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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Are Prayers Pointless If God Knows What Will Happen?

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg answers questions about whether prayers are pointless if God knows what will happen, why we would be held responsible for Adam and Eve’s decisions, how John 3:13 could say no one has ascended into Heaven, and interactions between non-physical things and physical things.

Transcript

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0:00.0

La La La La La, La,

0:02.0

La, La, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. La La La La La La, show, friends. I am Greg Kokel, your host, and the show is Stan to Reason.

0:35.0

And thank you for joining me, being a part of what we're doing here today.

0:39.2

And this hour is going to be open mic calls, which means I will be taking calls that you leave on a

0:46.3

recording on our website. Usually, you can also call it in, but we prefer you go to STR.org,

0:52.9

to our homepage under podcast. You'll see a live broadcast, go to that,

0:57.5

drop down, and then follow the prompts. And you can leave a question. And it'll get in the queue,

1:03.9

and then eventually, well, we'll get to it. And that's what I'm doing today. So I have a series of questions that,

1:12.5

and I think the first two, I might be mistaken about this, but the first two from an atheist

1:18.0

or a non-believer, yeah, Amy's giving the nod there. So knowing that will factor into the,

1:27.4

oh, okay, she says, not sure if he's an atheist, but certainly I'm not believer.

1:35.3

And which is fine, glad to have those kinds of questions.

1:40.3

If a person is an atheist, and I know that, that means that – and I talked about this – I've talked about this in the past, the notion of entailment that is certain ideas, points of view, worldviews, entail other things of necessity as a natural part of that worldview, even though it may not be expressed.

2:01.3

And a lot of people don't understand that.

2:03.6

And so if there is an atheist who is then complaining about something that is immoral, then

2:12.1

my question is going to be, how could something be immoral if there is no God?

2:17.4

Because it seems that if we're just

2:19.3

molecules in motion, materialistic understanding of the universe, and that's where most atheists

2:26.1

are at, then there is no grounding, no place for, no coherence to the notion that there

2:33.1

are objective moral obligations that one can apply

2:37.5

to, say, Christians who they think are acting in an immoral way or a God who is immoral.

2:44.4

Anyway, that won't be the factor here, I guess, when I get to the question, but we'll see

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