The STR Place Challenges

We started the weekly challenges back in 2010 on STR Place’s blog (our youth site). When we closed STR Place a couple of years later (student resources can now be found here on our main website), we began posting the challenges biweekly here at this blog. That means there’s two years’ worth of challenges on our old youth blog that most of you have never seen.

So this week, since Thursday is Christmas, we’re not posting a new challenge. Instead, here’s a list of all the challenges from STR Place for you to peruse and enjoy today. (And now they’re archived here for your easy access in the future, as well!)

God

• Does God care about sports? (Challenge – Response)
• Either God isn't good, or He isn't sovereign (Challenge – Response)
• Freud says God is an illusion (Challenge – Response)
• God is a psychopath (Challenge – Response)
• God is sexist (Challenge – Response)
• God is silent (Challenge – Response)
• God should make Himself more obvious (Challenge – Response)
• God wrongly punished Adam and Eve (Challenge – Response)
• The idea of God is contradictory (Challenge – Response)
• Neither a perfect nor an imperfect God would create (Challenge – Response)
• Only tyrants demand worship (Challenge – Response)
• Our brains create God (Challenge – Response)
• What kind of God saves a murderer? (Challenge – Response)
• Who created God? (Challenge – Response)
• Why should we believe there's only one God? (Challenge – Response)
• Why would God want to ruin our fun? (Challenge – Response)
• Your God is a monster (Challenge – Response)
  
  

Jesus

• Jesus never existed (Challenge – Response)
• Jesus wasn't moral (Challenge – Response)
• Jesus wasn't omniscient (Challenge – Response)
• There are no reliable non-Christian sources for Jesus (Challenge – Response)
• Was Jesus really tempted? (Challenge – Response)
• We can't know Jesus rose from the dead (Challenge – Response)
• Why I hate religion, but love Jesus (Challenge – Response)
• You don't know the real Jesus (Challenge – Response)
  
  

Theology

• 100% man or 100% God? (Challenge – Response)
• Christianity has its own jihad (Challenge – Response)
• The crucifixion is immoral (Challenge – Response)
• Does it make sense to pray for things? (Challenge – Response)
• Faith is gullibility (Challenge – Response)
• An infinite Hell is unjust (Challenge – Response)
• Prayer doesn't work (Challenge – Response)
• Salvation by grace is unfair (Challenge – Response)
• Then why is there evil? (Challenge – Response)
• Theology isn't worthy of study (Challenge – Response)
• The Trinity is unscriptural and unreasonable (Challenge – Response)
• Why blood sacrifice? (Challenge – Response)
• Why don't Christians follow the Law? (Challenge – Response)
  
  

Bible

• The Bible has been changed (Challenge – Response)
• Biblical law is immoral (Challenge – Response)
• Here are contradictions! (Challenge – Response)
• You can't trust the Gospels (Challenge – Response)
  
  

Other Religions

• 17 points of a true church? (Challenge – Response)
• The blind men and the elephant (Challenge – Response)
• "But I'm a good person" (Challenge – Response)
• The Mormon Church is unified (Challenge – Response)
• Mormons are Christians (Challenge – Response)
• Mormons believe in salvation by grace (Challenge – Response)
• There are witnesses to the Book of Mormon (Challenge – Response)
• They're all the same God (Challenge – Response)
• Unlike the Qur'an, the Bible Is Corrupt (Challenge – Response)
• Works are required (Challenge – Response)
  
  

Atheists

• Atheism is merely a lack of belief in God, not a claim there is no God (Challenge – Response)
• "I just believe in one fewer god than you do" (Challenge – Response)
• "I would believe in God if..." (Challenge – Response)
  
  

Philosophy

• The best possible world wouldn't have non-God objects (Challenge – Response)
• Consciousness is an illusion (Challenge – Response)
• How do I prove objective morality? (Challenge – Response)
• Intuition can't prove objective moral values (Challenge – Response)
• It's not rational to believe in God in an age of science (Challenge – Response)
• Maybe the universe is self-existent (Challenge – Response)
• Men don't rise from the dead (Challenge – Response)
• Miracles can't happen (Challenge – Response)
• Moral values are just brain patterns (Challenge – Response)
• There's no possibility of a Creator (Challenge – Response)
• Truth is empirical (Challenge – Response)
• Which is more likely: miracles or lying? (Challenge – Response)
  
  

Science

• Bad design = no design (Challenge – Response)
• Intelligent Design is just "God of the gaps" (Challenge – Response)
• Intelligent Design is not science (Challenge – Response)
• Prove God by the Scientific Method (Challenge – Response)
  
  

Bioethics

• Abortion is permissible because nobody has the right to use my body (Challenge – Response)
• Abortion wins souls for Christ (Challenge – Response)
• The Bible is okay with abortion (Challenge – Response)
• Early embryos aren't individuals (Challenge – Response)
• Women will die from back-alley abortions (Challenge – Response)
• The embryos are going to die anyway (Challenge – Response)
• A fetus without a brain is not a person (Challenge – Response)
• A fetus without an active brain is not alive (Challenge – Response)
• Leave the abortion debate to women (Challenge – Response)
• The life of a human being is in the blood (Challenge – Response)
• This is not a person (Challenge – Response)
• You wouldn't save the embryos (Challenge – Response)
• You're not really pro-life if you're for the death penalty (Challenge – Response)
  
  

Same-Sex Marriage

• Commitment makes a family (Challenge – Response)
• Dan Savage's anti-bullying speech (Challenge – Response)
• Is marriage really connected to children? (Challenge – Response)
• So you're against same-sex marriage because it's sinful? (Challenge – Response)
• You want the biblical view of marriage? (Challenge – Response)
  
  

You’re the Problem

• Christians are insecure (Challenge – Response)
• Would you obey God if...? (Challenge – Response)
• You just needed a father figure (Challenge – Response)
• You're arrogant! (Challenge – Response)
• You're Christian because you're Western (Challenge – Response)
  
  

Miscellaneous

• Christmas is pagan (Challenge – Response)
• Doubt those who say they found truth (Challenge – Response)
• "I can't say my mom is in Hell" (Challenge – Response)
• What can we learn about God from apologetics? (Challenge – Response)
• What do Christians gain in this life? (Challenge – Response)
• What if someone doesn't want to listen? (Challenge – Response)

Comments

[Sam Harper]

Thanks Amy. I still go back and read some of those sometimes. It's nice to have them all right here in one tidy post. It must've taken you some time to compile this. Thank you.

[Amy]

Ha! Yes, I admit, it took me a lot longer than I expected! I'm glad you found it helpful. :-)