Thirdmill

Investigates the existential perspective on ethics by looking at the ways our motives and intentions affect the morality of our decisions.

Explore how Christians actually make ethical decisions, how we go about choosing good.

If there's one portion of the Old Testament that troubles most modern Christians more than any other, it has to be the chapters of the book of Joshua that describe Israel’s conquest of the Promised Land. We wonder how the loving, merciful God we know in Christ could have tolerated Israel’s attempt to destroy the inhabitants of Canaan.

God appointed Adam and Eve to rule over creation on his behalf. And he commanded them to increase the human race in order to spread its rule over the whole earth. This was humanity’s royal obligation.

“Hermeneutics” is a common word in theological and biblical studies, but we don’t use it often in our daily lives. What does it really mean?

From our modern standards, we expect trustworthy historical accounts to be comprehensive, precise and objective. However, Old Testament authors often wrote according to their didactic purposes, and not by our modern sensibilities.

There are times in history when God acts and speaks more dramatically than at other times. And as a result, revelation in biblical history rises and falls, even as it moves forward toward its final destiny.

The Bible is long, and memorizing all of God's instructions for his people is difficult. This is why teachers in the Bible sought to find which of God's Biblical instructions should be prioritized.

Because prophecy was fundamentally a tool God used to motivate his people to obey his covenant, it was also fundamentally conditional. In other words, the prophecies about Israel’s restoration were conditioned upon Israel’s repentance and renewed covenant obedience.

As a work of divine grace, forgiveness involves all three persons of the Trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.