The best way to figure out why something absolutely had to happen is to imagine what it would be like if it had happened in some other way. That is what David Gray is doing in a comfortable Geneva, ...

After Jesus was crucified, did he “Descend into Hell,” as millions of Christians recite during weekly church services in The Apostles’ Creed? Nearly 2,000 years of Christian tradition and a scriptural ...

(RNS) — In recent decades, some Christians have moved away from the theory of penal substitutionary atonement, which summons up the idea of an angry God who needs to be appeased. (RNS) — When he ...

The linchpin truth proclaimed by the Christian Gospels—”the central fact of all history,” as 17th century Bishop Jacques Bossuet put it—is that Christ was crucified in Jerusalem, that he died on the ...

The false doctrine of limited atonement holds that Jesus Christ died only for the salvation of the elect — those who actually attain heaven (as opposed to dying for all men). We know that God, in his ...

A decades-old astronomical model from NASA is reigniting global debate and belief about one of the most pivotal moments in Christian history. According to researchers from the University of Oxford, ...

For half my life I believed that Jesus Christ came into existence 2,000 years ago in a faraway place called Bethlehem. I believed that he was conceived in the womb of his teenaged mother, Mary, in a ...