Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60087 The claim that Constantine created the Bible appears regularly in popular sceptical discussions, was given wide circulation by Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code, and resurfaces periodically in online conversations as though it were settled historical fact. It is not. The claim is historically wrong in virtually every detail, and Christians should…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 01205 Anyone who reads John’s Gospel and then turns to Revelation notices something immediately. The Gospel and the epistles flow in relatively polished, elegant Greek. Revelation does not. Sentences break grammatical rules. Case endings that should follow standard Greek convention do not. Scholars have catalogued dozens of what are technically called solecisms — violations…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 4062 The cessationist and continuationist debate turns, at its heart, on a single exegetical decision: are prophecy and Scripture the same category of thing? If they are, then genuine prophecy today would mean adding to the Word of God — an obvious impossibility given that the canon is closed. But if prophecy and Scripture…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 13011 Gnosticism was not a single, tidy system but a collection of interconnected religious ideas that shared enough common assumptions to pose a recognisable and serious threat to the apostolic gospel. Its appeal lay in what it claimed to offer: a deeper, hidden knowledge of spiritual reality available to those initiated into it. In…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 1005 This is one of the most honest questions believers ask, especially when they’re genuinely trying to understand God’s Word but find themselves surrounded by conflicting interpretations. If the Bible is God’s Word and clear enough for us to understand, why do sincere Christians who love the Lord and study their Bibles come to…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1010 Special revelation is God’s direct, personal communication of truth that we could never discover on our own. Whilst general revelation (what God shows us through creation) tells us that God exists, special revelation tells us who God is and how we can know Him. Biblical Evidence The writer to the Hebrews puts it…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 1079 Walk into any Christian bookshop, and you will find shelves groaning with Bible translations. KJV, NIV, ESV, NASB, NLT, CSB—the alphabet soup can feel overwhelming. Which one is “the best”? Which one should you use? The answer depends on what you mean by “best” and what you intend to use it for. Understanding…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 1080 The Bible itself mentions books that we do not possess: the Book of the Wars of the Lord, the Book of Jashar, letters Paul apparently wrote to Corinth before our “1 Corinthians.” Were these inspired Scripture? Have we lost parts of God’s Word? Should we be troubled that our Bible is incomplete? Books…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 1077 We do not possess the original manuscripts of any New Testament book. What we have are copies of copies. For some people, this raises an unsettling question: how do we know that the text we read today accurately reflects what the apostles actually wrote? Has the message been corrupted through centuries of hand-copying?…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1070 If the Bible is truly God’s Word—inspired by Him in every part—then a natural question arises: does it contain errors? Can we trust everything it says? The doctrine of biblical inerrancy addresses this question directly, affirming that Scripture, in its original manuscripts, is entirely true and without error in all that it affirms….