Question guides
Big questions, carefully explored
What the texts say, how traditions read them, and what the evidence can settle. Each guide explores one question with sources and the strongest responses.
Did God create the devil?
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No verse says so directly, but Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant churches teach that God created him a good angel who rebelled by his own choice.
4 hard questionsFact-checkedDid the Exodus and the conquest of Canaan happen?
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Scripture describes God freeing Israel from Egypt and giving it Canaan; no Egyptian record confirms the exodus, and the conquest sites remain disputed.
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Questions we've mapped
70 topics, with the passages usually discussed and the different readings. Browse alphabetically.
- Abortion and the unborn
- Age of the earth
- Animals and pets
- Astrology and horoscopes
- Baptism
- Christmas, Easter and Halloween
- Communion, the Lord's Supper, the Eucharist
- Contraception and birth control
- Cousin marriage and incest laws
- Creation and evolution
- Cremation and burial
- Dancing and music
- Debt, borrowing and interest
- Did Jesus exist? The historical Jesus
- Dinosaurs and the Bible
- Divorce and remarriage
- Does God exist? Arguments for and against
- Drinking alcohol
- End times, rapture and the millennium
- Environment and creation care
- Euthanasia and assisted dying
- Gambling and lotteries
- Gender identity and transgender questions
- Hair length and head coverings
- Hell and final judgment
- Immigrants, refugees and foreigners
- Is the Bible reliable? Contradictions and errors
- IVF, surrogacy and infertility treatment
- Karma and reaping what you sow
- Lying and honesty
- Makeup, jewellery and modest dress
- Marrying a non-believer
- Mary and praying to the saints
- Masturbation
- Mental illness
- Obeying government and civil disobedience
- Other religions and whether Jesus is the only way
- Parenting, discipline and spanking
- People who never heard of Jesus
- Polygamy
- Pork and the biblical food laws
- Predestination, free will and eternal security
- Purgatory and prayer for the dead
- Race, racism and interracial marriage
- Reincarnation
- Salvation by faith or works
- Same-sex relationships
- Scope of Noah's flood
- Sex before marriage
- Singleness and celibacy
- Slavery in the Bible
- Speaking in tongues
- Suicide
- Swearing, oaths and bad language
- Tattoos and body marking
- The death penalty
- The devil and demons · Full guide →
- The Sabbath and the Lord's day
- The Trinity and the divinity of Jesus
- The unforgivable sin
- Tithing, giving and wealth
- War, self-defence and pacifism
- What happens after death
- Which books belong in the Bible (the canon)
- Who wrote the Bible?
- Why God allows evil and suffering
- Wives, husbands and roles in marriage
- Women in church leadership
- Women wearing trousers and men's and women's clothing
- Yoga and meditation