Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 06063 There is a difference between a person who stumbles into sin through weakness or momentary failure of judgement, and a person who looks at what they know to be wrong and chooses it anyway, with full awareness and deliberate intent. Scripture recognises this distinction, and Hebrews 10:26 addresses it in terms that have…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 02049 Several passages in the Old Testament appear, on first reading, to describe God changing His mind. Genesis 6:6 states that “the LORD regretted that he had made man on the earth.” Exodus 32:14 records that “the LORD relented from the disaster that he had spoken of bringing on his people.” Jonah 3:10 notes…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 2077 The account of Uzzah’s death in 2 Samuel 6 is one of those passages that stops readers short. A man reaches out to stop the ark from falling, an instinctive act that seems entirely reasonable and even admirable, and God strikes him dead on the spot. David is angry and afraid. Many modern…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 6010 In Psalm 19, David prays, “Keep back your servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me!” (Psalm 19:13). This suggests there is a category of sin that is particularly dangerous, something beyond the ordinary sins we all commit. What are presumptuous sins, and why should they concern us? Understanding…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 06073 Can we be genuinely guilty before God for something we did not know was wrong? The question touches on the relationship between moral knowledge, intention, and accountability, and it has direct practical bearing on conscience, on the thoroughness of Christian self-examination, and on how wide the scope of God’s grace actually is. The…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 1085 Numbers appear throughout Scripture—forty days of flood, seven churches, 144,000 sealed servants, 666 as the number of the beast. Are these figures meant literally, symbolically, or both? Understanding how numbers function in biblical literature helps us interpret Scripture accurately and avoid both wooden literalism and fanciful spiritualising. Numbers as Literal Values Most numbers…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1051 When you start digging into biblical manuscripts, you’ll eventually come across something called the Samaritan Pentateuch. It sounds exotic and perhaps a bit intimidating, but understanding what it is and how it relates to our Old Testament is actually quite straightforward once you get your bearings. The question is this: if the Samaritans…
Reading Time: 8 minutesQuestion 8015 The Bible speaks clearly about giants existing in ancient times. The Hebrew word נְפִילִים (Nephilim) appears in Genesis 6:4 and Numbers 13:33, and these were real, physical beings that walked the earth. But were they genuinely historical, or are we reading ancient mythology? Let’s examine what Scripture actually says and what evidence supports…