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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 - August 31, 2020

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 29, 2020 9:50 PM

Questions about whether we can define human organisms by their DNA, applying Lewis’s argument from desire to transgender desires, and starting a spiritual conversation with a shaman.

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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 13, 2021

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 9, 2021 5:19 PM

Questions about Greg’s opinion on extraterrestrials, what kind of humor God has, and whether humor is culturally determined or has objective rules behind it.

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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: Can We Reasonably Conclude Something Is Designed?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 20, 2021 6:31 PM

Question about whether or not there’s a conclusive way to differentiate designed things from undesigned if some designed things appear undesigned and some undesigned things appear designed.

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Will All Religions One Day Be Proven Wrong by Science?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 9, 2023 2:28 AM

Questions about how to respond to the claim that “all faith-based religions will one day be proven wrong by science” and whether or not students will continue to show up to youth group if you start...

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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: What Are Your Thoughts on Aliens?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 10, 2023 8:34 PM

Questions about whether the aliens people encounter are really evil spirits, whether the supposed biological pieces of crashed UFO pilots could be biological evidence of demons or angels, and what...

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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: Why Would You Say Evolution Has No Purpose?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 16, 2024 5:27 PM

Questions about the claim that evolution has no purpose and whether the fact that people who have aphantasia are unable to form mental images shows that the ability to picture something is based in...

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#STRask: November 20, 2017

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

Greg has 4 minutes to answer questions about women working, discerning conscience issues, and the old earth view.