Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

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:
  1. Is it normal for a believer to struggle with doubt? (01:00)
  2. How do you resolve the alleged contradictions in the Gospels about how many Marys and angels were at the tomb? (11:00)
  3. What are your reasons for thinking Paul didn’t write Hebrews? (31:00)
  4. It’s a logical fallacy to say God created time without time already existing. (36:00)
  5. Should we take the ages of people in Genesis symbolically or literally? (39:00)
  6. What is the biblical evidence for the idea that all sentient beings have a soul? (45:00)
    Mentioned on the Show: 
    • The Thomas Factor: Using Your Doubts to Draw Closer to God by Gary Habermas (also available for free online)
    • Greg Koukl and Michael Shermer at the End of the Decade of the New Atheists – Transcript
    • Easter Enigma: Are the Resurrection Accounts in Conflict? by John Wenham
    • God’s Unbreakable Word by Jon Noyes and Greg Koukl
    • STR U Online Training
    • The Soul: How We Know It’s Real and Why It Matters by J.P. Moreland
      Related Links:
      • God, Time, & Eternity by William Lane Craig
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