Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 08118. The fall of Satan is one of those subjects where Scripture gives us real information without ever supplying a narrative, and the gap between those two things has been filled over the centuries with a great deal of confident material that the Bible never provided. There is no chapter headed The Fall of…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 08094 The covering cherub of Ezekiel 28 is one of the most discussed and most disputed figures in the Old Testament. For centuries readers have found in these verses a description of Satan before his fall, and for almost as long other readers have insisted the passage is about a Phoenician king and nothing…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 6029. The sin of pride is the one the Bible singles out for direct divine opposition. God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble, and that sentence appears twice in the New Testament because it needed saying twice. It is also the sin nobody thinks they have. Everybody can name their temper…