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#STRask — 146 episodes

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If I’m Uncomfortable with People Seeing Me Pray, Does That Mean I’m Ashamed?

2

How Should We Balance Hating Evil with Loving Our Enemy?

3

Should People Have Fewer Babies Because of Overpopulation?

4

Can We Ever Really Know What Scripture Says on Controversial Topics?

5

Is the Belief That We’re All Broken and Need a Savior a Sad Way to View Life?

6

How Do You Know There Aren’t Three Distinct Divine Beings?

7

What Book Should I Give a Strong Pantheist?

8

How Would You Argue That the Unity of the Bible Is Evidence It’s from God?

9

The Reason Why Science Can’t Explain the Supernatural Is That the Supernatural Doesn’t Happen

10

Are Other Religions Different Expressions of the Same God?

11

Why Is It Okay for God to Keep a Record of Wrongs?

12

How Can God Lump Non-Criminals in with Murderers and Rapists?

13

Why Did God Give Moses the Ten Commandments Instead of Sending Jesus?

14

How Do You Deal with Someone Whose Mission Is to Tear Down Everyone Else’s Belief in Jesus?

15

How Do We Know God Isn’t Lying About His Character?

16

What Does It Mean to Be Holy?

17

Does Genesis 1 Indicate That We Are Basically Good?

18

How Would You Respond to Someone Claiming the Quran Is the True Word of God?

19

Can You Explain Verbal Plenary Inspiration When the New Testament Writers Quote the Septuagint?

20

How Are We Any Different from Christians Who Lived Near Concentration Camps and Failed to Resist Them?

21

Where Did Jesus Go When He “Ascended into Heaven”?

22

What Do You Make of the Book of Mormon, and Why Do You Consider It “Another Gospel”?

23

How Would You Respond to the Claim That the Bible Is Full of Contradictions?

24

Is “Satan” Merely the Propensity of Humankind to Commit Evil Acts?

25

How Right Do I Need to Be About Theology to Enter the Kingdom?

26

Are You About to Tell Me You Know the One and Only True Denomination on Earth?

27

Should Confidence in a Belief Be Informed by How Long the Belief Has Been Held?

28

How Do You Tell the Difference Between Someone Who Is Righteously Offended by Homosexuality and a Bully?

29

What Would You Do If Your Child Came Home and Told You They Were Gay?

30

If the Idea of Intrinsic Human Value Came from Christianity, Then What Happened with Germany in World War II?

31

What Should a Christian Think About Capitalism?

32

What Are the Benefits of Not Expecting to Hear Special Messages from God?

33

What Does Hebrews 7 Mean When It Says Jesus Became a Priest Forever in the Order of Melchizedek?

34

Why Does Jesus Compare Himself to Those Who Are Merely Called Gods?

35

Where Does Scripture Teach Unambiguously That Jesus Is God?

36

How Does the New Earth Tie in with Going to Heaven After We Die?

37

Someone Who Died Saving the Life of Another Shouldn’t Be Punished with Hell

38

How Is God’s Divine Prerogative in Romans 9 Different from the Capriciousness of Allah?

39

Would a Human Clone Have a Soul?

40

This Culture Turned Our Dear Daughter Away from the Faith

41

If We’re Not Under the Old Testament Laws, Why Are We Using Them to Condemn People?

42

Everyone Deserves Love and Happiness

43

What Is a Biblical Case for Submitting to God’s Good Design for Our Bodies?

44

Is the Despair Portrayed in Psalms and Job Descriptive or Prescriptive?

45

What Is the Difference Between Believing and Knowing?

46

What Is Your Best Answer When Asked to Prove God Exists?

47

Why Did the Sadducees and Pharisees Want to Kill Jesus?

48

Can a Person Be Saved but Have Nothing to Show for It?

49

What Questions Do We Need to Answer to Help Keep Our Youth in the Faith?

50

How Do We Love Those Who Hate Us?

51

Is Fasting Food Specific?

52

How Do I Respond to a Confused Four-Year-Old?

53

What Evidence in Scripture Identifies the Holy Spirit as a Person?

54

Doesn’t Perfect Justice Require That the Penalty Be Paid By the Offender?

55

Should I Attend the Wedding of Someone Who Is into New Thought and Against Christianity?

56

Which Translation Would You Recommend for an Adult Who’s New to the Bible?

57

Is Christianity Narrow-Minded and Dangerous?

58

Would You Say God’s Primary Object Is to Not Be Found?

59

Is This an Argument for Relativism?

60

Isn’t the Covenant in Scripture Explicitly with Israel and Not the Gentile Nations?

61

Why Is There No Effort Towards a Neutral Interpretation of Scripture?

62

How Could One Person Trust Another Person on the Topic of God?

63

How Should I Respond to an LGBTQ Person Who Says He Feels Good About Who He Is?

64

Does God Hear the Prayers of Non-Believers?

65

What Is the Role of the Holy Spirit in Our Lives if He Doesn’t Give Us Instructions?

66

Why Is It Necessary to Believe Jesus Is God?

67

How Can We Know Who Is Teaching the Same Gospel Paul Taught?

68

Is Greg Placing His Faith in the Wrong Thing?

69

Does Open-Mindedness Require Studying Other Religions Before Becoming a Christian?

70

Is It Possible There’s a Being That’s Greater Than God?

71

Shouldn’t I Be Praying for My Soul Rather Than for Material Things?

72

Why Should We Pray If God Already Knows What’s Going to Happen?

73

Prove to Me That Jesus Is Not a Created Being

74

Can You Recommend Good Books with More In-Depth Information and Ideas?

75

What Do You Think About Churches Advertising on Social Media?

76

Why Are So Many Christians Condemning LGB People Just Because of How They Love?

77

Does God Really Need a “Pound of Flesh” to Forgive Sins?

78

Can Two Logical People Come to Conflicting Conclusions Without Committing a Fallacy?

79

How Do I Determine Which Topics at Work Are Worth Commenting On?

80

Did Jesus Prove He Wasn’t Sinless When He Overturned the Tables?

81

What About Those Who Never Heard the Name of Jesus?

82

How Do You Justify Calling Jesus the Messiah?

83

Are You Accursed If You Tithe?

84

Are Demon Possessions and Exorcisms in the New Testament Literal?

85

Why Would Any Rational Person Have to Use Any Religious Book?

86

What Tools of Reasoning Help You Know What’s True, Right, and Good?

87

When I Can’t Stop Thinking About Something, Is That God Speaking?

88

How Can I Explain Modesty to My Daughter?

89

Why Do We Say Someone Was Saved on a Particular Date If It Was Part of an Eternal Plan?

90

How Do We Advocate for Christian Policy Without Making the Government Interfere in Every Area of Life?

91

How Would You Convince Someone That Evil Exists?

92

Why Does the Bible Teach You How to Be a Proper Slave Owner?

93

Can You Provide Verifiable, Non-Religious Evidence That a Supernatural Jesus Existed?

94

Is It a Sin to Feel Let Down by God?

95

Did God Create Us So He Wouldn’t Be Alone?

96

What Are Some Good Ways to Start a Conversation About God with Family Members?

97

Is 1 Corinthians 12:3 a Black-and-White Tool for Discernment?

98

Could the Writers of Scripture Have Been Influenced by Their Fallen Nature?

99

How Do I Reconcile the Image of God as Judge with His Love, Grace, and Kindness?

100

How Does It Affect You If a Gay Couple Gets Married or a Woman Has an Abortion?

101

“Christians Care More About Ideology than People”

102

How Could the Similarities Between Krishna and Jesus Be a Coincidence?

103

How Can I Improve My Informal Writing?

104

What Are the Top Three Apologist Pitfalls to Watch Out For?

105

Is “God the Father” a Sexist Term That Demeans Women?

106

Should You Believe Things You Can’t Fully Comprehend?

107

Is Doing the Right Thing a Sin If You Truly Believe It’s Wrong?

108

How Did a Fisherman Write the Book of Peter?

109

How Do These Passages Fit with Your View on How God Speaks?

110

If We Don’t Need to Learn to Hear God’s Voice, How Do You Explain These Verses?

111

How Can I Showcase God’s Goodness When I’m Struggling in My Suffering?

112

Should I Pray for Protection for Persecuted Christians When God Might Want Them to Be Martyrs?

113

When Is It Time to Walk Away from a Conversation?

114

“Jesus Had Two Dads, and He Turned Out Just Fine”

115

Do Christian Business Owners Have a Moral Responsibility to Provide a Livable Wage?

116

Should I Leave a Church That Refuses to Preach on Divisive Topics?

117

Did Jesus Lie in Mark 5:39?

118

Is God “Divided Against Himself” When He Allows Evil?

119

What Should I Say to My Single, Christian Friend Who Is Planning to Use IVF to Have a Baby?

120

How Can I Tell My Patients They’re Giving Christianity a Negative Reputation?

121

Shouldn’t We All Be Harvesters?

122

Where’s the Line Between Science and Witchcraft?

123

Which Books Left a Lasting Impression on You?

124

Did Matter and Energy Already Exist Before the Big Bang?

125

Why Would We Need to Be in a Fallen World to Fully Know God?

126

What Would You Say to an Atheist Who Claims to Lack a Worldview?

127

No One Wrote About Jesus During His Lifetime

128

Is It Problematic for a DJ to Play Songs That Are Contrary to His Christian Values?

129

Could Inherently Sinful Humans Have Accurately Recorded the Word of God?

130

What Are the Top Five Things to Consider Before Joining a Church?

131

Are Works the Evidence or the Energizer of Faith?

132

Is Morality Determined by Society?

133

What Evidence Can I Give for Objective Morality?

134

If Sin Is a Disease We’re Born with, How Can We Be Guilty When We Sin?

135

Do People with Dementia Have Free Will?

136

If Jesus Is God, Why Didn’t He Know the Day of His Return?

137

Is It Wrong to Feel Satisfaction at the Thought of Some Atheists Being Humbled Before Christ?

138

What Should I Say to Someone Who Believes Zodiac Signs Determine Personality?

139

What Should I Teach My Students About Worldviews?

140

Why Do You Say Human Beings Are the Most Valuable Things in the Universe?

141

What Questions Should I Ask Someone Who Believes in a Higher Power?

142

What Would Be the Point of Getting Baptized After All This Time?

143

How Is Prophecy About the Messiah Recognized?

144

God Didn’t Do Anything to Earn Being God, So How Did He Become So Judgmental?

145

Can a Deceased Person’s Soul Live On in the Recipient of His Heart?

146

What Would You Say to Someone Who Believes in “Healing Frequencies”?