Theology for the Curious

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Is God truly one? What do we mean by ‘oneness’? Does the different reflections and operations of God imply a God of many sides, of different parts? Can he simultaneously be love and wrath, mercy and justice, and yet retain his absolute oneness?  In this episode, the Curious team will be reflecting on the theological position of God’s simplicity. W...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Anselm believed that God is that of which nothing greater can be thought. God is unique. As William Lane Craig writes; ‘He is not dependent upon any other being for his existence; rather, he exist independently of everything else’. Does that mean that God has no real need of people, of his church?  This week Pete and the Curious team will be divin...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! This week marks the first episode of a brand new series THE BOSS; the incomprehensibility of God! Athanasius spoke of  God as one who, “ transcends all being and human comprehension ”. That being so, how could anyone hope to understand GOD? Isaiah declared, “ Canst thou by searching find out God?” (Job 11KJV). Furthermore, Paul refers to God as th...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! The Lords Supper, Communion, the Eucharist, under whatever name you’re familiar, has been a source of difficulty and deep contention historically in the church. From the days of the Reformation to present debates, just what Jesus meant by ‘this is my body’, and the reality of the bread and wine, has continued to occupy serious thinking minds withi...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! In more recent times tension has arisen over what has become known as Lordship Salvation, the possibility of living a Christian experience where Jesus may be Saviour and yet not be Lord! What is surrender without submission? Can we have belief without obedience? Can we live with Jesus as Saviour whilst not living with Jesus as Lord?  This week Pet...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Historically over the years a great deal of confusion has arisen in terms of correctly understanding Law and Gospel. Some understand Law as strictly Old Testament, and gospel as New. Others imagine the law was originally given for the purpose of bring us back to God, whilst others insist only the gospel can do that!  In this weeks episode the Curi...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Does God still heal, miraculously, today? How do we cope with those incidences where, despite much prayer and belief, those we love fail to get any better? Is a failure to be healed always a sign of a lack of faith? Is relying on medicine a lack of reliance on God?  So much conversation and difficulty has surrounded the issue of divine healing. Ma...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! Historically the church has maintained one of two positions when it has come to baptism. On the one side, there are many who defend the position of infant baptism (paedobaptism). Many denominations today hold to the validity of baptising infants in keeping with the covenantal equivalent of Old Testament circumcision.  On the other side, there are...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! The church’s attitude to alcohol has historically been contentious to say the least. In some denominations today alcohol of any kind is strictly forbidden. In others, the attitude is far more relaxed. Who is right? Who is biblical? And does it matter and to who? This week the Curious team will sketch the historical journey of alcohol, reflecting o...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! The Curious gang kick off a brand new feature dealing with current affairs with particular reflection on theology and the Christian world.  This week, they look at the controversy that has arisen over the Rev. Wendy Dalrymple, the new Precentor Residentiary Canon Designate and Head of Worship and Events at Canterbury Cathedral. She has come into c...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! The issues surrounding same-sex relationships have become an extremely difficult and much talked about subject in society today, and especially within the church. What does the Bible say? How does God, Scripture, church and religion as a whole relate to the gay community? Are we watering down the Word, liberalising scripture? Or are we weaponising...

Click here to text us your thoughts and questions! How does something so good, namely a desire for holiness, a zeal for God and a passion for obedience, become so bad? How do we change the desire for duty, passion for obligation, love for legalism and piety for pietism? This week Pete and the Curious team will examine what happens when good desires turn toxic; when the church tries to step and ass...

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...