July 14, 2025 • 28 mins
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (07/14/25), Hank answers the following questions:
In the past, I was involved with Feng Shui and divination. Is it possible for me to be reconciled or forgiven of these abominable practices? Lisa - Santa Clarita, CA (0:57)
What is the best way to witness to Jehovah’s Witnesses? Joe - El Paso, TX (2:50)
In Luke 23:43, is the comma in the wrong place? Pam - Due West, SC (5:07)
My wife had a miscarriage. What happens to children when they die? Simon - Lethbridge, AB (7:39)
What does Christian apologetics mean? Denise - Lincoln, NE (15:14)
Do you have any advice for how to minister to my nephew, who is struggling with homosexuality? Anita - St. Louis, MO (16:38)
Do Muslims believe that it is acceptable to lie to infidels to further the cause of Islam? Lori - Calgary, AB (23:54)
In the past, I was involved with Feng Shui and divination. Is it possible for me to be reconciled or forgiven of these abominable practices? Lisa - Santa Clarita, CA (0:57)
What is the best way to witness to Jehovah’s Witnesses? Joe - El Paso, TX (2:50)
In Luke 23:43, is the comma in the wrong place? Pam - Due West, SC (5:07)
My wife had a miscarriage. What happens to children when they die? Simon - Lethbridge, AB (7:39)
What does Christian apologetics mean? Denise - Lincoln, NE (15:14)
Do you have any advice for how to minister to my nephew, who is struggling with homosexuality? Anita - St. Louis, MO (16:38)
Do Muslims believe that it is acceptable to lie to infidels to further the cause of Islam? Lori - Calgary, AB (23:54)
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Now here's the president of the Christian Research Institute, Hank Canagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Favorite much for Randy, A lot of you hanging on.
We'll go right to the phone lines. First. Lisa listening
in Santa Clarita, California on the web.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Hi, Hi, good afternoon. My question is is there a
hope for me to be cured from the spiritual warfare?
Because I consulted Buddhist panchois along with the divination of
stage of the Middle East without understanding that these are
detestable to the Lord.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, just repent and ask the Lord's forgiveness and move on.
There's no spiritual mystical force that binds you that Jesus
Christ cannot break. So if you repent, and if you
receive Jesus Christ to save your Lord, or if you
have and I assume you probably have by the way
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you frame the question, than the old has passed the
newest come. You know, greater is he that is in
you than he that is in the world. And as
far as spiritual warfare is concerned, we have to put
the emphasis in the right place. So often we put
the emphasis on the power of Satan to bind, but
really we should be putting the emphasis on the power
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of the Lord to protect. So if you put on
the full armor of God, you're strong in the Lord
and in his mighty power, and then you can take
your stand against the devil's schemes. So I would not
at all worry about what happened in the past. I'd
press on. I'd put on the full armer every day
as we're commanded to, and then you'll be invincible in
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spiritual warfare.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I appreciate your help. Thank you for all your help.
Maybe the Lord bless you.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Thank you, Lisa and if you want to hang on.
We actually did an article on fung shui in the
Christian or Research Journal, So if you want further information
to hang on, I'd be happy to send that article
out to you as my gift. Back to the phone lines,
we'll talk to Joe l Paso, Texas.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Hi, Joe, Hello, Hi, you're selling. I ask you what
is a better way to approach Jolwinness. I have a
family member, my family with Jova. He's actually been in
noness for Christ in time, and I want to ask you, well,
first of all, have you ever known anyone that you
fir seed known or they came to Christ and even
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though they were a jobleness in time? And what is
a better way or how strategy how to approach them,
how to win it them?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah? First of all, yes, I have seen Jehovah's witnesses
come out of the watchtower. In fact, I've seen Jehovah's
witnesses come out of the watchtower and become those who
teach Christians how to witness to the witnesses. Sometimes it
seems as though you're you're kicking against the goads, you're
getting nowhere, But you can so a seed someone else
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comes by and waters the seed, and God gives the increase.
But the best way in witnessing to the witnesses is
to stay with the main in the plain things, which
is to say, the nature of God, the person and
work of Jesus Christ, and how is one saved. So
stick with the essentials of the historic Christian faith as
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opposed to going off on rabbit trails. And the reason
for this is that the Watchtower teaches devotes to believe
that Jesus was created by God as the archangel Michael,
and during his earthly sojourn he became merely human, and
then after his crucifixion he was recreated an immaterial spirit creature.
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And of course they also deny the centerpiece of the
Christian faith, the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ. Charles Tase Russell,
their founder, actually said that the body that hung in
the torture steak they don't believe in Across they believe
in a torture steak either dissolved into gases or is
preserved somewhere as a grand memorial of God's love. Christians, however,
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believe that Jesus bodily resurrected and is forever the anthropist,
the god man. I've written about this in various places.
If you want to hang on, I'm happy to send
you some information to help you witness effectively to the witnesses.
Back to the phone lines. Next up is Pam due West,
South Carolina, listening on the web. Hi, Pam, Hello, how
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are you good?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Okay? Now, I don't believe everything I read online, but
I was reading and they were saying that Van Luke
twenty three forty three, that the comma is in the
wrong place, like where it says barely I say unto
THEE today, coma instead of what it says, unto THEE today,
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you will be with me in paradise. In other words,
they're trying to make it sink because they said it
was contradicting itself when Jesus appeared to Mary in three
days and says she hadn't ascended to his father yet.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Well, I mean, all of that is just nonsense. First
of all, what other day would Jesus be speaking to
the thief on the cross? I mean, obviously it is today,
but God, yeah, to no no, I understand, yeah, like
I'm telling you today, what other day would he be
telling him that? But The natural understanding here is that
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he would today be with Jesus Christ in Paradise, because
he was going to die, and Jesus was promising that
he would be with him, just as Jesus said to
the Father Father, into thy hands, I commit my spirit.
And Jesus made very clear what happened when a person died,
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they would be absent from the body present with the Lord.
In Luke chapter sixteen, the way it's described is two
men die, and when they die, Laztrus is immediately carried
by the angels to Abraham's bosom or Paradise, and the
rich man ended up in torment. So that happened instantaneously.
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And not only that, but if you are a believer,
you are in paradise. And that is why Jesus was
promising the thief and the cross who believed in Jesus
on the Cross, that he would, because of his belief,
because of his faith, be with Jesus in Paradise that
very day, For they were going to die, and therefore
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the body of Jesus would be buried, probably the body
of the thief discarded, but nonetheless the non material aspect
of their humanity would be with the Lord speaking again,
in this case specifically of the thief.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Okay, all right, well thanks a lot, you got it.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I want to go back to the phone lines. We'll
talk to Simon next in Alberta, Canada. Simon, Hi, how
are you doing good?
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Thank you for taking my call, my pleasure. I just
have a question. My wife and I we had a
miscarriage a while ago, and I was just wondering what
you could tell me about. So the Bible says to
the kid, and I know people talk about David and
like it was a lord's discipline when his son died.
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Just what happens like in light of the New Testament,
And I don't know if you could just stab came up?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, Well, Simon, when your wife gave birth, she gave
birth to a body soul unity. In other words, she
didn't just give birth to a body. She gave birth
to a body and a soul. That's what it means
to be human. That's what it means to give birth
to a human being. So at the miscarriage, the body
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of the baby died, but the soul of the baby,
your baby went on to be with the Lord. And
so you have the assurance as a believer that one
day you will be reconciled and you will forever be
with your child in eternity. That's the very reason that David,
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in the same circumstance, was able to wash his face
and go on with life. It is because he wasn't
going to be with a child in time, but he
knew that he would be with a child in eternity,
and with that hope we can carry on. So Christianity
never gives us a peaceful way to come to terms
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with the difficulties of life, but it does give us
something far greater a way to overcome them through the
promise of resurrection. We had the same circumstance, We had
the death of a preborn child near baby Grace, and
the thing that helps you to counter the disorienting blow
of death is the hope of resurrection, and that's what
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we cling to. There's no real answer to why, and
anyone that wants to put a guilt trip on you
cannot do so credibly because the Bible simply doesn't answer
the why question. What it does teach us, however, is
to trust Him in the midst of our wives, and
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so I'm in that is precisely what you can do
trust God because the Bible in which he has revealed
himself demonstrates that he is indeed trustworthy. All too often
in our culture what happens is we try to paper
over death with clever cliches. We try to drive death
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into the closet, but none of that really works. The
only thing that ultimately works is a recognition biblically and
truthfully that death is defeated, and therefore we can say, oh, Death,
where is your sting o grave? Where is your victory?
Only can that be said credibly because of the resurrection
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of Jesus Christ, which guarantees our resurrection as well. We'll
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
Thank you very much, Randy. We'll go right back to
our phone callers. Next up is Denise listening in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Denise, Hi, Hey, I have a very quick question. I'm
hearing on the radio people referring to Christian apologetics and
I don't know what that means.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, well, denotatively, it just means a reason defense or
an answer, and it actually is derived from what Peter
was explaining when he said, always be prepared to give
an answer or an apologetic to everyone who asks you
to give the reason for the hope that you have,
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but do this with gentleness and with respect. So that's
the idea. It's to give a reason, defense or.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
An answer, and to be able to quote scripture, to
be able to give the Christian reason. Can you have
any of those questions?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, it is giving an answer for the hope that
you have. And as such, it's what I call pre evangelism.
So it's the handmaid into evangelism. It's using an answer
as a springboard or an opportunity to share the good
news of the Gospel. So someone has a question, it's
not enough to answer the question, but you want to
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use your answer as an opportunity to share the gospel.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Okay, I understand that simple Now, thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
You got it. Back to the phone lines. We'll talk
next to Anita. She's in Saint Louis, Missouri. Hi Anita, Hi.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
Hanks, thank you for taking my call, my pleasure. I
can thank you enough. Really, I feel like I have
learned a lot through your ministry. But the question that
I have today is regarding people that are gay, are lesbians.
I understand what the Bible says about that way of
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life that I feel like our society once, you know,
has pretty much gotten to the point where we are
looked at as being prejudiced if we don't accept that lifestyle.
And I have a nephew who is struggling with that,
and I don't know how to go about helping him.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah, well, the first thing I think is to recognize
that God sets parameters around our lives so that our
joy might be complete. So the notion is never from
a biblical perspective that God has some kind of a
cosmic killjoy, but rather he knows how we are designed
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and wants us to live within proper parameters so that
we don't hurt ourselves. So He's given us an owner's manual.
That owner's manuel is the Bible. In the prolog to
your question, you said something very wise. You were saying,
in essence that homosexuality is not an identity, it is
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a behavior, use the word lifestyle, And that's absolutely true.
I think the culture has kind of imposed this false
paradigm on us that homosexuality is an identity. I'm a homosexuals.
That's not true. It is a behavior, and there are
all kinds of behaviors that we have predilections towards and
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we have to, on the basis of God's words, say
I want to do it His way as opposed to
doing it my way. And that's what repentance is all about. It.
So you turn on the road of life. It's saying
I think God knows better than I know, and therefore
I'm going to turn and do it his way rather
than my own way. That's the essence of the issue,
and that's why I say that the issue is oftentimes
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solved when someone turns their heart towards home. When they do,
then they want to start living in conform it to
His will as opposed to doing it their own way.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
Okay, so how do I go about helping him? I mean, hint,
he was raised Christian, But my family is they haven't
said so to me. I think they know how strongly
I feel about the subject, so pretty much nobody says anything,
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and I don't know how to go about helping him.
As far as being saved, I mean, I think they
believe that he was born that way and I just
need to accept it and not bring it up.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Well, I think sometimes that's true. You testify by your
life and by your love, and if necessary, use words
but when he sees the reality of Christ within your life,
he may very well want you to communicate with him.
I've had that very experience with friends of mine who
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were engaged in same sex sexuality. And you know, I
testified by my life, I testified by my love. And
then when they ran into very difficult circumstances. And I
say that in plural because I'm thinking of two specific
cases right now, they wanted to come to me because
they trusted me, and they wanted my advice, and that
gave me the perfect opportunity to be a witness at
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that time. So I think that the same will that
gets someone into a behavior has to be the will
that gets them out of that behavior. But truly, homosexuality
requires a person to contradict their own biology. In other words,
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it's sort of a self evident truth when you think
about it. Logically, God does not play a cruel joke
on people by creating their minds and emotions for attraction
to same sex sexuality and yet reading their bodies in
direct opposition to that attraction. So common sense actually is
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enough to know that the lifestyle is not a lifestyle
that comports with reality. And that's precisely what the apostle
Paul says. Even gentiles without access to direct revelation of
scripture have enough evidence in the natural realm to discover
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God's aversion to homosexual behavior. So even if they don't
get it by reading scripture, natural revelation is enough to
uncloak that mystery for them.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
Okay, so do you have any advice from me? I mean,
I just need to pray. Maybe will not say anything
because I have a very hard time, Like I guess,
I'm concerned about his salvation and I want to know that.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, but you can't talk anybody into the kingdom. Only
the Holy Spirit can do that, So you need to
be I've oftentimes said this, Anita. We must not focus
as much on evangelism as equipping for evangelism, which is
to say, if we are equipped, God will give us opportunities.
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But you can't talk anybody into the kingdom. And as
you go through life, whether it's someone you deeply love
and know very well or a stranger, we need to
be prepared to always give an answer, a reason for
the hope that lies within us, with gentleness and with respect.
So we need to be ready to witness. But Ultimately,
it's God that changes the heart. So we want to
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be an effective tool as hands. But you can love
anyone regardless. You can love them and prepare yourself, which
is a demonstration that love to be able to testify
when they want to hear. But trying to force feed
someone is very difficult. You know, someone as well said
that you can lead a horse to water, but you
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can't make him drink. Well, that's true unless you put
salt in the oats. And I think the salt in
your oats is your life and your love. That makes
people hungry to know what it is that's different about
you and oftentimes opens the door for evangelism. In the meantime,
demonstrate your love again, you obviously have a passion for
this person. Demonstrate your love, but you can't talk to
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them to the kingdom. You can pray for them.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
You got it. And you know, we've got some good
books by Joe Dallas if you want to go to
the web at equip dot org some wonderful books. One's
called The Gay Gospel, the others Desires in Conflict, Hope
for Men who struggle with sexual identity. So various, really credible,
wonderful resources. There's no one on the planet that knows
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this subject better than Joe Dallas and can more biblically
and compassionately communicate the antidote.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Awesome, Thank you, you got it.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Okay, back to the phone lines, Doctor Laurie and Calgary, Alberta, Canadate.
Hi Lurie, Hi Hank.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
You say that when we hear things about the Bible,
maybe all words is wrong, but you say we, like
shouldn't take your word or just take it that it's true.
We should check it out and be a Bahrean.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 9 (24:14):
So I didn't know if I was going to articulate
right what I'm going to say, so I asked you that. So, like,
I read some stuff about Muslims recently and I thought,
you know, you kind of get you kind of fall
into it, and you think, oh, is that what they believe?
And then I thought, I'm going to check it out
because I don't want to start believing stuff that I
don't know for sure. Is it okay? Do the Muslims
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believe that it's okay to lie to infidels if it
furthers the cause of Islam?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Well, some Muslims do believe that, and they believe that
there's a chronic basis for doing that, but not all
Muslims do so. Just as there are a wide variety
of beliefs held within Christianity, some biblical and some subbiblicals,
so there are a wide variety of beliefs and behaviors
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that are encapsulated under the rubric of Islam.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
Well, Hank, what I read was that the Quran teaches
ut like I was reading that if there's something written
earlier in the Quran that's peaceable, and the same kind
of information is written later and it's radical, they go
by what is supersede it, So they they would go
by the end one, which is more radical. And so
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I actually read this thing about lying.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
To m Fidel, And that's what I just said in
terms of answering the question. I use the word chronic,
but I was talking about the Qur'an. But there are
various Islamic scholars that will interpret that in different ways
and give you a different spin on it. And that's
why I say the Islamic belief in this regard is
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not monolithic, it's multifacet We are out of time for
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is now the fastest growing religion.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
In the world.
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You're just in time for the Bible Answer Man broadcast
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Our purpose here at CRII is to equip Christians to
provide Biblical answers to life's most important questions, to read
the Bible for all it's worth, and counter the teachings
of cults and world religions that deviate from the plumb
(00:30):
line of God's word, because life and truth matter. For
more information, to order resources or donate, call eight eight
eight seven thousand CROI or go online to equip dot org.
That's equip dot org. The following program was pre recorded.
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Now here's the president of the Christian Research Institute, Hank Canagraph.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Favorite much for Randy, A lot of you hanging on.
We'll go right to the phone lines. First. Lisa listening
in Santa Clarita, California on the web.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Hi, Hi, good afternoon. My question is is there a
hope for me to be cured from the spiritual warfare?
Because I consulted Buddhist panchois along with the divination of
stage of the Middle East without understanding that these are
detestable to the Lord.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, just repent and ask the Lord's forgiveness and move on.
There's no spiritual mystical force that binds you that Jesus
Christ cannot break. So if you repent, and if you
receive Jesus Christ to save your Lord, or if you
have and I assume you probably have by the way
(01:43):
you frame the question, than the old has passed the
newest come. You know, greater is he that is in
you than he that is in the world. And as
far as spiritual warfare is concerned, we have to put
the emphasis in the right place. So often we put
the emphasis on the power of Satan to bind, but
really we should be putting the emphasis on the power
(02:07):
of the Lord to protect. So if you put on
the full armor of God, you're strong in the Lord
and in his mighty power, and then you can take
your stand against the devil's schemes. So I would not
at all worry about what happened in the past. I'd
press on. I'd put on the full armer every day
as we're commanded to, and then you'll be invincible in
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spiritual warfare.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I appreciate your help. Thank you for all your help.
Maybe the Lord bless you.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Thank you, Lisa and if you want to hang on.
We actually did an article on fung shui in the
Christian or Research Journal, So if you want further information
to hang on, I'd be happy to send that article
out to you as my gift. Back to the phone lines,
we'll talk to Joe l Paso, Texas.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Hi, Joe, Hello, Hi, you're selling. I ask you what
is a better way to approach Jolwinness. I have a
family member, my family with Jova. He's actually been in
noness for Christ in time, and I want to ask you, well,
first of all, have you ever known anyone that you
fir seed known or they came to Christ and even
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though they were a jobleness in time? And what is
a better way or how strategy how to approach them,
how to win it them?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yeah? First of all, yes, I have seen Jehovah's witnesses
come out of the watchtower. In fact, I've seen Jehovah's
witnesses come out of the watchtower and become those who
teach Christians how to witness to the witnesses. Sometimes it
seems as though you're you're kicking against the goads, you're
getting nowhere, But you can so a seed someone else
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comes by and waters the seed, and God gives the increase.
But the best way in witnessing to the witnesses is
to stay with the main in the plain things, which
is to say, the nature of God, the person and
work of Jesus Christ, and how is one saved. So
stick with the essentials of the historic Christian faith as
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opposed to going off on rabbit trails. And the reason
for this is that the Watchtower teaches devotes to believe
that Jesus was created by God as the archangel Michael,
and during his earthly sojourn he became merely human, and
then after his crucifixion he was recreated an immaterial spirit creature.
(04:27):
And of course they also deny the centerpiece of the
Christian faith, the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ. Charles Tase Russell,
their founder, actually said that the body that hung in
the torture steak they don't believe in Across they believe
in a torture steak either dissolved into gases or is
preserved somewhere as a grand memorial of God's love. Christians, however,
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believe that Jesus bodily resurrected and is forever the anthropist,
the god man. I've written about this in various places.
If you want to hang on, I'm happy to send
you some information to help you witness effectively to the witnesses.
Back to the phone lines. Next up is Pam due West,
South Carolina, listening on the web. Hi, Pam, Hello, how
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are you good?
Speaker 5 (05:15):
Okay? Now, I don't believe everything I read online, but
I was reading and they were saying that Van Luke
twenty three forty three, that the comma is in the
wrong place, like where it says barely I say unto
THEE today, coma instead of what it says, unto THEE today,
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you will be with me in paradise. In other words,
they're trying to make it sink because they said it
was contradicting itself when Jesus appeared to Mary in three
days and says she hadn't ascended to his father yet.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Well, I mean, all of that is just nonsense. First
of all, what other day would Jesus be speaking to
the thief on the cross? I mean, obviously it is today,
but God, yeah, to no no, I understand, yeah, like
I'm telling you today, what other day would he be
telling him that? But The natural understanding here is that
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he would today be with Jesus Christ in Paradise, because
he was going to die, and Jesus was promising that
he would be with him, just as Jesus said to
the Father Father, into thy hands, I commit my spirit.
And Jesus made very clear what happened when a person died,
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they would be absent from the body present with the Lord.
In Luke chapter sixteen, the way it's described is two
men die, and when they die, Laztrus is immediately carried
by the angels to Abraham's bosom or Paradise, and the
rich man ended up in torment. So that happened instantaneously.
(06:55):
And not only that, but if you are a believer,
you are in paradise. And that is why Jesus was
promising the thief and the cross who believed in Jesus
on the Cross, that he would, because of his belief,
because of his faith, be with Jesus in Paradise that
very day, For they were going to die, and therefore
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the body of Jesus would be buried, probably the body
of the thief discarded, but nonetheless the non material aspect
of their humanity would be with the Lord speaking again,
in this case specifically of the thief.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Okay, all right, well thanks a lot, you got it.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
I want to go back to the phone lines. We'll
talk to Simon next in Alberta, Canada. Simon, Hi, how
are you doing good?
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Thank you for taking my call, my pleasure. I just
have a question. My wife and I we had a
miscarriage a while ago, and I was just wondering what
you could tell me about. So the Bible says to
the kid, and I know people talk about David and
like it was a lord's discipline when his son died.
(08:11):
Just what happens like in light of the New Testament,
And I don't know if you could just stab came up?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Yeah, Well, Simon, when your wife gave birth, she gave
birth to a body soul unity. In other words, she
didn't just give birth to a body. She gave birth
to a body and a soul. That's what it means
to be human. That's what it means to give birth
to a human being. So at the miscarriage, the body
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of the baby died, but the soul of the baby,
your baby went on to be with the Lord. And
so you have the assurance as a believer that one
day you will be reconciled and you will forever be
with your child in eternity. That's the very reason that David,
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in the same circumstance, was able to wash his face
and go on with life. It is because he wasn't
going to be with a child in time, but he
knew that he would be with a child in eternity,
and with that hope we can carry on. So Christianity
never gives us a peaceful way to come to terms
(09:22):
with the difficulties of life, but it does give us
something far greater a way to overcome them through the
promise of resurrection. We had the same circumstance, We had
the death of a preborn child near baby Grace, and
the thing that helps you to counter the disorienting blow
of death is the hope of resurrection, and that's what
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we cling to. There's no real answer to why, and
anyone that wants to put a guilt trip on you
cannot do so credibly because the Bible simply doesn't answer
the why question. What it does teach us, however, is
to trust Him in the midst of our wives, and
(10:04):
so I'm in that is precisely what you can do
trust God because the Bible in which he has revealed
himself demonstrates that he is indeed trustworthy. All too often
in our culture what happens is we try to paper
over death with clever cliches. We try to drive death
(10:28):
into the closet, but none of that really works. The
only thing that ultimately works is a recognition biblically and
truthfully that death is defeated, and therefore we can say, oh, Death,
where is your sting o grave? Where is your victory?
Only can that be said credibly because of the resurrection
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of Jesus Christ, which guarantees our resurrection as well. We'll
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Speaker 2 (15:12):
Thank you very much, Randy. We'll go right back to
our phone callers. Next up is Denise listening in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Denise, Hi, Hey, I have a very quick question. I'm
hearing on the radio people referring to Christian apologetics and
I don't know what that means.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Yeah, well, denotatively, it just means a reason defense or
an answer, and it actually is derived from what Peter
was explaining when he said, always be prepared to give
an answer or an apologetic to everyone who asks you
to give the reason for the hope that you have,
(15:52):
but do this with gentleness and with respect. So that's
the idea. It's to give a reason, defense or.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
An answer, and to be able to quote scripture, to
be able to give the Christian reason. Can you have
any of those questions?
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah, it is giving an answer for the hope that
you have. And as such, it's what I call pre evangelism.
So it's the handmaid into evangelism. It's using an answer
as a springboard or an opportunity to share the good
news of the Gospel. So someone has a question, it's
not enough to answer the question, but you want to
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use your answer as an opportunity to share the gospel.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Okay, I understand that simple Now, thank you.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
You got it. Back to the phone lines. We'll talk
next to Anita. She's in Saint Louis, Missouri. Hi Anita, Hi.
Speaker 8 (16:44):
Hanks, thank you for taking my call, my pleasure. I
can thank you enough. Really, I feel like I have
learned a lot through your ministry. But the question that
I have today is regarding people that are gay, are lesbians.
I understand what the Bible says about that way of
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life that I feel like our society once, you know,
has pretty much gotten to the point where we are
looked at as being prejudiced if we don't accept that lifestyle.
And I have a nephew who is struggling with that,
and I don't know how to go about helping him.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Yeah, well, the first thing I think is to recognize
that God sets parameters around our lives so that our
joy might be complete. So the notion is never from
a biblical perspective that God has some kind of a
cosmic killjoy, but rather he knows how we are designed
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and wants us to live within proper parameters so that
we don't hurt ourselves. So He's given us an owner's manual.
That owner's manuel is the Bible. In the prolog to
your question, you said something very wise. You were saying,
in essence that homosexuality is not an identity, it is
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a behavior, use the word lifestyle, And that's absolutely true.
I think the culture has kind of imposed this false
paradigm on us that homosexuality is an identity. I'm a homosexuals.
That's not true. It is a behavior, and there are
all kinds of behaviors that we have predilections towards and
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we have to, on the basis of God's words, say
I want to do it His way as opposed to
doing it my way. And that's what repentance is all about. It.
So you turn on the road of life. It's saying
I think God knows better than I know, and therefore
I'm going to turn and do it his way rather
than my own way. That's the essence of the issue,
and that's why I say that the issue is oftentimes
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solved when someone turns their heart towards home. When they do,
then they want to start living in conform it to
His will as opposed to doing it their own way.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
Okay, so how do I go about helping him? I mean, hint,
he was raised Christian, But my family is they haven't
said so to me. I think they know how strongly
I feel about the subject, so pretty much nobody says anything,
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and I don't know how to go about helping him.
As far as being saved, I mean, I think they
believe that he was born that way and I just
need to accept it and not bring it up.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Well, I think sometimes that's true. You testify by your
life and by your love, and if necessary, use words
but when he sees the reality of Christ within your life,
he may very well want you to communicate with him.
I've had that very experience with friends of mine who
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were engaged in same sex sexuality. And you know, I
testified by my life, I testified by my love. And
then when they ran into very difficult circumstances. And I
say that in plural because I'm thinking of two specific
cases right now, they wanted to come to me because
they trusted me, and they wanted my advice, and that
gave me the perfect opportunity to be a witness at
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that time. So I think that the same will that
gets someone into a behavior has to be the will
that gets them out of that behavior. But truly, homosexuality
requires a person to contradict their own biology. In other words,
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it's sort of a self evident truth when you think
about it. Logically, God does not play a cruel joke
on people by creating their minds and emotions for attraction
to same sex sexuality and yet reading their bodies in
direct opposition to that attraction. So common sense actually is
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enough to know that the lifestyle is not a lifestyle
that comports with reality. And that's precisely what the apostle
Paul says. Even gentiles without access to direct revelation of
scripture have enough evidence in the natural realm to discover
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God's aversion to homosexual behavior. So even if they don't
get it by reading scripture, natural revelation is enough to
uncloak that mystery for them.
Speaker 8 (21:40):
Okay, so do you have any advice from me? I mean,
I just need to pray. Maybe will not say anything
because I have a very hard time, Like I guess,
I'm concerned about his salvation and I want to know that.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Yeah, but you can't talk anybody into the kingdom. Only
the Holy Spirit can do that, So you need to
be I've oftentimes said this, Anita. We must not focus
as much on evangelism as equipping for evangelism, which is
to say, if we are equipped, God will give us opportunities.
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But you can't talk anybody into the kingdom. And as
you go through life, whether it's someone you deeply love
and know very well or a stranger, we need to
be prepared to always give an answer, a reason for
the hope that lies within us, with gentleness and with respect.
So we need to be ready to witness. But Ultimately,
it's God that changes the heart. So we want to
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be an effective tool as hands. But you can love
anyone regardless. You can love them and prepare yourself, which
is a demonstration that love to be able to testify
when they want to hear. But trying to force feed
someone is very difficult. You know, someone as well said
that you can lead a horse to water, but you
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can't make him drink. Well, that's true unless you put
salt in the oats. And I think the salt in
your oats is your life and your love. That makes
people hungry to know what it is that's different about
you and oftentimes opens the door for evangelism. In the meantime,
demonstrate your love again, you obviously have a passion for
this person. Demonstrate your love, but you can't talk to
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them to the kingdom. You can pray for them.
Speaker 6 (23:21):
Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
You got it. And you know, we've got some good
books by Joe Dallas if you want to go to
the web at equip dot org some wonderful books. One's
called The Gay Gospel, the others Desires in Conflict, Hope
for Men who struggle with sexual identity. So various, really credible,
wonderful resources. There's no one on the planet that knows
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this subject better than Joe Dallas and can more biblically
and compassionately communicate the antidote.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
Awesome, Thank you, you got it.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Okay, back to the phone lines, Doctor Laurie and Calgary, Alberta, Canadate.
Hi Lurie, Hi Hank.
Speaker 9 (23:58):
You say that when we hear things about the Bible,
maybe all words is wrong, but you say we, like
shouldn't take your word or just take it that it's true.
We should check it out and be a Bahrean.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 9 (24:14):
So I didn't know if I was going to articulate
right what I'm going to say, so I asked you that. So, like,
I read some stuff about Muslims recently and I thought,
you know, you kind of get you kind of fall
into it, and you think, oh, is that what they believe?
And then I thought, I'm going to check it out
because I don't want to start believing stuff that I
don't know for sure. Is it okay? Do the Muslims
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believe that it's okay to lie to infidels if it
furthers the cause of Islam?
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Well, some Muslims do believe that, and they believe that
there's a chronic basis for doing that, but not all
Muslims do so. Just as there are a wide variety
of beliefs held within Christianity, some biblical and some subbiblicals,
so there are a wide variety of beliefs and behaviors
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that are encapsulated under the rubric of Islam.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
Well, Hank, what I read was that the Quran teaches
ut like I was reading that if there's something written
earlier in the Quran that's peaceable, and the same kind
of information is written later and it's radical, they go
by what is supersede it, So they they would go
by the end one, which is more radical. And so
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I actually read this thing about lying.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
To m Fidel, And that's what I just said in
terms of answering the question. I use the word chronic,
but I was talking about the Qur'an. But there are
various Islamic scholars that will interpret that in different ways
and give you a different spin on it. And that's
why I say the Islamic belief in this regard is
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not monolithic, it's multifacet We are out of time for
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unimaginable post truth culture is effectively becoming an anti truth culture.
While the sun is setting on the Western Church, Islam
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is now the fastest growing religion.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
In the world.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
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of this threat. Christians need to wake up, stand up,
and speak up. This means being able to counter the
outright lies about Islam that otherwise will go unchecked with
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