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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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Master These Three Informal Fallacies

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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Tolerance Is a One-Way Street on University Campuses

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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Illustrations to Show That Evil Is Evidence for God

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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People Believe Odd Things

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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#STRask: June 6, 2016

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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You Need to Understand the Whole to Understand the Parts

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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God Is a Person, We Are Persons

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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Greg Answers Questions from an Atheist

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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I’d Like to Have an Argument, Please

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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Daring God to Do Evil Makes Atheists Nervous

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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#STRask: How Can I Start a Conversation with the Jehovah’s Witnesses I See around Town?

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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Truth vs. Relativism in the Church

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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Dr. Mark D. Roberts: Can We Trust the Gospels?

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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The Three Things Your Worldview Needs to Explain

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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The Gospel Is the Only Stable Source of Identity and Value

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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Would We Know Good without Evil?

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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Three Things You Need to Reach Muslims

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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Eternal Punishment

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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Framework for Discussing Evolution

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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Evil as Evidence for God

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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White Lies and Other Deceptions

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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A Second Endowment Ceremony?

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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Watch Out for This Tactic Used by Cults

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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Visions of Mary, Yoga, and Prophecies about Jesus

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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The Case for Miracles

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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Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?

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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Disagreement Is Not Oppression

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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Truth Is a Strange Sort of Fiction: The Postmodern Turn—Part 2

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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Euthyphro’s Dilemma

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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Proclaiming the Gospel to Palestinians

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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The Cost Muslims Pay for Missing Jesus

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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The New Atheists and the Old Testament

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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Another Challenge to Objective Morality

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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Try This Powerful Question to Throw Light on Enigmas like the Problem of Evil

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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From Theism to Naturalism via Deism

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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Was Paul a Universalist?

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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Always Ask What They Mean by “God”

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM

When people tell me they don’t believe God exists, I have a specific question for them: What do you mean by “God”?

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Bosnia, Rape and the Problem of Evil

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2020 11:35 PM

Greg responds to a letter to the editor in which the writer’s pain causes him to ask the age-old question of why God allows evil to exist.

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Born Atheist?

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM

Glenn Peoples responds to the popular atheist claim that we’re all “born atheist.”

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Interview: Justin Brierley – The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 8, 2023 1:25 AM

Greg interviews Justin Brierley, author of The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again, about the rise and fall of...

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Are Miracles Illogical?

Web Content Article · By keith plummer On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM

Someone might conclude on the basis of the observed regularity of nature that miracles are impossible and therefore illogical, but are they really contrary to the laws of logic?

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Must a Muslim Also Present When a Christian Teaches on Islam?

Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM

Alan responds to a question he frequently receives when teaching on Islam.

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Argue at the Worldview Level

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM

If we don’t address the worldview causes at the root of all of our culture’s controversies, new symptoms will just continue to pop up faster than we can address them.

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Cultivate the Moral Imagination to Develop Character

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM

If you’re trying to teach your children moral virtues (or you’re being intentional about developing them in yourself), here’s some good advice from Hillsdale College professor Daniel Coupland.

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Do Extraordinary Claims Demand Extraordinary Evidence?

Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM

Hume offered this challenge in “Of Miracles” in Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.

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#STRask: July 31, 2017

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM

Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about truth in other religions, yoga, and God’s character.

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How the New Meaning of “Dignity” Is Changing Everything

Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM

Roberta Green Ahmanson explains why our culture’s new understanding of human dignity “may well be the harbinger of a social transformation the likes of which we have not seen in the West for 1400...

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There Can Be No Moral Progress if There’s No Standard

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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Atheist Gives Four Reasons He Doesn’t Believe in God

Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Sep 8, 2022 9:57 PM

Tim responds to an atheist who says there’s no proof for God and that religion is an emotional comfort that holds back progress and is used to control people.

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