How may we be confident that the Jesus we believe in and commend to others is the real Jesus, and not some imagined or constructed figure?

What is the gospel? Ask ten Christians and you may receive ten different answers — some focusing on forgiveness, others on heaven, others on a changed life.

If sin and evil are not from God, yet fall within his allowance, and had no place in the original creation, how then does a good God relate his will to their existence?

No doubt, the presence everywhere of devastating and heart-breaking evil in a world created by a perfectly good God presents, from a human perspective, the deepest of all problems.

How does the goodness of God actually take hold of a world so full of evil and disorder?

Although sin rejects the goodness of God, and evil corrupts and opposes it, God's goodness remains such that our lives, though degraded, are not destroyed or dissolved.

Eventually, everything that exists and all that occurs contributes to the Christian's benefit and blessing.

'Ignorance of providence is the ultimate of all miseries; the highest blessedness lies in the knowledge of it.'

However it is assembled, however it reaches us, knowledge of God is never merely discovered or found.

The Bible contains a rich vocabulary of terms integral to its teaching about the revelation of God.