Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 7079 Isaiah 53:5 declares, “But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.” This verse, particularly the phrase about healing through Christ’s wounds (often rendered “by his stripes we are healed”), is frequently quoted…
Reading Time: 8 minutesQuestion 2064 If God is sovereign, does that mean He “permits” or “allows” terrible evils like rape, abuse, or murder? How can we say “nothing touches your life without passing through God’s sovereign permission” without making God sound complicit in evil? This is a question that real people ask when they have been violated, when…
Reading Time: 8 minutesQuestion 1140 For as long as I can remember, Isaiah 64:6 has been the go-to text in evangelistic preaching for showing that even our best efforts before salvation are worthless to God. “All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags,” we’d quote, and from there explain that human morality, charity, and religious works cannot save us…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1100 Few phrases generate as much heat in Christian circles today as ‘social justice.’ For some, it represents the heart of the gospel lived out; for others, it signals a departure from biblical Christianity into secular ideology. But what does Scripture actually say? This is the only question that matters. Is the pursuit of…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 11041 When a scribe asked Jesus which commandment was the greatest, our Lord responded with words that have echoed through the centuries: “And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength” (Mark 12:30). This command drawn…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 0024 The Bereans have become something of a byword in Christian circles for careful biblical discernment, and rightly so. Whenever someone encourages us to check teaching against Scripture, the Bereans get mentioned. But what exactly were they doing, and why did Luke consider it worthy of such commendation? The passage in question reads: “Now…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 3061 The resurrection stands at the very heart of the Christian faith. Without it, as Paul bluntly puts it, our faith is futile and we are still in our sins (1 Corinthians 15:17). So, what exactly do we mean when we speak of resurrection? Is it the same as the immortality of the soul?…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 2000 This might be the most important question anyone ever asks. Is God real, and how can we actually know? Unlike some philosophical puzzles, this one has real answers we can grasp and test. The evidence for God’s existence comes from multiple sources that converge to give us certainty about this fundamental truth. The…
Reading Time: 11 minutesQuestion 10035 Babylon appears prominently in the final chapters of Revelation, described as “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations” (17:5) and “the great city that has mighty dominion over the kings of the earth” (17:18). Two entire chapters—17 and 18—are devoted to describing her nature, her influence, and her spectacular destruction….
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…