Reading Time: 7 minutesQuestion 2106. Was there a “before” before creation? It sounds like a question a child might fire at you over breakfast, and like most children’s questions it turns out to be one of the deepest anyone can ask. If God made everything, what was happening before He made it? Where was God? What was He…
Reading Time: 10 minutesQuestion 4146. The names and titles of the Holy Spirit in Scripture are far more numerous, and far more theologically loaded, than most believers realise, and working through them carefully is one of the best correctives I know to the modern tendency to treat the Spirit as a vague spiritual influence rather than the fully…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 4015. When someone asks me what the procession of the Spirit means, I usually start by admitting that it is one of those phrases the church has used for centuries while ordinary believers were left wondering whether it mattered at all. It does matter, and I want to show you why. The procession of…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60201 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: 3 minutesQuestion 06016 The book of Job is the Bible’s most sustained engagement with the problem of innocent suffering, and it remains one of the most honest, unsettling, and ultimately profound books in all of Scripture. Job’s story demolishes simplistic explanations of suffering while pointing toward something far deeper than any of his friends were able…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 06011 This question sits at the intersection of theology and lived experience, and how it is answered shapes everything about a person’s relationship with God. If God directly causes every instance of suffering, then He becomes morally responsible for evil. If He has no involvement at all, then He is either powerless or indifferent….
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60058 This is a thoughtful question that touches on biology, theology, and the nature of the created order. If organic life depends on decomposition for nutrients, and decomposition presupposes death, then does life itself require death to function? And if so, what does that mean for the biblical claim that death entered the world…
Reading Time: 3 minutesQuestion 60059 Genesis 1:3-5 records God creating light on Day One of creation, yet the sun, moon, and stars are not created until Day Four (Genesis 1:14-19). This apparent sequence has puzzled readers for centuries and remains one of the most frequently raised questions about the opening chapter of the Bible. How can there be…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10114 The beatific vision is a theological term for the direct, face-to-face experience of God that believers will enjoy in eternity. The Latin term visio beatifica means “blessed sight” or “happy-making vision,” pointing to the ultimate source of human happiness: seeing God as He truly is. While this terminology comes from church history rather…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 10113 This is a question that troubles many believers: if we have free will in heaven, could we sin again? Could there be another fall? And if we don’t have free will, are we just robots? Understanding what Scripture teaches about our glorified state helps us see that heaven offers something far better than…