, or grieved in a way that is real rather than merely theatrical? The question sits at the intersection of omniscience and…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 2071 “The Father is greater than I” (John 14:28). These words, spoken by Jesus on the night of his arrest, have been among the most contested in Christian theology. Arians used them to argue that Jesus is a lesser being than the Father. Others have suggested they refer only to Jesus’ incarnate condition and…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02030 James 1:13 states it plainly: “Let no one say when he is tempted, ‘I am being tempted by God,’ for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.” That sounds straightforward enough. Yet the same New Testament that gives us that verse also tells us that Jesus was tempted…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 3066 This question assumes something that is not quite accurate, namely that Jesus, as God, ceased to exist or ceased to function during His death. To answer properly, we need to understand what happened when Jesus died and how His divine and human natures relate to one another. The answer reveals something wonderful about…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 3075 The verse in question is Hebrews 5:8: “Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.” At first reading, this can seem confusing. If Jesus is God, and God is perfect, how could He “learn” anything? Was there a time when He was disobedient and had to learn to be…