November 29, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank answers the question, “Has God spoken?” Muslims answer by pointing to the Qur’an as God’s only credible, uncorrupted revelation. Mormons are certain that God has spoken through a revelation called the Book of Mormon. But God has not spoken through the Qur’an, nor the Book of Mormon. He has, however, spoken through the Bible, as Hank demonstrates in his book Has God Spoken?: Proof of the Bible’s Divine Inspiration.
Hank also answers the following questions:
What is a good Bible translation in English? Tashay - MD (2:53)
What does the Bible say about the physical appearance of Jesus? Tashay - MD (5:24)
What is your view of speaking in tongues? Is it forbidden? Tashay - MD (9:32)
Do you make a distinction between the law of Christ and the law of Moses? Mitchell - Raleigh, NC (15:11)
Hebrews 12 talks about the Lord’s chastisement. How does God chastise us? David - Austin, TX (19:49)
My daughter lost a preborn baby. Did that baby have a spirit? Tony - Waynesburg, PA (23:04)
Hank also answers the following questions:
What is a good Bible translation in English? Tashay - MD (2:53)
What does the Bible say about the physical appearance of Jesus? Tashay - MD (5:24)
What is your view of speaking in tongues? Is it forbidden? Tashay - MD (9:32)
Do you make a distinction between the law of Christ and the law of Moses? Mitchell - Raleigh, NC (15:11)
Hebrews 12 talks about the Lord’s chastisement. How does God chastise us? David - Austin, TX (19:49)
My daughter lost a preborn baby. Did that baby have a spirit? Tony - Waynesburg, PA (23:04)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
From the Christian Research Institute in Charlotte, North Carolina. You
are listening to the best of the Bible answer Man
broadcast with Hank Canagraph. We're on the air because life
and truth matter. The mission of the Christian Research Institute
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and persuasively, and to give the reason for the hope
(00:29):
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pre recorded and now here's Bible answer Man host Hank Canagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Has God spoken? Well, there's a more significant question. I
am wholly unaware of what it might be. Of course,
Muslim's answer, by pointing to the Quran, is God's only credible,
uncorrupted revelation, and from their perspective, God spoke through the
angel Gabriel, who dictated the Koran to Muhammad over a
(01:07):
period of twenty three years. Mormons, just like Muslims, are
certain that God has spoken through a revelation called the
Book of Mormon, which their prophet called the most correct
of any book on earth and the keystone to our religion.
But God has not spoken through the Koran. He has
(01:32):
not spoken through the Book of Mormon. He has, however,
spoken through the Bible, as I demonstrate beyond the shadow
of a doubt in my book has God Spoken? That
book counters all contentions to the contrary and builds a
cumulative case for the absolute authority of the Word of God.
(01:56):
It answers the question has God spoken in the affirmative
and demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt that the Bible is
divine rather than merely human in origin. Is that important,
of course, because without such assurance, Christianity would have no
(02:17):
more authority for faith in practice than does Islam, Mormonism,
or a host of other misguided movements. I focus in
this book on presenting you memorable proofs for the Bible's
divine inspiration. It is available for your gift to the
ongoing work of the Christian Research Institute. You can check
(02:37):
it out online at equipp dot org. You can write
me at box eighty five hundred, Charlotte, North Carolina, zip
code two eight two seven one, or as always, talk
to our resource consultants triple eight seven thousand and the
letters CRI. Let's go right to the phone lines Taesha.
First listening on the web in Maryland.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Hi, Hi, I'm so cut cauld I'd be able to
go through this is Oh, this is still sound true
for me. I didn't know I'm gonna get through it
to you today. Even though I didn't prepare my question much,
I wanted to tell you that each time I listened
to you or I see you on on your website,
(03:19):
and you remind me of my dad long time ago,
who was who was a priest and Orthodox church in Ethiopia.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Well, thank you for that compliment.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Thank you. Everything you do, like your humbleness and how
you handle yourself and everything. It's it's really reminds me
of of him, how great he was and how he
was really serving that church. Now, my question to you
is when I was little, I used to go to
church with him, like read a Bible with him, and
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he used to show me stuff and the song and
the church and every stuff. But what is really good
bible to follow? Nowadays it's like whenever I see like
a Bible, I read it in Numaharic and also I
read it in English, So what is really a good Bible?
I used to read the one with Old Testament and
(04:16):
New Testament together, so I couldn't find any Bible either
it's mixed up or I have to send someone to
get me from Ethiopia about the Almaharic one. But what
is a good one?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Well, the New King James Version of the Bible is
a wonderful version of the Bible that retains the majesty
of the English language and yet is understandable. It takes
connotative language and it communicates it in the language of
today so that you can understand it. And so it's
accurately communicated from the original text in the context of
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today's language, in this case English. Also, the New Internet
National Version is a wonderful version of the Bible that
takes into account all of the best manuscript evidence that's
available today, so that you can trust it to be accurate,
communicating thought for thought from the original languages, the Hebrew,
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the Greek, and the Aramaic into the language of today.
So both are great translations.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Okay. And also my quick questions to you, what is
Jesus's description on the Bible and how do you describe
that in.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
His physical appearance?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, the Bible doesn't give us any information about the
physical appearance of Jesus Christ. We would imagine that he
had a Semitic appearance, but we don't know because the
Bible simply does not tell us. So everything that is
indicated in some pictorial fashion is an idea that someone
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would have that's not based on any evidence whatsoever. So
one thing we know from scripture is what Isaiah prophesied
about the coming Jesus. And what Isaiah said is this,
he grew up before him like a tender shoot, and
like a root out of dry ground. He had no
beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in
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his appearance that we should desire him. And then Isaiah
goes on to say he was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering, like one
from whom men hide their faces. He was despised, and
we esteemed him not. So from that we might have
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some indication that he didn't look like Charlton Heston or
some icon in our culture, And certainly, as he's often
depicted with blue eyes and long blonde hair, that wouldn't
apply either. He was likely some met in appearance, and
there was nothing to attract us to him by his appearance,
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everything to attract us to him by his message, his manner,
his love, his compassion, and the fact that he ultimately
demonstrated that he was God in human flesh.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Okay, So when it says like some places, I don't
know what places really described them in the Bible, as
he's here is like a wall and stuff like that,
where does that come from?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, well that's interesting, and I'm glad you brought that up.
That's a very good point. In Revelation, you have a
depiction of Jesus Christ where John is looking at seven
golden lamp stands, and then among the lamp stands he
sees someone like a son of man. He's dressed in
a robe, reaching down to his feet. He has a
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golden sash around his chest. And then John says his
head and hair were white like wooe, as white as snow.
His eyes were like blazing fire, his feet like bronze
glowing in a furnace, his voice like the sound of
rushing waters. Out of his mouth came a sharp, double
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edged sword, and his face was like the sun, shining
in all of its brilliance. Now, this is not a
description of what Jesus Christ looks like, but rather a
description of what Jesus is like. In other words, all
of these characteristics point to characteristics of Jesus Christ as
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described in the Bible, not in terms of his physical appearance,
but rather what he is like. He is the one
to whom all power is ascribed, and that is personified
by the robe reaching down to his feet, with the
golden sash around his chest. His eyes like blazing fire
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would be an image of the fact that he discerns
between wheat and chaff, and that all in righteousness will
be burned in his presence. So there are indications of
what he is like, of his character, of his nature,
not of his appearance, okay, not his physical being, yes, yeah,
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I mean he doesn't have a mouth and a tongue
that looks like a sword. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And what do you think of like a speaking in
tongue is really? Is it forbidden or is it? Like
I know, it says something on a second Countian's fourteen.
If I'm not mistaken, it says, and they're like, he
prefers us to do prophecy instead of speaking in tongue.
(09:52):
Speaking in tongue doesn't teach the congregation, So what do
you think? Can you just allow it a little bit yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
If tongue are spoken correctly, as you point out in
First Corinthians chapter fourteen, there has to be an interpretation absolutely,
and I would say furthermore that tongues are not normative.
Although prophesying is prophesying, however, as used in First Corinthians
chapter fourteen, is not foretelling the future, but forth telling
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in terms of encouragement, exhortation, edification, so that the Body
of Christ might be equipped as a body to minister
to one another and to be a voice to the world.
I'm gonna have to leave it at that. It was
good talking to you.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Good talk, an. I'm so thrilled you have no idea.
God bless you, and I would love to donate to
your ministry. I'll get in touch.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
You welcome plain bye, right back.
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Speaker 2 (15:09):
Thank very much, Randy, and let's go right back to
our phone callers. Mitchell listening in Raleigh, North Carolina. You're
up next time, Mitchell.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Hey, thank you, Hank, Hey, I just finished reading your
book The Apocalypse Code wonderfully well written book. It does
a great job of refuting most, if not all, of
the claims of dispensationalism, and I really enjoyed the book.
Thank you for that. I had a question in the book.
You used a similar phrase to something you said a
moment ago, that when the substance comes, we dare not
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go back to the symbol or the shadow. And I
could not more heartily agree. How far do you take
that principle in applying it to maybe the what distinction
do you make between the law of Christ and the
law of Moses.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, and that's exactly the right question to ask, because
not all law is the same. There are civilian ceremonial
laws that are abrogated because they are fulfilled in Jesus Christ,
so we don't have to go back to those civilian
ceremonial laws the substance has come. But that, however, in
no wise negates the law that brings order to society.
(16:21):
So there are different uses of law. In scripture. The
law reveals sin and becomes the schoolmaster that drives us
to Christ. If you look at what Jesus did in
the Sermon on the Mound, he takes law and he
drives that law to its logical conclusion, such that we
recognize immediately that we cannot fulfill that law. And therefore
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the enigmatic question, who then can be saved, because you'd
have to be perfect, and no one's perfect. Only Jesus
Christ therefore becomes the one who can do what we
can no longer do. Therefore, in Christian theology, we reach
out the hand of a beggar and receive the gift
of a king. So the civil aspect of the law
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is abrogated, but the law still prevails as a guide
for the believer in living out the Christian life. So
there are moral aspects of the law, such as those
inculcated in the Ten Commandments, that not only reveal our sin,
but also give us broad principles for living the Christian life,
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not legalism. But law remains a guide for living the
Christian life. So we don't say that the Ten Commandments
are abrogated.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
So you mentioned the Sermon on the Mount, Do you
or do you not see Christ as a new lawgiver,
greater than Moses.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Well, yes, what Christ does is he becomes the ultimate
law giver. And one of the things you have to
see is that the Testaments are typological one with respect
to the other, that Jesus Christ does in exactness and
in essence what the law demands. So the mosaic law
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is fulfilled through Jesus Christ. Remember, Jesus said, do not
think that I have come to abolish the law in
the prophets. I didn't come to abolish them. I came
to fulfill them. So he ratified every jot and tittle
of the Old Testament in that he fulfilled. He was
the only one that could emerge through the doorway of
the law.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
And the prophets, and in his fulfillment. Would you then
say his next statement that nothing would pass away until
all this fulfilled, since people filled it, that is the
reason it had passed away.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Well, yes, but again there are aspects of the law
which have not passed away, in the sense that they
are a guide for living out the Christian life. The
law written on tablets of stones still applies to us today.
Do not murder, do not steal, honor your father and
your mother. We have to keep the Sabbath day. But
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in the Sabbath day we actually see what happens in
Jesus Christ becoming the one in whom we have our
sabbath rest. So we see that Jesus fulfills the Sabbath,
and we still keep six days of work and one
day of rest in honor of the one who fulfilled
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all the law and the prophets.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Thank you, Hank, appreciate your answer.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
You're welcome. Thank you so much for your question. And remember,
the blood of bulls and goats is no longer efficacious.
And that's why the Book of Hebrews makes clear that
the blood of Jesus Christ is better than the blood
of bulls and goats. Why because Jesus is the antetype
that fulfills the type. So the testaments are as I
said earlier, typological one with respect to the other. Let's
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go back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to
David listening in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Hi David, Hi, Hank, thank you for taking my call. First,
I'd like to thank you for your years of study
and your contribution to the the body of Christ.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Well, thank you well, sir.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I was reading in Hebrews and Hebrews twelve the other day,
and the writer of Hebrews starts talking about the chastising
of the Lord. You know, do not despise the chastising
of the Lord, and he chastises those whom he loves.
My question is how does God chastise us? What does
that look like? And how do I know if I'm
being chastised?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Well, remember what James says. He tells us to count
a pure joy whenever you face trials of many kinds,
because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance,
which leads to maturity or romans Age twenty eight, where
God works all things together for good to those who
love him and are the called according to his purposes.
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And then the writer of Hebrews, as you point out,
says that God chastises those who are his children because
he loves us, and he is actually amplifying what was
given to us before by Solomon, My son, do not
reject the discipline of the Lord or loathe his reproof.
For whom the Lord loves, he reproves even as a
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father the son in whom he delights. So the metaphor
or the comparison here is to a father and a child.
A father does not inflict punishment on a child gratuitously,
but rather that that child may come to a true
valuation of things, And so God uses all kinds of
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means by which we are chastised so that we might
come to a true valuation of things. So we endure
hardship as discipline, So hardship itself becomes discipline or chastisement
as it were, that brings us to a true valuation
of things. That's why, you know, American Christianity that talks
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about the health and wealth gospel is ill conceived. The
staple is persecution and hardship and suffering, longing and looking
forward to redemption. So Christianity ever gives us a peaceful
way to come to terms of the maladies of life,
but rather gives us something far greater, a way to
overcome them through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Okay, you clarify some things for me, and I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
You got it, And in this world you'll have trouble.
Take heart, He's overcome the world. So we look forward
to a time in which there'll be no more death
or mourning or crying or pain. For the old order
of things that's passed away. All things become new. Remember
Charles Hadden Spurgeon talked about discipline and suffering and hardship
in fact, he said one time, were you ever in
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the melting pot? Dear friends, I've been there, and my
sermons with me. It is in the melting pot that
we come to a true valuation of things, and then
we are poured out in new and better fashion. Therefore,
said Spurgeon, we could almost wish for the melting pot,
because through the difficulties the hardships of life, we set
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our eye our gaze above, rather than on things below.
Let's go back to the phone lines, doctor Tony. He's
listening in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Hi Tony, Hi Henk.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Thanks for taking my call that last call there. I
don't know, Maypi, in partially that my question. I just
learned today that my daughter has lost her baby, and
she was pregnantless. And I think I know the answer
to this question, but I just wanted you to verify it.
The baby that she was pregnant with would have had
a spirit. Right.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yes, when a woman conceives, she conceives a body soul unity,
and therefore when the baby dies, that baby is absent
from the body, present with the Lord, which is to
say that the soul or the spirit departs the body
and goes to be with the Lord. I use soul
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and spirit interchangeably as two words that point to the
non physical aspect of humanity. So absent from the body,
present with the Lord. And that is the case with
your daughter's child. She is absent from the body, present
with the Lord.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Okay, I thought I knew the answer that I've listened
to you for a long time, but I just wanted
to verify it because I wanted it. I'm over the
road truck driver, and I'm you know, I found out
about this two hundred and fifty miles from home from
my wife. And when I get home, hopefully I can
talk to her before she gets to bed. And is
there any certain scripture that I could point her too that,
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you know, verifies what.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
You just said.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yes, there's a couple of things here. First of all,
all the scripture points to the fact of a body
soul unity. That's what it means to be human. And
Paul himself talks about absent from the body, present with
the Lord, so that the moment that we die, we're
absent from the body, but we're present with the Lord.
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This is laid out two Corinthians, chapter five one through eight.
Also in Philippians, one, Paul says, I'm hard pressed from
both directions having the desire to depart and be with Christ,
for that is much better. So the notion within Christianity
is of continued existence of the soul. The soul can
continue to exist apart from the body, and you can
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also comfort her with the fact that she will see
her child again, because what happens when the Lord Jesus
Christ returns is the soul returns to the body, and
that body rises immortal, imperishable, incorruptible. So your granddaughter is
going to be what she was intended to be in eternity.
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Her DNA will flourish to complete perfection. So you can
tell your daughter that her baby will one day rush
back into our arms in eternity. This is the hope
of Christianity. This is the assurance of a biblical worldview.
That's why we can say there'll be a time in
which there is no more death or mourning or crying
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or pain for the older. The things will have passed away. Behold,
all things have become new. Got a time, See you
right back here next time with more of the public
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(27:06):
popular near death experience book Proof of Heaven assures us
that no matter what we do in this life, only
unconditional love and joy await us in the world to come.
But our Lord warned that while the gate to Hell
is wide, the road to it broad, and those who
enter through it are many, the gate is narrow and
the way is hard that leads to life, and those
(27:27):
who find it are few. Your generous support, let's Hank
hanograph and see Uri speak out against the lies that
lead to Hell. In appreciation for your gift, today, we'll
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with answers to your questions about life after death. Call
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eight eight eight seven thousand CROI or visit equip dot org.
Now again, that's equip dot org
From the Christian Research Institute in Charlotte, North Carolina. You
are listening to the best of the Bible answer Man
broadcast with Hank Canagraph. We're on the air because life
and truth matter. The mission of the Christian Research Institute
is to equip believers to answer life's essential questions soundly
and persuasively, and to give the reason for the hope
(00:29):
that you have with gentleness and respect. For more information,
go online to equip dot org. The following program was
pre recorded and now here's Bible answer Man host Hank Canagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Has God spoken? Well, there's a more significant question. I
am wholly unaware of what it might be. Of course,
Muslim's answer, by pointing to the Quran, is God's only credible,
uncorrupted revelation, and from their perspective, God spoke through the
angel Gabriel, who dictated the Koran to Muhammad over a
(01:07):
period of twenty three years. Mormons, just like Muslims, are
certain that God has spoken through a revelation called the
Book of Mormon, which their prophet called the most correct
of any book on earth and the keystone to our religion.
But God has not spoken through the Koran. He has
(01:32):
not spoken through the Book of Mormon. He has, however,
spoken through the Bible, as I demonstrate beyond the shadow
of a doubt in my book has God Spoken? That
book counters all contentions to the contrary and builds a
cumulative case for the absolute authority of the Word of God.
(01:56):
It answers the question has God spoken in the affirmative
and demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt that the Bible is
divine rather than merely human in origin. Is that important,
of course, because without such assurance, Christianity would have no
(02:17):
more authority for faith in practice than does Islam, Mormonism,
or a host of other misguided movements. I focus in
this book on presenting you memorable proofs for the Bible's
divine inspiration. It is available for your gift to the
ongoing work of the Christian Research Institute. You can check
(02:37):
it out online at equipp dot org. You can write
me at box eighty five hundred, Charlotte, North Carolina, zip
code two eight two seven one, or as always, talk
to our resource consultants triple eight seven thousand and the
letters CRI. Let's go right to the phone lines Taesha.
First listening on the web in Maryland.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Hi, Hi, I'm so cut cauld I'd be able to
go through this is Oh, this is still sound true
for me. I didn't know I'm gonna get through it
to you today. Even though I didn't prepare my question much,
I wanted to tell you that each time I listened
to you or I see you on on your website,
(03:19):
and you remind me of my dad long time ago,
who was who was a priest and Orthodox church in Ethiopia.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Well, thank you for that compliment.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Thank you. Everything you do, like your humbleness and how
you handle yourself and everything. It's it's really reminds me
of of him, how great he was and how he
was really serving that church. Now, my question to you
is when I was little, I used to go to
church with him, like read a Bible with him, and
(03:53):
he used to show me stuff and the song and
the church and every stuff. But what is really good
bible to follow? Nowadays it's like whenever I see like
a Bible, I read it in Numaharic and also I
read it in English, So what is really a good Bible?
I used to read the one with Old Testament and
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New Testament together, so I couldn't find any Bible either
it's mixed up or I have to send someone to
get me from Ethiopia about the Almaharic one. But what
is a good one?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Well, the New King James Version of the Bible is
a wonderful version of the Bible that retains the majesty
of the English language and yet is understandable. It takes
connotative language and it communicates it in the language of
today so that you can understand it. And so it's
accurately communicated from the original text in the context of
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today's language, in this case English. Also, the New Internet
National Version is a wonderful version of the Bible that
takes into account all of the best manuscript evidence that's
available today, so that you can trust it to be accurate,
communicating thought for thought from the original languages, the Hebrew,
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the Greek, and the Aramaic into the language of today.
So both are great translations.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Okay. And also my quick questions to you, what is
Jesus's description on the Bible and how do you describe
that in.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
His physical appearance?
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, the Bible doesn't give us any information about the
physical appearance of Jesus Christ. We would imagine that he
had a Semitic appearance, but we don't know because the
Bible simply does not tell us. So everything that is
indicated in some pictorial fashion is an idea that someone
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would have that's not based on any evidence whatsoever. So
one thing we know from scripture is what Isaiah prophesied
about the coming Jesus. And what Isaiah said is this,
he grew up before him like a tender shoot, and
like a root out of dry ground. He had no
beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in
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his appearance that we should desire him. And then Isaiah
goes on to say he was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering, like one
from whom men hide their faces. He was despised, and
we esteemed him not. So from that we might have
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some indication that he didn't look like Charlton Heston or
some icon in our culture, And certainly, as he's often
depicted with blue eyes and long blonde hair, that wouldn't
apply either. He was likely some met in appearance, and
there was nothing to attract us to him by his appearance,
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everything to attract us to him by his message, his manner,
his love, his compassion, and the fact that he ultimately
demonstrated that he was God in human flesh.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Okay, So when it says like some places, I don't
know what places really described them in the Bible, as
he's here is like a wall and stuff like that,
where does that come from?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, well that's interesting, and I'm glad you brought that up.
That's a very good point. In Revelation, you have a
depiction of Jesus Christ where John is looking at seven
golden lamp stands, and then among the lamp stands he
sees someone like a son of man. He's dressed in
a robe, reaching down to his feet. He has a
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golden sash around his chest. And then John says his
head and hair were white like wooe, as white as snow.
His eyes were like blazing fire, his feet like bronze
glowing in a furnace, his voice like the sound of
rushing waters. Out of his mouth came a sharp, double
(08:15):
edged sword, and his face was like the sun, shining
in all of its brilliance. Now, this is not a
description of what Jesus Christ looks like, but rather a
description of what Jesus is like. In other words, all
of these characteristics point to characteristics of Jesus Christ as
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described in the Bible, not in terms of his physical appearance,
but rather what he is like. He is the one
to whom all power is ascribed, and that is personified
by the robe reaching down to his feet, with the
golden sash around his chest. His eyes like blazing fire
(09:01):
would be an image of the fact that he discerns
between wheat and chaff, and that all in righteousness will
be burned in his presence. So there are indications of
what he is like, of his character, of his nature,
not of his appearance, okay, not his physical being, yes, yeah,
(09:25):
I mean he doesn't have a mouth and a tongue
that looks like a sword. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
And what do you think of like a speaking in
tongue is really? Is it forbidden or is it? Like
I know, it says something on a second Countian's fourteen.
If I'm not mistaken, it says, and they're like, he
prefers us to do prophecy instead of speaking in tongue.
(09:52):
Speaking in tongue doesn't teach the congregation, So what do
you think? Can you just allow it a little bit yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
If tongue are spoken correctly, as you point out in
First Corinthians chapter fourteen, there has to be an interpretation absolutely,
and I would say furthermore that tongues are not normative.
Although prophesying is prophesying, however, as used in First Corinthians
chapter fourteen, is not foretelling the future, but forth telling
(10:20):
in terms of encouragement, exhortation, edification, so that the Body
of Christ might be equipped as a body to minister
to one another and to be a voice to the world.
I'm gonna have to leave it at that. It was
good talking to you.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Good talk, an. I'm so thrilled you have no idea.
God bless you, and I would love to donate to
your ministry. I'll get in touch.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
You welcome plain bye, right back.
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Speaker 2 (15:09):
Thank very much, Randy, and let's go right back to
our phone callers. Mitchell listening in Raleigh, North Carolina. You're
up next time, Mitchell.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Hey, thank you, Hank, Hey, I just finished reading your
book The Apocalypse Code wonderfully well written book. It does
a great job of refuting most, if not all, of
the claims of dispensationalism, and I really enjoyed the book.
Thank you for that. I had a question in the book.
You used a similar phrase to something you said a
moment ago, that when the substance comes, we dare not
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go back to the symbol or the shadow. And I
could not more heartily agree. How far do you take
that principle in applying it to maybe the what distinction
do you make between the law of Christ and the
law of Moses.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, and that's exactly the right question to ask, because
not all law is the same. There are civilian ceremonial
laws that are abrogated because they are fulfilled in Jesus Christ,
so we don't have to go back to those civilian
ceremonial laws the substance has come. But that, however, in
no wise negates the law that brings order to society.
(16:21):
So there are different uses of law. In scripture. The
law reveals sin and becomes the schoolmaster that drives us
to Christ. If you look at what Jesus did in
the Sermon on the Mound, he takes law and he
drives that law to its logical conclusion, such that we
recognize immediately that we cannot fulfill that law. And therefore
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the enigmatic question, who then can be saved, because you'd
have to be perfect, and no one's perfect. Only Jesus
Christ therefore becomes the one who can do what we
can no longer do. Therefore, in Christian theology, we reach
out the hand of a beggar and receive the gift
of a king. So the civil aspect of the law
(17:07):
is abrogated, but the law still prevails as a guide
for the believer in living out the Christian life. So
there are moral aspects of the law, such as those
inculcated in the Ten Commandments, that not only reveal our sin,
but also give us broad principles for living the Christian life,
(17:31):
not legalism. But law remains a guide for living the
Christian life. So we don't say that the Ten Commandments
are abrogated.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
So you mentioned the Sermon on the Mount, Do you
or do you not see Christ as a new lawgiver,
greater than Moses.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Well, yes, what Christ does is he becomes the ultimate
law giver. And one of the things you have to
see is that the Testaments are typological one with respect
to the other, that Jesus Christ does in exactness and
in essence what the law demands. So the mosaic law
(18:09):
is fulfilled through Jesus Christ. Remember, Jesus said, do not
think that I have come to abolish the law in
the prophets. I didn't come to abolish them. I came
to fulfill them. So he ratified every jot and tittle
of the Old Testament in that he fulfilled. He was
the only one that could emerge through the doorway of
the law.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
And the prophets, and in his fulfillment. Would you then
say his next statement that nothing would pass away until
all this fulfilled, since people filled it, that is the
reason it had passed away.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Well, yes, but again there are aspects of the law
which have not passed away, in the sense that they
are a guide for living out the Christian life. The
law written on tablets of stones still applies to us today.
Do not murder, do not steal, honor your father and
your mother. We have to keep the Sabbath day. But
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in the Sabbath day we actually see what happens in
Jesus Christ becoming the one in whom we have our
sabbath rest. So we see that Jesus fulfills the Sabbath,
and we still keep six days of work and one
day of rest in honor of the one who fulfilled
(19:21):
all the law and the prophets.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Thank you, Hank, appreciate your answer.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
You're welcome. Thank you so much for your question. And remember,
the blood of bulls and goats is no longer efficacious.
And that's why the Book of Hebrews makes clear that
the blood of Jesus Christ is better than the blood
of bulls and goats. Why because Jesus is the antetype
that fulfills the type. So the testaments are as I
said earlier, typological one with respect to the other. Let's
(19:49):
go back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to
David listening in Austin, Texas.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
Hi David, Hi, Hank, thank you for taking my call. First,
I'd like to thank you for your years of study
and your contribution to the the body of Christ.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Well, thank you well, sir.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I was reading in Hebrews and Hebrews twelve the other day,
and the writer of Hebrews starts talking about the chastising
of the Lord. You know, do not despise the chastising
of the Lord, and he chastises those whom he loves.
My question is how does God chastise us? What does
that look like? And how do I know if I'm
being chastised?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Well, remember what James says. He tells us to count
a pure joy whenever you face trials of many kinds,
because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance,
which leads to maturity or romans Age twenty eight, where
God works all things together for good to those who
love him and are the called according to his purposes.
(20:44):
And then the writer of Hebrews, as you point out,
says that God chastises those who are his children because
he loves us, and he is actually amplifying what was
given to us before by Solomon, My son, do not
reject the discipline of the Lord or loathe his reproof.
For whom the Lord loves, he reproves even as a
(21:04):
father the son in whom he delights. So the metaphor
or the comparison here is to a father and a child.
A father does not inflict punishment on a child gratuitously,
but rather that that child may come to a true
valuation of things, And so God uses all kinds of
(21:24):
means by which we are chastised so that we might
come to a true valuation of things. So we endure
hardship as discipline, So hardship itself becomes discipline or chastisement
as it were, that brings us to a true valuation
of things. That's why, you know, American Christianity that talks
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about the health and wealth gospel is ill conceived. The
staple is persecution and hardship and suffering, longing and looking
forward to redemption. So Christianity ever gives us a peaceful
way to come to terms of the maladies of life,
but rather gives us something far greater, a way to
overcome them through the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Okay, you clarify some things for me, and I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
You got it, And in this world you'll have trouble.
Take heart, He's overcome the world. So we look forward
to a time in which there'll be no more death
or mourning or crying or pain. For the old order
of things that's passed away. All things become new. Remember
Charles Hadden Spurgeon talked about discipline and suffering and hardship
in fact, he said one time, were you ever in
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the melting pot? Dear friends, I've been there, and my
sermons with me. It is in the melting pot that
we come to a true valuation of things, and then
we are poured out in new and better fashion. Therefore,
said Spurgeon, we could almost wish for the melting pot,
because through the difficulties the hardships of life, we set
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our eye our gaze above, rather than on things below.
Let's go back to the phone lines, doctor Tony. He's
listening in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Hi Tony, Hi Henk.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Thanks for taking my call that last call there. I
don't know, Maypi, in partially that my question. I just
learned today that my daughter has lost her baby, and
she was pregnantless. And I think I know the answer
to this question, but I just wanted you to verify it.
The baby that she was pregnant with would have had
a spirit. Right.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yes, when a woman conceives, she conceives a body soul unity,
and therefore when the baby dies, that baby is absent
from the body, present with the Lord, which is to
say that the soul or the spirit departs the body
and goes to be with the Lord. I use soul
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and spirit interchangeably as two words that point to the
non physical aspect of humanity. So absent from the body,
present with the Lord. And that is the case with
your daughter's child. She is absent from the body, present
with the Lord.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
Okay, I thought I knew the answer that I've listened
to you for a long time, but I just wanted
to verify it because I wanted it. I'm over the
road truck driver, and I'm you know, I found out
about this two hundred and fifty miles from home from
my wife. And when I get home, hopefully I can
talk to her before she gets to bed. And is
there any certain scripture that I could point her too that,
(24:34):
you know, verifies what.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
You just said.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Yes, there's a couple of things here. First of all,
all the scripture points to the fact of a body
soul unity. That's what it means to be human. And
Paul himself talks about absent from the body, present with
the Lord, so that the moment that we die, we're
absent from the body, but we're present with the Lord.
(24:59):
This is laid out two Corinthians, chapter five one through eight.
Also in Philippians, one, Paul says, I'm hard pressed from
both directions having the desire to depart and be with Christ,
for that is much better. So the notion within Christianity
is of continued existence of the soul. The soul can
continue to exist apart from the body, and you can
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also comfort her with the fact that she will see
her child again, because what happens when the Lord Jesus
Christ returns is the soul returns to the body, and
that body rises immortal, imperishable, incorruptible. So your granddaughter is
going to be what she was intended to be in eternity.
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Her DNA will flourish to complete perfection. So you can
tell your daughter that her baby will one day rush
back into our arms in eternity. This is the hope
of Christianity. This is the assurance of a biblical worldview.
That's why we can say there'll be a time in
which there is no more death or mourning or crying
(26:04):
or pain for the older. The things will have passed away. Behold,
all things have become new. Got a time, See you
right back here next time with more of the public
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