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Ask Bible Questions—and Get Clear, Scripture-Grounded Answers

People have honest questions about God, the Bible, and the Christian faith.

What does it mean to be saved? Why does God allow suffering? How should Christians understand baptism, spiritual gifts, sexuality, marriage, forgiveness, and the end times? Sometimes people hesitate to ask these questions because they fear being judged, misunderstood, or given a shallow answer.

That is why we created AskBibleQuestions.com.

Ask Bible Questions is a growing library of clear answers grounded in Scripture. Each answer begins with a concise response before exploring the question more deeply. Relevant Bible passages are cited throughout, allowing readers to examine the biblical evidence for themselves.

The goal is not merely to publish opinions or produce quick answers. It is to help people understand what Scripture teaches and why it matters for following Jesus.

Clear answers with a transparent point of view

Every Bible resource approaches Scripture from a particular perspective, whether it acknowledges that perspective or not. Ask Bible Questions makes its convictions clear.

The site includes a public statement of faith, information about its editorial process, and profiles of the people who review its answers. Articles identify their reviewers and show when they were last updated. When faithful Christians disagree about an important question, the goal is to explain those differences honestly while still reaching a clear, biblically reasoned conclusion.

Readers should not have to wonder who is behind an answer or what theological commitments shape it.

Built for the questions people are actually asking

The site addresses foundational questions such as:

  • What is the gospel?
  • How is a person saved?
  • What does it mean to be born again?
  • Who is the Holy Spirit?
  • What is the Trinity?
  • Why does baptism matter?
  • Can a Christian lose salvation?
  • Why does God allow suffering and tragedy?
  • How should Christians understand difficult moral and cultural questions?

Answers are organized by topic, and readers can also submit questions that have not yet been addressed. Questions shared by many people can become future articles for the entire community.

A resource for individuals, churches, and campus ministries

Ask Bible Questions can help someone exploring Christianity, a new believer trying to understand Scripture, or a mature Christian studying a difficult subject.

It can also serve churches, small groups, campus ministries, and ministry leaders. Instead of trying to answer every complex question in a hurried conversation, leaders can share a carefully developed resource and continue the discussion personally.

The site is not intended to replace reading the Bible, participation in a healthy local church, or guidance from mature Christian leaders. It is designed to help people take the next step: reading Scripture more carefully, asking better questions, and pursuing truth with humility.

If you have ever wished for a place where people could ask serious questions and receive clear, accessible answers rooted in the Bible, I invite you to visit AskBibleQuestions.com.

Bring your questions. Read the biblical evidence. Keep seeking the truth.

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The Overflow’s 2012 Year End Review (thanks for reading!)

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 87,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

Wasting Your Life?

So I’ve been having thoughts that I’m positive are unpopular.

I read a book a few years ago by everybody’s favorite Calvinist (or not), John Piper. The book is provocatively titled Don’t Waste Your Life.

Piper’s premise in Don’t Waste Your Life is simple – all of us were created in the image of God and bought by Jesus’ blood to bring glory to God. You’re either a Christ-follower, or God is calling you to be one. Those who accept that calling will live lives that glorify God, and those who don’t will waste their lives chasing after things that don’t ultimately matter.

Words etched into a plaque that hung above his mother’s kitchen sink when he was young shaped his thinking from an early age:

Only one life,
‘Twill soon be past.
Only what’s done,
For Christ will last.

So here’s what I’ve been pondering: when Christ-followers inhabit the New Heaven and New Earth, what will we reminisce about?

Will our thoughts be dominated by past headlines? Will we reminisce about the deeds and policies of former politicians, kings, and princes? Will we debate which technological advancements played the greatest role is shaping past society?

Or could it be the only things we will judge worthy of remembrance were those things done in the name of Jesus Christ? Could it be that those are the only things that will, in an ultimate sense, have a lasting impact?

I like Apple products. I appreciate being able to reap the benefits of the technological revolution spawned by the inventions of a brilliant mind. I am a fan of creativity, and believe it to be a characteristic of God infused in a humanity created in His image.

But will any great inventor’s inventions, in themselves, amount to a hill of beans in eternity?

Will we reminisce about them in the New Heaven and New Earth?

Or did the architect behind Apple Computers, despite his great impact on everyday life, waste his own?

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