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#STRask: What Does the Old Testament Say about the Nature and Role of the Messiah?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 2, 2022 5:33 PM

Question about what the Old Testament says about the nature and role of the Messiah and whether it leaves open the option that Jesus is God and a man can die for our sins.

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#STRask: I Can’t Accept the Gospel Because It Would Mean My Loved One Is in Hell

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 2, 2022 5:34 PM

Questions about how to respond to someone who refuses to accept the gospel because it would mean a loved one has likely gone to Hell, why we should think animals have souls, and how to...

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#STRask: Should We Object to People Storing Embryos Indefinitely after IVF?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 9, 2022 5:21 PM

Questions about how we ought to respond to the indefinite storage or death of human embryos after IVF, whether pregnant women should be able to use carpool lanes, and whether it follows that we...

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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: Why Didn’t God Explain the Trinity Explicitly in Scripture?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 16, 2022 6:09 PM

Questions about whether the Old Testament believers were regenerate, how the work of the Spirit is different in the New Testament, and why God didn’t explain the Trinity explicitly in Scripture.

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#STRask: Is God’s Inability to Change an Imperfection?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 22, 2022 11:34 PM

Questions about responding to the idea that God’s inability to change is an imperfection, why God loves us, and whether evil can “claim” a child.

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#STRask: How Do We Know Which Commands in the Bible Apply to Everyone?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 29, 2022 8:54 PM

Question about how we can know when commands and instructions given in the Bible are meant to apply to everyone and when they only apply to a specific people group at a specific time in history.

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#STRask: Is Christianity Just a Brainwashing Ritual?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 29, 2022 8:55 PM

Questions about whether Christianity is only a brainwashing ritual involving rejection of the outside world, affirmation within the tribe, ritualistic chanting, etc. and whether denial of a...

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#STRask: How Can We Truly Love God in Heaven if We Won’t Have the Free Will to Reject Him?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 5, 2022 11:31 PM

Questions about whether regeneration counters total depravity in the Reformed view and how it could be that we’ll truly love God when we’re in Heaven, where we can’t reject him, if real love...

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#STRask: Aren’t Good Non-Christians Evidence That God Isn’t Required to Live a Moral Life?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 5, 2022 11:33 PM

Questions about how to respond to someone who says the existence of good non-Christians is evidence that God isn’t required to live a satisfying, moral life, whether God can save someone convicted...

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#STRask: Is God a Hypocrite?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 12, 2022 11:06 PM

Questions about whether God is being a hypocrite when he commands us not to murder and then executes people himself and how a politically conservative Christian should respond to a medical school...

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#STRask: How Can I Comfort Christian Families That Have Lost Loved Ones to Suicide?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 18, 2022 5:13 PM

Question about how a minister can comfort Christian families that have lost loved ones to suicide, are wrestling with thoughts that the suicide has resulted in a loved one possibly being a lost...

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#STRask: Why Did Jesus Leave Earth?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 18, 2022 5:15 PM

Questions about why Jesus left earth and how it’s possible that two Christian leaders, who both have the Holy Spirit, can have a contradicting witness about whether or not one can lose one’s...

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#STRask: Does Preventing a Woman’s Access to Abortion Violate Her Religious Freedom?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 3, 2022 2:07 AM

Questions about whether preventing a woman’s access to abortion violates her religious freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment, whether the fact that God doesn’t have parts now applies only to...

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#STRask: If a Murderer Accepts Christ, Then Will His Victims Never Receive Justice?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 3, 2022 2:09 AM

Questions about whether the victims of a murderer who later accepts Christ will never receive justice for their suffering and whether or not it can be said a person is “forgiven” if the debt was...

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#STRask: Why Wasn’t God’s Rescue Plan More Immediate and Peaceful?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 9, 2022 11:28 PM

Questions about why God’s rescue plan wasn’t more immediate and peaceful and whether God wants us to be gullible and doesn’t provide hard evidence as proof of his claims that he’s different from...

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#STRask: Do Verses in Acts about Baptism Support a Oneness Understanding of God?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 16, 2022 4:38 PM

Questions about whether the fact that the apostles baptized people in Jesus’ name supports a oneness understanding of God and how to reconcile the laying on of hands to receive the Holy Spirit in...

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#STRask: Will God Not Answer My Prayers if I’m Doubting He will?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 16, 2022 4:40 PM

Questions about why Hebrews is included in the New Testament canon if the author is unknown and whether God won’t answer your prayers if you’re doubting he will.

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#STRask: Why Is It Said That Jesus Was the First to Rise from the Dead?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 23, 2022 8:16 PM

Questions about why it’s said that Jesus was the first to rise from the dead if he already raised Lazarus and how to explain how Judaism and Christianity are related to someone who doesn’t know...

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#STRask: Is It Better for Christians to Worship in an Economical Space or a Beautiful One?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 23, 2022 8:18 PM

Questions about whether Christians are obligated by Matthew 6:19 to meet in the most practical, economical space possible and whether playing music too beautifully during worship can actually...

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#STRask: How Could Someone in the Old Testament Have Believed without First Being Regenerated?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 8, 2023 1:00 AM

Questions about how someone in the Old Testament could have believed without first being regenerated and why the devil would need to blind anyone (as referred to in 2 Corinthians 4:3–4) if total...

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#STRask: If God Is Love, Why Did He Kill so Many People in the Old Testament?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 14, 2023 10:32 PM

Question about why God killed so many people in the Old Testament if he’s a God of love.

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#STRask: Do Imprecatory Prayers Violate New Testament Commands?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 14, 2023 10:34 PM

Question about whether praying an imprecatory prayer like Psalm 5 today would violate the New Testament commands to “put aside all anger,” to “forgive or you won’t be forgiven,” and to “bless and...

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#STRask: Is the Bible Merely Unreliable Translations Written by Men?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 21, 2023 8:59 PM

Question about how to respond to someone who dismisses the Bible’s divine authority on the grounds that it was “written by mere men” and “is a bunch of unreliable translations of translations of...

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#STRask: How Much Influence Can Demons Have on Our Lives?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 21, 2023 9:00 PM

Questions about the biblical approach to deciding if eating meat is ethical and how much influence demons can have on our lives.

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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: Why Should I Thank God for Fixing a World of Pain and Sin That He Created?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 9, 2023 7:41 PM

Question about why we should love and thank God for creating a world where pain and sin exist and then fixing it by sending his son.

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#STRask: Why Do Some New Testament Passages about Salvation Ignore Faith and Focus on Works?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 20, 2023 3:07 AM

Questions about why some passages about salvation in the New Testament (e.g., Matthew 25:31–46) seem to focus on works rather than trust in Jesus and whether the symmetry between Adam and Jesus...

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#STRask: What Should Christians Think about the Death Penalty?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 26, 2023 10:31 PM

Questions about what Christians should think about the death penalty, how it can be moral if it’s not applied fairly across people groups, whether Matthew 6:25–34 is a promise given to all...

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#STRask: Does Hebrews 1:5 Indicate Jesus Was Created?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 12, 2023 7:37 PM

Questions about whether Hebrews 1:5 indicates Jesus was created and the difference between the sinful way of testing God (e.g. Matthew 4:5–7) and the right way of testing him (e.g., Psalm 34:8 and...

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#STRask: A God Who Told Me to Kill My Son Would Not Be the God for Me

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 19, 2023 12:29 AM

Questions about how people can praise Abraham for being willing to kill Isaac when God told him to and whether that account of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22 contradicts the idea that God won’t...

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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: Is God More Likely to Answer Prayer if More People Pray?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 25, 2023 10:33 PM

Questions about whether God is more likely to answer prayer if more people pray, whether it’s biblical for a Christian to say he can “feel” someone’s prayers for him, and whether prayer is more...

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#STRask: Am I at Risk of Losing My Salvation?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 2, 2023 4:56 PM

Question about whether a person is at risk of losing her salvation if she repents daily from various eating disorders but still sins daily.

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#STRask: Why Should We Try to Understand the Author’s Intent When Interpreting the Bible?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 2, 2023 4:59 PM

Questions about how to argue in favor of an “authorial intent” hermeneutic and why we don’t see more demon-possessed people today.

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#STRask: How Do I Show Someone That Not Every Spirit Being Is Good?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 8, 2023 8:02 PM

Questions about how to show someone who thinks any spirit being is good that only Jesus is good and whether inner healing prayer is biblical.

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#STRask: Could God Reach a Second-Century Shinto Monk Who Desired Redemption?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 15, 2023 10:49 PM

Questions about whether God could reach a second-century Shinto monk who desired redemption and whether it’s possible for someone to put their faith in Jesus for salvation but not have eternal life...

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#STRask: If Abortion Is Murder, Then Is Miscarriage Manslaughter?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 15, 2023 10:52 PM

Questions about whether miscarriage is manslaughter, the implications of removing explicit pro-transgender books from the children’s section of a library, and responding to an evolutionist who...

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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: Why Didn’t Jesus Fully Heal the Blind Man the First Time He Laid Hands on Him?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 27, 2023 7:45 PM

Question about the greater message Jesus meant to convey when he healed the blind man at Bethsaida in two stages in Mark 8:22–26.

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#STRask: How Can Romans 13:3 Be True When Some Governments Persecute Christians?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 7, 2023 10:51 PM

Questions about how Romans 13:3 can be true when some governments imprison and kill Christians and whether it’s better for high schoolers to go to a Christian school with hypocritical Christians or...

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#STRask: In What Way Has Jesus Overcome the World if There’s Still Suffering and Sin Here?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 7, 2023 10:53 PM

Questions about in what way Jesus has “overcome the world” (John 16:33) if we still have tribulation, suffering, and moral decay here and whether John’s falling in fear at Jesus’ feet in Revelation...

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#STRask: Does Numbers 12:6–9 Indicate God Doesn’t Always Speak Clearly?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 13, 2023 5:17 PM

Questions about whether Numbers 12:6–9 indicates that people don’t always hear God clearly when he is speaking and how one should approach the staff of a Christian school that’s promoting mindful...

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#STRask: Is Genesis 1–11 Historical or Mytho-History?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 13, 2023 5:18 PM

Questions about whether Genesis 1–11 is historical or mytho-history, why Jesus referenced people “we know never existed” like Adam and Eve, Noah, and Moses, and whether there’s a method by which we...

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#STRask: Would the Gospel Be Good News if Hell Didn’t Exist?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 20, 2023 9:15 PM

Questions about whether the gospel would be good news if Hell didn’t exist and what to say to someone who responds to evidence for Christianity by saying, “The Bible’s bad for society,” and doesn’t...

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#STRask: Why Would God Harden Pharaoh’s Heart against the Israelites?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 26, 2023 6:52 PM

Questions about why God would harden Pharaoh’s heart against the Israelites and how to reconcile what modern science says about human nature being inherently good with the Bible’s claim that we’re...

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#STRask: How Would You Explain God’s Omnipresence to a Six-Year-Old?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 26, 2023 6:54 PM

Questions about how to explain God’s omnipresence to a six-year-old, how it could make sense for God to identify as male if the definition of “male” is rooted in biology, why the thief’s statement...

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#STRask: How Can God Not Know What He’s Chosen Not to Know?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 26, 2023 6:56 PM

Questions about whether the view that Jesus didn’t know the time of his return because he limited his omniscience is the same as Open Theism, when Jesus became aware he was the Son of God, and...

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#STRask: Anyone Worthy of Worship Wouldn’t Want It

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 26, 2023 6:59 PM

Questions about how to respond to the idea that anyone worthy of worship wouldn’t want it and anyone requiring worship doesn’t deserve it and whether it’s appropriate to do good deeds with the...

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#STRask: Is Abortion Just a Culture-War Issue, Not a Biblical One?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 26, 2023 7:00 PM

Questions about how to respond to the pro-choice objections that unborn babies have no rights, that abortion is not a black or white issue, that other people having abortions won’t affect your life...

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