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Five open lines, 877-207-2276. You know, the situation with the pastor, Pastor Coates, in Canada spent 35 days in jail for preaching, for having a church service. When they said COVID said, no, you can't have people together, which is ridiculous. But at any rate, so he spent 35 days in jail and then as soon as he got out, he had a church service.
And then the officials, what they did was they put a fence around his church. No, we can't have people do that. But sporting events, it's okay. You can have a lot of people in sporting events, but you can't have them by church meetings. So anyway, there were some issues. And then I heard that the the powers, the socialist powers up there, you know, they have to tell you what you've got to do and what you can't do.
That's what socialism does. And they said, no, no, you can't have a church service of COVID rules, which, you know, I don't know the Constitution or how it works up there. And the people, like I said, had the church meeting anyway. And then the latest word I got was that they put up more fences around to stop it. And so now the church is meeting in a secret location. And I just saw today someone said that about 1000 people from the community have showed up and are very upset with, they're not even the Christians of the church, but they're showing up and they've actually torn down some of the fence.
And so it was the Christians of that church who helped put the fence back up, you know, trying to be law abiding citizens and stuff like that. So this is good news that more and more people are getting involved with stuff like that. So, you know, I'm grateful for that.
I'm grateful that they're up there. I wish I was close enough to drive up there and support them. You know, spend a few days up there. I would love to do that.
But, you know, just it's like a two day drive. I got too much going on here, but I'd love to be able to get out there and support them. All right. Now, this brings me to an issue worth discussing. And I thought maybe we can talk about a little bit. I want you still to give me a call, though, of course.
A lot of times people wait till after the first segment and call because I do a little kind of an opening thing. And what I want to talk about is when it's OK to disobey the civil authorities. And this is an interesting topic.
I've talked about it before in the radio. And Romans 13 tells us this. Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God and those which exist are established by God. Therefore, whoever resists authority as opposed to ordinance of God and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. Romans 13 verses one and two.
All right. Now, does this mean then, let's say here in America, that the government just says, hey, no more churches, no more churches. You can have meetings because we want you to wear masks. And even if you do wear masks, the chairs are going to be six feet apart. And even if they are six feet apart and you wear masks, we don't want you to gather because it's against COVID rules, which are rather arbitrary, non-scientific. But it's what we decide and you have to obey that.
Now, at that point, what do you do? As a Christian, do you say, OK, I'll just not go to church because the government in its wisdom tells me that I shouldn't and shouldn't get a meeting together because it might infect somebody potentially. But it's OK if the riots are occurring in Portland, Oregon and elsewhere in the country. That's OK. Rites are all right because that's freedom of expression. But, you know, freedom of religion, that's not expressed.
That's not allowed. And because we might get together in our peacefulness with our with the rule following might actually get someone who might potentially get sick, even though we can't demonstrate that's the case from here. So, you see, this is the kind of thing that gets me. It really bothers me when when people don't do their own thinking and when they just willy nilly follow whatever the government tells them to do. Now, I'm not saying disobey the government. OK, I'm not saying disobey. I'm saying that there are times when we're supposed to disobey.
And let's talk about what those times are. When is it that we should disobey the government? We should disobey the government whenever the government violates scriptural teaching.
Simply. That's a simple principle. And the officials told Peter not to preach the gospel in Acts five. So Peter and all the governing authorities above him were told by the Pharisees and stuff, don't preach the gospel.
Stop doing this. And Peter said, we must obey God rather than men. That's Acts 529. So he disobeyed the civil authorities. When it came to the proclamation of the gospel, they wanted they wanted him to stop speaking. And he said, no, I will not do that.
I will continue to do that. That's what he did. Now, if we apply this to a church gathering where the gospel is spoken and they say we don't want you to have a church meeting. And the excuse is, well, you know, because of covid, you know, I don't buy it. But anyway, if that's what they say, should we obey or disobey?
It's a question to ask, you know. And did you know that in Exodus one that the authority in power asked the Jewish midwives to kill the male children? And they said they would not do it. Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego disobeyed Nebuchadnezzar's order to worship false gods.
And they said, no, won't do it. They disobeyed. Christians disobeyed the king's order to seize Paul. This is in second Corinthians 11.
In Damascus, the ethnarch under Aretas, the king who was guarding the city of the Demacenes in order to seize me. And I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall and so escaped his hands. This is Paul. Now, wait a minute, doesn't Paul also say in Romans 13 to obey the civil government, you know, to do that? And yet he says, hey, they let me down on the wall.
I escaped them. So Paul is saying, yeah, it's OK to do that, to disobey the king's orders. Why? Because they want to kill Paul.
Why? Because he's preaching the Christian gospel. And they wanted to stop him one way or another from doing this. And he said, no. This is the main thing we have to understand. When it comes to the formation and proclamation and dissemination of the Christian gospel, if the government says no, puts rules on us to inhibit the free exercise of a religious expression for the preaching, the teaching of that gospel, that's when we're to resist. All right. And there's other ways we could resist.
And I'm not saying violence. I'm saying, you know, we have to make phone calls. We've got to petition, send emails. I like the idea of mailing pebbles to our senators and congressmen. You know, take an envelope, put a little pebble in it or a nut in a bolt or just something, you know, and just mail it to them.
And with a little note, I disagree with blah, blah, blah. And so, you know, when you have just paper, okay, it's paper, but what if you get a little box? I'm not, you know, advocating any violence in any way, but, you know, a little envelope, it's a little something.
And you put a little pebble in there, a little stone, you know, just weighs an ounce or something like that. You know, why not? And, you know, put a little mark on it or something like that, you know, a symbol of freedom.
I don't know. But the thing is, there are things we can do as Christians. And I do advocate taking a stand in polite but organized resistance to the increase of secularism.
And the reason I'm bringing this up is because you've got to understand something. When the secularists get in power, then people die. Now, people may say, well, Matt, you're just being sensationalistic.
And I'm not, okay? You know, so the idea, let's say, I'm going to read a little bit from an article on Karm about religious wars. And, you know, because there's this myth that religion is the number one cause of war, which is absolutely not true.
And so on Karm, let's see, let's see. In the Encyclopedia of Wars, which chronicles 1,763 wars that have been waged over the course of human history, 1,763 of those wars, the authors categorized 123 as being religious in nature, which is 6.98% of all wars. However, when one subtracts what's caused by Islam, then it comes down to 3.23, because Islam is a violent religion. So, non-religious wars, Joseph Stalin in the 1900s killed 42.6 million people, Mao Zedong 37.8 million, Adolf Hitler 20.9 million, Chiang Kai-shek 10 million, Vladimir Lenin 4 million, Tojo 4 million, Pol Pot 2.4 million. So, the author goes on and says, quote, Almost 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed, or worked to death, buried alive, drowned, hung, bombed, or killed in any other of a myriad of ways. Governments have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens and foreigners.
The dead could conceivably be nearly 360 million people, though our species is devastated by a modern black plague, and indeed it has, but the plague of power, not germs. When people get in power, when the secularists get in power, history tells us death follows. When they get in power, folks, I'm telling you, this is what the scriptures teach as well. When people start doing what is right in their own eyes, then people die. Resistance to God's word and truth brings oppression, and this is what we're experiencing more and more. Now, these are stark truths, but these are the truths we need to be aware of. So, you need to be praying for our country and Canada and other countries.
You need to be praying that God will raise up people in order to promote the gospel and in a righteous sense, non-violent way, resist the oppression that deny our freedoms. This is what needs to happen. Hey, folks, we'll be right back after these messages. Please stay tuned.
We have three open lines, 877-207-2276. We'll be right back. All right, we're looking back to the show. Let's get to Kim from Rural Hall.
I forgot what state that's in. Welcome. You're on the air.
Thank you, Matt. My question is coming from 1 Timothy 2, 12-14, Genesis 3, 17. Now, when Paul is saying that one can teach or accept authority over man, and then he uses the example of Adam and Eve, is that what Eve did to Adam? No.
There's a lot here, so let me kind of lay some things out. There's a doctrine called primogeniture, and it deals with the firstborn. So the firstborn male, for example, has certain rights and privileges in the Jewish economy in the Old Testament than did the rest of the members born after him.
So he could get twice as much land as others. It's just the firstborn. Ultimately, it's because Jesus is called the firstborn of all creation, but firstborn is a transferable title out of Genesis 31, Jeremiah.
No. Genesis 51 and Jeremiah 31, Ephraim and the NASA, their titles are changed. But nevertheless, that's one aspect. Also, Adam named the animals, signifying his authority over them, and then he named Eve, which is an authority issue as well. He also, a third doctrine, is he is the federal head, which means in Adam all die, I mean, Romans 5-12, not in Eve, even though Eve is the one who sinned first. Satan went to her. Satan did not go through the man he should have gone through.
That's how it should be. And then went to Eve and got her to eat the fruit, disobey, and then she gave it to Adam, and then he disobeyed. And so she sinned first. He sinned second, but sin entered the world through Adam, not through Eve. Furthermore, after they both hid themselves, the pre-incarnate Christ came and said to the man, where are you, and didn't say to Adam and Eve, and didn't say to her, but addressed the man, because he is the one who is ultimately responsible. So this is the idea that the headship and the federal headshipness, private janiture, all this stuff goes down to Adam.
All this is there. This is why Paul says, a woman's not to teach or exercise authority over a man but to remain quiet. That means silent.
Quiet in the Greek here is hessokia, which means keeping it down. For it was Adam who was first created and then Eve. So Paul is not saying it's a cultural thing. He's saying it's a created order thing by God himself. And this is the context of what's going on.
This is why. So that's why they're not to teach or exercise authority over men in the church context, which is why women cannot be pastors and elders. Okay? Okay, one other question. When you say that he was punished for listening to the voice of his wife, but you don't see anything that says that Eve said anything to him, what does that mean? I didn't quite follow that.
Say that again. When God said he punished Adam for listening to the voice of his wife, but he said nothing to him, what does that actually mean? Well, he punished both of them, not just Adam. But when you said she said nothing to him?
No, no. God said he punished Adam for listening to the voice of his wife. Well, because he disobeyed. He listened to her ungodly counsel.
And he shouldn't have done that. Okay. Are you there? Yeah, I'm here. Well, thank you, man. I appreciate it.
Yeah, that's what's going on. There's a ungodly counsel that she gave, and he listened to it. He shouldn't have. Okay. All right, Ben? Okay. All right. Well, God bless.
All right. Let's get to Cody from Texas. Cody, welcome. You're on the air. Hey, Matt.
This is Cody that you know in Texas. But I won't explain the 10 different ways you know me. But I just had a question on annihilationism. I've heard it brought up a lot here recently on your show.
So I just wanted to ask you this question. What makes an annihilationist presuppose that you stop sinning when you die? Some do, some don't. Some say that you do stop sinning, and some say that you don't stop sinning, that in a rebellion against God, if they're conscious, and as some annihilations hold to, not just soullessly, but a conscious existence, and in rebellion and cursing of God, they're sinning.
So that is one of the ways that some of them say. There's three main categories of annihilationists, and that is one teaches that the person dies and his soul spirit continues when he's conscious. The other view is that when the person dies, the soul spirit, whatever you want to call it, goes into a state of unconsciousness, what they call soul sleep. And the third view is they don't exist.
And it's that last one that is heretical and is downable, and I can explain why. Yeah, I mean, I kind of understand that they want to make the case that, you know, when the Apostle Paul says, in regards to where do we go after we die, you know, the point of command wants to die and they face judgment, right? And so I get that people die and face judgment, but that doesn't exclude the possibility that people, I know R.C. Sproul's take on it was the gnashing of teeth, the weeping and gnashing of teeth. The gnashing of teeth in particular Jesus was talking about was more of a how dare you God sentence me here, right?
Yeah, I think so. That's what I saw his view to be. But again, that would fall under what I presented before, that we don't stop sinning once we die. It's not, you know, because clearly, you know, if you look at the angels, that wasn't spiritual beings with non-corporeal physical bodies or whatever, that that wasn't the case with them also. You know, if you stop sinning, or if you continue sinning is what I mean, on through which I don't see any prohibitions to that effect, then punishment would be eternal. Okay, you're confusing me because you're using double negatives. Prohibition to it won't happen and so I'm not following you. So what's your question though?
That was it. Just why do they presuppose that you stop sinning after you die? Some do, some don't. That would necessitate an eternal punishment that goes on and on and on. Correct? I'm not following you.
I'm not following you. Okay, so the thing is that not all annihilationists believe that you stop sinning after you're dead and some do. I mean, there's a difference in between them.
There's three, like I said, three main categories and then there's variations within those. So when you say they, then I get stuck because they does not properly represent the issue. If you were to say those who hold to this one particular position, then I can focus on what it is you're saying.
You see, so that's the issue I'm having a problem with. So this is an issue not only in annihilationism but as Christians as well, but about those who are in conscious torment. In hell, will they continue to sin? It looks like it would seem to since they are probably cursing God. The gnashing of teeth I do not buy is just their frustration and being able to say bad things. I think they're in agony. I've been in a lot of pain and you grind your teeth.
That's what happens. All right, buddy? All right. Thanks, man.
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Anthony from Oklahoma, welcome. You're on the air. How you doing, Matt? Doing all right. Hanging in there, man.
What do you got? All right then, brother. Got a question. John MacArthur, can you explain or do you believe that he believes in the blood of Jesus because he's been quoted saying that the blood of Jesus wasn't efficient enough to save us from our sins, but in Hebrews 9-22 it clearly says that without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness and also it says that in Romans 5-9. Can you explain what he meant? I can't interpret it any other way, but I think he denies the blood of Jesus. I've never heard that. You never heard that from that man?
No. If you have a direct quote, then I would look at it, but I do know that he teaches good theology. If it's something you've heard someone say he said, that's not going to work. We've got to hear the actual quote.
No, sir. It's actually on video on YouTube. There's all kinds of video where he said it.
I guess he explains it differently, but that's okay. I've got another question for you, Matt. Send it.
I want to know. Seriously, send it to me. If you can just email me at info at karm.org, the URL and what time stamp to look at. It's a three-hour video. This is where he says it.
I'm not going to look, but if you say, hey, go here. No, it's not a three-hour video. It's about four minutes in. Okay, because people do that too many times. They'll go to a two-hour video and send it to me and say, see?
See where he says such and such? I'm like, delete. I understand. I'm the same way. I'm not going to look at no two three-hour video, but I will definitely go on Carmen.
Send it to me. One more thing there, Matt. Your ministry, if we donate to you, is it tax deductible? Yes. It is tax deductible. Okay. I just want to make sure.
Thank you very much there, Matt. We send out tax receipts for, I think it's $50 and up or something like that, because under it you don't need anything. There's a certain level. I'm not saying how much you do or don't give, whatever, but that's just for people to know. A lot of times you don't have to have tax receipts for really low numbers, you know, 20 bucks, 30 bucks, things like that. Well, what I'm saying is that as we donate throughout the year, like I think in January you send out the receipts.
Oh, yeah. Just to file a tax. Yes, we do.
But we can't file. Every year. I just want to make sure of that. That's right.
Yes. All right, man. Thank you, Matt. I greatly appreciate you. Hey, God bless, buddy. Appreciate you.
Send me that info, okay? Thank you. All right. Absolutely. Thank you. Okay. Sounds good.
All right. Let's get to Mark from Florida. Mark, welcome. You are on the line.
Hi, Matt. What's the best route to donate to your ministry? Oh, just send me a $100 bill with, you know, a nice note saying, hey, Matt, you're awesome, and then in an envelope, and then you want a prayer call.
I'll make it out to cash. Yeah. There you go. You know, just go online. There's, if you go to CARM forward slash donate, there's some options there. Gotcha.
And it's supposed to be working fine. Perfectcom.org. Uh-huh. Yeah. Oh, perfect.
That's right. Perfect. All right, man.
What do you got, buddy? My question that, so, um, just a quick back. Well, it's a little bit of a background I got to give before I asked, but you understand the question. Okay. But, uh, you guys were talking a lot about vaccines last week and something popped up that my work, um, my job actually made a mandatory survey asking us questions about, we'll be taking the vaccine.
Do we get tested positive for Corona? Uh, very personal questions involving our health. And wow. I asked the question, is this, yeah. And I asked the question, is this anonymous? And I was told no.
Okay. And I didn't do it. My boss came to me saying, Hey, you didn't do it yet.
And I looked at him and I said, nor will I ever do it. It's not anonymous. What survey is an anonymous, especially regarding my personal health.
That's right. Um, and they went even further to send out an email trying to reassure all of us that there would be no party, a third party distribution of your information. And I rebuttaled again and to the HR and said, look, you're saying no third party yet. You're having us do an electronic survey using our payroll service. And as soon as we click enter, I'm the first party. You're the second party.
The third party is the payroll company that you're using because it goes right to their data bank. They have it forever. If they get subpoenaed now, the authorities have it in their hands or lawyer could subpoena them.
Who knows what it's there forever. I have no control over it. I'm not doing it and there's HIPAA laws that protect me. They've left me alone since then.
And I'm the only guy in my company that refused to completely do it. A lot of the other guys didn't want to, but they did it out of fear and they've been coming to me asking me for counsel on this. And I, I need some biblical scripture that maybe gives me a good background to protecting our privacy.
Is there any scripture that you can give me that I can give these guys that shows us how we do have rights to protect ourselves, our private information? Well, during the break, I tackled that question because I saw your question up there on the thing I'm going to talk about a little bit. But first of all, I want to say thank you for your courage to stand up against things like that.
You did a great job. Yeah, I'm all about it because I don't want these leftist, wacko people taking over our country. Leftist wacko morons, I call them. Yep. There is leftist wacko morons, I love it. Yeah, leftist wacko morons.
And LSACs, lying sacks of crap. So yeah, I'm with you. I would have said no.
And you did a great job with saying the third party issue. And so what I also recommend though, is that you take a tape recorder of some sort, a recording device, into any place where you're going to be having a conversation like this, where they say no, no. You don't tell them.
At least in Idaho it's called one person consent. The only person you ask to know how to... So like my phone, I'll put my cell phone on record and have it in my pocket so that I can record what I'm saying. Okay.
And test it first. Yeah, I recommend this kind of thing because if someone tells you one thing and you have it recorded, and then they do something else, you can say, but you said such and such. And they go, no, I didn't. And you may have been at disclose that you have the proof.
This came in very handy to me when I was in, a few years ago I went to New York and I was on The Daily Show. They pursued me. They wanted me to be on. And then it was called Frankenstein-ing. They took various clips from what I said and put them together to make me say something I did not say. And we have proof because I recorded everything.
I took an audio recorder in there from before I walked in the building. That sounds like the running man. Yeah, it was... That sounds like the movie The Running Man.
It was Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yeah, it's called Frankenstein-ing. And so we have proof that that's the case. And they did that. So I always say back, you know, get a recording, the whole bit. And I even say, you know, in the recording, I'm about to go into so-and-so meeting to meet with so-and-so on this and that. This is the date. This is the time.
And you go in. Okay. And then I recommend you getting something called Dropbox. I use Dropbox.
I use Car-Net. And Dropbox is a cloud storage thing. And you can then upload those things to the cloud. You have your password.
You have stuff like that. I also recommend you getting something called LastPass, L-A-S-T, LastPass, one word, dot com. I'm writing this down.
Thanks. Yeah. I like security. I'm writing this down, LastPass.
Okay. It's a place to store all of your passwords. And I use it for all kinds of stuff.
Got it. Credit card information. I put private notes in there. I have cryptocurrency information in. I have, you know, 300 passwords, all kinds of stuff. And so it's very useful. And then that way you can store the information that you need for Dropbox, which you can get a free account for like two gigs, but I pay for a yearly thing for, you know, like 200 gigs or whatever it is, because it's ministry use and a lot of us use it. So these are the ideas of keeping records of what's going on. And also write out what happens and stuff like that in something like this, because you'll wish you did if it ever went to court. Period. I forwarded the email that they sent us stating that it wouldn't be shared with third parties where they mentioned the payroll program in the email. I forwarded it to my email and saved it.
Do you think it's right for a Christian to seek legal counsel? Yes. Perfect. Thank you. That was my second question.
Yes. I'm not looking to seek revenge after them. I'm trying to defend these guys that they're really, they're kind of naive to the law and certain rights. And they come to me for these things, and I just, I feel bad for everyone because they're doing it out of fear, and I don't think that the company has any right asking these questions. They don't. And if they force you, this is why you keep records, you can then file a lawsuit, and there's nothing wrong with doing that.
You'll be blackballed for a while and some other stuff, but this is where the price is of doing things. Yes. I don't mind because we're going to lose our country if we don't do this. That's right. We really are.
Little bits of socialist control are manifested in different areas, and that's one of them. Okay, now I'm going to answer your question about the privacy thing when we get back, okay? So hold on, buddy. Thank you. All right.
I wish Mark was my neighbor. He's the kind of guy I like, I'll tell you. Good stuff. Hey, folks, we'll be right back. Three open lines, 877-207-2276. We'll be right back. It's Matt Slick live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick. Welcome back to the show. Let's get back on here with Mark from Florida. Mark, welcome. Now, are you still there?
I'm here. All right, so I did a little search during the break because my Bible program is very fast and all that kind of stuff, and I could not find then anything to do with the right of privacy the way we're talking about it. The government doesn't have a right to just peer into your own private stuff. However, Mark 13-3, as he was sitting in the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter, James, and John and Andrew were questioning him privately. Matthew 18-15, for better sins go shown his fault in private.
Galatians 2-2, it was because of a revelation that I went up and I submitted to them the Gospel, which I might preach among the Gentiles, but I did so in private to those who were of reputation. So the idea of doing things privately and having private information is there. We don't have the right of privacy in the governmental sense mentioned in the Scripture that I've seen because they didn't have the technology or the necessity to keep records to that level so it wasn't addressed. But I would say that we have the right of privacy because we have the right, for example, to go into our prayer rooms, buy ourselves, close the doors, and pray. It's no one else's business, and I think I could find that verse, but that's a foundational principle, I would say, for the right to privacy that we have. The government doesn't have the right to say, What are you praying about? You can just take that and you can stick it.
I'm praying what I want to pray before my Lord. And so this kind of a thing, I think, is very biblical to say we have that right of privacy. And, of course, we have to obey the laws. So one of the things my wife and I have talked about is moving to another country. Now, she speaks French, and she has French relatives.
I don't speak French, but we thought, Hey, let's move to France. We're just entertaining the idea. We're not going to do it.
And she says, Are you kidding? It's worse there than here. And I go, That's right.
I agree. And so what if they had different rules on privacy than we do here? Well, then we've got to obey the government. The company that owns my company, my parent company, is owned by French. Don't go to France. They're very hard with this vaccination thing, so that's a little tip.
Yeah, well, we have French relatives, and let's just say that, and we had French foreign exchange students here, and let's just say that I think it summed it up in, you ever heard the French were selling their guns, and the ad said it dropped once. Just that's it. But that was it because they don't. But that's not really true, but you get the idea that they're not very stalwart about their own rights and privileges and things like that. So that's a problem.
Correct. But where are we going to go? There's no place to run to anymore for freedom.
Even our own country is turning on us. You know, Matt, the reason why I wanted to nip this in the bud because I know where they were going with this. They're going, and I asked guys that didn't want to do it, why did you do it? And they said, Well, I wanted to tell them that I'm not taking a vaccine to work here. And I said, Don't you see what they're doing? They're skipping over something that's fundamental right to privacy and going to this. We need to get them on this first.
They shouldn't even be asking the question because they are not medical experts. That's right. Okay, at our company. That's right. And we've got to get them here first because if they go to step two, they've already skipped step one, which is our right to privacy.
Got to get them first. Don't let them fumble down this path because if they go in and say, Give me a vaccine, I'm going to say I'm not going to work here. Sorry. See, a secular company like that doesn't have the right to say what medical procedures you must go through. Right. It's like what if they said you must get a vasectomy?
I agree. You must get your appendix taken out. You go, What?
Are you crazy? You must get a vaccine. Oh, okay.
It's usually, you know. Maybe I need to search the scriptures on that then, our rights to our own body. Our right to God's right to our, I don't know how to, you know, involving the forcing of vaccines, whereas in scripture would that contradict not the vaccine itself, but the forcing of doing something to your own body. It's a medical procedure. Against your will.
That's right. We would call things like this captive, being kidnapped, torture, imprisonment, restriction. These are some of the principles that when people impose upon a person of their own body what it could be.
This doesn't apply to pregnancy, ladies, because the baby in your body is not your own body, but that's another topic. I agree. One of the things here I think is important is to understand that if your company said you must all get, your appendix is removed, in order to work here, how many people would stay? They'd go, we're leaving. And a vaccine, they're doing the same thing.
It's always inch by inch by inch. They don't have the right to force you to undergo a medical procedure. That's it. Right.
And a vaccine. And they don't have the right to know why. If I had COVID, they don't have the right to know if I want the vaccine or not. It's none of their business. That's right. If you want to tell them, you're privileged to.
If you don't want to tell them, that's right. Okay. We're losing our rights. Matthew. People, you need to stand up. Go ahead. Thank you very much.
I appreciate your time with this. Is there scripture on, you said it's bondage or putting you, doing something against your will when you want to, they're telling you to take a vaccination. There is scripture for that, correct? Well, you know, there are instances when people were put in jail, imprisoned against their will and things like this. So there are things that are forced upon other people. People are raped, you know, murdered. So there are things like this and it's always a violation and considered to be wrong to force somebody against their will to do something within reason. I mean, you know, if someone's trying to beat up a woman, you force the guy to stop, you know, and that's okay because there's boundaries.
This does not fit in that kind of a boundary, you know. And biblically speaking, biblically speaking, isolation for sickness is biblical. I wrote an article on this. I did a research.
But you isolate the sick, not the well. That's how it works. Got it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. That's going to help me.
That's going to help me a lot. Thank you. Perfect.
So I did the research. Is it isolation or sequestering? What's the other term? When you isolate somebody, there's a word for it. Oh, man. When they're sick, you isolate them.
I hate that. Oh. Quarantine. Quarantine.
Thank you. There you go. Quarantine. Quarantine. So look up, it's quarantining biblical. And you'll have the verses and stuff for it, okay?
CARM.org, search quarantine biblical. That's right. And you should do it. Okay, buddy?
You should take it out. Thank you. Thank you. All right, man. Perfect.
Chat or say quarantine. God bless. Thanks a lot. All right.
Bye, bye, bye. So you ever had your brain glitch? I remember I had a buddy once I'd known for years. I went to introduce him to a friend of mine. I'm staring at my friend. I forgot his name.
It was hilarious. He goes, you forgot my name? I go, yeah, he did. I've known him like five years.
Oh, well, that's just what happens. Herbert from Cary, North Carolina, welcome. You're on the air.
Hello, Matt. I've got a, it's not a gotcha question. I'll accept no answer or an answer, whatever you say. It won't affect my faith at all.
Okay. In chapters 2 and 3 of Genesis, there was a time that Adam and then Eve, when she was made from his rib, that she also knew not to eat of the tree in the garden. Then they did eat of the tree. Is there anything in the language, the Hebrew language, that says that could have been, that time difference between when they knew and when they ate, could that have been seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years?
Not that I'm aware of, but it would be at least seconds, because it would take a few seconds to do something, but not that I'm aware of. So they disobeyed God, and I'm just curious as to how long that might have taken. Yeah, that's a question. That's a question that's been asked before, and how long was it after Adam and Eve were both made that they both sinned?
And my answer is it was twice as long as half. Okay. That's my answer, because the Bible doesn't tell us. That's a great question, though. Seriously, it's a great question about the issue of what does the Hebrew say.
Does the Hebrew usage of certain words imply something? And I just don't know. Yeah, that's my question. That's a great question, and I don't have a good answer for you on that one, other than to say I don't know. And I've not heard that it is the case in all my years of study.
I've not heard it. It doesn't mean it doesn't exist. So if someone out there knows something in relationship to that, you know, email me.
Let me know. But I don't believe there is. Okay. I appreciate your looking at it anyway, and, Lord, bless your ministry. Well, thank you.
He has, by His great grace, inspired me. All right. Amen. Amen. All right, buddy. God bless. All right. Let's get to Scott from Texas. Scott, welcome.
You're on the air. Hey, I got a question. I'm a Christian. I know you have to have this study somewhere, and I just can't find it. The pagan religions that claim a virgin birth, you know, which we know is nonsense. Where is that study showing, you know, things like Mithra and the other pagan religions try to claim it, but then it's quickly disproven by their own writings. You cannot find that study. Well, you can go to Carm, for example, and study Mithra. Okay. So, you know, just type in Carm, and just type in the word Mithra, and you'll be able to find the article. It's already written on that one, particularly.
Have the other ones on there also, or just- I think I've got others. The reason why is because every once in a while the- Go ahead. The atheist will come up and say, hey, you know, he's not the first one. Yeah, he is. Christ is the first one. We know. And they copied it. Well, see, that sword cuts both ways. Let me speak quickly because it cuts both ways. So they're going to say, okay, so you're saying then without proof, they're just going to say it. So you say, give me the evidence for it, and I'll look at it. And if you don't give me the evidence, and you don't have any evidence, then don't say it. But, so you're saying then because there are rumors of resurrections in other cultures, it automatically means that Christianity borrowed from it, they'll say yes. Can you prove that they knew about that and borrowed from it, or are you just asserting it?
They don't have any proof. Second, it was prophesied, the resurrection of Christ, in Psalm 16, verse 10, I believe it is. It will not allow him to undergo decay, which is about 1,000 years B.C., which is way before Mithra. And if we're to follow through the idea that what came first is what you've got to go with, then look up ancient Chinese characters and gospel. Look up the words and Google, ancient Chinese characters, gospel. For example, the ancient Chinese character, like 6,000 years old character for a boat, is a boat with an eight and a mouth. Why eight mouths?
Why eight people and a boat, just like Noah's Ark? I think the symbol for sin is a tree with a snake in it. I think the symbol for redemption or something like that is a dead lamb or a lamb over something, a knife or something, I forgot. And there's a lot of this that goes out, and I'd say, so that means that since the Chinese culture came first, all of the other cultures borrowed from the Chinese culture, which teaches Christian principles. I see.
Do you have to have that second one on calm, or is it something I have to find somewhere else? The Chinese characters, you've got to find on yourself or you can write an article on that. I only have 600 and I think 40 articles to write. I have a list. Oh, you put me in so lazy.
That's true. I've only written 5,000 so far, so I've got maybe four, I don't know. Hey, we're out of time, buddy, okay? Okay. God bless you. All right, hey folks, hope you enjoyed the show, and by God's grace, we're back on here on Wednesday. Tomorrow, may the Lord bless you, and we'll talk to you then. Have a great weekend.
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