Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2021. God’s gender is a live question in a culture busy renegotiating what gender even means, and I want to answer it carefully rather than reaching for the nearest slogan. Does God have a gender in any biological sense, or does He simply speak of Himself in masculine terms as an accommodation to human…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2020. What does Trinitarian prayer look like, and should we pray to the Father, to Jesus, or to the Holy Spirit? This question comes up more than you might expect, usually from newer believers who have noticed that different prayers offered in church seem to be addressed to different persons of the Trinity and…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 2019. What does divine impassibility mean, and is it something the Bible actually teaches or something Greek philosophy smuggled into Christian theology? This is one of those Deep Dive questions where I want to slow down and take my time, because the traditional answer and the biblical data sit in real, sustained tension with…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2018. If unlimited atonement really means Christ’s death was sufficient for every person, why doesn’t an all-loving God simply save everyone? This is one of the oldest objections to the Christian faith, and I think it deserves a real answer rather than a dismissive one, because the logic behind it feels tight. If God…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2017. Does God practise divine favouritism, choosing to love some people more than others, or is that impression something we bring to the text rather than something the text actually teaches? I ask this because Scripture does describe God choosing Israel out of all the nations, calling David “a man after his own heart,”…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2015. Is what we call the economic Trinity, the roles the Father, Son and Spirit play toward creation and redemption, essential to who God is, or is it just a convenient arrangement they could have swapped around? This question sounds abstract until you notice how much of the gospel depends on the answer. The…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2014. Does God hate sinners, or does He only hate sin? It is one of those questions that sounds like a technicality until someone asks it through tears, usually because they have just been told by a well meaning Christian that God cannot stand the sight of them. I have sat with people in…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 2013. The phrase eternal generation of the Son appears in no single verse of Scripture in those exact words, and that immediately raises a fair question. Is this a doctrine the church developed to explain what Scripture teaches, or is it an addition that goes beyond what Scripture actually says? The answer matters a…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 2012. The question of the Father’s love for ordinary believers, compared with His love for the eternal Son, feels almost presumptuous at first glance, as though we are asking to be measured against the Son of God Himself. But the reason people keep asking me this is usually deeply personal. Does God’s love for…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2011. Ask a room of Christians how the persons of Trinity actually communicate with one another, and you will likely get some puzzled looks. The question seems either too obvious to bother with or too speculative to answer at all. In reality it touches something genuinely profound about the nature of God, and Scripture…