The Bible does not name cigarettes or vaping, but its teaching about bodily stewardship, enslavement, sobriety, neighbor-love, and wise freedom strongly warns against nicotine use and its harms.

Scripture does not name every wager, but gambling commonly conflicts with wise stewardship, contentment, productive provision, self-control, and love of neighbor; addictive or harmful gambling must be abandoned.

The Bible does not name modern marijuana directly. Christians should evaluate it through sobriety, self-control, lawful authority, love of neighbor, health, conscience, and freedom from mastery. Intoxication for escape or pleasure conflicts with watchful discipleship.

The Bible does not call every use of alcohol sinful, but it plainly condemns drunkenness and requires wisdom, self-control, lawful conduct, and love for people endangered by our freedom.

Cremation is not identified as sin in Scripture. Burial has rich Christian symbolism, but God can raise the dead regardless of how a body returns to dust, so families may decide with faith, wisdom, and conscience.

Leviticus 19:28 prohibited Israel from cutting the body for the dead and making tattoo marks within a holiness code that opposed pagan mourning and worship practices. It does not by itself prove every modern tattoo is sinful, but motives, message, conscience, stewardship, and love still matter.

Miracles are possible if the personal God who created and sustains nature exists; the crucial question is not whether nature can be violated, but whether God has acted for a revelatory and saving purpose.

The Bible regulates forms of servitude in fallen societies, condemns kidnapping and exploitation, and plants gospel principles that undermine human ownership; it must not be used to defend race-based chattel slavery.

The conquest texts present a unique act of divine judgment in Israel's covenant history, not permission for ethnic hatred or modern holy war. They are morally weighty: readers should face the judgment claims, ancient war language, God's patience, and the Bible's final movement toward Christ.

The Old Testament reports violence honestly, condemns human bloodshed, and sometimes describes unique acts of divine judgment; these texts must be read within covenant history and the Bible’s movement toward Christ’s cross and final justice.

The Bible does not use the modern scientific category “dinosaur,” but it teaches that God created every land animal and celebrates great creatures without giving a paleontology timeline.

Christians can hold several views about biological evolution while confessing God as Creator, humanity in God's image, the goodness and order of creation, the reality of sin, and salvation in Christ. The key is defining both 'evolution' and the theological claims at stake.

Genesis 1 presents God creating and ordering everything in six days and resting on the seventh; faithful Christians agree on the Creator and goodness of creation while differing about the days’ precise length and literary function.

Biblical faith and responsible science are not natural enemies: Scripture identifies the Creator and creation’s meaning, while science investigates patterns in the created world; conflicts require careful examination of interpretations on both sides.

Christianity centers on the unique claim that God has acted decisively in Jesus' incarnation, atoning death, and bodily resurrection. Christians should commend that claim with reasons, humility, and love, not by caricaturing other religions or coercing belief.

All religions cannot be true in the same sense because they make incompatible claims about God, humanity, salvation, and history; Christianity invites respectful comparison centered on Jesus’ identity and resurrection.

The New Testament documents deserve historical and theological trust: they arise from early apostolic testimony, were widely transmitted, invite examination, and coherently proclaim Jesus’ death and resurrection.

Jesus of Nazareth was a real first-century Jewish person. The New Testament presents named rulers, places, eyewitness testimony, crucifixion under Roman authority, and early resurrection proclamation; even disagreement about his identity presupposes his historical existence.

The case for Jesus’ resurrection rests on his death, the early empty-tomb tradition, multiple claimed appearances, and the sudden resurrection-centered witness of people and communities who believed they met the risen Jesus.

No one created God: the biblical God is the eternal, self-existent Creator on whom all created reality depends, so asking for his creator treats him as one more finite object.