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Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Is Morality Just Limited to God’s Say-So?

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg talks about the grounding for morality, then he answers questions about whether the criteria for the canon is contained in Scripture, how it’s possible that Satan rebelled if there was no sin in Heaven, and how Satan was able to be in the garden of Eden in the first place if it was perfect.

Transcript

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0:00.0

La La La, La, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, show, friends.

0:30.6

Greg Kokel here, and I'm glad that you're part of what we're doing here today.

0:34.4

Thank you.

0:35.0

This is called Stand a Reason.

0:36.9

I'm your host. And

0:39.0

just want to start with some thoughts about morality. It's, you know, it seems like everybody has

0:45.2

their area of, I mean, I consider my colleagues and different people of my team and others

0:52.4

that we work with on a regular basis.

0:57.2

And everybody has their specialty.

1:00.7

In fact, next week we'll have Stephen Meyer on.

1:04.8

And he'll be talking about a new documentary that he's involved with.

1:06.5

This is going to be so much fun.

1:23.9

Stephen is one of the few people I've had that I've done whole two-hour shows with because he's so fascinating, and the information he brings is riveting, and we'll be talking about a new documentary called Not a Story of Everything.

1:24.6

Is that it?

1:26.3

A story of everything.

1:32.6

And based on his somewhat on his most recent work,

1:38.8

which is the rebirth of the God hypothesis, I think the title of it. We've had a month for that,

1:43.6

but we'll be doing that next week. Anyway, he's really good in that area. and he's really good in a lot of areas.

1:52.7

But everybody kind of has kind of their lane, as it were, and I find that's true for me.

2:05.2

And I like talking about morality and not somewhat, sometimes in the abstract, the thing itself, and what we learn from the nature of reality by the fact that morality is part of the nature of reality. Francis Schaefer, I recall reading

2:12.7

when I was a brand new Christian, first year in the Lord, talking about human beings going through moral

2:20.0

motions. In other words, they are involved in what they think is moral activity. Now, that's

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