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Is Greg Placing His Faith in the Wrong Thing?

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Stand to Reason

Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity

4.9601 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Questions about Greg placing his faith in his personal assessment of which truth claims best match reality rather than in the revelation of God in Jesus and a personal encounter with the Spirit, and how to fight thoughts that God isn’t real when you know he is real.

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0:00.0

All right, Greg, let's get right to it with a question from Lorena.

0:16.9

All right.

0:18.1

Could you please respond to this critique of Greg Kochel? Let's get right to it. It's a good one to start with, right? All right. Could you please respond to this critique of Greg Kokel?

0:22.5

Let's get right to it.

0:23.6

Let's get right to it.

0:23.6

Okay.

0:25.6

Those who place their faith in their personal assessment of which truth claims best

0:29.6

correspond to reality are placing their faith in something other than the revelation of God in Jesus Christ and the personal encounter with the Holy Spirit.

0:40.3

I'm a bit speechless, okay? And apart from the fact this is a critique of me, it is a critique

0:46.8

of an approach, all right? I am speechless because when you go to the text, you see over and over and over and over and over again

1:01.0

constant appeals to evidence and reason as a basis for genuine, true faith in Christ.

1:12.6

And probably the most famous one, the easiest one to access and remember is the end of the Gospel of John.

1:24.0

In chapter 20, it's easy to find because it's right after doubting Thomas, which many

1:30.3

people misunderstand, especially given what the very next verse says.

1:36.7

And I think it's 2021.

1:39.7

But John gives the reason he wrote the gospel.

1:43.4

And he says, many, now, of course, there's Jesus, the resurrected Christ.

1:49.2

And then he says, many other signs and wonders, Jesus performed – now, by the way,

1:57.4

the word in the Greek for signs and wonders – I'm not sure, like my Greek goes back

2:02.1

about 40 years, but maybe longer, I think it's Simeon or something like that, but it means

2:07.4

a testing miracle. And if you look in your margin here at my Numeric standard, the margin

2:12.0

says size wonders, it says a testing miracle. In other words, the miracle is meant to attest

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