Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 07058 The question of deathbed conversions tends to provoke two quite different reactions. For some, the thought that a person can turn to Christ in the final moments of life and receive full forgiveness and eternal life is an expression of the gospel’s astonishing generosity. For others, it raises uncomfortable questions about fairness, about…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60096 The question of whether Jonah was swallowed by a great fish and survived is one that divides those who approach Scripture assuming miracles cannot occur and those who take the text on its own terms. For the reader who accepts that the God who created the ocean and everything in it is capable…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60108 The question is a classic philosophical puzzle, usually deployed as a challenge to the coherence of believing in God at all. It runs like this: if God is all-powerful, can He create a rock so heavy that He cannot lift it? If He can create it, then there is something He cannot do…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 10092 Jesus told His disciples that “wars and rumours of wars” would characterise the period leading up to the end (Matthew 24:6; Mark 13:7). In every generation since, believers have looked at the conflicts of their own era and wondered whether these are the wars Jesus meant. The question of how Christians should respond…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 4073 One of the persistent challenges in Trinitarian theology is maintaining the genuine distinction of the three Persons without tumbling into tritheism — the error of thinking that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three separate gods rather than three Persons sharing one divine being. The problem is most acute when it comes to…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 04096 At first glance, the Beatitudes in Matthew 5 and the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5 appear to be two separate lists, one from Jesus and one from Paul, addressing similar territory from different angles. The connections between them are real and theologically significant, though the two passages are not simply saying…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 03017 Most Christians use the names “Jesus” and “Christ” interchangeably, and there is nothing wrong with that. But the two words are doing very different things. One is a personal name; the other is a title of office. Understanding the distinction opens up something genuinely rich about who he is and what God was…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 3060 It is one of the most natural questions anyone could ask about Jesus: what did He actually look like? We have countless paintings, films, and artistic depictions, but how accurate are they? The honest answer may surprise us, and it leads us to reflect on something far more important than physical appearance. The…
Reading Time: 13 minutesQuestion 12045 Baptists hold a remarkable and often underappreciated distinction in the history of Western civilisation: they were among the earliest voices in the English-speaking world to call for universal religious freedom. Not mere toleration for their own group, but genuine liberty of conscience for all people, including those whose beliefs they considered deeply wrong….
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 3064 The traditional answer is Friday, which is why we call it “Good Friday.” But some have challenged this, arguing for Wednesday or Thursday instead. The debate centres on how we understand Jesus’ statement that He would be “three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:40). Let us examine…