July 17, 2024 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (07/17/24), Hank answers the following questions:
I understand that it is wrong to say that God has three natures. Can you help me correctly state the nature of the Trinity? Roger - Modesto, CA (0:45)
How can the Holy Spirit live in me, and abide with me, while I still have a sin nature? Roger - Modesto, CA (2:15)
I believe that nothing in the Bible has ever been proven wrong. Is that an accurate statement? Mark - Damascus, MD (5:01)
Is there a contradiction between predestination and free will? Caller - Oklahoma City, OK (8:18)
Are we on slippery ground to judge another person’s ministry? Can we inadvertently blaspheme the Holy Spirit by doing so? Rufus - India (15:39)
I have a hard time believing that people in churches sincerely believe what they say. Is it normal not to be able to trust people around you? Mitchell - UT (19:42)
There is controversy regarding the word translated as homosexuals in 1 Timothy 1:10. What is your take on this? Barry - SC (22:29)
I understand that it is wrong to say that God has three natures. Can you help me correctly state the nature of the Trinity? Roger - Modesto, CA (0:45)
How can the Holy Spirit live in me, and abide with me, while I still have a sin nature? Roger - Modesto, CA (2:15)
I believe that nothing in the Bible has ever been proven wrong. Is that an accurate statement? Mark - Damascus, MD (5:01)
Is there a contradiction between predestination and free will? Caller - Oklahoma City, OK (8:18)
Are we on slippery ground to judge another person’s ministry? Can we inadvertently blaspheme the Holy Spirit by doing so? Rufus - India (15:39)
I have a hard time believing that people in churches sincerely believe what they say. Is it normal not to be able to trust people around you? Mitchell - UT (19:42)
There is controversy regarding the word translated as homosexuals in 1 Timothy 1:10. What is your take on this? Barry - SC (22:29)
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From the Christian Research Institute in 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 theChristian Research Institute is to equip believers to
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hope that you have with gentleness andrespect. For more information, go online
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answer Man host Hank Canagraph. Thankyou so much, Randy. We'll go
right to the phone callers. Firstto Roger Modesta, California. Hi,
Roger, Hi, ain't God blessyou? Thank you, gut Bush you.
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I want to presence my question justby saying that I am a believer
in Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ listand I do believe in the Trinity.
And I just wanted to say thatbecause of the nature of the question.
I don't want anybody to get I'mcoming from. I was hoping you could
help me. I understood when itcomes to the Trinity. I understand that
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it would be a contradiction to sayingthat God has three natures and one nature,
or three persons and one person.And I do believe that God is
three distinct persons and one nature.But help me describe why that's not a
contradiction where two statements, No,because we're talking about different categories. We're
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talking about one what in three who's. Again, you have correctly identified the
issue. If I said that therewere three what's and one what, I'm
obviously contradicting myself. If I saythat there are three persons or that there's
one person, or somehow or othersaying there is no disparity in saying those
two things, I'd simply be contradictedmyself. But the reality is, when
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we're talking about the nature or theessence of God, that is a far
different thing from talking about identity formedand completed on the basis of relationships within
the Godhead. Okay, all right? And then specifically focusing on the Holy
Spirit. You know, every dayI ask the Holy Spirit to continually film
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me, And I guess my questionis this is how And I understand the
Cross Calary took care of the stateof sin, but how can the Holy
Spirit live in me, abide inme films? You know? I ask
for the Holy Spirit to fill meup every day, but then you still
struggle with the sin nature so tospeak. Well, yeah, but look,
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I can every day I happen tobe a golfer. I can pray
every day, Lord make me tigerWoods, but that's not going to happen.
The only way that you be comea tiger Woods is by what you
do in secret, in other words, by the disciplines that you embrace.
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Now, he happens to have alot of natural talent as well, but
we won't talk about that. Theissue here is simply that I have to
embrace the living disciplines that are availableto me, because I'm an embodied self,
and that embodied self has layers uponlayers of sin invested in it,
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and therefore it's critical that I exercisedisciplines, and through exercising those disciplines,
I can live the life that Iwas intended to live. Now, we
also have to be attentive to theindwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, which
is to say, we are dweltby the Spirit. But we can be
unattentive to the indwelling Spirit. Sojust as we can be unattentive to living
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disciplines. We can be unattentive tothe fact that the very one who should
kind of presence filled the temple fillsus, so we have to be attentive
to that reality. We're all toooften attentive to the notion of the imputation
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of the life of Christ and notthe impartation of the life of Christ.
We can experience the life of Christ, in fact, not only can,
but must. That's what it meansto live the crucified life. But again,
living disciplines are those disciplines that conformus to the image of Jesus Christ.
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So we, in reality can bepartakers of the divine nature. All
right, Praise the Lord. Thankyou so much, Hank, and I
just pray that all your listeners willjump on board prayerfully and financially. I
believe that this station needs to beon every airway, and I just pray
the Lord for this ministry. Amen. Bless you, Roger, thank you
so much for the wonderful words.Want to go back to the phone lines.
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Talk to Mark Marcus listening in Damascus. Yes, hek I'm a big
fan of apologetics, and one ofthe reasons I came back to Christ was
the realization of the inerrancy of theBible. And my question is I have
been using a statement to the effectof nothing in the Bible has ever been
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proven wrong. I wanted to makesure that that's an accurate statement. Well,
it's absolutely inaccurate statement. Now,we don't claim infallibility for the translations
of the Bible that we hold inour hands, but what we do say
is that from the manuscript evidence,the autograph can emerge unscathed. And so
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we live in an epic of timein which we are genuinely blessed. Blessed
with the fact that there are literallythousands of manuscripts buttressing the Bible. They
all have mistakes, but they don'tall have the same mistakes. So by
comparing manuscript copies with other manuscript copies, you can get back to the photographer
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or the original. Yeah, okay, I knew that there was some inaccuracies
as far as spelling goes and thingsof that nature, but not in the
originals. And that's the point.The wisdom of God is evidenced through the
way he protected the text from theone thing that centuries and millennial later could
never be detected, and that iswholesale change of doctrine or theology by a
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particular man or group who has fullcontrol over the text at any one point
in history. Instead, what happenedis New Testament books were written at various
times. They were quickly copied,they were distributed as soon as they were
written, So there was never atime that anyone or any group could gather
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up all the manuscripts and make extensivechanges in the text itself, like cutting
out something that they didn't want tohave in the text. By the time
anyone did obtain great ecclesiastical power inthe name of Christianity, these texts were
long buried in the sands of time, out of reach of any attempted alteration.
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And so the autograph I'm saying,or the original, which is the
infallible, repositive, redemptive revelation,is forever immortalized within a supernaturally preserved corpus
of manuscripts. So instead of havingless than the autographs, we actually have
more than the autographs. We havea treasure trove of manuscripts in excess of
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five six hundred and sixty manuscripts ofthe New Testament that have now been uncovered,
and through those manuscripts, we canget back to the infallible repositive redemptive
revelation. But yeah, manuscripts theyhave mistakes and spelling, they have missing
conjunctions, but there are never majoromissions. And again by comparing manuscript by
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manuscript, you can get back tothe autographer, and the autographer is indeed
the infallible inerrant word of God.Have written about this in my book has
got spoken by the way. Iwant to go back to the phone line
stock to Jacob. He's listing inOklahoma City, Oklahoma. Hi, Jacob,
hell Hi. Oh, yes,My question is pretty much a saying
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between predestination and free will. Yeah, well, you know, there's no
contradiction between predestination and free will.The first thing that we have to recognize
is the fact that God knows whatis going to happen in the future does
not mean that the future is fatalisticallydetermined. We act in time and space,
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and our actions are meaningful by theway God, God knows the end
from the beginning. We only knowone side of the equation. For example,
we can look backward at history.We can look at something that happened
in our lives, maybe some interactionwith an individual, and we can have
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knowledge of that act, but thefact that we have knowledge of that act
or interaction doesn't mean that we werethe causal agent of that act or interaction.
And the same thing could be saidof God. Only with God,
he not only sees everything in therear view mirror, but he sees everything
that will happen in the future aswell. He has exhaustive knowledge of the
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future. But the fact that hehas exhaustive knowledge of the future does not
mean that the future is fatalistically determined. Right, Because lately I've been just
listening to a lot of Calvinist featureswhich preach predestination. But one thing about
that is that what that would makemeaning that that would keep people from coming
to Jesus. Well, remember,the issue of predestination is a Biblical issue.
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It's not a Calvinist or non Calvinistissue. The Bible teaches predestination.
So the issue now that we haveto grapple with is what do we mean
by predestination. So words are notunifical, they're equivocal. It is the
meaning that the context gives them,and so often what happens is instead of
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taking the meaning from the context ofthe passage. We import a meaning on
the passage, and therein lies thedilemma. So all Christians believe in predestination.
It's a biblical concept, as isthe subset of predestination election. But
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dot equip dot org. And nowonce again here is Hank Hannagraph. Thanks
you much, Randy, and wego right back to our phone callers.
Next step is Rufus listening in Indiaon the web. Hi Rufus, Hi,
Liscer, how are you. I'mgood? Nice talking to you.
Nice talking to you said, it'sa privilege. I've been listening to your
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podcast from quite some time and it'sbeen a blessing to me. Well,
thank you so much. Yes,sir, you know the the Bible teaches
us to examine all things, andwith apologetics we tend to be a little
bit more critical. I was justwondering if we are we would be on
slippery ground and we try to judgesomebody else's ministry and unknowingly blasphem against the
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Holy Spirit something like that. Well, here's what we need to do.
We need to be very very carefulthat when we judge, we don't judge
self righteously or hypocritically. Rather thatwhen we judge, we judge by a
right standard. In Biblical theology,a right standard is the Word of God,
and we're called to test all thingsin light at scripture and hold fast
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that which is good. Now,when it comes to speaking about ministries where
very clearly essentials of the historic Christianfaith, our compromise confused, or contradiction
is made, we have no option. We must expose error because ideas have
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consequences. And therefore, when youhave teachers who are dispensing spiritual cyanide by
the megados over the public airwaves,they should be challenged publicly. And there
certainly is a biblical precedent for doingjust that. And this is why,
when someone asked me a question aboutthe Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons or the Word
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of Faith movement that I clearly andcompellingly try to make a case for why
the teachers are teaching false doctrine,and not only that, but the consequences
of following that false doctrine. Forexample, if you make Jesus Christ a
means to an end as opposed tobeing the end, you make the most
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tragic of mistakes. Yeah, that'sright. So, but you know what
actually I was trying to get youat is if we unkily, do you
think there's a possibility that we mightbe, you know, erring in our
ways, you know, because weare not perfect and sometimes because of our
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humanity, might be a yeah.No, No, I was just saying,
oh, because I understood the sophisticationof your question. I mean,
that was what you asked me inthe first place. I didn't catch that
at first. But yes, you'reasking about whether we could inadvertently commit the
blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, Right, that's right, Yeah, that's right.
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And the answer to that is no. And the reason is the blasphemy
of the Holy Spirit is not anact. It's a continuous, ongoing willful
rejection of the love and grace thatcould be ours. And from a historical
perspective, this is what the Phariseesdid. They knew as teachers of the
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law, that Jesus was the onlyone who could emerge through the doorway of
old tests and prophecy, and yetwith premeditation and forethought, they attributed the
works of Jesus Christ to Beelzebub,the prince of demons. So this is
a continuous, ongoing, willful rejectionto the point of the heartening of their
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own hearts. That's a far differentthing from making a mistake. God is
not one who is looking for technicalitiesto keep people out of the kingdoms.
As a matter of fact, hedid all that could be imagined so that
we could be reconciled to Him fortime and for eternity. Yeah, I
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got it. I got it.Thank you very much. You get it.
We'll go back to the phone linesnow, we'll go to Mitchell listening
in Utah. Hi Mitchell, Hi, how are you doing good? How
are you? I've had better days. I just wanted to say that I've
had a real hard time trying tofind a church out here, and I
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just wanted to know why all thesethings are going on because I have a
real hard time believing that if peopleput a cross on the church that they
really mean everything that they're saying.Do you know what I'm saying? Well,
of course you know. I don'twant to be tried about this,
But walking into a garage doesn't makeme a car Walking into a church doesn't
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make someone a Christian. I thinkit's important to recognize that there are all
kinds of people that take the sacredname of Jesus Christ upon their lips that
don't have an inner reality. Theyhave an outward profession, but not an
inward possession of the living Christ.So simply saying that one is a Christian
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doesn't mean that they're Christians. AndI think the real issue becomes for us
to be what we are called tobe as individuals, so that in community
we can reach out to the worldby the genuine love that we have for
one another. But that genuine loveis predicated on having a genuine relationship with
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the indwelling Christ. Right, AndI just wanted to know is it normal
not to be able to trust everyonearound you? Well, it's probably good
not to trust everyone around you.I mean, we have to use discernment,
and to uncritically trust everyone is simplyfoolishness. What we need to do
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is develop relationships with people so thatwe can reach people. And when we
reach them with the Gospel through thepower of the Holy Spirit, then their
lives are transformed. But I thinkall too often we're looking at the beam
in other people's eyes when that beamis not in their eyes at all.
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It is, in reality, justa little speck. The beam is in
our own eyes, and we haveto be aware of that as well.
So we want to make sure thatwe ourselves are those who are partakers of
the divine nature, that we don'tsimply acknowledge a set of words or set
of doctrines, but that we gobeyond that and embrace a living reality.
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That's what Paul was talking about whenhe said to his apprentice, young Timothy,
watch your life and doctrine closely,persevere in them, because if you
do, you'll save both yourself andyour hearers. Want to go back to
the phone lines, doctor Barry,he's listening in South Carolina. Hi Barry,
Hi Hank, thanks for taking mycall. Just have a quick question
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concerning homosexuality. There's a verse,particular in verse Timothy one ten that says
basically an in moral man and homosexualsand kidnappers and liars and perjurers and whatever
else is contrary to sound teaching theword there that Paul uses in the Greek
homosexuals. I've seen there's been controversysurrounding that world in scholarly circles, yep.
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And some believe that he kind ofcreated this word as a playoff of
the notes a tuigin which you know, in Leviticus eighteen. And I would
just wonder, you know, kindof with men lying with men and kind
of combining you know, the Greekword for men and the Greek word for
bed or something like that into two. I just wanted to see what was
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your take on that, and ifyou agree if that's an accurate translation of
the original Greek word, well,look, I mean, you're absolutely right.
There's a lot of controversy here,but there are scholars who offer lines
of argumentation to show that the wordmeaning is actually very clear. Going from
the Greek to the receptor language English, you would actually translate it as betters
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of males, those men who takeother males to bed. But whatever the
case, the reality is simply thisthat if you read the Bible as a
whole, it is very very clearthat God sets parameters, or he defines
the borders of human sexuality so thatour joy may be complete, and those
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borders do not embrace homosexual behavior.And the reason is is that God wants
to protect us from activity that isnot only deflective to ourselves, but deflective
to the culture as a whole.And that is even more detestable in many
ways because it goes against our biology. It also goes against our metaphysical aspect
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of humanity. Homosexual acts require aperson to contradict their own biology, as
though God is playing a cruel jokeon them by creating their minds and emotions
for attraction to the same sex,and yet creating their bodies in direct opposition
to that attraction. Moreover, thereare many places in scripture where explicit statements
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are made with respect to homosexual relationships. For example, Paul says women exchanged
natural relations for unnatural ones in thesame way men abandoned natural relations with women
and were inflamed with lust for oneanother, they committed indecent acts with other
men and received in themselves the duepenalty for their perversion. And he derived
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his prescriptions against same sex sexuality invarious places like Romans one in First Corinthians,
Chapter one, et cetera, fromthe creation order of Genesis, and
from the prohibitions that you have inthe Old Testament book of Leviticus. And
then he went on to contend thateven gentiles without access to direct revelation scripture
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have enough evidence in the natural realmto discover God's aversion to homosexual behavior.
The argument, in essence, doesn'thinge on what we take from a Greek
word into the receptor language English.I'm gonna have to leave it at that.
Love to continue to discussion, butI'm flat out of time. Thanks
for tuning in. Look forward toseeing you next time with more of the
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From the Christian Research Institute in 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 theChristian Research Institute is to equip believers to
answer life's essential questions soundly and persuasively, and to give the reason for the
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hope that you have with gentleness andrespect. For more information, go online
to equip dot org. The followingprogram was pre recorded and now here's Bible
answer Man host Hank Canagraph. Thankyou so much, Randy. We'll go
right to the phone callers. Firstto Roger Modesta, California. Hi,
Roger, Hi, ain't God blessyou? Thank you, gut Bush you.
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I want to presence my question justby saying that I am a believer
in Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ listand I do believe in the Trinity.
And I just wanted to say thatbecause of the nature of the question.
I don't want anybody to get I'mcoming from. I was hoping you could
help me. I understood when itcomes to the Trinity. I understand that
(01:15):
it would be a contradiction to sayingthat God has three natures and one nature,
or three persons and one person.And I do believe that God is
three distinct persons and one nature.But help me describe why that's not a
contradiction where two statements, No,because we're talking about different categories. We're
(01:37):
talking about one what in three who's. Again, you have correctly identified the
issue. If I said that therewere three what's and one what, I'm
obviously contradicting myself. If I saythat there are three persons or that there's
one person, or somehow or othersaying there is no disparity in saying those
two things, I'd simply be contradictedmyself. But the reality is, when
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we're talking about the nature or theessence of God, that is a far
different thing from talking about identity formedand completed on the basis of relationships within
the Godhead. Okay, all right? And then specifically focusing on the Holy
Spirit. You know, every dayI ask the Holy Spirit to continually film
(02:23):
me, And I guess my questionis this is how And I understand the
Cross Calary took care of the stateof sin, but how can the Holy
Spirit live in me, abide inme films? You know? I ask
for the Holy Spirit to fill meup every day, but then you still
struggle with the sin nature so tospeak. Well, yeah, but look,
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I can every day I happen tobe a golfer. I can pray
every day, Lord make me tigerWoods, but that's not going to happen.
The only way that you be comea tiger Woods is by what you
do in secret, in other words, by the disciplines that you embrace.
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Now, he happens to have alot of natural talent as well, but
we won't talk about that. Theissue here is simply that I have to
embrace the living disciplines that are availableto me, because I'm an embodied self,
and that embodied self has layers uponlayers of sin invested in it,
(03:30):
and therefore it's critical that I exercisedisciplines, and through exercising those disciplines,
I can live the life that Iwas intended to live. Now, we
also have to be attentive to theindwelling presence of the Holy Spirit, which
is to say, we are dweltby the Spirit. But we can be
unattentive to the indwelling Spirit. Sojust as we can be unattentive to living
(03:55):
disciplines. We can be unattentive tothe fact that the very one who should
kind of presence filled the temple fillsus, so we have to be attentive
to that reality. We're all toooften attentive to the notion of the imputation
(04:15):
of the life of Christ and notthe impartation of the life of Christ.
We can experience the life of Christ, in fact, not only can,
but must. That's what it meansto live the crucified life. But again,
living disciplines are those disciplines that conformus to the image of Jesus Christ.
(04:40):
So we, in reality can bepartakers of the divine nature. All
right, Praise the Lord. Thankyou so much, Hank, and I
just pray that all your listeners willjump on board prayerfully and financially. I
believe that this station needs to beon every airway, and I just pray
the Lord for this ministry. Amen. Bless you, Roger, thank you
so much for the wonderful words.Want to go back to the phone lines.
(05:00):
Talk to Mark Marcus listening in Damascus. Yes, hek I'm a big
fan of apologetics, and one ofthe reasons I came back to Christ was
the realization of the inerrancy of theBible. And my question is I have
been using a statement to the effectof nothing in the Bible has ever been
(05:24):
proven wrong. I wanted to makesure that that's an accurate statement. Well,
it's absolutely inaccurate statement. Now,we don't claim infallibility for the translations
of the Bible that we hold inour hands, but what we do say
is that from the manuscript evidence,the autograph can emerge unscathed. And so
(05:46):
we live in an epic of timein which we are genuinely blessed. Blessed
with the fact that there are literallythousands of manuscripts buttressing the Bible. They
all have mistakes, but they don'tall have the same mistakes. So by
comparing manuscript copies with other manuscript copies, you can get back to the photographer
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or the original. Yeah, okay, I knew that there was some inaccuracies
as far as spelling goes and thingsof that nature, but not in the
originals. And that's the point.The wisdom of God is evidenced through the
way he protected the text from theone thing that centuries and millennial later could
never be detected, and that iswholesale change of doctrine or theology by a
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particular man or group who has fullcontrol over the text at any one point
in history. Instead, what happenedis New Testament books were written at various
times. They were quickly copied,they were distributed as soon as they were
written, So there was never atime that anyone or any group could gather
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up all the manuscripts and make extensivechanges in the text itself, like cutting
out something that they didn't want tohave in the text. By the time
anyone did obtain great ecclesiastical power inthe name of Christianity, these texts were
long buried in the sands of time, out of reach of any attempted alteration.
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And so the autograph I'm saying,or the original, which is the
infallible, repositive, redemptive revelation,is forever immortalized within a supernaturally preserved corpus
of manuscripts. So instead of havingless than the autographs, we actually have
more than the autographs. We havea treasure trove of manuscripts in excess of
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five six hundred and sixty manuscripts ofthe New Testament that have now been uncovered,
and through those manuscripts, we canget back to the infallible repositive redemptive
revelation. But yeah, manuscripts theyhave mistakes and spelling, they have missing
conjunctions, but there are never majoromissions. And again by comparing manuscript by
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manuscript, you can get back tothe autographer, and the autographer is indeed
the infallible inerrant word of God.Have written about this in my book has
got spoken by the way. Iwant to go back to the phone line
stock to Jacob. He's listing inOklahoma City, Oklahoma. Hi, Jacob,
hell Hi. Oh, yes,My question is pretty much a saying
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between predestination and free will. Yeah, well, you know, there's no
contradiction between predestination and free will.The first thing that we have to recognize
is the fact that God knows whatis going to happen in the future does
not mean that the future is fatalisticallydetermined. We act in time and space,
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and our actions are meaningful by theway God, God knows the end
from the beginning. We only knowone side of the equation. For example,
we can look backward at history.We can look at something that happened
in our lives, maybe some interactionwith an individual, and we can have
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knowledge of that act, but thefact that we have knowledge of that act
or interaction doesn't mean that we werethe causal agent of that act or interaction.
And the same thing could be saidof God. Only with God,
he not only sees everything in therear view mirror, but he sees everything
that will happen in the future aswell. He has exhaustive knowledge of the
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future. But the fact that hehas exhaustive knowledge of the future does not
mean that the future is fatalistically determined. Right, Because lately I've been just
listening to a lot of Calvinist featureswhich preach predestination. But one thing about
that is that what that would makemeaning that that would keep people from coming
to Jesus. Well, remember,the issue of predestination is a Biblical issue.
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It's not a Calvinist or non Calvinistissue. The Bible teaches predestination.
So the issue now that we haveto grapple with is what do we mean
by predestination. So words are notunifical, they're equivocal. It is the
meaning that the context gives them,and so often what happens is instead of
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taking the meaning from the context ofthe passage. We import a meaning on
the passage, and therein lies thedilemma. So all Christians believe in predestination.
It's a biblical concept, as isthe subset of predestination election. But
the question is not whether we believein it, but what we mean by
predestination, what we mean by election? Back in just a few moments with
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dot equip dot org. And nowonce again here is Hank Hannagraph. Thanks
you much, Randy, and wego right back to our phone callers.
Next step is Rufus listening in Indiaon the web. Hi Rufus, Hi,
Liscer, how are you. I'mgood? Nice talking to you.
Nice talking to you said, it'sa privilege. I've been listening to your
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podcast from quite some time and it'sbeen a blessing to me. Well,
thank you so much. Yes,sir, you know the the Bible teaches
us to examine all things, andwith apologetics we tend to be a little
bit more critical. I was justwondering if we are we would be on
slippery ground and we try to judgesomebody else's ministry and unknowingly blasphem against the
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Holy Spirit something like that. Well, here's what we need to do.
We need to be very very carefulthat when we judge, we don't judge
self righteously or hypocritically. Rather thatwhen we judge, we judge by a
right standard. In Biblical theology,a right standard is the Word of God,
and we're called to test all thingsin light at scripture and hold fast
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that which is good. Now,when it comes to speaking about ministries where
very clearly essentials of the historic Christianfaith, our compromise confused, or contradiction
is made, we have no option. We must expose error because ideas have
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consequences. And therefore, when youhave teachers who are dispensing spiritual cyanide by
the megados over the public airwaves,they should be challenged publicly. And there
certainly is a biblical precedent for doingjust that. And this is why,
when someone asked me a question aboutthe Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons or the Word
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of Faith movement that I clearly andcompellingly try to make a case for why
the teachers are teaching false doctrine,and not only that, but the consequences
of following that false doctrine. Forexample, if you make Jesus Christ a
means to an end as opposed tobeing the end, you make the most
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tragic of mistakes. Yeah, that'sright. So, but you know what
actually I was trying to get youat is if we unkily, do you
think there's a possibility that we mightbe, you know, erring in our
ways, you know, because weare not perfect and sometimes because of our
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humanity, might be a yeah.No, No, I was just saying,
oh, because I understood the sophisticationof your question. I mean,
that was what you asked me inthe first place. I didn't catch that
at first. But yes, you'reasking about whether we could inadvertently commit the
blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, Right, that's right, Yeah, that's right.
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And the answer to that is no. And the reason is the blasphemy
of the Holy Spirit is not anact. It's a continuous, ongoing willful
rejection of the love and grace thatcould be ours. And from a historical
perspective, this is what the Phariseesdid. They knew as teachers of the
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law, that Jesus was the onlyone who could emerge through the doorway of
old tests and prophecy, and yetwith premeditation and forethought, they attributed the
works of Jesus Christ to Beelzebub,the prince of demons. So this is
a continuous, ongoing, willful rejectionto the point of the heartening of their
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own hearts. That's a far differentthing from making a mistake. God is
not one who is looking for technicalitiesto keep people out of the kingdoms.
As a matter of fact, hedid all that could be imagined so that
we could be reconciled to Him fortime and for eternity. Yeah, I
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got it. I got it.Thank you very much. You get it.
We'll go back to the phone linesnow, we'll go to Mitchell listening
in Utah. Hi Mitchell, Hi, how are you doing good? How
are you? I've had better days. I just wanted to say that I've
had a real hard time trying tofind a church out here, and I
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just wanted to know why all thesethings are going on because I have a
real hard time believing that if peopleput a cross on the church that they
really mean everything that they're saying.Do you know what I'm saying? Well,
of course you know. I don'twant to be tried about this,
But walking into a garage doesn't makeme a car Walking into a church doesn't
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make someone a Christian. I thinkit's important to recognize that there are all
kinds of people that take the sacredname of Jesus Christ upon their lips that
don't have an inner reality. Theyhave an outward profession, but not an
inward possession of the living Christ.So simply saying that one is a Christian
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doesn't mean that they're Christians. AndI think the real issue becomes for us
to be what we are called tobe as individuals, so that in community
we can reach out to the worldby the genuine love that we have for
one another. But that genuine loveis predicated on having a genuine relationship with
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the indwelling Christ. Right, AndI just wanted to know is it normal
not to be able to trust everyonearound you? Well, it's probably good
not to trust everyone around you.I mean, we have to use discernment,
and to uncritically trust everyone is simplyfoolishness. What we need to do
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is develop relationships with people so thatwe can reach people. And when we
reach them with the Gospel through thepower of the Holy Spirit, then their
lives are transformed. But I thinkall too often we're looking at the beam
in other people's eyes when that beamis not in their eyes at all.
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It is, in reality, justa little speck. The beam is in
our own eyes, and we haveto be aware of that as well.
So we want to make sure thatwe ourselves are those who are partakers of
the divine nature, that we don'tsimply acknowledge a set of words or set
of doctrines, but that we gobeyond that and embrace a living reality.
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That's what Paul was talking about whenhe said to his apprentice, young Timothy,
watch your life and doctrine closely,persevere in them, because if you
do, you'll save both yourself andyour hearers. Want to go back to
the phone lines, doctor Barry,he's listening in South Carolina. Hi Barry,
Hi Hank, thanks for taking mycall. Just have a quick question
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concerning homosexuality. There's a verse,particular in verse Timothy one ten that says
basically an in moral man and homosexualsand kidnappers and liars and perjurers and whatever
else is contrary to sound teaching theword there that Paul uses in the Greek
homosexuals. I've seen there's been controversysurrounding that world in scholarly circles, yep.
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And some believe that he kind ofcreated this word as a playoff of
the notes a tuigin which you know, in Leviticus eighteen. And I would
just wonder, you know, kindof with men lying with men and kind
of combining you know, the Greekword for men and the Greek word for
bed or something like that into two. I just wanted to see what was
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your take on that, and ifyou agree if that's an accurate translation of
the original Greek word, well,look, I mean, you're absolutely right.
There's a lot of controversy here,but there are scholars who offer lines
of argumentation to show that the wordmeaning is actually very clear. Going from
the Greek to the receptor language English, you would actually translate it as betters
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of males, those men who takeother males to bed. But whatever the
case, the reality is simply thisthat if you read the Bible as a
whole, it is very very clearthat God sets parameters, or he defines
the borders of human sexuality so thatour joy may be complete, and those
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borders do not embrace homosexual behavior.And the reason is is that God wants
to protect us from activity that isnot only deflective to ourselves, but deflective
to the culture as a whole.And that is even more detestable in many
ways because it goes against our biology. It also goes against our metaphysical aspect
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of humanity. Homosexual acts require aperson to contradict their own biology, as
though God is playing a cruel jokeon them by creating their minds and emotions
for attraction to the same sex,and yet creating their bodies in direct opposition
to that attraction. Moreover, thereare many places in scripture where explicit statements
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are made with respect to homosexual relationships. For example, Paul says women exchanged
natural relations for unnatural ones in thesame way men abandoned natural relations with women
and were inflamed with lust for oneanother, they committed indecent acts with other
men and received in themselves the duepenalty for their perversion. And he derived
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his prescriptions against same sex sexuality invarious places like Romans one in First Corinthians,
Chapter one, et cetera, fromthe creation order of Genesis, and
from the prohibitions that you have inthe Old Testament book of Leviticus. And
then he went on to contend thateven gentiles without access to direct revelation scripture
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have enough evidence in the natural realmto discover God's aversion to homosexual behavior.
The argument, in essence, doesn'thinge on what we take from a Greek
word into the receptor language English.I'm gonna have to leave it at that.
Love to continue to discussion, butI'm flat out of time. Thanks
for tuning in. Look forward toseeing you next time with more of the
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