Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2038. When people ask me what divine omniscience means, I always start in the same place. It means that God knows everything there is to know, perfectly and all at once, without ever having to work anything out, look anything up, or wait for events to unfold before He understands them. There is no…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2032. Divine emotions is a phrase I use carefully, because Scripture clearly describes God loving, grieving, rejoicing and growing angry, yet these responses are not identical to the changeable, often involuntary feelings that sweep over us. Genesis 6:6 says God “was grieved… and it grieved him to his heart” over human wickedness before the…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2016. Does God use evil for good, and if so, does that make Him responsible for the evil in the first place? This question sits at the bottom of nearly every conversation I have had with people walking through genuine suffering, whether that is illness, betrayal, bereavement or the aftermath of someone else’s cruelty….
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2006. Whenever I sit with someone walking through real suffering, I find that the honest answer to whether God permits evil or actively causes it decides everything else about how we cope with what has happened to them. Does the Lord control every wicked act in this world down to the last detail, or…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2031. Why does God require worship, and doesn’t a God who demands to be worshipped sound uncomfortably like the insecure, glory-hungry rulers Scripture itself condemns? This is a genuinely fair question, and I think it deserves a far better answer than the tired “because He’s God and He said so” that so often gets…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2030. God and temptation seem, on the surface, to sit uneasily together in Scripture, since James tells us plainly that God cannot be tempted, and yet the Gospels tell us just as plainly that Jesus was tempted in the wilderness. How do both of these claims stand together without contradiction? This question comes up…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2029. Is the Trinity in the Old Testament, or does it only appear once the New Testament arrives with Jesus and Pentecost? This question matters more than it might first seem, because if the doctrine of the Trinity suddenly appears out of nowhere in the New Testament, with no anticipation whatsoever in Israel’s own…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 2028. Trinity doctrine is, without much question, the single most distinctive claim Christianity makes about the very nature of God, and yet many Christians could not explain it clearly if asked. This Deep Dive sets out, at proper length and without shortcuts, what Trinity doctrine actually asserts, how it differs from the various errors…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 2027. How can the triune God be three persons and yet one God, without that being either a contradiction or three gods wearing a trench coat? This is a Deep Dive question because the honest answer requires more than a slogan. I want to walk through what Scripture actually claims, why it is not…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2022. Masculine language for God runs through the whole Bible, “He,” “Him,” “Father,” “King,” and I am often asked why, given that God is spirit and not literally male, as I explained in my article on whether God has a gender. This question digs into the small word “He” specifically, the pronoun itself, rather…