The Bible is the best selling book in history. It's also one of the most questioned books of all time. If people question its reliability, how can someone put their trust in the Bible? The Curiosity Collective brings together thought leaders, authors, philosophers and theologians to explore this difficult question.

We study what we love, don’t we? When I was a kid, I studied Michael Jordan statistics—not because I loved stats, but because I loved basketball and I loved Jordan.

Or picture this scenario. Imagine you asked me about my wife and I responded, “Oh, she’s incredible—the most amazing woman I’ve ever known! She’s from Oregon, has beautiful red hair, and hates chocolate.” In reality, my wife is a chocolate-loving brunette from Virginia. Would she feel honored and loved by the previous description? Of course not. I can gush about her all day long, but unless my words reflect who she really is, she’ll be insulted.

Does it make sense, then, to operate with carelessness when it comes to how we think and talk about God?

The study of God in the pages of the Bible is both intensely practical and the joy of those who cherish him. “Great are the works of the Lord,” the psalmist exclaims, “studied by all who delight in them.”9 There is the key: study anchored in delight.

Here is a great video that starts giving an overview of the beginning of Genesis. It also has subtitles in Portuguese if that would be helpful.

We hear a lot about Christian marriages being different, but what is it that makes a marriage "Christian"?

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.Michel de Montaigne1

Marriage has gotten quite a bad reputation over the years. The butt of a seemingly infinite number of jokes, matrimony is a source of endless social commentary, gender politics, and governmental debate.

Christians often speak of the “Good News”—the gospel. What is this good news?

What’s the best news you ever heard?

Maybe it was a disease healed, a relationship restored, a child born. Whatever it was, something happened, that something was told to you, and that something changed everything.

Would it surprise you to learn that the heart of Christianity is good news?

Not good advice—good news. Good advice would be me telling you to stick to your budget, save every month, and invest wisely. Good news would be me telling you that someone opened up a bank account for you with 10 million dollars in it—and all you need to do is sign the papers.

So should Christians obey the Old Testament law? An answer to that question is extremely complex depending on how we define our terms and nuance our answers.

In general, we can say that Christians are free from the demands of the law, not in such a way as to imply that there are no longer certain moral boundaries and explicit obligations which are in some sense even more demanding than the letter of the Old Testament.

Christ has freed us from the Mosaic Law but has given us a new law, a law of love founded upon a gracious gospel beckoning for our entire lives. In Christ we are no longer under the law as slaves, but are under grace as sons – sons who are indwelt and empowered by the Spirit. In Christ we respond not to demands of the law but to the promises of the gospel.