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

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. Greg Koukl

Do Children Need to Consent to Puberty?

How to Explain the Trinity to Latter-day Saints

#STRask: How Would You Respond to the Current Mainstream View of the Historical Jesus?

#STRask: How Do You Convince a Former Christian That Jesus Is God?

Am I Giving What Is Holy to Dogs?

Jesus Claimed to Be God by Allowing His Disciples to Do Something Shocking

What Role Should Confession Play in the Christian’s Life?

#STRask: Do You Need to Forgive God?

How Can Jesus Be God?

How the Film 1946 Fails to Advance Pro-Gay Theology

#STRask: What Progressive Christian Teachings Should I Look Out For?

Is the Bible Inspired?

Craig Hazen Joins Stand to Reason

Meet Our New Chief Strategy Officer

Articles

Jesus Claimed to Be God by Allowing His Disciples to Do Something Shocking

Who did Jesus believe he was? What claims did he make about his identity? Can we make a definitive case that he believed he was God? A clue in Matthew’s Gospel gives us an answer.

Is the Bible Inspired?

The Bible claims to have divine origin, but how can we know it’s the Word of God? Here are some reasons to think it’s both reliable and inspired.

Meet Our New Chief Strategy Officer

This fall, we’re welcoming a longtime friend and trusted ally to the Stand to Reason team in a role we’ve created just for him

The New Testament Canon: Which Books and Why?

The church’s recognition of the inspired canon proceeded in stages over time under God’s sovereign guidance, a mysterious mixture of divine intention and human effort. Here’s what happened.

The Quran Gets Crucifixion Wrong

Because of what the Quran teaches, Muslims deny Jesus’ defining act: his crucifixion and resurrection. It turns out, however, that the Quran doesn’t just get Jesus’ crucifixion wrong. It gets all crucifixions wrong.

Ground Your Faith in Reality

A Mormon might argue that faith is trusting in something without good reasons or evidence and doesn’t need to be logical, but God wants us to have a well-informed faith that’s based on more than wishful thinking.

Why Judas’s Death Isn’t a Bible Contradiction

There are two important principles to keep in mind when investigating alleged Bible contradictions. Both apply in the case of Judas’s death and help bring clarity to the passage.

Clearing Up Confusion About Humility

Some say humility is the one virtue that if you think you have it, you don’t, but a look at Scripture shows us that humility does not involve self-abasement. What, then, is true humility, and how can we develop this virtue?

Is That Person Male or Female?

Is there a scientific and effective way to discern whether someone is male or female, even in disputed cases? The answer is yes. Alan Shlemon explains three ways to determine a person’s sex.

Why a Good God Commanded the Israelites to Destroy the Canaanites

Why would a good God command the Israelites to “utterly destroy” every person living in the Canaanite cities he was giving them? Here are four principles to remember as you think about this issue.

Why Didn’t God Clearly Explain Every Theological Issue?

A command Jesus gave to his disciples the night before he was crucified could give a clue as to why God didn’t clearly explain every secondary theological issue to us.

Suicide—When Hope Runs Out

When we rely on everything the world can give us, when we trust in our individual effort to make our lives meaningful or to deliver us from trials and loss, we will ultimately be consumed with despair. But if we focus on fearing God and following him, we will find hope.

Videos

Christian Living

What Role Should Confession Play in the Christian’s Life?

Christian Living

How to Stay Strong When the World Rejects Christian Values

Can God Forgive Without Punishment?

Embryos Are Not Just a Clump of Cells

Podcasts

#STRask: How Would You Respond to the Current Mainstream View of the Historical Jesus?

Questions about how to respond to the current mainstream view of the historical Jesus and the allegations that Jesus just ripped off material from ancient religions that preceded him.

#STRask: How Do You Convince a Former Christian That Jesus Is God?

Questions about how to convince a former Christian that Jesus is God, whether Jesus’ human nature was created, and what the Bible means when it says Jesus is the firstborn.

Am I Giving What Is Holy to Dogs?

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.”

#STRask: Do You Need to Forgive God?

How Can Jesus Be God?

Greg answers questions about how Jesus can be God if God is in Heaven and Jesus was on earth, whether disordered desires are sinful and Satan puts thoughts in Christians’ minds, baptism of the Holy Spirit by laying on hands, and a challenge to Greg’s view on John 16:13.

How the Film 1946 Fails to Advance Pro-Gay Theology

Alan wrote two critical articles about the film 1946: The Mistranslation that Shifted Culture prior to ever watching the film. Now that he’s seen it, he evaluates whether his assessment was correct.

#STRask: What Progressive Christian Teachings Should I Look Out For?

Questions about what progressive Christian teachings one should look out for and whether John 16:12–13 provides justification for the views of progressive Christians.

Craig Hazen Joins Stand to Reason

Greg talks to Craig Hazen, STR’s new chief strategy officer, then he answers a question about the implications that follow from the idea that we don’t have to figure out special instructions from God.

#STRask: How Do We Know Moses Interpreted His Experiences of God Correctly?

Questions about how we know the biblical authors (Moses, etc.) interpreted their subjective experiences of receiving revelation from God correctly as opposed to Mohammed or Joseph Smith and how to respond to the idea that we can have different truths and both be right.

Interview: Sean McDowell – End the Stalemate

Greg talks to Sean McDowell, author of End the Stalemate, about how cancel culture developed, communicating ideas well to others, dealing with your own biases, being charitable, steelmanning your opponent’s arguments, and more.

#STRask: How Is Biblical Inspiration Different from Automatic Writing?

Questions about how biblical inspiration differs from automatic writing, whether or not we don’t know who wrote 74% of the New Testament, signing a man-made statement of faith, and how, if the Word of God is powerful, someone who taught it faithfully can go rogue theologically.

The Problems with Prop 3

Greg talks to Jonathan Keller of California Family Council about the problematic “marriage equality” Prop 3 in California, then he discusses using our vote to do the most good we can, whether God takes sides, getting educated about what will actually do good, and more.

Solid Ground

The New Testament Canon: Which Books and Why?

The church’s recognition of the inspired canon proceeded in stages over time under God’s sovereign guidance, a mysterious mixture of divine intention and human effort. Here’s what happened.

Christian Living

Suicide—When Hope Runs Out

When we rely on everything the world can give us, when we trust in our individual effort to make our lives meaningful or to deliver us from trials and loss, we will ultimately be consumed with despair. But if we focus on fearing God and following him, we will find hope.

Christian Living

The Third Column

The future of thoughtful Christianity does not belong to best-selling authors or popular speakers. Rather, it will be determined by people like you—committed disciples in the local church with warm hearts and sharp minds demonstrating that Christianity is worth thinking about.

Why the Blood?

Though many object to the idea of penal substitutionary atonement, here’s how we know Jesus’ blood cleanses from all sin, fully satisfies the divine demand for justice, and rescues us from the Father’s wrath to come.