October 20, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (10/20/25), Hank answers the following questions:
Is war a sin? Jason - Charlotte, NC (1:02)
Can you be homosexual and practice Christianity? Matthew - Tyler, TX (4:10)
What is the meaning of Pentecost and the history behind it? Jessica - Albuquerque, NM (5:16)
What are the basic differences between Christians, Catholics, and Jehovah’s Witnesses? Jessica - Albuquerque, NM (6:55)
We live in a home that is said to be haunted. My son has nightmares and wakes up with scratches on his body. What should we do? Nikki - Arlington, KS (15:11)
Where did all the different races come from? Jared - Center, MO (19:15)
What is your view of Roman Catholicism? Stanley - Tulsa, OK (23:32)
Is war a sin? Jason - Charlotte, NC (1:02)
Can you be homosexual and practice Christianity? Matthew - Tyler, TX (4:10)
What is the meaning of Pentecost and the history behind it? Jessica - Albuquerque, NM (5:16)
What are the basic differences between Christians, Catholics, and Jehovah’s Witnesses? Jessica - Albuquerque, NM (6:55)
We live in a home that is said to be haunted. My son has nightmares and wakes up with scratches on his body. What should we do? Nikki - Arlington, KS (15:11)
Where did all the different races come from? Jared - Center, MO (19:15)
What is your view of Roman Catholicism? Stanley - Tulsa, OK (23:32)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to the Bible answer Man Broadcast with the President
of the Christian Research Institute, Hank Canigraph. Our mission is
to equip you with answers to share the hope that
you have within you because life and truth matter. Why
because being armed with truth will equip you to counter
the corrosive worldviews at work in our world today, while
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witness of the purpose of life, which is to experience
union with God and Christ, both for today and for
all eternity. For more information about CRII and the Bible
answer Man Broadcast, our phone number is eight eight eight
seven thousand CROI. You can find us online at equip
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dot org. The following program was pre recorded and now
here's Hank Hannah.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
A lot of you hanging on. Will go right to
our phone callers, Jason and Charlotte, North Carolina. You're first
up today.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Hi, Hey, how's it going?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Hey good? How are you good?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I just want to let you know your radio show
made the drive of seventy seven a lot better today.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Alright, Well, I have a question. If you look at
the same commandments, there's no asterisk under any of the commandments.
And so I was wondering what you talk about war
and if war's a sin?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, no, In fact, in some cases, if you didn't
go to war, it would be a sin, because ultimately
the greatest good principle demands that sometimes one country opposes
the evil dictator in another country. During World War two,
we opposed Hitler and as a result of that, all
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kinds of lives were saved and all kinds of good
eventually came out of that action. So, yeah, we have
to recognize that there are very compelling reasons sometimes to
go to war. If military action is not allowed in
order to maintain order among nations, then police should not
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be permitted to maintain the order of a nation. So
it's a leap of logic to allow the police to
resist a murderer at the same time not let a
military force resist a murderous nation.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I was wondering, is there any Bible verses that you
should give that support that.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, wars are permitted by God in the same way
the divorces because of the hardness of our hearts. The
aggressive use of weapons is not commended. The defensive use
of weapons is commended by our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ himself. So there is principle in the scripture, but
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we're also making a theological deduction based on the greater
Good principle with respect to what should happen among nations.
God uses nations in warlike capacities in order to further
his own purposes. For example, the Canaanites, who were brutally
killing their own children, sacrificing to idols, who were involved
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in such perversion that it was mind boggling, were actually
punished by God using the acts of his judgment, which
was Israel. Later on, Israel itself, who had become so
abominable that even the acts of some of the pagan
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nations were considered tame by comparison. God then used the
Assyrians and the Babylonians as the acts of judgment against Israel.
So even God sometimes uses nations to bring about his
purposes and to rid the horror of the evil that's
going on within those nations. All right, Hey, you got it, man,
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Thank you so much for your call. I want to
go back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Matthew.
He's listening in Tyler, Texas.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Hi, Matthew, Hey, Hank, I appreciate the time.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Just a simple question, maybe not such a simple answer.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Can you be a homosexual and still practice Christianity?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well, first of all, I would argue with the premise
of the question, homosexuality is not an identity. Homosexuality is
a behavior. And therefore, if you have come to faith
in Christ, what you have said is, whatever my besetting
sin is, I want to turn from it with God's
help and follow Jesus Christ as savior and Lord. I
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want to do it his way as opposed to my
own way. So it's a recognition that it's a sin.
That does not mean that you cannot fall for the
temptation of a besetting sin. Of course you can, and
you are forgiven. So the point is, don't mistake a
behavior for an identity. That's what the culture wants to
foist on us, and that's simply selling us a bill
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of goods.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Okay, that makes makes a lot of sense. Thank you,
you got it.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Thank you so much for your call. I want to
go back to the phone lines. Let's talk next to
Jessica listening in New Mexico. Hi, Jessica, Hi, how.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Are you think good?
Speaker 6 (05:26):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I'm good?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Thank you for taking my call. I just had a
quick question, actually several, but I was actually just wondering.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
My friends and I are doing a.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Bible study, but a question came up about Acts two
and what the meaning of Pentecost is and the history
behind it.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah. Well, Pentecost is the unusual, non normative act of
restoring something that had been lost. At Babel, there was
a confusion of tongues. At Pentecos, God spoke in a
miraculous way, in such a way that the Gospel could
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go out to the nations once again. So Pentecost becomes
a very powerful provision by God so that the early
Christian Church can be born in earnest and go out.
It's not as though the church never existed, but it
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is now the church at Pentecost that is going to
go out into the world, just as Christ had commissioned
the Church to go out into the world, first to
teach people true worship, to teach people true oneness, and
then to bring people into the Body of Christ, which
happens at Pentecost when Peter without a bullhorn, without a microphone,
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is able to preach in three thousand people stampede their
way to.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Calvary right often.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Question, Yes, I was actually just wondering. Ah been basic
differences between Christianity, Catholicism, and Jehovah's Witness. We have a
lot here and they always come to campus and tend
thems you and then they asked us questions, so we
were just I was just wondering about that.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well, remember that all Christians are tied together in fellowship
through the essentials of the historic Christian Faith. That's why
you can't rightly consider a Jehovah's Witness a Christian because
they deny the essentials of the historic Christian faith. For example,
they deny the deity of Jesus Christ. So we are
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united in our confession of the essentials of the historic
Christian faith, and that's what forms the basis of our fellowship.
And the importance can hardly be overstated. This is the
line of demarcation between the Kingdom of Christ and the
Kingdom and the cults. And the central Christian doctrine is
also the north star by which the course of Christianity
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is set. It's the ever lasting reference point which guides
the Church through doctrinal storms that seek to sink it.
And it is the very foundation on which the Gospel
itself rests, from Christ's deity to the eschatological certainty that
He will appear again a second time to judge the
living in the dead. So essential Christian doctrine is foundational
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to the Gospel. So all that adhere to the essentials
of the historic Christian faith can rightly be called Christian.
Those who deny the historic Christian faith, And by the way,
there are Catholics that do that. Not all Catholics do,
but there are Catholics that deny some essentials. There are
Presbyterians that deny some essentials, there are Episcopalians that deny
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some essentials. In fact, you can find in mainline Protestant
churches today the complete eradication of the miraculous. That's what
liberalism often does to denominations. So you can find in
both Protestant circles and Catholic churches you can find people
denying essentials, much like what they do with respect to
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the Watchtower organization. So apostasy can happen in all kinds
of different forms, and all kinds of different phases, and
all kinds of different places. But we hold in common
with Rome, the great ancient ecumenical creeds like the Apostles Creed,
the n Iceeing Creed, the Ethnationian Creed and so forth.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Right, Oh okay, great.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
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Speaker 2 (15:10):
Thanks very much, Randy, and we'll go right back to
our phone callers. Next up is NICKI listening in Arlington, Kansas.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Nikki HIANK.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
How are you?
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Oh, I've been better. I'm a little stressed out this evening. Okay,
my son, we've lived in our house for nine years
and we've always been told it's been haunted, and my
son since he was old enough to talk, he's had
little play friends and we never really thought much about it.
But here lately things have just been getting out of control.
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There's we have investigators that want to come to our house.
And believe that we're dealing with a lot of intelligent
paranormal activity, if not demons, and my son seems to
be the main focus of it. We see shadow, you know, figures,
and then he has a black man, a white man,
and a friend named Jeremy. While here lately he's had
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dreams of being you know, that his his black man
has choked him and he woke up actually streaming left
night from that. He's there, there's we have pictures of
marks that have scratched and scratched on his body, and
he said that they're no longer his friends and that
they won't play with him anymore, and they want us
to leave. And my husband and I are just kind
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of at our wits end. There's you know, doors opening
and shutting, things like that, and we've we've we're dealing
with the paranormal investiators and we're thinking about letting them
come into the home, but we don't want to do
anything that's going to that's actually affected. And we do believe,
you know that that there could be something you know, bad,
but we don't want to make it worse. And we
just we need some directions, some biblical direction, and.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
We just were not finding any Yeah, well you need
to do is apply a biblical world view to this issue.
First thing, I can tell you if there's no such
things as ghosts or noisy ghost poltergeist, therefore the spirits
of the dead do not come back and harass the living. Secondly,
I can tell you this that while we can give
ourselves over to the powers of darkness, the powers of
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darkness cannot scratch or bite or maim us in any way.
So to give into that worldview is to give into
a secularized version a demonic warfare, not one that's rooted
in Christian principles, but rather one that's rooted in paganism.
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I've written a book on this called The Covering God's
Plan to Protect You from Evil, and in that book
I lay out the principles from a Biblical perspective on
how you can be victorious in spiritual warfare. If you
put on the full armor of God every day, as
we're commanded to do, then you are immune to spiritual warfare.
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In other words, you're invincible in the battle. It's not
that spiritual warfare doesn't happen, it's that you become invincible
and the power of God will protect you. If you
do not know how to put on the full armor
of God, then you're a guaranteed casualty in spiritual warfare.
And therefore I would highly recommend my book The Covering,
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And I think if you, along with your son, along
with your husband, would read through this material, you'll come
to a true valuation of things. The principle in spiritual
warfare is always this, greater is he that is in
you than he that is in the world. The power
of God to protect is a whole lot more poignant
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than the power of Satan to pillage. So we have
to put the emphasis in the right place. That's precisely
what the Covering does. I think the Covering would be
extraordinarily helpful to you.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Okay, wonderful. What my son is four? I did forget
to mention that, so I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah, that's all right. And again the Covering you can
you can get it through the Christian Research Institute. All
you have to do is hang on.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Okay, thank you, you got to.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Thank you so much for your call. Let's go right
back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Jared
listening in Center, Missouri. Hi, Jared, how are you doing.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Eh, good, How are you doing all right?
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Quick question? I teached the youth at the local church
we attend there in Center, and we had some questions
come up, and I thought, you know, I'll find the answer,
which I never really could find the answer. So that's
why I'm calling you. Okay, where did race enter in
to mankind? And explain that? I mean, you know, when
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when God flooded the earth, Noah and a handful of
people were on the boat. Everyone else was destroyed. So
where did the Blacks and the Chinese and all the
other races that there is come into effect? Did they
branch off of Noah's sons?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah? Look, before the flood, all men spoke the same language.
And after the flood you read in Genesis chapter eleven
about the Tower of Babel, where the languages of people
were confused and as a result, people were divided. And
therefore there is such a thing that genetics deals with.
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It's called the founder principle. Groups isolated because of the
confusion of their languages only drew upon a fraction of
the total gene pool, and therefore they have different genetic proclivities.
But remember, in a Christian worldview, there's no such thing
as race. In an evolutionary worldview, there is. Evolutionists believe
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that some races are more advanced than other races, some
races are headed for extinction, and in their view, only
those strongs are That's the struggle for existence that ultimately
becomes paramount in that paradigm. But in a biblical worldview,
we're just all people. We have different genetic proclivities, but
we're people, and the only thing we think about when
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we think about race is to run the race, not
hierarchy of races.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Well, and I didn't mean yeah, I meant like, you know,
we're all the same. I know that, But I mean
when they were saying, like, you know, the Chinese look
different than us, the Blacks are different than us, and
they say, well, that wasn't like that on the arc.
And God created man in his own images, so.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Right, But I've dealt specifically with that. Right. The fact
that God created is in his image does not mean
that we are reproductions of God. Number one, It does
mean that we are reflections of God. We reflect his
communicable attributes. His incommunicable attributes are attributes that find no
parallel in humanity. But as human beings, our selves. We
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have genetic proclivities depending on the isolation that comes as
a result of groups only drawing upon a fraction of
the gene pool, and therefore there are changes within kinds.
In a biblical worldview, there are changes within the dog
family and within the cat family, but there are never
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changes from one kind to another kind, and so humans
are always humans in a biblical worldview. And the reason
I believe that this is important to underscore is in
the evolutionary paradigm, that's not the case. As Thomas Huxley
put it, no rational man cognizant of the facts, believes
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that the average negro is the equal, still less the
superior of the white man. It is simply incredible to
think that he would be able to compete successfully with
his bigger brain, smaller jod rival in a context which
is carried on by thoughts and not by bites. That's
the evolutionary paradigm, because you have the struggle for existence,
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you have survival of the fittest. But again that's not
part of a biblical worldview. In a biblical worldview, we
can draw upon a fraction of the gene pool and
therefore have certain genetic proclivities as a result of the
founder principle that I mentioned. But there's no need to
say that we are different. We are just human beings
with different genetic proclivities. That's all.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
I appreciate you clarin At up for me.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
You got it. Thank you so much for your call.
Back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Stanley, Tulsa,
Oklahoma High Stanley, Hey.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Thanks, take a call. My situation is was this. I
was raised a Catholic, and I thought it was a
Christian because I was Catholic. Well, when I was about
thirty two or thirty three years old, you know, I
started looking around and wondering, why if Policism is the
one true religion is the way I was taught, why
aren't I different? Are my friends and I? Why aren't
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we different? Because the group of I was social, it
wasn't we're all living in sin anyways. So I cut
out to God and I got saved, I got born
again and radically, radically transformed and changed. And a lot
of my friends stayed in the Catholic Church. That was
in the eighties, when the charismatic renewal hit the Northeast.
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A lot of my friends got saved, and I told
him they could not stay in the Catholic Church. And
in my opinion of that is based on when Peter
succumbed to the Jewish pressure, he started teaching on circumcision,
you know, and he was sliding back into the traditions
of Judaism. And anyways, you know to me that Paul
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rebuked him and he left Judaism and stopped teaching circumcision
to be a Christian. So anyways, I use that as
an example of why a Catholic cannot go back to
the Catholic Church period. And I just thought, I asked
your opinion on that.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Well, I mean, here's the issue. You have to be
united on the basis of the essentials of the historic
Christian faith. If you go on to a liberal Protestant church,
you will find people who disavow essential Christian doctrine. Liberalism
within the Protestant denominations is just as insidious. This is
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the idea that modern society can embrace concepts that have
been repudiated by an age of scientific enlightenment. So they
get rid of the virgin birth, they get rid of
the bodily resurrection, the infallibility of Scripture, the Bible has
to be de mythologized. In their view, that is a blight,
a pox on Christianity within the Protestant denominations. So the
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issue is we must adhere to the essentials of the
historic Christian faith. If we do, then we can rightly
be called Christian. But if you're in a liberal nomination
and denying the incarnation of the rest direction, you can't
rightly be called Christian, just as if you were in
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a Catholic fellowship and you deny a central Christian doctor,
and then you can't rightly be called Christian. See you
next time with more of the show.
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to equip you with answers to share the hope that
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because being armed with truth will equip you to counter
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all eternity. For more information about CRII and the Bible
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dot org. The following program was pre recorded and now
here's Hank Hannah.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
A lot of you hanging on. Will go right to
our phone callers, Jason and Charlotte, North Carolina. You're first
up today.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Hi, Hey, how's it going?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Hey good? How are you good?
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I just want to let you know your radio show
made the drive of seventy seven a lot better today.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Alright, Well, I have a question. If you look at
the same commandments, there's no asterisk under any of the commandments.
And so I was wondering what you talk about war
and if war's a sin?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Well, no, In fact, in some cases, if you didn't
go to war, it would be a sin, because ultimately
the greatest good principle demands that sometimes one country opposes
the evil dictator in another country. During World War two,
we opposed Hitler and as a result of that, all
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kinds of lives were saved and all kinds of good
eventually came out of that action. So, yeah, we have
to recognize that there are very compelling reasons sometimes to
go to war. If military action is not allowed in
order to maintain order among nations, then police should not
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be permitted to maintain the order of a nation. So
it's a leap of logic to allow the police to
resist a murderer at the same time not let a
military force resist a murderous nation.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I was wondering, is there any Bible verses that you
should give that support that.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, wars are permitted by God in the same way
the divorces because of the hardness of our hearts. The
aggressive use of weapons is not commended. The defensive use
of weapons is commended by our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ himself. So there is principle in the scripture, but
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we're also making a theological deduction based on the greater
Good principle with respect to what should happen among nations.
God uses nations in warlike capacities in order to further
his own purposes. For example, the Canaanites, who were brutally
killing their own children, sacrificing to idols, who were involved
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in such perversion that it was mind boggling, were actually
punished by God using the acts of his judgment, which
was Israel. Later on, Israel itself, who had become so
abominable that even the acts of some of the pagan
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nations were considered tame by comparison. God then used the
Assyrians and the Babylonians as the acts of judgment against Israel.
So even God sometimes uses nations to bring about his
purposes and to rid the horror of the evil that's
going on within those nations. All right, Hey, you got it, man,
(04:08):
Thank you so much for your call. I want to
go back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Matthew.
He's listening in Tyler, Texas.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Hi, Matthew, Hey, Hank, I appreciate the time.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Just a simple question, maybe not such a simple answer.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
Can you be a homosexual and still practice Christianity?
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well, first of all, I would argue with the premise
of the question, homosexuality is not an identity. Homosexuality is
a behavior. And therefore, if you have come to faith
in Christ, what you have said is, whatever my besetting
sin is, I want to turn from it with God's
help and follow Jesus Christ as savior and Lord. I
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want to do it his way as opposed to my
own way. So it's a recognition that it's a sin.
That does not mean that you cannot fall for the
temptation of a besetting sin. Of course you can, and
you are forgiven. So the point is, don't mistake a
behavior for an identity. That's what the culture wants to
foist on us, and that's simply selling us a bill
(05:10):
of goods.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Okay, that makes makes a lot of sense. Thank you,
you got it.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Thank you so much for your call. I want to
go back to the phone lines. Let's talk next to
Jessica listening in New Mexico. Hi, Jessica, Hi, how.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Are you think good?
Speaker 6 (05:26):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I'm good?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Thank you for taking my call. I just had a
quick question, actually several, but I was actually just wondering.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
My friends and I are doing a.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Bible study, but a question came up about Acts two
and what the meaning of Pentecost is and the history
behind it.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah. Well, Pentecost is the unusual, non normative act of
restoring something that had been lost. At Babel, there was
a confusion of tongues. At Pentecos, God spoke in a
miraculous way, in such a way that the Gospel could
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go out to the nations once again. So Pentecost becomes
a very powerful provision by God so that the early
Christian Church can be born in earnest and go out.
It's not as though the church never existed, but it
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is now the church at Pentecost that is going to
go out into the world, just as Christ had commissioned
the Church to go out into the world, first to
teach people true worship, to teach people true oneness, and
then to bring people into the Body of Christ, which
happens at Pentecost when Peter without a bullhorn, without a microphone,
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is able to preach in three thousand people stampede their
way to.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Calvary right often.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
Question, Yes, I was actually just wondering. Ah been basic
differences between Christianity, Catholicism, and Jehovah's Witness. We have a
lot here and they always come to campus and tend
thems you and then they asked us questions, so we
were just I was just wondering about that.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Well, remember that all Christians are tied together in fellowship
through the essentials of the historic Christian Faith. That's why
you can't rightly consider a Jehovah's Witness a Christian because
they deny the essentials of the historic Christian faith. For example,
they deny the deity of Jesus Christ. So we are
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united in our confession of the essentials of the historic
Christian faith, and that's what forms the basis of our fellowship.
And the importance can hardly be overstated. This is the
line of demarcation between the Kingdom of Christ and the
Kingdom and the cults. And the central Christian doctrine is
also the north star by which the course of Christianity
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is set. It's the ever lasting reference point which guides
the Church through doctrinal storms that seek to sink it.
And it is the very foundation on which the Gospel
itself rests, from Christ's deity to the eschatological certainty that
He will appear again a second time to judge the
living in the dead. So essential Christian doctrine is foundational
(08:20):
to the Gospel. So all that adhere to the essentials
of the historic Christian faith can rightly be called Christian.
Those who deny the historic Christian faith, And by the way,
there are Catholics that do that. Not all Catholics do,
but there are Catholics that deny some essentials. There are
Presbyterians that deny some essentials, there are Episcopalians that deny
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some essentials. In fact, you can find in mainline Protestant
churches today the complete eradication of the miraculous. That's what
liberalism often does to denominations. So you can find in
both Protestant circles and Catholic churches you can find people
denying essentials, much like what they do with respect to
(09:02):
the Watchtower organization. So apostasy can happen in all kinds
of different forms, and all kinds of different phases, and
all kinds of different places. But we hold in common
with Rome, the great ancient ecumenical creeds like the Apostles Creed,
the n Iceeing Creed, the Ethnationian Creed and so forth.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Right, Oh okay, great.
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Speaker 2 (15:10):
Thanks very much, Randy, and we'll go right back to
our phone callers. Next up is NICKI listening in Arlington, Kansas.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Nikki HIANK.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
How are you?
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Oh, I've been better. I'm a little stressed out this evening. Okay,
my son, we've lived in our house for nine years
and we've always been told it's been haunted, and my
son since he was old enough to talk, he's had
little play friends and we never really thought much about it.
But here lately things have just been getting out of control.
(15:44):
There's we have investigators that want to come to our house.
And believe that we're dealing with a lot of intelligent
paranormal activity, if not demons, and my son seems to
be the main focus of it. We see shadow, you know, figures,
and then he has a black man, a white man,
and a friend named Jeremy. While here lately he's had
(16:09):
dreams of being you know, that his his black man
has choked him and he woke up actually streaming left
night from that. He's there, there's we have pictures of
marks that have scratched and scratched on his body, and
he said that they're no longer his friends and that
they won't play with him anymore, and they want us
to leave. And my husband and I are just kind
(16:31):
of at our wits end. There's you know, doors opening
and shutting, things like that, and we've we've we're dealing
with the paranormal investiators and we're thinking about letting them
come into the home, but we don't want to do
anything that's going to that's actually affected. And we do believe,
you know that that there could be something you know, bad,
but we don't want to make it worse. And we
just we need some directions, some biblical direction, and.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
We just were not finding any Yeah, well you need
to do is apply a biblical world view to this issue.
First thing, I can tell you if there's no such
things as ghosts or noisy ghost poltergeist, therefore the spirits
of the dead do not come back and harass the living. Secondly,
I can tell you this that while we can give
ourselves over to the powers of darkness, the powers of
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darkness cannot scratch or bite or maim us in any way.
So to give into that worldview is to give into
a secularized version a demonic warfare, not one that's rooted
in Christian principles, but rather one that's rooted in paganism.
(17:38):
I've written a book on this called The Covering God's
Plan to Protect You from Evil, and in that book
I lay out the principles from a Biblical perspective on
how you can be victorious in spiritual warfare. If you
put on the full armor of God every day, as
we're commanded to do, then you are immune to spiritual warfare.
(18:03):
In other words, you're invincible in the battle. It's not
that spiritual warfare doesn't happen, it's that you become invincible
and the power of God will protect you. If you
do not know how to put on the full armor
of God, then you're a guaranteed casualty in spiritual warfare.
And therefore I would highly recommend my book The Covering,
(18:25):
And I think if you, along with your son, along
with your husband, would read through this material, you'll come
to a true valuation of things. The principle in spiritual
warfare is always this, greater is he that is in
you than he that is in the world. The power
of God to protect is a whole lot more poignant
(18:48):
than the power of Satan to pillage. So we have
to put the emphasis in the right place. That's precisely
what the Covering does. I think the Covering would be
extraordinarily helpful to you.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Okay, wonderful. What my son is four? I did forget
to mention that, so I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah, that's all right. And again the Covering you can
you can get it through the Christian Research Institute. All
you have to do is hang on.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Okay, thank you, you got to.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Thank you so much for your call. Let's go right
back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Jared
listening in Center, Missouri. Hi, Jared, how are you doing.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Eh, good, How are you doing all right?
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Quick question? I teached the youth at the local church
we attend there in Center, and we had some questions
come up, and I thought, you know, I'll find the answer,
which I never really could find the answer. So that's
why I'm calling you. Okay, where did race enter in
to mankind? And explain that? I mean, you know, when
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when God flooded the earth, Noah and a handful of
people were on the boat. Everyone else was destroyed. So
where did the Blacks and the Chinese and all the
other races that there is come into effect? Did they
branch off of Noah's sons?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Yeah? Look, before the flood, all men spoke the same language.
And after the flood you read in Genesis chapter eleven
about the Tower of Babel, where the languages of people
were confused and as a result, people were divided. And
therefore there is such a thing that genetics deals with.
(20:26):
It's called the founder principle. Groups isolated because of the
confusion of their languages only drew upon a fraction of
the total gene pool, and therefore they have different genetic proclivities.
But remember, in a Christian worldview, there's no such thing
as race. In an evolutionary worldview, there is. Evolutionists believe
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that some races are more advanced than other races, some
races are headed for extinction, and in their view, only
those strongs are That's the struggle for existence that ultimately
becomes paramount in that paradigm. But in a biblical worldview,
we're just all people. We have different genetic proclivities, but
we're people, and the only thing we think about when
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we think about race is to run the race, not
hierarchy of races.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
Well, and I didn't mean yeah, I meant like, you know,
we're all the same. I know that, But I mean
when they were saying, like, you know, the Chinese look
different than us, the Blacks are different than us, and
they say, well, that wasn't like that on the arc.
And God created man in his own images, so.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Right, But I've dealt specifically with that. Right. The fact
that God created is in his image does not mean
that we are reproductions of God. Number one, It does
mean that we are reflections of God. We reflect his
communicable attributes. His incommunicable attributes are attributes that find no
parallel in humanity. But as human beings, our selves. We
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have genetic proclivities depending on the isolation that comes as
a result of groups only drawing upon a fraction of
the gene pool, and therefore there are changes within kinds.
In a biblical worldview, there are changes within the dog
family and within the cat family, but there are never
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changes from one kind to another kind, and so humans
are always humans in a biblical worldview. And the reason
I believe that this is important to underscore is in
the evolutionary paradigm, that's not the case. As Thomas Huxley
put it, no rational man cognizant of the facts, believes
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that the average negro is the equal, still less the
superior of the white man. It is simply incredible to
think that he would be able to compete successfully with
his bigger brain, smaller jod rival in a context which
is carried on by thoughts and not by bites. That's
the evolutionary paradigm, because you have the struggle for existence,
(23:04):
you have survival of the fittest. But again that's not
part of a biblical worldview. In a biblical worldview, we
can draw upon a fraction of the gene pool and
therefore have certain genetic proclivities as a result of the
founder principle that I mentioned. But there's no need to
say that we are different. We are just human beings
with different genetic proclivities. That's all.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
I appreciate you clarin At up for me.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
You got it. Thank you so much for your call.
Back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Stanley, Tulsa,
Oklahoma High Stanley, Hey.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Thanks, take a call. My situation is was this. I
was raised a Catholic, and I thought it was a
Christian because I was Catholic. Well, when I was about
thirty two or thirty three years old, you know, I
started looking around and wondering, why if Policism is the
one true religion is the way I was taught, why
aren't I different? Are my friends and I? Why aren't
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we different? Because the group of I was social, it
wasn't we're all living in sin anyways. So I cut
out to God and I got saved, I got born
again and radically, radically transformed and changed. And a lot
of my friends stayed in the Catholic Church. That was
in the eighties, when the charismatic renewal hit the Northeast.
(24:18):
A lot of my friends got saved, and I told
him they could not stay in the Catholic Church. And
in my opinion of that is based on when Peter
succumbed to the Jewish pressure, he started teaching on circumcision,
you know, and he was sliding back into the traditions
of Judaism. And anyways, you know to me that Paul
(24:40):
rebuked him and he left Judaism and stopped teaching circumcision
to be a Christian. So anyways, I use that as
an example of why a Catholic cannot go back to
the Catholic Church period. And I just thought, I asked
your opinion on that.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Well, I mean, here's the issue. You have to be
united on the basis of the essentials of the historic
Christian faith. If you go on to a liberal Protestant church,
you will find people who disavow essential Christian doctrine. Liberalism
within the Protestant denominations is just as insidious. This is
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the idea that modern society can embrace concepts that have
been repudiated by an age of scientific enlightenment. So they
get rid of the virgin birth, they get rid of
the bodily resurrection, the infallibility of Scripture, the Bible has
to be de mythologized. In their view, that is a blight,
a pox on Christianity within the Protestant denominations. So the
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issue is we must adhere to the essentials of the
historic Christian faith. If we do, then we can rightly
be called Christian. But if you're in a liberal nomination
and denying the incarnation of the rest direction, you can't
rightly be called Christian, just as if you were in
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a Catholic fellowship and you deny a central Christian doctor,
and then you can't rightly be called Christian. See you
next time with more of the show.
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