Theology for the Curious

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! What is the Bible’s relationship with money? What does the gaining and using of it say about our spiritual status? Is our attitude toward money a true barometer of our spiritual temperature? Is our money really ours to do with as we please? In this week's episode Pete and the Curious team will be examining God’s attitude to stuff and the dece...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! How a person becomes acceptable to God has been an age-old conflict since Jesus began teaching, a conflict that heated up especially around the time of the reformation in the early 16th century. From that day to this, it has been increasingly contested. On one side, we're accepted by faith alone, and it doesn't matter what we do! On the...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Why do bad people prosper? Why do atheists and God-rejectors seem to experience so many benefits in life? Why hasn't God historically not taken more drastic action against those who have so violently opposed him?   These and many such questions always pose a mystery. ‘God is good to all’ the psalmist tells us, but there is a reason for that!...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! This week Pete and the Curious gang continue their discussion around the controversial and delicate issue of the human will. Taking a deeper look at libertarianism and compatibilism, as well as much more... Send your questions or thoughts to: theologyforthecurious@gmail.com Support us on Instagram @theologyforthecurious Find us on TikTok: @theolog...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! For centuries since the Protestant Reformation in the early 16th century, the debate about the condition and place of the human will following Adam and Eve’s fall from Eden, has been a giant hot potato! From the first tensions of Pelagius and St. Augustine back in the fifth century to the debates of the Remonstrance at Dort in the 17th century, to...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Who are angels? Are they real persons? Do they have intelligence, will and emotion? The media has courted an almost intoxicating relationship with the subject of the supernatural, angels and demons. They have been depicted as anything Adonis-like gladiators, to the classic serene English vicars! But is anything of that accurate? What does the Bibl...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Old Testament Scripture is full of divine theophany’s; experiences, occurrences and encounters that reflect something of the nature and character of God. In this weeks episode the Curious team take a look at a number of Old Testament passages resplendent of God’s character, passages that offer insight into the heart and ways of God. Send your ques...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Increasingly Christian writers, thinkers, and theologians are appreciating that the words “God is love”, as D. A. Carson once observed, often sit in a matrix very different to that of biblical theology. Is the church in danger of collapsing all of God’s attributes into the single attribute of love? Or is talking about God in any other way but love...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! The new atheist have described God as a moral monster, based on some very difficult & controversial passages in the Old Testament. In particular those passages where God is seen to wipe out entire nations in an almost genocidal way. How do we reconcile these passages with a God of Love and Mercy? Pete and the curious team will be seeking to ta...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Did Adam & Eve possess eternal life inherently? Were they reliant on the ‘tree of life’ to sustain that quality of life? Did the tree have life in and of itself, or was it merely a sign, a sacrament to that true, eternal life in God? Did the threat of ‘death’ upon eating the fruit, imply physical death or more spiritual death….or both?  This w...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Who is said to occupy heaven? Who are the ‘heavenly hosts’? Are these heavenly beings divine? Is God ever advised? This week, Pete and the curious team look at the unusual topic of the divine counsel. Asking the question as to whether or not a heavenly counsel implies that somehow God takes advice, or is in conversation as he executes his purpose....

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! In this second part of looking at the biblical picture of Satan, the Curious team reflect on his mission and work in the world and his ultimate destiny. Send your questions or thoughts to: theologyforthecurious@gmail.com Support us on Instagram @theologyforthecurious Find us on TikTok: @theologyforthecurious

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Who is Satan? Where did he come from? Is he a person or an ideology? This week, Pete and the Curious team will be delving into the first of a two part exploration of what the Bible really has to say about the devil.  Send your questions or thoughts to: theologyforthecurious@gmail.com Support us on Instagram @theologyforthecurious Find us on TikTok...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Is everyone due to end up in heaven? If not, is that due to our choice or God's? This week, Pete and the Curious team will dive into what has traditionally been a highly controversial subject, whether God chooses to pass by certain people!  Send your questions or thoughts to: theologyforthecurious@gmail.com Support us on Instagram @theologyfo...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Does God's wrath contradict His love or compliment it? Send your questions or thoughts to: theologyforthecurious@gmail.com Support us on Instagram @theologyforthecurious Find us on TikTok: @theologyforthecurious

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Pete and the Curious team continue this week where they left off last episode, taking a closer look at the Bible's message about hell. Send your questions or thoughts to: theologyforthecurious@gmail.com Support us on Instagram @theologyforthecurious Find us on TikTok: @theologyforthecurious

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! From the varied ideas of hell, many influenced by Dante's graphic depiction in his fourteenth-century novel,  'The Divine Comedy'; to modern-day denials of there being any such place, what does the bible really say about this controversial subject? Pete and the Curious team endeavour this week to offer some ideas and thoughts on the...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Does the Bible speak of a definite, certain final judgement? Will believers, as unbelievers, have a difficult day of accounting coming? What is the nature and purpose of judgement? In this episode, Pete and the Curious team debate the importance and place of judgement throughout the Bible. Send your questions or thoughts to: theologyforthecurious@...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! What is death? Is it the end, and if so, of what? What carries over, and what stays? Why is it so feared yet fascinated over? This week, Pete and the Curious team unpack the difficulty of death and how we ought to understand it and respond to it as believers. Send your questions or thoughts to: theologyforthecurious@gmail.com Support us on Instagr...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Continuing on from last week's episode, the Curious team takes a more particular look at the mystery of evil. Its origin, nature, and relationship to a holy God. Send your questions or thoughts to: theologyforthecurious@gmail.com Support us on Instagram @theologyforthecurious Find us on TikTok: @theologyforthecurious

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! What is evil? To what extent does it capture our wills? In this week's episode, the Curious team examines the quandary - if God is all-good, then why does he allow evil? (Is he not all-powerful?) And if God is all-powerful, then why does he not bring evil to an evil? (Is he not all-good?) Send your questions or thoughts to: theologyforthecuri...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! In this week's episode, Pete and the Curious team examine the sweeping context of sin in scripture. What is it? Where did it start? How does it impact us? This episode takes a look at the understanding behind original sin, defining it and reflecting on the consequences of sin in our lives Send your questions or thoughts to: theologyforthecuri...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! In this week's episode, Pete and the Curious gang look at where sadness comes from. What we've done.  What we've lost. Who we are. Who we're not. What we've missed... Is sadness always a result of sin? Can it coexist with joy? Is sadness redemptive? The team will be looking at all this and more... Send your questions or th...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Where does guilt come from? Did it start in Eden? Do we bring it upon ourselves? What does the Bible say about guilt and it's consequences? In this fourth part of our Offensive Words series, Pete, Brian, Susan, Donald, Stew and Nige, reflect on everything from the concept of original guilt, to the temporal and eternal implications of our acti...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Does the Bible give us permission to doubt? Does the church ever support doubt or give it credible space to be explored? Is doubt ever helpful, is it an inevitable but necessary element of faith? How is doubt misunderstood and is it something that is critical for strengthening Faith? In this episode, Pete and the team will discuss and reflect on a...