Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 12011 The question of charging interest on loans has a long history in Christian ethics, and it is one where the biblical evidence requires careful handling. For centuries, the church debated whether any interest was permissible, and the Old Testament passages on the subject continue to generate discussion among believers who want to handle…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 12012 The question of whether Christians can be landlords has become increasingly sharp in a culture where housing costs are a source of genuine hardship for many. Some voices suggest that profiting from another person’s need for shelter is inherently exploitative. Scripture, however, does not support so sweeping a conclusion, though it has a…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 1116 Few passages in Scripture trouble modern readers more than God’s commands to Israel to destroy the Canaanite nations. When God instructs Joshua, “You shall devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them” (Deuteronomy 7:2), we face what appears to be divinely mandated genocide….
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 7099 This question gets to the heart of the Gospel. If God is all-powerful and merciful, why couldn’t He simply forgive our sins without requiring the death of His Son? Couldn’t an omnipotent God just declare us forgiven and be done with it? The cross seems so brutal, so extreme. Was it really necessary?…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02043 Justice is one of the deep human instincts. Even people who have no settled belief in God are profoundly disturbed when wrong goes unpunished and the innocent suffer while the guilty prosper. This instinct is not accidental. It reflects something embedded in human nature — a sense that there is a moral order…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 1117 Among the psalms of praise, thanksgiving, and quiet trust, we encounter prayers that shock us with their intensity. These are the imprecatory psalms, prayers calling down curses on enemies, invoking divine vengeance in the most graphic terms. “Break the teeth in their mouths, O God!” (Psalm 58:6). “Let their children be fatherless and…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1098 Critical Race Theory, often abbreviated CRT, has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary society and increasingly within the church. Some embrace it as a necessary tool for understanding and addressing racism; others reject it as incompatible with Christianity. Amid the rhetoric and confusion, thoughtful Christians need clarity: What actually is…
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…