Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 7101 Propitiation and expiation are two words that most Christians have met in a hymn and few could define. They are not interchangeable, and the difference between them was the subject of one of the sharpest translation debates of the twentieth century. It matters, because what is at stake is whether the cross deals…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 10089. The wrath of God during the Tribulation is the most sobering subject in prophetic Scripture, and it is the one modern Christians are least comfortable discussing. We would rather speak of love, and rightly, until we notice that the Bible sees no contradiction between the two. Revelation describes a period in which 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…