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. Jonathan Noyes

Craig Hazen Joins Stand to Reason

Meet Our New Chief Strategy Officer

How to Stay Strong When the World Rejects Christian Values

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

The New Testament Canon: Which Books and Why?

Interview: Sean McDowell – End the Stalemate

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

The Problems with Prop 3

Can God Forgive Without Punishment?

#STRask: How Is God Just If So Many Wrongs Go Unpunished?

How Can I Help Trauma Survivors See Things from God’s Perspective?

#STRask: Is the Principle of Double Effect Legitimate When It Comes to Abortion?

Spot the Shell Game in This Article on Abortion Bans

The Quran Gets Crucifixion Wrong

Articles

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.

Why Nature-Inspired Technology Points Back to God

The biological designs we observe and use for advancements in human engineering point us back to God, not evolution.

Is “Allah” Just Another Word for God?

Since Arabic-speaking Christians use the word “Allah” for God, does that mean the term is always just another word for God? Here’s why the situation is different when it comes to speaking in English.

Videos

Can God Forgive Without Punishment?

Embryos Are Not Just a Clump of Cells

How to Share the Gospel in Discussions About Abortion

Other Worldviews

How to Engage Latter-day Saints

Podcasts

#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.

#STRask: How Is God Just If So Many Wrongs Go Unpunished?

Questions about how God could be just if so many wrongs go unpunished, an objection to God punishing people in Hell, and whether God’s promise to meet all our needs according to his riches in Christ Jesus is referring to physical needs, spiritual needs, or both.

How Can I Help Trauma Survivors See Things from God’s Perspective?

Greg answers questions about helping trauma survivors think through their trauma biblically, giving to the point where your family has to go without things they need, passages about God loving individuals, and assumptions about communication to bring to the study of language.

#STRask: Is the Principle of Double Effect Legitimate When It Comes to Abortion?

Questions about the legitimacy of the principle of double effect when it comes to abortion and saving the mother’s life, whether laws should protect the unborn baby at the expense of the mother’s life, laws for non-viable pregnancies, and changing pro-choice areas vs. leaving.

Spot the Shell Game in This Article on Abortion Bans

Greg discusses the claim that abortion bans increase infant death rates, then he talks to callers about using probability numbers in teleological arguments and whether it’s worth trying to convince a church member who’s a former Jehovah’s Witness that Jesus is uncreated.

#STRask: What Biblical Principles Should Guide How We Vote?

Question about what biblical principles should guide how we vote.

Is the A-Theory vs. B-Theory of Time a False Dichotomy?

Greg answers questions about whether the A-theory vs. B-theory of time is a false dichotomy, why Jesus had to suffer before dying for our sin, gender dysphoria, and how we know we haven’t simply deluded ourselves into thinking we have good evidence for our faith.

#STRask: Should We Only Study the Truth in the Bible and Not Learn About Other Beliefs?

Questions about whether we should only study the truth in the Bible and not learn about other beliefs, whether the apologetics approach is contrary to the warning in 2 John 10, and the biggest change STR has seen in the types of questions asked over the years.

Does God Hear the Prayer of the Unbeliever?

Greg talks about whether or not God hears the prayer of the unbeliever, then he answers questions about what Matthew 21:21 means when it says you can make things happen if you have faith and do not doubt and how to know if you should leave a church or you’re being too critical.

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.