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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 17, 2021 5:47 PM
Questions about the difference between David having many wives and someone practicing homosexuality
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 27, 2023 4:33 PM
choose to follow Christ and how Christians can be compassionate on topics like homosexuality
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:39 PM
Brett talks about how a college professor should evangelize about homosexuality when
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 10, 2020 10:04 PM
the Women in Apologetics Conference then answers questions about explaining why homosexuality
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Web Content Article · By tom puls On Jun 27, 2019 8:40 PM
student website with Brett Kunkle, then takes calls on why the Levitical law against homosexuality
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 18, 2022 1:48 AM
her Oneness church and whether church memberships that exclude people living a homosexual
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 26, 2023 2:27 AM
answers questions about evangelizing people in AA and whether the sins of divorce and homosexuality
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Web Content Article · By robby lashua On Jan 27, 2024 3:11 AM
Aside from denying and twisting the clear passages of Scripture that prohibit homosexuality
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On May 23, 2024 8:07 PM
promotion of LGBT ideology, when should parents teach their children about topics like homosexuality
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 10, 2024 11:48 PM
How should Christians respond to stores that celebrate and/or promote homosexuality
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 7, 2020 10:50 PM
Is there hope for a person who experiences same-sex attraction? Alan responds to this question and more in part two of his discussion with Jack Hibbs.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 8, 2021 11:57 PM
Pro-gay theology advocates have invented a new type of sin by taking an existing sin and divided it up into two flavors: sinful and non-sinful—a distinction foreign to Scripture.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
The modern case for pro-gay theology fails. It’s an example of how people “turn away their ears from the truth” and reinterpret the Bible to fit their desires.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for June 2012 President Obama became the first sitting U.S. President to support same-sex marriage.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
The Christian gets pigeon-holed as the judgmental one, but everyone else is judging, too. It’s an inescapable consequence of believing in morality.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 1, 2024 8:22 PM
Does the film 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture succeed in using Scripture to make the case that God approves of same-sex relationships? Alan explains three reasons why the film’s...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:42 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for August 2013 The “experts” have spoken. Change in sexual orientation is not possible.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM
Alan’s monthly letter for June 2013 Do you agree with God? What would it take for you to declare something good that God says is bad?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
For Christ, the cross literally meant giving up everything, even His own life. He denied His own will to do the will of the Father. God expects no less from us when it comes to the matter of sex.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Different cultures create different challenges, and that makes speaking internationally both challenging and interesting. Here’s one way this played out in Alan’s recent trip to the West Bank.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 4, 2020 1:43 PM
Despite the rhetorical force of making the comparison, merely claiming it’s the same does not make it so.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
The question “Why do Christians care how an organization that self-identifies as Christian views marriage?” requires an answer from within Christian doctrine.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
Alan posed a question to pro-gay theology advocates: Should we believe that Jesus was wrong, the Church has been wrong, or you are wrong? But is there a fourth option?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:37 PM
Justin Taylor has an interesting and helpful post that takes the reader step by step through the second half of Romans 1.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 4, 2020 7:02 PM
The California Judges Association is guilty of the same thing they accuse the Boy Scouts of—discrimination.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
Sometimes we need to explain the bigger biblical picture in order to answer a person’s specific question.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
The Church has always been under attack.... Although many threats are external, some come from within.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 30, 2019 11:50 PM
Many people who identify as gay or lesbian think that Christians hate them and so does God, but this isn’t the case. Alan explains why.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Why did God destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
When, gay or straight, you’re prepared to give up what Jesus asks you to give up, whatever it turns out to be, then you’re ready to go to the Bible and find what He wills there.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:21 PM
The key to answering the claims of same-sex marriage advocates is understanding the basic rule of justice: Treat equals equally.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Aug 1, 2019 5:11 PM
Here's today's challenge: "If God made people gay and they don’t have a choice in the matter because they were born with that orientation, then isn’t it unfair that He punishes them for just being...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:50 PM
Richard Dawkins once wrote, “Although atheism might have been logically tenable before Darwin, Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 31, 2019 10:03 PM
My mind's made up. Don't confuse me with the facts. Come again? Don't get caught with this wrong-headed attitude!
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
How do we know that what Paul wrote still applies to us today?
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
The argument that may soon be taken up against our religious freedom will probably go something like this...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Dec 21, 2021 12:55 AM
These ten posts had the most views this past year, so take a look to see which topics people were most interested in, and catch up on what you missed.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Greg talks about how orthodox a person has to be in order to be saved, soul development being a higher goal than academic development, how to respond to “God made people gay, so why would he...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
Those who adopt pro-gay theology are asking us to believe one of three options. Which of the following should we believe?
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
I had a frustrating experience the other day you’ve probably had. A family member thanked me for being nice to her lesbian friend.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Oct 11, 2023 8:40 PM
Alan Shlemon explains three serious concerns about the Unconditional Conference hosted by Andy Stanley, gives reasons why we can’t simply agree to disagree on LGBTQ issues, and describes how...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM
Guest Host: Alan Shlemon Guest: Jayson Graves: Healing for the Soul, Sexual Addiction Recovery
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
What can we learn about the design of marriage from the word “suitable” in Genesis?
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
Treat your gay friends the same way you would treat your heterosexual friends in similar circumstances.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:40 PM
Despite the obvious connection to Islam, some people speculated that Christians were also to blame.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
The first thing we should focus on is the Gospel, but many times, people express doubts, objections, or concerns with Christianity. That’s when apologetics comes in.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Most of the world seems to believe that same-sex attraction can’t be changed.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:52 PM
Recognizing that our beliefs and values all come back to God reminds us that He is our foundation. It all starts with the first verse, “In the beginning, God...” and all things follow from there.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Feb 29, 2020 5:38 AM
Should Christians who struggle with same-sex attraction have small groups available at their churches where they can connect with others who have a similar struggle?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
Greg explains why we “never read a Bible verse” and then answers questions about objective morality and whether or not a person should leave a church that rejects biblical sexuality.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jul 31, 2019 5:35 PM
Paul’s first epistle to the church in Corinth has many challenging admonitions. First Corinthians 6:9–11, however, seems to top them all, especially in light of our country’s ethos.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On May 23, 2023 12:01 AM
Andrew Sullivan recognizes the destructive danger queer theory poses to societal norms, but it was the same-sex marriage movement that destroyed the basis for sexual norms in the first place,...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Apologetics helps believers remove obstacles from the non-believer’s path to Christ, but it’s not an end in itself. It’s a means to an end.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
I recently posted a video answering a challenge: When did you choose your heterosexuality? Someone asked a follow-up question, and I thought I’d share my response.
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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 brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Homosexuality. Same-sex marriage.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM
Because our culture ties love and hate to agreement and disagreement in some contexts, we need to ask for clarification when people call us to love or accuse us of hate.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Nov 8, 2023 10:25 PM
Pro-gay theology advocates claim Christians are making the same kind of grievous interpretive error past Christians made with antisemitism and slavery, but when you look closer at the details, it...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:21 PM
The result of criminalizing hate under certain circumstances is that only certain types of people get protected.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Gay activists prepared to protest FIRE Church in Concord, North Carolina.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:47 PM
It’s not unreasonable or bigoted to treat the unique joining of sexually complementary partners uniquely. But in order to see that this is a reasonable understanding that isn’t motivated by hate,...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM
Alliance Defending Freedom summarizes their concern with this bill by stating that it is “content-based speech regulation and impermissibly burdens free exercise of religion.”
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:52 PM
The terms “conversion therapy” and “reparative therapy” are used as general terms to refer to all attempts to change one’s sexual orientation. This is incorrect.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 23, 2020 12:35 AM
Greg finds a prime example of confused morality on a popular TV talk show.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
The California bill classifying “sexual orientation change efforts” as consumer fraud (including efforts even to merely change behavior) has been withdrawn.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Dec 26, 2023 10:32 PM
The topics in this year’s top ten list indicate this has been a difficult and confusing time for many.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jan 8, 2024 11:29 PM
A progressive Christian claims that advocating for pro-gay and pro-trans theology is countercultural and courageous, but is it?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 5, 2021 2:23 AM
Greg talks about accomplishing things by being faithful, then he answers questions about what Christians should expect to experience in terms of communication with God and how to respond to a gay...
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
For someone with all the answers, Jesus didn’t always respond directly to challenging questions. Sometimes He answered a question with another question. Sometimes He answered a different question.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Nov 9, 2021 12:14 AM
As ambassadors for Christ, we should understand a view we disagree with before we try to formulate a response to it. Here are three reasons why.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Since incest is a turning inward towards those in our family who are like us, rather than an outward turning towards a different family, it’s contrary to the purpose of our sexuality.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Greg talks to Sean McDowell about resources for students, including the Apologetics Study Bible for Students.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Greg talks about ancient new testament manuscripts, the relationship between Jonathan and David, how to determine biblical meaning, and more.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
the first time in my six years of teaching on controversial topics like abortion, homosexuality
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
cans science disprove science, how to be faithful to the Bible and gracious to a homosexual
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