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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 22, 2022 7:41 PM
when we should resign ourselves to God’s judgment and how far we should go to end suffering
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Mar 12, 2022 8:22 PM
Questions about why God would create animals and allow them to experience so much suffering
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Nov 13, 2021 5:48 PM
Questions about whether we should pray for our suffering to end or simply that it
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 7, 2023 10:53 PM
what way Jesus has “overcome the world” (John 16:33) if we still have tribulation, suffering
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Greg talks about how to disagree in a biblical way, then answers questions about how to correct ideas of the Hebrew Roots movement and coping with many problems.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg discusses miracles, trials and suffering, and if God is a
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 10, 2021 5:41 PM
Newchrismahanukwanzakah” and whether it’s biblical to say Christians are supposed to suffer
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
In 4 min. or less, Tim Barnett answers questions about soul sleep, suffering, and
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
Greg answers questions about why God allows animals to suffer, whether Adam and Eve
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
it’s unchristian to insult atheists, and whether Acts 14:22 teaches we have to suffer
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 3, 2022 2:09 AM
victims of a murderer who later accepts Christ will never receive justice for their suffering
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 23, 2020 2:11 AM
Questions about how God could be a loving Father if he didn’t protect Job from his suffering
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:57 PM
through a book of the Bible with an atheist, and why Christians react differently to suffering
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 11, 2022 9:56 PM
pride pin he gave you to wear and whether 1 Peter 3:15 is about hope in times of suffering
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 11, 2022 7:33 PM
Psalm 91 that say God will save us from “deadly pestilence” and other kinds of suffering
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 9, 2022 5:23 PM
Christian moral principles should be made into laws and which shouldn’t and why Christ suffered
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 5, 2021 6:11 AM
innocent blood” being shed when no one is innocent, and whether the context of the Suffering
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 14, 2023 7:44 PM
Questions about why we can euthanize pets to end their suffering but we can’t do
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 20, 2024 4:33 PM
their mom’s same-sex wedding, how a veterinarian should respond if someone who suffers
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:53 PM
Buddha statue, the church’s focus on homosexuality, and helping seekers who have suffered
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Greg answers questions on whether God has compassion on us when we’re suffering from
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
faith through argument, Paul’s dispute with the Grecians, and developing joy in sufferings
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:58 PM
Greg answers questions about the value of Jesus’ sacrifice and the up and coming apologetic challenges we should prepare to respond to.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jul 25, 2020 6:14 PM
Questions about whether it’s wrong to pray for death, how to respond to a challenge to the personhood of the Holy Spirit, and whether demons are real and here on earth.
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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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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
We should begin teaching our kids apologetics as early as possible. Here’s how Tim translated an answer to the problem of evil into language even four-year-olds could understand.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Questions about being happy in Heaven if people are in Hell, faith as an epistemological method, meeting with LDS missionaries, and whether a lukewarm Christian can be regenerate.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 10, 2021 9:12 PM
“Ignore the negative noise” isn’t just good advice to help you think straight, it’s also what we’re called to do as Christians who represent Christ.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Sep 10, 2023 8:36 PM
Questions about what to do if someone uses the Columbo tactic against you, why some Christians say that only some doctrines matter and should be defended, and whether the extent to which one spends...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 22, 2022 7:43 PM
Questions about why God doesn’t destroy Satan now, Christians acting in scenes that contain R-rated elements, responding to someone who says, “God’s working on me,” and handling situations where...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 24, 2021 11:21 PM
When truth is relativized, suffering will follow.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jul 30, 2019 10:26 PM
Tim Barnett and Greg Koukl explain why the most natural reading of the full corpus of Scripture on Hell supports the church’s historical position of eternal conscious torment and not nonexistence.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:42 PM
Greg talks about engaging people in a fruitful manner, discussing problems with a pastor, and understanding the Epistles.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Greg talks about how God decides the elect, the exodus instructions for sacrifices, multiverse theory, Jesus drinking, praying for miracles, pursuing prophecy, and Adam and Eve having their...
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:50 PM
Conditionalists—those who hold to the annihilation of the wicked at the judgment—insist that Jesus’ and John’s descriptions be interpreted in light of other passages, texts they think give an...
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Learn to spot the non-sequiturs atheists sometimes use to argue against Christianity.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jan 16, 2024 5:21 PM
Sometimes, an intellectual response not only misses the mark but also comes across as unloving. Tim Barnett explains why it’s important to work on being a better listener when answering people’s...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:46 PM
Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about biblical joy and Bible inspiration.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 17, 2020 9:30 PM
The totalitarian world Greg experienced as a young Christian while visiting fellow believers behind the Iron Curtain demonstrates an insight often quoted but frequently ignored: Ideas have...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
I would like to rescue you from a mistake virtually every Christian makes now and then when they go to the Bible that prevents you from knowing what God is saying to you personally in His Word.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
A Christian’s theology is minimally defined by two miraculous events.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
For some believers, apologetics has a questionable reputation. It amounts to intellectually bullying or argumentative one-upsmanship. It’s all head and no heart. However, is this an accurate view...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 17, 2021 1:10 AM
Academic arguments about the reality of God are necessary but not sufficient. You will have to answer questions about His goodness.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:10 PM
The embryonic stem cell research debate is remarkable because neither side—pro-life or pro-abortion—seems to understand the moral logic of its views.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Brett’s monthly letter for October 2010 “An atheist from Berkeley is here.” The youth pastor’s statement caught me off guard.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:45 PM
Our preparation is different when we have an expectation that preparation will make a difference. And when we have a plan, we are more likely to act.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM
Jesus of Nazareth is a true man of history, but His history started long before He was born. He is a true man, but He is no ordinary man. He is the Son of David, the future King, the promised...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Feb 21, 2023 12:27 AM
How much sin can God forgive? Does it matter if we evolved? Why did God...? What role should Christianity play in our government? Greg addresses these topics and more in this issue of Solid Ground.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On May 27, 2020 1:58 PM
Boghossian’s definition of faith is not the Bible’s definition. It’s just the opposite. Biblically informed Christians define faith as trusting in what you have reason to believe is true.
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Web Content Article · By alan shlemon On Nov 23, 2021 4:48 AM
Here’s a simple step you can take in your conversations to make sure you don’t misunderstand the claims your friend is making.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Since conversations can get awkward, I have a suggestion that could make your job easier: Get back to basics.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about unbiblical counsel, Zeitgeist, and how God interacts with us.
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:49 PM
In recent years, opposition to the doctrine of endless punishment by those who are rethinking Hell has gained enough popular momentum that “conditional immortality”—also known as...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
I do not consider myself a particularly brave person, and I think it especially foolish, on the main, to make a frontal assault on a clearly superior force.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:48 PM
In 1982, I lived in Thailand for seven months supervising a feeding program in a Cambodian refugee camp named Sakaeo. My charge: 18,250 Khmer refugees who had escaped the holocaust perpetrated...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 9:54 PM
Our society has become much more uncivil than it was a decade ago, and we need to develop some new skills for interacting with people.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Oct 29, 2021 6:14 PM
Did Jesus come here to champion the cause of the poor? There’s no question God has a heart for the destitute. Even so, a careful study of the Gospels shows that Jesus’ principle purpose...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:48 PM
Greg’s on a timer and answers questions about neo-Darwinism and free will, getting baptized, why God created man, and how to apply Scripture personally.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:55 PM
Jesus, though a true human, was no mere mortal. Rather, He was and is God’s Son, the world’s unique, one-and-only Savior; and if Jesus were not God the Son, He could not be the Savior, either.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:02 PM
Peter Boghossian’s A Manual for Creating Atheists teaches atheists a way to engage Christians that he calls “Street Epistemology.” Here’s where his project goes wrong and how you can respond...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Aug 27, 2020 11:33 PM
When you encounter these three common challenges, having a few good questions at the ready can help you navigate an otherwise difficult interaction graciously, safely, and effectively.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:00 PM
C.S. Lewis seems to suggest that those who sincerely pursue God the best way they know how are accepted by Him, regardless of whether or not they explicitly put their faith in Jesus. Is he right?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Dec 4, 2019 12:09 AM
Because we all live in God’s world and are all made in God’s image, there are things all people know—about morality, guilt, etc.—that are embedded deep within their hearts, and this knowledge can...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Greg answers questions in 4 minutes or less on lying, social justice, common descent, and reformed theology.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 25, 2024 9:35 PM
Though many object to the idea of penal substitutionary atonement, here’s how we know Jesus’ blood cleanses from all sin, fully satisfies the divine demand for justice, and rescues us from the...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Apr 23, 2021 10:41 PM
At times, the tsunami of change we’re facing seems overwhelming for its force, dizzying for its speed, and chilling for its darkness. It’s easy to begin feeling helpless, but that is not our path....
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
“The Bible has been changed and translated so many times over the last 2000 years, it’s impossible to have any confidence in its accuracy. Everyone knows that.”
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:10 PM
Jesus was not a victim. No one took His life from Him. Not Jews. Not Romans. He gave it willingly and purposefully. It was the reason He was born.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:10 PM
The passage of C-250 in the Canadian Parliament this spring pushed hate crime legislation to new extremes. Can one be against hate crimes, yet still oppose hate crime laws? Here are three good...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
For some, ethics is nothing more than a social contract to ensure survival. Compliance is the highest good and breaking ranks the greatest evil, regardless of the issue. This may make sense on...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On May 20, 2020 8:18 PM
As a Christian ambassador, your biggest challenge may be making sense of the problem of evil. Surprisingly, though, evil is actually evidence for God, not against Him.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 5:44 PM
It’s easy to characterize religion as a blood-thirsty enterprise, a perpetrator of witch hunts, crusades, and religious jihad. But has Christianity been the cause of such evil, or does the truth...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
During this “silly season” of presidential politics, it is not uncommon to hear something I think is odd.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
Brett has 4 min. to answer questions about fearing God, Yahweh, and other religions.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:45 PM
In 4 min. or less, Greg answers questions about prayer, sexual ethics, and Jesus’ power.
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