#243 The Risk of Relativism: How Denying Truth will Leave you Ruled by Brute Force, with Greg Koukl

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Alisa Childers

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In his book, Street Smarts: Using Questions to Answer Christianity’s Toughest Challenges, Greg Koukl writes, "History is testimony to a basic fact. Human lives will be ruled by one of two fundamental forces: either truth or power. Humanity will be governed either by the physical facts of God’s world and the moral facts of his character, or by the forces that oppose those moral and physical facts.” In today’s episode, Greg discusses the chaos we see in our culture that is a direct result of a denial of absolute truth. He also shares some “Street Smart” tactics Christians can use to challenge the assumptions of other worldviews while keeping our conversations friendly and helpful. ------------------------------------------------------------------This video is sponsored by:SEVEN WEEKS COFFEETaste the Coffee that is Saving Lives.Use the code, ALISA, to get 10% off any product.www.sevenweekscoffee.com (http://www.sevenweekscoffee.com/)FOUNDATION WORLDVIEWFoundation Worldview creates curriculum series that will empower your child to think biblically in a deceptive world. Go to foundationworldview.com (http://foundationworldview.com/) and use the discount code ALISA to receive 10% off a family license.GOOD RANCHERSGood Ranchers: American Meat Delivered Use the code, ALISA to get 10% off your subscription and a price lock guarantee until 2026!Go to www.goodranchers.com/alisa (http://www.goodranchers.com/alisa) for more information.--------------------------------------------------------------------To Purchase the new CD, “Beauty from the Ash”, go to www.alisachilders.com/music (http://www.alisachilders.com/music)There you can get the CD, backing tracks, string charts, rhythm charts and stems.Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/alisachilders (http://www.patreon.com/alisachilders)To order “Another Gospel”: www.alisachilders.com/another-gospel/ (http://www.alisachilders.com/another-gospel/)To order “Live Your Truth": www.alisachilders.com/live-your-truth-and-other-lies/ (http://www.alisachilders.com/live-your-truth-and-other-lies/)To order “The Deconstruction of Christianity”: https://alisachilders.com/the-deconstruction-of-christianity/ (https://alisachilders.com/the-deconstruction-of-christianity/)For Alisa's Merch: https://alisachilders.creator-spring.com (https://alisachilders.creator-spring.com/)To see what gear Alisa uses to record her podcast, go to:https://kit.co/alisachilders (https://kit.co/alisachilders)Potential Sponsors: https://alisachilders.com/sponsor-request-form/ (https://alisachilders.com/sponsor-request-form/)Product links are affiliate links which means if you buy something we'll receive a small commission.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Elisa Childers Podcast, where we equip Christians to identify the core beliefs of
0:13.8	historic Christianity discern its counterfeits and proclaim the gospel with
0:17.5	clarity, kindness, and truth. And I've just finished a conversation with the
0:21.9	one and only Greg Kockel about his new book Street Smarts,
0:25.8	which if you're familiar with the book tactics that we talk a lot about on this podcast,
0:30.4	he's taken the principles and the tips and the tactics from the book tactics and helped apply them to conversations that are relevant right here in 2024 in his new book Street Smarts.
0:40.4	So we got to talk about some of that, some highlights for me from today's episode is
0:45.3	Greg talking about relativism as the primal heresy and the reason that he talks
0:50.4	about it that way is because it can be traced all the way back to the Garden of Eden
0:54.4	and really has to do with personal autonomy. We want to rule ourselves. We want to be our own gods.
1:00.0	And that's ultimately
1:03.8	postmodernism spring out from so he had some great wise words about that.
1:08.6	We talked about atheism and how the conversation surrounding atheism has changed a little bit in the face of relativism
1:16.7	and in the face of us not really having to imagine anymore what a world without religion is like. We're kind of living it in
1:23.9	our culture here in America and even noting how some prominent atheists are
1:29.6	finding themselves more drawn to Christian ethics.
1:33.0	So we also talked about how to apply these tactics to questions
1:37.0	that have to do with origins and Big Bang cosmology, all sorts of things we covered on this episode so without any further ado here's Greg
1:47.1	Kockel. Well Greg it's always a joy to have you on the show you've been on several times
1:51.7	maybe more than anyone else.
1:54.0	Oh, that's great. Well, it's been lots of fun for me. I always have a good time when I'm with you.
1:58.7	And I'm sorry I missed you in Palm Springs a couple of weeks ago. We were kind of ships passing in the night. You were
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