Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Dec 20 2024 100 ep. 58 mins 5.3k
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Our purpose is to help Christians think more clearly about their faith and to help them make an even-handed, incisive, yet gracious defense for classical Christianity. Released every Wednesday and Friday.

  Religion & Spirituality
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Christmas Spoilers

Dec 20 2024 58 mins  
Greg chats about some Christmas myths, recommends two films that capture the nativity well, then answers questions about whether day trading is a form of gambling, being a gardener vs. a harvester, and reconciling Greg’s view on decision making with Romans 12:2.

Should I Feel Guilty for Not Having the Joy of the Lord During a Dark Time?

Dec 18 2024 58 mins  
Greg answers questions from callers about old earth vs. young earth and feeling guilty about not having the joy of the Lord during a long, difficult, dark time.

Will There Be a Rapture?

Dec 13 2024 58 mins  
Greg answers questions about his views on the rapture and whether there’s any middle ground between Reformed and Arminian theology.

Science Can’t Disprove the Virgin Birth

Dec 11 2024 58 mins  
Greg talks about the claim that the virgin birth is disproved by science, then he talks to callers about when the New Covenant started, how Jesus could have paid the penalty of being separated from God, Bonhoeffer’s views on the Bible, and pragmatism.

Why Does God Allow Evil?

Dec 06 2024 58 mins  
Greg answers questions about why God allows evil, whether denominations really matter, whether Matthew 16 says Peter was the first pope, and how Greg’s view on decision making and the will of God fits with passages in James, Ruth, and Esther.

What We Can Learn from the Account of David and Goliath

Dec 04 2024 58 mins  
Greg talks about what we can learn from the account of David and Goliath, then he answers questions about the divide between men and women, whether a contractor should turn down work on a Buddhist temple, and determining if a passage is descriptive or prescriptive.

Are the Things We Claim Are Complex Really Complex?

Nov 29 2024 58 mins  
Greg talks to callers about how, when it comes to the teleological argument, we know the things we claim are complex are really complex, how to witness to someone who has consulted a spiritualist, and whether God values results or growth more.

How Can You Say God Is Pro-Life if He Kills Babies?

Nov 27 2024 58 mins  
Greg talks to Robby Lashua about an announcement and discusses the value of saying “thank you” to everyone who does something for you, then he responds to a caller’s question about how God can be pro-life if he kills babies.

Will God Be in Pain for Eternity as He Watches People Suffer in Hell?

Nov 20 2024 58 mins  
Greg answers questions about the “He Gets Us” campaign from earlier this year, whether a property in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil gave Adam and Eve knowledge, the historicity of Job, and whether God will spend eternity in pain as he watches people suffer in Hell.

Am I Giving What Is Holy to Dogs?

Nov 13 2024 58 mins  
Greg talks to callers about online interactions, entropy as evidence for a beginning of the universe, whether someone could make up a story that sounds like eyewitness testimony, creating interactions that aren’t awkward, and the claim that the unborn is only a ”potential life.”