Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1158 The short letter we call Second Peter has faced more doubt about its authorship than almost any other book in the New Testament. The letter names Peter as its writer in its opening line, yet critics have long argued that it came from a later hand writing in the apostle’s name. Since the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60009 The question of whether Peter was in Rome matters for several reasons. Roman Catholics point to Peter’s presence in Rome as foundational to papal claims, whilst some Protestants have questioned whether Peter was ever there at all. What does the Bible actually tell us, and what can we know from history? What Scripture…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60098 The claim that Peter and Paul preached fundamentally different gospels is associated with a strand of dispensational teaching sometimes called ultra-dispensationalism or hyper-dispensationalism. In its more extreme forms, this teaching argues that only Paul’s letters, sometimes only his prison epistles, constitute the relevant Scripture for the church today, since Peter was preaching a…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 8048 Luke 22:31-32 contains one of the most arresting statements Jesus makes to any of his disciples: “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.” The…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04031 Pentecost is one of the most significant events in the entire Bible, and yet it is often reduced to a story about strange languages and tongues of fire. What actually happened in that upper room in Jerusalem, and in the streets that followed, was nothing less than the birth of the New Testament…