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#STRask - August 2, 2021

Questions about how to persuade a family member who responds to the Columbo questions with anger and what Christians should expect to experience when it comes to God’s discipline.

• How can I persuade a family member I really care about when they respond to the Columbo questions with anger?
• Can you give any examples of what Christians are to expect in terms of God’s discipline?

#STRask - July 29, 2021

Questions about how genetic disorders relate to God knitting us together in our mother’s womb and how to find out if someone is truly saved.

• How do genetic disorders relate to God knitting us together in our mother’s womb (Psalm 139)?
• How do you find out if someone is truly saved or not?

#STRask - July 26, 2021

Questions about what parents should do if their adult child threatens to cut off all contact with them if they don’t use his preferred pronouns and an appropriate response to the claim that “God made me gay.” 

• What should parents do if an adult child threatens to cut off all contact with them if they don’t use his preferred pronouns?
• What’s an appropriate response to the claim that “God made me gay”? 

#STRask - July 22, 2021

Questions about whether becoming more convinced Christianity is true by immersing yourself in the Bible is an example of confirmation bias and how to respond to the claim that our God is “nothing more than the amplification of our own core ethics.” 

• What’s the difference between becoming more firmly convinced Christianity is true by immersing yourself in the Bible and confirmation bias?
• How would you respond to the claim that “our personal deity is nothing more than the amplification of our own core ethics, the echo chamber of our own bias”? 

#STRask - July 19, 2021

Questions about how to respond to a Christian who says she’s now gay-affirming because she wants to be loving and whether believing in the earliest books of the Bible is blind faith because history can’t verify their stories.

• How should I answer a Christian friend who says she’s now gay-affirming because even if she’s wrong, God will give her grace in the end and at least she will have been loving?
• Is believing in the earliest books of the Bible blind faith because history can’t verify their stories?

#STRask - July 15, 2021

Questions about whether there’s a question that should be asked before asking if there’s a God, whether Adam and Eve were amoral before eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the standard for prophets.

• Is there a “first question” that should be asked before “Is there a God?” 
• Were Adam and Eve amoral beings before eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil?
• Does the prophetic office still exist, and is the New Testament standard for a prophet different from the standard in the Old Testament?

#STRask - July 12, 2021

Questions about whether Jesus must have sinned because he was fully human, how to gracefully start a conversation about Christ with a Hindu who’s been diagnosed with a terminal illness, and how those who have been conditioned from birth to believe something other than Christianity will be judged.

• How should I respond to Christians who think Jesus must have sinned because he was fully human?
• How do I gracefully start a conversation about Christ with a Hindu friend who just got diagnosed with a terminal illness?
• How will those who were conditioned from birth to believe in something other than Christianity be judged?

#STRask - July 8, 2021

Questions about whether it’s biblical to believe that Christians no longer sin after being saved and whether the parable of the wheat and the tares means we’re not supposed to try to put a stop to the ministry of false teachers.

• Is it biblical to believe that Christians no longer sin after being saved?
• Is the parable of the wheat and the tares about false teachers, and does it mean we’re not supposed to try to put a stop to their ministry?

#STRask - July 5, 2021

Questions about how to respond to a Oneness Pentecostal’s claim that you’re not saved if you believe in the Trinity and the purpose of having a perfected, resurrected body rather than just our soul being with God.

• How can I best address a Oneness Pentecostal’s claim that I’m not saved if I believe in the Trinity?
• What is the purpose of having a perfected, resurrected body rather than just our soul being with God?

#STRask - July 1, 2021

Questions about whether there are standard ways we should expect God to answer prayers and what Greg thinks about instances when people “feel led” to do specific things that seem to answer specific prayers.

• Are there standard ways we should expect God to answer prayers?
• How would Greg categorize instances when people “feel led” to do specific things that seem to directly answer specific prayers?