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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 Jun 27, 2019 8:39 PM
calls on topics such as how to answer someone who wonders why God is letting them suffer
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:46 PM
Philosopher Alvin Plantinga made a few quotable points about atheism in an interview posted by the New York Times on Sunday.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
No matter someone’s belief or lack of belief in God, everyone has to answer for the existence of evil in the world.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
The claim that “atheists are as moral as Christians” is meaningless if we’re operating under different systems of morality.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:35 PM
Is Hell eternal or everlasting? We have to be careful how we define the words.
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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 26, 2019 10:52 PM
What is evil? Could it have a purpose? Here is a view of evil from an adult rather than a childish perspective.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:41 PM
Greg talks about whether or not God is transgender, oneness theology, necessity of sin, and God using a disability.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Greg talks about what atheists believe, tactics to use with religious pluralists, God stopping tragedies, and tools to evaluate arguments.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 4:26 PM
Greg shares how struggling and doubt can lead to growth in the life of a Christian.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 27, 2021 4:56 AM
Greg gives reasons why it’s rational to believe in the soul, explaining the difference between something being rational and rationalism, then he takes calls about how evil entered the world,...
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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 greg koukl On Jun 27, 2020 11:35 PM
Greg responds to a letter to the editor in which the writer’s pain causes him to ask the age-old question of why God allows evil to exist.
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jun 25, 2020 2:26 AM
Since we all—Christian or non-Christian—have to explain the existence of evil, the real issue here is figuring out who has the best answer.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 8:36 PM
Atheist Christopher Hitchens has cancer. He wrote about his battle in a recent Vanity Fair article. It’s a moving account. And an inconsistent one.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 7, 2023 2:30 AM
Greg corrects some of his speculations about Neanderthals from the previous episode, then he answers questions about what “weeping and gnashing of teeth” indicates, the influence of the Jesus...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 10:01 PM
Greg talks about a recent opinion piece in the New York Times, then he answers questions about why people go to Hell, a “carrots and sticks” view of Christianity, women as pastors, and Zionism.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:55 PM
Greg talks about the serendipitous radio show and relativistic morality needing a standard, if the church’s response to abortion is adequate, and how a person can go deeper studying apologetics.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
What kind of God would allow a Hitler to go to heaven if he believed in Jesus and a Mother Teresa to go to hell if she didn’t?
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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 greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:51 PM
Greg and guest Nancy Pearcey discuss Finding Truth: Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes, then Greg talks about the Cinderella movie, Christian education and...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:56 PM
Greg discusses whether healing on demand can be done with enough faith, advice on writing a master’s thesis, and why good people can go to Hell.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 9:43 PM
If we are to reject the “myth” of Christian religion, as secularists suggest, then we must reject the entire myth, that is, the whole story and everything that follows from the story.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
Greg and guest Julie Loos talk about Ratio Christi, then Greg discusses what the New Perspective on Paul is all about, conceding the definition of sin to the culture, and more.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Apr 7, 2020 2:21 AM
What have we lost, both as individuals and as a culture, without the presence of death?
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Web Content Article · By tim barnett On Jun 27, 2019 9:51 PM
Kierkegaard claimed the act of defending Christianity actually discredits it. Here’s why his criticism of apologetics doesn’t work.
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Web Content Article · By aaron brake On Jul 30, 2019 11:30 PM
The most common objection raised against Christian theism is the problem of evil. Here are some tips to help you prepare your answer to this inevitable question.
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 26, 2019 10:54 PM
Some key distinctions are critical when thinking about this problem.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
Hume offered this challenge in “Of Miracles” in Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Jun 27, 2019 8:53 PM
Most people—religious or otherwise—have no idea what marriage is, why it exists, and what we need it for, and it’s dangerous to fundamentally change things when you don’t understand why...
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Web Content Article · By brett kunkle On Jun 27, 2019 9:47 PM
Why is it that contemporary Christian thought on ethics and morality seems so thin? Let’s recapture a richer and fuller vision for our moral life.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jan 14, 2021 11:12 PM
Greg talks to philosopher William Lane Craig about his newest book, “Atonement and the Death of Christ: An Exegetical, Historical, and Philosophical Exploration.”
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Web Content Article · By jonathan noyes On Jan 27, 2022 9:38 PM
Jon Noyes explains why Christianity offers the best solution to the problem of evil in his latest Stand to Reason University course.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
The question of the epistemic status and rationality of theism in general (vs. atheism or some non-theistic alternative), or of Christianity in particular (vs. competing forms of theistic...
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Web Content Article · By amy k. hall On Feb 22, 2022 11:15 PM
Those who recognize, through their experience of the world, that justice is objectively real and not merely a matter of preference should ask themselves, what must be true for ultimate justice...
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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 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 greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:41 PM
Principle #1: Exercise complete dependence on God.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:38 PM
Learn how to be consistent in your moral reasoning.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
Is God the author of evil or its helpless victim?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:21 PM
Is happiness or virtue the greater good to see and cultivate in our lives?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:55 PM
Is capital punishment compatible with Christianity? Greg outlines a biblical argument for capital punishment, makes a case for retributive punishment, and responds to objections.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:52 PM
The presence of evil in the world is considered by some to be solid evidence against the existence of God. I think it proves just the opposite.
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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 Jun 26, 2019 11:08 PM
Bongo is a chimp. He’s being punished by other members of the chimpanzee band for not sharing his bananas. Bongo is selfish. Bad Bongo. Moral rule: Chimps shouldn’t be selfish.
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:58 PM
Greg talks about whether it was immoral for God to create man, the outward signs of a person’s salvation, where unbelievers go before judgment, the inspiration of Paul’s lost letters, and knowing...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 27, 2019 8:49 PM
In Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, four children, poking about in the back of an old wardrobe in the attic, stumble on another world filled with peculiar delights and strange enchantments. Did you...
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 11:09 PM
Each new generation that emerges in culture needs a new generation of Christians to speak to it in its own cultural language.
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Web Content Article · By melinda penner On Jun 27, 2019 5:44 PM
What are a nature and a person? Is it possible for one person to have more than one nature?
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Web Content Article · By greg koukl On Jun 26, 2019 10:53 PM
A transcript of a dialogue between Greg Koukl and Michael Shermer on the Hugh Hewitt Show
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