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#STRask: How Concerned Should I Be about My Spouse Believing in Annihilationism?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 19, 2024 3:55 PM

Questions about how concerned one should be and what to do about a spouse who now believes in annihilationism and how to navigate differences in doctrine with those who take strong stands on their...

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#STRask: Does This Prove We Can’t Ground Objective Morality in God?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 19, 2024 3:57 PM

Question about an objection to grounding objective morality in God that states that if God has a morally perfect nature, and he either engaged in or directly allowed genocide, slavery, and torture,...

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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

Questions about how one can use the moral argument and also say we can’t impose a moral standard from one period of time on another and responding to someone who says she would never follow a God...

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#STRask: Is Christianity Really a Story of Reality?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 27, 2024 10:54 PM

Questions about whether Christianity is about following Jesus rather than a story of reality, what John the Baptist meant when he said, “He must increase, but I must decrease,” and why John the...

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#STRask: How Can We Apply the Bible to Our Lives if We’re Not Supposed to Read Our Circumstances into It?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 31, 2024 11:42 PM

Questions about how to apply the Bible to our lives if we’re supposed to read it in context and not insert our circumstances into it and how to respond to someone who says the Great Commission was...

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#STRask: How Do We Discern between Our Own Inner Voice and the Holy Spirit Telling Us What We’re Supposed to Say?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 31, 2024 11:43 PM

Questions about how to discern between our own inner voice and the Holy Spirit telling us what we are supposed to say if, according to Matthew 10:20, “it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in...

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#STRask: If Only Eve Had Eaten the Fruit, Would Sin Still Have Entered the World?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 9, 2024 11:55 PM

Questions about whether sin still would have entered the world if only Eve had eaten the fruit, the theological explanation for why Jesus did not inherit a sinful nature from Mary, and what the...

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#STRask: Can You Argue Straight from the Existence of Evil to the Existence of the Christian God?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 14, 2024 9:46 PM

Questions about whether one can argue from the existence of evil straight to the Christian God or if more arguments are required to get there and whether Abraham sacrificing Isaac would be...

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#STRask: Does the Existence of Evil Point to the Existence of Multiple Gods?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 22, 2024 3:49 PM

Questions about whether the existence of evil points to the existence of multiple gods and why God needs to slowly improve our character here on earth if he’s going to make every Christian sinless...

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#STRask: How Can We Defend the Claim That Marriage Was Created by God?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 3, 2024 3:41 PM

Questions about how to defend the claim that marriage was created by God and what to say to someone who doesn’t want her daughter to grow up Christian because she thinks Christianity is harmful to...

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#STRask: Are We Only Interpreting the Bible This Way Because of Our Post-Enlightenment Way of Thinking?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 3, 2024 3:42 PM

Questions about whether we’re only interpreting the Bible according to authorial intent because of our post-Enlightenment way of thinking and whether Zephaniah 3:17 is being taken out of context...

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#STRask: How Can I Reconcile Romans 6:12–14 with Romans 7:21–25?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 14, 2024 3:29 PM

Questions about how to reconcile Romans 6:12–14 (where Paul talks about victory over sins) with Romans 7:21–25 (where Paul bemoans sins he still commits) and why Paul uses the Mosaic Law as a...

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#STRask: How Can I Articulate the Beauty of the Christian Worldview in a Nutshell?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 29, 2024 3:09 PM

Questions about how to articulate the beauty of the Christian worldview in a nutshell and whether “separation of church and state” requires public school teachers to not reference the Bible and...

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#STRask: How Can I Stay Balanced in My Belief That God Is Always Good to His Children?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 4, 2024 4:45 PM

Questions about believing God is always good to his children while rejecting prosperity teaching, how God can be jealous if he is love and love is not jealous, and whether God changing his mind in...

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#STRask: Before You Argue for God from the Existence of Evil, You Have to Prove Evil Exists

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 14, 2024 2:26 PM

Questions about the need to prove evil exists before arguing for the existence of God from the existence of evil and what to say to an eleven-year-old boy who lost his dad and brother to a...

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#STRask: How Should I Respond to Someone Who Is Word-Faith and Believes in a Second Baptism of the Holy Spirit?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 20, 2024 4:34 PM

Questions about how to respond to someone who is Word-Faith and believes in a second baptism of the Holy Spirit and what the Bible is saying about how we experience the Spirit when it says we know...

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#STRask: How Will Jesus Sit at the Right Hand of God if He Is God?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 25, 2024 2:49 PM

Questions about what the Bible means when it says Jesus will sit at the right hand of God if Jesus is God and why the writers of the Synoptic Gospels didn’t write about Jesus claiming to be God.

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#STRask: Is an Embryo a Baby?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 25, 2024 2:52 PM

Questions about whether the fact that you can freeze an embryo but not a baby proves an embryo isn’t a baby and whether it would be wrong to use IVF with genetic testing to avoid carrying a baby...

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#STRask: Do You Believe in the Clarity of Scripture?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 4, 2024 11:48 PM

Question about whether Stand to Reason accepts the doctrine of biblical perspicuity (the idea that the Bible is clear in what it teaches about essential doctrines).

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#STRask: Does the Bible Teach That Elijah Was Reincarnated as John the Baptist?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 4, 2024 11:52 PM

Questions about responding to someone who says the Bible teaches reincarnation when it says John the Baptist “is Elijah who was to come” in Matthew 11:14 and whether Matthew 24:36–44 is referring...

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#STRask: Is Matthew 23:23 an Argument for Social Justice?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 10, 2024 2:36 PM

Questions about how to respond to someone who uses Matthew 23:23 as an argument for social justice and what to say to a family member who argues that Christians are not being persecuted but are...

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#STRask: Why Would You Say Evolution Has No Purpose?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 16, 2024 5:27 PM

Questions about the claim that evolution has no purpose and whether the fact that people who have aphantasia are unable to form mental images shows that the ability to picture something is based in...

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#STRask: Are the Crusades Proof That Christians Are Evil?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 10, 2024 2:38 PM

Questions about how to respond to someone who says the Crusades are proof Christians are evil, the facts around the church burning people at the stake for saying the world is not the center of the...

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#STRask: What’s the Best Evidence for the Reliability of the Old Testament?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 16, 2024 5:32 PM

Questions about the best evidence for the reliability of the Old Testament, whether Greg subscribes to the idea of four independent Gospel accounts or two-source theory, and why the apostle Paul...

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#STRask: Can Christians Who Have Died Hear Our Requests for Prayer?

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 1, 2024 5:38 PM

Questions about whether those in Heaven have a limited omniscience that enables them to hear our requests for them to pray for us, why Scripture comes before tradition for Protestants, and what...

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#STRask: October 26, 2017

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM

In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about using the Bible to witness, getting people interested in apologetics, and one of the toughest questions about God to answer.

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#STRask: November 20, 2017

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM

Greg has 4 minutes to answer questions about women working, discerning conscience issues, and the old earth view.

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#STRask: November 27, 2017

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM

Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about baptism.

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#STRask: January 8, 2018

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:52 PM

Greg’s on a four-minute timer and answers questions about following the Mosaic Law and what to say to someone whose brother is dying.

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#STRask: February 1, 2018

Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:52 PM

Greg is on a four-minute timer and answers questions about improving prayer, intuition as a means of knowing, and how he responds when someone asks if he’s religious.

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