Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10082. The Holy Spirit will not be removed from the earth during the Tribulation, and I want to say that at the outset because few end times questions produce as much confusion. The idea has been repeated so often in popular prophecy teaching that many believers assume it is settled doctrine. It is not,…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10059. Universalism is the belief that in the end every human being will be saved, so that hell is either empty, temporary, or non-existent, and all people are finally reconciled to God. It is an appealing idea, and I understand its pull, for who would not wish it were true? But wishing does not…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10040. I am often asked whether tribulation salvation is possible, and the short answer I give is a glad and immediate yes. When the Church has been caught up and the door of this present age of grace seems to slam shut, Scripture does not describe an empty earth abandoned to judgement and left…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10016. Will ethnic Israel be saved? I mean the question exactly as it sounds: not whether individual Jewish people can come to faith today, which is happening continually, but whether the nation as a nation, the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has a future national conversion on God’s calendar. Scripture’s answer is…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 5012. The age of accountability is the idea that a child is not held responsible before God for accepting or rejecting the gospel until they are capable of genuinely understanding it. You will not find the phrase anywhere in your concordance, which makes some people suspicious of the whole concept. But plenty of sound…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3053. How is Jesus different from other religious leaders? It is one of the most common questions a thoughtful unbeliever asks, and it deserves a serious answer rather than a slogan. The world has produced many revered religious leaders: Moses and Muhammad, Buddha and Confucius, gurus and philosophers beyond counting. Popular culture likes to…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 3039. How were Old Testament believers saved, when the cross lay centuries in their future? It is one of the best questions a thoughtful reader of Scripture can ask. Abraham died roughly two thousand years before Calvary. David never heard the name Jesus. If salvation is only through Christ’s death, as the New Testament…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 04200. Conviction of sin is the doorway every one of us has to walk through before the gospel can mean anything at all, because good news only sounds like good news to someone who already knows they need it. Nobody arrives at that awareness by clever argument alone, and nobody talks themselves into it…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 4100. The Spirit in salvation does far more work than most believers realise, and most of it happens before we are even aware anything is happening at all. Salvation is the work of the whole Trinity: the Father who planned it, the Son who accomplished it at the cross, and the Holy Spirit who…
Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 4143. The spiritual man and natural man in 1 Corinthians 2 are Paul’s two categories for describing how human beings relate to the things of God, and the difference between them is not intelligence, education or moral effort but whether or not a person has the Holy Spirit. “The natural person does not accept…