Matt Slick Live

The following program is recorded content created by the Truth Network. All right, everybody, welcome to the show. Now hold on, I'm going to cough. And I'm going to be coughing a little bit because I went to the gym today and I did a new exercise on the treadmill and it really wore me out. And when I do that, I really work hard, but I kind of cough a little bit for a few hours afterwards.

It's a dry cough, no big deal. So I'll be doing that, like I just did there, hitting the mute button. All right, now we are doing, just letting you know, on December 9th here, 2021, we're doing a fundraising drive for the month of December. If you are interested in supporting us in this ministry, all you got to do is go to carm.org forward slash donate and all the information you need is there. And whatever you donate will be doubled. So any new donation will be doubled. Any new, you know, if you up your regular from $5 a month to $10 a month, then that extra five will be counted as the whole year and matched.

People are already starting to do that. Thank you very much. For those, boy, I got this cough, this dry cough from working out hard. I got to work out. I got to work out because 65 is upon me and I've got to be in good shape and I had to get my abs back. When I got married, my wife married me. I think the only reason she married me because I had some abs. Now I just have ab and so I have to, you know, I got to get those back and maybe she'll start liking me again.

You never know what will happen, but you know, I'm gonna get that shot and get in shape. All right, now we have four open lines. If you want to give me a call, 877-207-2276. Also, I'm gonna let people know that we've got the Matt Slick Live YouTube account working and we're actually broadcasting to that on YouTube. We'll stay on Karm videos a little bit, but we're gonna move all the Matt Slick Live videos over to that Matt Slick Live YouTube. We also have Matt Slick Live Facebook.

It sounds so narcissistic, you know. My name is Matt Slick for the newbies and Matt Slick Live, but hey, that's just what it is. And if you don't mind that, you know, you want to continue to listen to someone named Slick on the radio.

Man, you're gonna be desperate. But we're gonna be moving over there. So if you want, you know, I'm recommending that people go over to those things and check them out. I went to the Karm.org website, C-A-R-M dot O-R-G forward slash Matt Slick Live, one word, and you go there and you can see the links for the different places we're gonna be at.

And you can go there and bookmark them and start tuning in there because those are gonna be the mainstays. All right, now there was something else I had to say. We did the donation matching funds drive. I did this stuff here. You know, I just wish I had a good mind, but things slipped through my mind. And I can't remember what I was gonna talk about. Oh well. You know what?

It'll come back to me later, probably in the midnight. You know, go, hey, that's what it was. All right, if you're new to the show, this is a Christian apologetic show.

Apologetics is the defense of the Christian faith. And we're gonna be, or I'll be answering questions on that. That's what we do on all kinds of topics.

Oh, and I remember one more thing here. I'll be doing some video work, and I talked to one of the board of directors last night till late in the wee hours. We're gonna pray and let people know that we have needs. If you have editing ability and videos, if you're interested in doing something like this, it's not a light request.

It's a serious request, and it wouldn't be all the time, eight hours a day. It would be doing one-minute videos and putting them together and then uploading them and things like that. I'll be uploading the raw files someplace. And if I can't find anybody to do it, I gotta do it myself. I gotta learn how to do all that kind of stuff anyway. And so we're doing stuff like that. I've got a slider on order, and I've got a teleprompter that someone sent me a while back.

I'm gonna be using that. I gotta do all this stuff. We gotta go to videos because that's where the world is moving. And the young people, they can read when they're typing on their phone at 80 miles an hour, their fingers or their thumbs are going all over the place. And then you ask them a question, they stare at you. And then they put you on the phone.

Oh, that's what you're saying. So we have to get into the video stuff. So we're looking, we're learning.

If you have experience, you want to help out, got some suggestions, want to check some things, give me a call. I'm always open to be taught. All right. Let's just jump on the air. Let's get to Rudo from Raleigh, North Carolina.

Rudo, welcome. You're on the air, buddy. Yes, sir. Can you hear me?

Yes, I can. Yesterday, you were talking to a guy, and you made me think about something. My question is, what did happen to a crazy deity when his human side died, when he was on the cross? Well, what happened to it, that's a difficult question to answer because there was a union between the divine and the human nature.

And it's called the Hypostatic Union. So the one person died on the cross, and the attributes of both natures are ascribed to that one person. So when the one person died on the cross, the attributes of both those natures were experienced by that one person. Now, we have a doctrine in theology dealing with the nature of the divine that cannot be affected by us. And when we look at that and we talk about that, there is no ontological effect we can have on God.

He knows all things from eternity. And there's a question in theology of how do we influence God? How do we affect God? Because is there an effect? Well, yeah, there is. God is grieved by some of the things we do, et cetera.

So how does that work? Not exactly sure. It's worth a good discussion. Nevertheless, when Jesus died on the cross, how was the divine nature affected? I don't know how it was affected in the sense of was it saddened?

Did it experience some pain? I just don't have answers to questions like that. We know that the person experienced these things.

And so when we get into that area of theological examination, I try not to get too deep because it's easy to make mistakes. Okay? Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Well, God bless you.

God bless you. Okay. Hey, folks, you want to give me a call? 877-207-2276.

We have four open lines. Give me a call. Let's get to Anonymous from somewhere about something. What's up? Hello? Hey, Mac, can you hear me?

Yes, I can. Well, I thought I was anonymous. I just wanted to make sure. Well, this is Josh up in Sandpoint. You're a webmaster. How are you, brother? Oh, man, now it sounds like you. Wow.

Well, listen, I don't want to take a lot of your time. No, that's okay. I knew you probably wouldn't say anything today, but I wanted to wish you publicly a happy 65th birthday. So happy birthday, my friend. Thank you. 65 today.

Yeah, it's rude. Well, and in honor of your birthday, I'm going to go to karm.org slash donate and make a donation. And I hope everybody else does the same thing and honor your birthday today to support your ministry, support you, your family. And, brother, it's been an honor to work with you side by side. And I know we've accomplished a lot and we have a lot more left to do over the next several months than coming here. So I just wanted to tell you, happy birthday. Thanks. The last couple of years of knowing you have been a pleasure.

And here's to many more, my friend. It has been a pleasure. It has ups and downs, right?

It does. More ups and downs. Well, I don't know. I mean, for you, probably more downs than ups. But for me, we don't have any callers wait.

So I want you to hang on a little bit, okay? Because just so people know, I did not know his calling, and I've known Josh now a couple of years. And he is the webmaster for KARM. He does great work.

So the KARM website is his development. He's the guy who put it together and did all the stuff, and we have problems. I go to him and fix. And so having said that, seriously, I want you to give people how they can get a hold of you if they want web stuff done.

You might as well. You've done so much for me and stuff. We have paid you, but for some reason that payment has run out. And when I've talked about getting you on a retainer, you go, eh, we'll talk about it later. That's how you have been, which is pretty either stupid or really gracious.

I don't know which one it is. But remember, I warned you. I warned you about working with KARM. You know, I normally don't. You did. You did. And I told you. I said, you know, I think we can make it work. And, you know, normally I don't run businesses like that, but that's a ministry and it's a great cause. And so for you, I've done that. But no, I was approached to do the website.

Oh, well, well. I want you to give a plug. Peaceharbor.com. Peaceharbor.com.

I do web design, web hosting, graphic design, all that is there. But it's not about me, Matt. This is about your birthday and celebrating you. Well, yeah, I appreciate that.

And, you know, yeah, it's 65 today. In fact, I went to the gym and I logged in. They have a little key chain thing. And as I'm walking in, there's four people behind the counter.

And they'll go, hey, it's your birthday. Because they looked at the monitor and I go, yeah, that's right. And I said, hey, by the way, OK, how old do I look?

I just thought I would ask. And because I'm 65. Right. Well, actually, one guy goes, well, 45.

And there he goes, maybe 50. And I said, well, you got to just say that. He goes, no, really.

He goes, really? Yeah. And I said, well, thanks. I'm 65. And they're like, what? And I said, yeah.

So you have Medicare and a whole bit. It is kind of sobering. I'm telling you. Because, man, I'm old. I mean, I know people who are 65.

Well, you know, when I turned 40 earlier this year, it was the same thing for me. It was one of those moments that, you know, none of us are promised tomorrow and you have to live each day the best you can. And, you know, live to the glory of Christ. I mean, that's that's what you're what you're to do.

And it's it is sobering when you get older and you realize that at some point you're going to have more days behind you than you have ahead of you. And that's for sure. And so it's kind of an encouragement and a motivation to do the most you can for God and and for his people. So it's the daily reminder to live that way.

You know, that's right. As we sometimes mention, or I must sometimes mention that two years ago, we were talking about you working with us and costs and everything. I remember sitting out in front of the gym, believe it or not, warning you about what it is to work with Karm. And you said, I can handle it. And I've seen pictures of you in the past two years and you've definitely degraded.

That's obvious since you've worked with Karm. A little bit. A little bit. Oh, I would say a little more than a little bit. You should have looked at me.

And yeah, it looked like me. Well, you know, I had to start taking hair pills and getting, you know, hair plugs and everything else within all my hair because of you. So that's been great. There you go. You're welcome.

At least you're married. So she's stuck. So that's how it works. That's right.

I forgot that behind me. So. All right. All right, brother. Hey, man. Appreciate it, buddy.

Oh, and by the way, happy birthday. God bless. OK. I was going to say, we got the Maslick Live stuff ready on.

We can switch it over to the website for the website to the YouTube on Maslick Live. Anyway, just whatever. Yep. I got the message and I wasn't going to reply because I was on hold. I want to surprise you.

So, you know, we're surprised. I'll take care of it. All right. That's right.

First time. Hey, the last time I ever called a radio program, it was Rush Limbaugh. So, I mean, this is a pretty big deal for me. Yeah. I mean, I got through the call screener, but never made it on the show.

So I got right through to you this time. That's pretty good. That's because you're going downhill. That's all. It's just the quality is going downhill.

So you get easier to get in. All right. All right, brother.

Take care. All right, man. God bless, Josh.

All right. It was Josh. And he's the guy. He really he's done a great job. He really has. And I just want to say thanks to Josh and Peace Harbor dot com is his Web site. And he does a lot of stuff.

And he's been helping us out beyond the pale. Let's just say that's because that's what it is. All right.

So. Oh, there's a break. Hey, we have three open lines. Want to give me a call. Eight seven seven two zero seven two two seven six. Be right back after these messages.

We see. It's Matt Slick live taking your calls at eight seven seven two zero seven two two seven six. Here's Matt Slick. All right, everybody, welcome back to the show. Let's get on there with Jean from Ohio. Hey, Jean, welcome.

Hey, my brother, listen, I wanted to call you. Wish you a happy birthday. God bless you. Thank you now. But I got to get you kind of straightened up a little bit. I know you're going back to the to the workout.

You're going to get the ab into ab. That's awesome. I got a question. Now, listen, I love you laughing, but I got a question for you.

OK. If you never had a birthday. You never had a birthday. I asked you, how old would you be? I wouldn't.

I mean, I would not have been born. You're only as old as you feel, my brother. Oh, I feel about 90. Lord. No, I'm doing pretty well, actually.

Yeah, I know you are. Yeah, I can run. I can jog. I can still do martial arts if I wanted. I go to the gym, you know, so I'm very blessed.

I have very little pain. I love it. So do OK. By God's grace.

That's all it is. Now, in my my situation, I've been around a block a few more times than you have. But I'm on a close race with Methuselah.

I'm just nine hundred nine years. That's pretty good. I'm just kidding.

But no, it's great. I love to hear from you. I love to hear the people.

I love to hear the people ask the real questions. That's right. But the thing I know they're intrigued and I know the people you have concerns with. I feel your heart with where they stand in life.

And, you know, basically where they stand when they're in opposition with what the word says. But the only thing I know to say to anybody is. You must be born again and walk by faith and not by sight. Amen to that. That's the bottom line. Get a trust in Jesus.

That's right. Amen, brother. What have you got to trust in an ancient world yourself? What's that going to do for you? Well, no, because I'll tell you what I tell people. They say, hey, what's going on?

I say, I don't know. This your world. I'm just walking through.

This water dude isn't my home. I am grateful that he's granted us faith and granted that we believe so that by his grace we can serve him and honor him. And then one day we will enter into his presence directly. And, you know, I'm grateful for the opportunity to be able to serve him and for all of us who are Christians who know him. You know, by his mercy and by his grace, he needs to be glorified. Not that he needs it because, you know, he desires it, but because it's what's right. And we ought to do that. So, I'm in.

Exactly. And I'll tell you one thing. I'm so blessed to be. He blessed me to be humble. And that's the beginning of it all. Good. We need to be humble. That's for sure. I'm working on that one. I told this lady the other day and she was pouring out to me. I don't know.

I just walked into the store and she was pouring out to me and I was flabbergasted. But I said, you know, there's one thing you got to understand. You can't fix something if it ain't broke. But when it's completely broke, God wants you broke. He wants you to be humble and to understand faith by grace, bro, or you ain't going to get nowhere. That's true.

That's true. We're going to trust in Jesus all the way. I'm telling you, well, I wish you a very happy birthday. A.J., your wife, I love her.

Never seen her. Your family. And we will celebrate Jesus Christ's birthday very shortly. Amen. For real.

That's right. Good. Well, praise God, man. Thanks. Appreciate it, buddy. All right. Call me when you hear me, brother. Okay, then.

We'll see you. God bless. God bless you. All right.

Three open lines. 877-207-2276. Stephen from Iowa. Steve, welcome. You're on the air.

Hey, Matt. Happy birthday. Thanks, buddy. Appreciate it.

It's weird, but, yeah, 65. Yeah. Also, a shout out to your web developer for taking on that project. I worked as a web developer for four or five years and that wouldn't have been easy. So I really appreciate the work that he did to redo that. It's taken a lot of work. He's done extras. Yeah, because it's just... I warned him. It always happens and he goes, that's right, it does.

Particularly with Karm. It does. But anyway, praise God. Yeah, my question is, recently I memorized Matthew 1234-37, but the last part of it seems puzzling to me. It says, Jesus says to them that by your words you'll be justified and by your words you'll be condemned. And I was just wondering how that fits into being justified by faith alone in Christ alone. Yeah, notice he said that before he was crucified and he's talking to the evil people. And what he's doing is telling them that your words are going to condemn you.

That's what's going on. If you're justified in the sense before God, by your own words you're going to be condemned. By your own words you're going to be saved. And so those who are justified before Christ have confessed Christ. We're justified by our words. Lord Jesus saved me.

Lord, I depend on you. But the Pharisees, they are justified and condemned by their own words because they deny who he was. That's why he called them whitewashed uplikers. Because you brood of vipers there. You brood of vipers.

Now I think I think about that. In the Garden of Eden that was the snake of viper. You brood of vipers. He is really insulting them.

Because Jesus is the blonde haired black Caucasian surfer dude. He wouldn't say anything mean to anybody. You brood of vipers. That's what he said to them among other things. Anyway, that's what's going on.

He's talking to them about how they're going to be condemned by their own words. That's it. Okay? Okay. Make sense? Yeah, if it makes more sense.

More sense or makes sense? I guess I don't understand. The part that you said about being condemned by their words, if they deny Jesus, I guess that makes sense. But I don't understand the being justified by your words part.

Alright. So, just so you know, words mean what they mean in context. And so a word, a single word, dikia'o, here in Greek is to justify, to justify, dikia'o. And it is used in the New Testament 39 times. And so, for example, in Luke 7 29, it says that they acknowledged God's justice. So they acknowledged what he was doing and it's from dikia'o again. They acknowledged God's justice. And so it has different meanings in different contexts. In Acts 13 39, everyone who believes is freed from all things.

And that's the word dikia'o again. So it has what's called a semantic domain. In Luke 7 35, wisdom is vindicated by all her children.

Or justified by all her children. But it doesn't mean that it gets saved. So it just, you understand, it has a series of meanings in different contexts.

So context always determines the meaning. So when we're talking about Matthew 12 35 through 37, and it's good that you are memorizing, 34 through 37, good that you're memorizing scripture. He's talking to the evil ones. He's talking to them, he's condemning them. And he says, verse 35, The good man brings out of his good treasure what is good.

The evil man brings out of his evil treasure what is evil. And so he's talking about what is in them. And by their words they'll be declared right or declared wrong.

But their words are either in Christ and they'll be declared right, or they're not and they'll be declared, they'll be condemned. That's what's going on. Okay? Alright, buddy? Awesome. Thank you.

Alright, man. Hey, folks, 4 Open Lines. Give me a call. 877-207-2276. We'll be right back. It's Matt Slick live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276.

Here's Matt Slick. Alright, buddy, welcome back to the show, 4 Open Lines. Why don't you give me a call? 877-207-2276.

Let's get to Anonymous from California. Welcome, you're on the air. Welcome. Welcome. Hi. Hi.

Welcome. So what have you got? So I have a question concerning the incorruptible spirit, because I received a couple of punishments from children as a child through adult years, in the past years, and I was hoping that when a person gets hit, their incorruptible spirit, or who they are in Christ, does not get hit by God or other righteous people or anyone unrighteous. I'm not sure I understand your question. Okay, so you're talking about your human spirit, right? Yeah, when it's born again, it's incorruptible. Yeah, the Holy Spirit is when it's incorruptible, and when we're born again, the Holy Spirit lives in us, and then we struggle, as often is the case, with our own bad ways and sin and things like that, but, you know, and that's called sanctification.

So I'm not sure what your question is, though. Oh, yes, the incorruptible spirit, if you know, it's a person, because it's someone who they are in Christ, like whoever is in Christ, it's a new creation. Is that new creation sin, it's punished, or it doesn't matter, he or she? I'm still not sure I understand your question, but the human spirit is independent of our physical bodies, though it shares in the pain of our physical bodies. So when our physical body dies, our spirit can continue and does continue. So it does not share in the pain?

Well, yeah, because it's our soul, it's what we are, and I think that makes us alive and has a self-identity. We experience that pain, and it's a physical thing. Now, when we are separated from our bodies before the resurrection, we're with the Lord, then what is the state then of our awareness of pain? I don't think it will be any physical pain in that sense because we're not in a physical body. And when we are resurrected into our physical bodies, as the prophecies talk about, then maybe we might be able to experience pain, but I don't know because I don't know what the world is going to be like and what we're going to be like to that extent, so I just don't know. Oh, you just don't know, so you don't know if the incorruptible spirit, man, or woman will experience pain in this?

I think I'm starting to get an idea of what you're talking about. The incorruptible spirit of a human being, once we're born again, can't experience pain. Yes, we can. Once we're born again, we can experience pain. Even our spirit? Well, you see, what do you mean by even our spirit?

Because what we are is spirit, a soul, a human, that's what we are. That thing that we are can exist independently of the physical body. But does it experience pain? Yes, it does. The thing I call me, when I stub my toe, it hurts, and I experience that pain.

So that's what's going on there. Yes, I wish that it didn't feel like the same thing with the soul and the body. I heard that we're supposed to be a tripartite being. Yes, that's one view, soul, spirit, and body. I lean towards what's called dichotomy, that the soul and spirit are basically the same thing and housed in a body. But it doesn't matter.

Either one is acceptable. So I wouldn't worry about it. I wouldn't listen to too many people who go to tripartitism. The reason is because sometimes they'll say, well, the soul can be possessed, but the spirit cannot be possessed by a demon. And they'll kind of do that sometimes.

Not all of them do, of course. And that is a dangerous doctrine. But that's not to say that dichotomy is not okay. It is.

It's fine. That's just one of the dangers that some people have gone into who have held to that position. And trichotomy may be correct. It's within orthodoxy. But I'm just saying that I don't know for sure, but I lean towards dichotomy where the soul and the spirit are the same.

Yes, that's me. I could be wrong, though. Oh, okay. I know, but will we ever see a new spirit and a resurrection? A new spirit?

No. We already are, as Christians, new spirits. But our bodies are not ready for the new spirit yet, not caught up yet. But when Christ returns, the resurrection will occur. And we will then be raised in glory.

This is 1 Corinthians 15, 35-45 talks about this. And that's when we're going to have new bodies. I'll tell you, my wife can certainly use that. She's got all kinds of medical issues. And she's dealing with them right this second.

So next break I've got to go get something for her. I'm very familiar with all of this stuff, even as we decay. But when we're redeemed now, our spirits are renewed, and our bodies are not, not yet, but they will be. And that guarantee of that is found in Romans 8, 29, and 30. Romans 8, 29, and 30 says this, For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son, so that he would be the firstborn among many brethren. And those whom he predestined he also called, and these whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

Well, glorification largely could mean the glorification of our physical bodies. And it's already spoken of in the past tense there, which means it's guaranteed because of the work of Christ. So we're going to, it's going to happen. We've just got to wait for it to happen.

It takes time. Okay. Are you there? Hello?

Maybe we lost her. Three, two, one. Okay. We have five open lines. If you want to give me a call, folks, 877-207-2276.

And we have, like I said, wide open lines. Give me a call. All right. I'm just going to give you guys a heads up on a few things. Not a big deal, but we're doing an end-of-year matching funds drive for the month of December. If you want to donate, anything you do donate will be matched. Now, if you donate a million dollars, that would be great. I'd tell my friend, yeah, you're going to pay a million dollars.

And, you know, hear him spit his coffee into the air kind of a thing. But, you know, people do a few hundred, sometimes a couple thousand. And, you know, whatever.

But whatever God does, I mean, whatever you do will be doubled for the month of December. And we do need that because the beginning of next year is always financially difficult for us because we've got to pay the missionaries. We pay them in advance, months in advance, because it's cheaper in the long run to do that because of bank fees that goes across countries, particularly in the African nations and South America. And it's all legit we do this, and the banks know we do this. We've been doing it for a few years, and we have people who are familiar with it. And we go in and they recognize it, and it's all acceptable. It's all done. So that's that. And we have medical, I mean, we have insurance for CARM because, you know, we need insurance.

And so that's at the beginning of the year, too, or close to it. And so, anyway, we need your help. And also we're moving towards doing the videos here, the stuff on Matt Slick Live, going to Matt Slick Live Facebook, and also on YouTube. And so if you want to get the information for that and the links, all you've got to do is go to CARM.org, C-A-R-M dot O-R-G forward slash MattSlickLive, all one word.

It'll give you the links and stuff right there, and you can check it out. Let's get to Hose, I guess. Hose from Texas.

Hose, welcome. You're on the air. Hi. Am I next?

Yeah, you're on. You're on the air. Oh, hey.

Hey, Matt. How's it going? It's going, buddy. It's going. What do you got, man?

Yeah, I got a question. So I took history, geology, my last semester, and they talk about the Earth, and they have evidence of how old is the Earth by dating rocks. And they say they come out with 4.5 billion years old.

And one of my professors kind of triggered me a little bit. It kind of gave me a little angry because they said that Noah's Ark is a fantasy. It couldn't happen over the – again, the whole flood thing, even according to their agenda, did not fit. So anyway, is there any biblical evidence where this mantled that year or 4.5 billion?

Because I think according to the Bible, you can see roughly 6,000 years. Okay, so you're telling me that in the geology class they attacked Noah's Ark? Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Okay. They pretty much attacked Christianity. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

So they attacked Noah's Ark, then they attacked Christianity. All right, what I might do, just because of what you said, maybe tonight, tomorrow, the next few days, I'll release some information as an article. I've been collecting stuff in my science outline, and we've got a break coming up. So hold on. I'll explain what I'm going to do after the break, okay?

Because you'll want to know. So hold on. I'll be right back, folks, after these messages.

Stay tuned. Okay, so I've been collecting information on stuff about the age of the Earth. And what I want to do is I can put it up on the outlines on CARM.

So if you were to go to, this is where you go, you'd go to carm.org forward slash cut, C-U-T. That will just take you to the cut and paste stuff, and I have outlines there. And what I'll do is I'll work on getting the outline of science up there. And I have information that is very useful on dating methods, age of the Earth, things like this that are problematic on their perspective from their side. So there are issues.

There really are. For example, there are what's called polystrate trees. Polystrate trees are trees that are fossilized through 600 million years of rock strata. Well, if that's the case and you know that rock strata is 650 million years, how does that work? And then there are dating methods that get radically different time periods using different systems like rubidium strontium and potassium argon. Dating methods will take certain rocks that they know are supposed to be certain ages and they get radically different dates, millions to billions of years old difference.

Well, then how do they know how old they are? And see, let me tell you something. When I was in class, I had a physical anthropology class back in the secular college. And it was a good class and the lady was definitely anti-Christian and an atheist and secularist, a humanist, an evolutionist and all this stuff. And so I knew that she was going to start talking about human ancestors and fossils.

So I could only do so much, I prepped on exactly one of the ancient, like Australopithecine I think it was, I can't remember. And I had the information in my notebook which I carried from class to class. And lo and behold, of all things, she actually, I'm telling you this for a reason, I want you to do the same thing. She actually raised the issue of how evolution is true and she actually brought up that exact hominid ancestor that I studied. I raised my hand in the class.

She said, yes. And I said, well, you said that this is blah, blah, blah, but I've done research. And I opened my notebook, big notebook, bleesh. And I said, right here, and I had quotes from scientists who had more degrees than a thermometer saying that it was not a human ancestor, but it was this, it was that. I mean, I read like two quotes.

And these are experts, like from the guy who was the curator of the Natural History Museum of London and, you know, things like that. And I looked at her and I said, well, so what do you do with these? And she said, they're all wrong. And then I raised my hand again and she wouldn't call on me for the rest of the class for 20 minutes.

And for that 20 minutes I kept my hand up. While she was talking, because I was going to ask more questions about this, she didn't want to talk to me. She was not open to dialogue.

She was not open to anything that was counter to her facts. And she was so upset and aggravated with me that I kept my hand up. People kept noticing my hand stayed up during the rest of the class. And finally it was time for us to leave. And as I walked out, I said to her, I enjoyed the class, I'm looking forward to coming back. And I walked right by her. She was not like that. Now, when you have information, you can do stuff like this. She did not bring up stuff like that again in the class.

She didn't bring it up anymore. And I know what it means. I've done a different class. Okay, so I'm just telling you all this stuff.

So here's the thing. I want to get this information and I want to release it on CARM and it will have stuff and you could take it and you could print it and you could have it with you in your geology class. Now, this isn't exhaustive, but there are things in there that are worth looking at.

In addition to this, I want to tell everybody, if you have citations and quotes that are relevant to this kind of a topic, which includes the Big Bang, dating methodologies, fossils, galaxies, evolutionary theory, human ancestors, missing links, the Miller experiment, mathematical odds of abiogenesis, genetic entropy, all kinds of stuff, send it to me at info at CARM dot org. Info at CARM dot org. You send it to me and I will need the page number where it's at, a link to where, if it's a video, like at eight minutes and five seconds. It'll give you a three-hour video and say, hey, that quote's in here.

I'm not going to listen to it. You have to tell me. We'll go here, look there. And if it's in a book, I have to check out and make sure everything's good.

But if you find stuff that's good, I will put it in that outline as well. Okay? Well, I sure do. It's for sure.

So that's for everybody who's listening too. All right, buddy. Okay. Yeah.

Keep going. All right. All right, man. Thank you. I mean, you got more questions and stuff?

So there are things you can say. Oh, I'm sorry. No, I'm sorry.

I thought this was the last question. No. Anyways, well, my other question was too is, you know, this professor kind of teethed me because he knows I'm a Christian on the class. And he pretty much asked me the question, okay, so what happened to the Jurassic period according to your Bible?

Does the dinosaur exist in your Bible? Yes. And I'll be fair.

I just, I didn't answer to him. Yes. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. The answer is yes. This is the last three chapters of the book of Job. This is your homework. Go read the last three chapters of the book of Job.

It talks about two immense creatures, one land-based and one water-based. There we go. That's interesting how you know. Absolutely.

See, we have no problem with that. And, you know, I have to get more quotes with assigned stuff like that they're finding genetic information in bone marrow from dinosaur bones. How is that possible? How is that possible? You're going to ask them. Right. See, I would have my documentation.

I'd raise my hand and go, you know, you said this. How is that possible? And then there's the carbon-12 problem. Carbon-12 has a half-life of just over 7,000 years, 7,300 or 250, something like that, 520, which means that in 100,000 years there should be no carbon-12 left in anything that used to be alive and now is dead, after 100,000 years. So anything carbon-based that should not have any carbon-12 in it because of the half-life issue, that's period.

Well, then why is it diamonds and coal shales have carbon-12 in them since they're supposed to be millions of years old? And you could raise them and say, can you explain that? There are questions that you can ask, and I would be doing that in class. And I would go, me, I'm different. I would go to the teacher out of class.

I'd find his office. I'd say, hey, I did this to one teacher. I actually did this to a teacher who was an art teacher, and he attacked Christianity in an art class.

And I went and I talked to him in his office afterwards, and I said, look, I want you to know that I was offended by what you did. There was no reason for you to have to come in and start attacking Christianity. And just so you know, I study this stuff. If you say anything against Christianity again, I'm going to raise my hand.

I'm going to challenge you in the class. And he looked at me. He goes, you know what? He goes, you're right.

I should have done that. I was surprised. He says, I really appreciate you coming to me and talking to me. And when I was in my geology class, I was in my geology class, and I remember, oh, this just gets me because I know what you're going through. In my geology class, this professor is saying this and saying that over the age of the earth. I walked to him towards his office after a class, and I said, you know that there's a lot of problems with the geological record, right? He says, but yes.

And there's a lot of problems with the fossil dating methods. He said, yes. I said, then why do you believe in evolution and all this stuff? He goes, because it's true.

I remember I stopped walking. I said, what? But you know there's problems, and you just assume it's true. But the problems are serious.

He goes, he doesn't care. That's how it is with people. All right. That's how it is. Right. Yeah. And I think it's very important for us Christians to stand up because I feel like in my, you know, in my, in my experience, I get bullied a lot.

Especially for my, my professor. He's very, you know, he, you know, he attacks Christianity and he knows, you know, he knows what he's taking on because he knows it's me. And sadly, one of my friends, he was a Christian, and now he's an atheist due to the fact that you know, because of this ongoing, you know, this ongoing attack towards Christianity of how, you know, we're, you know, it falls. Anyways, I think it's very important for us Christians to know our, our resource and know about these, you know, to answer these questions correctly and, and, you know, have our, you know, our evidence of why we believe what we believe in our Bible. That's right.

Yeah. I, I'm with you, and I've had a lot of experience at secular school, and, and we had a philosophy class and, uh, the guy attacked Christianity. I was in two philosophy classes. He wouldn't let me in the first one when I defended Christian faith because he didn't like the idea that anybody would be in there who could defend Christianity. He was only interested in attacking it.

And I went to another philosophy class six months later and, uh, I got in and it evolved into, whenever he would say something that related to Christianity and truth and God, he would just look over to me and say, well, what's the position, man? And I'd say, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, because I would challenge him. Exactly. And, and most people aren't capable of doing that.

I'm not knocking them. It just takes some practice. It takes some work and, um, I can help. Okay. I can help people do this.

Right here. Philosophy is another thing because my professor is like, you're just in a cave where, you know, there's already been taught, you need to get up, step up out of your cave. Really? I guess for some reason, I'm sure you've heard of that. Oh yeah. I would talk about how, how, you know, if you're in this cave, you know, you're, you've been taught this, how to do a little, and I guess, uh, I'm not sure who was it who taught this, um, that, you know, that some, some people that nearly stepped out of their cave, uh, that what they believe in, right. And I guess that's all I can do with, uh, with an optimism and all that stuff. So, yeah, and I can tackle that as well because you have to understand a basic principle.

This is important for people to hear. If you're in a philosophy class and the issue of truth comes up, there has to be an ultimate, always think in the terms of ultimate. What is the ultimate? Is the ultimate biology? Is it physicalism? Is it naturalism?

Is it, uh, evolution? How do you have absolute truth value without an absolute ultimate truth giver? And this basic question, if you know how to work with it, you can cause, uh, professors to have conniption fits politely. You can say, well, wait a minute, you said this and that, but how do you know that's the ultimate, you know, is there anything beyond this? How do you know that empiricism is the right way to judge truth? It's, it's only an expression or a derived out of your sensory experience. How do you know your senses are really representing or interpreting reality accurately? And don't you have to interpret rationally or with rationalism? Isn't that superior to empiricism at that point, since you judge all empirical values by what your rational mind says, but then what justifies these laws of logic that you appeal to? See, these are the kinds of things that I would talk about in class and the profs didn't like it.

They did not like it. Yeah. Right. And do you have any articles on that, Matt, on your website or anything that can help you know, us Christians on how to, you know, um, how to, you know, uh, learn more about, you know, how to understand our Christianity in terms of philosophy, theology, you know, these, you know, anti-Christians. I happen to have another outline on philosophy I've been developing. My outline on Catholicism is 190 pages, but my outline on, uh, you know, I went on Calvinism 100 pages, 90-ish pages, and I have one on, on, um, evolution or science, which is about 35 pages. This is outline stuff.

So this is, I need to do this and I need to have seminars online where I teach people how to handle it. They bring their questions in, not that I'm an expert in this, but, uh, I can certainly, uh, bone up pretty quickly when I get a question I can't answer. I go and I look and I figure things out and I love science.

I mean, when I say it, I mean, I really do. I love documentaries. Yeah. I like watching science things.

That's my thing. I love it. All right. Hey, we're out of time, buddy. Got to go. Okay. All right, Matt. Thank you, Matt. Thank you for your presence. All right. So good night. Craig, please call back tomorrow, but that was worth staying on here about that. A lot of people are struggling with those issues, but the Lord bless you all. And by his grace, we'll be back on here tomorrow and we'll talk to you then. Have a great evening. Another program powered by the truth network.