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 God on judgment day, and how to recognize true conviction of sin by the Holy Spirit. Is post-mortem repentance and salvation an orthodox doctrine? How do we reconcile Psalm 103:12, which says, “As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us,” with Matthew 12:36 and ...
Jul 11, 2024•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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” is a degrading term for the Holy Spirit. Why should we think the new believers in Acts 5:14 received the Holy Spirit when it doesn’t say so? Doesn’t Acts argue that not all believers necessarily receive the Holy Spirit, especially given 8:9–17? Is “Holy Ghost” a degrading term for the Holy Spirit?...
Jul 08, 2024•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Questions about how to show someone that relying on AI for answers is a flawed way of finding truth, the role personal testimony should play in apologetics, and whether it’s sinful to not be more like Ray Comfort when talking to people you might not see again. How can I show someone that entirely relying on AI for answers is a flawed way of finding truth? What role, if any, should personal testimony play in apologetics? I feel convicted that I’m not sharing the gospel enough. Is it sinful that I...
Jul 04, 2024•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Questions about whether you should stick with a decision you made that didn’t work out as you hoped if you prayed about it beforehand and how you can know for sure if God is calling you to do something. If a decision you made after much research and prayer didn’t work out as you hoped, is it okay to change direction, or should you stick with it since you prayed about it beforehand? How do you know for sure if God is actually calling you to do something?
Jul 01, 2024•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Jewish rabbi would defend his position that Jesus is not the Messiah. It seems like being in Jesus’ presence continually will be the highlight of eternity, but since he has a physical body, won’t he only be able to interact with one person at a time? How would a scholarly Jewish rabbi defend his position th...
Jun 27, 2024•24 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 means to say that sin causes separation from God if God is omnipresent. Why did God the Father require a sacrifice, and if Jesus knew he would rise again in three days, was his death really a sacrifice? Did Jesus’ disciples ever offer sacrifices at the temple, and if not, why not? How can I explain the id...
Jun 24, 2024•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 from Solomon about marriage when he had 700 wives and 300 concubines. How can we reconcile the biblical model of marriage (one man, one woman, one flesh, one lifetime) with the deviations from this model in the Old Testament, especially involving polygamy? What are your thoughts on why the Israelites w...
Jun 20, 2024•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 works for salvation can still be saved by their faith. What’s the best way to respond to someone in the double predestination camp who vocally dismisses many non-believers as lost causes? Can someone who believes they need faith plus works for salvation still be saved by their faith?...
Jun 17, 2024•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 works for salvation can still be saved by their faith. What’s the best way to respond to someone in the double predestination camp who vocally dismisses many non-believers as lost causes? Can someone who believes they need faith plus works for salvation still be saved by their faith?...
Jun 13, 2024•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Questions about what to say to someone who believes the Bible and church are man-made ways to control people who don’t want to think for themselves and how to respond to the claim that Christianity “might be true for you, but not for me.” What do you say to an agnostic who believes the Bible and church are man-made and a way to control people who don’t want to think for themselves? How do you answer the claim that Christianity “might be true for you, but not for me”?...
Jun 10, 2024•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Questions about whether it would be wrong to knowingly cover a coworker’s shift so they can officiate a same-sex wedding and whether it’s okay for a Christian to work for a company whose work is transitioning to support gender identity, transgenderism, etc. Would it be wrong to knowingly cover a coworker’s shift so they can officiate a same-sex wedding? As a conservative Christian with a biblical worldview, should I feel guilty for working for a company whose work is transitioning to support sex...
Jun 06, 2024•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 people used for Scripture before Genesis was written. If moral perfection is a communicable property given to those in Heaven, wouldn’t it be reasonable to also speculate that limited omniscience is a communicable property, and so we can ask Christians who have died to pray for us? Why does Scripture come...
Jun 03, 2024•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Questions about apologetics strategies to use with an agnostic who says it’s pointless to worry about whether there is a God because we can’t know if he exists and whether it’s a bad strategy to debate things like miracle claims with someone who rejects them. What apologetics strategies can we use with an agnostic who says we can’t know whether there is a God, therefore it’s pointless to worry about it and you should just live your best life? If someone thinks the stories of the Bible can’t be t...
May 30, 2024•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Questions about how to explain what a personal relationship with God looks like on a practical level and whether it’s okay to pray to Jesus and to the Holy Spirit. How do I explain to my 20-year-old son what a personal relationship with God looks like on a practical level? What are your thoughts on praying to Jesus and to the Holy Spirit?
May 27, 2024•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 wrote so much of the New Testament. What’s the best evidence for the historical reliability of the Old Testament? How do we know that what the Old Testament writers wrote back then is what we have today? Does Greg subscribe to the idea of four independent Gospel accounts or something more like the two-so...
May 23, 2024•25 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 chemistry rather than a soul. Why would you say evolution has no purpose when it’s a fine-tuned process that ensures the propagation of life and is anything but random since it’s controlled by a survival-fitness feedback loop? Since people who have aphantasia are unable to form mental images, doesn’t ...
May 20, 2024•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 universe, and whether that history damages the witness of the church. How do you answer someone who says the Crusades are proof that Christians are evil? What are the facts around the church burning people at the stake for saying the world is round and not the center of the universe? Does this prove th...
May 16, 2024•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. How would you respond to someone who uses Matthew 23:23 as an argument for social justice? What should I say to a family member who argues that Christians are not being persecuted but are only losing their privilege?
May 13, 2024•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. How should I respond to someone who says the Bible teaches reincarnation in the verse about John the Baptist being Elijah (Matt. 11:14)? 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?...
May 09, 2024•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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). Does Stand to Reason accept the doctrine of biblical perspicuity, and if so, how would it be verified or falsified?
May 06, 2024•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. 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? Would it be wrong to use IVF with genetic testing to prevent carrying a baby with an inherited genetic disor...
May 02, 2024•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. If Jesus is God, what does the Bible mean when it says Jesus will sit at the right hand of God? Why didn’t the writers of the Synoptic Gospels pick up on Jesus speaking of himself as a divine deity, as God himself?
Apr 29, 2024•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. 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? 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 o...
Apr 25, 2024•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. How should a dad talk to his children (ages eleven, nine, and seven) about attending their mom’s same-sex wedding? How should a veterinarian respond if someone who suffers from species confusion asks him to provide medical care? Gr...
Apr 22, 2024•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. 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? How would you go about witnessing to and discipling a transsexual who is open to rep...
Apr 18, 2024•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Before you argue for God from the existence of evil, you have to prove the entity or force “Evil” exists. What do you say to an eleven-year-old boy who lost his dad and brother to a lightning strike that he survived?
Apr 15, 2024•30 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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. 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? Should a woman date a man who isn’t as spiritually mature as she is or doesn’t take his faith as seriou...
Apr 11, 2024•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 Exodus 32 indicates he gained knowledge and is not all-knowing. How can I maintain balance in my belief that God is always good to his children and not believe too much in prosperity teaching? If God is love, then how could he be jealous if the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 13:4 that love is not jealous?...
Apr 08, 2024•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Questions about whether apologetics has had a positive effect on people and our culture, whether the longtime privatization of our Christian faith has led to churches becoming apathetic to the culture, and C.S. Lewis and Francis Schaeffer book recommendations. Do you believe apologetics has had a positive effect on people and our culture? Has the longtime privatization of our Christian faith led to local churches becoming apathetic to the surrounding culture, and if so, what is the solution? Wha...
Apr 04, 2024•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 government employees to remove anything Bible related from their offices. People are upset because a politician said he has a biblical worldview. How can we articulate the beauty of our worldview to others in a nutshell? What should I say to people who think public school teachers shouldn’t reference God ...
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