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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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).

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 15, 2024 6:47 PM

Questions about the best way to respond to someone who believes in double predestination and who dismisses many non-believers as lost causes and whether someone who believes they need faith plus...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 15, 2024 6:49 PM

Questions about how to reconcile the biblical model of marriage with polygamy in the Old Testament, why the Israelites weren’t explicitly forbidden to practice polygamy, and how we can gain wisdom...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 20, 2024 6:38 PM

Questions about why God the Father required a sacrifice (and whether Jesus’ short-term death was really a sacrifice), whether Jesus’ disciples ever offered sacrifices at the temple, and what it...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jun 20, 2024 6:41 PM

Questions about how being with Jesus continually will be the highlight of eternity if he’ll only be able to interact with one person at a time since he has a physical body and how a scholarly...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jul 6, 2024 4:33 PM

Questions about why we should think the new believers in Acts 5:14 received the Holy Spirit when Acts seems to argue that not all believers necessarily receive the Spirit and whether “Holy Ghost”...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jul 6, 2024 4:35 PM

Questions about whether post-mortem salvation is an orthodox doctrine, reconciling a verse about God removing our transgressions from us with verses about each of us having to give an account to...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jul 12, 2024 4:49 PM

Questions about whether the Bible says that someday everyone in the world will worship God, the purpose of worshiping God, and whether it might be the case that God has created another universe...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jul 12, 2024 4:51 PM

Questions about how God could kill all the firstborn babies in the tenth plague, how to respond to someone who says God committed genocide when he destroyed the earth during the flood, and whether...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jul 21, 2024 7:23 PM

Questions about why God didn’t start humanity over right away by destroying Adam and Eve instead of waiting for the flood, whether another fall will be possible in the new creation (and what that...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jul 25, 2024 3:13 PM

Questions about whether humanity’s justice is better than God’s, what to say to a Muslim who asks why God’s justice requires him to punish sin instead of just forgiving without punishment, and why...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Aug 2, 2024 2:08 PM

Questions about whether it’s okay to pray for the destruction and downfall of our enemies, how to reconcile the idea that God doesn’t tempt people with the fact that he led Jesus into the...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Aug 8, 2024 4:22 PM

Question about whether or not we would kill a baby if God commanded us to do it.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Aug 16, 2024 4:09 PM

Questions about whether it’s circular reasoning to say the Bible is true because God says it’s true, how we can know when sarcasm or some other relevant tone is being used in the Bible, and whether...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Aug 16, 2024 4:12 PM

Questions about why evangelism is emphasized above other commands in the Bible, what to do when speaking the truth in love hurts someone’s feelings, and how to best love and share the gospel with a...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Aug 23, 2024 3:35 PM

Questions about how access to God through Jesus in the New Covenant differs from access in the Old Covenant, whether the salvation of Gentiles is just a means to the end of making Israel jealous,...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Aug 30, 2024 2:43 PM

Questions about where the essence God is composed of came from, whether God has the same choices other beings have and could choose not to exist, and how to convince a non-believer God matters if...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Sep 5, 2024 4:05 PM

Questions about why anyone should think the evidence for the resurrection is strong if Saul and the majority of first-century Jews found it insufficient, why Jesus came to to the Jews rather than...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Sep 19, 2024 3:15 PM

Questions about how to help a friend move away from his belief that objective facts about religious issues, unlike scientific facts, are “just someone’s belief” and how to respond to an atheist who...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Sep 19, 2024 3:19 PM

Questions about whether Christians can simply say that God’s moral requirements are a show of loyalty to him rather than argue they’re the best way to live, whether references to unforgivable sins...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Oct 5, 2024 7:29 PM

Questions about how we know if the good things we experience are the result of God’s actions, whether something can be considered a miracle if it can be explained scientifically, and how to respond...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Oct 5, 2024 7:30 PM

Questions about how to respond to someone who says that maybe God intended for her daughter to transition from a girl to a boy and how kids in a small youth group with a child who identifies as...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Oct 10, 2024 3:29 PM

Questions about when a human receives a soul and how to respond to someone who rejects science, reason, philosophy, and objective morality in her effort to defend abortion, saying that pro-lifers...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Oct 19, 2024 4:00 PM

Questions about the legitimacy of the principle of double effect when it comes to abortion and saving the mother’s life, whether laws should protect the unborn baby at the expense of the mother’s...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Oct 26, 2024 2:44 PM

Questions about how God could be just if so many wrongs go unpunished, an objection to God punishing people in Hell, and whether God’s promise to meet all our needs according to his riches in...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Oct 26, 2024 2:45 PM

Questions about how biblical inspiration differs from automatic writing, whether or not we don’t know who wrote 74% of the New Testament, signing a man-made statement of faith, and how, if the Word...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Nov 2, 2024 8:20 PM

Questions about how we know the biblical authors (Moses, etc.) interpreted their subjective experiences of receiving revelation from God correctly as opposed to Mohammed or Joseph Smith and how to...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Nov 2, 2024 8:22 PM

Questions about what progressive Christian teachings one should look out for and whether John 16:12–13 provides justification for the views of progressive Christians.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Nov 7, 2024 9:10 PM

tachina-lee--wjk_SSqCE4-unsplash.jpg https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/bdep222hrd5d786a/STRask_913.mp3 Questions about whether we ever need to forgive God in order to heal our emotions, whether it’s...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Nov 18, 2024 4:11 PM

Questions about why Ezekiel 36:31–32 would say, contrary to Ezekiel 39:25–26, that putting God’s Spirit into people will cause them to loathe themselves and be ashamed and whether or not it’s...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Nov 30, 2024 4:08 PM

Questions about whether evil spirits can come into our lives through openings like certain music and movies and whether putting Bible verses under your pillow to stop nightmares is a legitimate...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Nov 30, 2024 4:10 PM

Questions about whether our physical ailments are caused by spiritual warfare, how much agency demons have in light of the fact that God sometimes sends them to do things, and how they can be both...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Dec 5, 2024 3:14 PM

Questions about whether a woman who had an abortion as a teen and later became a believer will have to give an account to Jesus for it when she stands before him.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Dec 5, 2024 3:16 PM

Questions about whether Jesus ever experienced fear, why Jesus would pray three times for something he already knew he would be denied, and a song that seems to state that Jesus paid the price for...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Dec 21, 2024 9:15 PM

Questions about how to respond to friends who say that Jesus’ words take precedence over everything else in Scripture and anything he didn’t speak on isn’t worth discussion, what to do with the Old...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Dec 26, 2024 5:24 PM

Questions about what the laws of the immaterial are if immaterial things exist and how to use the third Columbo question in the Tactics material.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jan 2, 2025 10:12 PM

Questions about whether God looks at all sins as being equally severe, how to reconcile Jesus’ statements that judgment will be degreed with the idea that everyone who rejects Christ will spend...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jan 19, 2025 3:44 PM

Questions about whether God created other human beings not described in Genesis 1–2, whether the children of Adam and Eve had to commit incest, and whether women are more naive or less intelligent...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Jan 31, 2025 4:37 PM

Questions about whether it’s a sin to remove someone from life support, whether it would be morally wrong to attend a legal assisted suicide of an unbelieving loved one, and what to say to a...

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Feb 8, 2025 8:28 PM

Questions about whether God creating everything means he created evil too, and how a grief counselor can answer a question about whether God causes or allows death and sickness.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Feb 13, 2025 7:13 PM

Questions about the definition of inerrancy, whether or not Mark and Luke were associates of Jesus, and whether or not Mark and Luke wrote Mark and Luke.

Web Content Article · By Greg Koukl On Feb 20, 2025 4:30 PM

Questions about how God could be perfect if he regrets something he did, whether there’s a difference between God’s sovereignty and God’s providence, and what Nehemiah meant when he said God “put...