God & Christ
Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?
Yes — and it is the best-attested claim of the ancient world. Within years of the crucifixion, eyewitnesses were proclaiming they had seen Jesus alive, and they died for that testimony. The tomb was empty, the earliest creed (1 Corinthians 15:3–7) dates to within a few years of the event, and no rival explanation has ever accounted for the facts: a crucified man, an empty tomb, and hundreds of witnesses who could not be silenced.
Read the answer →Who Wrote the Bible?
The Bible's 66 books were written by roughly 40 human authors — prophets, kings, fishermen, a doctor, a tax collector — over about 1,500 years. Yet Christians confess one ultimate Author: 'No prophecy ever came by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being moved by the Holy Spirit' (2 Peter 1:21). The human writers wrote in their own styles and settings; God inspired every word.
Read the answer →Salvation
End Times
Who Is the Antichrist?
The word 'antichrist' appears only in John's letters, where it describes a spirit of deception already at work in the first century — anyone who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Paul adds the figure of a coming 'man of lawlessness' (2 Thessalonians 2), and Revelation portrays a beast empowered by the dragon. Scripture warns less about identifying a single villain and more about guarding ourselves against deception that denies Christ.
Read the answer →What Is the Mark of the Beast?
The mark of the beast (Revelation 13:16–18) is a sign of allegiance to the beast — the counterfeit kingdom that demands the worship belonging to God alone. In John's day it pointed to the pressure to participate in emperor worship to buy or sell. Whatever its final form, the mark represents a settled loyalty to the world-system against Christ, contrasted with the 'seal' God places on His own people (Revelation 7:3).
Read the answer →Christian Living
What Does the Bible Say About Tithing?
The tithe — a tenth — was a commandment of the Mosaic Law, tied to the Levitical priesthood and the temple. The New Testament never commands Christians to tithe. Instead, the apostles teach giving that is voluntary, cheerful, proportional to one's means, and generous: 'Let each one give as he has determined in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver' (2 Corinthians 9:7).
Read the answer →What Is the True Sabbath?
The Sabbath — rest on the seventh day — was given to Israel as the sign of the Mosaic covenant (Exodus 31:13–17). The New Testament never commands Christians to observe the Sabbath; instead it declares that Christ Himself is the substance of which the Sabbath was a shadow (Colossians 2:16–17), and that true rest is found in Him: 'Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest' (Matthew 11:28).
Read the answer →Difficult Questions
What Does the Bible Say About Dinosaurs?
The Bible never uses the word 'dinosaur' — the word wasn't invented until 1841. But Scripture does describe enormous land and sea creatures, most notably behemoth (Job 40) and leviathan (Job 41), and it teaches that God created all living things. The Bible's concern is not zoology but the Creator: whatever these creatures were, they were made by God and are under His rule.
Read the answer →What Happens After Death?
The Bible teaches that death is not the end. Those who die await the resurrection — the righteous to eternal life with Christ, the unrighteous to judgment (John 5:28–29). Scripture describes the state of the dead as 'sleep' — a rest from which Christ will raise them — and anchors all hope not in an immortal soul drifting to heaven but in the resurrection of the body at His return (1 Corinthians 15).
Read the answer →Why Did God Create Satan?
God did not create Satan as evil. Everything God made was 'very good' (Genesis 1:31). The devil was created as a free, moral being who chose rebellion — 'He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn't stand in the truth' (John 8:44). God permits the devil's activity for a season, overrules it for His purposes, and has already secured his defeat at the cross.
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