Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 8116. Whatever else cherubim and seraphim are, they are not the plump winged infants of Renaissance ceilings, and the gap between the artistic tradition and the biblical description is one of the more comical failures in the history of Christian imagination. Scripture describes beings that make prophets fall on their faces. Art gave us…
Reading Time: 7 minutesStanding with Israel in Biblical Truth and Justice Q10141 Preamble As an Evangelical Baptist committed to the authority of Scripture and the unchanging promises of God, I find myself compelled to respond to recent statements from Baptists Together, BMS World Mission and Baptist Union of Wales that mischaracterise Israel’s legitimate right to self-defence and misrepresent…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3046. Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! (John 1:29). With those words John the Baptist introduced Jesus to Israel, and he chose his image with care. He did not say behold the Lion, or the King, or even the Messiah, though all would have been true. He…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3045. Messiah and Christ both mean the anointed one, and that single fact unlocks more of your Bible than almost any other piece of vocabulary. Many people assume Christ is simply Jesus’ surname, as though Joseph and Mary were Mr and Mrs Christ of Nazareth. It is nothing of the kind. It is a…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3037. Who killed Jesus? It sounds like a simple historical question, the kind a detective could close in an afternoon. Roman soldiers drove the nails, so surely the case is shut. Yet the Bible refuses to leave it there, and church history shows why the question matters so much. Wrong answers to this question…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4129. The sevenfold Spirit in Isaiah 11 is not a reference to seven separate spirits but to the Holy Spirit in the fullness of His Person and ministry, described through seven distinct dimensions of divine working. Isaiah 11:2 is one of the most richly packed prophetic verses in the entire Old Testament, and it…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 06070 The Old Testament does not use a single word for sin. It uses a rich vocabulary of overlapping terms that together paint a more complete picture of what sin actually is than any single word could capture. Three of those terms recur throughout the Hebrew Scriptures — and significantly, they appear together in…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02033 The question has a sharp edge to it. If God knew before the world was made exactly what every person would ever choose, in every circumstance, across all of time — then in what meaningful sense are those choices really free? When you sat down this morning and decided what to have for…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 02084 We live in an age of anxiety. Surveys consistently show rising levels of worry, stress, and fear—about the future, about circumstances beyond our control, about what might happen next. Into this anxious world, the doctrine of God’s sovereignty speaks a profoundly comforting word: God is in control, and nothing escapes His notice or…