10 Basic Questions for Christians
The following 10 questions are what we believe to be the foundational elements of the Christian faith. Every Christian should be able to answer these questions fairly easily, drawing only from the Scriptures.
This is a simple, easy place to start before exploring the rest of the website.
The following answers are intentionally kept (relatively) short, but can easily be expounded upon. We suggest that you take time to read the Bible study "The Word of the Kingdom" on our Bible Studies page. It covers the full scope of God's plans and purposes - from Genesis to Revelation - with many detailed Scripture references.
Who is right? Who is wrong?
While most people say that you just need to look to the Scriptures to find the answers to all your questions, I would say that almost all Bible teachers say the same thing as they each promote opposing views. Therefore, if everyone is using the Bible to back up their beliefs, and most have disparate viewpoints, then how can the Bible be supporting everybody’s ideology? The answer is… it isn’t. There is a right way to view Scripture, and there is a wrong to view the very same passages and verses. Didn’t the enemy of our soul initiate his deception to mankind by using God’s very own words against man? And didn’t this very same enemy again use God’s own words to suit his own purposes as he attempted to deceive Jesus into giving in to his will and not the Father’s? And in that instance, what transpired but a battle of what indeed God had said? And wasn’t the outcome decided not only by what God had said, but what God actually meant by what He said? You see, on one hand we see Satan flinging God’s Words around to suit his own purposes; on the other hand we see the Son of God wielding the Scriptures in accordance with the will of God, and not according to His own will. Herein lies the distinction. The Scriptures reveal the will of God through and through, and it is God’s intent, and pleasure, to make His will known to man. According to Amos 3:7, we can be sure that “the Lord God does nothing unless He reveals His secret counsel to His servants the prophets.” Can we know what God is doing and will still yet do? Absolutely. How will we know? By reading the prophets. And who are the prophets? Every single contributor to the Old Testament, up to and including the Chief Prophet, Jesus the Christ. (The New Testament is simply a retelling of everything that God had already said, unveiling that which was veiled in the Old Testament through the lens of Jesus’ death and resurrection.) And by reading the prophets we must begin with the first prophet, Moses, and begin where he begins…at the beginning, in Genesis. And we must continue from there, book by book, in order, so that we can see how God lays out His truth. Then, and only then, can we come into the New Testament where we meet Jesus (whose name literally means, “God saves”) and truly understand anything about what God is trying to tell us through Him.