Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 6015 The word “world” appears hundreds of times across the New Testament, and it does not always mean the same thing. Reading it as if it did produces significant confusion, particularly in passages that seem to say contradictory things. John 3:16 says God loved the world; 1 John 2:15 says do not love the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 6017 The question sounds almost too obvious to need answering. But the tendency to attribute one’s sin to the devil’s influence, to external circumstances, or to factors beyond one’s control is deeply embedded in human nature, going back to the very first act of human disobedience. The Bible addresses it with considerable directness, and…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 8006 This question strikes at the very nature of moral responsibility and the origin of evil. If angels are simply programmed to obey God, how could some have rebelled? If they have genuine freedom to choose, what does that mean for their service to God? The existence of fallen angels demonstrates that the answer…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 8126 If angels rebelled once, what stops it from happening again? When Satan and his demons are finally thrown into the lake of fire, will the remaining holy angels be safe from falling? It is a fair question, and one that touches on the security of eternity itself. If the new heavens and new…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 60049 The serpent’s temptation in the Garden of Eden established a pattern that has repeated throughout human history. Satan’s approach to Eve—questioning God’s Word, denying God’s judgment, and promising divine status through forbidden knowledge—constitutes what we might call the “primal heresy.” Understanding this original deception helps us recognise its reappearances in contemporary spirituality and…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 8127 The book of Job raises one of the most searching questions in all of Scripture: if God is sovereign and Satan must seek permission before afflicting His servant Job, what about Job’s children? They died in the first wave of disaster, yet there is no explicit mention in the text of God granting…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 11065 Paul writes in Ephesians 6:12 that “we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness.” The Christian life is not a gentle stroll toward improvement — it is described in the New Testament with the language of warfare, struggle,…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 8048 Luke 22:31-32 contains one of the most arresting statements Jesus makes to any of his disciples: “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.” The…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 8049 The title “accuser of the brethren” is given to Satan in Revelation 12:10, where his expulsion from heaven is accompanied by the declaration: “the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night.” This is not an incidental detail. It describes an ongoing, relentless activity…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 8046 Paul’s statement in 2 Corinthians 11:14 that “Satan himself disguises himself as an angel of light” is one of the most practically important observations in the New Testament about the nature of spiritual deception. It appears almost in passing within a longer passage about false apostles, but its implications reach far beyond that…