Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60013 Hinduism is the world’s third-largest religion, with over one billion adherents, the vast majority in India and Nepal. It is also one of the oldest, with roots stretching back thousands of years. For many Western Christians, Hinduism is the most unfamiliar of the major world religions, because its assumptions about reality, the nature…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60016 The claim that Christians and Muslims worship the same God is one of the most commonly repeated statements in interfaith dialogue. It sounds generous, inclusive, and peaceable. It is also, on careful examination, theologically incoherent. The question is not whether Christians and Muslims both claim to worship one God. They do. The question…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60011 Judaism is one of the oldest religious traditions in the world and the religion from which Christianity historically emerged. Understanding what Judaism actually believes and practises is important for Christians, not because all religions are equally valid, but because the Old Testament is a Jewish book, Jesus was Jewish, and the relationship between…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60012 Islam is the world’s second-largest religion, with nearly two billion adherents. It is also the religion that most frequently presents itself as compatible with, or even the fulfilment of, biblical faith. For this reason, Christians need to understand what Islam actually teaches, where it genuinely overlaps with Christianity, and where it fundamentally diverges….
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60035 The term “social gospel” has a long history in Christian thought, originating in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a movement that sought to apply Christian ethics to social problems — poverty, inequality, labour exploitation, and public health. In its contemporary form, it manifests as a Christianity that prioritises social justice,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60062 This is a question that requires both honesty and care. Millions of Roman Catholics around the world hold a sincere faith in Jesus Christ, attend Mass, pray, give sacrificially, and seek to live according to their understanding of God’s will. At the same time, the official doctrinal positions of the Roman Catholic Church,…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 60108 Reincarnation is one of the most widely held beliefs in the world, central to Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism, and increasingly popular in Western culture, where surveys consistently show that a significant minority of people who identify as Christian also say they believe in some form of rebirth. The question of whether it…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08062 The idea of generational curses has become deeply embedded in certain streams of Christian teaching, particularly within charismatic and deliverance ministry contexts. The claim is that the sins of ancestors can pass spiritual curses down family lines, binding subsequent generations to patterns of addiction, poverty, illness, or spiritual oppression until those curses are…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08063 If generational curses are not a biblical category for the believer in Christ, the related question follows naturally: can curses of any kind affect Christians? The question matters because there are believers who live in genuine fear that someone’s spoken curse, a practitioner’s hex, or some form of occult pronouncement has power over…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 08093 In Ephesians 2:2, Paul describes the spiritual condition of unbelievers before conversion, stating that they “followed the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience.” The title “prince of the power of the air” is applied…