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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Some ideas have the tendency to self-destruct when given the opportunity. Your job is simply to point it out, and then watch the view quietly commit suicide.
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Philosophy
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
All the big questions—issues of origin, meaning, morality, and destiny—and all the secondary concerns, too—issues of sex, gender, liberty, equality, bodily rights, etc.—eventually come down to one....
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Theology
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM
Greg talks about tornadoes and the problem of evil, same-sex marriage Q&A, the right to love, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 5:58 PM
Greg defines freedom from a biblical worldview and highlights our level of freedom as fallen creatures.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
Ethical Stem Cell Research: A Mass of Misconceptions On March 9, 2009, newly elected President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order entitled “Removing Barriers to Responsible Scientific Research...
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Bioethics
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
Is it legitimate to condemn religion for historical atrocities? First we had better examine the facts.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Greg talks to Frank Turek about the upcoming CrossExamined Instructor Academy and Peter Boghossian’s definition of atheism, then he takes questions on substance dualism, Catholicism, and Calvinism.
Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: Stand to Reason Weekly Audio Topic: Philosophy
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 29, 2021 12:46 AM
People are attracted to critical race theory out of a desire to fight racism, but the central elements of CRT turn the noble ideas of the civil rights movement of the ’60s upside down.
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Other Worldviews
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 18, 2021 12:23 AM
Will the followers of Christ continue to thoughtfully engage—with truth and grace—the critical ideas in culture, or will we retreat from the public square again and take refuge behind the walls of...
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Theology
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Some people say the Trinity—the idea that there is one God Who subsists in three fully distinct but fully divine persons—doesn’t make sense. This depends entirely on what one means by the concept...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
Why doesn’t God save everybody?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
A transcript of a dialogue between Greg Koukl and Michael Shermer on the Hugh Hewitt Show
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Do you have good reasons to believe what you believe, or do you you believe merely because of tradition? Take some time to think carefully about what is true.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 6:39 PM
Greg offers reasons we can know the gospels are the inspired Word of God both from objective and personal standpoints.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
Is there a conflict between faith and science? I think not. Rather, I think the current quarrel between the two has been contrived.
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Science
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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 26, 2019 11:09 PM
Hymns are usually written as anthems of praise to God. They extol His noble characteristics and recount the benefits of his favor. But atheists have hymns, too. They celebrate the freedoms of...
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Other Worldviews
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
Just like God’s rational nature grounds rational truth and His moral nature grounds moral truth, God’s aesthetic nature is the grounding of aesthetic truth.
Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Central to the Gospel is the notion of “goodness.” God is good; we’re not good. God’s goodness prompts Him to rescue us from our non-goodness, our sin. Seems clear enough.
Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 24, 2021 11:21 PM
Human lives will be ruled by one of two fundamental forces: either truth or power. When truth is relativized, suffering will follow.
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Philosophy
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Greg talks about whether it was immoral for God to create man, the outward signs of a person’s salvation, where unbelievers go before judgment, the inspiration of Paul’s lost letters, and knowing...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM
Jesus of Nazareth is a true man of history, but His history started long before He was born. He is a true man, but He is no ordinary man. He is the Son of David, the future King, the promised...
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Theology
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Are non-Christians claiming that a half-full glass has more in it than a full glass? It would appear so.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
In I Corinthians 15:3–8, Paul records a list of witnesses to Jesus’ post-mortem appearances.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Evolution is on its way out. It’s only a matter of time before the iceberg hits.
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Science
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
What is evil? Could it have a purpose? Here is a view of evil from an adult rather than a childish perspective.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 7, 2020 10:34 PM
The evil one steals the gospel seeds we sow when the message is not understood. This is why we often need to do some spadework to prepare the ground before there can be a harvest—why we need...
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Christian Living
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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 greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Greg talks about haunted houses, the inspiration of Scripture, disqualification from Christianity, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
Moral relativism. It sounds so reasonable, so tolerant, and so neutral. But there’s a fundamental flaw.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
Once in a while you will encounter people who try to overpower you instead of persuading you.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 6:44 PM
Greg unpacks why Jesus was more than just a morally good teacher.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 13, 2021 7:20 PM
If God is so loving and Heaven so great, how is it possible that so many angels fell from Heaven to follow Satan? Could they fall now? Greg answers these questions as he considers what we can know...
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Was I nervous? Yes, absolutely. Of course, this wasn’t my ordinary speaking event.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
In 1982, I lived in Thailand for seven months supervising a feeding program in a Cambodian refugee camp named Sakaeo. My charge: 18,250 Khmer refugees who had escaped the holocaust perpetrated...
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Science
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Naturalism can’t make sense of the reality we encounter every day, so when talking to naturalists, keep an eye out for these three significant ways they will “bump” into reality.
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Philosophy
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 18, 2020 7:31 PM
Same-sex marriage is not about tolerance, freedom, or justice. It’s about something else
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Sexuality and Gender
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
Why is it that contemporary Christian thought on ethics and morality seems so thin? Let’s recapture a richer and fuller vision for our moral life.
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Web Content Article · By j.t. wynn On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
The great Jedi Master was a little confused when it came to dealing with absolutes.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 12, 2020 3:51 AM
Greg explains his two favorite arguments for the existence of God.
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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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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Greg and guest Rodney Lake discuss Thinking Matters, New Zealand, then Greg talks about tolerance or discrimination on campus, if early Christians recycled pagan myths, and more.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Bongo is a chimp. He’s being punished by other members of the chimpanzee band for not sharing his bananas. Bongo is selfish. Bad Bongo. Moral rule: Chimps shouldn’t be selfish.
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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.
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Bioethics
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
What does it mean to be human? You can’t answer a single question of consequence regarding human beings without answering that question first. Everything vital, meaningful, and moral about us hangs...
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Theology
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 21, 2023 12:27 AM
How much sin can God forgive? Does it matter if we evolved? Why did God...? What role should Christianity play in our government? Greg addresses these topics and more in this issue of Solid Ground.
Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Theology
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
What kind of God would allow a Hitler to go to heaven if he believed in Jesus and a Mother Teresa to go to hell if she didn’t?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 14, 2022 7:17 PM
Can we trust the eyewitness testimony of the New Testament? Greg and Amy explain why the answer is yes.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:10 PM
While waiting in line at the theater, I spoke to a young man named Ira who was a musician from Canada.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
If the wager is your life, what odds will you take? Find out how to pick a winner.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 23, 2021 10:41 PM
At times, the tsunami of change we’re facing seems overwhelming for its force, dizzying for its speed, and chilling for its darkness. It’s easy to begin feeling helpless, but that is not our path....
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
What caused God? J.P. Moreland gives a brief response to this challenge.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Many evolutionary naturalists attempt to ground morality in naturalistic evolution. This is fraught with serious difficulties that form an insurmountable case against evolution as the foundation of...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
There is a tendency in our presentation of the Gospel to stick with the parts that make people feel good. Those things are true, but there’s more we need to tell them.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
This talk was given at Praise Church (praisechurch.tv) in Beaumont, TX. Tim Barnett looks at some of the reasons why he believes Jesus resurrection is the best explanation of the historical evidence.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
John Mark Reynolds spoke at Acton recently on “Beauty and the Destruction of the Individual,” explaining how a proper belief in the existence of objective beauty fuels a culture.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
This is an apology to the LGBT Community for a recent video titled ’Confessions of a Christian Nation - LGBTQ Discrimination.’ The short, six-minute video features Brian McLaren, Greg Boyd,...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
Some people take offense when we say everyone has a worldview, but it’s not an insult. Here’s what we mean by the term.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
Most of us believe the decisions we make with our minds are not determined by physical forces. What story of creation can account for such free-willed decisions?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
Here’s a heartbreaking story out of Australia about a boy who circumvented the law in order to start his transitioning process at age 12...and then changed his mind.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
The increasingly-common belief that human beings only have instrumental value leads to disturbing real-world results.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
Tim Barnett is on a timer, and answers questions about Hell, the Kingdom of God, and if Christianity were false.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
Alan shows how you can use two simple questions to show that the Christian story of creation is true and reasonable.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:52 PM
The definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman is not the result of bigotry; it’s the result of the unchangeable facts of biology.
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Web Content Article · By aaron brake On Jun 27, 2019 9:52 PM
What does it mean for something to be true? Historically, there have been three dominant theories of truth, but only the common sense view stands up under scrutiny.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:52 PM
The existence of God is necessary for meaning to exist. A new Reasonable Faith video explains why and responds to the common challenges atheists offer against this claim.
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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 amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
We’ve all been waiting for an update on the alleged first-century fragment of Mark. Now it’s been published, and there’s good news and bad news.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Let me ask you a question: What would happen if the bones of Jesus were discovered tomorrow? Paul gives us a definitive answer. If Jesus has not been raised, then seven disastrous consequences...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Are faith and reason at odds? Is belief in Christianity a blind leap in the dark? In this week’s podcast, Tim explores the relationship between faith and reason, and shows how biblical faith is the...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
Does the Modal Ontological Argument prove the existence of God? It at least demonstrates that God’s existence, if possible, would be necessary.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
The law of non-contradiction isn’t just a Western convention. In fact, it’s not a convention at all. The laws of logic aren’t invented; they’re discovered. They are facts about reality.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
French ex-atheist Guillaume Bignon explains why the existence of evil points to the existence of God.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
Is it just for God to sent billions of people to Hell for eternity for a finite number of sins committed while on Earth? Does this punishment really fit the crime? Many people don’t think so....
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM
The royal seal of an ancient biblical king has been unearthed near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
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