Theology for the Curious

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Is a holier life simply a matter of living your best life? Is it about trying to live as morally upright as possible? Or worst still, is it about trying our hardest to impress God, to gain His approval.  What the bible has classically termed ‘sanctification’, has become something of a complexing issue to many Christians. Legalists and liberals ali...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! How do I know what God wants me to do? How can I be sure that my choices are in line with His? Can I ever truly know God’s will in any specific situation?  One of the most perplexing issues that has dogged many Christians is their inability to discover what God's specific will may be for their lives at any given point. Questions like which jo...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Have you ever asked yourself as a Christian, “am I forgiven?”or “am I going to heaven?” or “does God love me?” or even “do I have eternal life?”―have you ever wondered whether you might be asking the wrong question? Is the validity of our Christian experience qualified purely on the basis of what we feel? And given the deceptive and fluctuating as...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! What is the exact role of the Holy Spirit in the life of a person who comes to faith? How much of the experienced change is down to him? How much is it part of our human will? What exactly does the Holy Spirit do at a person's conversion? How much do we cooperate in this momentous inner change? One of the most incredible yet controversial asp...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! What relationship did the Holy Spirit have in relation to Jesus? How could it be said of the all-sufficient Son of God that he needed to be anointed? How could perfection be said to grow in stature, wisdom and favour with God (Luke 2:52)? Was Jesus self-reliant, or was he in need of the Holy Spirit’s help?  At various levels, Christians have strug...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Given the prolific attention to the Holy Spirit throughout the New Testament, it has led some to think that His activity was largely confined to that time and little to nothing is expressed in the Old Testament. Some have further imagined that the Holy Spirit’s work didn’t really begin until Pentecost and prior to that was largely dormant with the...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! In todays church culture there remains a fascination about the Holy Spirit. From traditional to the more charismatic, the church has long pondered over the identity, role and purpose of the Holy Ghost.  What are we to make of the Holy Spirit? Are we to understand him as a ‘he’ or an ‘it’? A force or a thinking, responsible personality? Is he equal...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Love it or struggle with it, research suggests that the Bible continues to be the world’s best-selling book, registering around 100 million copies sold every year!  But what’s the attraction? For millennia people of all walks and persuasions have wrestled with the bibles’s reliability. Who wrote it? Why were some books included and others rejected...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! One of the key leaders of the Second Great Awakening in America, was the Presbyterian Charles Finney. It is no secret he grappled with the idea of sin. In one of his notes he wrote; “Moral depravity does not consist in nor imply a sinful nature” In contrast to Finney, Article 9 of the Church of England’s 39 Articles; ‘Of Original or Birth Sin’―ide...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Whether we understand it or not, statistically we live in a very religious-orientated world. Close to 85% of the global population, from around 188 countries, identifies with a religious group. This is close to 3.3 billion people (roughly 55%) of the world population. Of the 4,000 various religious groups, researchers often categorise them under f...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Some years ago Time magazine featured a survey taken in the US in which 72% of the people believed in a literal heaven compared with 58% who believed in a literal hell. The most surprising statistic however was that of the 58% who believed in a literal hell, only 4% believed they were likely to go there.  Heaven and hell have been topics of perenn...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! It seems outside the walls of the church, the intuitive understanding held by many is that heaven is a place where good people go. People who have lived well, treated others fairly and tried loving and look after their family and friends. A place where, dare we say it, they deserve to go!  But what is good? And how good do we need to be to possess...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Prior to the Enlightenment science and religion were never seen to be in any conflict, if anything they complimented one another. In more recent times however, that has not been the case. With the surge of new atheism, many have come to the conclusion that there is little to no point at which the two meet, and especially in regards the question of...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! In the current climate of controversial debate regarding the church's response to same sex relationships, the intuitive and considered compassionate response from traditional churches has become; 'We’re accepting but not affirming'.  In this week's episode Theology for the Curious are in honest conversation with special guests...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! The intuitive reasoning amongst many in the church is that God longs to save you but will never violate your free will. As long as you resist and reject him, his hands are tied. He will always respect your free will. He has chosen to limited himself, only doing that which you freely allow him to do!  This week Pete and the Curious team ask the que...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Many people hold intuitively to an understanding that whoever you are, God loves you equally as much as he does every other human being. That divine love carries no distinction or particular preference. That he longs over every human, breaking his heart to help them if they would only just let him. But is that what the Bible really portrays?  This...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! The new covenant was not simply another covenant in the line of covenants. The new covenant was not only the climatic and concluding covenant, but it was the culminating covenant toward which every other covenant, from the pre-creation covenant of redemption, through the Adamic, Noahic, Abrahamic, Mosaic and Davidic; was foreshadowing and pointing...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! What is the covenant God made with David? How does it connect with that made to Abraham, to Adam? How does the events of 2 Samuel 7 connect in with Genesis 17:6?  How did the kingly significance of David reflect the kingly office of Christ, and how does it speak into our understanding and daily lives as believers today? This week Pete and the Curi...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Why was God’s covenant with Moses important? What did it tell us about ancient Near Eastern practices of suzerain and vassal nations? What does this covenant tell us of God’s character? And where does it fit into God’s developing purposes for his people?  In this week’s episode Pete and the Curious team reflect on the mosaic covenant asking what r...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Who was Abraham? Why did God single him out? What did the covenant mean to him? To his family? To the newly formed Israel? To the world? What significance did God’s covenant with Abraham bear on the overall biblical picture and on Jesus especially? What relevance was the particular promise of land and how ought we to understand that today? In this...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! What was God saying through Noah, through the flood, and through the subsequent deliverance of Noah’s family and the animals? How did it parallel Eden and Adam? It what sense did the events around Noah and the flood mirror those around Adam and the garden? What significance does the events around the flood hold for us today? This week Pete and the...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! What is the covenant of works? What really happened in the garden? What did God establish with Adam and Eve? Was there an agreement in place that would rebound to universal repercussions? How do we understand Adams actions? This week Pete and the Curious team take a look at the age old claim that God’s promise of life and His prohibition of eating...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! What did Jesus mean in Luke 22:29 when he said; “and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me a kingdom”? What do we mean by covenant of redemption? Was there a plan made amongst the trinity prior to time and creation that would ultimately determine what was done in time and creation? Where in the bible does it speak of our salvation as a cove...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! This week the Curious team begin a brand new series! We're investigating the covenant themes throughout the bible, otherwise known as covenant theology. What is a covenant? Why is it important? Why is it in the bible? What do covenants tell us about God? and about humankind?  Stay tuned to unravel this incredibly interesting topic that is wea...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! What happens when we die? Where do we go, and for how long? What does the bible mean when it speaks of believers experiencing a sense of glorification? When does that happen and by what means? This week the Curious team unearth some of the biblical understanding of the afterlife. Facing up to such questions as; what happens when we die? Where do w...