If Christianity is true - and I'm convinced that it is - then everyone who teaches something different is incorrect. That doesn't mean that every non-Christian is a false teacher.

The Bible has a lot to say about false teachers. Apparently, it was a serious problem in the first century. It's a serious problem today as well. How can we identify false teachers?

My Statement of Faith, in detail. It's a work in progress. If you don't see what you want to know, feel free to ask.

Matthew asked: Is God happy with his people having Christmas trees and celebrating Christmas? I suppose the answer to your question is, like so many other answers, "it depends." I don't think God cares one way or another about trees being used for such things.

There are a lot of Bible verses about love. Some tell us what God is like: God is love. Some tell us what to do: love your enemies. There's a verse about love that's very precious to me, and I'd like to spend a few minutes on it:

In another article I outline the questions that God asked Job. In response, M Johnson wanted to know how many questions Job asked God. Well...not nearly as many. Here's the much-shorter list.

The Bible talks a lot about names. In the NIV, the Hebrew and Greek words for "name" appear 944 times. That's a bunch! I get a lot of questions about Bible names. Many people are confused about how "name" is used in the Bible. It's used in more than one way, so some explanation would be helpful. The simplest way the Bible uses "name" is like this:

We have very little information about Paradise. We only find the word paradeisos in three passages in the Bible:

• Luke 23:43, where Jesus tells the thief on the cross that he would Join Him in Paradise that day
• 2 Corinthians 12:4, where Paul talks about a man who was 'caught up' into Paradise, or "the third Heaven."
• Revelation 2:7, where Jesus writes to the church in Ephesus.

Nag Hammadi is a town in Egypt. In 1945, two Egyptian brothers found a large urn near Nag Hammadi, filled with ancient papyri. The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of manuscripts is believed to be from the 4th century, copies of documents written earlier. Most of the documents are indirectly related to early Christianity, though the content varies. None are considered inspired Scripture.

Discovered in 1945, the Gospel of Thomas is part of the Nag Hammadi library of manuscripts. Also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas, it is a collection of 114 supposedly secret sayings of Jesus.