Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 2054 God’s wisdom is his perfect ability to choose the highest and best ends and to bring them about by the surest and best means, so that everything he does fits together for his glory and the good of his people. It is not simply that God knows everything, though he does, but that…
Reading Time: 9 minutesCounterfactual knowledge is the knowledge of what would have happened under conditions that never actually came about, and the question for the believer is whether God possesses it. Does the Lord know not only what is and what will be, but also what would have been if you had taken the other job, married the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11098 Few questions cut closer to the heart of lived Christian experience than this one. If God loves His children, if Christ has secured their eternal future, and if the Holy Spirit indwells every believer, then why does the Christian life so often involve pain, loss, disappointment, and grief? The question is not new….
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 06016 The book of Job is the Bible’s most sustained engagement with the problem of innocent suffering, and it remains one of the most honest, unsettling, and ultimately profound books in all of Scripture. Job’s story demolishes simplistic explanations of suffering while pointing toward something far deeper than any of his friends were able…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 06011 This question sits at the intersection of theology and lived experience, and how it is answered shapes everything about a person’s relationship with God. If God directly causes every instance of suffering, then He becomes morally responsible for evil. If He has no involvement at all, then He is either powerless or indifferent….
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11096 This question arises more often than it should need to, and the fact that it does reflects the influence of certain streams of Christian teaching that have set faith and medicine in opposition to one another. Some believers genuinely wonder whether consulting a doctor represents a failure of trust in God. The biblical…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 11049 Few questions cause more distress to sincere believers than the experience of unanswered prayer. A child prays for a sick parent who dies. A couple prays for years for a child who never comes. A believer cries out for deliverance from a situation that only worsens. The pain is real, and it deserves…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60110 Few questions in pastoral ministry provoke more anguish than this one. A believer prays earnestly for healing, trusts God sincerely, and yet the healing does not come. The result is often confusion, guilt, or a quiet crisis of faith. The question deserves a careful, honest, and compassionate answer, because the stakes are not…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60056 Joshua 10:12-14 records one of the most extraordinary events in the entire Old Testament. In the middle of a battle against the Amorite coalition, Joshua commanded the sun to stand still over Gibeon and the moon over the Valley of Aijalon, and Scripture states plainly that “the sun stopped in the midst of…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 6040 Few questions press harder on faith than this one. A faithful believer loses a child to cancer while a corrupt businessman retires in comfort. A woman who has served God for decades is consumed by chronic pain, while someone who gives no thought to God at all seems to sail through life without…