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#STRask: Why Didn’t Jesus Know the Time of His Return?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 14, 2021 1:47 AM

Questions about whether it’s okay to invite those with different worldviews and different ideas about sexuality to church or a Bible study and a better way to explain why Jesus didn’t know the time...

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#STRask: Why Does the World Consider Offending Someone to Be the Greatest Sin?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 23, 2021 8:52 PM

Questions about a winsome response to someone who defends abortion by arguing that an unwanted pregnancy could lead to the mother’s suicide and why the world considers offending someone to be the...

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#STRask: What Do You Wish You Had Known about Apologetics Work?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 19, 2021 9:35 PM

Questions about how to steer the conversation in a Bible study towards discussing the text in context and whether there are things Greg and Amy wish they had known about apologetics work before...

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#STRask: What Can Parents Do to Ensure Their Children Continue in the Faith?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 1, 2021 7:12 PM

Questions about what parents can do to help ensure their children continue in the faith and whether Christians should be concerned by the fact that near-death experiences so often don’t seem to...

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#STRask: How Do You Get over Being Harmed by Another Christian?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 6, 2021 6:43 PM

Questions about how, if the infinite has no beginning or end, we can “begin” to spend eternity with Jesus in Heaven and how to get over being harmed by another Christian.

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#STRask: Are Wiccans’ Beliefs Proved by the Efficacy of Their Spells?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 20, 2021 6:27 PM

Questions about what to say to a Wiccan who says her beliefs are proved by the efficacy of her spells, how to explain people having spiritual experiences outside of Christianity, and recommended...

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#STRask: Is It Okay to Use Violent Force to Defend Your Family and Home?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 27, 2021 10:10 PM

Questions about how to tell the difference between the conviction of the Holy Spirit and the accusation of Satan and whether there’s a biblical argument for using violent force in defense of family...

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#STRask: How Would You Tell Someone Who Believes in Her Tribe’s Gods and Goddesses about Jesus?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 17, 2021 11:49 PM

Questions about how to tell someone about Jesus when her cultural heritage, including her belief in her tribe’s gods and goddesses, is her entire identity and whether one is morally required to use...

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#STRask: How Should I Respond to Someone Who Says He’s Offended?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 11, 2021 7:53 PM

Questions about whether it’s biblical to refer to God as the Divine Mother and tactical ways to respond to someone who says he’s offended by your views.

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#STRask: Is It Okay to Read the Writings of Other Religions?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 8, 2022 4:01 AM

Questions about whether it’s okay for Christians to read the writings of other religions in order to gain a better understanding of the people they’re evangelizing and whether a Christian who...

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#STRask: How Can You Call Atheism a Worldview?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 29, 2022 11:52 PM

Questions about whether atheism can be called a worldview and whether the idea of avoiding doing something “in your own strength” is a biblical concept and how one can tell if that’s happening.

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#STRask: How Can I Lovingly Explain to Someone That I Will Not Be Using Their Pronouns?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 29, 2022 11:58 PM

Questions about how to lovingly explain to someone that you will not be using their pronouns and how to explain to an employer that you will not be announcing your pronouns.

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#STRask: Do Intersex People Get to Decide What Gender They Are?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 19, 2022 9:44 PM

Questions about whether intersex people get to decide what gender they are and whether or not that indicates gender is a matter of identity rather than biology and whether physical damage to our...

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#STRask: Is Pornography Grounds for Divorce?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 5, 2022 6:43 PM

Questions about whether looking at pornography is the same thing as committing adultery (and therefore grounds for divorce) and whether hate crime laws, which define crimes based on the mind of the...

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#STRask: What Would You Say to Coworkers who Blaspheme Constantly?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 5, 2022 6:46 PM

Questions about how to put a stone in the shoes of coworkers who blaspheme constantly and whether it’s reasonable to think Jesus only had 120 followers before Pentecost.

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#STRask: What if the First Columbo Question Makes Someone Feel Ashamed?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 6, 2022 3:21 AM

Questions about what to do if someone feels ashamed because he can’t answer the first Columbo question and whether there there are arguments we can use for God’s existence based on our experience...

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#STRask: How Can We Not Be Anxious When We Know God Allows Bad Things to Happen to Us?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 26, 2022 7:07 PM

Questions about how to make the case that the Bible is the Word of God and how we can be “anxious for nothing,” as the Bible commands, when we know God allows bad things to happen to us.

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#STRask: What Topics Should I Cover in an Apologetics Series?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 2, 2022 7:31 PM

Questions about what topics to cover when presenting an apologetics series in a church and how to handle addressing people’s doubts in an apologetics class when discussing them can confuse others...

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#STRask: Is It Okay to Disobey Authority in Order to Protect Yourself?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 16, 2022 7:01 PM

Questions about whether it’s okay for a Christian in prison to disobey the rules against fighting in order to protect himself, whether Jesus raised himself from the dead or was raised, if manna was...

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#STRask: How Should I Respond to Someone Who Feels Invalidated by the Christian View of Sexuality?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 1, 2022 12:57 AM

Questions about how to respond to someone who says, “But this is who I am,” and who feels their existence is being invalidated by the Christian view of sexuality and whether Paul was wrong to...

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#STRask: How Can a Soldier Reconcile Killing His Enemies with God’s Command to Love?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 8, 2022 1:09 AM

Questions about how a soldier in combat can reconcile killing his enemy with God’s command to love our enemies and whether or not it’s okay to pray for angels to be with and protect people.

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#STRask: How Would You “Take the Roof Off” a Denial of Objective Beauty?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 12, 2022 12:26 AM

Questions about whether it’s possible to go your whole life without sinning, why God put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden, and how to “take the roof off” the claim that...

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#STRask: How Would You Share the Gospel with an Animist or Buddhist?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 12, 2022 12:28 AM

Questions about good ways to share the gospel with an animist or Buddhist, whether the mark of the beast could be a microchip, and whether a Christian could take the mark unwittingly.

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#STRask: What Questions Would You Ask to Engage an “Agnostic Atheist”?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 22, 2022 7:01 PM

Questions about how to engage someone who calls himself an “agnostic atheist” and how to deal with a parent contradicting you with heretical theology while you’re teaching students in a...

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#STRask: Should Christians Be Expected to Work for Free?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 22, 2022 7:03 PM

Questions about why Paul circumcised Timothy in Acts 16:1–3 after the judgment against requiring circumcision was given by the Council of Jerusalem and whether it’s wrong for Christians to expect...

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#STRask: Should I Speak up about a Student Handing out Pro-Gay Stickers in My Fifth-Grader’s Class?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 29, 2022 6:46 PM

Questions about piquing the interest of teenage daughters who believe the resurrection probably happened but don’t really care and whether a parent should speak up when a student in his...

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#STRask: What if Someone Says He Believes in Science, Not God?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 11, 2022 3:33 PM

Questions about what to say to someone who says he “believes in science, not God” and how to respond to the slogan “Love Is Love” without using the Bible.

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#STRask: Are You Really Being Unfaithful to Reality if You Use Someone’s Preferred Pronouns?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 23, 2022 5:38 PM

Question about the idea that you’re not being unfaithful to reality by using someone’s preferred pronouns since those pronouns correspond to the person’s actual gender identity.

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#STRask: Should I Patronize Businesses That Collide with My Moral Beliefs?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 23, 2022 4:59 PM

Questions about whether we should patronize businesses that collide with our moral beliefs, promote the LGBTQ lifestyle, or pay for employees to travel to other states for abortions and why God...

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#STRask: Is It Wrong to Get a Job Instead of Volunteering My Time to Help Others?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 29, 2022 7:30 PM

Questions about whether it’s a sin to get a job for extra money instead of volunteering one’s time to help others and a biblical response to the phrase “I don’t want to put the Holy Spirit in a...

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#STRask: Can a Case Be Made against Homosexuality and Transgenderism without Using the Bible?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 29, 2022 7:31 PM

Question about making a case against homosexuality and transgenderism to non-believers who do not trust the Bible.

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#STRask: How Should I Respond When My Employer Asks Me to Wear a Pride Pin?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 11, 2022 9:56 PM

Questions about how to respond to an employer who asks why you’re not wearing the pride pin he gave you to wear and whether 1 Peter 3:15 is about hope in times of suffering rather than apologetics.

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#STRask: How Can I Help Young Men Who Accept Pornography Addiction as Normal?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 1, 2022 5:53 PM

Questions about the ideology behind pro-prostitution advocates’ argument that using your body to do work in other jobs is the same as selling your body in prostitution and how to get through to a...

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#STRask: What Questions Should I Ask Pastors When Looking for a New Church?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 11, 2022 5:08 PM

Questions about what to ask pastors and other church leaders when looking for a new church.

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#STRask: Should I Pretend to Have a Greater Degree of Conviction Than I Actually Have?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 25, 2022 6:16 PM

Questions about whether we should pretend to have a greater degree of conviction than we actually have in order to make our arguments more persuasive and whether the uptick in violence is a purely...

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#STRask: Did Jesus Ever Teach against Homosexuality?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 25, 2022 6:18 PM

Questions about how to respond to someone who claims Jesus never taught against homosexuality, who also doesn’t consider anything outside the Gospels to be authoritative, and advice for befriending...

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#STRask: How Can I Get into Spiritual Conversations with People?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 16, 2022 6:10 PM

Questions about how to get into spiritual conversations with people and what to say to someone who says Jesus, the stories in the Bible, Heaven, etc. are all just metaphorical.

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#STRask: Should We Use Preferred Pronouns When Not Sure of a Person’s Biological Sex?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 22, 2022 11:36 PM

Questions about using a person’s preferred pronouns when we’re not sure of their biological sex and whether we should ask why our employer is requesting we use pronouns in our email signature in...

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#STRask: What Do I Say to Friends Who Have Deconstructed and Left the Faith?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 12, 2022 11:04 PM

Questions about what to say to friends who have deconstructed and left the faith that will acknowledge their pain but also point them back to God and how to respond to someone who says Christians...

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#STRask: If You Had $100 to Donate, How Would You Decide Who to Give It To?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 26, 2022 7:40 PM

Questions about how to decide which ministry or organization to donate to and whether one should support ministries and non-profits that do good work but treat their employees and volunteers horribly.

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#STRask: How Can I Keep from Looking Legalistic on Social Media?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 26, 2022 7:42 PM

Questions about how to respond to someone who doesn’t see how Jesus could be God, who wants every question answered before believing Christianity is true, and how to keep from looking legalistic...

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#STRask: How Should I Respond to News of a Same-Sex Marriage?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 9, 2022 11:26 PM

Questions about how to respond to a friend’s enthusiastic news of a same-sex marriage, whether one should send a gift to a same-sex wedding, and whether there’s any merit to Christians withdrawing...

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#STRask: What’s the Most Important Distinction I Can Make between Christianity and the Book of Mormon?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 16, 2022 5:23 PM

Question about the most important distinction one can make between Christianity and the Book of Mormon when talking to a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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#STRask: What Should I Read to Take My Apologetics Knowledge up a Notch?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 16, 2022 5:25 PM

Questions about what to read to take your apologetics knowledge up a notch, how to reconcile friends’ experiences encountering ghosts with what the Bible teaches, whether you should give charitably...

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#STRask: If Christianity Had a Goddess to Worship, I Might Consider It

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 8, 2023 1:02 AM

Questions about how to respond to someone who says she would only consider Christianity if it weren’t patriarchal and had a goddess to worship and how a husband could persuade his wife, who is...

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#STRask: “If Jesus Didn’t Come to Condemn the World, I Doubt He Sent You To”

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 27, 2023 5:17 PM

Questions about how to respond to a meme that says, “If Jesus didn’t come to condemn the world, I doubt he sent you to,” and whether it’s common for God to prepare us for a specific purpose that...

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#STRask: How Should I Interact with Someone Who Wants Sound-Bite Answers?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 27, 2023 5:19 PM

Questions about why God expects us to be perfectly moral if he doesn’t expect us to be omnipresent, omniscient, or omnipotent and tips for interacting with someone who asks a lot of questions but...

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#STRask: Is Debating Atheists in Chat Rooms a Worthy Endeavor?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 4, 2023 9:42 PM

Questions about whether spending time defending Christianity in chat rooms where atheists and Christians debate is a worthy endeavor and whether it’s better to choose a church you agree with...

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#STRask: Are Christians Not Supposed to Judge?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 9, 2023 7:43 PM

Questions about a response to the claim that Christians are not supposed to judge, what John 7:24 means when it says we are to “judge with righteous judgment,” and advice about how to choose...

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#STRask: How Do You Know You’re Not a Man Trapped in a Woman’s Mind?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 20, 2023 3:03 AM

Questions about whether there’s any issue with responding to “I’m a woman trapped in a man’s body” with “How do you know you’re not a man trapped in a woman’s mind” and how to respond to a meme...

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