Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 13008. Church history has a reputation problem. It sounds like the sort of thing you take up once the children have left home and you have run out of hobbies, a matter of dates, councils and men in unlikely hats. I want to argue the opposite. Church history is the record of how Jesus…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 13000. The Church Fathers are the Christian writers of roughly the first five centuries whose works have survived, and for a lot of Baptists they occupy a strange middle ground. We suspect them of being Catholic, we cannot name more than two, and we have a nagging sense that we ought to know something…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 8013. Named angels are far rarer in Scripture than most Christians assume. Ask around a congregation and you will hear Raphael, Uriel, sometimes Raguel or Sariel, and a general impression that the Bible contains a substantial roll of angelic names. It does not. There are two. Michael and Gabriel. That is the complete list…