What Is the Difference Between Believing and Knowing?

About this episode

The episode discusses the distinction between believing and knowing from a biblical perspective and addresses the nature of evidence in relation to the existence of God.

Questions about the difference between believing and knowing from a biblical perspective, why it’s considered bad manners to ask for testable, repeatable evidence for the existence of gods, and why Christians don’t prove God exists by asking him to change carbon dioxide into hydrogen.

People in this episode

Host: Stand to Reason

Topics covered

• belief
• knowledge
• biblical perspective
• existence of God
• evidence
• Christianity

Keywords

• believing
• knowing
• God
• evidence
• Christianity
• biblical
• existence

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