November 18, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (11/18/25), Hank answers the following questions:
Was Jesus a common name in NT times? What makes Jesus different than anyone else with the same name? Eugene - Freehold, NJ (0:49)
What about the Jesus family tomb? An ossuary of Jesus Christ of Nazareth? Mark - Auburn, WA (3:25)
Are the Behemoth and Leviathan referenced in Job dinosaurs? Scott - St. Louis, MO (7:54)
How do you witness to Jehovah’s Witnesses? Mike - Westminster, MD (15:11)
Is it okay to prostrate yourself and lift your hands in worship? What is the correct way to worship God? Eddie - Sullivan, MO (19:37)
Why do today’s scholars overlook the Latin manuscript tradition? Javier - Highland, AR (22:14)
Was Jesus a common name in NT times? What makes Jesus different than anyone else with the same name? Eugene - Freehold, NJ (0:49)
What about the Jesus family tomb? An ossuary of Jesus Christ of Nazareth? Mark - Auburn, WA (3:25)
Are the Behemoth and Leviathan referenced in Job dinosaurs? Scott - St. Louis, MO (7:54)
How do you witness to Jehovah’s Witnesses? Mike - Westminster, MD (15:11)
Is it okay to prostrate yourself and lift your hands in worship? What is the correct way to worship God? Eddie - Sullivan, MO (19:37)
Why do today’s scholars overlook the Latin manuscript tradition? Javier - Highland, AR (22:14)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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The following program was pre recorded and now here's Bible
answer Man host Hank Canagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I want to go the phone lines now talk to
Eugene listening in Freehold, New Jersey. Hi Eugene, Hi, Hank
Allia Good, how are you?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I'm great? Look I was My question is and was
Jesus a common name in Jesus time?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, yes, it was a very common name in the
time of Jesus.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Okay, So that being said, what made Jesus different if
someone were to say Jesus, if there's two people there
were the same name.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, there are a lot of John's in the world.
There are a lot of joshuas in the world. Right,
there are quite a few Hanks in the world. There
are a few less Hendricks in the world, which is
my formal name. But look, the issue is your identity
is bound up in a lot of different things. In
the identity of Jesus, Christ was bound up in the
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fact that he was Jesus of Nazareth, another point of identification.
But ultimately, there are points of identification that single him
out from anyone who has ever lived on the planet.
His ancestry from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, through the line
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of Judah to Jesse to the house of David. You
have his birth in Bethlehem, you have the prophecies concerning him,
and the prophecies that he himself made. All of them
identify him uniquely, not as just a Jesus, but as
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the Jesus, the one who demonstrated that he was utterly unique,
not because of his name, but because of what he
did he was able to raise the dead.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Okay, let me ask you another question. What his name
spelled different than the other Jesus are pronounced different?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
No? Okay no, And remember the English name Jesus comes
from the Greek Esus, which is transliterated from the Hebrew Yeshua.
So the way we pronounce it is certainly different than
they would have pronounced it in secular coin a Greek.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Okay, okay, thanks a lot, Hank, you got it.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And again he was known not only as Jesus of Nazareth,
but also Jesus of Nazareth, son of Joseph. A lot
of different points of identification that we find for the
crystal Christ, the paragon of virtue. Back to the phone lines,
we'll talk next to Mark. He's listening on the web
in Auburn, Washington. Hi, Mark, how are you doing? Hank good?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
How are you not bad?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
My question is very similar to his, because I'm sure
you remember back in two thousand and seven they discovered
that Jesus family too. It was supposedly bear the osullary
of Jesus Christ himself.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Now here's the thing. I've heard from different Christians and
different scholars that aren't Christian as to the authenticity or
the fact that you know this is a pope, or
even that it's just a different Jesus, you know that
was in there, not Jesus of Nazareth. And one of
the arguments had a lot to do with his disciples
didn't refer to him as Jesus Barbejoseph, you know, the
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Holy issue a bark Joseph, and so his close friends
and family, especially the apostles, wouldn't have referred to him
that way. Statistically speaking, if you have like a real
common name, the son of a real common name, but
then you have all these people you know in the family,
with the exception for you know, Mary doesn't really specify
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who it was, but you have all of these names,
and they say, like the odds are very small that
it would be anyone else other than Jesus of Nazareth.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, but all the names of the Austuaries were very
common names. But look, I don't know of anybody that
takes that documentary on the Discovery Channel, either a secular
scholar or a spiritual scholar, anyone that takes that serious
laity more. The ten Oshuaries were discovered in South Jerusalem,
and the claim is that originally one of the oshuaries
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contained the bones of Jesus and the others contained the
bones of Jesus's mother, his wife, his son, and other relatives.
The Ashuaries had actually been discovered many years earlier, and
at that time the bones were reburied, so the documentary
focuses on only the empty oshuaries. The reality is that
virtually all serious interested archaeologists historians have found the conclusions
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of the Discovery Channel's documentary completely unfounded. And I've said
this many times in the Bible answer Man broadcast. Christianity
cannot survive an identifiable tomb containing the corpse of Christ.
And one of the things that.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Was very interesting too, because John process of the one
of the founders that Jesus semin are, he claims that
it wouldn't disturbs it. But what I think he fails
to understand is the core of Christian doctrine, the purpose
of our salvation relies heavily on the bodily resurrection.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
It is absolutely critical we say Christ has risen from
the dead, and Paul says, what I received I pass
on to you as of first importance, that Christ died
for our sins according to the scriptures, that he was buried,
that he was raised on the third day according to
the scriptures, and then he appeared. So Paul, in essence
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takes two central pillars, the empty tomb and the appearances
of Christ and builds on that the doctrine of Christ's
resurrection not as something that we believe as vain hope,
but something that's rooted in history and evidence. And in fact,
Paul says five hundred of the brothers Christ appeared to
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at the same time, most of whom are still living,
though some have fallen asleep, which is to say they're
still here to be cross of zem And if what
I'm saying is not true, if the Jesus family tomb
story were correct, there's absolutely no way to account for
the origin of the Christian faith with the belief that
Jesus Christ rose from the dead again. As I said,
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Christianity could not have survived in the face of an
identifiable tomb containing the corpse of Christ. The foes of Christ,
the friends of Christ, consistently said the exact same thing.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Thank you very r.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Tomb is empty.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I know for a fact that they would have paraded
his body down the streets and Christianity would have been
over in a matter of days.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
That's absolutely correct. I appreciate your call. Have written about
this in a book called Resurrection, which not only gives
you the evidence for the resurrection of Christ, but the
evidence for your resurrection as well. Back to the phone lines,
we'll talk next to Scott Saint Louis, Missouri.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Hi, Scott, Hello, Bible study with some other fellows. I
had somebody ask me a question about were humans around
one of the dinosaurs when they were on our One
of my Christian brothers brought up Job forty and forty one,
and I'm not really sure what exactly. I guess what
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God is saying to Job if you're speaking metaphorically in
there as far as Leviathan and the Behemoth, right.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Well, a good question, and Christians answer this in different ways.
Younger creationists look at Job forty and forty one as
examples of dinosaurs that lived at the exact same time
as human beings lived. There are progressive creaziness that say, no,
that's wrong. God created in day ages, so that when
God created on the sixth day men and animals, the
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animals were created many ages as it were in that
same period before man was created. So there's a debate
about how you interpret then Job forty and forty one.
But what is the point In answer to your question,
The point is essentially this job, you can't understand what's
going on in the heavenlyes. You can't even create a
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single little drop of dew, So how are you going
to understand my ways? Trust me? That's the point, and
the point here is do you have an arm like God's?
Can your voice thunder like his? Look at behemoth which
I made, which feeds on grass like an ox And
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God is pointing to the world as an object lesson
to Job and saying, look, if you look at the
majesty of my creation, you should realize immediately that you
can't fathom me. The one thing you can do is
trust even though you don't understand. And that's the ultimate
message that radiates from the Book of Job. It's not
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that we understand why, it's not that we understand in
fact everything. The more you learn, the more you realize
how little you know. Ultimately, the message is you can
trust God because God has given us enough information about
himself so that we can know he is trustworthy. That's
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the point. But again back to your question, this is
not an acid test for orthodoxy, but I do think
it's a very interesting question. At the end of the day,
it drives you not only into the Word of God,
but also God's other book, the Book of nature. God
has left his fingerprints on the world, and therefore, by
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learning to think God's thoughts after him, we can learn
a lot about general revelation, just as we do in
the Bible about special revelation. You're gonna have to leave
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And now here's Hank Canagraph.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I want to go back to the phone lines. Let's
talk to Mike Westminster, Maryland.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Hi, Mike, I have a question.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
I have the past couple of months, I have a
Jehovah's witness guy that stops by like once a month
and he leaves me as little tracks or whatever. But
I just want to know, you know, how do I
keep from falling into what he's trying to push?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I guess, well, first of all, thank God for a
mission field on your own doorstep. But look, you want
to stay centered on the main and the plain things.
And it doesn't get any more maine and plain than
the deity of Jesus Christ. They have a particular view
of Jesus Christ, which has little to do with the
Bible's presentation of Jesus Christ. The Bible presents Jesus Christ
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as the one who spoke in the universe, leapt into existence.
He is before all things, and in him all things
hold together. Jove's witnesses say, no, that's not true. Jesus
Christ himself was a created being, and God created in
me becomes a junior partner in the creation of all
other things. Now to get to that premise, they have
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to take their New World translation and add the word
other four times in Colossians Chapter one to change the
meaning of the text. The reality is then they have
a different position for Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ becomes the
archangel Michael, and then during his earthly sojourn is merely human,
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and after his death he's recreated an immaterial spirit creature.
This is a far different view of Jesus Christ than
the orthodox biblical view. Now again I'm saying, let's stick
with the basics, because if you can't get that solved,
there's no sense and going on to other issues. The
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other thing that I think you need to recognize is
that Jovah's witness may sound informed, but rather is misinformed.
And they have a very small track they run on.
I can tell you this by experience. It's a very
small track that they run on. Once you get them
outside of their own little ball field, they're completely lost.
So they may sound as though they know a lot
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about the Bible, they don't. They've learned a little sales
pitch so that they can sell Washtower magazines. And this
opens up a wonderful opportunity for you to take their
deviation and use it as a springboard to share the gospel. Again,
you're not called to harvest green fruit, harvest that which
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God has prepared. So if they're willing to listen and
have dialogue, wonderful. If not, demonstrate the reality of Christ
by your life and love and save your lips for
another occasion.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Or any guide once I guess just real brief that
I can just run down and run through to get
this kind of dialogue going.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Or yeah, what I would recommend that a couple of
things is to learn the basics. And this is one
of the great things in encountering Jehovah's witness. As you have,
it drives you into education. What happens is they say
something you don't know how to respond to what they say.
Your response should be this, Oh, Kelly, I don't know
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the answer that question. That's a good question. Let me
research and return. What happens in the process is you
become educated. If you're on the cutting edge of evangelism
as you are, you're right there right now, You're going
to be driven into education. That's why you called me.
As a result of that, you're going to learn something,
and the next time you encounter another opportunity that God
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gives you, you have some more ammunition. If you are
on the cutting edge of evangelism. You're driven into education,
you become an ever more useful tool in the hands
of the Holy Spirit. So you're part of that process
right now. Be glad that God has given you this
opportunity to sharpen your skills, to learn, to become more effective,
to be grounded in your own faith. I've got the
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information right here. I mean, all you had to do
is go to the webit equip dot org and just
have at it.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Okay, it sounds good. I appreciate the direction and the
input and how I continue to listen to your program.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Thank you appreciate your call. And I've written about this
in the Complete Bible answer Book Collector's Edition, available through
the Ministry of the Christian Research Institute. I want to
go back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to
Eddie listening in Sullivan, Missouri.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
Hi, Eddie, Hey, Hank, how are you doing. I want
to tell you that I just got done reading the
book The Apocalypse Code. Actually I bought four copies and
gave them the three of my friends and I read
the book probably about eight hours. It was one of
the best books I've ever read and really opened my
eyes on a lot of stets But my question today
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was in regards to John chapter four, Versus twenty three
and twenty four, and it basically it says that the
hour is coming and is now here when the true
worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. For
the Father is seeking such people to worship.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
Him God to spirit, and those who worship him must
worship him in spirit and truth. My question is is
that I was told that the definition of worship is
to prostate and to fall on your on your knees
and hold your arms up. And my question is what
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is the correct way to worship?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Well, I don't think there is a correct weight to worship. Certainly,
I think it is true that in our hearts and
minds we prostrate ourselves before the Lord. But that does
not mean that sitting in the studio right now on
a chair, I cannot worship God. I can. I can
have reverence and awe for God. In fact, it ought
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to be the attitude of my life. Certainly, if you
can imagine something like an angel appearing before you, you'd
want to fall down and prostrate yourself before that angel.
And yet in scripture it says don't do it. I'm
a fellow servant with you and your brother's the prophets.
So don't prostrate yourself before me. But if Jesus Christ appeared,
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I know I'd be flat on my face. If we
have some kind of a sense of the holiness of God,
we would prostrate ourselves. And in fact, in Isaiah chapter six,
the holiest man in Israel gets a glimpse of God
and comes a part of the seams. Quite literally, he says,
I'm undone. So you see just how holy and righteous
God is. And when you get a glimpse of that,
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you are prostrating yourself before him. And again, that can
be an attitude of the heart as well as a
physical manifestation where you actually physically lay down and raise
your arms. But it certainly is not a necessary thing
to do in worship, although I don't find anything particularly
wrong with it either.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
I appreciate your answer. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You've got a Javier listening in Highland, Arkansas. You're next.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Hi, Hey, Hank, how you doing, buddy good?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
How are you?
Speaker 10 (22:21):
I'm doing good? Good talking to you. Likewise, the question
I have for you is why is it that the
scholars of today overlook the Latin manuscript tradition, as in,
when they look at the New Testament manuscripts, why do
they overlook the Latin manuscripts.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Well, I don't think that they do. I think that
the scholars today look at all the manuscripts. They certainly
spend a great deal of time and effort with the oldest,
most reliable manuscript traditions, but they take them all into account.
If you look at the manuscript traditions, there are electionaries,
there are unsouls, there are minuscules, are the pyrus manuscripts,
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and they can all be lumped together. Some of them
are older than others. But through the science of textual criticism,
you are able to get back to the autographer, and
that is always the goal. All the manuscripts have errors,
but they don't all have the same errors, and therefore,
through analysis you can get back to the utographer and
know that what we have in our modern translations corresponds
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to reality, corresponds to what the original text would have
told us. Now there are differences in style, there are
differences in spelling, but there's no difference in substance. So
the wealth of manuscript evidence is what the scholar looks at,
and we are blessed with that, and it's one of
the ways in which we can demonstrate that the Bible
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is divine as opposed to merely human in origin, that
God has miraculously or marvelously preserved his word over time
through those manuscripts.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
But which manuscript tradition is? Is it? The textis receptis
the Alexandrian method or the majority of the Greek macuse
they got the majority?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
What do you think the textas receptist is?
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Well, I mean, obviously what the King James uses or
the New King James uses. I mean, those are pretty
much the only two Bibles that we have today that
are used from the same textas receptists, because I mean
there's Texas, there's a few.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Okay, when you hear textas receptists, what does that mean
to you?
Speaker 10 (24:22):
Well, I don't understand what you're asking.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Well, I'm just asking when you are using the word
textus receptis, what are you saying to.
Speaker 10 (24:29):
Be received, taste right, and.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Received from where? I mean the idea that most people
have is that it's received from Mount Sinai, hot off
the plates, as though it's some kind of an autograph.
It's not.
Speaker 10 (24:43):
Well, that's what the Elevier brothers called it just that
the received as a text received by all.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Well, that's right, but remember that the Elzevir Brudren who
were born by the way where I was born in
Leiden in the Netherlands, they captured this as an advertising blurb.
So you need to be careful that you don't pick
up a slogan like you hear in an advertising blurb
on television and read something into it that's unwarranted, as
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though this somehow means that there is a wholly received text.
And the problem with this is that the people who
hold only to King James version, they have this idea
that everything has to be tested by the King James
version and the manuscript tradition on which it is based.
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But that's not true. You need to take the full
corpus of manuscripts, and there were a lot of manuscripts
that we simply didn't have when the King James version
was first commissioned by James the First in sixteen oh
four and when it was completed in sixteen eleven. Today
we have, by God's grace, many more manuscripts, and it
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has helped us a great deal to have these other manuscripts.
That's why in fact, you have the new King James version.
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in fact the very words of God himself. Three years
in the making and based on two decades of research
and reflection, Hank Henagraph's monumental book Has God Spoken, answers
what is surely the most important question facing our world.
In Has God Spoken, Memorable Proofs of the Bible's Divine inspiration,
(27:32):
Hank counters the contentions of the Bible attackers and clearly
shows that belief in the Holy Scriptures is not a
guess or wishful thinking. It is the only logical conclusion
after an honest examination of overwhelming evidence. Ordered Has God
Spoken from the Christian Research Institute by calling eighty eight
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From the Christian Research Institute and Charlotte, North Carolina. You're
listening to 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 always be prepared to give an answer to everyone
who asks you, to give the reason for the hope
(00:27):
that you have with gentleness and respect. For more information
resources or to donate to CURI, call eight eight eight
seven thousand CRI, or go online to equip dot org.
The following program was pre recorded and now here's Bible
answer Man host Hank Canagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
I want to go the phone lines now talk to
Eugene listening in Freehold, New Jersey. Hi Eugene, Hi, Hank
Allia Good, how are you?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I'm great? Look I was My question is and was
Jesus a common name in Jesus time?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Well, yes, it was a very common name in the
time of Jesus.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Okay, So that being said, what made Jesus different if
someone were to say Jesus, if there's two people there
were the same name.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Well, there are a lot of John's in the world.
There are a lot of joshuas in the world. Right,
there are quite a few Hanks in the world. There
are a few less Hendricks in the world, which is
my formal name. But look, the issue is your identity
is bound up in a lot of different things. In
the identity of Jesus, Christ was bound up in the
(01:43):
fact that he was Jesus of Nazareth, another point of identification.
But ultimately, there are points of identification that single him
out from anyone who has ever lived on the planet.
His ancestry from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, through the line
(02:04):
of Judah to Jesse to the house of David. You
have his birth in Bethlehem, you have the prophecies concerning him,
and the prophecies that he himself made. All of them
identify him uniquely, not as just a Jesus, but as
(02:25):
the Jesus, the one who demonstrated that he was utterly unique,
not because of his name, but because of what he
did he was able to raise the dead.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Okay, let me ask you another question. What his name
spelled different than the other Jesus are pronounced different?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
No? Okay no, And remember the English name Jesus comes
from the Greek Esus, which is transliterated from the Hebrew Yeshua.
So the way we pronounce it is certainly different than
they would have pronounced it in secular coin a Greek.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Okay, okay, thanks a lot, Hank, you got it.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
And again he was known not only as Jesus of Nazareth,
but also Jesus of Nazareth, son of Joseph. A lot
of different points of identification that we find for the
crystal Christ, the paragon of virtue. Back to the phone lines,
we'll talk next to Mark. He's listening on the web
in Auburn, Washington. Hi, Mark, how are you doing? Hank good?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
How are you not bad?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
My question is very similar to his, because I'm sure
you remember back in two thousand and seven they discovered
that Jesus family too. It was supposedly bear the osullary
of Jesus Christ himself.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Now here's the thing. I've heard from different Christians and
different scholars that aren't Christian as to the authenticity or
the fact that you know this is a pope, or
even that it's just a different Jesus, you know that
was in there, not Jesus of Nazareth. And one of
the arguments had a lot to do with his disciples
didn't refer to him as Jesus Barbejoseph, you know, the
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Holy issue a bark Joseph, and so his close friends
and family, especially the apostles, wouldn't have referred to him
that way. Statistically speaking, if you have like a real
common name, the son of a real common name, but
then you have all these people you know in the family,
with the exception for you know, Mary doesn't really specify
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who it was, but you have all of these names,
and they say, like the odds are very small that
it would be anyone else other than Jesus of Nazareth.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, but all the names of the Austuaries were very
common names. But look, I don't know of anybody that
takes that documentary on the Discovery Channel, either a secular
scholar or a spiritual scholar, anyone that takes that serious
laity more. The ten Oshuaries were discovered in South Jerusalem,
and the claim is that originally one of the oshuaries
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contained the bones of Jesus and the others contained the
bones of Jesus's mother, his wife, his son, and other relatives.
The Ashuaries had actually been discovered many years earlier, and
at that time the bones were reburied, so the documentary
focuses on only the empty oshuaries. The reality is that
virtually all serious interested archaeologists historians have found the conclusions
(05:34):
of the Discovery Channel's documentary completely unfounded. And I've said
this many times in the Bible answer Man broadcast. Christianity
cannot survive an identifiable tomb containing the corpse of Christ.
And one of the things that.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Was very interesting too, because John process of the one
of the founders that Jesus semin are, he claims that
it wouldn't disturbs it. But what I think he fails
to understand is the core of Christian doctrine, the purpose
of our salvation relies heavily on the bodily resurrection.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
It is absolutely critical we say Christ has risen from
the dead, and Paul says, what I received I pass
on to you as of first importance, that Christ died
for our sins according to the scriptures, that he was buried,
that he was raised on the third day according to
the scriptures, and then he appeared. So Paul, in essence
(06:31):
takes two central pillars, the empty tomb and the appearances
of Christ and builds on that the doctrine of Christ's
resurrection not as something that we believe as vain hope,
but something that's rooted in history and evidence. And in fact,
Paul says five hundred of the brothers Christ appeared to
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at the same time, most of whom are still living,
though some have fallen asleep, which is to say they're
still here to be cross of zem And if what
I'm saying is not true, if the Jesus family tomb
story were correct, there's absolutely no way to account for
the origin of the Christian faith with the belief that
Jesus Christ rose from the dead again. As I said,
(07:15):
Christianity could not have survived in the face of an
identifiable tomb containing the corpse of Christ. The foes of Christ,
the friends of Christ, consistently said the exact same thing.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Thank you very r.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Tomb is empty.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
I know for a fact that they would have paraded
his body down the streets and Christianity would have been
over in a matter of days.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
That's absolutely correct. I appreciate your call. Have written about
this in a book called Resurrection, which not only gives
you the evidence for the resurrection of Christ, but the
evidence for your resurrection as well. Back to the phone lines,
we'll talk next to Scott Saint Louis, Missouri.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Hi, Scott, Hello, Bible study with some other fellows. I
had somebody ask me a question about were humans around
one of the dinosaurs when they were on our One
of my Christian brothers brought up Job forty and forty one,
and I'm not really sure what exactly. I guess what
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God is saying to Job if you're speaking metaphorically in
there as far as Leviathan and the Behemoth, right.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Well, a good question, and Christians answer this in different ways.
Younger creationists look at Job forty and forty one as
examples of dinosaurs that lived at the exact same time
as human beings lived. There are progressive creaziness that say, no,
that's wrong. God created in day ages, so that when
God created on the sixth day men and animals, the
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animals were created many ages as it were in that
same period before man was created. So there's a debate
about how you interpret then Job forty and forty one.
But what is the point In answer to your question,
The point is essentially this job, you can't understand what's
going on in the heavenlyes. You can't even create a
(09:16):
single little drop of dew, So how are you going
to understand my ways? Trust me? That's the point, and
the point here is do you have an arm like God's?
Can your voice thunder like his? Look at behemoth which
I made, which feeds on grass like an ox And
(09:40):
God is pointing to the world as an object lesson
to Job and saying, look, if you look at the
majesty of my creation, you should realize immediately that you
can't fathom me. The one thing you can do is
trust even though you don't understand. And that's the ultimate
message that radiates from the Book of Job. It's not
(10:02):
that we understand why, it's not that we understand in
fact everything. The more you learn, the more you realize
how little you know. Ultimately, the message is you can
trust God because God has given us enough information about
himself so that we can know he is trustworthy. That's
(10:23):
the point. But again back to your question, this is
not an acid test for orthodoxy, but I do think
it's a very interesting question. At the end of the day,
it drives you not only into the Word of God,
but also God's other book, the Book of nature. God
has left his fingerprints on the world, and therefore, by
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learning to think God's thoughts after him, we can learn
a lot about general revelation, just as we do in
the Bible about special revelation. You're gonna have to leave
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And now here's Hank Canagraph.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
I want to go back to the phone lines. Let's
talk to Mike Westminster, Maryland.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Hi, Mike, I have a question.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
I have the past couple of months, I have a
Jehovah's witness guy that stops by like once a month
and he leaves me as little tracks or whatever. But
I just want to know, you know, how do I
keep from falling into what he's trying to push?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
I guess, well, first of all, thank God for a
mission field on your own doorstep. But look, you want
to stay centered on the main and the plain things.
And it doesn't get any more maine and plain than
the deity of Jesus Christ. They have a particular view
of Jesus Christ, which has little to do with the
Bible's presentation of Jesus Christ. The Bible presents Jesus Christ
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as the one who spoke in the universe, leapt into existence.
He is before all things, and in him all things
hold together. Jove's witnesses say, no, that's not true. Jesus
Christ himself was a created being, and God created in
me becomes a junior partner in the creation of all
other things. Now to get to that premise, they have
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to take their New World translation and add the word
other four times in Colossians Chapter one to change the
meaning of the text. The reality is then they have
a different position for Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ becomes the
archangel Michael, and then during his earthly sojourn is merely human,
(16:42):
and after his death he's recreated an immaterial spirit creature.
This is a far different view of Jesus Christ than
the orthodox biblical view. Now again I'm saying, let's stick
with the basics, because if you can't get that solved,
there's no sense and going on to other issues. The
(17:02):
other thing that I think you need to recognize is
that Jovah's witness may sound informed, but rather is misinformed.
And they have a very small track they run on.
I can tell you this by experience. It's a very
small track that they run on. Once you get them
outside of their own little ball field, they're completely lost.
So they may sound as though they know a lot
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about the Bible, they don't. They've learned a little sales
pitch so that they can sell Washtower magazines. And this
opens up a wonderful opportunity for you to take their
deviation and use it as a springboard to share the gospel. Again,
you're not called to harvest green fruit, harvest that which
(17:45):
God has prepared. So if they're willing to listen and
have dialogue, wonderful. If not, demonstrate the reality of Christ
by your life and love and save your lips for
another occasion.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Or any guide once I guess just real brief that
I can just run down and run through to get
this kind of dialogue going.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Or yeah, what I would recommend that a couple of
things is to learn the basics. And this is one
of the great things in encountering Jehovah's witness. As you have,
it drives you into education. What happens is they say
something you don't know how to respond to what they say.
Your response should be this, Oh, Kelly, I don't know
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the answer that question. That's a good question. Let me
research and return. What happens in the process is you
become educated. If you're on the cutting edge of evangelism
as you are, you're right there right now, You're going
to be driven into education. That's why you called me.
As a result of that, you're going to learn something,
and the next time you encounter another opportunity that God
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gives you, you have some more ammunition. If you are
on the cutting edge of evangelism. You're driven into education,
you become an ever more useful tool in the hands
of the Holy Spirit. So you're part of that process
right now. Be glad that God has given you this
opportunity to sharpen your skills, to learn, to become more effective,
to be grounded in your own faith. I've got the
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information right here. I mean, all you had to do
is go to the webit equip dot org and just
have at it.
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Okay, it sounds good. I appreciate the direction and the
input and how I continue to listen to your program.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Thank you appreciate your call. And I've written about this
in the Complete Bible answer Book Collector's Edition, available through
the Ministry of the Christian Research Institute. I want to
go back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to
Eddie listening in Sullivan, Missouri.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
Hi, Eddie, Hey, Hank, how are you doing. I want
to tell you that I just got done reading the
book The Apocalypse Code. Actually I bought four copies and
gave them the three of my friends and I read
the book probably about eight hours. It was one of
the best books I've ever read and really opened my
eyes on a lot of stets But my question today
(20:02):
was in regards to John chapter four, Versus twenty three
and twenty four, and it basically it says that the
hour is coming and is now here when the true
worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. For
the Father is seeking such people to worship.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
Him God to spirit, and those who worship him must
worship him in spirit and truth. My question is is
that I was told that the definition of worship is
to prostate and to fall on your on your knees
and hold your arms up. And my question is what
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is the correct way to worship?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Well, I don't think there is a correct weight to worship. Certainly,
I think it is true that in our hearts and
minds we prostrate ourselves before the Lord. But that does
not mean that sitting in the studio right now on
a chair, I cannot worship God. I can. I can
have reverence and awe for God. In fact, it ought
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to be the attitude of my life. Certainly, if you
can imagine something like an angel appearing before you, you'd
want to fall down and prostrate yourself before that angel.
And yet in scripture it says don't do it. I'm
a fellow servant with you and your brother's the prophets.
So don't prostrate yourself before me. But if Jesus Christ appeared,
(21:29):
I know I'd be flat on my face. If we
have some kind of a sense of the holiness of God,
we would prostrate ourselves. And in fact, in Isaiah chapter six,
the holiest man in Israel gets a glimpse of God
and comes a part of the seams. Quite literally, he says,
I'm undone. So you see just how holy and righteous
God is. And when you get a glimpse of that,
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you are prostrating yourself before him. And again, that can
be an attitude of the heart as well as a
physical manifestation where you actually physically lay down and raise
your arms. But it certainly is not a necessary thing
to do in worship, although I don't find anything particularly
wrong with it either.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
I appreciate your answer. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You've got a Javier listening in Highland, Arkansas. You're next.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Hi, Hey, Hank, how you doing, buddy good?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
How are you?
Speaker 10 (22:21):
I'm doing good? Good talking to you. Likewise, the question
I have for you is why is it that the
scholars of today overlook the Latin manuscript tradition, as in,
when they look at the New Testament manuscripts, why do
they overlook the Latin manuscripts.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Well, I don't think that they do. I think that
the scholars today look at all the manuscripts. They certainly
spend a great deal of time and effort with the oldest,
most reliable manuscript traditions, but they take them all into account.
If you look at the manuscript traditions, there are electionaries,
there are unsouls, there are minuscules, are the pyrus manuscripts,
(23:02):
and they can all be lumped together. Some of them
are older than others. But through the science of textual criticism,
you are able to get back to the autographer, and
that is always the goal. All the manuscripts have errors,
but they don't all have the same errors, and therefore,
through analysis you can get back to the utographer and
know that what we have in our modern translations corresponds
(23:23):
to reality, corresponds to what the original text would have
told us. Now there are differences in style, there are
differences in spelling, but there's no difference in substance. So
the wealth of manuscript evidence is what the scholar looks at,
and we are blessed with that, and it's one of
the ways in which we can demonstrate that the Bible
(23:46):
is divine as opposed to merely human in origin, that
God has miraculously or marvelously preserved his word over time
through those manuscripts.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
But which manuscript tradition is? Is it? The textis receptis
the Alexandrian method or the majority of the Greek macuse
they got the majority?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
What do you think the textas receptist is?
Speaker 10 (24:05):
Well, I mean, obviously what the King James uses or
the New King James uses. I mean, those are pretty
much the only two Bibles that we have today that
are used from the same textas receptists, because I mean
there's Texas, there's a few.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Okay, when you hear textas receptists, what does that mean
to you?
Speaker 10 (24:22):
Well, I don't understand what you're asking.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Well, I'm just asking when you are using the word
textus receptis, what are you saying to.
Speaker 10 (24:29):
Be received, taste right, and.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Received from where? I mean the idea that most people
have is that it's received from Mount Sinai, hot off
the plates, as though it's some kind of an autograph.
It's not.
Speaker 10 (24:43):
Well, that's what the Elevier brothers called it just that
the received as a text received by all.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Well, that's right, but remember that the Elzevir Brudren who
were born by the way where I was born in
Leiden in the Netherlands, they captured this as an advertising blurb.
So you need to be careful that you don't pick
up a slogan like you hear in an advertising blurb
on television and read something into it that's unwarranted, as
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though this somehow means that there is a wholly received text.
And the problem with this is that the people who
hold only to King James version, they have this idea
that everything has to be tested by the King James
version and the manuscript tradition on which it is based.
(25:32):
But that's not true. You need to take the full
corpus of manuscripts, and there were a lot of manuscripts
that we simply didn't have when the King James version
was first commissioned by James the First in sixteen oh
four and when it was completed in sixteen eleven. Today
we have, by God's grace, many more manuscripts, and it
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has helped us a great deal to have these other manuscripts.
That's why in fact, you have the new King James version.
We're at a time for this edition of the Bible
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in the making and based on two decades of research
and reflection, Hank Henagraph's monumental book Has God Spoken, answers
what is surely the most important question facing our world.
In Has God Spoken, Memorable Proofs of the Bible's Divine inspiration,
(27:32):
Hank counters the contentions of the Bible attackers and clearly
shows that belief in the Holy Scriptures is not a
guess or wishful thinking. It is the only logical conclusion
after an honest examination of overwhelming evidence. Ordered Has God
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