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August 9, 2021 4:00 pm

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August 9, 2021 4:00 pm

Open calls, questions, and discussion with Matt Slick LIVE in the studio. Questions include---1- What does it mean that Jesus will prepare a place for us---2- Do you think the Jews are the smartest people on earth---3- What are your thoughts on critical race theory---4- Is it ok to listen to Bethel and Hillsong music in church---5- What aspects of Revelation can you take literally- How do you know when it is literal or figurative---6- An atheist called asking to know more about Christianity based on his wife's urging.--7- Are we obligated to follow the government---8- Can someone be a Christian and not believe that Jesus is God- What are some good verses other than John 1-

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Let's see Siegel's have the stuff about some of the late start. That's okay, tomorrow night, a debate, justification by faith with Christ reputation against Nick and Orthodox are personally the studying I been reading through a lot of Eastern Orthodox material and the on salvation, justification, and the more I read it the more I'm convinced it's as bad as Catholicism and it'll be the issue that really deal with here and I'll be going through and the doubts that suited the fixed attitude that we really do get sober text appeared. Arrigo is going through and discussing looking at more information but I'm finding the same thing… To 15 to 20 different resources now just looking just to get things out and it is really a problem. Why can't people just believe in Jesus and just trust in Christ alone stuff coming and so what we do here is a intra-question of the Bible and to teach doctrine in our mind will be teaching a Bible study tonight and I'll have it online either the Carmel org website. You can also go to. I think Facebook here will also have it and I just teach theology and is a difficult Bible study is not literally of verse by verse its is more topical because I'm doing is going through the going through the issues of of the grounding of theological necessity and so I started a few weeks ago with the doctrine of the Trinity monotheism went through Unitarianism find attorneys in trinitarianism and the eternal covenant things like that and so now will be doing tonight will be teaching on on the fall of man and on the sufficiency of Scripture and the nature of truth is, is tied into God's existence so well you going to that of the book of Genesis 3, a little bit on some of these issues so that sounds interesting. All you do is is to him later tonight will be 9 PM Eastern time aside to chair at 7 o'clock at my house and I got the camera affect its assessment of the camera stuff often. Hopefully it'll work out really nicely and the problem was.

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Okay well I will not bother. There are many Riley Holly, yet they click you could you explain luckily yeah it Jesus to see we dwell in this temple Jesus in John 114 became flesh and tabernacle among us of the idea of our physical bodies being tabernacles being houses and so Jesus is going to prepare resurrected bodies for us. That's what seems to to talk about okay. Natural simple. I'm looking forward to my wife especially. She has some medical issues you know and I we are all looking forward to those new resurrected bodies. I I'm I can hardly wait. Celeste was talking about their many mansions. Many dwelling places and I didn't see how you are yet to go to heaven to be with the Lord. Second is 58 says two gaps for the body is to be home with the Lord Jesus is in heaven. The right hand of God's will be will be with him and will be in heaven and it looks like the new heavens and new earth will be made and with the new earth type. I suspect it will be able to be be here on earth as well. Exactly how this can work, but it certainly looks like this can be the case. Okay okay thank you very much welcome very much are right, let's get to. Let's see, let's get the truck from Burlington, North Carolina Chuck, welcome you earlier. I yes sir Matt. A couple quick quick question. I believe the other Florida people have ever lived on the earth.

I do agree with that. I don't know how to measure that I think you what I know well they are earn 24th that all the Nobel pride you Nobel prize for science and medicine.

Yeah, you know, our main yet. That just means the cost of the most educated, it could mean that they have a different topic with intelligent that's generally a measure of IQ. I'm not your average IQ is but just because someone has an IQ disseminated to be successful, to determination all right has now went then IQ is so determination, perseverance, and things like that. So go to intelligent that's what I think but iteratively educated and because because of all I think their heritage to persecution and the reliance on much of the Old Testament. I think they get educated and they prepare themselves as a good idea yeah okay one more quick foundation like John Robin and I were there.

Everything is theological.

And I agree with that. Everything miracle of network work over there being no we inhabit the body, but you know and last where another critical race theory and all the stuff the people that know not stay. They believe you what ever you have to do when because it justified many and they'll bring in their new perfect or whatever. At your army longer. They fell off they don't take any less grandma now or now, you now if you stick with the Old Testament, you will appreciate capitalism private property rights. Yeah, hard work ethic, integrity, honesty, these are the things that they are brought up with so that's why you're successful, I would say because they hold of the principles in that respect. Just I yeah okay yeah what the other point was I don't know your you know I lot about it already. Very yes okay yeah about how the invest by the mean yeah that completely through. You know theory is itself racist villages asserts that white people are racist by nature and the problem is that importing is racist, to some degree somewhere, somehow, some something that was perfect.

Your butts yeah critical race theory out.

It is just it. It's a simple it's similar to the Marxist manifested comments manifesto that sets out classes against each other and by classes being yeah against each other your division. You can have a great deal of disruption of social harmony of churches of governments of economy and then the people who have pushed that like to be in place is why they push it so that they can then rectify the problems that they have helped create and this is one of the way socialist countries take over as a leap towards communism. So what's happening with CRTs the same things right out of the communist manifesto playbook that you set black against white and because it further and further and further, it is more and more evidence racist. Now you know effect at Freddie with a state we signal what you say I don't get that overall this recent statement you don't know it because evidence racist while health is racist in oh it's this it's just insanity of of this people, he doesn't just to abandon CRT. We abandon CRT yeah BLI… Gal on all on active early in its right for both further about knowing I was not, but I feel very about how his lying about the people coming over the border and got used to see was a country lying about everything yeah he's lying.

She's lying and Jesus. Biden is is open the borders against the law that we have in this country of how to come in their care. The people in the government don't care about this so there letting illegals come in and their paint having American taxpayer money be used, to ship them out into the United States so that if the board does get shut somehow they've already got you hundreds of thousands of of you live ass in here who then end up voting Democrat and the superpower that he rented a brain disease and is proof that they are letting in known criminals proof it's been yeah open and but the Biden administration doesn't seem to care about it and so grandma search on the Democratic Party and let me just say that the Democratic Party of the threat history basically is is a standard of evil and I've got the documentation you going through stuff like I wouldn't trust know you know I don't. It was founding County nine on the platform of individual rights.

State sovereignty and plump proslavery. That's how it where it was. The founded on and I got more okay and not that they fell to three of the line called big 772-0722 Van Slyke why call 7707 dinner, but we got only mean okay to listen to so that I could listen to heavy metals. Okay, listen to country western well elevated in church. No Bethel and Hillstone full of heresies full of of dangerous stuff. It should not be played in Christian churches. Now a lot of what they do is very beautiful and I've listened to a lot of it because I want to be on top of the one of things I want to do and I started to just haven't finished it is analyzing Christian lyrics in modern Christian songs and a lot of them are heretical just flat out heresy and I understand you make it rhyme and not recognize fine but some of just flat heretical got a give you permission to do things, but some the.

The Bethel movements and I went to Bethel church. I checked it out and it's overly charismatic and tongues women pastors and elders grave sucking clairvoyance of various things that are involved with and so by playing their music. It opens the door for people to check them out so well at the musics going on there got to be good and it's a very bad bad thing and so I know people who won't even go to any church that plays into their music.

Because if studied with the Bethel is done and what the music teaches okay so my question is not that music is a lot all but well here's the thing.

I believe that within that movement.

There are some good godly people who don't have much discernment and they can write lyrics that are heretical but don't are intended to be heretical. We need to worship God in truth, the Jesus says in John 424 shows an example when someone says the Lord I give you permission to goes on. You don't give God permission to do anything that is an error in your listing what estates it should never been any lyrics now. The person who wrote that I forgot what was isn't intending to to be heretical and humanistic and is trying to just generally being single submit excerpts and got information. It should be something along the lines of God I submit to your will. This is how it is to be no a few months ago I was listening to some Bethel music and my wife listens to it to negotiate cheap interventionist up to you must know and I I said to her, you have noticed in this music I said it's narcissistic, it's Lord, bless me, Lord, fall down upon me, Lord, give me priority are and it's it's self-centered and cannot say no, nothing bad to say Lord you don't let your spirit shine upon us missing that with that's all it is, we don't hear stuff like Lord, make me or break me, make me send me Lord that my hands before your work. Things like this and this is what supposed to be, because Christ gave us the command to go out into the all the nations make disciples of everyone, as the command and so much of the music is internally about my feelings, my sensationalist go to church and get a good feeling and this is a humongous problem. Okay well okay with them at a good job.

Thank you very much… But right you write for three open lines actually 877-207-2276. Let's get to Alberta from Georgia Hale Burnell welcomed on the air.

What you think. There's one date they they take the book of Revelation literally delete epic pocket of John Lee calling for agents from God feeding I thought of being loaded. I think they made it away, and it can't. I do know later because a lot of the things he wrote a book of emaciated people. What's your question because you had a question and you can go hiking it, why wouldn't let one of your good friend to pick it up but I can literally when magneto you can't take it literally. Some aspects of Revelation. You can take literally and some you can't. Jesus even said things that were not to be taken literally.

With that I am the door. So Revelation does have some literal things in it and some nonliteral things. It if you go to Revelation 20.

It's a good place to go check things out and it says there Revelation 20 says I saw an angel coming down from heaven that literal I would say yeah I'd say it's literal and having a key of the abyss and a great chain in its hand. I would say that's figurative great chain in his hand laid hold of the Dragon to this list. That's figurative the serpent of old, I think is pretty liberal who's a devil and Satan that that's little better for thousand years. Literal or figurative.

So you see, there are aspects in their in which we can say yeah it's it's literal and so we can say was not so literal, so the careful okay right. One time a game rabbit precludes chronic right will I hoard embolic thought it was a little like Lord will is most probably symbolic, okay. But I'm just saying that Revelation. Not every single word in Revelation is symbolic like the testimony is this what I know Jesus is that the Disney symbol God Lord God disagreements it symbol symbol doesn't mean that Kate and the four corners of the earth will that's symbolic in the buckle of life is that symbolic or is it don't know for sure right so that we can to be careful of what we say is symbolic and what is missing Revelation is not all of just one aspect is both symbolic and literal. We drafted your best to figure out which one is which is part of a great area of the Holy Spirit about thought grew. Neha Condit there, it contradicts my mom believe it… Thanks. Christ given anything… Can't agree we are allowed to have differences of opinion on debatable issues.

Romans 14 talks about. However, in the essentials of the Christian faith, we can't have the differences to go to Carmen and you can look up what are the essentials of the Christian faith it will go through and shoot the Scripture says our essentials.

Now what I say what the Scripture says you can find Catherine, okay so will burn how to have differences of opinion on debatable issues not on the essentials right okay there about black technique up the great work that you do, they both there's a perfect time for a break we write back after these messages. Mats like why call 770727 charismatic slave heard her call my wife called a week or two ago and was that know about me.

I'm sorry okay I'm hearing you and you have about the good help turn me towards Christ, and I don't know what you invited me to call him so I can talk there and I'm not sure all the details, but anyhow that's why call the day well question is how can your wife help you come to Christ. The answers found in the book of first Peter 31 through six. Give you little theology lesson biblically even though you're an atheist you are in a position of headship in your house when God made Adam.

He told Adam to cultivate the land to subdue the error and that the season everything he couldn't do it by himself. So use the wife and I have children but wish that could spread over the world due to is to be done with love is to be done without propriety and everything rebelled and so we fell in Adam which means then that you and me included, are under the headship of Adam and are obligated to still fulfill the covenant and what you're doing, and no offense meant equitable Romans 118 you're suppressing the truth of God and righteousness my pointing fingers and not accusing you of anything described in Scripture. And so what she needs to do is one of the things is recognize that you're in that position of headship in the house that she's not to submit to your headship. If it's on biblical communities I got around that bank should say no. But the Bible talks about when someone is married to an unbeliever. It says your adornment say this will wives be submissive to your own husbands, so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be one without a word, by the behavior of their wives as they observe your chaste and respectful behavior. Your adornment is not a merely external braided hair jewelry etc. but with the hidden person of the heart with gentleness and quiet spirit, and so this is what life was to be situation you have specialty answers.

First Peter three okay thank you and I you and I try to live my life by the a lot of tenants of the Bible you know kind not live you things like that do it because I think you're right that there rather than okay little girl of eternal punishment of the "eternal report.

I think the right thing to do well to attack your your logic okay you if you say it's the right thing to do and what standard do you judge that is the right thing to do. There is no external standard in an atheist worldview that you can justify universal moral standard out there that you can take hold of and say this is what is right. If you say what I believe it's right because it's an internal witness than that subjectivity and subjectivity means what would I think is right. What you think of right to be different so right and wrong are not depend upon your thinking or might think so either way, you don't have any way to make sense of what you think is right and this is one of the many areas that atheism fails and I think that there are universal moral standard. Okay the earth by a gold standard.

Let's talk about it through universal moral standard.

Okay, so a moral is something that occurs in the hearts of the mind and if I tell you something.

It's not true but I believe it's true. I'm just mistaken I'm not lying to you. Okay I believe is true. Not lying I did. I just have to be wrong but if I know it's not true.

I say the same thing, then that's a lie you with me right so morality is an abstraction. Something occurs in the mind and the heart that your singers universal morals figure singers universal abstractions, but abstraction requires a mind how you have a universal abstraction without universal mind.

How do I have a universal abstraction without universal mind you, I am not quite sure I understand what drives lit up a very big, I do have a universal mind terms universal moral standards that I was talking about ACI. I discussed this with atheist very frequently and when I'm able to do is demonstrate that atheists do not have any intellectual foundation by which they can justify any moral absolutes. They can't because in an atheist worldview.

When there is no God, there is no universal mind because in their worldview. God doesn't exist, but a universal moral truth is a universal abstraction if it's universally true, it means everybody ought to submit to it everywhere all the time as a universal moral absolute is absolutes and morals occur in the mind and the heart. Today in our minds will in an atheist worldview. You don't have a universal mind you have a universal heart like that resides in God you have in that regard. So how then can in an atheist worldview justify a universal moral absolute which is also universal abstraction which requires mind atheist can't do the it it just can't is one of many, I'm sorry that this is one of many problems in atheist many.

There are no moral universal morals. I will have the light of certain internal moral code that I live by and that you have my hair role models doesn't mean it's right or wrong, it just means that you just got up from society that is me as writer. But we do with atheist lifetime. This will discuss these things and will give me answers and all undermine their answers and keep showing them that they don't have anything in what I'm trying to do is educate them and the value of truth and that they don't get it in and not knocking you I'm not being mean is just you don't know about these things even thought about them in this this relationship so you're not sure about in her lot of a tissue trying to answer this difficult question can't there's no start discussing atheism fails in obtaining universal moral standards and in order to have a universal moral standard. You have to have universal regularity that means is you can't have live in a universe that is unpredictable.

You don't want to go to refrigerator and all of a sudden you see flying greens of frog screaming at you suddenly Nichols Adorno think they know it or gone if the universe wasn't regular.

You couldn't have any truths. Truth is dependent ultimate in the mind of God.

But in this context. What you couldn't relate to the requires regularity in a universe of an atheist worldview that cannot defend universal regularity. The principles that unify all things we can in Christianity.

These are serious discussions or had, and I will discuss the radio very often because people get headaches and understand this concept that I got thought so you are… I love FileVault load five yeah I like much brighter long note I don't meet your mind and many of them my love, my moral code is based on a lot of things in the Bible you know will the problem with it works. I will illustrate this way there's a man walking down a path to his left is of the cliff to his right is a forest.

This path is by 500 feet long and about 7 feet wide and is going along the Tiger jumped out from the forest and the docks and the tire goes over the cliff and he say he says I hate it whenever Tiger jumps like to do is dock and I'll be safe and hundred feet later in their Tiger and he jumps again. I was verifying his idea Tiger goes over the cliff and he said all I have to do is simply dock whenever the Tiger jumped safe while obviously, it doesn't work is not true, it may work in that situation, but is not true. And so when people Apollo apply to will it works or not applying to truth, and the only reason they can have something work is because there's regularity in the world of the abide in, but they can't justify the regularity I get into such a dear differing levels of logic and discussion on this and most times atheist just don't have any way of responding because their worldview was no disrespect meant. It is rather shallow one a hold of the Freon mats like why call 770-7276 pairs met okay but welcome back to the show, Mark. Are you still there are so did have anything else when it had a little bit little bit more on about moral standard than whether not exactly true, but it is for birthday whether I've able to have. Now that you can have them. That's different than justifying them.

I have an article on my website.

Can atheist be moral yet they can speak and have morals but the can't account for any universal morals. The can't justify any universal so therefore it's arbitrary based on likewise atheism cannot account for our existence, nor can it account for regularity of nature, nor can it account for universals transcendental's it all kind of stuff. It just fails, I will have read but what about the world. I don't throw it reroute the board that I think atheist can account for now because I could I could tackle evolution show you think about evolution or just do you still know about that are problematic but you see where the first come from where did the universe come from. It had a beginning. The beginning was either personal or it's not personal. And so the ultimate cause of the universe by which you want to say inside of that evolution works ultimate cause has to be the personal or impersonal and I can show you how an impersonal cause can't work in this form of the bandits and holdups you have updated about that on your website tonight. Not looking, that's okay. Look at the Kalama KAL AM Kalon cosmological argument on corn effect. If you would a car.

My think is the current network/atheism should find over hundred articles I've written on on no atheism with you hundred I got I got a lot in debates and I talk with atheist weekly for hours from Catholics, and I will look up Kalon not look at your website in an explosion of those I so quickly before I leave. Let me verify the verses you said you talked about first Dieter 3136. Yes, as far as that's your wife submission.

You are right thank you and Romans 118, was that good for you.

I would say Romans 118.

As far as you want in the chapter to religious and chapter but basically 118 through roughly 21, four, or 20 Exodus 18, 19, 20, it will be good. Notice three versus us.and it deals with with you okay and the calling back on Monday if you want to say have read those. I don't agree with. Interesting what everyone around you.

I would like to thank you very much for taking my call.

I know problem or call any time okay you two all right. Pray for Mark. Obviously it's these Lord is good today from Raleigh things are what Dave all right and that good evening, how are you doing all right.

By God's grace is what you got for the yet. Thank you for the lab.

Well, what about the old log.

I do we break that the time I would like with Christian what Scripture example question what God don't repent doctoring and example of what direction that happened July when Dan Wade everything I wouldn't call it insurrection. That's just propaganda from the left. Okay I met you at our blog about leaving to come back. But I'm why I'm struggling with it because the repent… Weakness nine is one thing that way the right.

What will we be not be thought in bed. I do the right time, with no idea what we everything I know that we had to write about Wendy put the example that was requested idly which are quite likely that that while we thought that on damn what wrong equipment and lately I don't understand the question why we not to lie like that was the credit I did spend out what got it Don't drink the Bible that conducted by what you feel on what I think.

Oh well, the Bible tells us that we are not obligated to follow the government whenever the government asks us to do on difficult that we can disagree with this distilled it so we can disobey the government now doesn't teach that we can march against the government to be breathing in the phone there a lot as it does it does tell us that we are able to march against unrighteousness, even if it's our government because the Bible tells us to protect the innocent and the week. If any government starts oppressing the weak and the defenseless.

Then Christians have the obligation to stand up and resist that this is the basic biblical principle of the house that to be done that's there's different ways and so I literally am working on an article which I gotta get released here pretty soon my consumer think the Christians have the right of self-defense and to what extent do you have right gift and essay due so caring about everything that I got back sucking Already going. I got you nothing have anything to do it so I could make that II got drunk when I got I got of an independent private feet by good but what we have lately really think that got really got that way. I do think that I would like, well, let me say that this is say that the people who went to the capital is perfectly legitimate perfectly right critically establish the people who broke in and that's a different issue and they need to be prosecuted court of the ball at which feedback is the question. How much do we have to put up the decided thing people in on January 6, in part, I believe, is just my opinion were acting out because they're sick and tired of the government's doing your sick and tired of of leftism. A lot of people are. I know a lot of people who are very upset so you know the government is afraid of the people and they do in their letter saying it is an insurrectionist worst in World War II and all this idiocy that they been saying but so we do have the right of violence will have the right of doing that we have right of violence only in self-defense not in offense and cannot correct that I write when I got out that it well yes and no. Yes I know this is not an easy death topic because lately asked a question. If someone comes into your home with something that is going to beat up your your family. You have the right to do whatever is necessary to stop that person even if it means strong violence. We wouldn't want that… Okay, now what you do if someone's outside of your home and is just yelling at you that you're going to do something with her not doing anything you don't have the right to attack them.

What if you're out either on site with a side of your home and they have a bomber grenade in their hand. They pulled the pin and get rid of.

So to your house.

Now you have the right to intervene and stop them. Another question is what you do if you know a crowd of people is coming specifically to your house to destroy your house delete there's a question I'm wrestling with. Do you have the right of a preemptive strike nor to stop of violence that's in eminent.

That's a problem I'm wrestling with biblically because it seems to be in the Old Testament and New Testament vengeance. In the words as gray area is a line drawn so then you it's tough somewhat. So here's the thing about this. What line are the Christians to stand behind how far that line to go when the government starts saying pro-homosexual pro-abortion, pro-communism, pro-open borders, which is an assault on our country. When do we say we've had enough and it's time to protect ourselves.

You see, this is an innocent. Now right I clock all the very band that what you out will be your city is a stench of proof not only true love but also we had not mean that all about Bob go, we must unlock much possible absolutely be difficult. I passed as much as possible as much as possible.

Okay, get back my second what but look look look look look look looking liquid. One of the callers because we just kind of going back and and and forth, and the young working on this this idea and having to deal with it quite a bit lately and I can write an article because this can be used by a lot of people in different countries for various reasons, and some I'm okay buddy Dave blasts on this get to Joseph in North Carolina long wait but there you are gonna take my call. Okay I have a friend who believed the Christian but he doesn't believe Jesus is God is nontrivial. He's not Christian. Beside John's line. Are there any versus typically like appointing to Colossians 214. He was 16 through eight. Go to clippings to five through eight. There's lots of verse that show this effect.

If I were you go to Carmel and go to the Christian theology, section and is open up to see a file over hundred articles and you'll see a section on on Jesus and go through and read the articles on on Jesus. If you want to call up the show and discuss this with me. I would be more than happy to demonstrate out of the Scriptures. Both the old and the New Testament that Jesus Christ is the is God in flesh and Jesus says in John 824. Unless you believe that I am, you will die in your sins. And he's talking about being the I am the great I so tell them, often talk right the good karma look up the Jesus is God you look at the theology section. You'll see a lot of articles okay thank you all right, all right. I was Joseph and we are at a time.

Sorry about that. We got to Daphne from North Carolina? Coded.

Please call up next week. Let's talk about that and Danny from California want to talk about the definition of death, both physical and spiritual, and I can give you Scripture references for both of those what they are because are slightly different and physical death as a result the spiritual path that you want next week everybody. May the Lord bless you greatly. Have a great weekend. Okay I'm sorry the way long time to get on that happens, the Lord bless you by his grace back on here