STR speaker Alan Shlemon provides a monthly update while answering questions across a wide range of topics including criticisms of Christianity.
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Alan Shlemon Podcasts
Our purpose is to help Christians think more clearly about their faith and to help them make an even-handed, incisive, yet gracious defense for classical Christianity. Released every Wednesday and Friday.
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Alan Shlemon on the Topics of Jesus’ Deity in the Gospels and Transgenderism
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Greg chats with Alan Shlemon about transgenderism and intersex conditions, then they talk about why the popular idea that Jesus’ identity was embellished over time and evolved in the Gospels is incorrect. Topics: Greg talks to Alan Shlemon about transgenderism and intersex conditions. (00:00) Alan Shlemon explains why the popular idea that the Gosp…
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Man’s Free Will Doesn’t Determine the Course of the Universe
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Greg adds another thought to the objection he addressed in the last episode, then he answers questions about possible proof Proverbs 21:30 is objectively true, drawing lots to get a message from God, grace for sanctification, and blaming God for bad things that happen. Topics: Commentary: Man’s free will doesn’t determine the course of the universe…
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Why Does God Limit Our Opportunity to Repent and Believe to This Lifetime?
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Greg responds to the challenge that it’s arbitrary for God to limit our opportunity to repent and believe to this lifetime, then he talks to callers about a contradiction in Genesis, the lack of spiritual growth in babies who are never born, and whether God or parents create souls. Topics: Commentary: Why does God limit our opportunity to repent an…
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Challenges to Greg’s View That God’s Voice Can’t Be Missed
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Greg responds to objections to his view that God’s voice can’t be missed, then he answers questions about thanking God for his goodness when something bad doesn’t happen, defending penal substitutionary atonement, Iran and the Ezekiel 38 prophecy, and the nature of identity. Topics: Commentary: Challenges to Greg’s view that God’s voice can’t be mi…
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We Have a Relationship with God on His Terms, Not on Ours
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Greg explains that a relationship with God doesn’t look the same as one with a human being, then he talks to callers about an apologetics approach, why Jesus seems to downplay being called the Son of God, and why God doesn’t always answer prayers for someone’s salvation. Topics: Commentary: We have a relationship with God on his terms, not on ours.…
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How Can I Believe in God or Anything Supernatural?
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Greg talks to callers about a challenge to what he said about the transcendental argument last week, how someone can find his way to believing in God or anything supernatural, and a suggestion about how the life of Christ in us might relate to how God speaks to us. Topics: Contrary to what you said last week, doesn’t the existence of a microphone r…
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Greg answers questions from callers on the transcendental argument, the scapegoat theory of the atonement that’s popular in progressive circles, and an objection an atheist would make to Greg’s “blind beach-writer” argument for intelligent design. Topics: What’s your opinion on the transcendental argument? (03:00) What response can I give to the sc…
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Objections to Greg’s View on Hearing the Voice of God
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Greg responds to objections to his view on hearing the voice of God, then he talks to a caller about Columbo #3 questions he can use in conversations with a family member about whether or not it’s wrong to be angry at politicians. Topics: Commentary: Objections to Greg’s view on hearing the voice of God (00:00) Can you help me with Columbo #3 quest…
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Greg answers questions from callers about what makes being gay or lesbian harmful, whether apologists are unwilling to give straight answers to certain questions for tactical reasons, and miracles Greg has witnessed. Topics: What makes being gay or lesbian harmful? (04:00) Is there a tactical reason why so many apologists seem unwilling to give str…
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Alan was harshly criticized by students after an event. He explains three steps he takes whenever this happens.By Alan Shlemon
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How AI and Social Media are Making Us Dumber
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Tim Barnett joins Greg to talk about the need to learn how to be good thinkers, the danger of ending up in an echo chamber, how AI and social media are making us dumber, and more. Topics: Commentary: How AI and social media are making us dumber. (00:00) Mentioned on the Show: Be One of the 100 – Become a strategic partner Red Pen Logic – YouTube, I…
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Is It Normal for a Believer to Struggle with Doubt?
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Greg answers questions about whether it’s normal for a believer to struggle with doubt, resolving alleged contradictions in the Gospels, why Greg thinks Paul isn’t the author of Hebrews, people’s old ages in Genesis, and reasons to think all sentient beings have a soul. Topics: Is it normal for a believer to struggle with doubt? (01:00) How do you …
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Do Demons Still Have a Chance to Be Saved?
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Greg answers questions about whether demons still have a chance to be saved, whether evolution can give us a belief in morality, how to define Christian suffering, and whether justification is a one-time thing or it happens in stages. Topics: Commentary: Do demons still have a chance to be saved? (00:00) Can evolution give us a belief in a morality…
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How Can We Say God Fulfilled His Promise to Abraham?
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Greg answers questions on whether God fulfilled his promise to Abraham, Jesus’ knowledge of germs, whether the story of Job debunks the “T” in “TULIP,” and whether we could say the universe has always existed since there was never a “time” when it did not exist. Topics: How can we say God fulfilled his promise to Abraham in Genesis 15:18 since Isra…
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Greg explains why we don’t need to learn to hear the voice of God, then he talks to callers about how to deal with going against the majority of scientists, the best argument for God, a loving God allowing suffering, profanity, and preparing children to encounter transgenderism. Topics: Commentary: God doesn’t try. (00:00) Do you have any advice fo…
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Greg talks about being thankful for John MacArthur’s legacy, then he answers questions about the difference between covenant theology and dispensationalism and how to interpret NDEs where people claim to have met Jesus. Topics: Commentary: Thankful for John MacArthur’s Legacy (00:00) What’s the difference between covenant theology and dispensationa…
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Spirituality Is Measured by Spiritual Fruit, Not Spiritual Gifts
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Greg explains that spirituality is measured by spiritual fruit, not spiritual gifts, then he answers questions about preterism, evidence for a beginning of the universe, the law requiring rapists to marry their victim, and whether or not Genesis 1 indicates God created chaos. Topics: Commentary: Spirituality is measured by spiritual fruit, not spir…
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