Articles and fragments on religious and philosophical ideas.https://allgodwants.com/en-gbhttps://allgodwants.com/reflections-on-the-temptations-of-jesus/https://allgodwants.com/reflections-on-the-temptations-of-jesus/The temptations in the wilderness were more than just efforts to make Jesus disobey. Each one questioned his Father's character. What was the devil trying to get Jesus to believe about God, and what do Christ’s answers show us about who God truly is?Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://allgodwants.com/what-did-the-cross-demonstrate/https://allgodwants.com/what-did-the-cross-demonstrate/At Calvary, was God demanding satisfaction—or demonstrating something about himself? This article argues that the cross was not the moment God became willing to forgive, but the moment he answered the oldest accusations against his character in public.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://allgodwants.com/why-did-jesus-die/https://allgodwants.com/why-did-jesus-die/Did God need blood before he could forgive? Was somebody required to be punished before mercy was legally permitted? Or have we been reading the sacrifices backwards for a very long time?Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://allgodwants.com/why-all-this-blood/https://allgodwants.com/why-all-this-blood/From Abel to the temple courts, Scripture is filled with sacrifice. But if the blood of animals could never take away sin, what was God trying to communicate?Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://allgodwants.com/why-the-sabbath/https://allgodwants.com/why-the-sabbath/Of all the commandments, there is perhaps none that seems, on its face, more arbitrary and demanding than the fourth commandment—the Sabbath. Indeed, it seems at first almost to interrupt the moral logic of the law. Consider how the command begins: “Remember...” Most of the commWed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://allgodwants.com/why-was-there-a-tree-at-all/https://allgodwants.com/why-was-there-a-tree-at-all/Why did Adam need fruit? A question about one strange detail in Genesis, which turns out to run through the clotting of blood, a bronze snake, a shipwreck off Malta, and the last page of Revelation.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://allgodwants.com/the-story-of-micaiah-and-ahab/https://allgodwants.com/the-story-of-micaiah-and-ahab/A heavenly council, a lying spirit, and a king who marches to his own death: 1 Kings 22 looks like the story of a God who kills by proxy. Read closely, it's actually the story of how far he'll go before he lets you go.Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT