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What Are the Top Three Apologist Pitfalls to Watch Out For?

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Stand to Reason

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9601 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Question about the top three pitfalls to watch out for when you start using apologetics in conversations with others.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Stand to Reasons, hashtag STR-Ask podcast. This is Amy Hall, and I'm here with Greg

0:18.1

Kokel. And today, Greg, we have questions about how you do things.

0:24.5

So I, and I think you're going to have some great ideas for people. All right. So this first-

0:28.6

How I do things. Yeah, well, you'll hear in a second. Okay. I put my pants on with my left leg in first.

0:36.1

Okay. Not that kind of stuff.

0:38.1

All right.

0:38.7

So this first one comes from Josh.

0:40.8

What are your top three brand new apologist pitfalls?

0:44.7

Like if you've just read tactics, you're ready to go and the J.Ws show up at your door or your atheist co-worker starts asking you about God.

0:51.9

What are the top three watch out for this things?

0:54.9

Hmm.

0:56.5

Well, a couple of things come to mind.

0:59.8

They're not always so much watch out for this thing, but unless you're thinking about watch

1:06.7

out for how you do this thing or how you come across. Actually, there's more than three.

1:12.5

Three logical fallacies come to mind that are standard. And I've written about this recently.

1:20.0

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1:27.4

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1:28.5

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1:34.5

All right. But the first things that come to mind is that I think that sometimes when apologists, and this I know from

1:42.8

personal experience, making this mistake myself, when apologists, and this I know from personal experience, making this mistake myself,

1:46.9

when apologists get into an apologetic circumstance defending the faith, that means there's

1:53.2

an attacker in a certain sense to our ideas and our convictions.

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