#STRask

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  Is the Belief That We’re All Broken and Need a Savior a Sad Way to View Life? 21.09.2026 20мин

  Questions about how to respond to an unbeliever who says the belief that we’re all broken is a sad way to view life, how to reconcile Zechariah and Elizabeth being blameless with Jesus being the only sinless man, and whether the psalms about delighting in God’s Law are outdated and legalistic.
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  How Do You Know There Aren’t Three Distinct Divine Beings? 17.09.2026 25мин

  Questions about how we know that God is one being instead of three distinct divine beings in perfect unity, and why God would give notable miracles to Oneness Pentecostals if their theology is truly heretical.
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  What Book Should I Give a Strong Pantheist? 14.09.2026 28мин

  Questions about suggestions for a book to give a strong pantheist who’s a fan of Neale Donald Walsch, and how karma is different from the parable of the sower in Matthew 13 or the teaching about reaping what you sow in Galatians 6.
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  How Would You Argue That the Unity of the Bible Is Evidence It’s from God? 10.09.2026 23мин

  Questions about how the unity of the Bible can be evidence it’s from God if the books could have been cherry-picked later, whether the fact that some passages in our Bibles aren’t canonical means every part of the Bible can be called into question, and why the Gospels don’t tell who wrote them.
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  The Reason Why Science Can’t Explain the Supernatural Is That the Supernatural Doesn’t Happen 07.09.2026 24мин

  Questions about the claim that science explains things that happen and that’s why it can’t explain the supernatural, whether there will be morality in Heaven, and reconciling the idea that we all intuitively know morality with the argument that Christianity gave our culture its morality.
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  Are Other Religions Different Expressions of the Same God? 03.09.2026 28мин

  Questions about whether other religions are different expressions of the same God, and how to reconcile the idea that people who have never heard the gospel are guaranteed to go to Hell with the fact that God is a good judge who shows mercy on whom he chooses to show mercy.
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  Why Is It Okay for God to Keep a Record of Wrongs? 31.08.2026 24мин

  Questions about how to reconcile 1 Corinthians 13:5, which says that love doesn’t keep a record of wrongs, with God keeping a record of everything we have done and judging us by it, and how the idea that people are condemned for their sin, not for lack of belief in Jesus, squares with John 3:18.
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  How Can God Lump Non-Criminals in with Murderers and Rapists? 27.08.2026 26мин

  Questions about what to say to someone who finds it hard to believe in a God that lumps non-criminals in with murderers and rapists when he sends them to Heaven or Hell, and whether all receive the same punishment in Hell.
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  Why Did God Give Moses the Ten Commandments Instead of Sending Jesus? 24.08.2026 20мин

  Questions about why God gave Moses the Ten Commandments instead of sending Jesus, and what it means to call Jesus Christ the “Lamb of God.”
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  How Do You Deal with Someone Whose Mission Is to Tear Down Everyone Else’s Belief in Jesus? 20.08.2026 23мин

  Questions about how to deal with someone whose mission is to tear down everyone else’s beliefs about Jesus, how to help a child or teen who seems liable to turn away form God due to peer pressures, and how to reach a daughter who says she wouldn’t be a Christian even if it were true.
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  How Do We Know God Isn’t Lying About His Character? 17.08.2026 28мин

  Questions about how we know God is who he says he is and isn’t lying about his character, how to trust God when it seems like he’s working against us, and how to respond when it feels like God hates you.
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  What Does It Mean to Be Holy? 13.08.2026 27мин

  Questions about what it means to be holy, how to fight your sins without slipping into a works-based mindset, and whether, as a Christian, it’s better to be humble, meek, and self-deprecating because none of us does good or bold and confident because we’ve been saved by the Creator.
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  Does Genesis 1 Indicate That We Are Basically Good? 10.08.2026 20мин

  Questions about whether Genesis 1 indicates that humans are basically good and that we’ve emphasized sin too much, and how, if the heart is “desperately wicked,” anyone could believe in their heart that God raised Jesus from the dead and be saved.
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  How Would You Respond to Someone Claiming the Quran Is the True Word of God? 06.08.2026 23мин

  Questions about how to respond to someone claiming the Quran is the true word of God and how one can discuss the gospel with a Baháʼí.
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  Can You Explain Verbal Plenary Inspiration When the New Testament Writers Quote the Septuagint? 03.08.2026 27мин

  Questions about inspiration when the New Testament writers quote the Septuagint rather than the original text, whether we could add books to the Bible if new letters from the apostles were found, and how to handle passages like John 7:53–8:11 that were added to the original biblical text.
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  How Are We Any Different from Christians Who Lived Near Concentration Camps and Failed to Resist Them? 30.07.2026 20мин

  Questions about whether Christians are complicit in abortion if they shop at companies whose health plans cover it, the claim that putting up Christmas decorations at work discriminates against other religious holidays, and an employer that won’t work around an employee’s religious obligations.
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  Where Did Jesus Go When He “Ascended into Heaven”? 27.07.2026 25мин

  Questions about where Jesus went when he “ascended into Heaven” in Acts 1, the idea that Jesus has already returned, whether we’ll see or hear from Jesus after we die, and whether Jesus would have ceased to exist at the cross if annihilation is the punishment required for our sins.
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  What Do You Make of the Book of Mormon, and Why Do You Consider It “Another Gospel”? 23.07.2026 29мин

  Questions about what we make of the eyewitnesses to Joseph Smith’s golden plates, our thoughts on the Book of Mormon itself, and why we consider Latter-day Saint theology to be “another gospel.”
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  How Would You Respond to the Claim That the Bible Is Full of Contradictions? 20.07.2026 21мин

  Questions about how to respond to the claim that the Bible is full of contradictions, and how to answer a Jewish person who knows and speaks Hebrew and says our Bibles weren’t translated properly and the New Testament is made up.
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  Is “Satan” Merely the Propensity of Humankind to Commit Evil Acts? 16.07.2026 27мин

  Questions about the idea that “Satan” is merely the propensity of humankind to commit evil acts, why Satan and the demons would want to keep storing up wrath for themselves if they know they’ll be defeated, and whether a “spirit of divorce” can be carried from generation to generation.