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Mike Winger idea 2025-10-03

Responding to Zachary Levi: A respectful analysis of Zachary Levi’s beliefs on the Bible.

Q&A question: Responding to Zachary Levi

Mike Winger idea 2025-10-03

The Witness of the Spirit: If I know I believe the Gospel is true but I don’t feel any “witness of the Spirit,” what does that mean? I’m trying to trust with my whole heart.

Q&A question: The Witness of the Spirit

evangelism

Mike Winger idea 2025-10-03

Has God Abandoned the World?: My dad is an unbeliever but acknowledges God’s existence through creation. He believes that God created the world and then abandoned it. How can I help show him that God is still with us to this day?

Q&A question: Has God Abandoned the World?

creation

Mike Winger idea 2025-10-03

Should I Worship a God I Don’t Like?: A common objection I hear is, "Why should I worship a God I don't like?"

Q&A question: Should I Worship a God I Don’t Like?

worship

Mike Winger idea 2025-10-03

Is My Sin Even My Fault?: Why am I accountable to God for my sins when I was born with a sin nature? Shouldn't a loving God provide the basic remedy for creation when they had no choice in being created and no choice regarding their nature?

Q&A question: Is My Sin Even My Fault?

creation

Mike Winger idea 2025-10-03

Was YHWH Beaten in Battle?: How can I defend 2 Kings 3 when skeptics use it as an example of Yahweh being beaten in battle by another entity in driving the Israelites out, despite them being prophesied to win?

Q&A question: Was YHWH Beaten in Battle?

apologetics Israel

Mike Winger idea 2025-10-03

Learning to Evangelize Better: I converted just over a year ago and had some success evangelizing to my community (libertarians). I've read the New Testament and I’m working on reading it twice now. What can I do to evangelize better, especially to libertarians?

Q&A question: Learning to Evangelize Better

angels

Mike Winger idea 2025-10-03

How Can God Have a God?: I heard this question in my group: God is considered the Most High; thus Jesus (who is God) is the Most High. Therefore, why does Jesus claim that He has a God above Him in Revelation 3: 12?

Q&A question: How Can God Have a God?

Revelation 3 revelation Jesus Revelation 3 revelation

Mike Winger idea 2025-10-03

Does Doubt = Incomplete Faith?: I’m a new believer who used to be a Jehovah’s Witness. I gave my life to Christ a few years ago, but sometimes I wrestle with doubt. Does that make my faith incomplete?

Q&A question: Does Doubt = Incomplete Faith?

Jehovah's Witnesses

Mike Winger idea 2025-10-03

Acceptance Only of a “Higher Power”: My daughter (13) believes that there may be a higher power, but doesn’t believe in Jesus. I’m trying to figure out how to reach her in an effective manner. What advice can you offer?

Q&A question: Acceptance Only of a “Higher Power”

Jesus

Mike Winger idea 2025-10-03

The Sadness of Animal Suffering: Why is there such a great amount of suffering that animals need to go through? Wouldn’t a good God create it to where the animals didn’t have to suffer and still feed us?

Q&A question: The Sadness of Animal Suffering

suffering

Mike Winger idea 2025-10-03

Answered Prayer or Coincidence?: How can I tell if God actually answered my prayers or if the outcome was just a coincidence? Many Christians say God has spoken to or guided them without evidence. How can such claims be tested objectively?

Q&A question: Answered Prayer or Coincidence?

prayer

Mike Winger idea 2025-10-03

Does God Send Us to Hell?: How can I convince my brother that God does not condemn us to Hell and that it’s our own free will that puts us there? He has stopped talking to us due to that belief he has.

Q&A question: Does God Send Us to Hell?

hell free will

Mike Winger idea 2025-10-03

Explaining the Trinity to Muslims: I have a Muslim friend who is struggling to understand the Trinity and asked, “how can God be 3 things all at once, and how can He be crucified?” Can you explain it in a way that a Muslim will understand?

Q&A question: Explaining the Trinity to Muslims

Trinity Islam

Mike Winger idea 2025-10-03

Street Healings: Are They Real?: Are street healings real? Christians pray for strangers who report relief from pain and various illnesses. But atheist Derren Brown has produced similar results. Are these miracles or psychological effects?

Q&A question: Street Healings: Are They Real?

Derren Brown miracles atheism

Mike Winger idea 2025-10-03

Is Mental Illness a Fallacy?: I'm in a faith crisis. I shared my mental health struggle with my discipler, and at the next study, they called mental illness a fallacy. I walked away and struggle if it's all real.

Q&A question: Is Mental Illness a Fallacy?

doubt and faith anxiety and mental health

Mike Winger idea 2025-10-03

Why is David in Heaven?: Can you explain how David would be in Heaven when he knew 1 wife was God’s design but was living in continuous sin (1 John 3:4-9, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Hebrews 10: 26, Ephesians 5:3-7)?

Q&A question: Why is David in Heaven?

1 Corinthians 6 Ephesians 5 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 David marriage 1 Corinthians 6

Mike Winger idea 2025-10-03

Rejecting Certain Parts of Scripture?: Can you have blind faith and not believe certain parts of the Bible?

Q&A question: Rejecting Certain Parts of Scripture?

Mike Winger idea 2025-10-03

Higher Healing Statistics?: Christians tend to pray for the healing of their loved ones when they are physically unwell, there should be a statistically measurable difference in health levels among Christians vs. non-Christians. Do we see it?

Q&A question: Higher Healing Statistics?

healing

Mike Winger idea 2025-10-24

OT Food Laws vs. Homosexuality?: If we aren't required to keep the Old Covenant food laws, then why are the unclean animals described in Deuteronomy 14:3 with the same Hebrew word for homosexuality in Leviticus 18?

Q&A question: OT Food Laws vs. Homosexuality?

homosexuality

Mike Winger idea 2021-02-08

Daniel's prophecies about the abomination of desolation (Daniel 8:13, 9:26-27, 11:31, 12:11) describe a specific bad actor who makes a seven-year covenant with Israel, stops temple sacrifices at the midpoint, and sets up the abomination, leading to a three-and-a-half-year tribulation period before he is destroyed.

Survey of all relevant Daniel passages; key data for futurist interpretation

Daniel prophecy tribulation Daniel

Mike Winger idea 2024-10-21

The literary alliteration of Hebrews 1:1 in Greek (poly-meros, poly-tropos, patrasin, prophetais — all P-sounds) signals this is high-level, carefully crafted Greek prose. God speaking "in many times and many ways" through the prophets contrasts with the singular, final word through the Son — a deliberate narrowing funnel from diverse OT revelation to the one person of Jesus.

Greek alliteration in Hebrews 1:1; the "many-to-one" funnel structure of divine revelation

revelation Hebrews 1 Jesus prophecy revelation

Mike Winger idea 2024-12-23

Jude 9 — Michael disputing with Satan over Moses's body and saying "the Lord rebuke you" — is the most interesting passage in the debate. If Jude alludes to Zechariah 3:2 (where it is Yahweh himself speaking those words), then identifying Michael with Jesus would actually require elevating Michael to divine status, not demoting Jesus. Either way, Jude 4 calls Jesus our "only Master and Lord" in the same letter.

Jude 9 and Zechariah 3:2: the Michael-Jesus identification actually requires exalting Michael to deity

Zechariah 3 Zechariah Moses Jesus Satan

Mike Winger idea 2026-01-09

Miller experienced the hostility firsthand: prank calls from PhD colleagues, a Marxist professor placing a "delusional" note in his file, and having his dissertation sabotaged for having "too much of a faith perspective." It is now routinely understood in PhD programs that Christians hide their faith until they receive their degree — a level of suppression that atheists and Marxists never face.

Personal testimony of anti-Christian hostility in secular PhD programs; Christians hide faith to survive

atheism

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Responding to Zachary Levi: A respectful analysis of Zachary Levi’s beliefs on the Bible.

The Witness of the Spirit: If I know I believe the Gospel is true but I don’t feel any “witness of the Spirit,” what does that mean? I’m trying to trust with my whole heart.

Has God Abandoned the World?: My dad is an unbeliever but acknowledges God’s existence through creation. He believes that God created the world and then abandoned it. How can I help show him that God is still with us to this day?

Should I Worship a God I Don’t Like?: A common objection I hear is, "Why should I worship a God I don't like?"

Is My Sin Even My Fault?: Why am I accountable to God for my sins when I was born with a sin nature? Shouldn't a loving God provide the basic remedy for creation when they had no choice in being created and no choice regarding their nature?

Was YHWH Beaten in Battle?: How can I defend 2 Kings 3 when skeptics use it as an example of Yahweh being beaten in battle by another entity in driving the Israelites out, despite them being prophesied to win?

Learning to Evangelize Better: I converted just over a year ago and had some success evangelizing to my community (libertarians). I've read the New Testament and I’m working on reading it twice now. What can I do to evangelize better, especially to libertarians?

How Can God Have a God?: I heard this question in my group: God is considered the Most High; thus Jesus (who is God) is the Most High. Therefore, why does Jesus claim that He has a God above Him in Revelation 3: 12?

Does Doubt = Incomplete Faith?: I’m a new believer who used to be a Jehovah’s Witness. I gave my life to Christ a few years ago, but sometimes I wrestle with doubt. Does that make my faith incomplete?

Acceptance Only of a “Higher Power”: My daughter (13) believes that there may be a higher power, but doesn’t believe in Jesus. I’m trying to figure out how to reach her in an effective manner. What advice can you offer?

The Sadness of Animal Suffering: Why is there such a great amount of suffering that animals need to go through? Wouldn’t a good God create it to where the animals didn’t have to suffer and still feed us?

Answered Prayer or Coincidence?: How can I tell if God actually answered my prayers or if the outcome was just a coincidence? Many Christians say God has spoken to or guided them without evidence. How can such claims be tested objectively?

Does God Send Us to Hell?: How can I convince my brother that God does not condemn us to Hell and that it’s our own free will that puts us there? He has stopped talking to us due to that belief he has.

Explaining the Trinity to Muslims: I have a Muslim friend who is struggling to understand the Trinity and asked, “how can God be 3 things all at once, and how can He be crucified?” Can you explain it in a way that a Muslim will understand?

Street Healings: Are They Real?: Are street healings real? Christians pray for strangers who report relief from pain and various illnesses. But atheist Derren Brown has produced similar results. Are these miracles or psychological effects?

Is Mental Illness a Fallacy?: I'm in a faith crisis. I shared my mental health struggle with my discipler, and at the next study, they called mental illness a fallacy. I walked away and struggle if it's all real.

Why is David in Heaven?: Can you explain how David would be in Heaven when he knew 1 wife was God’s design but was living in continuous sin (1 John 3:4-9, 1 Corinthians 6:9-11, Hebrews 10: 26, Ephesians 5:3-7)?

Rejecting Certain Parts of Scripture?: Can you have blind faith and not believe certain parts of the Bible?

Higher Healing Statistics?: Christians tend to pray for the healing of their loved ones when they are physically unwell, there should be a statistically measurable difference in health levels among Christians vs. non-Christians. Do we see it?

OT Food Laws vs. Homosexuality?: If we aren't required to keep the Old Covenant food laws, then why are the unclean animals described in Deuteronomy 14:3 with the same Hebrew word for homosexuality in Leviticus 18?

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