Is God a Bad Father?

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg responds to the charge that God is a bad father, then he answers a question from a caller about why we have to go through sanctification when people who die shortly after salvation are immediately glorified.

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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, oh, oh, oh, oh.
0:21.6	All right, friends, Greg Kokel here for stand to reason.
0:35.6	I'm tapping my headset.
0:38.9	I'm saying, I don't have any sound here.
0:41.7	What's going on, Kyle?
0:43.9	And I realize I'm not plugged in.
0:46.2	Got to plug it in.
0:47.3	Check the plug.
0:48.2	All right.
0:49.4	Welcome to Stand to Reason, Greg Coker here, your absent-minded host.
0:53.6	Glad you join me today.
0:56.2	I've never done that before.
0:59.2	But I was asked a question.
1:02.7	Incidentally, let me give me a phone number in case you'd like to call in.
1:06.1	855-243-9-975.
1:09.3	That's my line for, actually, it's Amy's. You'll get Amy then. She'll pass you on to me when she chats with you. 855-243-9-975. If you want to call in during live show hours, that's Tuesday from 4 p.m. till 6 p.m. Los Angeles time. I was in Minneapolis over the
1:34.0	weekend, many so cold, and it was so cold. I looked at my iPhone and said 14 degrees.
1:44.9	Feels like 8.
1:47.1	Felt like minus 8 to me.
1:48.8	Now, I grew up in Chicago, and actually my first five years of my life were spent on a farm in Wisconsin,
1:55.2	pretty much the same distance north as Minneapolis.
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