January 29, 2026 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (01/29/26), Hank answers the following questions:
Does a person go to hell for committing suicide? Stuart - MS (0:54)
How do dinosaurs coincide with the Bible? What about the Behemoths? Troy - Detroit, MI (7:04)
What can you tell me about Jentezen Franklin? Virginia - Queens, NY (17:01)
Is there a significance to the use of the word “was” in John 1:1? Tim - St. Louis, MO (19:07)
Will God hold people to vows and oaths for pledges made to false teachers? Jim - Kansas City, MO (21:19)
I was tithing to a church, but the pastor kept coming in with nice new suits and a new car, so I left. Is there another way to tithe? Shawn - Topeka, KS (22:43)
Does a person go to hell for committing suicide? Stuart - MS (0:54)
How do dinosaurs coincide with the Bible? What about the Behemoths? Troy - Detroit, MI (7:04)
What can you tell me about Jentezen Franklin? Virginia - Queens, NY (17:01)
Is there a significance to the use of the word “was” in John 1:1? Tim - St. Louis, MO (19:07)
Will God hold people to vows and oaths for pledges made to false teachers? Jim - Kansas City, MO (21:19)
I was tithing to a church, but the pastor kept coming in with nice new suits and a new car, so I left. Is there another way to tithe? Shawn - Topeka, KS (22:43)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Heard all across the United States, Canada, and around the world.
This is the Bible answer Man Broadcast with Hank Annagraph.
Hank as President of the Christian Research Institute at CRI.
Our desire is to equip you not only to defend
the historic Christian faith, but to become a winsome witness
to a spiritually hungry but skeptical world, because life and
(00:31):
truth matter. To learn more or to find resources to
help you grow in grace, call eight eight eight seven
thousand CROI or go online to equip dot org. That's
equip dot org. The following program was pre recorded and
now here's Hank Canagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Thanks very much, Randy, and a lot of you hanging on.
We'll go right to our phone callers. First up, let's
go to Stewart. He's listening at Mississippi High Stewart.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, yes, I was wanting to know if you decide
to take your own life, do you go to hell
for that?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well, remember that if you are a believer, you're not
going to go to hell. But if you're a believer,
you're also not going to knowingly take your own life.
The reason is, as a believer, you recognize that life
and death is not your prerogative. Rather, it is the
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prerogative of God. And therefore, in your right mind you
would never take a prerogative that is God's alone. So
you cannot absolutely say with certainty that suicide is the
unforgivable sin. But you can say with certainty that no
believer in their right mind would ever murder oneself and
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violate a commendment of God. Taking their own life is
the murdering of oneself and therefore completely out of touch
with a Christian worldview.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yes, sir, okay, I'm glad you clearify for me.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Why are you asking?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You know, sometimes you feel there's no way out. It
just bonders my mind sometimes, Well, Stuart, I.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Can tell you there is a way out. God has
a purpose for your life. All the days ordained for
you were written in His book before one of them
came to be. He has a purpose for your life,
and you find that purpose by developing a rich relationship
with the lover of your soul through prayer, by getting
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into the Word of God and getting the Word of
God into you, and by recognizing that you can't go
this life's journey on your own. You need other Christians
to encourage you if you're going through a deep and
dark valley in your life, you need other brothers that
can hold you up, because one of the things that
happens toward is you lose perspective at times, and you
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have to regain that perspective. We all do. We lose perspective,
and we have moments of despondency, and then we might
do things that we would say we would never do
if we are in our right mind. But if you
think of the fact that God knit you together in
your mother's womb, and that He loved you enough to
die for you, you know that He also has numbered
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every hair on your head. He cares about every detail
of your life. You can make it through the dark,
dreary environs of this world. In fact, when you get
to the darkest spot, you'll find that you're lifted up
suddenly and that Christ is carrying you.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yes, sir, thank you that hailps Here's.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
What I want you to do. Get a Bible, and
I want you to meditate on Psalm one thirty nine.
Just read it over and over again, meditate on it
digested in your mind, and it will give you the
certain knowledge that no matter where you are, no matter
what you're experiencing, God will never leave you, He will
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never forsake you. He is there with you every step
of the way. You can be absolutely certain of that.
So I would meditate on it if possible, memorize it.
Just keep going over and over and over it in
your mind until it becomes a part of who you are,
and it will give you the encouragement you need when
you're in the darkest part of the storm.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Okay, I appreciate really doing Psalms one nine, and I'll
get right on it.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Thank you for calling Stuart.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Thank you for caring enough to listen. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You got it, my friend, and I want to pray
for Stuart. Oh Lord, please be with Stuart and encourage him,
bring other believers to his aid, help them to be
the balm of Gilead in his life. And Lord, remember
your words. You've searched us, You know us. You know
when we sit, when we rise, you perceive our thoughts
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from afar. You discern are going out and are lying down.
You're familiar with all our ways. Before a word is
on our tongue, you know it completely. You hem us
in behind, and before you've laid your hand upon us.
Such knowledge is too wonderful, too lofty for us to attain.
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Where can we go from your spirit? Where can we
flee from your presence? If we go up the heavens,
you're there. If we make our bed in the depths,
you are there. If we rise on the wings of
the dawn, if we settle on the far side of
the sea, even there, your hand will guide us in.
Your right hand will hold us fast. If we say,
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surely the darkness will hide us in the light, become
night around us. Even the darkness will not be dark
to you. The night will shine like the day, for
darkness is as light to you. You created our inmost being.
You knit us together in our mother's womb. We can
praise you because we're fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works
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are wonderful. We know that full well. Our frames were
not hidden from you when we were made in the
secret place, When we were woven together in the depths
of the earth, your eyes saw our unformed body. All
the days ordained were writ in your book before even
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one of them came to be. Stuart and everyone listening
in can have the certainty that life doesn't give us
a peaceful way to come to terms with depression and
anxiety and even death and despondency. But it does give
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us something far greater, the hope of resurrection. That's why
we can face tomorrow. I want to go back to
the phone lines. Let's talk next to Troit in Detroit.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Hi Troy, Hello, mister Anagraph. I appreciate your efforts on
our behalf.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You got it my privilege.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Most of my friends are non believers, and one of
the biggest questions I've had to deal with is how
do you coincide dinosaurs and the Bible? And you know,
I really both. The only thing I really find it
about the behaviors and such and so forth, And I
don't know how to tell my friends, you know, they
were created by God and such, and they I'll say, well,
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don't you think Adam would probably have been eaten by
a tux or something?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Well, I mean, I think the thing that you have
to recognize when you deal with these kinds of things
is that God has two books. He has the Book
of Knowledge, or the Bible. He also has the Book
of Nature, which is to say that if you look
at the Book of Nature, you know that dinosaurs existed
the question that's debated by Christians is when they existed.
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And certainly there are many Christians that hold to an
old universe, and they do so on the basis of
the Book of Nature. They look at Nature, they read
that book carefully, and they realize as a result of
that that we live in an old universe. And therefore
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the presupposition is that dinosaurs could have predated Adam by
literally millions actually hundreds of millions of years.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
And the next question that to because God created the
world in seven days?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Right, Well, again, this gets to my other point, and
that is you have to be able to read the
Bible critically as well. That's an art and that's a science,
which is to say that when the Bible talks about
the seven days of Creed, one must not suppose that
within that we have a chronology of creation. What we
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actually have there is a hierarchy of creation, with humankind
as the crowning jewels of God's creation. So rather than
reading it chronologically, I think we're better served to read
it chirologically and understand God's purposes, recognizing that God is
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unbounded by time, So we look at affects linearly and
say an effect follows a cause we look at things chronologically,
but God is not bounded by time, and thus we
have to recognize that we shouldn't just look at the
Bible from a humanistic standpoint. We have to look at
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this from a sanctified godly standpoint, recognizing the nature of
God and God's heavenly condescension to use physical realities to
communicate spiritual truth. And one of the beauties that you
have at the very beginning in Genesis is a mnemonic
device by which every single day of the week we
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can remember God's creative prowess. And so it's something that
is imprinted upon the tablet of our consciousness and becomes
a pattern by which, in the Decalogue we learn to
live our lives by the pattern that God set forth
for us and the heavenly condescension that we find in
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the account of Genesis, which is a historical narrative but
obviously interlaced with Jewish poetic structure as well. So we
want to read it literally, which means that we want
to read it as literature, take it in the sense
in which it's inspired, because at the end of the day,
it's not just literature, it's inspired literature. There are younger
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creationists that believe that dinosaurs lived at the same time
as humankind, and therefore there is a debate amongst Christians
that ought to not divide but cause us to have
iron sharp and iron.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
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Speaker 2 (15:57):
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want to go back to the phone lines now, talk
to Virginia. She's listening in Queens, New York. Hi Virginia.
Oh I Hank, how are you. I'm well? Thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
My question is Jitson. Frankly, can you tell me about
him well.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
He is a classic tele evangelist with a television program
known as Kingdom Connection, and like most of the Word
faith teachers, he declares men to be little gods. He says,
in the garden before Adam fell to sin, we were
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bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. We
were made in the image of God. We were little
gods just like God. He teaches the whole notion that
faith is a forced words are the containers of the force,
and through the force of faith one can create their
on reality and then also does the manipulative stuff. When
you pray, you can release the thirty fold return, and
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when both prayer and giving are part of your life,
he says, I believe that releases the sixtyfold blessing, and
when all three giving, praying, and fasting are part of
your life, that one hundredfold return can be released. Well,
it's a spiritualizing of a give to get Khan. The
basic ideas you send a certain amount of money and
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then you get either thirty or sixty or one hundredfold blessing.
So it's a way to give to get, where in
Biblical theology you don't give to get. You give because
you sincerely love the Lord and you want to extend
his kingdom. You give because you're demonstrating that you lean
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upon the arm of God more heavily than upon the
arm of flesh, and you are giving to meet the
needs of people spiritually and physically. So Jensen Franklin is
not a man that I would recommend. I've written in
principle about him and many other Word of Faith teachers
in my book Christian christis twenty first century. Thank you
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for your call, Virgin You want to move on now,
talk to Tim. He's listening in Saint Louis, Missouri. Hi, Tim,
How are.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
You doing, sir?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Good? How are you all right?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Bless you? What do you do for the kingdom?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (19:18):
I know. The ghyps is that the word puts on
I am God pronounce himself as I am. So he
was curious to me that in John one one it
uses to the word was sir, And so I was
wondering their significance today.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Well, yeah, the context again becomes determinative because in John
you'll have John talking about Jesus and saying, in the
beginning was the word, and the word was God. So
he's talking about Jesus at the beginning of time, in
an epic of history past, when Jesus Christ spoke in
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the universe leapt into existence. So he said, in the
beginning was the word, the word was with God, and
then emphasizes the fact that the word was God. He
was with God in the beginning, and what happened in
the beginning in other words, when the universe was created,
what happened through him, says John, all things were made
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past tense. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.
In him was life, and that life was the light
of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the
darkness has not understood it. And then he makes clear
so that we don't miss the point that the word
became flesh and tabernacled among us. He's talking what Jesus
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did when he walked this earth. When John walked this earth.
Jesus walked this earth in the present. But Jesus Christ
forever will be. And John points that out in the
Book of Revelation as well. He's not only past, present,
and future. He is indeed forever. He existed before the
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foundation of the world, and we will experience him an
eternity as well. Okay, okay, you got it. Back to
the phone lines. Let's talk to Jim Kansas City, Missouri.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Hi, Jim, Well, how are you doing good?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Her?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Are you all right?
Speaker 7 (21:26):
I had a.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Question and a reference to a call about Robert Tilton
in the ministry.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
If you what the Bible says about making vows and
oaths and those type of things God would not hold.
You know, when these people are asking persons to make
vows of faith in that cant well, God wouldn't actually
hold somebody to that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
We you know, God doesn't hold us to our own sins.
What we are called to do is ask forgiveness for
those sins. Now, there are vows that God does hold
us too. So if you stand before God, and you
stand before the state, and you vow to cherish a woman,
to love her and honor her and respect her and
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nurture her and care for her until death, do you part.
That's a vow that you are making, not only to
a woman, but a vow that you are making to
your Lord, because you're connected like a triangle with God
at the top of the triangle, and the closure you
come to one another, the closure you we come to God.
So that's the kind of vow that you are held to,
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that you are held responsible for. But a vow to
Robert Tilton is a vow to a false teacher, right.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Okay, all right, well, thank you. I appreciate that you
got Jim.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Appreciate your call. Sean next listening in Topeka, Hi, Sean,
h good her.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
You I'm doing fine, Hank, I got a question for you.
I was calling in reference to TD Jake and uh
J Hostin and tithing. Yeah, and I got out of
a church is because I was noticing that the preacher
kept asking for tithing, and he kept coming in with
nice new suits, finally a new car, all this and
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all that, and then I got out of the church.
I woun't need to know is there another way I
could tie to where I because I want to tide,
but I feel uncomfortable giving my tithing. You know like that?
Well know if there's another place I can tie that,
you know, another place I can go to tide?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah. I think what's important is to recognize that you
are a steward of the resources that God gives you,
and as such, you want to find ministries that are
really making a difference for time and for eternity. You
want to invest in those ministries. And think about this
from a cross secular standpoint. If you're going to make
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an investment in a business, you want to make sure
that that business is really making a otherwise you wouldn't
want to invest in it. The same thing is true
with a ministry. You want to invest in ministries that
are making a difference for time and for eternity. So
you need to make wise spiritual investments. And the whole
notion of tithing is something that leads to free will giving,
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which is to say, at the end of the day,
we want to give so that His kingdom may be extended.
Not only would we be empowered through that to spread
the Gospel around the globe, but we would be enabled
to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, care for the sick.
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Like our forefathers who founded great centers of Christian education,
established hospitals, funded relief organizations. We might yet leave an
indelible mark on our generation, for only when the training
wheels of tithing come off will the world of free
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will giving become our playground. Well, we're out of time
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are the words of scripture merely human in origin, or
are they, 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
(27:31):
Bible's Divine inspiration, 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
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Heard all across the United States, Canada, and around the world.
This is the Bible answer Man Broadcast with Hank Annagraph.
Hank as President of the Christian Research Institute at CRI.
Our desire is to equip you not only to defend
the historic Christian faith, but to become a winsome witness
to a spiritually hungry but skeptical world, because life and
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truth matter. To learn more or to find resources to
help you grow in grace, call eight eight eight seven
thousand CROI or go online to equip dot org. That's
equip dot org. The following program was pre recorded and
now here's Hank Canagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Thanks very much, Randy, and a lot of you hanging on.
We'll go right to our phone callers. First up, let's
go to Stewart. He's listening at Mississippi High Stewart.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, yes, I was wanting to know if you decide
to take your own life, do you go to hell
for that?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well, remember that if you are a believer, you're not
going to go to hell. But if you're a believer,
you're also not going to knowingly take your own life.
The reason is, as a believer, you recognize that life
and death is not your prerogative. Rather, it is the
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prerogative of God. And therefore, in your right mind you
would never take a prerogative that is God's alone. So
you cannot absolutely say with certainty that suicide is the
unforgivable sin. But you can say with certainty that no
believer in their right mind would ever murder oneself and
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violate a commendment of God. Taking their own life is
the murdering of oneself and therefore completely out of touch
with a Christian worldview.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yes, sir, okay, I'm glad you clearify for me.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Why are you asking?
Speaker 3 (02:11):
You know, sometimes you feel there's no way out. It
just bonders my mind sometimes, Well, Stuart, I.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Can tell you there is a way out. God has
a purpose for your life. All the days ordained for
you were written in His book before one of them
came to be. He has a purpose for your life,
and you find that purpose by developing a rich relationship
with the lover of your soul through prayer, by getting
(02:41):
into the Word of God and getting the Word of
God into you, and by recognizing that you can't go
this life's journey on your own. You need other Christians
to encourage you if you're going through a deep and
dark valley in your life, you need other brothers that
can hold you up, because one of the things that
happens toward is you lose perspective at times, and you
(03:02):
have to regain that perspective. We all do. We lose perspective,
and we have moments of despondency, and then we might
do things that we would say we would never do
if we are in our right mind. But if you
think of the fact that God knit you together in
your mother's womb, and that He loved you enough to
die for you, you know that He also has numbered
(03:25):
every hair on your head. He cares about every detail
of your life. You can make it through the dark,
dreary environs of this world. In fact, when you get
to the darkest spot, you'll find that you're lifted up
suddenly and that Christ is carrying you.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Yes, sir, thank you that hailps Here's.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
What I want you to do. Get a Bible, and
I want you to meditate on Psalm one thirty nine.
Just read it over and over again, meditate on it
digested in your mind, and it will give you the
certain knowledge that no matter where you are, no matter
what you're experiencing, God will never leave you, He will
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never forsake you. He is there with you every step
of the way. You can be absolutely certain of that.
So I would meditate on it if possible, memorize it.
Just keep going over and over and over it in
your mind until it becomes a part of who you are,
and it will give you the encouragement you need when
you're in the darkest part of the storm.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Okay, I appreciate really doing Psalms one nine, and I'll
get right on it.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Thank you for calling Stuart.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Thank you for caring enough to listen. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You got it, my friend, and I want to pray
for Stuart. Oh Lord, please be with Stuart and encourage him,
bring other believers to his aid, help them to be
the balm of Gilead in his life. And Lord, remember
your words. You've searched us, You know us. You know
when we sit, when we rise, you perceive our thoughts
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from afar. You discern are going out and are lying down.
You're familiar with all our ways. Before a word is
on our tongue, you know it completely. You hem us
in behind, and before you've laid your hand upon us.
Such knowledge is too wonderful, too lofty for us to attain.
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Where can we go from your spirit? Where can we
flee from your presence? If we go up the heavens,
you're there. If we make our bed in the depths,
you are there. If we rise on the wings of
the dawn, if we settle on the far side of
the sea, even there, your hand will guide us in.
Your right hand will hold us fast. If we say,
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surely the darkness will hide us in the light, become
night around us. Even the darkness will not be dark
to you. The night will shine like the day, for
darkness is as light to you. You created our inmost being.
You knit us together in our mother's womb. We can
praise you because we're fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works
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are wonderful. We know that full well. Our frames were
not hidden from you when we were made in the
secret place, When we were woven together in the depths
of the earth, your eyes saw our unformed body. All
the days ordained were writ in your book before even
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one of them came to be. Stuart and everyone listening
in can have the certainty that life doesn't give us
a peaceful way to come to terms with depression and
anxiety and even death and despondency. But it does give
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us something far greater, the hope of resurrection. That's why
we can face tomorrow. I want to go back to
the phone lines. Let's talk next to Troit in Detroit.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
Hi Troy, Hello, mister Anagraph. I appreciate your efforts on
our behalf.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You got it my privilege.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Most of my friends are non believers, and one of
the biggest questions I've had to deal with is how
do you coincide dinosaurs and the Bible? And you know,
I really both. The only thing I really find it
about the behaviors and such and so forth, And I
don't know how to tell my friends, you know, they
were created by God and such, and they I'll say, well,
(07:37):
don't you think Adam would probably have been eaten by
a tux or something?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Well, I mean, I think the thing that you have
to recognize when you deal with these kinds of things
is that God has two books. He has the Book
of Knowledge, or the Bible. He also has the Book
of Nature, which is to say that if you look
at the Book of Nature, you know that dinosaurs existed
the question that's debated by Christians is when they existed.
(08:05):
And certainly there are many Christians that hold to an
old universe, and they do so on the basis of
the Book of Nature. They look at Nature, they read
that book carefully, and they realize as a result of
that that we live in an old universe. And therefore
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the presupposition is that dinosaurs could have predated Adam by
literally millions actually hundreds of millions of years.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
And the next question that to because God created the
world in seven days?
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Right, Well, again, this gets to my other point, and
that is you have to be able to read the
Bible critically as well. That's an art and that's a science,
which is to say that when the Bible talks about
the seven days of Creed, one must not suppose that
within that we have a chronology of creation. What we
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actually have there is a hierarchy of creation, with humankind
as the crowning jewels of God's creation. So rather than
reading it chronologically, I think we're better served to read
it chirologically and understand God's purposes, recognizing that God is
(09:28):
unbounded by time, So we look at affects linearly and
say an effect follows a cause we look at things chronologically,
but God is not bounded by time, and thus we
have to recognize that we shouldn't just look at the
Bible from a humanistic standpoint. We have to look at
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this from a sanctified godly standpoint, recognizing the nature of
God and God's heavenly condescension to use physical realities to
communicate spiritual truth. And one of the beauties that you
have at the very beginning in Genesis is a mnemonic
device by which every single day of the week we
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can remember God's creative prowess. And so it's something that
is imprinted upon the tablet of our consciousness and becomes
a pattern by which, in the Decalogue we learn to
live our lives by the pattern that God set forth
for us and the heavenly condescension that we find in
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the account of Genesis, which is a historical narrative but
obviously interlaced with Jewish poetic structure as well. So we
want to read it literally, which means that we want
to read it as literature, take it in the sense
in which it's inspired, because at the end of the day,
it's not just literature, it's inspired literature. There are younger
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creationists that believe that dinosaurs lived at the same time
as humankind, and therefore there is a debate amongst Christians
that ought to not divide but cause us to have
iron sharp and iron.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
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what is surely the most important question facing our world.
In Has God Spoken? Memorable proofs of the Bible's divine inspiration.
(12:32):
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guess or wishful thinking. It is the only logical conclusion
after an honest examination of overwhelming evidence. Order has God
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and decency, but even more fundamentally on historic notions of truth.
And the enemy isn't just the onslaught of fake news,
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Because at CRII, we love what is behind us, our faith,
our families, and our freedoms. We will never retreat quietly
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Speaker 2 (15:57):
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want to go back to the phone lines now, talk
to Virginia. She's listening in Queens, New York. Hi Virginia.
Oh I Hank, how are you. I'm well? Thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
My question is Jitson. Frankly, can you tell me about
him well.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
He is a classic tele evangelist with a television program
known as Kingdom Connection, and like most of the Word
faith teachers, he declares men to be little gods. He says,
in the garden before Adam fell to sin, we were
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bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh. We
were made in the image of God. We were little
gods just like God. He teaches the whole notion that
faith is a forced words are the containers of the force,
and through the force of faith one can create their
on reality and then also does the manipulative stuff. When
you pray, you can release the thirty fold return, and
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when both prayer and giving are part of your life,
he says, I believe that releases the sixtyfold blessing, and
when all three giving, praying, and fasting are part of
your life, that one hundredfold return can be released. Well,
it's a spiritualizing of a give to get Khan. The
basic ideas you send a certain amount of money and
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then you get either thirty or sixty or one hundredfold blessing.
So it's a way to give to get, where in
Biblical theology you don't give to get. You give because
you sincerely love the Lord and you want to extend
his kingdom. You give because you're demonstrating that you lean
(18:43):
upon the arm of God more heavily than upon the
arm of flesh, and you are giving to meet the
needs of people spiritually and physically. So Jensen Franklin is
not a man that I would recommend. I've written in
principle about him and many other Word of Faith teachers
in my book Christian christis twenty first century. Thank you
(19:05):
for your call, Virgin You want to move on now,
talk to Tim. He's listening in Saint Louis, Missouri. Hi, Tim,
How are.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
You doing, sir?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Good? How are you all right?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Bless you? What do you do for the kingdom?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (19:18):
I know. The ghyps is that the word puts on
I am God pronounce himself as I am. So he
was curious to me that in John one one it
uses to the word was sir, And so I was
wondering their significance today.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Well, yeah, the context again becomes determinative because in John
you'll have John talking about Jesus and saying, in the
beginning was the word, and the word was God. So
he's talking about Jesus at the beginning of time, in
an epic of history past, when Jesus Christ spoke in
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the universe leapt into existence. So he said, in the
beginning was the word, the word was with God, and
then emphasizes the fact that the word was God. He
was with God in the beginning, and what happened in
the beginning in other words, when the universe was created,
what happened through him, says John, all things were made
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past tense. Without him, nothing was made that has been made.
In him was life, and that life was the light
of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the
darkness has not understood it. And then he makes clear
so that we don't miss the point that the word
became flesh and tabernacled among us. He's talking what Jesus
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did when he walked this earth. When John walked this earth.
Jesus walked this earth in the present. But Jesus Christ
forever will be. And John points that out in the
Book of Revelation as well. He's not only past, present,
and future. He is indeed forever. He existed before the
(21:10):
foundation of the world, and we will experience him an
eternity as well. Okay, okay, you got it. Back to
the phone lines. Let's talk to Jim Kansas City, Missouri.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Hi, Jim, Well, how are you doing good?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Her?
Speaker 6 (21:25):
Are you all right?
Speaker 7 (21:26):
I had a.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Question and a reference to a call about Robert Tilton
in the ministry.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (21:33):
If you what the Bible says about making vows and
oaths and those type of things God would not hold.
You know, when these people are asking persons to make
vows of faith in that cant well, God wouldn't actually
hold somebody to that kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
We you know, God doesn't hold us to our own sins.
What we are called to do is ask forgiveness for
those sins. Now, there are vows that God does hold
us too. So if you stand before God, and you
stand before the state, and you vow to cherish a woman,
to love her and honor her and respect her and
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nurture her and care for her until death, do you part.
That's a vow that you are making, not only to
a woman, but a vow that you are making to
your Lord, because you're connected like a triangle with God
at the top of the triangle, and the closure you
come to one another, the closure you we come to God.
So that's the kind of vow that you are held to,
(22:30):
that you are held responsible for. But a vow to
Robert Tilton is a vow to a false teacher, right.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Okay, all right, well, thank you. I appreciate that you
got Jim.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Appreciate your call. Sean next listening in Topeka, Hi, Sean,
h good her.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
You I'm doing fine, Hank, I got a question for you.
I was calling in reference to TD Jake and uh
J Hostin and tithing. Yeah, and I got out of
a church is because I was noticing that the preacher
kept asking for tithing, and he kept coming in with
nice new suits, finally a new car, all this and
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all that, and then I got out of the church.
I woun't need to know is there another way I
could tie to where I because I want to tide,
but I feel uncomfortable giving my tithing. You know like that?
Well know if there's another place I can tie that,
you know, another place I can go to tide?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yeah. I think what's important is to recognize that you
are a steward of the resources that God gives you,
and as such, you want to find ministries that are
really making a difference for time and for eternity. You
want to invest in those ministries. And think about this
from a cross secular standpoint. If you're going to make
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an investment in a business, you want to make sure
that that business is really making a otherwise you wouldn't
want to invest in it. The same thing is true
with a ministry. You want to invest in ministries that
are making a difference for time and for eternity. So
you need to make wise spiritual investments. And the whole
notion of tithing is something that leads to free will giving,
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which is to say, at the end of the day,
we want to give so that His kingdom may be extended.
Not only would we be empowered through that to spread
the Gospel around the globe, but we would be enabled
to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, care for the sick.
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Like our forefathers who founded great centers of Christian education,
established hospitals, funded relief organizations. We might yet leave an
indelible mark on our generation, for only when the training
wheels of tithing come off will the world of free
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will giving become our playground. Well, we're out of time
for this edition of the Bible answer Man Broadcast. You
remember that this is a ministry supported by listeners just
like you. We ask you to stand with us, prayerfully
and financially. You can do that on the web at
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Speaker 1 (25:40):
Thank you for joining us for the Bible answer Man Broadcast.
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are the words of scripture merely human in origin, or
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Three years in the making and based on two decades
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Spoken answers what is surely the most important question facing
our world. In Has God Spoken? Memorable Proofs of the
(27:31):
Bible's Divine inspiration, 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
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