Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 07048. Are Christians still under the Mosaic Law? It is one of the most practical questions in the whole of Christian doctrine, and one of the most often confused. Whole denominations have been formed around particular answers to it. Consciences have been weighed down or set free by it. The difference between a legalistic…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 07031. Hardness of heart rarely arrives in a single moment. Most people do not wake up one morning settled in unbelief. What Scripture describes, and what any pastor sees, is a slow process, largely unnoticed by the person going through it, in which each refusal makes the next one easier. Understanding how it works…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 13005. The five points of Calvinism are usually met for the first time as an acrostic, TULIP, and I have watched more than one young believer fall in love with the tidiness of it before ever testing it against a Bible. That is the danger of a good system. It answers questions so neatly…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 08103 If you are carrying past occult involvement and wondering what to do about it, I want to say the most important thing at the very start. Jesus is enough. Whatever you did, however deeply you went in, the blood of Jesus cleanses from all sin, and there is no category of sin marked…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 7999 The question of what a person must do to be saved is the most important question anyone ever asks, and Scripture gives an answer so short that people often refuse to believe it. When the Philippian jailer asked it, Paul and Silas said, believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 7108 Arminian theology is the other great system in the English-speaking Protestant world, and it is almost as frequently misrepresented as Calvinism. Many who reject Calvinism assume they must therefore be Arminian, and many Calvinists use the word as a synonym for shallow thinking. Neither assumption survives contact with the actual documents. I am…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 7107 To be seated at the right hand of God is the New Testament’s favourite way of describing where Jesus is now, and it is quoted or alluded to more than twenty times. Peter uses it at Pentecost, Stephen sees it as he dies, Paul builds on it, and the writer to the Hebrews…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 7106 A great many people believe in God and want nothing much to do with Jesus. They are not hostile. They pray occasionally, they think there is Someone there, and they cannot see why an extra requirement should be attached. Why not simply believe in God and leave the doctrinal detail to the professionals?…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 7105 Belief in the bodily resurrection of Jesus is not an advanced doctrine for keen Christians. Paul makes it part of the confession by which a person is saved: if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 7104 The phrase personal relationship with Jesus is everywhere in evangelical speech and nowhere in the Bible, which is worth noticing before we go any further. That does not make it wrong. The reality it points to is thoroughly biblical. But the wording has caused a fair amount of confusion, and clearing that up…