263 Theology Questions and Answers on Video
General Questions about Theology (Prolegomena)
- What is theology?
- Who is a theologian?
- What is Tabloid Theology?
- What is Folk Theology?
- What are the other ways people “do” theology?
- What are the different categories of theology?
- What are the categories of systematic theology?
- What is biblical, historical, philosophical, creedal, and apologetic theology?
- How does one “do” theology right?
- Why are there so many different theologies out there?
- What is the study of the way people come to know truth?
- What is the difference in relative truth and objective truth?
- What is Postmodernism?
- Where did Postmodernism come from?
- What are the key characteristics of Postmodernism?
- What difficult questions was the church challenged by with moderns?
- What difficult questions is the church challenged by with postmoderns?
- What is the basic difference between modernism and postmodernism?
- What is the modern view of truth?
- What is the postmodern view of truth?
- What is the Christian view of truth?
- What truths are relative and what truths are objective?
- What truths are relative?
- What truths are objective?
- What truths are essential for a believer to hold to be considered orthodox?
- How certain should we be about our beliefs?
- What is the “big picture” difference between Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism?
- How do Protestants view Church History?
- How do Roman Catholics view Church History?
- How do Eastern Orthodox view Church History?
- Why are there so many Protestant denominations?
- Where do we go for truth?
- How do the various Christian traditions view truth? Part 1
- How do the various Christian traditions view truth? Part 2
- How do my traditions, reason, experiences, and general revelation contribute to my theology?
- What do emotions and special revelation contribute to my theology?
- Does God still speak today?
- Why do some people believe that God still speaks today?
- Why do some people say that God does not speak through prophets today? Part 1
- Why do some people say that God does not speak through prophets today? Part 2
- What is the Soft Cessationist view of prophecy?
- Can we have unity and diversity in the Church? Part 1
- Can we have unity and diversity in the Church? Part 2
- How do we do theology in our culture today?
- How do Christian traditions have unity and diversity?
Questions about Authority and the Bible (Bibliology) - Who do we trust for Christian authority?
- What is Tradition?
- What are the five main view for Christian authority?
- Is the Scripture all we need?
- What are the arguments for Sola Ecclesia (the Roman Catholic view of authority in the Church)?
- What are the arguments against Sola Ecclesia (the Roman Catholic view of authority in the Church)? Part 1
- What are the arguments against Sola Ecclesia (the Roman Catholic view of authority in the Church)? Part 2
- Is the Bible alone the only infallible source for authority (sola Scriptura)?
- Has the text of Scripture changed since it was first written?
- How was the text of Scripture transferred from one generation to the next? Part 1
- How was the text of Scripture transferred from one generation to the next? Part 2
- How was the text of Scripture transferred from one generation to the next? Part 3
- How accurate are Scriptures?
- Do we have the right books?
- What are the facts concerning the canon?
- What are the tests of canonicity?
- What are the arguments for the inclusion of the Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal books of the Roman Catholic Bible?
- What are the argumentsagainst the inclusion of the Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal books of the Roman Catholic Bible?
- What is the Old Testament canon?
- How were the New Testament books decided upon? Part 1
- How were the New Testament books decided upon? Part 2
- How were the New Testament books decided upon? Part 3
- What is the doctrine of inspiration?
- What is the biblical view of inspiration?
- What are the different theories of inspiration?
- How does inspiration occur?
- What is the most common mistake that evangelicals make with regard to their understanding of the inspiration of the Scriptures?
- How do we know the Bible is inspired?
- What is the internal evidence for the inspiration of Scripture? Part 1
- What is the internal evidence for the inspiration of Scripture? Part 2
- What is the external evidence for the inspiration of Scripture? Part 1
- What is the external evidence for the inspiration of Scripture? Part 2
- Does the Bible err?
- How is inerrancy different from infallibility?
- Chicago Statement of Biblical Inerrancy
- What are the objections and responses to inerrancy?
- What about all the "contradictions" in the Bible?
- How have people historically interpreted Scripture?
- How did the Rabbis interpret the Old Testament in Christ's day?
- How did the Apostles interpret the Old Testament?
- How did the early Church interpret Scripture?
- How did people interpret Scripture during the medieval period?
- How did the Reformers interpret Scripture?
- What is the modern way of interpreting Scripture?
- What are the basic principles of biblical interpretation?
- What are some common interpretative fallacies?
Questions about God (Theology Proper) - What is a worldview?
- What is a theistic worldview?
- What are deistic, pantheistic, and panentheistic worldviews?
- What are polytheistic, naturalistic, and pluralistic worldviews?
- Can finite humans understand the infinite God?
- Is human language adequate to describe God?
- Why do people object to the study of God's existence? Part 1
- Why do people object to the study of God's existence? Part 2
- Why do people object to the study of God's existence? Part 3
- Can we prove that God exists?
- What are the arguments against the existence of God?
- What are the arguments for the existence of God? Part 1
- What are the argumentsfor the existence of God? Part 2
- What makes God, God?
- How is simplicity an attribute of God?
- How is the simplicity of God to be defined?
- What are the objections to simplicity?
- How is eternality an attribute of God?
- How is immutability an attribute of God?
- What are the objections to immutability?
- How is omnipresence and attribute of God?
- What is the doctrine of aseity?
- How is omniscience and attribute of God?
- How is omnipotence an attribute of God?
- How is sovereignty an attribute of God?
- Other communicable attributes of God?
- An evaluation of Openess Theology?
- How did the early church understand the Trinity?
- What are the early Trinitarian heresies? Part 1
- What are the early Trinitarian heresies? Part 2
- What is the importance of the ecumenical councils?
- What are some of the difficulties in communicating the doctrine of the Trinity?
- Does the Bible teach the Trinity?
- What does the Old Testament say about the oneness of God?
- What does the New Testament say about the oneness of God?
- Is Jesus God?
- Did Jesus ever claim to be God?
- Is the Holy Spirit God?
Questions about Christ (Christology) - How did the early Church understand the humanity of Christ?
- What is Apollinarianism?
- What is Nestorianism?
- What is Monophysitism?
- How did the Council of Chalcedon affect Christology?
- What are the different interpretations of Chalcedon?
- What do the Scriptures say about the humanity of Christ?
- Why was Christ born of a virgin?
- What does it mean that Christ "emptied Himself"?
- Was Christ able to sin?
Questions about Humanity and Sin (Anthropology and Harmartiology)
- What is Anthropology?
- Why did God create man? Part 1
- Why did God create man?, Part 2
- What is our essential nature?
- What is Monism?
- What is Trichotomy?
- What is the constitution of man?
- What is the response to trichotomy?
- What is dichotomy?
- What is conditional unity?
- What is Gnostic dualism?
- What are the negative effects of Gnosticism?
- When and how was our soul created? Part 1
- When and how was our soul created? Part 2
- What does it mean that we are in the image of God?
- What else does it mean to be created in the image of God?
- What are the aspects of the image of God within man?
- How did the Fall affect the imago dei?
- How far did we fall?
- What does Scripture say about the Fall? Part 1
- What does Scripture say about the Fall? Part 2
- What are the different types of sin?
- What is Pelagianism?
- What is Augustinianism?
- What is the Augustinian view of Original Sin? Part 1
- What is the Augustinian view of Original Sin? Part 2
- What is the Arminian view of Original Sin?
- What is Original Sin?
- Is there such a thing as Free Will? Part 1
- What are the different positions on Free Will?
- What are the different Free Will views of responsibility?
- What are the problems with the different views of Free Will?
- Is there such a thing as Free Will? Part 2
- What is the theological difference between men and women?
- What are the two main theological positions on the difference between men and women?
- What is the Egalitarian view?
- What is the response to Egalitarianism?
- What is Complementarianism?
- What is the defense of Complementarianism? Part 1
- What is the defense of Complementarianism? Part 2
- What is the response to Complementarianism?
Questions about Salvation (Soteriology)
- What does it mean to be "saved"?
- What is salvation?
- What is the process of salvation (ordo salutis)?
- How do various Christian traditions view salvation differently?
- What does it mean to be predestined?
- What is the doctrine of election?
- What is a defense of unconditional election?
- Is election conditioned upon my choice?
- What is a defense of conditional election?
- What are the arguments against conditional election?
- Is predestination fair?
- Does God predestine people to Hell?
- Why did Christ die on the Cross?
- What is the Recapitulation theory of the Atonement? Part 1
- What is the Recapitulation theory of the Atonement? Part 2
- What is the Ransom to Satan Theory of the Atonement?
- What is the Satisfaction Theory of the atonement?
- What is the Moral Example Theory of the atonement?
- What is the Governmental Theory of the atonement?
- What is the Substitution Theory of the atonement?
- For whom did Christ die?
- Can we say "no" to the Gospel?
- What does "born again" mean?
- Does regeneration precede faith?
- What does it mean to have faith?
- What does it mean to repent?
- Can someone be saved without repenting?
- What does one ultimately have to do to be saved?
- How is a person justified before God?
- What is the Eastern/Greek Orthodox view of justification?
- What is the Roman Catholic view of justification?
- What is the Protestant view of justification?
- How does one become a better Christian?
- What are the basic principles of sanctification?
- Can a believer lose their salvation?
- What are the arguments of those who say you can lose your salvation?
- What are the arguments of those who say you cannot lose your savation?
Questions about the Church (Ecclesiology)
- What is the story of Christianity?
- What is the Church?
- What is the nature of the Church?
- How do the various traditions view the nature of the Church differently?
- What is the Dispensational and Replacement views of the Church?
- What is the relationship between the Church and Israel?
- What is Replacement Theology?
- What is Classic Dispensationalism?
- A defense of Classic Dispensationalism
- What is Progressive Dispensationalism?
- What is Progressive Covenantalism?
- What is the difference between Israel and the Church?
- What is the purpose of the Church? Part 1
- What is the purpose of the Church? Part 2
- Why is the Church here and not in heaven?
- What purposes are limited to those that can be accomplished only on the earth?
- What are the ministries of the Church?
- What ministries does your local church have?
- What constitutes a local church? Part 1
- What constitutes a local church? Part 2
- What constitutes a local church? Part 3
- What is worship, teaching, fellowship, evangelistic outreach, and in-reach?
- What is an ordinance/sacrament? Part 1
- What is an ordinance/sacrament? Part 2
- What is baptism?
- What is the Lord’s Supper?
- How is the Church equipped to accomplish its ministry?
- What are the different views of spiritual gifts?
- What are spiritual gifts?
- How many spiritual gifts are there? Part 1
- How many spiritual gifts are there? Part 2
- What are the marks of a false church? Part 1
- What are the marks of a false church? Part 2
- What are different models of church government?
- How should the church organize its government? Part 1
- How should the church organize its government? Part 2
Questions about the End Times (Eschatology)
- What is eschatology?
- What are the different views of the millennium?
- What are the arguments for postmillennialism?
- What are the arguments for amillennialism?
- What are the arguments for premillennialism?
- What are the different views of the rapture?
- What is the pre-tribulational view?
- What is the mid-tribulational view?
- What is the post-tribulational view?
- Questions about Heaven and Hell
