Featured Resource: Challenge & Response Videos by STR
Looking for thoughtful responses to tough challenges to your faith? Every week the guys over at the STR Place Blog answer a challenge with a thoughtful response video. It’s a growing weekly resource, and it’s all archived with easy links. These aren’t just pat answers, but they dig into the issues, discuss the key points, and then formulate a reasonable response to each weekly challenge. A great resource:
- 17 points of a true church?
- 100% man or 100% God?
- Abortion is permissible because nobody has the right to use my body
- Atheism is merely a lack of belief in God, not a claim there is no God
- Bad design = no design
- The Bible has been changed
- The Bible is okay with abortion
- Biblical law is immoral
- The blind men and the elephant
- “But I’m a good person”
- Christianity has its own jihad
- Christians are insecure
- Christmas is pagan
- Commitment makes a family
- Consciousness is an illusion
- The crucifixion is immoral
- Dan Savage’s anti-bullying speech
- Does God care about sports?
- Does it make sense to pray for things?
- Doubt those who say they found truth
- Early embyros aren’t individuals
- Either God isn’t good, or He isn’t sovereign
- The embryos are going to die anyway
- Faith is gullibility
- A fetus without a brain is not a person
- A fetus without an active brain is not alive
- Freud says God is an illusion
- God is a psychopath
- God is sexist
- God is silent
- God should make Himself more obvious
- God wrongly punished Adam and Eve
- Here are contradictions!
- How do I prove objective morality?
- “I can’t say my mom is in Hell”
- “I just believe in one fewer god than you do”
- “I would believe in God if…”
- The idea of God is contradictory
- An infinite Hell is unjust
- Intelligent Design is just “God of the gaps”
- Intelligent Design is not science
- Intuition can’t prove objective moral values
- Is marriage really connected to children?
- It’s not rational to believe in God in an age of science
- Jesus never existed
- Jesus wasn’t moral
- Jesus wasn’t omniscient
- Maybe the universe is self-existent
- Men don’t rise from the dead
- Miracles can’t happen
- Moral values are just brain patterns
- The Mormon Church is unified
- Mormons are Christians
- Mormons believe in salvation by grace
- Neither a perfect nor an imperfect God would create
- Our brains create God
- Prayer doesn’t work
- Prove God by the Scientific Method
- Salvation by grace is unfair
- Should we leave the abortion debate to women?
- So you’re against same-sex marriage because it’s sinful?
- Then why is there evil?
- Theology isn’t worthy of study
- There are no reliable non-Christian sources for Jesus
- There are witnesses to the Book of Mormon
- There’s no possibility of a creator
- They’re all the same God
- This is not a person
- The Trinity is unscriptural and unreasonable
- Truth is empirical
- Unlike the Qur’an, the Bible Is Corrupt
- Was Jesus really tempted?
- We can’t know Jesus rose from the dead
- What can we learn about God from apologetics?
- What do Christians gain in this life?
- What if someone doesn’t want to listen?
- What kind of God saves a murderer?
- Which is more likely…miracles or lying?
- Who created God?
- Why blood sacrifice?
- Why don’t Christians follow the Law?
- Why I hate religion, but love Jesus
- Why should we believe there’s only one God?
- Why would God want to ruin our fun?
- Women will die from back-alley abortions
- Works are required
- Would you obey God if…?
- You can’t trust the Gospels
- You don’t know the real Jesus
- You just needed a father figure
- You want the biblical view of marriage?
- You wouldn’t save the embryos
- Your God is a monster
- You’re arrogant!
- You’re Christian because you’re Western
- You’re not really pro-life if you’re for the death penalty
Be sure to visit STR Place Blog for their weekly challenges and response.
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
Brian Auten
Brian Auten is the founder emeritus of Apologetics315. He is also director of Reasonable Faith Belfast. Brian holds a Masters degree in Christian Apologetics and has interviewed over 150 Christian apologists. His background is in missions, media direction, graphic design, and administration. Brian started Apologetics315 in 2007 to be an apologetics hub to equip Christians to defend the faith.