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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:22 PM
A solid argument can be built just like a solid house: walls first, then the roof. Here’s a building plan, plus three ways arguments collapse.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Aug 1, 2019 7:01 PM
If our culture valued micro issues, then women would feel more free to invest themselves in them without feeling guilty they’re not acting like men, and our society would be much better off.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
Why are transgender people encouraged to “be who they are,” but boys and girls in general are discouraged from being their respective sexes?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Greg answers questions about why we need reason if we have the inspired Bible, the
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
Greg talks to Alan Shlemon about how Christians can navigate the transgender discussion, interact with transgender friends and family, etc.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
You may have already seen Rev. Dr. Phil Snider’s two-minute speech to the Springfield City Council in support of adding “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the categories of...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Harper on the Titanic, then takes calls on what the meaning of marriage is in the Bible
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 10, 2024 9:53 PM
Tim responds to a progressive pastor who claims Matthew 23:37 supports men dressing in drag.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Mormonism demands perfection. Thankfully the God of Christianity offers true grace to our LDS friends and family.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Mar 22, 2022 12:35 AM
What does true justice look like? Here are four elements of true, biblical justice.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM
on if animals ate each other before the Fall, reading between the lines of the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 14, 2021 1:47 AM
those with different worldviews and different ideas about sexuality to church or a Bible
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Muslim Followers of Christ?—A Look Inside the “Insider Movement”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
need emotional verification for our belief in God, if thee is relativism in the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Tom Gilson - Critical Conversations: A Christian Parents’ Guide to Discussing Homosexuality with Teens
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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 brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
No matter someone’s belief or lack of belief in God, everyone has to answer for the existence of evil in the world.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
Christopher Hitchens often offers a challenge: Name one moral action done by a believer that a nonbeliever could not do. Here’s why it’s logically impossible to give him an answer that would...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 18, 2023 1:55 AM
knows what we’re thinking and how to respond to a friend who strongly believes the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
Greg discusses tolerance in universities, the Bible’s teachings on moral dilemmas
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
morality and evil is evidence for His existence, then he takes calls about doing a Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM
Chronicles 7:14 in the NIV, then takes calls how to harmonize two apparently conflicting Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:39 PM
Greg talks about child dedication, the miracle of Pentecost, and the responsibility of Christians.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 24, 2021 2:02 AM
Greg talks about how we need to understand the big picture in the Bible so we’re
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Is it really correct to say that just as a horse cannot describe us, so we cannot describe God? Are the two situations analogous? Francis Schaeffer has a great insight in The God Who Is There that...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
Once you accept the reasoning for same-sex marriage, there’s no rational reason to legally discriminate against three people who love each other.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 16, 2024 10:27 PM
move from the cosmological argument for the existence of God to the God of the Bible
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Oct 1, 2019 11:55 PM
BreakPoint’s symposium on “purity culture” has some interesting thoughts from Christian thinkers on sexual purity and how we should advance the biblical sexual ethic.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Apr 26, 2023 9:36 PM
It’s one thing to deny your preferences for the sake of others, but if accommodating another person’s requests requires you to violate your conscience, then it’s reasonable to decline.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
The Nashville Statement on the biblical vision of sex and sexuality was released last week, and many people have objected, calling it unloving.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
Careful thinking is an indispensable tool for all who are interested in knowing the way the world really is, for those who really do love truth. Thankfully, the tools of thinking are simple ones...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
It would often be easier to compromise, but we’re called to do church God’s way, even if it’s the more messy, difficult, and uncomfortable way.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
A recent study in Finland showed that both believers and non-believers in God showed physical evidence of emotional stress when daring God to do something that would hurt them.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 2, 2023 4:15 PM
at temporary kiosks around town, witnessing to New Age siblings who misquote the Bible
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 3, 2020 10:44 PM
It’s often said that if you repeat something loud enough and long enough, people will begin to believe it.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
There has to be a better way to show compassion to the few children who suffer from gender confusion that doesn’t involve destroying a healthy understanding of the distinction between boys and girls.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM
Greg talks about truth vs relativism in the church, Avatar movie review, “oldest Bible
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
Whether you find your identity and value in living up to an objective, external standard or through having your subjective, personal standard affirmed, the Gospel offers a better way.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
Greg talks about if you should take the Bible literally, Can We Trust the Gospels
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 25, 2020 4:01 AM
how to respond to three challenges to the reliability and trustworthiness of the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
A rather lengthy passage in which Paul seems to use homosexuality as indicative both of man’s deep seated rebellion against God and God’s proper condemnation of man.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Aug 7, 2020 12:37 AM
Would we know good without evil? Could good exist without evil? Can God truly be good if he can’t choose evil? Amy responds to some questions from a reader.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about LGBTQ in the Bible, who designed
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Feb 29, 2024 9:59 PM
Christianity offers a high view of human value and purpose. Jon Noyes explains how this should impact the way we interact with others, especially friends and family who identify as LGBTQ+.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Any believer who knows the Gospel can be used by God to bring Muslims to the Truth.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Is Hell eternal or everlasting? We have to be careful how we define the words.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
The presence of evil in the world is considered by some to be solid evidence against the existence of God. I think it proves just the opposite.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM
being different, federal funding of abortion in the health care bill, what the Bible
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
If our culture’s highest ideal for marriage is sameness between the partners (not to mention barrenness), then it naturally follows that the new ideal is same-sex marriage.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 9, 2020 12:35 AM
Communicating Christian theology to Mormons is very difficult, but here is a possible point of contact.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:21 PM
I think lying is wrong. However, we have to be clear on what constitutes lying, that is, immoral deception.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Why would Jehovah’s Witnesses care whether Jesus died on a pole or a cross? The answer to this question could help you spot less obvious cults more quickly.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 13, 2024 10:00 PM
Christians are not only called to love people who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender, but we—more than anyone else in our culture—can give a justification for loving them even...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 14, 2020 1:40 PM
Greg interviews Lee Strobel on the case for miracles and whether God answers prayer.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 25, 2023 4:34 PM
Greg answers questions from callers about visions of Mary, the biblical view of yoga, how we can know Hosea 11:1 is really a prophecy about Jesus, and whether people are misusing prophecies about...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Christians and Muslims both believe there is a deity who created the universe, administrates history, and judges human actions, but they believe differently in who fills that role.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
If you genuinely believe there is no truth, can you still be a Christian?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 31, 2023 2:51 AM
fellowship is simply brainwashing, the need for epistemological certainty, whether the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
Plato’s challenge concerning the nature of goodness is still being heard today: Is an act right because God says it’s so, or does God say it’s so because it’s right...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
What would you say to a group of Palestinian Christians and Muslims if you had the chance to teach them theology and apologetics? Here’s what Alan did.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
discrimination, God being unfair to the Israelites in Egyptian slavery, a book on Bible
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Muslims hold a deficient and distorted view of Jesus. It’s a tragic case of mistaken identity with dire consequences. Here are three ways Muslims mistake the true Jesus.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 25, 2019 10:44 PM
What was Jesus loving and accepting regarding during His ministry? Greg clarifies a common misconception.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
and the is-ought fallacy helps us to answer an important question about what the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:38 PM
Greg discusses consideration, gender identity, and bathrooms, then proceeds to answer calls about if the people with demons Jesus cast out were really mentally ill, and how to evaluate...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jul 31, 2019 10:18 PM
I came across a lecture by Peter J. Williams that I found to be an excellent complement to this month’s Solid Ground (if you haven’t yet read Greg’s “The Canaanites: Genocide or Judgment?” you...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Nov 30, 2023 7:59 PM
Some people argue that since Eve was formed out of a rib containing male DNA, she was a transgender woman, and therefore God approves of people transitioning. Here’s why this argument doesn’t work.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
Alan interviews Christopher Yuan about his new book, Holy Sexuality and the Gospel: Sex, Desire, and Relationships Shaped by God’s Grand Story.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 12, 2020 3:04 AM
in Matthew 5:17–20 and whether 1 Samuel 28:15–19 contradicts other parts of the Bible
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 2, 2019 9:38 PM
Here is a question I want to encourage you to start asking: What’s the alternative? In the right circumstances, it can be a powerful query. Let me tell you why.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 7, 2022 1:36 AM
whether Paul ever got a chance to stand before Caesar, whether we can trust the Bible
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
When Christopher Yuan became a Christian, he had every reason to accept pro-gay theology; but when he studied it, here’s what he found.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Nov 6, 2020 3:16 AM
Without understanding God’s immanence, one can fall into deism, which is often the route to naturalism.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Apr 5, 2023 11:36 PM
In the controversy over how to answer the question “What is a woman?” some proposed definitions are circular or even absurd. Here’s how you can respond accurately.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 25, 2019 10:16 PM
Could Romans 5:18–19 be used to argue for universalism?
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