Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 2011 Ask a group of Christians whether God speaks to Himself and you will likely get some puzzled looks. The question seems either too obvious to bother with or too speculative to answer. In reality it touches something genuinely profound about the nature of the Trinity, and Scripture gives us more material to work…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 04015 The phrase ‘the procession of the Holy Spirit’ sounds abstract enough that most Christians assume it belongs to the world of academic theology and has little to do with their daily experience of God. That impression is understandable but mistaken. What is at stake in this doctrine is the Spirit’s genuine identity as…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 2017 The question tends to arrive from one of two directions. Some people ask it because they have read the Old Testament and noticed that God appears to deal very differently with different people – choosing Israel over the nations, calling Abraham while seemingly overlooking his contemporaries, appearing to prefer Jacob to Esau before…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 2027 “Three persons but one God” sounds, on first hearing, like a straightforward contradiction. If there are three persons, surely there are three gods? If there is only one God, how can there be three persons? The objection is natural, and it deserves a direct answer rather than a retreat into vague appeals to…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 2028 The doctrine of the Trinity is the Christian teaching that the one God eternally exists as three distinct persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Each person is fully and completely God, not a partial expression or a proportion of the divine being. There are not three gods and not one person manifesting in…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02031 Paul told the philosophers in Athens that God “is not served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything” (Acts 17:25). If that is true — and it is — then a reasonable question follows: why does God command worship? What…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02033 The question has a sharp edge to it. If God knew before the world was made exactly what every person would ever choose, in every circumstance, across all of time — then in what meaningful sense are those choices really free? When you sat down this morning and decided what to have for…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02039 Omnipotence comes from the Latin omnis (all) and potens (powerful). Applied to God, it means that He can do whatever He wills. The Hebrew title El Shaddai, often rendered “God Almighty,” carries this weight — a designation that points to limitless power and absolute sufficiency. In the Greek New Testament, Pantokrator, meaning “ruler…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 01200 Scripture is frequently quoted and frequently misunderstood, sometimes because a quotation has been removed from its context, sometimes because a popular rendering has hardened into assumed meaning that the original never carried, and sometimes because the verse is genuinely addressing a different situation from the one it is being applied to. The consequences…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 6001 It is one of the most fundamental questions we can ask, and yet so many struggle to define it clearly. What exactly is sin? The world around us has largely abandoned the concept, preferring words like “mistake” or “poor choice” or even dismissing moral failure altogether as merely the product of environment or…