#634 | Greg insightfully asks the person who offers him a prophetic warning “Why did God tell that person rather than me?”, yet Greg does not apply this rational principle to the strange assumed need for a “Holy Book”. Why this seemingly arbitrary exception to this principle?
#625 | Greg: “You don’t make up Gods like the [harsh] biblical God.” Is this not disingenuous given the many examples of other harsh Gods worshiped, plus the clear superior benefits believers would receive were the Christian God and his promises actual? Is Greg for real here?
#620 | JJW says the Gospels were written years after the “facts” since the Apostles thought Jesus would return soon, and instead focused on evangelizing. Those inspired to write His Word were not inspired enough to know Jesus would be delayed for years, so ignored the short project of jotting the story down?
#617 | Greg, in reference to Christianity and its demands, says, “Who’d invent this?” Is Greg serious? Has he forgotten the eternal life and treasure in Heaven that, if true, far exceed earthly pleasures in the minds of the self-interested? Why not reflect your religion honestly?
#616 | Since Christians, who still sin daily, have no way of distinguishing between 1) God’s punishment and 2) his trials sent to build our character or 3) an accommodation of Satan’s taunt as found in the book of Job, what actual sense and value could Hebrews 12:8 ever have?
#614 | Of all the possible ways for an omnipotent God literally standing next to each of us to personally, efficiently, accessibly, and clearly communicate with us, are there any less efficient, accessible, and clear as having humans transcribe a holy book has shown to be?
#609 | Greg, if you honestly believe people reject God to follow their own self-interests, how can you hold to Romans 1 which claims even humans with no access to Christianity actually know enough about God to discern he is an angry God and will exact punishment for offenses?
#600 | Is it possible for there to be agnostics and honest doubters among Christians given Romans 1? Given this passage, how could doubting Christians not be actually in rebellion against God? Does this correspond to the reality you encounter when you speak to doubting Christians?
#598 | Amy claims that we have “an obligation to live the way we were designed to live“. Were the soldiers killing Amalekite infants upon the orders of God living how they were designed? What if they’d been born with rebellious compassion and had saved those infants instead?
#595 | Jon Noyes says the cross “involves the greatest possible sacrifices.” Why would 300 days dead not be possible? Was the amount of torture and torment Jesus experienced the greatest possible? How so?
#590 | In the context of warning against creating one’s own non-biblical theology with single-verse hermeneutics, Greg says “Jesus didn’t say ‘love me’. He says ‘follow me’“. Isn’t this contrary to many verses, including “If you love me, keep my commandments” and “Love the Lord your God with all your heart“?
#585 | Why could naughty fruit-eating in Eden cause shame in our sexy bits? Is there something intrinsically shameful about our bodies? How could shame emerge from something not intrinsically shameful? Could it have been our ears that we instead covered with fig leaves?
#580 | We don’t punish the children of slavers for the sins of their fathers. Why would and how could a sin nature be legitimately passed on to other independent and innocent humans, condemning them to sin, then condemning them for sinning? What sense does this make?
#566 | I see Old Testament slavery reframed by apologists as a sanitized slavery, and quite fine with God. Is there any universal principle that makes this sanitized form of slavery wrong for us today? How about if the culture and conditions reverted to those found in the Old Testament?
#436 | Jon Noyes claims agape love is self-sacrificial and transcendent. Yet this does not reflect scriptures. We are commanded not to love (agapao) the world (implying it is possible) and where Demas loved (agapao) this present world. Is this poor scholarship or mendacity?
#538 | Once Christians acquire the pure mind of God, they will look down into hell at their screaming relatives with deep satisfaction, knowing they are merely getting what they deserve, right? @gregkoukl @amy_k_hall @BrettKunkle @ProfJohnLennox
#531 | Is someone’s moral intuition that hacking Amalekite infants into pieces is wrong not an actual moral intuition in the moral realm created by the Biblical God? And if it is not, how can we differentiate between moral intuitions and this innate abhorrence of killing infants?
#528 | CLAIM: “Every human must grapple with the significance of the resurrection”. How so? Would not any God make certain all humans were exposed to anything important? Can it not be as safely ignored, as safe as ignoring key tenets of other faiths ignored by Christians due to non-exposure or a lack of interest?
#526 | Greg claims the doctrinal diversity among the “consolation“ of modern “apostles“ is an “indication“ that God is not actually speaking through them. Why doesn’t Greg’s “Indication“ also apply to the doctrinal diversity among biblical interpretations? (STRask March 4, 2021)
#520 | Does it make sense to say Jesus needed to become a human to take on himself human sins, then claim his deity is what allows him to pay for sins and resurrect long before a human could? Is there a deity loophole that somehow negates the biblically established length of the penalty for sin?
#514 | Nazi-style gas chambers would have clearly been appropriate in the killing of the Amalekite infants based on the divine command in the Old Testament. Are there any Nazi measures/methods that would have been wrong for the Israelites to have used in this case? Under what criteria?
#513 | Is the distortion unconscious when Christians defend the slaughter of Amalekite infants by referring to the atrocities of the infants’ parents? How about when referring to “a lifetime of sin“ in a defense of Hell when they actually believe only one sin warrants Hell?
#511 | I recommend that Christians, every time they lead a child to Jesus, ask that child whether they now see that they’ve been suppressing the truth in righteousness. What do you think the compiled results will tell us?
#504 | What is the actual price of sin? And did Jesus pay anything close to that? Could Jesus have been dead 10 minutes? Could he have merely stubbed a toe for our sins? Is the price-of-sin currency different for humans and for Gods? How are the proposed dynamics substantiated?
#447 | After my young daughter lies, is it wrong for me to tell her that the bruises I’ve lovingly given her reflect a tiny fraction of the pain she actually deserves for that lie, and that The God of the Universe will do far worse to her if she does not devote her life to Him?
#444 | J. Warner Wallace claims the justice of penal substitutionary atonement is evidenced when judges jeopardize their reputations by giving criminals light sentences, “taking the brunt of it”. Is this painless brunt remotely close to the brunt of a crucifixion? And where is the atonement? (View the context)
#436 | Jon Noyes claims agape love is self-sacrificial and transcendent. Yet this does not reflect scriptures. We are commanded not to love (agapao) the world (implying it is possible) and where Demas loved (agapao) this present world. Is this poor-scholarship or mendacity?
#396 | The modus operandi of the false gods of other religions is to allegedly provide a book, sometimes written decades after the actual events. Why would the Bible’s “omnipotent” and “omnipresent” God also stoop to the same mundane & highly suspect method of divine revelation?
#391 | The 1980s deluged of explanations of Revelations seem to have subsided after many failed predictions. Were those “men of God” who claimed they were led by the Spirit of God to offer insight/explanations arrogant in this claim or perhaps not actual Christians?
#389 | Amy Hall, recently referring to Old Testament animal sacrifices says “all of that created our understanding of a need for God”. Do we actually need centuries of animal butchery to understand our alleged need for God? Is this butchery necessarily taught alongside the Gospel? Explain.
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