Episodes
4 hours ago
4 hours ago
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 only losing their privilege.
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How would you respond to someone who uses Matthew 23:23 as an argument for social justice?
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What should I say to a family member who argues that Christians are not being persecuted but are only losing their privilege?
5 days ago
5 days ago
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 to the rapture.
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How should I respond to someone who says the Bible teaches reincarnation in the verse about John the Baptist being Elijah (Matt. 11:14)?
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Is Matthew 24:36–44 referring to the rapture, and if not, what’s the best way to convince someone it isn’t about the rapture?
Monday May 06, 2024
Do You Believe in the Clarity of Scripture?
Monday May 06, 2024
Monday May 06, 2024
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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Does Stand to Reason accept the doctrine of biblical perspicuity, and if so, how would it be verified or falsified?
Thursday May 02, 2024
Is an Embryo a Baby?
Thursday May 02, 2024
Thursday May 02, 2024
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 with an inherited genetic disorder that always results in stillbirth.
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Putting a baby in a freezer would kill it, but freezing an embryo would keep it alive. Does that prove an embryo isn’t a baby?
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Would it be wrong to use IVF with genetic testing to prevent carrying a baby with an inherited genetic disorder that always results in stillbirth?
Monday Apr 29, 2024
How Will Jesus Sit at the Right Hand of God if He Is God?
Monday Apr 29, 2024
Monday Apr 29, 2024
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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If Jesus is God, what does the Bible mean when it says Jesus will sit at the right hand of God?
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Why didn’t the writers of the Synoptic Gospels pick up on Jesus speaking of himself as a divine deity, as God himself?
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
Thursday Apr 25, 2024
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 we’re in Christ because he has given us of his Spirit.
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How should I respond to my sister who is Word-Faith and believes in a second baptism of the Holy Spirit? What’s the best Scripture to use?
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The Bible says we know we’re in Christ because he has given us of his Spirit (1 John 4:13), who is a pledge of our inheritance (Eph. 1:13–14), but what does that mean? How do we experience the Spirit?
Monday Apr 22, 2024
Monday Apr 22, 2024
Questions about how a dad should talk to his children about attending their mom’s same-sex wedding, how a veterinarian should respond if someone who suffers from species confusion asks for medical care, and how to manage anger when arguing for the lives of the unborn.
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How should a dad talk to his children (ages eleven, nine, and seven) about attending their mom’s same-sex wedding?
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How should a veterinarian respond if someone who suffers from species confusion asks him to provide medical care?
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Greg says if you get angry in an argument, you’ve already lost, but I get so angry when I think about the evil of abortion. How do I balance this anger with the desire to argue for the lives of the unborn?
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
What Should I Do if I Don’t Know How to Respond to Someone’s Answer to My Question?
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Thursday Apr 18, 2024
Questions about what to do when you don’t know how to respond to someone’s answer to your question and you feel unsafe in the conversation and how to go about witnessing to and discipling a transexual who is open to following Christ but has practical concerns.
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How do I gracefully move from a position in a conversation in which I’ve asked a question but then get stuck after hearing the answer and don’t feel safe?
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How would you go about witnessing to and discipling a transsexual who is open to repenting and following Christ but who has concerns like how to practically live out his new faith and whether it’s too late to inherit the kingdom due to past decisions?
Monday Apr 15, 2024
Monday Apr 15, 2024
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 lightning strike that he survived.
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Before you argue for God from the existence of evil, you have to prove the entity or force “Evil” exists.
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What do you say to an eleven-year-old boy who lost his dad and brother to a lightning strike that he survived?
Thursday Apr 11, 2024
Is It Okay to Be Part of a Music Ministry That’s Led by a Professing Mormon?
Thursday Apr 11, 2024
Thursday Apr 11, 2024
Questions about whether it’s okay to be part of a music ministry that’s led by a professing Mormon, whether a woman should date a man who isn’t as spiritual mature as she is or doesn’t take his faith as seriously, and the misuse of Matthew 5:38–42 to manipulate others.
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Is it biblical for me to be part of a music ministry with a group of Christian women that is headed up by a professing Mormon?
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Should a woman date a man who isn’t as spiritually mature as she is or doesn’t take his faith as seriously as she does?
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How would you interpret Matthew 5:38–42 in the context of a friend who could be manipulating and taking advantage of you for resources?
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