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#STRask - May 18, 2020

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 17, 2020 8:18 PM

Questions about infinite regresses and responding to a naturalist who wants scientific proof that matter had a beginning.

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#STRask - June 11, 2020

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 7, 2020 5:02 PM

Questions about whether there really are objective moral values and whether the free will defense is compatible with Calvinism.

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#STRask - June 22, 2020

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 20, 2020 7:48 PM

Questions about visualization being a function of the brain, the kind of body angels have, and how Jesus, Enoch, and Elijah could have physical bodies if Heaven is immaterial.

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#STRask - August 6, 2020

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 5, 2020 2:42 AM

Questions about whether relativists think relativism is a universal principle and how to answer the problem of gratuitous evil.

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#STRask - August 17, 2020

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 15, 2020 8:41 PM

Questions about the definitions of free will and choice and what Greg would say to someone who wanted to commit his life to Christ.

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#STRask - August 27, 2020

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 26, 2020 4:11 AM

Question about why the Euthyphro dilemma is solved by saying morality comes from God’s nature.

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#STRask - October 8, 2020

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 5, 2020 3:07 PM

Questions about how Yahweh can know he’s the only God and how to respond to a movie that documents a Mormon miracle.

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#STRask - October 22, 2020

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 18, 2020 11:08 PM

Questions about how to demonstrate immaterial and supernatural activity to a materialist and how to respond to an objection to Greg’s illustration as to why thoughts aren’t physical.

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#STRask - October 29, 2020

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 18, 2020 11:11 PM

Questions about whether the desire for survival can serve as a basis for morality and how Christians can know when they’re being disciplined by God.

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#STRask - January 7, 2021

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 22, 2020 7:26 PM

Questions about whether God’s justice is an emergent property as a result of creation and sin rather than an essential trait and why Christians believe in God’s promises if they can’t prove he...

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#STRask - February 1, 2021

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 27, 2021 10:09 PM

Questions about responding to the claim that it’s our subjective opinion that there is objective truth and whether it’s a fallacy to say Christianity is bad because Christians did bad things.

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#STRask - May 20, 2021

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 16, 2021 7:24 PM

Question about how to respond to someone who cites the “paradox of tolerance” as a reason to not tolerate Christian views.

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#STRask - May 31, 2021

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 29, 2021 6:52 PM

Questions about whether a person who makes a negative claim has the burden of proof and the top apologetic topics that are most relevant for the times we’re living in.

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#STRask - July 15, 2021

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 11, 2021 12:58 AM

Questions about whether there’s a question that should be asked before asking if there’s a God, whether Adam and Eve were amoral before eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and...

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#STRask: How Can There Be Real Love in Heaven if Evil Isn’t Possible There?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 28, 2021 10:10 PM

Questions about how there can be real love in Heaven if the possibility of evil is necessary for real love and whether God could have created a universe where no one would desire to sin and be lost...

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#STRask: Responding to “Denying You’re Racist Proves You’re a Racist”

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 11, 2021 11:43 PM

Question about how to respond to the Kafka trap claim that denying you’re racist proves you’re a racist.

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#STRask: How Can Something Be Evil in Itself if Evil Is Only a Lack of Good?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 20, 2022 6:25 PM

Questions about how Greg can say something is evil “in itself” if evil is only a lack of good, how Jesus could have had a fully-human experience if he never doubted, and whether all bad things that...

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#STRask: Are Logic and Reasoning Immaterial?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 10, 2022 1:26 AM

Questions about whether logic and reasoning aren’t immaterial because they’re activities of a physical brain and whether the fact that some people have a “blind mind’s eye” counters the claim that...

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#STRask: Aren’t There Truths I Can Only Know Because of My Lived Experience?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 10, 2022 8:48 PM

Question about how to reconcile the fact that there are things one can only know through experience with the idea that truth can be known apart from a person’s experiences.

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#STRask: Does Naturalism Necessarily Lead to Moral Relativism?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 10, 2022 8:50 PM

Questions about whether naturalism necessarily leads to moral relativism and the ways naturalists try to ground objective morality.

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#STRask: How Would You Use the Existence of Natural Rights to Argue for the Existence of God?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 16, 2022 5:24 PM

Questions about how to use the topic of natural rights with someone who believes in them to discuss the existence of God, and whether the saying that “we come from God, and we will go back to God”...

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How Can We Determine Which Christian Moral Principles Should Be Made into Laws?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 9, 2022 5:23 PM

Questions about how to determine which Christian moral principles should be made into laws and which shouldn’t and why Christ suffered a temporary punishment delivered by man while he was alive if...

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#STRask: Was There an Eternal Singularity before Time Began?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 4, 2023 9:41 PM

Question about how to respond to someone who says the laws of causality and logic depend on time, that there was an eternal singularity, and time and logic only began at the Big Bang.

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#STRask: How Does Adding an Adjective to the Word “Justice” Corrupt It?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 19, 2023 12:31 AM

Questions about why Greg says that adding any adjective to the word “justice” corrupts it, whether a Christian should consider accepting an invitation to join the DEI committee at their workplace,...

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#STRask: Why Do You Need to Work so Hard to Defend Christianity if It’s True?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 22, 2023 11:22 PM

Questions from non-believers about why we need to work so hard to defend Christianity if it’s true, whether we’re just pushing the truth we chose on others while keeping them from evaluating it,...

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#STRask: How Does Grounding Morality in God’s Nature Solve the Euthyphro Dilemma?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 30, 2023 10:11 PM

Questions about how grounding morality in God’s nature solves the Euthyphro dilemma and whether we only have moral values because our culture has learned over time what does and does not benefit...

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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: October 26, 2017

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM

In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about using the Bible to witness, getting people interested in apologetics, and one of the toughest questions about God to answer.

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#STRask: October 22, 2018

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM

Greg answers questions on reaching people who are apathetic about spiritual things, Molinism, God “regretting” making man, and witnessing in the workplace.

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#STRask: June 27, 2019

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 30, 2019 11:20 PM

Questions about believing in a God who would send Anne Frank to Hell and Ted Bundy to Heaven and using the Ray Comfort method of street evangelism.

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#STRask: August 29, 2019

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 4, 2019 12:05 AM

Questions about using Hell as a motivation, dinosaurs and young earth creation, a book by Norman Geisler, and presenting the gospel to an eight-year-old.

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#STRask: January 27, 2020

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 3, 2020 9:16 PM

Questions about proving events in the Bible, explaining mercy to a child, helping someone who doesn’t know if he’s one of the elect, and whether church should only be for believers.

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#STRask - June 1, 2020

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 30, 2020 4:54 PM

Questions about steamrollers who say there’s no proof for God, whether matter changing to energy proves it isn’t self-existent, and whether rainbows existed before Noah. (Jon fills in for Amy.)

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#STRask - November 12, 2020

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 8, 2020 6:29 PM

Questions about maneuvering a “gauntlet” strategy of questions in a discussion and whether Christians shouldn’t seek fear as a form of entertainment.

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#STRask - December 31, 2020

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 22, 2020 7:23 PM

Questions about how to respond to an atheist who rejects the Bible because it contains miracles and thoughts about churches requiring liability waivers to attend worship services.

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#STRask - January 28, 2021

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 27, 2021 10:07 PM

Question about how to transition from being an apologist to an evangelist when the person you’re talking to starts thinking about converting.

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#STRask - May 6, 2021

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 2, 2021 9:40 PM

Questions about responding to an atheist who asks what it would take to convince you God doesn’t exist and problems with the idea that we should live however we want as long as we don’t hurt anybody.

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#STRask - August 2, 2021

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 31, 2021 6:19 PM

Questions about how to persuade a family member who responds to the Columbo questions with anger and what Christians should expect to experience when it comes to God’s discipline.

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#STRask: What Do You Wish You Had Known about Apologetics Work?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 19, 2021 9:35 PM

Questions about how to steer the conversation in a Bible study towards discussing the text in context and whether there are things Greg and Amy wish they had known about apologetics work before...

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#STRask: How Should I Respond to Someone Who Says He’s Offended?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 11, 2021 7:53 PM

Questions about whether it’s biblical to refer to God as the Divine Mother and tactical ways to respond to someone who says he’s offended by your views.

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#STRask: What if the First Columbo Question Makes Someone Feel Ashamed?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 6, 2022 3:21 AM

Questions about what to do if someone feels ashamed because he can’t answer the first Columbo question and whether there there are arguments we can use for God’s existence based on our experience...

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#STRask: What Topics Should I Cover in an Apologetics Series?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 2, 2022 7:31 PM

Questions about what topics to cover when presenting an apologetics series in a church and how to handle addressing people’s doubts in an apologetics class when discussing them can confuse others...

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#STRask: How Would You “Take the Roof Off” a Denial of Objective Beauty?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 12, 2022 12:26 AM

Questions about whether it’s possible to go your whole life without sinning, why God put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden, and how to “take the roof off” the claim that...

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#STRask: What Questions Would You Ask to Engage an “Agnostic Atheist”?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 22, 2022 7:01 PM

Questions about how to engage someone who calls himself an “agnostic atheist” and how to deal with a parent contradicting you with heretical theology while you’re teaching students in a...

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#STRask: What if Someone Says He Believes in Science, Not God?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 11, 2022 3:33 PM

Questions about what to say to someone who says he “believes in science, not God” and how to respond to the slogan “Love Is Love” without using the Bible.

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#STRask: How Can I Get into Spiritual Conversations with People?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 16, 2022 6:10 PM

Questions about how to get into spiritual conversations with people and what to say to someone who says Jesus, the stories in the Bible, Heaven, etc. are all just metaphorical.

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#STRask: What Should I Read to Take My Apologetics Knowledge up a Notch?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 16, 2022 5:25 PM

Questions about what to read to take your apologetics knowledge up a notch, how to reconcile friends’ experiences encountering ghosts with what the Bible teaches, whether you should give charitably...

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