Matt Slick Live

The following program is recorded content created by the Truth Network. It's Matt Slick Live. Matt is the founder and president of the Christian Apologetics Research Ministry, found online at carn.org. When you have questions about Bible doctrines, turn to Matt Slick Live for answers, taking your calls and responding to your questions at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick.

Hey everybody, welcome to the show. It's me, Matt Slick, and you're listening to Matt Slick Live. As usual, if you want, you can give me a call. The number is 8772-07-2276. And uh I want to hear from you give me a call.

Um Couple of things to talk about. One is I didn't get to really mention my my trip yesterday I didn't yesterday mention my trip that I went and saw the Truth Network headquarters and I got to go in there in there and I met Keith And I wish he's Keith, he's a good guy. And met Keith, that was nice, and hung out with Stu Epperson. He's the owner of the Truth Network. And he had me on his radio show.

I don't know, we did about an hour. And then an hour later, I guess, or two hours later, he was on mine. For a little bit, and then you had to go. And so that was really fun. I got to meet a lot of nice people there.

Really enjoyed the company, enjoyed the people. And, you know, what a great, a great, it's just a great thing, you know, being able to. The way to put it is just be able to spread God's word in different ways, different forms, but do it particularly on the issue of radio. And I just think it was awesome.

So I'm really grateful for Stu having me on the air, and for all those who work there at the headquarters, the Intergalactic. headquarters known as uh the truth network.

So, praise God, and good for them. I had a good time there. They're good folks. All right, now I want to hear from you. Give me a call, 877-2072276.

I am working on something. I've been working on it now for a few hours So last night um I finally went to bed. And I often do stuff on my phone. You're not supposed to do that, but I do anyway. And I started working on an argument.

dealing with the existence of God, Using transcendentals and the issue of the one in the many, which deals with transcendental necessities and particular manifestations. And uh that may sound pretty dull to you or mind-boggling, I don't know, uh but I've worked on it for uh I don't know, till late. I was in bed thinking and writing and researching and things like that about this different issues and areas. And uh so I'm working on that now. In fact, it reminds me um My wife uh you know, I read some of it to her.

This is so. She Let's just say She's got better things to do than listen to me go through things like transcendentals and stuff like that. And I enjoy it. You know, I enjoy that kind of thing. I guess it qualifies me as a complete and total nerd, I guess, because I don't watch sports and I just enjoy these kinds of things.

I really do. I really did.

Now I'm looking on, let's see, I'm looking on. Um Clubhouse for the carm room. I don't see it. It wasn't there yesterday. I don't see it today.

What's interesting is there's rooms. What is biblical justification? Trinity babies, show me Jesus the word in the Old Testament. I mean, that's easy to do. Uh let's see what dude Whew.

Is the sun ever worshipped as creator? There's a lot of people. who uh attack the person of Christ. For some reason, they just say that he can't be God and he's not, and they, well, they just. Work hard to rip things out of context and not do what's right, what's good and true before the revelation of Scripture.

I don't know why they do that, but that's what they do, and it's not good. I sometimes will go into those rooms and have discussions there, but I've discovered that on that particular Social media that the individuals there are far more obstreperous than other areas when you go into. It's. Really interesting. I don't know why, but man, I'll tell you.

They interrupt, they deny things, they accuse. Really interesting. Which reminds me, last night I got on to TikTok. And I did what's called a live. They call it a live, you know, a live session.

And Samathius came in. Right away, and they wanted to challenge me about certain things. And I've noticed what a lot of the atheists want to do is come in swinging. uh as though they have the upper hand. And You know, I just I just came back swinging, you know, verbally.

I just came back and said, You don't know what you're talking about. You haven't studied this, you don't know that. And it was an interesting discussion with three. They thought they knew stuff, but they didn't. And in some of the upper areas of philosophy and logic, they failed.

And it was an interesting set of discussions. And then this one guy came on. It was uh truly sad. Um And uh I actually got upset with him because he would Constantly just interrupt and accuse God of unrighteousness. And he said he had been a Christian for many decades and he gave up Christianity basically because.

God wouldn't answer his prayers. That's what it came down to. He would ask this, ask that, and things wouldn't happen. And he says, there's no difference between praying to God and praying to a frog. And I said, well, let's talk about that.

And he would just get mad and he would start interrupting. And it was really sad. And at one point, I asked him, I said, what happened to you that you rejected God?

Something happened to you. What is it? What happened? And he paused, but he wouldn't say anything. And, you know, I asked questions like, well, if no prayer, as you like to say it, means God does not exist, then when we pray and something happens in accordance with our prayer, does that mean God does exist?

And he started to calm just down just a little bit. And he started the logic. He said, well, no. I said, well, then neither is your position. I said so now do we deal?

And it didn't go well. And then he just I guess he got cornered, I guess. And then what he did was he just started swinging into the air, you know, taking swings at me and just got rid of him.

So you know it's interesting. I do like going into varying rooms and trying to find people to talk to, trying to find people who I think uh well, yeah, I just think that that they have uh good questions a lot of times. But what I find interesting is how frequently people just hate God. They just don't want him. They rebel against God.

They rebel against the idea of who God is, what He's done. They rebel against. the concept of accountability and I I thought it was interesting last night, this one particular gentleman. He did not like the idea of um Of God, I guess, God's sovereignty, and not answering prayers the way he wanted. I said to him, You sound like a child.

I said, It's an immature attitude to say, I didn't get what I want, therefore I hate you. Come on, you know, what are you going to give me that's solid, that is better than that? And He didn't. He couldn't give me anything. It was sad.

But, nevertheless, so. You know, that kind of stuff, and the other atheists got me thinking about some things I've been thinking about anyway, with transcendentals and stuff. I know it's a little heady, I know that. And the average Joe, they just tune out.

Okay, that's fine. But let me tell you something. You need to know your theology. If you're a Christian, you need to know what the Bible teaches. You can't just skirt by with knowing the minimal of this and that and want to honor God.

Think about this: in heaven, you're going to be learning about Him for forever. And he's revealed so many great things about himself in the word of God, in the scriptures. And we should be studying that word and learning about him. It's not so we can beat people up intellectually, it's so that we can glorify God's Creator with More accurate truths. And you have to understand all truth comes from God, and truth is what corresponds to the mind of God.

It's not a correspondence to what is an actuality. It's called the correspondence theory of truth. But truth is that which corresponds to the mind of God. We've got to base truth on what God is. And if you learn about Him, Well, that's glorifying him and it's benefiting you as well.

So, uh I do recommend that you study and uh go to Karm even if you want to and uh and read up on the things of of God. read up on on some of the stuff I've written. Not that I'm not saying I got all the answers, but you know, there you go. There's just a lot there. All right, so anyway, hey, look, if you want to give me a call, the number is 877-2072.

Two two seven six. And you can email me at info at carm.org. C A R M dot O R G And put in the subject line, radio comment. Radio question. Let me see if I can get on some emails here.

Let's see. Uh, questions: Did Satan know beforehand that he was going to be defeated at the cross through Jesus' death and resurrection? I have no idea. I don't know what Satan knew or did not know. Thought or did not think.

So I can't answer that question in the affirmative or negative because I'm just not capable of having that kind of knowledge. And from what I understand of Scripture, nothing is stated in Scripture. uh that he did know uh any of that.

So, you know, no.

Okay.

Alright, so let's try another one. Let's see. How about this? What does the Bible say about caste? Should we see caste for marriages?

No, the Bible doesn't talk about that kind of stuff that way. It does have hints of separation of people. Between believers and unbelievers. And it's not a caste system. And believers should not marry unbelievers.

It's just, you shouldn't do it. Don't marry unbelievers.

So that's what the Bible says. Let's see. Is it okay for a Christian to go to a bar as long as they don't get drunk?

Well, you know, I can't say no, it's not okay. I can't say it is okay. except this, that Jesus apparently hung out with uh drunkards. And they accused him of being a drunkard. And so I guess he had to go where they were.

And I'm sure that he was witnessing to them in the process.

So my opinion on this, based on the fact that Jesus ate with sinners, hung out with sinners of varying kinds, and they called him a drunkard, but he wasn't, of course, I would say then it's okay for a Christian to go to his bar as long as they don't get drunk and don't do anything there that's wrong and use it as an opportunity to witness. That's what I would say. Let's get to Jermaine from California. Jermaine, welcome, brother. You're on the air.

Hey Matt, I um yeah, once you bring up the atheist favorite versus uh Judge Nod, let's see the judge. Maybe you can kind of break down on what exactly that actually means 'cause a lot of people tend to misuse that and Think you can judge right to see? Right, and they will take it out of context, and I'll often say to them, You're just taking it out of context. It's in the Beatitudes about judging others. Be careful of your hypocrisy.

And that's what it's saying. But you can make spiritual judgments, as 1 Corinthians 2:15 says.

So I say to the atheist who often brings up this verse. I'll say, would you judge a murderer as being wrong? And they don't want to answer because they know what's going on. I'll say, well, they'll finally say, well, yeah, and then you're making judgments. Obviously, Jesus is not saying don't make any judgments at all.

He says, do not judge so you'll not be judged. For in the way you judge, you'll be judged. And by your standard of measure, it'll be measured. And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not notice the law that's in your own eyes? What he's talking about here is the hypocrisy of things.

And so we can make spiritual judgments.

So if someone rejects Christ, we can tell them, you're on your way to hell, and we don't want that for you. And if they're lying and cheating, you can say, Hey, that that's that's sinful. They don't judge. No, I'm I'm just informing you. And so that's what I do, and that's uh that's the means or that's the way I look at it with them.

And And usually it's pretty productive, you know, usually.

Okay.

I mean, you know, the thing that always makes me uncomfortable is when I hear.

Some people pass away and It seems like some folks, they they just know, like God told them, that person's going to hell. And I've even heard some try to condemn John MacArthur. And other people that I think that hove of their labor is kind of so. No, hold on, man. We're going to talk about that if they get back, okay?

So hold on, buddy, because there's a break. Hey, folks, if you want to give me a call, please dial 877-207-2276. We've got three open lines. I'll wait here if you're going to give me a call. It's Matt Slick Live, taking a call at 877-207-2276.

Here's Matt Slick. Alright, everyone, welcome back to the show. If you want to give me a call, the number is 877-2072276. Let's get back on with Jermaine. Hey, Jermaine, welcome, buddy.

Yeah. Yeah, so um the people I would I guess I'm all afraid to the people who were mobbed to condemn people to hell and Oh, you're a little muffled. Could you say it again? You're muffled. Just the people I'm talking about, I guess, are the people who seem to love to condemn others to hell.

Wow. That seems like an unusually harsh judgment with no evidence and And uh especially with them not being God, I just find it very distasteful, especially with folks like John MacArthur. Pastors, because they may have said something. that they didn't agree with at one time. But isn't that where you kind of put yourself in some major spiritual trouble when you kind of speak for God as far as who's condemned and who's not.

Yeah, I I would totally agree. Um we've got to be careful that we don't Make judgments where we are not qualified. I know that a lot of people, and I'm really surprised by it, even within Christianity, is that they will make judgments upon him because he'll say something that is an opinion and then they condemn him to hell for it. It's not like he's denying the deity of Christ or the Trinity or justification by faith alone, but he might say something that they don't like, like maybe he's a dispensationalist and they say, oh, that's damnable heresy, when it's not.

So there's a lot of people who don't know biblical theology and who just get a, I don't know how to describe it, a chip on their shoulder. And then they want to attack everybody and blame everybody for their failures because they're not matching what they themselves require and think is true. Yeah, you know, it's a good point. What you're just saying is correct. Yeah.

Okay, so that that would be unrighteous judgment then. Yeah, you don't judge people for their audiophra. You don't say, you know, well, you believe in speaking in tongues, therefore, you're not believing in the true God, you're going to hell. You can't do that. You can say I disagree with speaking in tongues.

Okay.

But that that's as far as you can go. You can't condemn people for the truth of what it is that they're holding to.

So, uh In the non-essentials, I guess. And too many Christians, they do this, and they're often very, very often legalists in that you can lose your salvation because it depends on intellectual. Um conformity to their particular Belief. And so they become very judgmental. It it's often the case.

Yeah. Where it is.

Okay.

I like to take a lot of what I do, like I see patterns in scripture. do we see any patterns of the Apostles or anyone just taking it upon themselves to condemn someone to hell or say that they know Not talking about warning, but just say that they know for certain someone's just in hell. Um There are some mentions of Oh by Paul. Ah, that's a good question.

So There's missions of Paul while he condemns some people for their unrighteous attitudes. And uh They're sort of the end of some of the epistles. Toward the end, I want to go find some of them. But yeah, he's done something like that. But he was an apostle.

And he was able to make those kind of spiritual judgments.

Now, he generally, you know, in 1 Corinthians 6, 9 through 9, 6, 9, you know, he lists out those who practice things like homosexuality and fornication and drunkenness, all this stuff. He lists it out. He says, These people are lost. And righteously so, because they are lost.

So he will make those kind of judgments, but he did name individuals. I'm trying to. trying to find out where they are. But he did do that. to a to a degree.

Okay.

Okay, let me extensions. It seems to be so rare that I think a lot of believers should be careful not to do it. Yeah, we've got to be care very careful. Yeah. Uh And so he says in 2013.

Timothy 4:10, Demas, having led the present world, deserted me, went to Thesla Naika. And uh So he does condemn Hymenaeus and Uh Alexander.

So, yeah, he did make some judgments. But he's, you know, he's an apostle, right? Yeah. And let's see uh Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, uh I can find those names.

I can yeah, interesting stuff. I should write an article on that. I think I did. I think I did years ago. Among these, he says this in 1 Timothy 1:19 and 20, keeping the faith good conscience, which some have rejected and suffered shipwreck regarding their faith.

Among these are Harmenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan so that they will be taught not to blaspheme.

So Paul uh he's been doing some pretty serious stuff there. Yep.

So but that's Paul the Apostle. That's not me, not you. All right. Yeah. All right.

Well, thanks, man. Good stuff as usual. Appreciate the time. All right, man. God bless, buddy.

Alright.

Okay.

Well, folks, it's slow day today. If you want to give me a call, the number is 877-2072276. I'm going to get back to some of the emails that we've gotten. How do we deal with small differences in the Bible, such as the different number of people listed in each gospel in the story when Jesus feeds 5,000? The Bible writers will often pick a number that's a spiritual significance to represent a greater spiritual significance.

And they would do that kind of a thing. And also, there might be different instances where Jesus did the same thing, where he fed many people in one place and many people in another place, different numbers.

So that's just very possible, very easy that that could be the case. Let's get to another one here. Let's see. Is it right for a woman to divorce her husband because of physical and other abuse? It depends.

Because there's levels of this. And I'm not justifying any physical abuse. Let's just focus on that now. If he. Injures her to the point where she needs to be hospitalized.

That's an abandonment of. Of the covenant, marriage covenant, and I would think at that point she has the right of divorce. If. You know, I'm not justifying any physical thing, but there can be very minor things, and I don't want to excuse anything. But there are levels of severity that we need to understand.

And now, what about just emotional abuse?

Well, you know, we need to have them go through counseling and things like that. And then, for how long does this kind of thing occur? Is it one minute of emotional abuse happens once a week? Or because people get in arguments, they yell at each other, they say things they shouldn't be saying.

Now, this kind of thing is something that a real experienced counselor would have to address. But normally speaking, I wouldn't say always yes, always no to any of these, to this particular question. I'd say it depends, and we would need to be. We'd need to be careful, and we would need to have the elders of the church involved and counseling and things like that. All right, all right, let's get to Jacob from North Carolina.

Jacob, welcome. You are Mr. Slick. I did okay now. What do you got, buddy?

Hey, Mr. Slick. There you go.

So, um If someone is gay or homosexual and they die, but they believe in the Lord, Is it good uh Don't they go to heaven, right? Yeah, so let's just say that there's someone who has homosexual tendencies. And knows its sin and is warring against it. And this same-sex attraction never abates. And the person dies in it, I would say they go to heaven.

If they write that.

Okay, cool. Oh, that answers a lot of my questions.

Well, hold on, man, because we got a break coming up. I'd love you to talk about this tomorrow.

Okay.

All right. Hey, folks, if you write that after these messages, please stay tuned. If you want to give me a call, the number is 877-207-2276. Be right back. It's Matt Slick Live, taking a call at 877-207-2276.

Here's Matt Slick. Alright, everyone, welcome back to the show. If you want to give me a call, as usual, 8772-0722-76, Jacob from North Carolina. You still there? Yes, sir.

Has my background noise changed for you? No, you're good. It's all good, man.

Okay, good. All right. I know that bothers you a little bit.

So would you say the same thing with drunkards and addiction and pot hits.

Okay.

Yes and no.

Now here's the thing. We don't want to lay any foundation down where people can then justify continuing in sin, because that's not to happen. When we talk about those who have same tr same sex attraction, for whatever reason that is, they are still obligated to follow the truth and to repent and practice such a repentance. And as long as they do that, they're demonstrating their regeneration.

Now, if we have someone who's a drunkard, let's say, and he or she uh he struggles with it and goes to meetings and tries to uh resist it, knows that it's a sin and occasionally falls into it. I would say such a person is demonstrating regeneration. That he is calling it what it is. It's sin. He's warring against it.

He's fighting against it. And that's good. And we all do this in varying areas of our lives for different reasons. And we have varying levels of success with those things as well. And so I like to be very gracious with people.

I've talked to so many people over the years who are struggling with various things. They might have victory for a while and then they fail. And they want to know. Yeah. And then they want to know they've failed, so are they going to hell because of it?

And I say, no, not big, no, no, not at all. All right. Yeah, definitely been one of them. But. What about like celebrating with family?

And when you're celebrating, if you're not Don't you're not dependent on alcohol. and you drink and get a little buzz, get a little goofy. Is that um Would you say that's Okay with the Lord since he drank the wine and stuff. No, um I wouldn't say it's okay. It's okay.

I would just say the thing to do is just try and abstain from that. And if you do fall into that, you discuss it with the Lord. And you try and do those things that are proper for him. See, I don't want to be legalistic and say, well, you know, if you go to a party, it's okay to get a little buzz.

Well, then are you going there for that excuse to do that?

Well, that's not wise. And whatever is not of faith is sin.

So you shouldn't be doing something like that. Does it mean you're not saved? I wouldn't say that. I'd just say you're just. You're flirting with things that are not.

Uh that you shouldn't fert with. Right. I'm not getting my full ability of the Lord. Right. We don't want to look at it.

Here's a point I want to make. We don't want to look at what's the line of. of demarcation, how close can I get to it? How what's the closest I can get to my sin without sinning? And that's the thing you don't want to do.

Alright.

Yes, sir. 'Cause then you justify it. Yes. That's right. Can we get like does somebody have more of it than another person?

That's it. Just you h you got it and you got it and you're rocking. We see more of it. Not rocking, but you know what I mean. Like, you either are saved and you have the Holy Spirit, and that's it, or is there like a.

Well okay.

So, the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, comes upon people and he manifests the giftings that he has with different people.

Now, sometimes when you say we get more of the Spirit, what we mean then is that we have more of His. work in us. He He's there. It's just how bright is He shining in us.

Now, we don't want to say that's more of the Spirit, as in, I have one quart and you have two quarts of the Holy Spirit. It doesn't work like that.

Okay, so that's why we have his presence and then it's just it's How much work we do and how much how much salty how salty we are to say. Yeah, uh yeah, yeah to a point. Right. So we just need to be ashamed of that. We need to be as good as we can and not look for the opportunities to see how close we can get to sin.

That's a thing. And if anybody's doing that, then they are. that are actually doing what is wrong. You know? Hey, how close can I get to doing something bad without really doing bad?

I want to get as close as I can. That's like saying, See that cliff right there? If I fall off, I'm in a lot of trouble. How what's the closest I can get to it without without uh falling?

Well, that'd be stupid. Yes, knowing knowingly doing wrong. Yes, sir. Yeah, and that's what it is. At that point, absolutely.

Yeah, sir. It's just tasting it and not doing everything, not being crazy. I gotcha. Right. Okay.

Right, okay. but it's still wrong. Yes, sir. Well, I appreciate it. I'm good, man.

Okay.

Alrighty. All right. Well, I appreciate you. Sure, man, no problem.

Alright.

Take care. God bless.

Okay.

God bless you, Jeff.

Alright.

So, folks, if you want to give me a call, we have wide open lines: 877-207-2276. And you can email me at info at C-A-RM.org. Let me get to those. I can do them right now. I'm enjoying those.

Here's one. Jesus died because of Adam's sin. Why not just raise Adam after three days and not send Jesus? Is the raising of Jesus against God's rule?

Okay, interesting. Um Jesus died because of Adam's sin. Yeah, in a real sense, that's true. Because the sin of Adam, according to Romans 5:19, meant that we had all become sinners and all been fallen in our nature. And so the people who were fallen in their nature and their unrighteousness sent him to the cross.

So why did Why not just raise Adam after three days and not send Jesus? Because Adam was not God in flesh, but Jesus is. And we need a divinely sufficient sacrifice to atone for our sins. That's what we need. And without that, we won't be able to be saved.

So that's how come it had to be that Jesus is the one who did this because He's God in flesh. He. is uh the second person of the Trinity made flesh.

Alright, let's get to another one. Let's see. How about what the that's interesting. Matt, to put it as a big weird Email to put it simply, we need righteousness that is not in us but is another. Yeah, if man thinks Okay, I'm not sure.

what that is. I'll just kind of keep going.

Alright, I read about that I read that the original sin comes from the father and not the mother. But can a mother pass down original sin from the from her father? I don't know how it works. The Bible doesn't tell us, it seems to be the case, that the sin nature is. is uh passed down to the Father.

It seems to be the case.

So, anyway, let's get to Roy from North Carolina. Roy, welcome. You're on the air. Yeah. Hello, how are you today?

This is the first time I've ever called you.

Well, good, man. You know, I was just out in North Carolina just a few days ago at a conference, so it was nice. It's a pretty place. Pretty place, it is. Yeah.

So what do you Are you having the information on that? Yes, there's three levels of heaven, three heavens that the Jewish cosmology understood, the Jews. And the first one was where the birds are, what we can see, things like that, and you know, clouds and stuff. And the second is the stars and the moon and the planets that would would move that we would see there. And the third heaven is, in the Bible, is the very dwelling place of God.

All right, that's what that is.

Well, I didn't find anything like that in the Bible.

Well, it's there in the news the King James Marvel. No, I use uh a better Bible than the King James.

Okay.

I didn't know there was a better Bible than the King James 1611. Oh, yeah, there is. The King James Bible was translated. The King James Bible was translated With 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th century documents. The modern Bibles are translated with far more older manuscripts.

And because of that, they're more accurate. Yeah, that's the King James only people. I don't know if you are or not, but. They They tend to say it's the in the 1611 King James, which people don't use. You should check out what the original looks like.

It's very hard to read. and there have been changes since the sixteen eleven. even in English. People don't know that.

So there's a lot of things. I use a sixteen eleven pre nineteen seventy five. That's okay. I got saved with that one, so it's just saved a man's soul ought to be good enough. No, it's fine.

It's it's a good Bible. They're just more accurate ones in several areas than the King James. And as long as you know where those issues are, you know, you can work with the King James. But, you know, people don't talk with these and thou's. That's one of the reasons in fact, back in the in when I was younger, I was I had the King James.

I was memorizing King James verses and I was out at a beach on a pier in Southern California. And I was witnessing to somebody, and I quoted King James, and the guy laughed at me. He says, What are you saying to these and thou? And I never used it after that because I didn't want that to be a problem. Hey, hold on, buddy.

We got a break, okay? Folks, we write back after these messages. Please stay tuned. It's Matt Slick Live, taking a call at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick.

Everybody, welcome back to the show. If you want to give me a call, the number is 877-207-2276. Roy, are you still there? Yes, I'm I'm still here. All right, brother.

Alright, so anyway, we're talking about different things in the Bible and I just use modern translations because they're more accurate. Do you believe that uh Jesus is Do you believe that Jesus' word is a spirit? Jesus's word is a spirit. Yeah, if they change some of the words in the Bible and they happen to. Change some of Jesus' words.

Wouldn't that be violating one of his spirits? Yeah, that's why that we shouldn't go with the King James, because it changes some of the words of God. That's right. It changed them. I don't think anybody would change them, though, after that, is what I'm speaking about, after the King James 16:11.

So James saying the word No. This is how it works, okay?

So the apostles wrote their manuscripts. They wrote their letters. And the letters are copied and put different places at different times. And then the first copy is the best, and the second copy should be equal to the first. But as the centuries go through, little bitty scribal things got put in there, like a comma in the wrong place, or the word the here and there, or a marginal note might have been put in.

It's really kind of an interesting study. And so the King James was translated with documents that were like a thousand years after the K, after the fact.

So, what it included were some of the additions that were not in the original.

So the King James. His words are spirit. I don't know if that makes sense. Like if they're one of the seven spirits of God. No, no, no.

Jesus is his words. No, no, no, no. We don't know what that means, the seven spirits of God. But no, we wouldn't say his word is a spirit, because a spirit is alive. We wouldn't say that the words, hold on, the words that Jesus speaks are not alive.

They don't have self-consciousness and self-awareness. Jesus said they did.

So when Jesus would say, you'd be disputing, Jesus says, well, I'll let you finish, let me finish. You're not making a difference. I said you said you didn't believe Jesus's word was a spirit. You're not making any sense. And I said, Jesus said they were.

Okay.

When Jesus would say something like, God so loved the world, are you saying that those verbs and nouns are alive? Yes, I'm saying the words that Jesus spoke in the 1611 King James Bible are a living spirit that can't be done away with, and that's what we're going to be judged by, the words Jesus spoke. Yeah, that's true. He said his words were a spirit. That's not true.

No, you're misinformed.

Well, Jesus said it. Jesus said it is the spirit. I'm going to tell you. Jesus said it is the spirit. We're going to move along.

Because he doesn't know what he's doing. He doesn't know what he's talking about. He's getting more, you know, he just wants to teach. He doesn't understand. When Jesus said words, the words weren't alive and have self-consciousness and a will and things like that.

So he doesn't understand what it means when, then he reverses out of context. The words that he speaks are truth and life. That means that they contain the truths that lead to life, eternal life, not that they're alive. And to say that they would be alive is nonsensical.

Sorry, but it is. And, you know, I'm just trying to be polite, but the gentleman is not representing truth properly. He doesn't understand this. This is often the case sometimes with people who are King James only people. I've noticed, and I'm going to be very careful how I say this: I've noticed in a lot of instances, they're not exactly well-grounded in biblical theology.

I'll just leave it at that. Let's get to F Farah. Farah from North Carolina. Welcome. You're on the air.

Hi. I have a question about the difference or if you can I understand the difference, but if you maybe have a better explanation of the difference between the elect and God's chosen people. And the reason I'm asking is because I Okay.

Well, I I recently watched a Sort um thing about the difference between a Hebrew and Israelite and Um God's chosen people. Um Yeah, I'm sorry, the Jews, the Israelites, and the Hebrews. And then I was wondering if the elect would be. Different. Or, like, I'm not, I was not born a Jew, but I'm going to heaven, or and I accepted God.

So I'm part of the elect? Uh Okay, okay, now I'm an understanding.

So The elect are the ones chosen by God for salvation, and generally the word in Greek for elect is eklectos. Generally speaking.

Okay.

And generally, the word for chosen in Greek is eklegomai.

So eklectos eklegomai. They both have the same first four letters in Greek. The E-K-L-E.

So they're of the same basic root.

So they're used interchangeably. But We go to Ephesians 1.4, he chose us in him before the foundation of the world. But Colossians 3.12 as those who have been chosen of God. And that's the word eclectas, or eclectas, actually. And so the first one is eclegomite.

So they're variations, let's just say, of the same basic thing.

So God can, in a broader sense, he can choose the nation of Israel to do certain things. And in a narrower sense, he elects individuals for salvation.

Okay.

Okay.

That helps. I just I know that they're similar, but sometimes people just use You know Chosen. The Jews are just the chosen people. They are. Um You know?

Right. No, I I I agree. I understand. But then I like I said, I was just watching something about the difference you know, what What's a Jew considered an Israelite versus a Hebrew? And so it just kind of made me.

they're thinking a little bit differently. Yeah, uh the the uh the Jews uh from the the tribe of Judah and Israelites from the tribe of you know of Israel, excuse me, and so they have differences In their history, a little bit. But Jew became a generic term to describe the people from Abraham. generically. Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah. Okay.

Okay.

Thank you. Sure, no problem at all. All right. I appreciate it. Have a good rest of your day.

You too. Thank you. God bless.

Let's go to Alberto from Georgia. Alberto, welcome you on the air. Yeah, grieving actually. My question is: out of billions of Catholics, there are, and they claim to be the true one, true religion. Power companies didn't really see any Roman Catholics evangelizing in the street that have witnessed Christ.

Even they themselves don't even know what it's tough. Catholic teachings are and or they or they don't even know the Bible teach. What do you think about that?

Well, um I do think that there are Catholics who go out and do things like um stand in front of a abortion mills where they they uh destroy the lives of of people in in people in women's wombs.

So they do that.

Now when you say evangelize, I think what you're really kind of talking about is spreading the gospel, right? That's what you're really meaning? Yeah. Yeah. Peter, Larmazo Pelico Literate.

Well, I would say they generally don't do that because their gospel is not something you can just say, because their gospel is ceremonial repetition inside of their church that you have to belong to in order to be saved.

So they're not going to have to go out and preach the gospel, but what they do, I've heard people say this to me, Catholics, they come home to the Catholic Church and find salvation. And so they're idolaters in that sense because they don't preach the gospel of Christ, they preach the gospel of the church. But, you know, I can covered that, yeah.

Okay.

No yeah. Yeah. You think if if the if the covenant ever decides to preach the gospel You think that after that Jesus will come for the church? I'm sorry, say that again. I couldn't understand you.

I say if it does happen or the one billion Catholics decide to true preach the true gospel and visualize the streets and everywhere, do you think that today Jesus will be returned for the for the church? Yeah, really. Uh that's an interesting thought, though. If the if the Catholic Church started preaching the the true gospel, it would cease cease to be the Catholic Church. It wouldn't be Catholic.

It wouldn't be the Roman Catholic Church anymore because the Roman Catholic Church, by definition, is not Christian. And so, with this idiocy of the papacy and magisterium, sacred tradition being equal to scripture, its false priesthood, false gospel, false Mary. Yeah, if they were to actually start teaching the real gospel, It w it wouldn't be the um It it would not be uh let's just say It wouldn't be the Catholic Church, okay? This wouldn't yeah. Yeah.

All right. I never thought about that. Yeah. Thanks for being that thought of that thought of. Thank you.

All right. Come back. Rebecca worked. Oh, thanks, man. God bless.

I appreciate it. I share your program with my friends and family, Puerto Rico, and my friends here in Gilly all the time. All right? Thank you. They speak English in Puerto Rico there enough to know?

Yeah. My family do, yeah. My nephews and the yeah, I've been sharing people in the streets, your website, Carm. Dot or forward slash media. Yeah, people got no body ministries.

That's good. I'm glad. I appreciate it. That's good. All right.

Okay.

Okay, brother. Have a nice day. Thank you. Bye-bye. God bless.

All right. Well, we have no callers waiting. Let's get to another email or two before the end of the show. And, uh,. Does a Christian have two natures?

No, Christian has one nature, the human nature. When we say he has, the different ways we can understand the word has, We have God dwelling in us in the broad sense. We have two natures: the divine nature of God living in us. We have that, but we are not it.

So, in the sense of having it as in nature, our essence, then no, human beings are just one thing. We are human beings, we have humanness, and we are not divine. We are created. God, by definition, is not created.

So, we only have one nature, it's a human nature. But God, uh he has a different nature than us, and he doesn't dwell us.

So no, we don't have two natures, a divine nature and a human nature, that make up our person. Because the attributes of How to say this? Our personhood is the result of our nature.

So we are We have personhood, self-awareness, being able to think, etc., because it's related to our essence, our human nature.

So we have one human nature. And that's what defines us as what we are as individuals. Can someone be saved during the tribulation? Of course, they can. Yes, they can.

The tribulation period, whatever view you hold, doesn't mean people can't be saved during that time when they realize who Jesus is and what He has done. Who are the nations referred to in Revelation 2? I don't know. I have to go look at it. I'm just going through these quickly.

What was significant about the city of Sardis in the third chapter of Revelation?

Well, just go read it. Let's see. What is the difference between Christians and Messianic Jews?

Well, Messianic Jews are Christians, except that they come from a Jewish heritage, Jewish culture, and have become Christians. Where, so to speak, normal, I'd use the word normal there, Christians, or what we would say is normal because we're more experienced with that, would not be those who were Jews to begin with, but just unbelievers, Gentiles who became believers. There's the music, ladies and gentlemen. I'm out of here. May the Lord bless you by His grace.

We'll be back on here tomorrow. Hope you had a good time listening and learning, and may you have a great evening. God bless.

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