Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60101 The moral argument begins with something so familiar that it is easily overlooked: human beings make moral judgements and expect them to carry real weight. When we say that torturing children for pleasure is wrong, we do not mean simply that we dislike it, or that our culture happens to disapprove of it….
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60102 The ontological argument is the most philosophically demanding of the classical arguments for God’s existence, and probably the most disputed. Unlike the cosmological or teleological arguments, which move from features of the external world to a conclusion about God, the ontological argument attempts to establish God’s existence from the concept of God alone…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60103 This question comes in several forms. Why doesn’t God simply appear in the sky and settle the matter? Why doesn’t He perform an undeniable miracle that removes all reasonable doubt? If He exists and wants people to know Him, why does faith require trusting something invisible when God could simply make Himself obvious?…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60108 The question is a classic philosophical puzzle, usually deployed as a challenge to the coherence of believing in God at all. It runs like this: if God is all-powerful, can He create a rock so heavy that He cannot lift it? If He can create it, then there is something He cannot do…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 4073 One of the persistent challenges in Trinitarian theology is maintaining the genuine distinction of the three Persons without tumbling into tritheism — the error of thinking that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three separate gods rather than three Persons sharing one divine being. The problem is most acute when it comes to…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 4072 One of the most remarkable statements in Paul’s letters about the Holy Spirit appears almost in passing in the middle of his argument about the Spirit’s role in revealing God’s wisdom. In 1 Corinthians 2:10, Paul writes: “for the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.” The phrase “the depths of God”…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 4070 Pneumatology — the doctrine of the Holy Spirit — cannot be properly understood in isolation from Trinitarian theology, and the reverse is equally true. The two disciplines are so closely intertwined that to study one without the other is to distort both. The Spirit is not an appendix to Christian theology or a…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 3065 This is an excellent question, and it gets to the heart of who Jesus really is. If Jesus is God, why would He need to pray? Was He talking to Himself? The answer lies in understanding the doctrine of the Trinity and the mystery of the Incarnation. Far from being a problem for…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 02040 Where is God right now? It seems like a simple question, but the answer touches on one of the most profound truths about the divine nature. Every human being exists somewhere — we are located, bounded, present in one place at a time. God is not like that. The doctrine of omnipresence declares…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 02041 Of all the attributes of God presented in Scripture, holiness occupies a unique place. It is not simply one characteristic among many; it is the attribute that the biblical writers single out for the most intense emphasis. The angels in Isaiah’s vision do not cry “love, love, love” or “power, power, power.” They…