Series
You Asked
You Asked: How Can Jesus Not Know But Still Be Divine?
How can Christ say, “But concerning that day and hour no one knows ... but the Father only” when the three parts of the Trinity are one?
You Asked: Why Is Faith Not a Work?
As we reflect on our conversion to Christ, we do not boast in ourselves, but give God, and him alone, all of the glory, praise, and honor.
You Asked: What’s New About the New Covenant?
Though glorious, God’s holy covenant with Abraham was not the end of the magnificent story. Rather it was just the beginning.
You Asked: What Is the Unforgivable Sin?
We posed the question, “I’ve wrestled with this for a long time: what is the unforgivable sin that Jesus talks about?” to Jonathan Pennington.
You Asked: Am I Disqualified from Ministry?
Scotty Smith responds to this question, “I have moments where my past of sexual immorality haunts me. Am I disqualified from ministry?”
You Asked: Is All Scripture from the Lord?
The 66 books of the Bible are unified, but not uniform. The Bible gives us a coherent message, but every text must be read in light of the entire Bible.
You Asked: How Do I Talk to My Children About Their Grandparents’ Divorce?
Prayer is powerful before God and your children. In prayer, they see your dependence upon God and your love for their grandparents.
You Asked: Does Gethsemane Separate the Trinity?
In this way, with a created human will like us, does Jesus fulfill humanity by a true trial of our existence. He is truly the firstborn of the new humanity.
You Asked: Should I Get ‘Re-Baptized’? (Paedobaptist Answer)
Jared Oliphant explains the paedobaptist view on rebaptism, whether to be baptized again because of a later, more tangible conversion experience.
You Asked: Should I Get ‘Re-Baptized’? (Credobaptist Answer)
If you were baptized before you were a converted believer, then, yes, you need to be baptized, since you have not, yet, been baptized.
You Asked: Does the Father’s Wrath Upon the Son Sever the Unity of the Trinity?
We find the Father loving the world that he gave his Son. We find the Son giving his life away. And we find the Spirit sustaining him in his last breath.
You Asked: How Do We Know If God Is Disciplining Us?
Easy, formulaic answers to difficult questions of suffering are invariably reductionistic — and they make bad theology, too.
You Asked: Did Jesus Assume a Fallen Human Nature?
Alex B. from Lynchburg, Virginia, asks: The tradition of the Western church has been that Jesus had a sinless human nature. I have held this position without ever thinking twice about it. But recently I’ve read T. F. Torrance, where he asks, “If our sin nature condemns us a believers, and Jesus did not have a sin nature, then how is the payment for my sin nature covered at the cross?” I have also come across scriptures like Hebrews 2:17 that says he is like us in “every respect” and James 2:14-15, which teaches that if Jesus was “tempted like...
You Asked: Can I Pray to Jesus?
David Z. from East Asia asks: I heard someone say we should never pray to Jesus since that’s not the way it’s done in the Bible. Is this true? We posed the question to Graham Cole, prolific author and professor of divinity at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama. Many Christians pray to Jesus. But are they right to do so? It’s certainly a good question. I believe there are at least two sound reasons to pray to Jesus—-one theological and one scriptural. The theological reason is that prayer is talking to God. And if Jesus is, as the Scriptures present...
