Was Jesus’ Death Really a Sacrifice if He Knew He Would Rise Again?
Episode Date: June 24, 2024Questions about why God the Father required a sacrifice (and whether Jesus’ short-term death was really a sacrifice), whether Jesus’ disciples ever of...
Stand to Reason’s Greg Koukl and Amy Hall answer questions on ethics, theology, apologetics, and culture from a Christian perspective. Submit your questions on Twitter using the hashtag #STRask.
106 episodes transcribedQuestions about why God the Father required a sacrifice (and whether Jesus’ short-term death was really a sacrifice), whether Jesus’ disciples ever of...
Questions about how to reconcile the biblical model of marriage with polygamy in the Old Testament, why the Israelites weren’t explicitly forbidden to...
Questions about the best way to respond to someone who believes in double predestination and who dismisses many non-believers as lost causes and wheth...
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 an...
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 C...
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...
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...
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...
Questions about the best evidence for the reliability of the Old Testament, whether Greg subscribes to the idea of four independent Gospel accounts or...
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 th...
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...
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...
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...
Question about whether Stand to Reason accepts the doctrine of biblical perspicuity (the idea that the Bible is clear in what it teaches about essenti...
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 w...
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...
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...
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 s...
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...
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...