Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 07082 If legalism is the error of adding to what God requires, antinomianism is the error of subtracting from it. The word comes from the Greek anti (against) and nomos (law): the view that Christians are so thoroughly freed from the law by grace that the moral law has no ongoing relevance or binding…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 07012 Salvation is the word Scripture uses for what God has done about the human predicament. It is not a religious concept invented by the church; it is the great answer to the great problem that runs through every page of the Bible from Genesis 3 onwards. The word itself means rescue, and it…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60025 The idea that nations are morally accountable to God is increasingly foreign to modern political thinking, which tends to treat nations as power structures rather than moral agents and views divine judgement as an archaic concept. The Bible takes a fundamentally different view, and the prophetic literature in particular presents the nations of…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02009 Several passages in Scripture speak of God “not remembering” the sins of those He has forgiven. For some people this is the most comforting language in the Bible. For others it raises a puzzling question: if God knows everything, how can He forget anything? Getting the answer right matters, because misunderstanding it can…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 05011 “Follow your heart” has become the governing moral instruction of contemporary culture, offered as wisdom in everything from self-help literature to children’s films. The assumption behind it is that the inner life is essentially reliable, that personal feeling constitutes a trustworthy guide to what is right and true. Scripture does not share that…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 6021 The hardened heart is one of Scripture’s most sobering images. From Pharaoh’s repeated resistance to Moses through to the stern warnings of Hebrews, the biblical writers return again and again to the danger of a heart that has become impervious to God’s voice. Understanding what this means, and how it happens, is not…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 6022 The conscience is one of God’s remarkable gifts to human beings: an internal moral faculty that registers the difference between right and wrong and alerts the person to the gravity of their choices. What happens when that faculty is persistently overridden and ultimately silenced is one of the most alarming descriptions in the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 6023 The teaching about generational curses has become widespread in charismatic and Pentecostal circles, typically claiming that sins committed by ancestors create spiritual bondages that pass through family lines and require specific prayer to break. The idea is appealing in its apparent explanatory power, and it draws on real biblical language. The question is…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 6024 This question is related to the question of generational curses but is distinct from it. The previous question asked whether ancestral sins create binding spiritual mechanisms. This one asks something more concrete: do the sins that parents commit actually affect their children? The honest answer requires holding two biblical truths together without collapsing…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 6025 Scripture consistently holds individuals accountable for their own choices before God, but it also speaks of communities sinning as communities, of groups bearing collective responsibility for shared patterns of wrong. Corporate sin is a genuine biblical category, and understanding it correctly has significant implications for how we read the Old Testament, how we…