Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08140 The New Testament contains a remarkable statement about the future relationship between believers and angels, one that sits uncomfortably with the instinctive assumption that angelic beings are permanently our superiors. Paul tells the Corinthians that the saints will judge angels, and this claim has significant implications for how Christians understand both their present…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10156 The Bible traces Satan’s story from his original exaltation to his final, irreversible doom. He is not an eternal being in the way God is eternal, and his freedom to oppose God’s purposes is both temporary and bounded. Scripture tells us with remarkable clarity exactly what happens to him in the end, and…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 7045 Scripture repeatedly and plainly states that Jesus died for all people, and yet it is equally plain that not everyone will be saved. For some, this seems like a genuine tension requiring a theological resolution. Understanding how the biblical picture holds together not only resolves the apparent difficulty but opens up the full…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60025 The idea that nations are morally accountable to God is increasingly foreign to modern political thinking, which tends to treat nations as power structures rather than moral agents and views divine judgement as an archaic concept. The Bible takes a fundamentally different view, and the prophetic literature in particular presents the nations of…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 06069 The question of whether some sins are worse than others touches something most people intuitively sense but find difficult to reason through biblically. Instinctively, most people feel that murder is worse than petty dishonesty, that premeditated cruelty is worse than a moment of impatience. But there is also the uncomfortable teaching that all…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10012 The return of Jesus is not a quiet, unnoticed event. It is the most dramatic, world-changing moment in all of history. Everything changes when Jesus comes back. The question is not whether He will return, for Scripture is abundantly clear on that point, but what happens when He does. The answer unfolds in…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10168 The question of where hell is located surfaces with regularity, often in the context of popular imagination that places it beneath the earth’s surface. It is a question that mixes legitimate biblical curiosity with assumptions drawn from Dante, medieval art, and cultural mythology. What Scripture actually teaches is more nuanced, and more sobering,…