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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Are We Able to Get an Objective Meaning from the Text?

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg answers a question about the “hermeneutical spiral” and getting an objective meaning from the text, then he chats with a caller who doesn’t believe in God about his objection to Greg’s definition of atheism and why he is currently deconstructing.

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0:29.0

All right, friends, Greg Kokel here, a stand of reason, and this is our second show this week, and I did talk about this last hour, but I want to reiterate it simply because

0:37.8

I only have a few chances to remind you of this that we're at the end of year, and this is our

0:44.4

campaign, end of your campaign, to bring on board a whole bunch of people who have been

0:48.8

benefiting from what we've been doing for all this past year, And now it's our appeal to encourage you to partnership

0:58.9

with us, in a partner, rather, with us financially at this end of year. And we're going to give you

1:05.6

something as an incentive to that. But before I do that, I just want to say, I am so thankful for everybody that has been

1:14.8

giving consistently, or even once.

1:17.4

We don't like to talk about one-time gifts, because we don't want any gift to be one-time.

1:22.3

We do talk about individual gifts, though, and maybe that's where you're at.

1:26.3

Whoever is given financially to us, thank you.

1:28.7

Just thank you.

1:29.7

We appreciate it so much, and we work really hard for you.

1:33.6

And we don't require anybody to give us anything.

1:36.6

Everything that we have is complimentary on our website and our podcasts and all that other stuff.

1:42.6

Because we do have partners that help us to do effectively

1:47.9

what we do. And so thank you to all of you who are doing that. And for those that are not

1:54.4

at the moment, you might want to think about that. Did you ever consider being a partner with us?

1:58.4

If you're benefiting from us, Paul says, let him who is taught

2:02.4

share all good things with him who teaches. And if you, if you, then he talks about sewing and

2:07.5

reaping, and you reap what you sow, you know. And this is in the context of that verse. It's in

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