December 1, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (12/01/25), Hank answers the following questions:
I’m attending the Apostolic Holiness Church, and they don’t believe in the Trinity. Can you help me? Michael - MO (1:01)
Is the rumor about Charles Darwin’s deathbed conversion true? Patricia - KS (5:42)
What’s your opinion of the book Conversations with God by Neil Donald Walsh? Mike - Broken Arrow, OK (7:57)
How can I show from Scripture that Universalism is wrong? Dan - St. Louis, MO (16:37)
Why does Communion seem to be unimportant to some churches? Carlos - El Paso, TX (19:48)
Does Joyce Meyer preach the prosperity gospel? Talitha - St. Louis, MO (23:32)
I’m attending the Apostolic Holiness Church, and they don’t believe in the Trinity. Can you help me? Michael - MO (1:01)
Is the rumor about Charles Darwin’s deathbed conversion true? Patricia - KS (5:42)
What’s your opinion of the book Conversations with God by Neil Donald Walsh? Mike - Broken Arrow, OK (7:57)
How can I show from Scripture that Universalism is wrong? Dan - St. Louis, MO (16:37)
Why does Communion seem to be unimportant to some churches? Carlos - El Paso, TX (19:48)
Does Joyce Meyer preach the prosperity gospel? Talitha - St. Louis, MO (23:32)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to the Bible answer Man Broadcast with the President
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dot org. The following program was pre recorded, and now
here's Hank Hannah.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Let's correct to the phone lines. First up, Michael listening
in Missouri.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Hi, Michael, Hello, Well Hank, how are you doing?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Thanks for taking my call on I've I'm tickled the
fact that I'm getting a chance to talk to you,
especially now my question about the the church that we're
attending now called the Apostolic Holiness Church, and it's a
branch off of the United Pentecostal.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Yeah, And.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
You know, the thing is that I was saved in
a Baptist church, which was not Southern Baptist, but essentially,
you know, part of the savior process was having a
person to just take me through the steps and and
kind of give me a basis. At the time, I
was also introduced into your your program too, and it
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it kind of added to each other. But over the
past year or so, I've been changing positions and a
kind of kind of lost the track. But now I've
been hearing you again, and I've been I was looking
for a church in my in this town that I'm
in now and could never find one, and so I
finally found this one, and I guess you know, I
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enjoyed it. I still enjoy it. But their protection of
the Trinity is well this obviously they don't believe that
there's a specific trinity. They believe it's all Jesus yea.
And I mean I can understand their perspective. I know,
it's like, you know, the triune being of you know, God, Spirit,
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his Son, and we need to worship one God. I
just don't.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, here's the deal. This is a classic case of
air beginning air. So the belief that you have to
be baptized only in the name of Jesus has led
these Oneness Pentecostals to the further error that Jesus is
himself the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They
don't hold to one God revealed in three persons who
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are eternally distinct, but to three manifestations of one God
revealed in Jesus. In fact, as you probably well know that,
they believe that the Doctor of the Trinity is pagan
polytheistic philosophy. But the truth is, the Trinity is neither
pagan nor polytheistic, and it's certainly not pagan philosophy. It's
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biblically based. Scripture plainly reveals personal self distinctions within the Godhead.
The Father says of the Son, your throne O God
will last forever and ever, and the Son says to
the Father, I am one who testifies for myself. My
other witness is the Father who sent me. The very
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fact that Jesus praise to the Father demonstrates that Jesus
cannot be the Father. And I'm of course frequently told
by Oneness adherents that this is explained by the notion
that Jesus's human nature prays to his divine nature, but
that's clearly not the case. Natures can't pray, only persons can.
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The problem further is that one this Pentecostalism holds to
a litany of legalistic prescriptions, including the test of re
baptism by their formula with evidence of speaking in tongues.
No tongues, no salvation, and as you can imagine, this
has placed tremendous socio psychological pressure on the adherence to
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conjure up the gift of tongues. Those who do not
speak in tongues are well, they're thought to be lacking
in faith, or even to be entirely unrepentant. So this
is a legalistic, human based religion that denies the biblically
based no of the nature of God, which we should
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bow our need before. I can't comprehend the Trinity, but
I can apprehend it. It's not something that's illogical, nor
something that we should shun, and certainly not something we
should call pagan. The United Pentecostals have been rightly castigated
by Pentecostalism in general, including the Assemblies of God, and
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rightly so they have denied an essential and an essential
that has to do with the very nature of God
and again involved and embroiled in all kinds of legalism.
I've written about this in the Complete Bible answer Book
Collector's Edition, which is available through the Ministry of the
Christian Research Institute. Right back to the phone callers. Next
up is Patricia. She's listening in Kansas High Patricia.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
I think I heard that Darwin actually recanted his beliefs
about the theory of evolution, and do you have any
documentation on that and where can I find it?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, I've written about this in several places, in a
book called The Creation answer Book, as well as in
the Complete Bible answer Book Collector's Edition. But there's a
couple of points that I would make in this regard.
First that whether Darwin or didn't renounce evolution doesn't speak
to the issue of whether or not evolution is true
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or false. I mean, you could say Darwin renounced evolution
because he was senile, or perhaps he had taken a
mind altering drug, or he might just have hedged his
bets with some eternal fire insurance. So this doesn't speak
to the truth or falsity of evolution one way or
the other. But I think there's a more important point,
and that is, as followers are the one who proclaimed
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himself not only to be the way in the life,
but also the truth, we must set the standard for
the evolutionist, not vice versa. The Darwin legend turns out,
this legend of a deathbed conversion turns out to be
an illustration of the recklessness with which Protestant controversialists are
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seeking to support any cause they're advocating. Now, I'm certainly
against Darwinism, but I'm also against making up a story.
There's absolutely no and I mean no evidence for his
deathbed conversion, and all the evidence speaks directly counter death conversion.
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In fact, there's a good book called the Darwin Legend
by James Moore where he painstakingly documents the fact that
there is no substantial evidence that Darwin ever repented, but
there is abundant evidence that the concessantly held to his
evolutionary paradigm. You got it, and again I've written about that.
I thought in another place I wrote about this is
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in the face that demonstrates the farce of evolution, which
is also available through the ministry of the Christian Research Incident.
You can see the book online that equipped dot or
back to the phone lines. We'll talk to Mike in
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Hi, Mike, Oh, hello, Hank. I appreciate you taking my call.
Your mission has been a wonderful blessing to me and
I'm sure to a lot of people. I had a question,
and kind of another one on top of that. I
had somebody that I knew that as passing out a
book called Conversations with God, and I didn't know what
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that was associated with, if it was pantheism or universalism.
Because he seems to think he's divine.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Well, this guy's a false teacher. Neil Donald Walsh claims
to have had these direct conversations with God and has
recorded those talks in his books books like Conversations with God.
But these are not conversations with God. These are conversations
with himself. In other words, they're vain imaginings. And he
does hold to all kinds of weird ideas, including the
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notion that Hitler didn't go to Hell. Why because he
couldn't have gone to Hell because Hell doesn't exist. And
he says that every religion has declared him condemned and
sent straight to hell, and therefore he's saying, now that's wrong. Well,
the fact of the matter is, Hitler did not simply
die in the comforting arms of his mistress with no
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eternal consequences. The angels knew better to think things like that.
Hitler is going to be justly and condignedly held accountable
for what he did in the flesh, as is everyone.
And that's why, at the end of the day, from
a biblical perspective, in a Biblical worldview, we have hope
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only if we're dressed in the righteousness of the robes
of Christ. In other words, the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ.
Christ's righteousness laid to our account, our unrighteousness paid for
at the cross. And that's why we reach out the
hands of a beggar and receive the gift of a king.
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Neil Donald Walsh. If you take his writings and contrast
it with God God's actual statements, his infallible, divine statements
in the Bible are found to be false. And I've
demonstrated through my book has God spoken that the Bible
is divine as opposed to merely human in origin. By
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the same token, you can know that Neil Donald Walsh
and his conversations are not divine in origin. They are
merely human ramblings in origin. Not to be trusted. The
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The Bible is increasingly under attack. You hear professors say
things like there are more mistakes in manuscript copies of
the Bible than there are words in the New Testament.
You hear pundits talking about the biblical account of King
David is no more factual than tales of King Arthur.
There's simply no evidence in archaeology or history for King
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see or right back to the phone lines. We'll talk
to Dan next Saint Louis, Missouri. Hi, Dan, Hi, how
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are you doing? Thanks good? How are you?
Speaker 6 (16:43):
I'm well, Thanks for taking my call. Hey have a question.
I have a friend here who claims to be he's
a He's a Christian Methodist universalist. From what I'm kind
of getting from what he's talking about in his viewpoint
is that you know, all passed leave to heaven and
he has a kind of A favorite analogy to use
their story to kind of prove this in his own
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mind is that, you know, there's a holy man on
the in a mountain who's never heard the story of
Jesus and he's been faithful to his God his whole life.
You know, does this guy also go to Hell? And
I'm wondering where I can send him specifically in scripture
to kind of combat this.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah. A quick road to dodge, so to speak, is
the words of Jesus Christ himself when he said, do
not be amazed at this. The time is coming when
all who in the grays will come out. Some will
rise to live, and some will rise to be eternally condemned.
You find that in John chapter five. But beyond that,
remember that no matter where you are, God gives you light.
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Paul the Apostle on Mars Hill and Acts chapter seventeen
talked about this when he said, from one man, God
created every nation of men, that they should inhabit the
entire earth. He determined the exact times and places that
they should live. And he did that so that men
could reach out for him and find him. Though he
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is not far from each one of us, so there
is no such mythological or hypothetical anecdotal figure like the
one this man is describing. Everyone has the light of creation,
as Paul talks about in Romans chapter one. Everyone has
the light of conscience, which is to say, the knowledge
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of God inscribed upon the tablet of their heart. And
if they respond to the light of creation and the
inner light of conscience, they can receive the light of
Christ as described in Romans chapter three. So the problem
is never that there's darkness out there that cannot be penetrated.
The problem is that men love darkness rather than light.
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So in other words, there's plenty of light, but men
who love darkness don't find that light because they want
to remain in darkness.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
I think he's kind of caught up with the fact that,
you know, if there are multiple paths to heave and
if you're trying that it's enough. And that's to me,
it seems like a contradiction to call yourself both a
Christian and then also a universalist.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah it is. It is. I am the way the
truth in life. No one comes to the Father but
by me, and you can find Christ. If you respond
to the light of Creation, the light of conscience, you
can receive the light of Christ as well. And by
the way, the normative means through which that happens is
through human beings. But it's not the only way. God
can directly read someone through a vision or a dream,
more like he did with Saul who became Paul on
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the road to Damascus.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Very good, very interesting. Thank you very much, Nak. I
appreciate you staking my call.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Hey, you got it. My pleasure. I want to come back
to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Carlos el Paso, Texas.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Hi, Carlos, Hello, Hi, he is I have a question.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
I'll be a ready as the Bible and and I've
noted that Jesus broke bread on the Last Supper, and
then he broke again bread after he resurrected, when he
appeared to the two apostles, he broke again bread before
he departed, and then the apostles broke bread in acts.
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Every time they would gather, they would broke bread. And
my question is, why is it that a lot of
churches don't take it serious. If it's important to Jesus
and the Apostles, why isn't it important to a lot
of churches.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Well, it ought to be important exactly as you point out.
I mean, it is a theme in scripture. It's a
new covenant. It is the old covenant fulfilled by Jesus
Christ and Jesus Christ himself. And you can look this
up in Luke twenty two where Jesus said, this is
my body given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
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And then in the same way, after the supper he
takes the cup and says, this cup is the new
covenant in my blood which is poured out for you.
We're told by Jesus Christ directly to take the bread
and the cup and do it in remembrance of Jesus Christ,
our Lord and Savior, until he comes again. In fact,
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it is to be done in community. When you become
a believer, you're baptized into a body. When you take
the bread and the cup, you are taking it in
community as part of a body of which Christ is
the head. And not only so, but it takes over
or takes the place of the passover Lamb. No longer
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is the passover Lamb necessary, because the ultimate passover Lamb
has come. His body has been broken, his blood has
been shed for the complete remission of sins and Therefore
we ought to do this until He comes again, just
as he commanded us.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
So those churches that don't, are they missing out? Or
they what would do you answer the way they don't do.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
It, or trampling upon the sacred blood of Jesus Christ.
They're trampling upon the sacred blood of Jesus Christ if
they do not do it. Now, the number of times
you do it, I mean, that's a matter of ecclesiology.
Some churches don't want to do it every week. Why
they don't want it to become simply a habit that
you partake in unthinkingly. Other churches say, no, every time
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we get together. This is the apostolic prescription. It is
the pattern laid down an axe. We should break bread
and drink the cup every time we fellowship together on
the Lord's Day. But in any case, the one thing
you cannot do is forsake the gathering of yourselves together
and for sake, for taking in the body and blood
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as represented by the elements. And again this is what
Jesus Christ himself said. He said, this is my body
given for you do this in remembrance of me. And
so the pattern was laid down. It is something that
we do in community. It is something that we do
as a collective body, and it is something that we
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should not forsake as we gather together, but something that
we should involve ourselves in. Let's go back to the
phone lines. Talk to Tellatha listening in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Hi, Tellatha, Hi Hank, how are you.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I'm well, thank you? How are you?
Speaker 8 (23:41):
I'm good?
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Well.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
I had a question. It was about Choyce Myers.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I think.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
This is a while bag, but I remember you saying
that she, you know, she misleads a lot of her followers.
I don't know if you put her in the category
of you know that prosperity gospel preachers.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah. I do put her in that category, and I
write about her in that vein in a book called
Christianity in Crisis twenty first century. But the thing that
you had to watch with her is that she takes
texts out of context and uses them as a pretext
for what she's trying to teach. And so you had
to be very careful because she'll quote the Bible and
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she'll say, I'm using the Bible. The Bible says, but
then what she's actually quoting is not what the Bible says.
For example, she'll tell you that scripture tells us that
we are to call the things that are not as
if they already were. Yes, yeah, well that's not really
what the scripture says at all. The problem is people
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don't know the Bible or don't check her reference out,
and therefore they don't realize that she has just twisted
the scripture. The very passage that she references happens to
be Romans four seventeen, which communicates that it is the
God who gives life who calls things that are not
as though they were. So it's not we, it's got.
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So she twists the text and uses it as a
pretext to communicate her prosperity message. But it's simply an
abuse of scripture, not a correct use of scripture. And
those are the kinds of things you have to watch
for when you're listening to people like Joyce Meyer.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
Okay, thank you, you got it and again.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
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Welcome to the Bible answer Man Broadcast with the President
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dot org. The following program was pre recorded, and now
here's Hank Hannah.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Let's correct to the phone lines. First up, Michael listening
in Missouri.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Hi, Michael, Hello, Well Hank, how are you doing?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Thanks for taking my call on I've I'm tickled the
fact that I'm getting a chance to talk to you,
especially now my question about the the church that we're
attending now called the Apostolic Holiness Church, and it's a
branch off of the United Pentecostal.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
Yeah, And.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
You know, the thing is that I was saved in
a Baptist church, which was not Southern Baptist, but essentially,
you know, part of the savior process was having a
person to just take me through the steps and and
kind of give me a basis. At the time, I
was also introduced into your your program too, and it
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it kind of added to each other. But over the
past year or so, I've been changing positions and a
kind of kind of lost the track. But now I've
been hearing you again, and I've been I was looking
for a church in my in this town that I'm
in now and could never find one, and so I
finally found this one, and I guess you know, I
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enjoyed it. I still enjoy it. But their protection of
the Trinity is well this obviously they don't believe that
there's a specific trinity. They believe it's all Jesus yea.
And I mean I can understand their perspective. I know,
it's like, you know, the triune being of you know, God, Spirit,
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his Son, and we need to worship one God. I
just don't.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, here's the deal. This is a classic case of
air beginning air. So the belief that you have to
be baptized only in the name of Jesus has led
these Oneness Pentecostals to the further error that Jesus is
himself the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. They
don't hold to one God revealed in three persons who
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are eternally distinct, but to three manifestations of one God
revealed in Jesus. In fact, as you probably well know that,
they believe that the Doctor of the Trinity is pagan
polytheistic philosophy. But the truth is, the Trinity is neither
pagan nor polytheistic, and it's certainly not pagan philosophy. It's
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biblically based. Scripture plainly reveals personal self distinctions within the Godhead.
The Father says of the Son, your throne O God
will last forever and ever, and the Son says to
the Father, I am one who testifies for myself. My
other witness is the Father who sent me. The very
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fact that Jesus praise to the Father demonstrates that Jesus
cannot be the Father. And I'm of course frequently told
by Oneness adherents that this is explained by the notion
that Jesus's human nature prays to his divine nature, but
that's clearly not the case. Natures can't pray, only persons can.
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The problem further is that one this Pentecostalism holds to
a litany of legalistic prescriptions, including the test of re
baptism by their formula with evidence of speaking in tongues.
No tongues, no salvation, and as you can imagine, this
has placed tremendous socio psychological pressure on the adherence to
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conjure up the gift of tongues. Those who do not
speak in tongues are well, they're thought to be lacking
in faith, or even to be entirely unrepentant. So this
is a legalistic, human based religion that denies the biblically
based no of the nature of God, which we should
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bow our need before. I can't comprehend the Trinity, but
I can apprehend it. It's not something that's illogical, nor
something that we should shun, and certainly not something we
should call pagan. The United Pentecostals have been rightly castigated
by Pentecostalism in general, including the Assemblies of God, and
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rightly so they have denied an essential and an essential
that has to do with the very nature of God
and again involved and embroiled in all kinds of legalism.
I've written about this in the Complete Bible answer Book
Collector's Edition, which is available through the Ministry of the
Christian Research Institute. Right back to the phone callers. Next
up is Patricia. She's listening in Kansas High Patricia.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
I think I heard that Darwin actually recanted his beliefs
about the theory of evolution, and do you have any
documentation on that and where can I find it?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, I've written about this in several places, in a
book called The Creation answer Book, as well as in
the Complete Bible answer Book Collector's Edition. But there's a
couple of points that I would make in this regard.
First that whether Darwin or didn't renounce evolution doesn't speak
to the issue of whether or not evolution is true
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or false. I mean, you could say Darwin renounced evolution
because he was senile, or perhaps he had taken a
mind altering drug, or he might just have hedged his
bets with some eternal fire insurance. So this doesn't speak
to the truth or falsity of evolution one way or
the other. But I think there's a more important point,
and that is, as followers are the one who proclaimed
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himself not only to be the way in the life,
but also the truth, we must set the standard for
the evolutionist, not vice versa. The Darwin legend turns out,
this legend of a deathbed conversion turns out to be
an illustration of the recklessness with which Protestant controversialists are
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seeking to support any cause they're advocating. Now, I'm certainly
against Darwinism, but I'm also against making up a story.
There's absolutely no and I mean no evidence for his
deathbed conversion, and all the evidence speaks directly counter death conversion.
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In fact, there's a good book called the Darwin Legend
by James Moore where he painstakingly documents the fact that
there is no substantial evidence that Darwin ever repented, but
there is abundant evidence that the concessantly held to his
evolutionary paradigm. You got it, and again I've written about that.
I thought in another place I wrote about this is
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in the face that demonstrates the farce of evolution, which
is also available through the ministry of the Christian Research Incident.
You can see the book online that equipped dot or
back to the phone lines. We'll talk to Mike in
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Hi, Mike, Oh, hello, Hank. I appreciate you taking my call.
Your mission has been a wonderful blessing to me and
I'm sure to a lot of people. I had a question,
and kind of another one on top of that. I
had somebody that I knew that as passing out a
book called Conversations with God, and I didn't know what
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that was associated with, if it was pantheism or universalism.
Because he seems to think he's divine.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Well, this guy's a false teacher. Neil Donald Walsh claims
to have had these direct conversations with God and has
recorded those talks in his books books like Conversations with God.
But these are not conversations with God. These are conversations
with himself. In other words, they're vain imaginings. And he
does hold to all kinds of weird ideas, including the
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notion that Hitler didn't go to Hell. Why because he
couldn't have gone to Hell because Hell doesn't exist. And
he says that every religion has declared him condemned and
sent straight to hell, and therefore he's saying, now that's wrong. Well,
the fact of the matter is, Hitler did not simply
die in the comforting arms of his mistress with no
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eternal consequences. The angels knew better to think things like that.
Hitler is going to be justly and condignedly held accountable
for what he did in the flesh, as is everyone.
And that's why, at the end of the day, from
a biblical perspective, in a Biblical worldview, we have hope
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only if we're dressed in the righteousness of the robes
of Christ. In other words, the imputed righteousness of Jesus Christ.
Christ's righteousness laid to our account, our unrighteousness paid for
at the cross. And that's why we reach out the
hands of a beggar and receive the gift of a king.
(09:55):
Neil Donald Walsh. If you take his writings and contrast
it with God God's actual statements, his infallible, divine statements
in the Bible are found to be false. And I've
demonstrated through my book has God spoken that the Bible
is divine as opposed to merely human in origin. By
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the same token, you can know that Neil Donald Walsh
and his conversations are not divine in origin. They are
merely human ramblings in origin. Not to be trusted. The
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Speaker 2 (15:10):
The Bible is increasingly under attack. You hear professors say
things like there are more mistakes in manuscript copies of
the Bible than there are words in the New Testament.
You hear pundits talking about the biblical account of King
David is no more factual than tales of King Arthur.
There's simply no evidence in archaeology or history for King
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see or right back to the phone lines. We'll talk
to Dan next Saint Louis, Missouri. Hi, Dan, Hi, how
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are you doing? Thanks good? How are you?
Speaker 6 (16:43):
I'm well, Thanks for taking my call. Hey have a question.
I have a friend here who claims to be he's
a He's a Christian Methodist universalist. From what I'm kind
of getting from what he's talking about in his viewpoint
is that you know, all passed leave to heaven and
he has a kind of A favorite analogy to use
their story to kind of prove this in his own
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mind is that, you know, there's a holy man on
the in a mountain who's never heard the story of
Jesus and he's been faithful to his God his whole life.
You know, does this guy also go to Hell? And
I'm wondering where I can send him specifically in scripture
to kind of combat this.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah. A quick road to dodge, so to speak, is
the words of Jesus Christ himself when he said, do
not be amazed at this. The time is coming when
all who in the grays will come out. Some will
rise to live, and some will rise to be eternally condemned.
You find that in John chapter five. But beyond that,
remember that no matter where you are, God gives you light.
(17:44):
Paul the Apostle on Mars Hill and Acts chapter seventeen
talked about this when he said, from one man, God
created every nation of men, that they should inhabit the
entire earth. He determined the exact times and places that
they should live. And he did that so that men
could reach out for him and find him. Though he
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is not far from each one of us, so there
is no such mythological or hypothetical anecdotal figure like the
one this man is describing. Everyone has the light of creation,
as Paul talks about in Romans chapter one. Everyone has
the light of conscience, which is to say, the knowledge
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of God inscribed upon the tablet of their heart. And
if they respond to the light of creation and the
inner light of conscience, they can receive the light of
Christ as described in Romans chapter three. So the problem
is never that there's darkness out there that cannot be penetrated.
The problem is that men love darkness rather than light.
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So in other words, there's plenty of light, but men
who love darkness don't find that light because they want
to remain in darkness.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
I think he's kind of caught up with the fact that,
you know, if there are multiple paths to heave and
if you're trying that it's enough. And that's to me,
it seems like a contradiction to call yourself both a
Christian and then also a universalist.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah it is. It is. I am the way the
truth in life. No one comes to the Father but
by me, and you can find Christ. If you respond
to the light of Creation, the light of conscience, you
can receive the light of Christ as well. And by
the way, the normative means through which that happens is
through human beings. But it's not the only way. God
can directly read someone through a vision or a dream,
more like he did with Saul who became Paul on
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the road to Damascus.
Speaker 6 (19:43):
Very good, very interesting. Thank you very much, Nak. I
appreciate you staking my call.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Hey, you got it. My pleasure. I want to come back
to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Carlos el Paso, Texas.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
Hi, Carlos, Hello, Hi, he is I have a question.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
I'll be a ready as the Bible and and I've
noted that Jesus broke bread on the Last Supper, and
then he broke again bread after he resurrected, when he
appeared to the two apostles, he broke again bread before
he departed, and then the apostles broke bread in acts.
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Every time they would gather, they would broke bread. And
my question is, why is it that a lot of
churches don't take it serious. If it's important to Jesus
and the Apostles, why isn't it important to a lot
of churches.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Well, it ought to be important exactly as you point out.
I mean, it is a theme in scripture. It's a
new covenant. It is the old covenant fulfilled by Jesus
Christ and Jesus Christ himself. And you can look this
up in Luke twenty two where Jesus said, this is
my body given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.
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And then in the same way, after the supper he
takes the cup and says, this cup is the new
covenant in my blood which is poured out for you.
We're told by Jesus Christ directly to take the bread
and the cup and do it in remembrance of Jesus Christ,
our Lord and Savior, until he comes again. In fact,
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it is to be done in community. When you become
a believer, you're baptized into a body. When you take
the bread and the cup, you are taking it in
community as part of a body of which Christ is
the head. And not only so, but it takes over
or takes the place of the passover Lamb. No longer
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is the passover Lamb necessary, because the ultimate passover Lamb
has come. His body has been broken, his blood has
been shed for the complete remission of sins and Therefore
we ought to do this until He comes again, just
as he commanded us.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
So those churches that don't, are they missing out? Or
they what would do you answer the way they don't do.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
It, or trampling upon the sacred blood of Jesus Christ.
They're trampling upon the sacred blood of Jesus Christ if
they do not do it. Now, the number of times
you do it, I mean, that's a matter of ecclesiology.
Some churches don't want to do it every week. Why
they don't want it to become simply a habit that
you partake in unthinkingly. Other churches say, no, every time
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we get together. This is the apostolic prescription. It is
the pattern laid down an axe. We should break bread
and drink the cup every time we fellowship together on
the Lord's Day. But in any case, the one thing
you cannot do is forsake the gathering of yourselves together
and for sake, for taking in the body and blood
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as represented by the elements. And again this is what
Jesus Christ himself said. He said, this is my body
given for you do this in remembrance of me. And
so the pattern was laid down. It is something that
we do in community. It is something that we do
as a collective body, and it is something that we
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should not forsake as we gather together, but something that
we should involve ourselves in. Let's go back to the
phone lines. Talk to Tellatha listening in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
Hi, Tellatha, Hi Hank, how are you.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I'm well, thank you? How are you?
Speaker 8 (23:41):
I'm good?
Speaker 4 (23:42):
Well.
Speaker 8 (23:43):
I had a question. It was about Choyce Myers.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
I think.
Speaker 8 (23:51):
This is a while bag, but I remember you saying
that she, you know, she misleads a lot of her followers.
I don't know if you put her in the category
of you know that prosperity gospel preachers.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah. I do put her in that category, and I
write about her in that vein in a book called
Christianity in Crisis twenty first century. But the thing that
you had to watch with her is that she takes
texts out of context and uses them as a pretext
for what she's trying to teach. And so you had
to be very careful because she'll quote the Bible and
(24:28):
she'll say, I'm using the Bible. The Bible says, but
then what she's actually quoting is not what the Bible says.
For example, she'll tell you that scripture tells us that
we are to call the things that are not as
if they already were. Yes, yeah, well that's not really
what the scripture says at all. The problem is people
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don't know the Bible or don't check her reference out,
and therefore they don't realize that she has just twisted
the scripture. The very passage that she references happens to
be Romans four seventeen, which communicates that it is the
God who gives life who calls things that are not
as though they were. So it's not we, it's got.
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So she twists the text and uses it as a
pretext to communicate her prosperity message. But it's simply an
abuse of scripture, not a correct use of scripture. And
those are the kinds of things you have to watch
for when you're listening to people like Joyce Meyer.
Speaker 8 (25:31):
Okay, thank you, you got it and again.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
I've written about this in a book called Christian Crisis
twenty first Century, which is available through the Ministry of
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