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#STRask: June 12, 2017

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM

Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about Experiencing God, personality types, and sinning in dreams.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: #STRask Topic: Theology

Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Sep 28, 2023 6:51 PM

In this excerpt from Stand to Reason University, Robby Lashua examines the scriptural evidence for the divinity of the Holy Spirit and shares how we know the Holy Spirit is personal and distinct...

Media Type: Video Topic: Theology

Who Says God Is Good?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM

Sometimes the simplest questions—questions that seem so basic we never expect them

Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Philosophy

Is Faith Just a Feeling?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:52 PM

Feelings must not be allowed to hold our faith hostage. Instead, facts inform our faith, and faith instructs our feelings.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Witnessing to Jehovah’s Witnesses—Part 2

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM

Notes for the video “Witnessing to Jehovah’s Witnesses”—available in our store—are below. See Part 1.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Christians, You Will Suffer

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM

A time will come when an experience will make suffering real to you, and then you will struggle to learn how to entrust yourself to God when you can’t trust He’ll protect you from pain and tragedy....

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Does God Have to Obey the Ten Commandments?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM

If you want to call moral rules absolutes in the sense that they can never be trumped

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

Why Believe the Holy Spirit Is a Person?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM

The New Testament attributes the three primary characteristics of personhood to the Holy Spirit: will, mind, and emotions.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Jesus Is More Than a Superhero

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Sep 29, 2022 1:23 AM

Alan Shlemon uses the illustration of various superheroes to explain the two natures of Christ, why the incarnation was necessary for our salvation, and the uniqueness of Christianity.

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Are We at War with Muslims?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM

Just 29 days after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, Oprah Winfrey invited Queen Rania on her television show.

Media Type: Article Topic: Other Worldviews

Does Defending Christianity Discredit Christianity?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM

Kierkegaard claimed the act of defending Christianity actually discredits it. Here’s why his criticism of apologetics doesn’t work.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

God Was Canceling People before It Was Cool

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 25, 2020 10:39 PM

Since long before the woke awoke, someone else has been the chief of cancel culture: Yahweh. But there are five significant differences between our culture’s approach to canceling and God’s.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Essential Christian Doctrines

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM

A list of the key elements of Christianity

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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

is only a lack of good, how Jesus could have had a fully-human experience if he never

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: #STRask Topic: Philosophy

LDS Test Is Necessary, Not Sufficient

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

Mormons often argue that because they live good lives, they pass the test given by Jesus in Matthew 7:15-23 to determine whether or not a person is following a true prophet of God.

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Is God More Tolerant Today?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM

God relates to people in the Old Testament differently from how He relates to people in the New Testament, but it’s not because of a change in His character. If God hasn’t changed, then what has?

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Bart Ehrman’s Latest Book: How Jesus Became God

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM

I realized something about Bart Ehrman’s books reading his latest, How Jesus Became God.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

One Way to Tell the New Testament Is True

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Aug 7, 2020 12:53 PM

Tim shows how some details in the Gospel of Luke help point to the truthfulness of the New Testament.

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Does Isaiah 45:7 Teach That God Created Evil?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Mar 22, 2022 2:52 AM

What does it mean when God says he “creates evil” in Isaiah 45:7?

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

#STRask: April 4, 2016

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM

Greg answers questions on why Jesus didn’t raise himself from the dead, what can be used instead of Jer. 29:11 for encouragement, what the difference is between Jews, Israelites, and Israel, if a...

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Acts and the Voice of God

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:07 PM

How does God speak to us?

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Three Common Objections to the Personhood of the Holy Spirit

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM

Is the personhood language used for the Holy Spirit merely personification? Why doesn’t the Holy Spirit have a personal name? How can a person fill people?

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Is the Rapture Biblical?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 9, 2021 7:23 PM

Is the concept of the rapture found in Scripture? Greg shares his findings with a caller.

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Are You Ready to Talk to a Muslim?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM

Alan’s monthly letter for November 2011 At a recent event, I was introduced as Saeed Ibn Umar. Yes, that’s a Muslim name. But no, it’s not a pseudonym and I haven’t converted to Islam.

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#STRask: July 14, 2016

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM

Greg talks about New Testament variants, the purpose of Satan, making disciples, and people giving accounts at the final judgment.

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: #STRask Topic: Theology

How Do We Know That God Can Sympathize with Our Weaknesses?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 5:53 PM

Since God is perfect and never does anything wrong, can He really understand our

Media Type: Video Topic: Theology

Did the Council of Nicea Invent the Deity of Christ?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM

Emperor Constantine invented the deity of Christ in the fourth century, but a look at quotes

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Do the Facts Matter?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM

It is not important for the truthfulness of Christianity for the Bible to be without

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Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM

The universe requires an explanation, and the universe requires a cause. Here’s a five-minute video to help you introduce these ideas to your friends and get a conversation started.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

Does God Whisper? Part 3

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 1, 2019 9:16 PM

Civil war battles were tumultuous affairs. The thundering of guns and muskets was not just deafening, it was dangerous, drowning out the one means of group communication: the bugles.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Is Consciousness an Illusion?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM

an illusion, Christmas card messages, if it is fair to send people to Hell who never

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Is God Just a Crutch?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM

Are You a Christian because You Were Born in America? Would you Be a Muslim If You Were Born in Iraq? Maybe. But So What?

Media Type: Solid Ground Topic: Philosophy

Jesus Didn’t Go to India

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM

Greg chats with Frank Turek about the upcoming Advanced CrossExamined Instructor Academy then gives an update on Melinda, talks about the claim that Jesus went to India, and answers a question...

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“Forced Love” Is the Wrong Way to Look at It

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM

People often compare the Calvinist view of salvation (i.e., that God gives spiritual life to those whom He chooses so that they will inevitably love and trust in Him) to an image of worthless...

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#STRask: Did the Mosaic Law Include Sacrifices for Intentional Sins?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 21, 2021 11:56 PM

how to respond to someone who says he isn’t a Christian because his prayers were never

Media Type: Podcast Podcast Feed: #STRask Topic: Theology

Why Is It Okay to Wear Mixed Fibers?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM

In The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally...Jacobs, succeed in following the whole Bible...

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Interview: J. Warner Wallace – Updated and Expanded Cold-Case Christianity

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 5, 2023 5:45 PM

Greg talks to J. Warner Wallace about the updated and expanded version of Cold-Case Christianity: A Homicide Detective Investigates the Claims of the Gospels—what’s new in the book, chain of...

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#STRask: How Should I Respond to a Formerly Muslim Friend Who Is Unwilling to Pay the Price for Becoming a Christian?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 16, 2023 7:16 PM

challenges or discuss differences and whether Acts 17:23 implies that people who never

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Interview: Neil Shenvi on Critical Theory

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 25, 2020 2:08 AM

Greg interviews Neil Shenvi on critical theory vs. the Christian worldview.

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The Sin of Forgiveness?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 20, 2020 8:25 PM

Is it possible to forgive a wrong done to someone else? Should only those who repent be forgiven? Is forgiveness a selfish act, a way to make ourselves feel better? Greg grapples with these issues...

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Hearing God’s Voice

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:07 PM

Should you be trying to find out how God may be speaking to you so you can make sure you do the right thing? Maybe not.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Cosmic Child Abuse?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM

Speaking of dads on this Father’s Day, I want to talk about the Heavenly Father for a moment and transition here into a theological issue dealing with fathers and sons; this would be the Father...

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What Does It Mean That Jesus Is God’s Only Begotten Son?

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 8:57 PM

The phrase “only begotten” has been ammunition for false teachers since at least the fourth century at the Council of Nicea.

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Jesus Is Not an Egomaniac

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM

If Jesus is God—our sovereign Creator—and is morally perfect and blindingly good and loving, then is it wrong for Him to call us to love Him above all others?

Media Type: Article Topic: Theology

Hell and the Gospel

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM

Hell is an offensive idea to a lot of people. Eternal punishment seems harsh to both believers and unbelievers. It could even be a stumbling block.

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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

from one period of time on another and responding to someone who says she would never

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If Naturalistic Evolution Is True, People Are Not Equal

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:44 PM

Worldviews matter, they lead to myriad consequences, and everyone has one. Make sure you think through yours - and its implications - carefully.

Media Type: Article Topic: Philosophy

If Pro-Gay Theology Advocates Could Change the Past, Would That Change the Future Like They Want?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 13, 2024 3:19 PM

explains what would happen if someone was to go back in time to 1946 and stop the RSV Bible...He unpacks whether this would change the Bible’s...

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A Manual for Creating Atheists Who Create Straw Men

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM

The misrepresentations of Christianity in Peter Boghossian’s A Manual for Creating Atheists are a good reminder that you can only properly respond to a view after you understand it.

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Stand to Reason’s 25th Anniversary

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM

Reason, gives an update on AB 2943, and takes questions on Jesus’ statement “I never

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