Tough Topics: Biblical Answers to 25 Challenging Questions
Overview
Drawing on nearly 40 years of teaching and ministry experience, pastor-scholar Sam Storms answers 25 challenging questions Christians are often too afraid to ask, addressing thorny issues ranging from the eternal destiny of infants to the roles of demons and angels.
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- Answers challenging questions Christians are often too afraid to ask
- Addresses thorny issues such as the roles of demons and angels
- Draws on nearly 40 years of teaching and ministry experience
- Is the Bible Inerrant?
- What Is Open Theism?
- Does God Ever Change His Mind?
- Could Jesus Have Sinned?
- What Did Jesus Mean When He Said, “Judge Not, that You Be Not Judged”?
- What Is Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?
- Does the Bible Teach the Doctrine of Original Sin?
- Are Those Who Die in Infancy Saved?
- Will People Be Condemned for Not Believing in Jesus though They’ve Never Heard His Name?
- What Can We Know about Angels?
- What Can We Know about Satan?
- What Can We Know about Demons?
- Can a Christian Be Demonized?
- Does Satan Assign Demons to Specific Geopolitical Regions? Are There Territorial Spirits?
- Can Christians Lose Their Salvation?
- Does Hebrews Teach that Christians Can Apostatize?
- Will There Be Sex in Heaven?
- Are Miraculous Gifts for Today?
- What Is Baptism in the Spirit, and When Does It Happen?
- Should All Christians Speak in Tongues?
- What Was Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh?
- Is There Healing in the Atonement?
- Why Doesn’t God Always Heal the Sick?
- What Is Legalism?
- Are Christians Obligated to Tithe?
Top Highlights
“Some may attempt to snatch them. But they cannot succeed because the Son and the Father are united in purpose and power to keep them secure.” (Page 203)
“Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is defiance of what one knows beyond any shadow of doubt to be true.” (Pages 87–88)
“only if Adam represents you in the garden can Jesus represent you on Golgotha” (Page 99)
“eternal judgment is always based on conscious rejection of divine revelation” (Page 110)
Tough Topics offers every questioning person an opportunity to press thoughtfully into the Bible’s answers. Sam Storms is that rare guide we all are looking for—fair-minded, with no axe to grind. I cheerfully commend Tough Topics for your tough questions!
—Raymond C. Ortlund Jr., lead pastor, Immanuel Church, Nashville, Tennessee
Some questions about God and the Bible intrigue us. Others get completely under our skin and frustrate us. The chances are good that if a question is bothering you, you are not the first to ask it! Sam Storms draws on all his pastoral experience in this helpful book as he honestly answers questions some people like to avoid.
—Adrian Warnock, author, Raised with Christ; blogger
- Title: Tough Topics: Biblical Answers to 25 Challenging Questions
- Author: Sam Storms
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2013
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 368
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Theology, doctrinal › Popular works
- Resource ID: LLS:TOUGHTOPICS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T06:22:54Z
Sam Storms earned a ThM in historical theology from Dallas Theological Seminary and a PhD in intellectual history from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the founder of Enjoying God Ministries, senior pastor of Bridgeway Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and a former visiting professor of theology at Wheaton College. He has authored over two dozen books and served as president of the Evangelical Theological Society.