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October 20, 2021 4:00 pm

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October 20, 2021 4:00 pm

Open calls, questions, and discussion with Matt Slick LIVE in the studio. Questions include---1- What does it mean that we are not to judge---2- How do you refute the idea that the gospel writers didn't write the gospels---3- What's wrong with Unitarianism---4- What is the Book of Enoch---5- How can it really be as simple as just believe and be saved---6- Matt gives some resources for Christians to study the Bible, particularly blue letter Bible.--7- Matt talks about the work being done in Africa and how the CARM material is being used there.

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The following program is recorded content created by the Truth Network wrestling. Why is the founder and president of the listed apologetics research was found alive are the more you have questions of our Bible doctrine why Grimes is called responding to your questions and I hope you can have a good time with your little show and if you want to participate. All you do is dial 877-207-2276 last four did spell CA RM dialogue phone corn.org CA RM.org that is the Christian apologetics and research ministry so well been working for. I see you actually on the 25th of this. This month is good be 26 years old. What do you stand with the 25th look at them a calendar here so well that is not cool 26 years old that will be on Tuesday Leona Tuesday little between Monday 25th 25th we started about that. Praise God and look folks, what you may call you for equivalents 87720722760 last night I had a debate with a well-known Muslim apologist should be your elite don't know if you if you watch that you did like some feedback now why I had three approaches to debate this very very quickly. I brought up the issue of of the expression of personhood and the problem that opposes inside of Unitarianism.

The issue of solitude and how it it's related to torture is replaced Unitarianism and one of the many issue which is a philosophical issue, but it's plagued theologians full of philosophers.

For centuries, and how the Trinitarian view helps solve the problem with unitary one does not. Also went to the issue, the Trinity, so the opening statement. Upon carving, go to the current website and is go to what left-hand side apologetics go to debates good out of the 80 some seconds look on that or he can score the homepage and it's the solicitor should be early August-should be your SH IBI SH ABI arc is a real nice guy. I'm sure we would get along. We live next door to each other. Nice guy, but his muscle and that he does not believe the true living God. And that's a problem. So, if you saw the debate when making comments. Give me a call if not no big deal. I didn't do it on video on it today and went over that and let's see what else and we got her stuff to talk about, but the big so we have open lines give you call 87720722760 that reminds me really fast. We had Bill McKeever on from Mormonism research ministry on yesterday's great talk about Mormonism all day and tonight I've got to be on with Eli Yala which I was teasing my mother's name Eli I Yala I must've called more and done we were discussing the Trinity of swimming Jehovah's Witnesses Julie with the stuff tonight in about three hours from now 9 PM Eastern time to put that Lincoln stuff up on the calendar as well so busy busy busy. Tomorrow night Bible study going to continuing to Galatians chapter 530 go if you want to write.

Okay, let's get to Chris from Indiana Chris welcome you were on the air about all that you all sure I okay we Meyer and that it is you you call right here she is no okay way that you first current QI think well and I think that you are thinking critically for that after eight, always preaching that were not allowed to dry and eat it while okay that you can help me on that first 50 fed up like Valley that he would think it is late but well you sure it's not a problem.

His was a don't judge me by Judge is a murderer or murder someone.

Are we to judge that is being sinful will, of course, we are if he does a don't judge, but don't say anything is right or wrong, we can't say that it's not true. We do make judgments all the time. As far as calling Joyce Joyce Meyer heretic. She is a heretic she flat out is and that she read stuff I got the quotes she has done stuff that is just and something that it is heretical. If he does not know what she's taught in his little judge within what you do is go to the website go to corn.org has the video the audios of her saying what she says as well as the other books and do that show if he cannot isolate with fork.

If he says no even in light of this, we still should not judge her that he's disqualified from being a pastor because the elder pastors and elders is supposed to be able to refute error if you can't do that, that he doesn't meet the qualifications of being a pastor. I really think that I would like you you or a right you call Meyer out bait go back. I have a real issue with Dan Blakey and I mean always. Not like going out all wrong. I try to correct it or help the baked out the no that's wrong groups first produced 215 now that I know not through now I need that it not that we can add you really typically about the first of that I did it all go. Think back to my thing about what I had to add I try to look at the understanding that I did not get a clear understanding out how you use the first lightning again week and things depending on what were judging. We can just got to somebody you not a true Christian like you to Christian that's not right. But if were judging in the sense of if someone were to say Jesus Christ is not God in flesh we can tell them you continuing that if you do, you're not be saying, because Jesus said I don't it work what they were committing adultery. And now you can die. That is a judge that is sent absolutely that the you that like we all thing we how I thought verse 50 spiritual part all things that thou know so how do you interpret that we can make special judgments. That's what you can make spiritual judgments, we can still deny the Trinity or the DQ Christ was resurrection, we can say you're outside the camp of Christ in the need to repent. It's very simple. We need to yes even if we you like, you know like that help pick out Michael pick out all morning in a bright light that don't like their lights out, but I think that believe the Scriptures that live godly holy light dial and whatever that looked like I we all think we all get right out right is true we we none of us do, but we are called to be aware spiritually and we had a right to grant is judge. Everybody is not what we do. It's like when I say things like Joyce Meyers, a heretic she is.

Had I documented. I show what I is what she says it is heresy that I thought Billy might, I don't get it why he had and what you have but ideologically we can talk it will take against and better that I could bring that good that we all write to me spiritual judgments and all kinds of categories.

Okay, we could make spiritual got all kinds of All kind of topics we can because we compare it with word of God and if we receive, we can make no judgments, then we can condemn any sin can we course, we can write should we do back again point I always like having quite a long night game called disconnected goblins. I okay hey folks, we have for lunch which you may call 877-207-2276. Let's get to Anthony from Kansas Anthony welcome you on here. I back it all right hanging in there you are not called you. But I what you do one. One lady preacher whatever thing that Matthew didn't really write You know and it hurt like that format did not write you ever ready well will this not necessarily melt all address that was unnecessarily reputation you have to ask them. Show me your evidence. You made a statement that Matthew is not written by Matthew. What's your evidence for that.

I would like to see that it's up to them. They made the assertion so hopefully they can back up that assertion. If the person cannot back up this assertion and you say well if you can't back it up. You should say if they say will scholar so-and-so says such and such. At that point you know you need to go check out that scholar says and find other scholars see with the other scholarship and see and then compare and I was saying you don't mind, the church fathers. If your church father.

My scholar can beat up your scholar so which she would be doing what she said if you pastors is a heretic for being a pastor anyway she shouldn't be attacking the word of God.

Furthermore, the early church recognize that the gospel of Matthew was written by the gospel of Matthew.

The early church said they were right back there. That's what that's what it is and so that's why we we affirm that okay you and you recommend a book to talk about the issue by believing, we look online for folks for 77 776 max Y call 770-777-7776. All right, Anthony, are you still there here.

All right, so I would look at what's called the Baker was at the Baker encyclopedia of the Bible that's that's a book you can get into is another book the International standard Bible encyclopedia is another book I will probably have information on one of the books I've read. I'm sorry you are International standard Bible encyclopedia, international standard Bible international standard Bible ISV I noticed about ISP E international standard Bible encyclopedia also you can get Baker encyclopedia of the Bible.

That's good. And also there's a book I was going through and outlining called the Canon revisited Canon re-visited by Michael Kruger KRU GER so that's the books.

Okay the Canon revisited by Kruger K are you GER and also what you can just do is just do a search on the web church fathers authorship of Matthew and you'll find all kinds of stuff and so the gospel of Matthew doesn't describe itself is being written by Matthew so who was written by well the early church father said Matthew now I don't usually quote the early church fathers don't usually reference early church fathers for doctrine, but when the Bible itself doesn't say who the author of Matthew is but you was a disciple and the early church fathers. The church people sleep very early that that's who wrote it within us.

We go with it makes perfect sense. They were the ones who were closest to it and have information that we don't have someone people today say what I couldn't Matthew why not animals spell scholar Bob says okay so then all the church fathers recognition that the church of the death of book treatment Matthew Artis incorrectly setting up justifications for that is how I would tackle it okay to book out called something I believe so, but I don't recall you just look for that to. That's what I do when I when I am checking things out is not to see what does that book exist, I'll go check it out to look at go see Tryon and understand who said what, when, where, it just learn as I go to recommend you the same thing. Okay okay my own YouTube program about it like you brought it and what I let that be within the accelerant and then write a paragraph and then you really meant.

By the way the Bible know where to begin his begin where you are free begin studying.

You don't know go check just to look to searches to go to know what books are good for defending the doctrine of the Bible. The code canonicity liability. You just go through and study and your course, you gotta get you Josh McDowell's book evidence that demands a verdict get that's a lot of documentation. I do have let you go then okay) will goblins boy, okay hey folks going to give me a call on you to do is dial 8772072276F open lines, I would hear from you. Give me call this talk to Roger from North Carolina. Roger welcome Rainier I would on that doing all right. You likely that things like when you know Unitarianism okay. A lot of people think that the end them because they don't deny that the or the Holy Spirit or father but they are hard to explain to them what the best way to go about a claimant there were these people that what they're keeping in therapy and diet long that they are denying the true God is a Trinity and they are not affirming the total incarnation which means the person of Christ is in doubt to corner theology with the teachers that God is one distinct person that's it is existed eternally another actuator I recommend is if you're interested is go to my debate with Shapiro Lee my my opening statement and I attack three issues that are very prominent and some of them are difficult understand some are not. But the issue of personhood, solitude, and the one in the many leisure related issues. To this, but nevertheless when they deny the Trinity they deny the full and complete incarnation of the person of the word in Christ and the lean towards what's called Nestorianism's. What this means is the correct doctrine is a hypostatic union and the one person are two distinct and simultaneous natures. The divine nature and the human nature. This corrects theology and related that is the communicator to idiom autumn, which means that the attributes of each nature are ascribed to the single person so Jesus the one person said I am thirsty I'll be with you always, even to the end of the earth.

He claimed the attributes of both humanity and divinity as a single person so this is the correct doctrine. Nestorianism would say in the single body of Jesus or to persons, a divine person, and a human person and they interact with each other. Well if that's the case, and only the human nature died on the cross. Then there is no sufficiency of divine sacrifice and that denies the sufficiency of the atoning work in oneness with Bill often do is say that the human nature was speaking to the divine nature. In Luke 2242 when Jesus is not my will but your will be done with that was the human nature speaking to the father in heaven. Our father who art in heaven. Matthew 612 that's the case, then how is that Jesus was incarnated, they look the best they can do is say he was God was indwelling Jesus. What he couldn't dwell all kinds of people, but is not incarnated to be incarnated means to become that. And that's what happens when the Word became flesh and dwelt among us John 11 numbers 14 so they don't have a true incarnation. They have a hint towards Nestorianism to persons in one body.

They have another hint depending which person you talk to where the human person is talking to the divine person and not my will but your will be done, etc. well that's means that Jesus is not fully completely God just indwelt by God, the subject in the story, and this is why it's so great to hold on, regular folks we write back after these messages, please say to Matt Flynn why call 77077 back to the show back on with Roger from North Carolina welcome Rainier okay have a man of God that God may have a man entertaining for the for the day. People out of that work there thinking. The father there thing that the man father hadn't been can't be fully only manfully got right.

This is the reason this is a little difficult for a lot of people is because they don't understand very well the hypostatic union and as it relates to the communication of the properties. The reason I'm talking about. This is not to impress anybody not to shame anybody but to say that these kinds of issues that are raised by motorists need to be addressed in the context of a more precise understanding of proper Christology. These issues have come up before throughout the centuries, and Christian theologians have dealt with these and part of the this solutions part of the issues that have been raised as answers to the challenges of things like moralism is the hypostatic union and the communication of the properties of the communicatively mocked along with dye solipsism and not mono solipsism and so these are issues and it had to face things cut like you to communalism where the two natures of Christ are intermixed so much you can distinguish Nestorianism were two separate persons in the body of Christ modifies it to where it says that that the two natures of divine and human formed together to form something new. 1/3 new thing called the God man thing and so stuff like this or thinks of Satanism, there's a lot of heresies have come in throughout the centuries and so the Christian church has dealt with these on the theological issue of theological level what I'm doing is is simply exposing the Christians to these problems and the solutions of the church has come through for centuries. That's what I'm doing so decision there okay. I met that make sense and make that that that tried to articulate that your anything completely but buying the if moralism is true ask the question how is her true incarnation because it cannot let my question make up that met with my my question because it God kind of form think a bit of bothered me the company. The thing to become the Holy Spirit lack of the deed of plan.

They become the Holy Spirit wax it if I am right now exactly correct infertility to five says he's a man and also he was baptized in order to fulfill Old Testament law and in his baptism he entered into that office of the priesthood after the order of Melchizedek and he's a high priest after the order because of the keeper 620 and six 725 can't be a high priest if you're not a man so if Jesus is not a man right now we don't have a high priest and were damped. So what are they do with this. So when we talk about this with Motorola still say well he's a man right now in heaven. The human part is exalted and asking questions because the is that man divine in his personhood have to answer that question. If they say yes will then Jesus is his own person right yes and and the father says person right and the Holy Spirit is then you have a Trinity, and in their stock to get into that that that was my question out okay.

If you are in the father, the person and if you have a moving one. Even if you have the person or thing that God kind of form the Holy Spirit need a bill apart and then God of the first event to person a person delete though :-) that's what's important at this point understand the communicatively new module because if it Jesus in the argument is a person now and the father or the Holy Spirit but mode is a person within the question is, is the person of Christ.

Also divine because the attributes of both nature ascribed to the single person so when Jesus said on earth. I will be with you always, even to the end of the earth is claiming divine attributes is that still true of his personhood. You see why this is important, how it relates I am in the coming what they have another God. They do if another God is not to say that all motor lists are not saved because I believe that people can be in error.

Not knowing stuff in their ignorance and trusting in Christ. Normatively speaking, if anyone believes and knowledgeably believes a modal list of theology oneness Pentecostal they're not Christian, would help. I agree with that.

A lot of anything ascribed affinity for Dave, even though they can't detract one God in three distinct simultaneous cultural person such that the Bible reveals we teach right. I think they're happy today.

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God bless. All right, we have three open lines 877-207-2276 Joe a from High Point North cannot welcome you on here.

How are you all rights I look I keep saying they pop up on my Facebook page. The book of Enoch and I don't know about it.

I know you had to book written a long time ago.

It deals with the fall the naphthalene with the Angels and things like that and so some people think you belong to the Bible because Jude quoted in part from the book of Enoch and so they say what that means it must be inspired. But that's not the case.

Just because a book is referenced and even quoted doesn't mean that the whole book that was quoted was it was also inspired because they would be a problem because if that book quoted anything else.

It was inspired and all the other books are also inspired and it just becomes ridiculous. So the inspired writer of Jude quoted Enoch and so this is correct so she's giving approval on one section doesn't mean entire book of Enoch is correct and so you could rent a couple hundred years BC and was around and known at that time.

Okay gotcha I ever read the book. No, but I think I have a copy of it on karma gone through parts of that is heaven sent read the whole thing insisted I will if I have to fight fires do the debate about it to be. The whole thing. But you know will have to all right. Thank you God bless hey folks for open lines which give me a call 877-207-2276 Bob from Utah. Welcome your way to work good and I hear the preacher say all you have to dear Lloyd.

Thinking to myself I heard that they get out and currently first time ever question my mind I thought that the technical myth like there might be something out require like that pay them repentance or deduction. A relationship with God out of my question was a good question. This could take a bit to answer it, so break coming up in a couple minutes with oldest around that so different aspects of this belief is only as good as who you put it in so Mormonism, for example, teaches that God keep the planet and that he and his wife have relations a produce spirit children in Jesus the brother.

His brother, the devil, along with all of us in the preexistence. So if you decide you believe in Jesus, disabling yes not believing the Jesus of the Bible. So we say when we know Paul says if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised up the dead shall be saved. Well, that Jehovah's Witnesses say that God raised him from the dead, but not physically only spiritually and they deny that Jesus is the true Lord Lord is in God so people can saying I believe he's Lord I can believe he was raised from the dead, but what do they mean by these things. What Paul is talking about Romans 10 is those who believe the true Christ, and that the issue is being justified by faith, not by faith and baptism. Baptism is not necessary or to become a Christian on the say a comment here the body, but may not get back to explain it.

Repentance is not necessary for salvation and that it brings you salvation, but repentance is a necessary work of regeneration of God brings to us and so were able able to repent of our sins and so you got to repent of your sins, but is not the repentance that saves you his faith in Christ that does not hold on the break. No folks for the month. You may call for the last segment 720776 I will hear from you give a call that I call 77077 so that answer the question sufficiently reminding sure you got your pirate crew got while you go to the Bible. The Bible is the revelation of God and so I after you get very thick. Yeah so Mormons. For example, 1/8 article Mormon church statement of a particle and articles of faith. They say that the book the Bible's critics and so far as a strictly transmitted to the cast doubt on the word of God. Satan did in Genesis 3. Did God really say when he spoke to Eve the that this is one of the things that false religions do is cast out in the word of God then there's another way that the misused word of God when they believe it's authentic and in the alternate like the Jehovah's Witness organization is done with actually altered with the Bible actually says in some specific areas, particularly dealing with Christ. And so then they submit the Bible to their authoritarian system and in so doing, they arrive at error for the Mormons teach. For example, that God has a goddess wife and he came to our planet with the Bible never says that the Bible contradicts it clearly missing the God is always been God and is that even know the other. God sees always been what he is processed at. That means Mormonism's false writer, but a believe it is a doubt, the word of God. This is why God gives him over to the deprived of their heart and minds of the believe the lie and entered a judgment, they think you're okay. They feel good.

Don't realize that they're lost in under damnation and nothing but God's mercy keeps them alive until the day of death go to eternal damnation that they've not found the true living God. The same thing occurs with Jehovah's Witnesses and the same thing occurs with Muslims and Roman Catholics who believe in the true God and the true Christ by the false gospel because they had works to salvation and denounced the true faith of the true work of salvation in Jesus. So when we say go to the Bible to learn who Jesus is in the Bible. While this becomes a little difficult because, well, how do you know whose interpretation of the Bible is correct. What I do is say just read just read I say do two things.

One speed read like you know a few chapters of the gospel of John speed read as fast you can then get the you know the birds eye view of what's being said and then go back in and just read slowly the same thing and you'll see different thing from different angles and this is how you can one of the ways you can teach yourself you can always go do research. You know you can call me up and asked questions now. The problem with that is one joke I saved you don't want to trust regarding the radio name slick, but I do have a lot of experience in debating teaching and writing and research and I provide the references and the links to various things in order for people to check them out because they have to go to the word of God the check amount and slice type recommend that people do that because if they don't do it themselves or not. You know if there was a believe it is true or not. And God holds us responsible for knowing what the truth is in the pastors and the elders are supposed to teach truth are supposed to teach things like the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the hypostatic union asked me to cut you in your bottom die, syllogism, justification, imputation prepared fishing nation atonement covenant there supposed be teaching these things because of the fundamentals of the basic Christian theological perspective. Most Patrick and elders don't ever teach the stuff out of all of the some fixed parts of it and so the problem here is that then Christians don't have the tools necessary to understand what the faith is anyone more trained individuals in their cultic false doctrines come along. The Christians are easy prey to the line machinations and reasonings of the false teachers and so this is why people get confused. One of the things I hope to do is provide truth by examining the word of God and providing people with articles and in doing that kind of thing so okay enlightenment. Thank you very much okay now there's something called hermeneutics HERM hermeneutics okay and when I would suggest you do is look up hermeneutics included Carmen and you can just type in the search engine how to interpret the Bible and what I do. There is not give you the slick method of an Bible interpretation accordingly referenceable access know I'm sitting the basic principles are what is the text say what's the context what's the immediate context weather-related versus will house the word usage with dictionaries might say things like that is just common sense stuff which the cultural context is everything relevant in that area Howdy discover that one. Unfortunately, this takes a lot of work sometime and I would like to have people just not ready for the don't have the tools so in light of that, let me give you a recommendation. I have certain things on the computer that I use a great deal, but most people don't have access the stuff that I have this right do for living. So I say to people is go to blue letter Bible.com. It's great blue letter Bible.com and for example, you can do right now.

Okay, I'm looking at it and I'm going to use the NASB 20 which one is the NSP released in the year 2020 and I want to type in, for example, let's see. John 316 is a verse that we know about and I John 316 shows up with other verses and I would hit the word tools and all of a sudden all kinds of stuff is there, Bibles, cross references, commentaries, dictionaries, miscellaneous stuff and you could spend hours right there just study this site, among others things in the lather forgot that I can tell you what is in the chat room that's like this, you can go there just has information and so that you can study you can learn you can learn on your own.

There's except for Greek stuff commentaries contribute is everything about you be surprised what you can find a letter Bible.com blue letter Bible.com I wish that come benefiting at coveting how good the site is I wish it was a section on car. That's how good it is that good of a crew working on. They do a great job God's call to do it and I recommend that people go to blue letter Bible.org, excuse me, it's.I think out of range of the.org and you can check it out. So that having a 25 years of sewing God's word and have a story how it worked. They started November 30 95 and I started October 25, 1995 so well the canoe blue letter Bible. She homework you see it anyway it's cool all right there you go, God bless it to come off it. We have nobody waiting if you want to give me a call I'll get to do is dial 877-207-2276. I think there was another website that has stuff like that on some of them pointed out to me fight it to me and things like that.

We have nobody waiting right now, folks watching McCall now about that site. I don't it it it is important for people to study and I really believe that this is a good way for the average Joe to just go and and find out information.

Again, it's blue letter Bible.org so you know they're not paying me for this. I don't not advertising were not doing anything. They have no idea I'm saying this right now I'm just just letting you know it is a great research you can do all kinds of searches and all kind of stuff and you can donate to which I said I recommend you do just as I recommend you donate to us because we certainly need it and we really do have a lot of fingers out there think that reminds me, talk about something in Africa because I want you to pray and tucked within a minute here. Nobody waiting on us to fill the rest of the time.

Talk about couple of things. This blue letter Bible.org, which I think is an incredible tool and I believe that you should check it out as a Christian, go check it out and just type in a verse start reading about it, you'll be surprised you will humbly great study tools are there at the house commentaries audio. They have videos they have topical indexes. It is wonderful effective.

I didn't have all the sources that I have now. I would just going there all the time. My father, we could just get whatever you want.

Course I do stuff like searching for certain constructions of Greek which I can do my Bible loggers program I can search all kinds of stuff and I need thing… All right, just saying that's we have some missionaries this cut ties into financial support that if you guys would be so kind as to do this, let me tell you want to think is happening and why we one of the areas we need support and why can I kill two birds with one stone.

By doing this we have a full-time missionary, not a full-time missionary in Africa, in Malawi. We also have a guy we become confident in contact with and he joined us on every Friday meeting now and he is in Nigeria and in Nigeria, the Christians are being killed by Muslims going in and in the middle the night on motorcycles with guns and shooting and killing and many are being slaughtered so he asked me of a few weeks ago I thought about this before. He asked me to write an article about the Christians right of self-defense, and I spent a good week to week going over it and writing it because I knew that when I released it that the Nigerians will be using it and that it would affect all lot of stuff very seriously. And now he's told me that literally thousands and thousands of these articles have been printed up and distributed in Nigeria pastors are asking for them government officials are asking for the copy this article and that they bought there's been changes that have occurred in the behavior of some of the Christians.

Note the summation of the article is we have the right of self-defense but not vengeance.

And we can use the amount of force necessary to stop the threat and that's what basically it is we have the obligation to defend the helpless, more so that we have the obligation to defend ourselves through and read the article just say good karma.org and type in the search engine or type in the right of self-defense in the article, alright so our our connection there has run out of paper and we sweep pay for a printer and toner and paper and so he says he's printed thousands up in their out and more people are asking so workgroup get some funds together and send him some more money so that he can buy more of printer stuff and toner to laser printer. This is black and white is also printing up the current statement of faith and giving it distributing it and now churches are having Bible studies around the statement of faith and they want me to go in and have online seminars with them over the Internet. They said they want. Churches are asking for my input. They wanted asked question so it's becoming a big thing out there so were trying to raise funds and this is one of the reasons we need support. It's a real thing is happening out there. So if you do want to support us just go to current.org/donate and that you have all their we do appreciate what bless you. There is by his great effect on their power by the Truth Network