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Matt Slick Live (Live Broadcast of 09-23-2024) is a production of the Christian Apologetics Research Ministry (CARM). Matt answers questions on topics such as: The Bible, Apologetics, Theology, World Religions, Atheism, and other issues! You can also email questions to Matt using: info@carm.org, Put "Radio Show Question" in the Subject line! Answers will be discussed in a future show. Topics Include:Matt Tells Some Tales of His Computer Experiences//Who are the Lutherans?//Is Roman Catholicism Orthodox?//How is Jesus God if He didn't Know the Day of His Return//What about The Movie "Nefarious?"//What Does Philippians 1:29 indicate?//Is it OK to have Pictures of Jesus in our House?//September 23, 2024

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Today's date is 9-23-2024, September 23rd. And I just want to say, hey, give me a call. And if you want, you feel like it. Hope you had a good weekend. I walked five miles last night and talked to people online, always trying to witness, and had these headsets, you know, the Bose headsets and stuff like that. So I go witness.

I have to walk and do stuff at the same time. My wife and I watch stuff. Nice, relaxing evening.

So anyway, hey, look. I hope you had a good day yesterday, a good church day. And I want to hear from you. Give me a call. 877-207-2276. You can also email me. That's easy to do. Just direct your email to info at karm.org.

info at karm.org. And you can put in the subject line, radio comment or radio question. And I often get to them. We have nobody waiting right now, no callers coming in, which sometimes happens during the summer-ish end of summers. I've been keeping records for a long time. And for many years, many, many years.

And we've got patterns. During the summer things slow down. And then about now they're down. And then they pick up in the next month. They pick up because people go back to school.

I don't know what it is. But we have these patterns. And they're pretty steady. I've been graphing stuff on Excel for a long time. I used to teach Excel. So I do some nice tricks. Do some really cool stuff with it.

Write all that stuff. I know a lot of things about all kinds of things. So I can do pretty good stuff with Excel. I used to love that program.

It's one of my favorite programs. I remember once I had a job working at Sony. And they had this report that I inherited. It took four days to do the report. When you had the data. Four days of data input and manipulating this and that graph and these tables and stuff like that. I remember this really well.

I did it a couple of months. You get the data. You input the data.

I took a day for the average person. You did all this stuff. All this manipulation of tables and stuff.

Changing fields. Once I understood it I go, oh okay. So I did tricks and set it up that everything ran on two macros.

Two macros that were attached to a certain page. Just do them in order. And I had all these scroll bars and all this stuff. Well I used to do ten key. And I'm really fast at ten key too. So one day I get this report and I do the ten key. I entered everything in like two hours.

Instead of a day and a half or two days. I just did it really quickly. And then I just hit go on these macros and I embedded in there checks.

System checks on a certain page so that if something didn't work they would be read and it would come up read. And I found one and fixed it very easily. And then ran the report again. There it was. Printed it up. Walked into the office to the boss.

Like within four hours of getting the data. And I said, here's a report. He goes, no, no, no. You're new with this. You can't do that that fast. I said, yeah you can. No you can't. He said, we've been doing this for years.

It takes four days. I said, not anymore. He said, what do you mean? I said, look, come here. I'll show you. And he came over to the desk and I showed him the thing.

The tricks I did and the things I developed. And I said, all you got to do is this, this, that. And I said, this is it. And he was dumbfounded. And he said, we're going to take this and we're going to send it to all of the Sony facilities all over the world.

So that they can use this same template for all the reports and go. I said, sure, no problem. Of course, you know, that's what I do. I remember it was fun. And then one more story. It was a lot of fun. So Sony, you know, it's from Japan. So we had a lot of Japanese there sometimes. And I was watching this one Japanese guy. He spoke broken English.

Good enough English. And I was looking over his shoulder. He's working on Excel.

And it's a humongous table. He was changing fields. And where certain things were, it gets complicated. Where certain things were looking to. And he had to fill out hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them.

You know, at the rate he was going, it was going to take him like a half a week, you know, maybe more. And I figured out what he was doing. I politely, very politely asked if I could show him a trick. And so I saved the file so that occasionally it goes bad.

I saved it in a different file name. And so let me show you. And I did this in two minutes. I did everything that he was trying to get done, which would have taken him days. Did it in two minutes.

And literally two, maybe three at the most. And when he saw what I did, I don't know what he said, but he was talking Japanese. And he was waving his arms around, walking in circles. And then he said, you know, to me, I remember that. Oh, the good old days, the good old days.

I love Excel. I would marry it. That's how good it is. Let's get to Becky from Tennessee. Becky, welcome. You're on the air.

Hi, thank you. I have a question about the Lutheran religion. Is it Christian-based or is it Christian or is it occult? Lutheranism, like Presbyterianism and like Baptist denominations have different sub-denominations in them. So some Lutheran denominations are really good and some Lutheran denominations are really bad.

That's just the rule. So LCMS is good. Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.

LCMS. Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. That's a good denomination. I don't agree with everything it says in some of the particulars, but you know, it's okay. So it's good. The ELCA, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, that's bad.

Stay away from that. So I've actually got a I've actually got an article I want to finish on what are different Lutheran denominations and if they're good or not. And so I've got ten listed. The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod is supposed to be pretty good too in that they're Orthodox. So here's what you check for to see if a group is good or bad. You go to their website and look for two things. One is their staff and see if they have any women pastors, women elders.

If they do, it's bad. It's a bad church. Don't go to it. It's just Presbyterian or Lutheran or Baptist or non-denam. If they have women pastors and elders just stay away. Everything you want to look for is a doctrinal statement. And you want to find out what's their view on, if they have it, on LGBTQ, the alphabet mob. And if they say that they can be ordained, homosexuals can be ordained, practicing unrepentant, homosexuals can be ordained, you want to stay away. Things like that.

And there's other stuff too. And I have an article on my website about what to look for in a church. And you can check it out. Okay. Thank you so much. You're welcome. I appreciate it and I enjoy listening to you every night. You know, I wish my wife said that.

That'd be great. You know, it's alright though. Usually when I talk to her she rubs her forehead and furrows her brow at the same time. I don't know what's going on. So, you know, I just back away calmly. Alright. There you go. Thank you so much. You have a good evening. You too, God bless. Alright, now let's get to Carl from Ohio. Carl, welcome. You are on the air.

Thank you much. Question about Roman Catholics. My pastor was really defending Roman Catholics. He said we believe in the same thing. I know their whole code of religion is based on breaking the first commandment. It's all about the idols.

So what can I tell them? I know that people always, they always use Christ to legitimize their wicked ideologies. I mean, the rest did. Jim Jones did it. Everyone uses Christ because it legitimizes their wickedness.

And he just does not understand. I heard them. As a matter of fact, I was listening to a show and it was a Roman Catholic service and, you know, their Holy Mary, Mother of God and all of that stuff and then they eventually got to Christ. So she came first. Then they prayed to God. Then they prayed to Christ.

So she was first. And I know that the Pope is supreme. I know that. But he's defending them and he's saying that they believe in the exact same thing that we believe in. I know that there is a disproportionate number of, you know, child, child molestation, class action lawsuits.

They have a bunch of money. But I know if the Pope is supreme and Mary's venerated before Christ, I know the Spirit of God cannot be in there. So what can I tell my pastor? I love my pastor. Your pastor is disqualified from being a pastor. Flat out.

Really? Yes, he's disqualified because he's supposed to be able to teach sound doctrine and refute error. He doesn't even know the difference between Protestantism and Catholicism.

He can't refute error. You should ask him if he believes in the Trinity and if he can define what the Trinity is. And is Jesus a man right now?

These are some of the basic questions I would start asking. Any pastor who says, no, the Catholic Church is fine. Okay, let's see what else you don't know. What's the Trinity? Is Jesus a man right now? He's both God and man right now. How are we justified before God?

By faith and goodness or faith and what? You've got to find out what else this guy doesn't know. Okay, so I wouldn't trust him. Now, what you can do is you can go to my website, karm.org and if you're interested, if you want, and go forward slash C-U-T for cut and paste. So you go to there and it's just cut and paste information. I developed it to be able to cut and paste stuff into chat rooms.

And then I discovered it became very useful and people started wanting it and it's helpful on what people, on what things are for very short information. So one of the things you want to get to is the issue of justification. And you can do things you can ask him. You can ask him stuff. Are we justified by faith alone in Christ alone without any works?

Do works save us or contribute to our salvation? You have to ask that. If he says yes, they do then you have to go to the elders and you have to tell them this guy doesn't know basic Christian theology. He's not qualified to be a pastor. Dead serious. And I'll volunteer to back you up on the phone, go over stuff to the elders to teach biblical theology if they don't know it.

So I'm dead serious about this. So Roman Catholicism teaches that you attain salvation through faith and baptism and the observance of the commandments. That's paragraph 2068 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

So what you can do is you can say to your pastor, what do you think about a group that might say that you attain salvation through faith, baptism, and the observance of the commandments? And just see what he says. If he says well that's really, that's okay, that's fine. He doesn't know what he's doing.

He's out. But if he says no that's wrong, they go yeah I agree with you that's wrong. That's what Roman Catholicism teaches.

And that better get his attention. There's a quote on there, I believe it's on there, about by her, let's see, by her entering, okay he should, it's not in that one you can go to the rest of the website and find the quote. There's a quote from Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma by William, I mean by Ludwig von Ott on page 213. It's approved by the bishops that it's true. And it says there, Mary by her entering into the spiritual sacrifice of a divine son made atonement for our sins. It's heresy.

Yeah, it's blasphemy. Now we're going to break so hold on, I'll tell you some more stuff. Okay. Give us something to be done. Hey folks, hold on, we'll be right back after these messages. Please stay tuned. ... ... It's Matt Slick live, taking your calls at 877-207-2276.

Here's Matt Slick. Alright, welcome back to the show. We lost our collar about Roman Catholicism. So ladies and gentlemen, I've been studying it for a long time and a lot of people do not know how bad the Roman Catholic Church really is. In fact, maybe you heard this, their present Pope Francis just said that all religions are equally true and that they all lead to the same path. And that's a sign of apostasy that the Roman Catholic Church represented by his headship is false.

That's one of the reasons. It adds works to salvation, adds baptism to salvation, says you maintain your salvation through participation in sacraments that give grace infused into your soul and the status of your soul's percentage of infusion determines how much you'll suffer in purgatory to eventually be saved. And they pray to Mary and believe that she can hear millions of prayers all over the world simultaneously spoken in thought, different languages, you know, it's just insane. Their Eucharist is false teaching in that they are and I had a conversation about somebody with this.

I'm going to give it to you really quickly. We'll get two callers going. But I had a conversation about the Eucharist with, I go to these Catholic chat rooms and they defend, a lot of guys in there are particularly good at defending their Catholic faith in that they're intelligent, they're competent, they go to scripture. They're not right, but they're good at trying. And some people just, you know, insult you, you're wrong. But these people, they'll actually reason with you and talk with you and I have to counter and things like this. We have these discussions.

Okay. So, I had one of the things that you do with Eucharist is you take it after it's been changed into God by the priest is you put it into a monstrum. So you have a circle of bread that you bow down before and call it God. They were offended by that. I said, but it's a circle of bread. And they said, no, it's not. I said, it's not a circle of bread. They said, no, it's the body of God.

That's why we worship it. Okay, so you bow down before this thing and you worship this circle of bread. No, it's not a circle of bread. And I asked them, does it have circularity in it? Does it have circularity? Is it round? And one guy said, he didn't want to say anything because it's just the body and blood of Christ. He wouldn't answer the question because obviously if it has circularity and it's a circle and it's bread quality, then how can it be the body?

All this stuff. And some other guy got on for real. He got on and actually said that it's not circular. It only has the appearance of being circular, but it's not circular. It just appears to be, but it's not really circular. Because it appears to be bread, but it's not really bread.

It's just the ludicrous reasoning. It's just incredible. Anyway, some of the conversations I've had. Let's get to Nathan from California. Nathan, welcome. You're on the air.

Nathan. How are you, man? I'm hanging in there, man. What do you got, buddy? I'm doing well.

I hope you're doing great. Same for the family. I always get asked this question that I don't know why I forget. But just yesterday I just heard something on a Bible study that the only person who knows when Christ will come is God the Father. But I don't understand that in a real sense.

That all of them are in one. And Jesus I believe that he said that because of his human side. Didn't know. But he does. Because he can do everything. He can bring angels from heaven.

Remember when he tore his ear, which I'm calling to you. I hope you understand. Yeah, I do. Do you have a question about it, though? Do you want me to explain what's going on?

Yes. I would just like to know who truly knows when he will become besides himself. Or will it also be Jesus? And the Holy Spirit knows. So God knows. This is what it says in Matthew 24, 36. But of the day and hour, no one knows present tense. Not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. So when we get to this, we have to understand that at the very one point is that it's in the present tense. Now Jesus has been exalted into heaven.

And we could say he knows. Now what this is talking about also is the wedding feast. Because it's the imagery of the wedding feast when a man and woman were engaged for a year. There were preparations for this wedding feast that took a long time.

People would be prepared to travel, to come in, to stay in the area. There'd be a wedding. They'd have food. They'd have wine.

Etc. And one of the things that was required was that the gentleman, the groom, build an addition onto the Father's house. And then he was to go get his bride and bring him back to the wedding. Bring him back to the chamber. Now Jesus says, I go to prepare a place for you.

And I will return and bring you to where I am. So this is all, these are a lot of allusions to the wedding procedure that was done back then. And one of the things about that was that the groomsmen, the friends of the groom would say to the groom, when's the father, your father going to say you can go get the bride. No man knows it he nor the hour.

But the father alone. And this was an idiomatic expression used by the Jews to designate the honor and respect due to the father. So people would be gathered on a particular day for the wedding. And they had to know when it was within a reasonable period of time in order to be there. Because if it was known maybe next month, maybe three months they couldn't have a wedding like that. So they, this was like I said a sign of respect.

And then what would happen is the father would then say okay go get your bride. And that meant the trumpeters were there. The feast was ready. Groom's people were there.

It was all ready. Now go get your bride. Then go get the bride.

It was a tradition. You go to the house and then you grab her. You walk her back or they would ride her back. She would be lifted up and then they'd be carried she'd be carried back. And it was interesting like the rapture and stuff like that. Be carried back to where he was but he was kind of with her.

And so that's what's going on there. But when it says no man knows back to 2436 not even the angels of heaven nor the son but the father alone, then the question becomes how much is he referring to the wedding feast and how much is it that he's referring to the issue of what's called the Carmen Christi which is the incarnation and the humiliation spoken of in Philippians 2 5-8 about Jesus. He emptied himself. So questions in theology just orbit around the nucleus question of well what did Jesus know and what did he not know. We know that in his divine nature all things were known.

And that had to be the case. In his human nature by human definition he can't know all things. So how does this work together? The attributes of both natures are ascribed to the single person it's called the communicatio idiomatum. And the implication here is that the properties of both natures were not always manifested at the exact same time. Sometimes you would have a contradictory problem.

So an example is I can be angry and I can be loving but I can be angry and loving all at the exact same time in the exact same sense. So I can go back and forth between them and perhaps there's something like that where God the son is going back and forth between the properties of his natures and knowing and not knowing and things like that and this is one of the things that we think and wonder and there's a break so hold on. After the break we'll get back and get your comments. Okay so hold on buddy. Hey folks we'll be right back after these messages. Please stay tuned. Be right back. It's Matt Slick live taking your calls at 877-207-2276. Here's Matt Slick. Alright everybody welcome back to the show. If you want to give me a call it's easy just dial 877-207-2276.

Let's get back to Nathan. Are you still there buddy? I'm right here. So did that help you?

Well to me it did a lot. I thank you for that. But also the Holy Spirit Christ and the Father they all know when they will come. Am I correct? Yeah of course. And that's what I say that's what I've always discussed with someone.

I don't know why they are wrong but thank you. I also wanted to ask you last another day that you said that I live in Bellflower California. Oh I used to live in Bellflower. Yeah. Off of Flower Street and also off of Park Street right after 991.

Exactly. I lived all before he tripped out. Before I used to live in another house and I forgot one Walnut Street. It used to be huge.

But then my grandma and my dad died and we had no money right there because of our business went out and we had to move but we still moved. Looked for a place that was affordable and it was right there in Bellflower. Living Waters is right there too. Yeah correct correct correct. And also it was the Calvary Chapel yeah. Two of them yeah. And the next one and guess what I told you that I was well you believe in that and I'm more into that now.

Do you have a question? Pre-tribulation pre-tribulation you know I'm a little bit out of it but I'm more into the same things you believe in because that's the same thing that oh my gosh on the by the lancer man he believes that he well he passed away already he believes that he believes differently than some of us and I study them and I go wait a second. Mine is correct the way you told me that some of it a lot of it is correct except for the same thing I'll tell you what why don't you call back sometime and we can discuss pre and post-tribulation rapture and I'll give you a pre-tribulation.

I thought it was yours I thought it was great but then I saw this news that is best that I believe in that nobody knows what is coming okay well good okay brother I'm going to get an inner caller and keep listening okay. Thank you for your answer. May the Lord always be with you and family. Alright. Have a great day. You too. Thanks. You know I just reminded I used to live in Bellflower which is in Southern California and my dad was in the service he was in Vietnam and we could not afford a place to stay so we stayed with some friends in Bellflower and he was one of the people on the Doolittle's Raiders when they in World War II when they flew over and bombed Japan for a retaliatory raid and they made a movie out of it called 30 Seconds Over Tokyo.

He was one of the guys. Small world let's get to Jamal from North Carolina. Jamal welcome. You're on the air.

Mr. Slick thank you for taking my call. Amen. I did not know that oh well thank you appreciate that. That's good to know.

That makes my day right there. I did not know that your father was part of Doolittle's Raid is that true? No not my father.

Hold on. But when my dad was in Vietnam we couldn't afford a place and so my mom's friend last name was Sessler you can look it up but she said come on in and live with us and so we moved in there and the man of the house there was one of Doolittle's Raiders. Ah man that is so crazy and also great at the same time. In fact instead of a five man crew on that particular plane they had a four man crew he took two jobs and they crash landed off the coast of China and he had to pull one of his fellow GI's to shore and then they were rescued by the Chinese and then brought back. That's what happened.

That is crazy. When I hear about stories like that from documentaries, movies and personal testimonies that gave me an appreciation for servicemen, men and women actually. The sacrifice and the grit that it took to do what they did I mean that's amazing. We do owe a lot to them.

And they definitely have my appreciation but at the front of the conversation so to get to my questions here. Let's see. Women pastors and elders can women teach youth classes?

Yes. The ideas are not to teach men and so at what point does a boy become a man? Well that's a little ambiguous, a little unclear. So I'd leave it up to the individual church to to decide that. But they're not to be in a spiritual authority over men in the church because Adam was first created and that's 1 Timothy 2, 12 and 13.

Okay. I won't get on that too much because I have another question but a quick follow up. So what about other programs in the church like can they be organizers, can they teach, you say no? Yes they can, sure.

Oh yes, okay. So the bottom line is just can't teach men in a kind of Bible teaching kind of way right? Yeah they cannot be in spiritual authority over men.

That's just it. And you know I've always encouraged women to do as much as they can in churches. They can do everything except be pastors, elders and they shouldn't be deacons either because the Bible says deacons are unermius goodnikos, men of one woman, husband of one wife. So they shouldn't be that position.

Other than that they can do so much and they need to be involved and they should be involved as much as possible. Amen. Amen.

And all this is detailed on CARM right? Yes I've written about it and I've defended it for many years and now here we go again. This is what I say. I say alright everybody anybody out there wants to do an official debate like in person at your church on does the Bible support women pastors and elders? Let's do it. We'll get some funds together.

I'll fly out there and we'll film it you have it live, we'll do everything and we'll do that. And I've been offering this for like 20 years and nobody's taken me up on it. I've offered it hundreds of times.

Nobody takes me up on it. I would just say if you're going to get it film taped and all that just stay away from those ABC moderators. Amen. It was so biased. It was so unfair.

I was yelling at the TV. What are they doing fact checking him and not her? Why are they asking questions like this? I wouldn't be surprised if, because her hair was over her ears, if she had an ear piece in they were feeding her information.

I wouldn't be surprised if she got the questions first. I do not trust the left. I don't trust them. And I don't trust the election coming up. I don't trust it.

Yeah, it gives us some cause for concern. However, I would say go out there and vote anyway. Don't leave it up to the referees. Don't leave it up to the voting machines. Overload the machines to where it's bullet proof to where it's tamper proof.

That's the word I was looking for. If you overload the system they can't rig it. And that's from a guy that works on the machines.

Alright, to my next question, or to my next question. Have you seen the movie Nefarious? Nefarious?

Yeah, about seven times. Oh, good, good. Because it was recommended by Steve Noble. Guy used to be on Truth Network. And I was reluctant to watch it, but he recommended it. So I watched it once and I was like man, it's pretty good, but it's about demon possession. But I'm not sure if I want to watch it again, because I don't want to be focused on this. But it was good. I wanted to watch it again. So when he said watch it seven times, okay, that gets me a little bit of relief.

I watched it many times. And if you want to hold on, I'll tell you what I wrote about in one of my novels about demon possession. Oh, good.

If you're curious. But hold on, there's a break, okay buddy? Hey folks, we'll be right back after these messages. Please stay tuned. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...
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