Why Does God Limit Our Opportunity to Repent and Believe to This Lifetime?

Stand to Reason Weekly Podcast

Greg Koukl

Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Greg responds to the challenge that it’s arbitrary for God to limit our opportunity to repent and believe to this lifetime, then he talks to callers about a contradiction in Genesis, the lack of spiritual growth in babies who are never born, and whether God or parents create souls.

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0:00.0	La La La La
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0:04.0	Oh,
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0:07.0	Oh, Hello, friends. Hello, friends. Greg Kokel here for stand to reason.
0:31.6	I'm energized at the moment because just got the stats for our wonderful project in the month of August, which
0:40.8	we do have been doing for a number of years now, B1 of the 100. I actually think we should call
0:47.2	it B1 of the 200 because we blow by the 100 new strategic partners every single year that we do this.
0:57.3	And sometimes, many times we get close to 200.
1:00.6	In fact, that program's over.
1:02.5	I just wanted to let you know what our results were because we're thrilled with so many of you,
1:08.5	and I suspect some of you were even praying for us, and I appreciate that.
1:12.0	So I wanted to give you the results.
1:14.6	We have a total number of new strategic partners, that is, those who commit themselves
1:20.6	to help us financially with a fixed amount of every month, $25, $100, some even more.
1:30.0	And that's a month, a month, a month basis.
1:33.1	We've got, what, over maybe 2,000 of those right now, more than that.
1:38.7	That's a foundation for us, people we trust, and that's our cadre on the inside.
1:43.9	We added 178 more strategic
1:48.9	partners to our team this last month. So I just want to say thank you to those 178, which
1:58.4	represents, by the way, quite a number of that over 100 of those, this was their very first time they've ever given to stand a reason.
2:08.4	Another 22 of those, this was the second time they've given.
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