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Topic: Skeptic (Skepticism)

Episode Topic Audio

2024-01-05
Atheist's Skepticism about the Veracity of the Bible & Miracles: Atheist: Regarding the flood, research says that the heat produced by mountains moving would cause so much heat that everything would melt. He reports that the evidence about the miracles in the Bible moved him away Christian faith.
Atheist-Creation Story Untrue: If Genesis's story about the creation isn't true then would not the whole need for a Messiah be unnecessary?


2024-01-03
Evangelizing a Jewish Skeptic: Any advice about evangelizing a Jewish friend who is open to learning about Christianity, but he heard about the water in the flood being over 20 feet above all the mountains, thus he is very skeptical? Rec: "The Genesis Flood" by John C. Whitcomb and Henry M. Morris
Turning Your Life Over to Christ: What does it look like when one "turns their life over to Christ?" Rec: Book by Steve Gregg. "Empire of the Risen Son, Vol 2."


2023-10-16
Eternal Matter & Christianity: How can the reality of the eternal character of matter not undermind the Christian faith?
Earth's Destruction: Doesn't the Christian faith teach that the earth and universe will be entirely destroyed? [2 Peter 3:7].


2023-10-04
Defining Christianity: Caller: If Christianity is all about the conspiracies and such that seem to be promoted these days, I am not sure I want it anymore. [1 Corinthians 5:12].



2023-06-20
Buddhism vs Christianity Buddhist caller discusses basic differences between the two faiths (Buddhist & Christianity) in the way truth is established (epistemology). Rec: Video; [Hebrews 11:6].



2023-06-01
Atheist Caller "The Dead Intervening": Atheist caller shares his experience and asks, do you think the dead can intervene or interact with us in anyway? [Matthew 17:2, 1 Samuel 28:15].



2023-02-01
Satan's Character & Role: Is it possible that Satan is not really only evil but more like a "prosecuting attornery" that God actually created for testing? [Revelation 12:9, Job 1-2, Zechariah 3:1-5, Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 28].
Avoiding Temptation: What is the point of avoiding temptation and prayer to avoid them, if this is all part of the plan. [Luke 18:7, James 1:15, Luke 11:2-4, Matthew 5:9-13].
Skeptics Doubting the Reliability: How do you answer a skeptic that complains that there is something wrong with the teacher when everyone in Christianity has a differing opinion? [Proverbs 25:2].

2022-09-21
Atheism & the Naturalistic Worldview: Caller comments on an atheist caller who suggests that the naturalistic and scientific worldview is the consistent way to see reality.



2022-09-07
What Leads to Apostasy?: Is it something we are doing (like poor teaching) that is causing people to leave the faith?
Witnessing to Former Christians: Should we be taking into consideration the prejudices former Christians have from past bad teachers who manipulated them?


2022-07-20
All Religions-Same God & "Judge Not": How would you respond to someone that claims all religions refer to the same power and the Bible is simply written by men, therefore we are not to judge others? [Matthew 7:1-2, I Corinthians 2:15,John 7:24, I Corinthians 5:3, I Corinthians 10:15, I Corinthians 14:29].



2022-07-13
Horrible Book of Judges & Stupid Story of Samson: Christian caller calls as an atheist's devil's advocate questioning the book of Judges and remarks how stupid & gruesome the story of Samson is ... how can such a story be in the Word of God? [Judges 13-16].



2022-06-23
Witnessing & the Bible's Truth: When witnessing, how can one fully explain the truth of the Bible's and its value to unbelievers? Recommend lecture series; "Authority of Scripture."



2022-04-27
Prayer for Ukraine: Request for prayers for those ministering in the Ukraine (in particular Cheryl).
Mixing Buddhism & Christianity: Buddhist caller talks about how he is mixing his faith with Christianity. [John 14:6].


2022-03-22
Atheist Questions Theological Investigation: From atheist caller: What tools of investigation do you have in theology and what has been the advancements?
Atheist Challenge About Biblical Reliability: Atheist caller suggests that Steve is misleading his audience because of the limitation of sources outside of the Bible.


2022-01-21
Christian Extremism: Letter from listener shares concern with the overlooked symbolism in scripture and extreme Christian fundamentalism. [Hebrews 11:17-19, James 2:21-22].



2022-01-11
Who Created God?: Who created God?



2021-11-04
Convincing the Skeptic: What resources would you suggest to encourage someone that is skeptical, that might help them see the supernatural character of the Bible and its overall veracity? Recommends The Narrow Path website and C.S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity".



2021-08-06
Authorship of the Gospels: What do you think of the theory that the writers of the gospels were not the actual authors?



2021-07-07
Skeptics: Why do some people find it so difficult to accept such an amazing free gift from God?



2020-12-31
Non-Christian Concern About Lack of Good Examples in Christians: From a non-Christian point of view, why doesn't the Holy Spirit move in Christian to evangelize others, and live as a better example?
Christian Evangelism's Poor Record: Isn't it a poor track record that only 30% of the world population are Christians, when it has been 2000 years?


2016-06-09
PBS Distorted View of the OT: Caller saw a special on PBS about how the Old Testament was written, them saying that they were stories of fiction.



2016-03-31
Date of the Book of Revelation: When was the Book of Revelatoin written & what style was it written in? People say it's very similar to Jewish writings before Jesus.
Having Doubt: Caller considers herself a Christian but is still a skeptic, still finds that she has a lot of doubt.


2015-04-20
Finding the True God: Even if one could prove that God existed how would we know we found the right one?



2013-07-01
Unity of Beliefs: Why is there so little unity on difficult biblical scriptures and doctrines? Doesn't it cause people to be skeptical of Christianity. [Daniel 9:27]



2013-05-15
Gifts of the Spirit-Tongues: Though I am going to an Assembly of God church, I am not sure that the gift of "tongues" is legitimate today, because I have not seen it in a convincing way? [Matthew 7:15-20].
Snake-handling: What about the scripture about "snake-handling"? [Mark 16:17-18].

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