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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Didn’t Jesus Teach That We Were Supposed to Love and Accept One Another?

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg responds to the claim that “Jesus taught that we were supposed to love and accept one another,” then he answers questions about numbers being evidence for the existence of God, using a person’s suffering as an apologetic, and the salvation of Word of Faith people.

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0:00.0

La La La, la,

0:02.0

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, la. Hello, my good friends. Greg Kokel here for stand of reason. And so glad to be with you today. I feel like I've been running, running, running, running the last few months.

0:38.4

And, in fact, I got in last night at 8.30 in the morning. I'm sorry, 8.30 in the evening.

0:45.0

That would Monday night. I left on what, Friday, yeah, Friday morning at 3.30 a.m.

0:51.8

That's the day after Thanksgiving, so I wouldn't have any

0:54.7

leftovers of Thanksgiving leftovers and had a fabulous time with a church in South Florida,

1:01.2

a Calvary Chapel down there, just fabulous. Two services Friday evening, three Sunday morning,

1:07.1

and then three hours in the afternoon.

1:11.6

And it was just wonderful.

1:12.6

I just got back yesterday and I'm off this morning to do shows, and I'm driving

1:17.6

down to San Diego to spend some time with Mike Horton in his class tomorrow at

1:22.6

seminary there.

1:23.6

So I just go, go, go, and I really look forward to coming back tomorrow night and then kind of resting in the sense of not traveling.

1:32.0

I don't know, maybe you guys are feeling it too, just a little bit of stress, although we're getting into that season that is generally stressful.

1:41.8

But hopefully, for me, it'll be a little bit of a slowdown.

1:46.8

Looking forward to that.

1:48.1

Glad to talk with you today, though, when I was thinking about a challenge I heard online,

1:53.9

maybe a week and a half or two weeks ago, I was just actually watching a couple little clips,

1:59.0

and one of Frank Turrick doing a university talk,

2:02.9

and afterwards he has Q&A, and he deals with all kinds of challenges from the audiences.

2:08.7

And Frank is really good at this.

2:11.4

In fact, I think he has filled in the last couple of months to help complete the Charlie Kirk tour that Charlie, of course,

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