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#STRask: Will Remembering Our Life on Earth Make Us Sad in Heaven?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 2, 2022 8:11 PM

Question about how to respond to someone who thinks we won’t recognize our loved ones in the afterlife because if we were to remember this life, then we would feel sadness in Heaven.

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#STRask: How Does Christ’s Momentary Ordeal Equal the Torment of Sinners for Eternity?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 2, 2022 8:13 PM

Questions about how Christ’s “momentary ordeal” could equal the continuous torment of sinners for eternity and how the sun could have stopped shining while Jesus was on the cross when there...

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#STRask: Does a Literal Interpretation of the Bible Refute the Divinity of Christ?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 8, 2022 4:02 AM

Questions about responding to someone who says a literal interpretation of the Bible led him to believe Arianism is true and how to respond when you hear people express bad theology.

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#STRask: How Far Should We Go to End Suffering?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 22, 2022 7:41 PM

Questions about how to know when we should fight evil and when we should resign ourselves to God’s judgment and how far we should go to end suffering through technological or financial means.

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#STRask: Why Doesn’t God Simply Destroy Satan Now?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 22, 2022 7:43 PM

Questions about why God doesn’t destroy Satan now, Christians acting in scenes that contain R-rated elements, responding to someone who says, “God’s working on me,” and handling situations where...

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#STRask: Did Lazarus Go to Heaven Because of His Poverty?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 15, 2022 12:04 AM

Questions about whether the parable of the rich man and Lazarus teaches that Lazarus went to Heaven because of his poverty and how to respond when someone refuses to answer Columbo questions.

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#STRask: Are We Morally Obligated to Have Fewer Children?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 15, 2022 12:15 AM

Questions about whether Hell is unjust because it doesn’t seek people’s rehabilitation and how to respond to someone who says we’re morally obligated as a society to have fewer children in order to...

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#STRask: Is Saying a Woman Should Stay Pregnant a Body Violation Equal to Rape?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 19, 2022 9:42 PM

Questions about whether saying a woman should stay pregnant is a body violation equal to rape and how someone whose emotional doubt causes him to struggle with trusting God can turn his distrust...

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#STRask: Is It Appropriate to Cast Lots to Know God’s Will Today?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 11, 2022 7:31 PM

Questions about whether it’s appropriate for us to cast lots in order to know God’s will today as the apostles did when they replaced Judas and whether the fact that Romans 3 references various...

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#STRask: Should I Only Pray Once for Something?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 11, 2022 7:33 PM

Questions about whether praying once in faith for something is better than repeatedly requesting the same thing and how to read and apply psalms like Psalm 91 that say God will save us from “deadly...

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#STRask: Do These Verses Contradict “Once Saved, Always Saved”?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 6, 2022 3:19 AM

Questions about whether Revelation 2:1–7 and Colossians 1:21–23 can be reconciled with a belief in “once saved, always saved.”

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#STRask: Greg’s List of Pastorisms

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 27, 2022 5:48 PM

Greg responds to a request to hear his list of “pastorisms,” sayings Christians commonly repeat that have some truth to them but can be misleading.

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#STRask: Why Say the Beginning of the Universe Points to God?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 27, 2022 5:51 PM

Questions about why one should conclude the beginning of the universe points to God rather than another explanation and whether logic is created or an aspect of God’s character.

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#STRask: Why Would God Create Animals and Allow Them to Suffer?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 12, 2022 8:22 PM

Questions about why God would create animals and allow them to experience so much suffering and whether Christians should be content and accept their circumstances without fighting back no matter...

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#STRask: How Do You Know if Something You’re Doing Is a Sin?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 12, 2022 8:23 PM

Questions about how you can know if something you’re doing is a sin, what the author of Ecclesiastes meant when he said, “There is nothing new under the sun,” and whether the possibility that Moses...

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#STRask: Can Science Test Supernatural Worldviews?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 20, 2022 6:23 PM

Questions about whether science can test supernatural worldviews and how to respond to the claim that the Bible isn’t against abortion since it contains a command to execute adulterous women...

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#STRask: Why Is Abraham Considered a Great Man of Faith When He Had so Much Evidence?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 26, 2022 7:05 PM

Questions about why Abraham is considered to be a great man of faith when God gave him so much evidence of his existence and a response to the idea that a person’s salvation is questionable because...

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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: What’s the Biblical Position on Physician-Assisted Suicide?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 10, 2022 1:24 AM

Questions about the biblical position on physician-assisted suicide, whether Christians should say that “God is faithful” when he gives them what they asked for, and whether it’s okay to put...

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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: Is It Arrogant to Say You Know God Exists?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 2, 2022 7:33 PM

Questions about whether it’s arrogant for people who believe in God to say they know for sure that God exists and the best way to explain the Trinity to a child.

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#STRask: Is It Okay to Join an Organization That Supports Abortion?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 16, 2022 7:02 PM

Questions about whether it’s morally okay to join and pay dues to an organization that supports abortion in order to influence the organization, whether the verse that says people from “every...

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#STRask: What Did Jesus Mean When He Said We Should Wash One Another’s Feet?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 23, 2022 6:21 AM

Questions about using the services of a Christian photographer who took professional photos for a divorce mediator, what is being symbolized by Jesus washing the disciples’ feet in John 13, and...

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#STRask: Can Non-Trinitarians Be Saved?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 23, 2022 6:23 AM

Questions about whether the heresy of modalism prevents salvation and whether the greetings in the apostles’ letters that don’t reference the Holy Spirit are evidence the early church didn’t teach...

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#STRask: How Should a Christian Approach the Arguments in Richard Dawkins’s Book?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 1, 2022 1:00 AM

Questions about how Christians should approach the arguments in Richard Dawkins’s book The God Delusion and how to respond to the claims that the New Testament Gospels are flawed and...

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#STRask: Do Continuous Sins of Omission Mean You’re Not Truly Regenerate?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 8, 2022 1:11 AM

Question about whether continuous sins of omission indicate that a person is actually unrepentant and not truly regenerate.

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#STRask: Since God Values Humility, Is He Against Certainty?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 29, 2022 6:43 PM

Questions about whether God is against certainty because it breeds arrogance, the difference between fearing God and living in fear, and why Solomon, who was given wisdom by God, had so many wives.

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#STRask: Aren’t Some Unbelievers Sincerely Seeking Truth?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 4, 2022 7:59 PM

Questions about whether there are scriptural explanations for why people don’t think God exists other than that they’re “suppressing the truth in unrighteousness” and how to make the case for...

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#STRask: What Happens to People Who Never Heard of God or the Gospel?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 4, 2022 8:01 PM

Question about what the Bible has to say about the eternal destiny of people who never got the chance to know the God of the Bible and had no access to the salvation message.

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#STRask: Is the Movement to Ban Abortion Really about Babies?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 11, 2022 3:35 PM

Questions about why pro-lifers don’t support making everything that has to do with having and raising a baby free if the movement is really about babies and whether there are times when Christians...

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#STRask: How Can God Be Omniscient about Never-Ending Future Events?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 18, 2022 10:07 PM

Questions about how God can be omniscient about never-ending future events, whether the salvation of a man who comes to Christ after being dramatically changed by a brain injury “counts,” and...

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#STRask: Why Didn’t God Answer My Prayer for Guidance?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 18, 2022 10:09 PM

Questions about why God didn’t answer prayers for guidance regarding a major life decision and whether there’s evidence that God is more likely to say yes to a prayer request made while fasting.

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#STRask: What’s the Controversy if Aborted Fetuses Go to Heaven?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 23, 2022 5:40 PM

Questions about why abortion is controversial if aborted fetuses go to Heaven and whether Americans will become largely pro-life after Roe v. Wade is reversed since they tend to connect legality...

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#STRask: Why Doesn’t Every Bible Version Include Matthew 17:21?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 23, 2022 5:41 PM

Questions about why some Bible versions include Matthew 17:21 and part of Mark 9:29 and some don’t and how Jesus’ instruction not to hinder someone casting out demons in his name applies to the...

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#STRask: How Can We Know Jesus Is the Messiah?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 23, 2022 5:43 PM

Questions about how we can know Jesus is the Messiah when so many Jews claim passages such as Isaiah 53 and Isaiah 7:14 are not Messianic prophecies and what appropriate comfort a Christian can...

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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: What Is the Biblical Definition of Justice?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 23, 2022 4:57 PM

Questions about why Jesus said it would have been better if Judas had not been born, the biblical definition of justice, and whether it’s “unloving” to point out the false teachings of a TV...

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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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#STRask: Are Christians Who Study and Adhere to the Truths Revealed in the Bible Engaging in Bibliolatry?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 16, 2022 5:26 PM

Questions about how to respond to someone who says adhering to biblical inerrancy, studying Scripture, seeking to obey the Word, and adhering to its core truths is “bibliolatry” and how to explain...

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#STRask: Why Does It Matter to Christians That Jesus Was Raised Bodily?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 6, 2022 6:14 PM

Questions about why it matters to Christians that Jesus was raised bodily and isn’t just living on as a spirit and whether Jesus had a fallen body while here on earth.

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#STRask: Am I Childless Because I Don’t Fear God Enough?

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

Questions about whether the fact that God gave the Hebrew midwives families because they feared him indicates that childlessness is a sign of not fearing God enough and whether it’s a genetic...

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#STRask: How Do We Determine Which Books Are Divinely Inspired?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 11, 2022 9:54 PM

Questions about how we determine which books are divinely inspired and how to explain inerrancy to a skeptic.

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#STRask: Why Would the Unity of the Bible Be Evidence of Divine Authorship?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 16, 2022 2:15 PM

Questions about why the unity of the Bible would be evidence of divine authorship and whether one can say proverbs are suggestions, not commands, since they’re principles, not promises.

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#STRask: An Egg Is Not a Chicken, so an Embryo Is Not a Human?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 16, 2022 2:16 PM

Questions about whether it’s possible God doesn’t create souls for those who won’t be born due to miscarriage, abortion, etc. and how to respond to someone who says, “An egg is not a chicken, so an...

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#STRask: Why Is It Wrong to Have Surgery to Alter Your Sex?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 28, 2022 2:39 AM

Questions about why it’s okay to have plastic surgery to alter your appearance but wrong to have surgery to alter your sex, whether a tactical, winsome approach is still viable in a non-civil...

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#STRask: How Can I Handle Persistent Feelings of Guilt over Past Sins?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 28, 2022 2:40 AM

Questions about how one can handle persistent feelings of guilt over past sins that remain despite repentance and forgiveness in Christ and how to help someone overcome her doubt that God can love...

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#STRask: What Would You Say to a Professing Christian Who Is Radically Pro-Choice?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 1, 2022 5:54 PM

Questions about what approach to take with a professing Christian who is radically pro-choice and has rejected pro-life arguments, considering it all to be a matter of opinion.

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#STRask: Will Christ’s Second Coming Be Unexpected?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 11, 2022 5:07 PM

Questions about how to reconcile the unexpectedness of Christ’s second coming with passages that advise believers to pay attention to the signs of the times, why Christ hasn’t yet returned after...

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#STRask: How Can I Reveal and Defend My Belief in the Trinity and Leave My Oneness Church?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 18, 2022 1:48 AM

Questions about how a teen can reveal and defend her belief in the Trinity and leave her Oneness church and whether church memberships that exclude people living a homosexual lifestyle create a...

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