December 8, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (12/08/25), Hank comments on the fact that there are many stars, but only one Superstar. He spoke, and the universe leapt into existence. The morning stars together proclaimed His holy birth. He is the root and offspring of David, the bright and Morning Star. It’s no wonder that the prophecies concerning Him outnumber all the others. Only Jesus of Nazareth—the unique Superstar—could emerge through the doorway of Old Testament prophecy.
Hank also answers the following questions:
Can a pastor be divorced according to 1 Timothy 3:2? David - MO (3:31)
Were there incestuous relations between Adam and Eve’s children? Annette - St. Louis, MO (5:58)
What arguments would you give to prove that Jesus knew He was God? Josh - Nashville, TN (8:05)
Does Isaiah 9:6 teach modalism? Is Jesus the Father as well as the Son? Vick - MO (15:59)
How should we respond to people who mock us for believing in God? Dan - Bentonville, AR (19:18)
Since Jesus knew what would happen before it happened, how do we reconcile this with Him saying, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Tiffany - Windsor, IL (23:10)
Hank also answers the following questions:
Can a pastor be divorced according to 1 Timothy 3:2? David - MO (3:31)
Were there incestuous relations between Adam and Eve’s children? Annette - St. Louis, MO (5:58)
What arguments would you give to prove that Jesus knew He was God? Josh - Nashville, TN (8:05)
Does Isaiah 9:6 teach modalism? Is Jesus the Father as well as the Son? Vick - MO (15:59)
How should we respond to people who mock us for believing in God? Dan - Bentonville, AR (19:18)
Since Jesus knew what would happen before it happened, how do we reconcile this with Him saying, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Tiffany - Windsor, IL (23:10)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Broadcasting across the United States, Canada, and around the world.
This is the Bible answer Man Broadcast. Your host for
the program is Hank Canagraph, president of the Christian Research Institute.
We're on the air because life and truth matter. For
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(00:29):
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your host, Hank Canagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
If what you're India, I was thinking about the fact
that there are many stars, but there's only one superstar.
He spoke in a universe of numberless stars, leapt into
existence morning stars together proclaimed his holy birth, and one
day he will flash across the Eastern sky in an
(01:10):
epic return to the planet he saved. He's the root,
the offspring of David. He's the bright morning Star. So
where there are stars in the constellation of biblical prophecy,
there's only one enduring superstar. Little wonder then that prophecies
(01:34):
concerning him outnumber all others. I've given them to people
over the years in a memorable format. His ancestry was
marked his birthplace foretold. Ab circumstances surrounding his death were
prophesied before crucifixion was even invented. The date of his
(02:02):
visitation was predicted within narrow time parameters. He would work
extraordinary miracles and fulfill the law and the prophets, and
it would be too small for him to bring back
only those of Israel. Thus he would be a light
(02:24):
to the gentiles, so that salvation could go out to
the ends of the earth. The bottom line in all
of this is only the hand of God could have
etched a prophetic portrait of the Christ Child in the
Old Testament, and only God could cause that portrait to
(02:46):
take on flesh in the New Testament, because only Jesus
of Nazareth, the unique Superstar, could emerge through the doorway
of Old Testament prophecy. And that is what we are
remembering as we approach the celebration of his birth, Christ
(03:09):
Incarnate Christ coming in flesh so that we could be
partakers of the divine nature. Do you remember the resources
that I talk about during the broadcast You can find
at equip dot org. You can also talk to our
resource consultants Triple eight seven thousand, and the letters c
(03:30):
l Right. First up, David, he's listening in Missouri.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Hi David, Hi, and thanks for taking a call.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Okay. My question is on divorce and being a pastor.
I know it says in First Timothy three to two
meter a bishop and let's be blameless the husband and
one wife. Vigilance, soberb good behavior, given a hospitality, and
apt to teach. Can you shed some light on.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
This for me? Yeah? Sure, I think these are the requirements.
First of all, a husband cannot be polygamous. A husband
cannot be promiscuous if in fact his wife would leave him,
He's not bound in that circumstance. But if his wife
(04:15):
is willing to stay with him, he should not get
a divorce because he is ultimately modeling Christ in the church,
Christ who gave himself for the church. And therefore the
union between husband and wife is parabolic. It is a
word picture to the world. Now, obviously, God uses broken people,
(04:40):
and therefore the fact that someone has been divorced does
not preclude that that person can be used in ministry.
But I certainly believe that those who are used in ministry,
those who give themselves to ministry, must adhere really to
a stricter judgment because they're teaching not only by their
words but also by their deeds. Now, there are always
(05:03):
consequences to sin, and the essential example from me has
always been David David because he was a man whose
heart yearned after God, and yet David did egregious things.
He took a census, demonstrating that his trust was in
the arm of flesh rather than in the arm of God.
(05:24):
He had a promiscuous relationship with another man's wife. He
had another man killed on the battlefront so he could
eventually marry that woman, Beshiba. So the sin was forgiven,
and we certainly see ample testimony for that in scripture.
But the sword never left his home, so the consequences followed.
(05:47):
So sin has its consequences, but God continues to use
broken people.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Thank you, Hank in the God bless you.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Sir, God bless you as well. Back to the phone lines.
Next step is a Nette. She's listening in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Pionette, hiks, I've always.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Had this question in regards to Adam and Eve and
the reproduction of the children.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Was there.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I guess it would be considered incestuous relations because we
had to about from somewhere or how did Deda come about?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Sure, and you have to look at this from a
historical perspective. First of all, I typically point out what
some people miss in the text, and that is Adam
lived almost a thousand years and he fulfilled God's charge
to be fruitful and increase in number. And therefore, while
the scripture doesn't tell us where Cain, for example, got
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his wife, the logical implication is that he married either
a sibling or a niece. Now, the first thing we
think about when we think about that is, wow, there
must have been incest involved. But here's the deal. Genetic
imperfections accumulated gradually over time, and therefore there was no
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prohibition against incest in the earlier stages of human civilization,
so no such thing as incest. It wasn't part of
the vocabulary. God used the levitical law later on against
incestuous relationships because what happened is genetics took its toll,
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there were imperfections over time, and he gave that law
as a grace to humankind. So familiar relationships were preserved
on the one hand, and birth defects were prevented on
the other. So the idea of incest was a later
idea again because of the accumulation of genetic imperfections.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Very interesting. I'm glad you cleared that up for me.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Well, Annette, thank you so much for calling. I wrote
about this in the Creation answer Book. Back to the
phone lines, we'll talk next to Josh. Josh is listening
in Nashville, Tennessee. Hi, Josh, Hey, I you doing and
doing well. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
I got your book, The Apocalypse Code.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I appreciate your sternness.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Kind of cracking me up in some parts. It's a
good read, so I just want to say thanks for that.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
I had a question about uh, Jesus Christ when there's
a lot of movies out there that kind of show
he's oblivious that he's got and I just wanted to
hear your argument or the argument points to, you know
why someone would think that he was kind of oblivious
to it, but also the flip side, you know why.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
He knew he was God.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Sure you think about what Jesus said in John chapter eight,
I tell you the truth before Abraham was born, I am.
And what happened when he said that is that the
Jews picked up stones to stone him to death because he,
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being a mere man in their view, was calling himself God.
He was using the very moniker that God had identified
him self by, I am who I am. So you
think about another circumstance where Jesus claims to be God
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to the Jews, saying I and the Father are one,
and again you have the Jews picking up stones to
stone him. But Jesus says to them, I have shown
you many great miracles from the Father. For which of
these are you stoning me? And they reply, you will
recall we're not stoning you for any of those, but
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for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.
So we might miss, if you're an average reader reading
the Biblical text, what Jesus w driving at. But the
Jews most certainly did not. They knew that he was
claiming to be God. Over and over again. You have indications.
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And Mark fourteen comes to mind, where Caiaphas, the high priest, asked, Jesus,
are you the Christ, the son of the Blessed One.
Jesus again uses that moniker I am, And then he said,
and you will see the son of Man sitting at
the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on
the clouds of heaven, of course an allusion to Daniel
(10:34):
chapter seven. So yes, Jesus knew what his mission was
and certainly knew precisely who he was. He voluntarily veiled
the prerogatives of divinity, but he was not divested of
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Speaker 2 (15:57):
Thank very much, Randy, and let's go right back to
our phone call. Next up is Vic. He's listening in Missouri.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Hi Vick, Hey, Hank.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
I had a question about Isaiah ninety six. I have
a friend. He's a good Christian, He's a good friend
of mine, and we had a discussion the other day
about how Jesus is the father, and he was using
Isaiah nine six to support this, and I think I
understand the verse, but I kind of see where he's
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coming from. And I'm starting to wonder, is like, is
this really a doctrine that we can support or is
this kind of what I think it is.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Well, first of all, it is true that Jesus is
the father, but you have to qualify in what sense
that Jesus is the father, because Isaiah ninety six does
call him the father of eternity. In other words, Jesus
is the possessor of eternity. In Hebrew, if you say
someone is the father of strength, it means that he's strong.
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If you say someone is the father of knowledge, it
means that he is wise. If you say Jesus is
the father of eternity. You are saying that Jesus is eternal,
so it's an idiom, and it's used to describe Christ's
relationship to time, not the relationship he has to himself.
He obviously could not be his own father, so certainly
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you have to contextualize this or interpret this properly. But
this in no way serves the purpose that some would
have it serve, and that is the purpose of modalism,
where the Father becomes the Son and the son becomes
the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Right well, and that was where the contention was coming
in because I kind of asked him, do you believe
in modalism? And he was no, No, of course I don't.
I believe that the Father and the Son and the
Holy Spirit exist at the same time. But he was
trying to contend that the son is also the Father,
and that even when we got to discussing John seventeen,
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that the son who was praying was also the Father
who was listening to the prayer. And that's kind of
started to concern me. But again, he had Isaiah nine
to six, and I didn't really know how to answer that.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah, well, again the answer is that no, Jesus Christ
is never the Father, and Jesus Christ is never praying
to himself. Jesus in fact said I and the Father
are two distinct witnesses and two distinct judges, and he
was appealing to an Old Testament mandate there. So there's
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no way in which you can make the argument, certainly
from Isaiah chapter six or from John seventeen, that Jesus
is himself the Father. Jesus is the Father in the
sense of being the possessor of eternity, and that's why
he is called wonderful counselor Mighty God, ever lasting Father.
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I e an idiom, saying possessor of eternity and demonstrating
there that Jesus Christ is God. So that we are
reaffirmed in the position that there's only one God revealed
in three persons who are eternally distinct. Let's go back
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to the phone lines. We'll talk to Dan, who's listening
in Betentonville, Arkansas. Hi, Dan, Hey, how are you good?
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
My question is in regards to and I've heard you
talk about this from time to time, but in regards
to the way of the world is more so today
than ever when it comes to atheist and even people
we know, and I speak of my own brother, who
at every turn seems to want to find a way
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to mock you. Meaning you say anything about God, they
mock you, and so in the same context, and I
put it in the same context. And my question is
I want you to elaborate on the way the Bible says,
do not cast your pearls before swine unless they mock you.
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So that's my question.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, I think Also it's important to realize that we
ought to, as Paul says in Romans chapter twelve, bless
those who persecute you, bless and do not curse. So
we don't ever repay evil with evil. Rather we repay
evil with good, and we pray for those who persecute us.
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Blessed those who are persecuted us the Jews, because of
righteous for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. So the
idea is that we we pray for the very people
that mock God and in the process mock us, who
are those who represent God on this earth. And there's
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a real pain that goes out because as we realize
that there is no such thing as a non religious
person in the truest sense of the word. There are
religious people and irreligious people, but not non religious people.
Reason we say that is that God has written a
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knowledge of himself on the canvas of everyone's consciousness. So
what you have to do is try to obscure that knowledge.
That's why Blaize Paskel said that God dwells in enough
light so if we want to find him we will,
and enough obscurity so that if we do not want
to find him, we won't. So what do you do
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about your brother? Well, you got to reach reach him
with love, the testimony of your life, and if possible,
the testimony of your lips. But you don't take on
yourself a burden that is the burden of the Holy Spirit.
The province of the Holy Spirit has to change the
heart yours is to be a testimony. And too, when
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you are reviled, do not revile in turn.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Yeah, And in some cases, and more often than not,
I tend to, you know, because I recognize the taunting.
When it happens, I tend to just ask, are you
being serious or are you wanting to make fun of me?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Again?
Speaker 7 (22:23):
When when conversations do rise, So and that's usually the
end of it.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
So, yeah, well again, pray for your brother. I'm sure
a lot of people listening in will be praying for him. Oftentimes,
when you're yelling the loudest, you're doing so because you're
trying to shut out that still small voice within. And
so maybe he's as close as one could possibly be
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to entering into the kingdom, and you may be the
one that transports him over the threshold. It might also
be someone else that does so. So we'll pray, you pray,
and one day perhaps your brother will be a testimony
to God's Joyce. Let's go back to the phone lines.
We'll talk next to Tiffany listening in Windsor, Illinois. Hi,
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Tiffany Hiank.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
Thank you so much for your time. Your wisdom is
a huge blessing. My question tonight is when I'm sure
you've answered before, I've just always missed it. Now my
kids are asking, I want to make sure I give
a solid answer. We know that Christ Whilking is here
on earth, knew what was coming before it came his way,
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knew his purpose and why he was here. And with
that we also know Matthew twenty seven tells us that
as he was on the cross, he did pray out
to God asking why he had forsaken him, which implies
a bit of a surprise and a disappointment in that
abandoned for being forsaken. I So I just wonder how
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those comment each other or how they work together. If
he already knew what was coming, sure, and.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
We know that Jesus knew the Old Testament intimately. He
knew it like we would say using the metaphor the
back of his hand. He was intimately acquainted with the
Old Testament on the cross. When he cried out Eli
lama suboctmy, my God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?
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He was quoting Psalm twenty two. But that Psalm is
not comprised of just a single verse. It is comprised
of many verses, including verse twenty four, which says that
God has not despised or disdained the suffering of the
afflicted one. He has not hidden his face from him,
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but listened to his cry for help. So we can
understand this contrast in the Psalm between emotional despair and
faith in God. It's highlighted throughout the Psalms, and so
too we can easily imagine that Christ, who voluntarily took
on the limitations of humanity would have within his active
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consciousness a real feeling of being forsaken by the Father,
as he is bearing in his body the sins of
the world. No ontological separation took place. But Christ is
now suffering more than any human person, more than the
sufferings of all of humankind. It was not only the
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torture of the cross excruciating. We qualify the word excruciating
it literally means out of the cross. But he was
suffering all the despair of humankind in that moment. So
this is not an ontological separation. It is what goes
along with the ultimate passion that could be described in
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human terms. Out of time for this edition of the
Bilence Men Broadcast, be back tomorrow with more of the show.
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Speaker 2 (00:46):
If what you're India, I was thinking about the fact
that there are many stars, but there's only one superstar.
He spoke in a universe of numberless stars, leapt into
existence morning stars together proclaimed his holy birth, and one
day he will flash across the Eastern sky in an
(01:10):
epic return to the planet he saved. He's the root,
the offspring of David. He's the bright morning Star. So
where there are stars in the constellation of biblical prophecy,
there's only one enduring superstar. Little wonder then that prophecies
(01:34):
concerning him outnumber all others. I've given them to people
over the years in a memorable format. His ancestry was
marked his birthplace foretold. Ab circumstances surrounding his death were
prophesied before crucifixion was even invented. The date of his
(02:02):
visitation was predicted within narrow time parameters. He would work
extraordinary miracles and fulfill the law and the prophets, and
it would be too small for him to bring back
only those of Israel. Thus he would be a light
(02:24):
to the gentiles, so that salvation could go out to
the ends of the earth. The bottom line in all
of this is only the hand of God could have
etched a prophetic portrait of the Christ Child in the
Old Testament, and only God could cause that portrait to
(02:46):
take on flesh in the New Testament, because only Jesus
of Nazareth, the unique Superstar, could emerge through the doorway
of Old Testament prophecy. And that is what we are
remembering as we approach the celebration of his birth, Christ
(03:09):
Incarnate Christ coming in flesh so that we could be
partakers of the divine nature. Do you remember the resources
that I talk about during the broadcast You can find
at equip dot org. You can also talk to our
resource consultants Triple eight seven thousand, and the letters c
(03:30):
l Right. First up, David, he's listening in Missouri.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Hi David, Hi, and thanks for taking a call.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Okay. My question is on divorce and being a pastor.
I know it says in First Timothy three to two
meter a bishop and let's be blameless the husband and
one wife. Vigilance, soberb good behavior, given a hospitality, and
apt to teach. Can you shed some light on.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
This for me? Yeah? Sure, I think these are the requirements.
First of all, a husband cannot be polygamous. A husband
cannot be promiscuous if in fact his wife would leave him,
He's not bound in that circumstance. But if his wife
(04:15):
is willing to stay with him, he should not get
a divorce because he is ultimately modeling Christ in the church,
Christ who gave himself for the church. And therefore the
union between husband and wife is parabolic. It is a
word picture to the world. Now, obviously, God uses broken people,
(04:40):
and therefore the fact that someone has been divorced does
not preclude that that person can be used in ministry.
But I certainly believe that those who are used in ministry,
those who give themselves to ministry, must adhere really to
a stricter judgment because they're teaching not only by their
words but also by their deeds. Now, there are always
(05:03):
consequences to sin, and the essential example from me has
always been David David because he was a man whose
heart yearned after God, and yet David did egregious things.
He took a census, demonstrating that his trust was in
the arm of flesh rather than in the arm of God.
(05:24):
He had a promiscuous relationship with another man's wife. He
had another man killed on the battlefront so he could
eventually marry that woman, Beshiba. So the sin was forgiven,
and we certainly see ample testimony for that in scripture.
But the sword never left his home, so the consequences followed.
(05:47):
So sin has its consequences, but God continues to use
broken people.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Thank you, Hank in the God bless you.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Sir, God bless you as well. Back to the phone lines.
Next step is a Nette. She's listening in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Pionette, hiks, I've always.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Had this question in regards to Adam and Eve and
the reproduction of the children.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Was there.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I guess it would be considered incestuous relations because we
had to about from somewhere or how did Deda come about?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Sure, and you have to look at this from a
historical perspective. First of all, I typically point out what
some people miss in the text, and that is Adam
lived almost a thousand years and he fulfilled God's charge
to be fruitful and increase in number. And therefore, while
the scripture doesn't tell us where Cain, for example, got
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his wife, the logical implication is that he married either
a sibling or a niece. Now, the first thing we
think about when we think about that is, wow, there
must have been incest involved. But here's the deal. Genetic
imperfections accumulated gradually over time, and therefore there was no
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prohibition against incest in the earlier stages of human civilization,
so no such thing as incest. It wasn't part of
the vocabulary. God used the levitical law later on against
incestuous relationships because what happened is genetics took its toll,
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there were imperfections over time, and he gave that law
as a grace to humankind. So familiar relationships were preserved
on the one hand, and birth defects were prevented on
the other. So the idea of incest was a later
idea again because of the accumulation of genetic imperfections.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Very interesting. I'm glad you cleared that up for me.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Well, Annette, thank you so much for calling. I wrote
about this in the Creation answer Book. Back to the
phone lines, we'll talk next to Josh. Josh is listening
in Nashville, Tennessee. Hi, Josh, Hey, I you doing and
doing well. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
I got your book, The Apocalypse Code.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I appreciate your sternness.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Kind of cracking me up in some parts. It's a
good read, so I just want to say thanks for that.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
I had a question about uh, Jesus Christ when there's
a lot of movies out there that kind of show
he's oblivious that he's got and I just wanted to
hear your argument or the argument points to, you know
why someone would think that he was kind of oblivious
to it, but also the flip side, you know why.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
He knew he was God.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Sure you think about what Jesus said in John chapter eight,
I tell you the truth before Abraham was born, I am.
And what happened when he said that is that the
Jews picked up stones to stone him to death because he,
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being a mere man in their view, was calling himself God.
He was using the very moniker that God had identified
him self by, I am who I am. So you
think about another circumstance where Jesus claims to be God
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to the Jews, saying I and the Father are one,
and again you have the Jews picking up stones to
stone him. But Jesus says to them, I have shown
you many great miracles from the Father. For which of
these are you stoning me? And they reply, you will
recall we're not stoning you for any of those, but
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for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God.
So we might miss, if you're an average reader reading
the Biblical text, what Jesus w driving at. But the
Jews most certainly did not. They knew that he was
claiming to be God. Over and over again. You have indications.
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And Mark fourteen comes to mind, where Caiaphas, the high priest, asked, Jesus,
are you the Christ, the son of the Blessed One.
Jesus again uses that moniker I am, And then he said,
and you will see the son of Man sitting at
the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on
the clouds of heaven, of course an allusion to Daniel
(10:34):
chapter seven. So yes, Jesus knew what his mission was
and certainly knew precisely who he was. He voluntarily veiled
the prerogatives of divinity, but he was not divested of
a single attribute of deity. Will be right back in
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Speaker 2 (15:57):
Thank very much, Randy, and let's go right back to
our phone call. Next up is Vic. He's listening in Missouri.
Speaker 6 (16:02):
Hi Vick, Hey, Hank.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
I had a question about Isaiah ninety six. I have
a friend. He's a good Christian, He's a good friend
of mine, and we had a discussion the other day
about how Jesus is the father, and he was using
Isaiah nine six to support this, and I think I
understand the verse, but I kind of see where he's
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coming from. And I'm starting to wonder, is like, is
this really a doctrine that we can support or is
this kind of what I think it is.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Well, first of all, it is true that Jesus is
the father, but you have to qualify in what sense
that Jesus is the father, because Isaiah ninety six does
call him the father of eternity. In other words, Jesus
is the possessor of eternity. In Hebrew, if you say
someone is the father of strength, it means that he's strong.
(16:58):
If you say someone is the father of knowledge, it
means that he is wise. If you say Jesus is
the father of eternity. You are saying that Jesus is eternal,
so it's an idiom, and it's used to describe Christ's
relationship to time, not the relationship he has to himself.
He obviously could not be his own father, so certainly
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you have to contextualize this or interpret this properly. But
this in no way serves the purpose that some would
have it serve, and that is the purpose of modalism,
where the Father becomes the Son and the son becomes
the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Right well, and that was where the contention was coming
in because I kind of asked him, do you believe
in modalism? And he was no, No, of course I don't.
I believe that the Father and the Son and the
Holy Spirit exist at the same time. But he was
trying to contend that the son is also the Father,
and that even when we got to discussing John seventeen,
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that the son who was praying was also the Father
who was listening to the prayer. And that's kind of
started to concern me. But again, he had Isaiah nine
to six, and I didn't really know how to answer that.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Yeah, well, again the answer is that no, Jesus Christ
is never the Father, and Jesus Christ is never praying
to himself. Jesus in fact said I and the Father
are two distinct witnesses and two distinct judges, and he
was appealing to an Old Testament mandate there. So there's
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no way in which you can make the argument, certainly
from Isaiah chapter six or from John seventeen, that Jesus
is himself the Father. Jesus is the Father in the
sense of being the possessor of eternity, and that's why
he is called wonderful counselor Mighty God, ever lasting Father.
(18:58):
I e an idiom, saying possessor of eternity and demonstrating
there that Jesus Christ is God. So that we are
reaffirmed in the position that there's only one God revealed
in three persons who are eternally distinct. Let's go back
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to the phone lines. We'll talk to Dan, who's listening
in Betentonville, Arkansas. Hi, Dan, Hey, how are you good?
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
My question is in regards to and I've heard you
talk about this from time to time, but in regards
to the way of the world is more so today
than ever when it comes to atheist and even people
we know, and I speak of my own brother, who
at every turn seems to want to find a way
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to mock you. Meaning you say anything about God, they
mock you, and so in the same context, and I
put it in the same context. And my question is
I want you to elaborate on the way the Bible says,
do not cast your pearls before swine unless they mock you.
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So that's my question.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, I think Also it's important to realize that we
ought to, as Paul says in Romans chapter twelve, bless
those who persecute you, bless and do not curse. So
we don't ever repay evil with evil. Rather we repay
evil with good, and we pray for those who persecute us.
(20:36):
Blessed those who are persecuted us the Jews, because of
righteous for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. So the
idea is that we we pray for the very people
that mock God and in the process mock us, who
are those who represent God on this earth. And there's
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a real pain that goes out because as we realize
that there is no such thing as a non religious
person in the truest sense of the word. There are
religious people and irreligious people, but not non religious people.
Reason we say that is that God has written a
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knowledge of himself on the canvas of everyone's consciousness. So
what you have to do is try to obscure that knowledge.
That's why Blaize Paskel said that God dwells in enough
light so if we want to find him we will,
and enough obscurity so that if we do not want
to find him, we won't. So what do you do
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about your brother? Well, you got to reach reach him
with love, the testimony of your life, and if possible,
the testimony of your lips. But you don't take on
yourself a burden that is the burden of the Holy Spirit.
The province of the Holy Spirit has to change the
heart yours is to be a testimony. And too, when
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you are reviled, do not revile in turn.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
Yeah, And in some cases, and more often than not,
I tend to, you know, because I recognize the taunting.
When it happens, I tend to just ask, are you
being serious or are you wanting to make fun of me?
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Again?
Speaker 7 (22:23):
When when conversations do rise, So and that's usually the
end of it.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
So, yeah, well again, pray for your brother. I'm sure
a lot of people listening in will be praying for him. Oftentimes,
when you're yelling the loudest, you're doing so because you're
trying to shut out that still small voice within. And
so maybe he's as close as one could possibly be
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to entering into the kingdom, and you may be the
one that transports him over the threshold. It might also
be someone else that does so. So we'll pray, you pray,
and one day perhaps your brother will be a testimony
to God's Joyce. Let's go back to the phone lines.
We'll talk next to Tiffany listening in Windsor, Illinois. Hi,
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Tiffany Hiank.
Speaker 8 (23:16):
Thank you so much for your time. Your wisdom is
a huge blessing. My question tonight is when I'm sure
you've answered before, I've just always missed it. Now my
kids are asking, I want to make sure I give
a solid answer. We know that Christ Whilking is here
on earth, knew what was coming before it came his way,
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knew his purpose and why he was here. And with
that we also know Matthew twenty seven tells us that
as he was on the cross, he did pray out
to God asking why he had forsaken him, which implies
a bit of a surprise and a disappointment in that
abandoned for being forsaken. I So I just wonder how
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those comment each other or how they work together. If
he already knew what was coming, sure, and.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
We know that Jesus knew the Old Testament intimately. He
knew it like we would say using the metaphor the
back of his hand. He was intimately acquainted with the
Old Testament on the cross. When he cried out Eli
lama suboctmy, my God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?
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He was quoting Psalm twenty two. But that Psalm is
not comprised of just a single verse. It is comprised
of many verses, including verse twenty four, which says that
God has not despised or disdained the suffering of the
afflicted one. He has not hidden his face from him,
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but listened to his cry for help. So we can
understand this contrast in the Psalm between emotional despair and
faith in God. It's highlighted throughout the Psalms, and so
too we can easily imagine that Christ, who voluntarily took
on the limitations of humanity would have within his active
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consciousness a real feeling of being forsaken by the Father,
as he is bearing in his body the sins of
the world. No ontological separation took place. But Christ is
now suffering more than any human person, more than the
sufferings of all of humankind. It was not only the
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torture of the cross excruciating. We qualify the word excruciating
it literally means out of the cross. But he was
suffering all the despair of humankind in that moment. So
this is not an ontological separation. It is what goes
along with the ultimate passion that could be described in
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human terms. Out of time for this edition of the
Bilence Men Broadcast, be back tomorrow with more of the show.
Please pray for us as we pray for you.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Thank you for joining us today. Our mission at the
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to become one of us. Perhaps nothing is more important
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