What Are You Going to Do With Your Guilt? with Dr. Bobby Conway

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Guilt. Everyone has it. Where does this feeling come from, can it actually be good for us, and what can we do with it? Dr. Bobby Conway joins Frank from CIA 2025 to unpack his doctoral research on guilt, exploring how thinkers like Freud and Darwin tried to explain and resolve it without God, and why those attempts ultimately fall short. During their conversation, Frank and Bobby answer questions like:* Why did Bobby choose to do his doctoral thesis on the topic of guilt?* How can guilt be used as evidence that God exists?* What does our guilt reveal about the character of God?* Can sin ever be justified even if we don’t feel guilty?* How has unresolved guilt fueled cancel culture?* Why is secular psychology failing to fix today’s guilt-driven mental health crisis?As Greg Koukl puts it, “We feel guilty because we ARE guilty.” Frank and Bobby unpack why the Gospel offers the only real solution to guilt—and how this universal human experience points directly to the existence and nature of God. If you're burdened by the weight and consequences of your own bad decisions, pull up a chair and learn how you can find freedom through the saving grace of Jesus Christ!Resources mentioned during the episode:The Graphite Apologist - https://www.youtube.com/@TheGraphiteApologist (https://www.youtube.com/@TheGraphiteApologist) Good God by David Baggett - https://a.co/d/gVoinMK (https://a.co/d/gVoinMK)Uncomfortable Thoughts on Christians & Therapy with Josh Howerton - https://youtu.be/EPhDGcPBGrk (https://youtu.be/EPhDGcPBGrk)

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, what is guilt?
0:05.0	Why does everybody have it?
0:08.0	And what is the solution to it?
0:11.0	We're here in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the 18th annual cross-examine instructor academy.
0:19.0	That is where we try and train people on how to present
0:22.7	the evidence for Christianity and more importantly, how to answer the hardest questions that
0:28.5	you get when you're a Christian trying to present the evidence for Christianity. And one of our
0:33.6	instructors who's been with us for many years is Dr. Bobby Conway, and Bobby's not just an
0:39.2	apologist, he's a pastor, so he cares about people. He cares about you. And, well, come on. He does.
0:45.9	Anyway, Bobby just did a wonderful presentation here at CIA about the issue of guilt. That affects
0:52.1	everybody, Christian or not. What is it? Why do we have it?
0:55.2	What's the solution to it? Bobby, it's great seeing you and great having you here at CIA.
1:00.3	Let me ask you about your dissertation, because you did a dissertation on this topic, a PhD dissertation
1:06.3	on guilt. What was the title of it? Why did you decide to do it?
1:09.3	Well, I approached it from the standpoint
1:11.5	of the problem of guilt and a Christian-shaped solution. And my interest in apologetics is mostly
1:20.7	in the moral argument. I mean, being a general apologist for many years, I've tackled lots
1:27.1	of different subjects, of course,
1:28.7	with like 2,000 videos on the one-minute apologists. But as a pastor and somebody that was thinking
1:36.6	about how do we connect apologetics in a way that I think is digestible? I think we can do so
1:44.0	through a problem that we all struggle
1:45.5	with. And I felt like the moral argument is something that is very appealing, but the guilt
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