Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

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.

Episodes

Why Does God Limit Our Opportunity to Repent and Believe to This Lifetime?

September 3, 2025 • 58 mins
Greg responds to the challenge that it’s arbitrary for God to limit our opportunity to repent and believe to this lifetime, then he talks to callers about a contradiction in Genesis, the lack of spiritual growth in babies who are never born, and whether God or parents create souls.   Topics:
  1. Commentary: Why does God limit our opportunity to repent and believe to this lifetime? (00:00)
  2. How would you respond to an a...
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Challenges to Greg’s View That God’s Voice Can’t Be Missed

August 29, 2025 • 58 mins
Greg responds to objections to his view that God’s voice can’t be missed, then he answers questions about thanking God for his goodness when something bad doesn’t happen, defending penal substitutionary atonement, Iran and the Ezekiel 38 prophecy, and the nature of identity.   Topics:
  1. Commentary: Challenges to Greg’s view that God’s voice can’t be missed (00:00)
  2. Am I wrong to object when people say God is good whe...
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We Have a Relationship with God on His Terms, Not on Ours

August 27, 2025 • 58 mins
Greg explains that a relationship with God doesn’t look the same as one with a human being, then he talks to callers about an apologetics approach, why Jesus seems to downplay being called the Son of God, and why God doesn’t always answer prayers for someone’s salvation.   Topics:
  1. Commentary: We have a relationship with God on his terms, not on ours. (00:00)
  2. Am I committing any logical fallacies in the approach I’...
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How Can I Believe in God or Anything Supernatural?

August 22, 2025 • 58 mins
Greg talks to callers about a challenge to what he said about the transcendental argument last week, how someone can find his way to believing in God or anything supernatural, and a suggestion about how the life of Christ in us might relate to how God speaks to us.   Topics:
  1. Contrary to what you said last week, doesn’t the existence of a microphone require the existence of God? (04:00)
  2. How would I find my way to b...
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Alan Shlemon on the Topics of Jesus’ Deity in the Gospels and Transgenderism

August 20, 2025 • 58 mins
Greg chats with Alan Shlemon about transgenderism and intersex conditions, then they talk about why the popular idea that Jesus’ identity was embellished over time and evolved in the Gospels is incorrect.   Topics:
  1. Greg talks to Alan Shlemon about transgenderism and intersex conditions. (00:00)
  2. Alan Shlemon explains why the popular idea that the Gospel writers embellished Jesus’ identity over time is incorrect. (4...
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Thoughts on the Transcendental Argument

August 15, 2025 • 58 mins
Greg answers questions from callers on the transcendental argument, the scapegoat theory of the atonement that’s popular in progressive circles, and an objection an atheist would make to Greg’s “blind beach-writer” argument for intelligent design.   Topics:
  1. What’s your opinion on the transcendental argument? (03:00)
  2. What response can I give to the scapegoat theory of the atonement that’s popular in progressive cir...
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Objections to Greg’s View on Hearing the Voice of God

August 13, 2025 • 58 mins
Greg responds to objections to his view on hearing the voice of God, then he talks to a caller about Columbo #3 questions he can use in conversations with a family member about whether or not it’s wrong to be angry at politicians.   Topics:
  1. Commentary: Objections to Greg’s view on hearing the voice of God (00:00)
  2. Can you help me with Columbo #3 questions to use in conversations with a family member about whether o...
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What Miracles Have You Witnessed?

August 8, 2025 • 58 mins
Greg answers questions from callers about what makes being gay or lesbian harmful, whether apologists are unwilling to give straight answers to certain questions for tactical reasons, and miracles Greg has witnessed.   Topics:
  1. What makes being gay or lesbian harmful? (04:00)
  2. Is there a tactical reason why so many apologists seem unwilling to give straight answers to certain questions? (15:00)
  3. What are some of th...
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How AI and Social Media are Making Us Dumber

August 6, 2025 • 58 mins
Tim Barnett joins Greg to talk about the need to learn how to be good thinkers, the danger of ending up in an echo chamber, how AI and social media are making us dumber, and more.   Topics:
  1. Commentary: How AI and social media are making us dumber. (00:00)
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Is It Normal for a Believer to Struggle with Doubt?

August 1, 2025 • 58 mins
Greg answers questions about whether it’s normal for a believer to struggle with doubt, resolving alleged contradictions in the Gospels, why Greg thinks Paul isn’t the author of Hebrews, people’s old ages in Genesis, and reasons to think all sentient beings have a soul.   Topics:
  1. Is it normal for a believer to struggle with doubt? (01:00)
  2. How do you resolve the alleged contradictions in the Gospels about how many ...
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Do Demons Still Have a Chance to Be Saved?

July 30, 2025 • 58 mins
Greg answers questions about whether demons still have a chance to be saved, whether evolution can give us a belief in morality, how to define Christian suffering, and whether justification is a one-time thing or it happens in stages.   Topics:
  1. Commentary: Do demons still have a chance to be saved? (00:00)
  2. Can evolution give us a belief in a morality? (18:00)
  3. How should we define Christian suffering? (35:00)
  4. I...
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How Can We Say God Fulfilled His Promise to Abraham?

July 23, 2025 • 58 mins
Greg answers questions on whether God fulfilled his promise to Abraham, Jesus’ knowledge of germs, whether the story of Job debunks the “T” in “TULIP,” and whether we could say the universe has always existed since there was never a “time” when it did not exist.   Topics:
  1. How can we say God fulfilled his promise to Abraham in Genesis 15:18 since Israel has never had that whole area of land? (02:00)
  2. Why didn’t the ...
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God Doesn’t Try

July 18, 2025 • 58 mins
Greg explains why we don’t need to learn to hear the voice of God, then he talks to callers about how to deal with going against the majority of scientists, the best argument for God, a loving God allowing suffering, profanity, and preparing children to encounter transgenderism.   Topics:
  1. Commentary: God doesn’t try. (00:00)
  2. Do you have any advice for how to deal with going against the majority opinion of scientis...
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Thankful for John MacArthur’s Legacy

July 16, 2025 • 58 mins
Greg talks about being thankful for John MacArthur’s legacy, then he answers questions about the difference between covenant theology and dispensationalism and how to interpret NDEs where people claim to have met Jesus.   Topics:
  1. Commentary: Thankful for John MacArthur’s Legacy (00:00)
  2. What’s the difference between covenant theology and dispensationalism? (25:00)
  3. How should we interpret NDEs where people claim t...
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Spirituality Is Measured by Spiritual Fruit, Not Spiritual Gifts

July 9, 2025 • 58 mins
Greg explains that spirituality is measured by spiritual fruit, not spiritual gifts, then he answers questions about preterism, evidence for a beginning of the universe, the law requiring rapists to marry their victim, and whether or not Genesis 1 indicates God created chaos.   Topics:
  1. Commentary: Spirituality is measured by spiritual fruit, not spiritual gifts. (00:00)
  2. What are your thoughts on preterism? (05:00)...
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How Would You Determine Which Religion Is True?

July 2, 2025 • 58 mins
Greg answers questions about how to determine which religion is true, why God wouldn’t just write his own book, how we know the Christian God is the real God, and whether there’s an objective moral system or we’re simply acting to avoid pain.   Topics:
  1. How would you determine which religion is true and which is not? What’s more likely: that God doesn’t exist and men invented religion to control people, or that God d...
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Dan Day: Greg Answers an Atheist

June 25, 2025 • 58 mins
Greg answers questions from an atheist about why Jesus couldn’t write his own book, what God has been doing all of this time, why Christians don’t read the Bible if it’s the Word of God, God existing “before” time, and whether pastors use fear tactics to get people to tithe.   Topics:
  1. Tell us why Jesus, the God of the universe, couldn’t write his own book. (07:00)
  2. Would you care to explain what the all-knowing, al...
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Is It Okay for Pastors to Ask the Holy Spirit to Come Down?

June 20, 2025 • 58 mins
Greg answers questions about pastors asking the Holy Spirit to come down, the treatment of slaves in Israel versus in other cultures, whether there should be women pastors, and how Christians can claim they have a relationship with Jesus if they’ve never seen him.   Topics:
  1. What are your thoughts on pastors saying, “Holy Spirit, come down and move through your people”? (04:00)
  2. Do you know who made the point that w...
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Greg Reflects on the Passage of Time on His 75th Birthday

June 18, 2025 • 58 mins
Greg reflects on the passage of time on his 75th birthday, then he answers questions about the SRY gene making someone male, his opinion on music in the church today, and whether the Old Testament stories are allegory or history.   Topics:
  1. Commentary: Greg reflects on the passage of time on his 75th birthday. (00:00)
  2. Could the presence of an SRY gene make someone with XX chromosomes male? (14:00)
  3. What’s your opi...
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Jesus’ Yoke Is Easy and His Burden Is Light

June 13, 2025 • 58 mins
Greg reflects on the destruction from the Malibu fire, then he answers questions about the sense in which Jesus’ yoke is easy and his burden light, how to respond to someone who uses Romans 7 to defend his homosexuality, and how to let God lead when making big decisions.   Topics:
  1. Commentary: Greg reflects on the destruction from the Malibu fires. (00:00)
  2. In what sense is Jesus’ yoke easy and his burden light? (11...
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