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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 26, 2022 3:14 AM
Greg talks about a conversation he had during a car ride with an atheist listener, then he describes four reasons why people reject Jesus, answers a question about God’s relationship to time, and...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On May 31, 2023 10:41 PM
Jon Noyes explains his personal convictions regarding whether a Christian should attend a same-sex wedding.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 1, 2024 3:06 AM
Greg responds to questions he received about speaking to someone who’s apathetic and the Spirit’s role in evangelism, then he talks to callers about whether churches need a lead pastor, Jesus’...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Dec 17, 2020 6:27 PM
You may be surprised to hear that some people think Jesus never existed. Though popular on the internet, the idea that Jesus never existed completely ignores the facts.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Sometimes we can infer Jesus’ view on something we have no record of by listening carefully to His view on a related thing He did weigh in on.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 3, 2020 11:00 PM
The answer to this question is easy. Yes, they’re going to hell. But guess what? Everyone is going to hell.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 3, 2022 10:59 PM
Some people claim God can give a person the wrong body, and that fixing his mistake is just like getting glasses or braces. This thinking, however, is misguided for at least four reasons.
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Apr 28, 2022 11:20 PM
Did Jesus truly rise from the dead? Surprisingly, something you do almost every week is powerful evidence that he did.
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Jun 25, 2022 1:31 AM
When it comes to Pride Month, staying discouraged won’t help us. What we need instead is clear thinking from a biblical perspective to help us move away from discouragement and toward...
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Jan 27, 2024 3:11 AM
Aside from denying and twisting the clear passages of Scripture that prohibit homosexuality, pro-gay theology has another problem: A same-sex couple can’t practice Christian marriage as described...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 5:12 PM
Greg responds to the atheist claim that true morality can only exist without the enticement of reward or the threat of punishment.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Greg gives advice on how to keep going in ministry when you’re not feeling it and then answers questions about handling steamrollers and responding to moral relativists.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
Greg responds to a comment by Sam Harris then takes questions on hearing the voice of God and responding to the “mindfulness” being taught in public schools.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM
Greg talks about discrimination, if people can be saved if they’ve never heard Jesus’ name, and what his view on the Flood is.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Aug 21, 2020 1:16 PM
Jon explains what happens when moral relativism is followed to its logical conclusion.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 24, 2022 1:38 AM
Greg talks about how you can’t have objective good without God, then he answers questions about what it means to say we’re made in the image of God, whether the image of God can be gained or lost,...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
Greg addresses short term afflictions and God’s purposes, three objections to the ontological argument, Jehovah’s Witnesses asking why the name of God is not in our versions, and if it is wise to...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
When you encounter theories contrary to Christianity, remember there’s a difference between what’s possible and what’s reasonable. Here’s a clip of Bart Ehrman on the existence of Jesus to...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Here’s a brief summary of James Rochford’s thorough review of a new book by Myron Penner titled The End of Apologetics: Christian Witness in a Postmodern Context.
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Web Content Article · By aaron brake On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
Science is good, but science isn’t everything. It’s one way to discover what is true, but it’s not the only way. To believe otherwise is to have a self-refuting view of knowledge.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Some atheists have wrongly assumed Stand to Reason protects Christian students from hearing ideas they disagree with, but that’s the opposite of our philosophy to “inoculate, not isolate.”
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On May 12, 2020 9:52 PM
Questions are a legitimate way to get people to think. But if questions subtly create confusion, fallacy, or error, they only serve to conceal the truth rather than reveal the truth.
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Dec 20, 2023 5:48 AM
You may not have noticed before that the Isaiah 7:14 prophecy shows that God, the true author of Scripture, not only can accurately predict future events but is also sovereign over the development...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
If two guys walk into a bar and the bartender says, “I can’t serve people like you—get out!” Is that wrong? Illegal? One can’t say until one knows why the discrimination is occurring.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 27, 2021 7:27 AM
Greg responds to an article that says Jesus would have marched in a pride parade, then he answers a question about Christians disagreeing on whether the COVID vaccine is a hill to die on.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Mar 7, 2022 9:50 PM
If we honor God’s pronouns revealed in Scripture, why aren’t we willing to honor people’s preferred pronouns? Alan explains why the two situations are not parallel.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Here’s what J. Warner Wallace has to say about the charge that Christians are too biased to fairly evaluate evidence.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Sep 3, 2020 12:23 AM
A good teacher questions assumptions, exposes errors, and challenges students to think critically—which is why Tim created Red Pen Logic with Mr. B.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Dec 16, 2021 9:24 PM
Christians focus on homosexuality as a sin but ignore other Old Testament laws. Is this hypocritical? Tim Barnett uses his Red Pen Logic to respond to this common objection.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 14, 2023 1:34 AM
Greg talks about D-Day and thanks D-Day veterans for their service, then he answers questions about indoctrination, what we can do about what’s happening in public schools, whether someone can be...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Greg’s response to a letter which asserted there is no qualitative difference between animals and humans.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 7, 2023 5:49 PM
Greg and Amy discuss how, even apart from the Bible, we can know some of God’s attributes by observing his creation.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 24, 2022 2:00 AM
Greg reads a letter he received from a listener whose biblical views on homosexuality are being challenged by others in his church, then he addresses their objections and answers a question about...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
Many things foundational to a Christian worldview are things people already know through intuition—information built into our minds by a wise Creator. Our founding fathers called them...
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jan 27, 2022 9:38 PM
Jon Noyes explains why Christianity offers the best solution to the problem of evil in his latest Stand to Reason University course.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM
If a person makes the claim “My hair is black,” can that claim be true for him but not for you?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
Greg talks about jury duty, using a game plan, and whether variations mean we don’t have a reliable Bible.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jul 31, 2019 5:45 PM
The moral relativist who is fighting for a moral principle is living in tension with his beliefs, and this provides a great starting point for a spiritual conversation.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jun 25, 2020 5:31 PM
Jonathan Noyes answers the question “What is truth?”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 27, 2022 3:09 AM
Greg talks about the helpfulness of tactics, even for those who are new to using them, tells about hearing from a pastor that virtually all of the junior high girls in their youth group identify as...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 24, 2022 1:44 AM
Greg talks to callers about the meaning of Matthew 7:21–23, how one should respond to friends who are convinced they’re receiving messages from God, the best approach to take with militant atheist...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
I wrote not long ago about how a change in values in 18th-century Britain (as a result of a million people coming to Christ) affected their economy.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Greg talks about the Duck Commander visit, Christian family values on TV, Christians can be intelligent, and more.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
The claim that “atheists are as moral as Christians” is meaningless if we’re operating under different systems of morality.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 5:20 PM
Alan responds to an atheist’s challenge: “You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 6, 2022 10:43 PM
Greg and Amy explain why the answer to whether Christians should accept people’s self-identified sexualities without questioning them depends on whether those behaviors are morally benign.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Those who choose to believe in determinism or physicalism don’t choose to believe at all—they believe because of prior physical conditions.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:39 PM
Greg answers questions about what the biblical basis is for thinking people go to hell immediately at death, if imprecatory psalms are still usable, why God didn’t make Adam, Eve, Cain, and Jesus...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
How to stay a Christian in college; can Christians live sinlessly?; character in public life, and more topics
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Nov 2, 2021 11:25 PM
Jon Noyes answers the question “How should I approach my atheist friends?”
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Mar 14, 2022 10:46 PM
Tim responds to a Muslim who claims the Gospels were not written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
The first time I heard C.S. Lewis’ Trilemma challenged was nearly 20 years ago.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
Some charge that God is an imaginary “cosmic father” invented for our emotional protection, created in our image to comfort us, a phantom to fill the hollow places. But two things are wrong...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Our societal conflict over sexuality comes down to our opposing views on what it means to be human.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
If the God of the Bible didn’t do what you think a real God would have done, that doesn’t prove He doesn’t exist; you might just be missing something.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 7:30 PM
Greg discusses how to employ the “Rhodes Scholar” tactic in conversation.
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Web Content Article · By guest author On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Delivered by J.P. Moreland at the Evangelical Theological Society, November 18, 2004.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
When it comes to spiritual warfare, the New Testament emphasis is not on prayer-infused power encounters, but on something completely different, and if we miss that, then I think we miss the heart...
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Theology
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
The images are sadly familiar. Buildings ripped from their foundations. Corpses mingled with debris. Parents and friends grieving for lost loved ones. Flowers and candles and makeshift memorials.
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Theology
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:10 PM
The embryonic stem cell research debate is remarkable because neither side—pro-life or pro-abortion—seems to understand the moral logic of its views.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
In Australia, same-sex marriage activists are upset that polyamorists are trying to jump on their equality bandwagon, but they have no principled way to exclude them.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
Can a person who believes in a God that does not exist still have a good grounding for objective morality? The distinction between “in principle” and “in reality” is crucial to answering...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Apr 28, 2020 4:04 PM
Before you can refute an idea, you have to actually understand the idea. Otherwise, you end up defeating a defenseless imitation of an argument—a straw man—instead of the real thing.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Nov 9, 2021 12:14 AM
As ambassadors for Christ, we should understand a view we disagree with before we try to formulate a response to it. Here are three reasons why.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
It’s cool to be gay. That’s what the younger generation thinks. Our culture not only tolerates homosexuality, it’s often celebrated and considered trendy.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
This isn’t the first time a proponent of same-sex marriage has been open about her ultimate goal of destroying marriage, but it’s certainly one of the most straightforward.
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Web Content Article · By aaron brake On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
What difference does it make to say the original biblical writings were inerrant if all we have today are copies with errors?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 1, 2024 8:22 PM
Does the film 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture succeed in using Scripture to make the case that God approves of same-sex relationships? Alan explains three reasons why the film’s...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
Greg and Alan talk about dealing with LGBT issues with truth and compassion, then Greg answers questions on forgiveness not ending the consequences of sin, what Jesus would do about baking a cake...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
You can huff and puff but you can’t blow this house down. Christianity is a system bolted down to reality.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
In the last issue of Solid Ground, I raised a question that may have startled some readers. I asked if the current emphasis on “hearing” the voice of God is biblically sound.
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Theology
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM
Greg talks about how churches can support Christians who are struggling with same-sex attraction, then answers questions about why God makes it so hard to believe, advice about going to seminary,...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 6, 2020 2:43 AM
There’s no need (in fact, it’s wrong) to be rude or demonize our opponents the way we do. Here are five quick suggestions to elevate debate in a healthy way.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 31, 2023 11:39 PM
In today’s relativistic, postmodern world, “tolerance” has come to mean the opposite of its classical definition. Here’s how you can recognize the “tolerance trick” and respond with confidence and...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Bad worldviews, even if deeply believed, cannot undo reality. God has given every human being the ability to know truth about his world. Reality, then, becomes our ally, even with postmoderns.
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