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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Alisa Childers Interviews Greg

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In an episode from the Alisa Childers Podcast, Alisa chats with Greg about the nature of truth, the need to understand the objective nature of morality in order to understand sin and the gospel, how truth claims are viewed as power grabs, how we can keep from being overwhelmed by this chaotic, relativistic culture, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's go, let's go, let's go!

0:30.0

Let's go, let's go, let's go!

1:00.0

Let's go, let's go!

1:30.0

We had no agenda, we just sat down and just started rolling and we had a great lot of fun so I decided to share that hour with you with Alisa's permission and of course you can find her podcast at alisachilders.com

1:45.0

You can also find it on YouTube if you want to watch the video portion of it but like I said hopefully this is a special treat for you, it was for us.

1:54.0

And so here is alisachilders.com podcast and yours truly.

2:01.0

Welcome to the Alisachilders podcast where we equip Christians to identify the core beliefs of historic Christianity, discern its counterfeits and proclaim the gospel with clarity, kindness and truth.

2:12.0

And I'm here live in Cincinnati at the cross-examined instructor academy with Greg Coco, the one and only.

2:18.0

So we are going to talk, I'm very excited for this conversation Greg because as you know me and your colleague Tim Barnett are researching a book on the topic of deconstruction so it's something we're thinking a lot about.

2:31.0

But I think you you've been in this game a long time, right?

2:36.0

In fact, we were talking and you have debated Deepak Topra, a lot of people may not be aware of that.

2:42.0

Michael Schurmer, famous atheist, several others on various college campuses.

2:46.0

You have a radio ministry, a multimedia ministry, written amazing books, best selling books.

2:53.0

And so I just want to glean from your wisdom primarily when it comes to the topic of truth.

2:59.0

The nature of truth, I think if I'm not exaggerating, I don't think this is an exaggeration to say that our culture has abandoned the idea of truth.

3:10.0

Frank Beckwith and I wrote a book and that was a year we got published here. I got married in 1998.

3:17.0

So it's been a long time to almost 25 years.

3:20.0

And it was called Relativeness. That's it. I mean, not a fancy title, but I like the subtitle Feet firmly planted in mid-air.

3:28.0

And it was appropriate because people who are relativistic in their thinking that is they don't believe in truth or it's certain categories of truth.

3:39.0

In this case moral truth is what we were talking about mostly in that book.

3:42.0

Well, they have no foundation. They're just floating around, so to speak.

3:46.0

So what do they have to guide them if they're just floating around? All they have to guide them is themselves.

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