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#STRask: Does This Prove We Can’t Ground Objective Morality in God?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 19, 2024 3:57 PM

Question about an objection to grounding objective morality in God that states that if God has a morally perfect nature, and he either engaged in or directly allowed genocide, slavery, and torture,...

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#STRask: If We Can’t Impose a Moral Standard from One Period of Time on Another, How Does That Affect the Moral Argument?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 27, 2024 10:52 PM

Questions about how one can use the moral argument and also say we can’t impose a moral standard from one period of time on another and responding to someone who says she would never follow a God...

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#STRask: Can You Argue Straight from the Existence of Evil to the Existence of the Christian God?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 14, 2024 9:46 PM

Questions about whether one can argue from the existence of evil straight to the Christian God or if more arguments are required to get there and whether Abraham sacrificing Isaac would be...

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#STRask: Before You Argue for God from the Existence of Evil, You Have to Prove Evil Exists

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 14, 2024 2:26 PM

Questions about the need to prove evil exists before arguing for the existence of God from the existence of evil and what to say to an eleven-year-old boy who lost his dad and brother to a...

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#STRask: How Can I Help Someone Move Away from the Fact-Value Split?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 19, 2024 3:15 PM

Questions about how to help a friend move away from his belief that objective facts about religious issues, unlike scientific facts, are “just someone’s belief” and how to respond to an atheist who...

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The Imago Dei in Man

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM

Alan explains the implications of being made in the image of God and why society is shooting itself in the foot for rejecting this principle.

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The Bulverism Blunder

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM

Sometimes people claim that the only reason someone is a Christian is because they were born in the United States. In this episode, Alan gives three reasons why such a claim is wrong headed.

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The Miracles of Materialism

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 8, 2019 9:37 PM

Alan explains how the atheist’s materialistic worldview makes several miracle claims to explain reality.

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Why the Problem of Evil Is Still a Problem

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 6, 2020 7:15 PM

Skeptics and atheists find the problem of evil so repugnant and our solutions so hollow because they refuse to accept a fundamental reality that every Christian believes. Alan explains what that...

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Christianity Is the Best Explanation for Reality

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 22, 2021 5:34 AM

If someone asked you how you know Christianity is true, how would you answer them? In this episode, Alan offers his response to that question by appealing to some powerful truths that people live by.

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Three Big Bangs

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 20, 2021 5:47 PM

You've heard of the Big Bang, but are you aware of the other two big bangs, each of which represents the beginning of a fundamentally new thing that didn't exist before? Alan explains what they are...

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Biology’s Divorce from Teleology

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 9, 2021 10:35 PM

Alan takes notice of a cultural trend to reject teleological language when describing human anatomy and shows how this explains modern thinking on sex and sexuality.

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Atheistic Freedom Is an Illusion

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM

Greg talks about freedom then takes calls on biases, biblical interpretation, and lust.