# Standing For Truth, and Q&A

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 15 May 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (05/15/26), Hank shares on truth being an aspect of the nature of God. Truth is not pragmatism, subjectivism, or relativism, but it is anything that corresponds to reality. Hank also answers the following questions: Can we take Joshua 1:5 personally in the sense that God will never leave or forsake us, too? John - Calgary, AB (3:58) Is it possible that Jesus was raised before the three days but revealed Himself after the third day? Linda - OH (6:32) In 1 Samuel 28, did the medium conjure the real Samuel, or was it a demon? Anna-Marie - Edmonton, AB (9:12) Is it okay to baptize an unmarried couple? Trey - Canton, GA (16:01) How do you reconcile predestination and free will? Eric - Oklahoma City, OK (18:54) Does our salvation depend on whether we forgive others? Lucian - Lexington, KY (22:43)

## Transcript

[0:07] Speaker 1: Heard all across the United States, Canada, and around the world.
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[0:49] Speaker 1: now here's Hank Cannagraph.
[0:51] Speaker 2: Thank you very much for Randy, and we'll go right
[0:53] Speaker 2: to our callers in just a moment. But I wanted
[0:55] Speaker 2: to mention how important it is for you to stand
[0:59] Speaker 2: with this mastry because truth matters. Of course, truth is
[1:02] Speaker 2: an aspect of the nature of God. Christianity is not
[1:06] Speaker 2: true because it works. That's pragmatism. It's not true because
[1:11] Speaker 2: it feels right. That's subjectivism. It's not true because it's
[1:18] Speaker 2: my truth. That's relativism. Christianity is true because it is
[1:24] Speaker 2: anchored in the person of Christ. Furthermore, it's important to
[1:31] Speaker 2: recognize that truth is anything that corresponds to reality. As such,
[1:38] Speaker 2: truth does not yield to the size and strength of
[1:44] Speaker 2: the latest lobby group, nor is truth merely a matter
[1:49] Speaker 2: of preference or opinion. Truth is true even if everyone
[1:55] Speaker 2: denies it, and a lie a lie even if everybody
[1:59] Speaker 2: affirms it, And truth, of course, is essential to a
[2:03] Speaker 2: realistic worldview. When sophistry, sensationalism, when supersition, when they together
[2:14] Speaker 2: sabotage truth, our view of reality becomes seriously skewed. And
[2:20] Speaker 2: that is precisely what is happening today with prophecy pundits
[2:27] Speaker 2: who are seriously skewing the reality of truth in the
[2:32] Speaker 2: minds of so many because they pretend that their truth
[2:39] Speaker 2: comes from the truth the final court of arbitration, when
[2:42] Speaker 2: in fact it comes from their own subjective flights a fancy.
[2:51] Speaker 2: And in the end, while sensationalism prevails for a moment,
[2:59] Speaker 2: the Savior's name in the end will be dragged through
[3:04] Speaker 2: the mud. That is why it is so important for
[3:08] Speaker 2: you to take this opportunity to equip yourself to always
[3:11] Speaker 2: be ready to give an answer. Again. We do what
[3:17] Speaker 2: we do because truth matters. We don't do what we
[3:21] Speaker 2: do because it's politically correct. We don't do what we
[3:26] Speaker 2: do because it's popular. We don't do what we do
[3:32] Speaker 2: to gain a bigger platform. We do what we do
[3:37] Speaker 2: because over the years I have recognized that people are
[3:41] Speaker 2: making life decision on the basis of the skin of
[3:46] Speaker 2: the truth stuffed with a great, big lie. Ideas have consequences.
[3:54] Speaker 2: We'll go right now to the phone calls. First up,
[3:59] Speaker 2: I want to talk to John listening in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Hi.
[4:03] Speaker 3: John, Hey, hank Ai.
[4:05] Speaker 2: I'm well, good talking to you, good.
[4:07] Speaker 3: Talking you too. Just want to let you know that
[4:10] Speaker 3: I've been listening to your program since nineteen eighty eight,
[4:15] Speaker 3: five days a week. Well, thank you and my pleasure.
[4:19] Speaker 3: And you spoke here one time at the Curry Barracks
[4:22] Speaker 3: and I was in attendance there, and I also bought
[4:26] Speaker 3: your book Christianity in Crisis. That was amazing that it
[4:33] Speaker 3: was like I was being shot out of a canon
[4:36] Speaker 3: with my faith. Wow. And I really you know that
[4:39] Speaker 3: it's so foundational for a lot of believers to have
[4:43] Speaker 3: discernment to understand about the kingdom of the cults and
[4:47] Speaker 3: about these false preachers.
[4:50] Speaker 2: Well, thank you for the encouragement John, it means the
[4:52] Speaker 2: world to me.
[4:53] Speaker 3: The question I have for you, Hank is Joshua one
[4:58] Speaker 3: verse five. Now the Lord is speaking to Israel. Now
[5:04] Speaker 3: can we take that verse personally? I will never leave
[5:08] Speaker 3: you in nor forsake you. When he's speaking to Israel.
[5:10] Speaker 3: Can we take that personally or is it strictly to
[5:14] Speaker 3: the land of Israel.
[5:16] Speaker 2: Well, this is given within the context of a historical narrative,
[5:20] Speaker 2: so it is directed in a very poignant fashion to
[5:24] Speaker 2: a person as I was with Moses, So I too
[5:29] Speaker 2: will be with you. I will never leave you or
[5:31] Speaker 2: forsake you. So this has ramifications for Joshua, has ramifications
[5:36] Speaker 2: for Israel, but in principle it certainly has ramifications for
[5:40] Speaker 2: us as well. So imbued in this promise to a
[5:44] Speaker 2: pacific people and a specific person is a promise to
[5:49] Speaker 2: us as those who are heirs of the promise, those
[5:53] Speaker 2: of us who are in reality rightly called true Israel.
[5:58] Speaker 2: And remember, on the New Testament language that is used
[6:02] Speaker 2: for Old Testament Israel is recapitulated and used for us.
[6:07] Speaker 2: We are priests, We're a holy nation, We're a royal priesthood.
[6:12] Speaker 2: We're called out. So in principle this does apply specifically
[6:19] Speaker 2: and directly to us, although this is given in a
[6:22] Speaker 2: historical perspective to a person and a people perfect.
[6:27] Speaker 3: That's why I thought, Hank, thank you.
[6:29] Speaker 2: Very much, you got it. Thank you so much for
[6:31] Speaker 2: your call. I want to go back to the phone
[6:32] Speaker 2: lines now. Talk to Linda. She's listening in Ohio. Hi Linda, Hi,
[6:38] Speaker 2: how are you good? How are you?
[6:40] Speaker 4: My sister and I were talking one day. We were
[6:43] Speaker 4: talking about the possibility of when Jesus said that he
[6:48] Speaker 4: would be dead for three days and they were not
[6:51] Speaker 4: allowed to do anything on the Sabbath.
[6:53] Speaker 1: Is this a.
[6:54] Speaker 4: Possibility that God did raise Jesus prior to the three
[6:58] Speaker 4: days that he was walking the earth, and by the
[7:03] Speaker 4: time they could get to the Sabbath or the day
[7:07] Speaker 4: after the Sabbath was the third day when they were
[7:09] Speaker 4: allowed to do things.
[7:11] Speaker 2: No, the text specifically tells us that Jesus rose on
[7:15] Speaker 2: the third day, not before the third day nor after
[7:18] Speaker 2: the third day, but rather Matthew six day and tells
[7:22] Speaker 2: us specifically that Jesus rose on the third day. And
[7:26] Speaker 2: I think it's important too to recognize the days have significance.
[7:31] Speaker 2: Jesus died on Passover Day or Friday, to fulfill the
[7:36] Speaker 2: conditions of being our Pascal or our passover Lamb. Also
[7:42] Speaker 2: recognize that imbued in the whole chronology is a Jesus
[7:47] Speaker 2: who fulfills all the types in shadows, and therefore a
[7:51] Speaker 2: Jesus in whom we can have our sabbath rest. The
[7:56] Speaker 2: text tells us the Gospel specif they say that he
[8:02] Speaker 2: died and was buried the day before the Sabbath or Friday,
[8:08] Speaker 2: and rose on the day after the Sabbath or on Sunday.
[8:14] Speaker 2: So I think we have to take the text at
[8:15] Speaker 2: face value and then see the beauty that is imbued
[8:19] Speaker 2: in the text from a symbolic standpoint, because Jesus is
[8:24] Speaker 2: the passover Lamb, and from that point on no longer
[8:29] Speaker 2: is passover meaningful except in a historical perspective. So we
[8:34] Speaker 2: don't as Christians celebrate Passover, we celebrate the Lord's Supper.
[8:40] Speaker 2: Do this in remembrance of Me. Because the types and
[8:45] Speaker 2: shadows of temple, priests and sacrifice are fulfilled in His
[8:49] Speaker 2: sacrifice on the cross. Therefore, Jesus on the cross could
[8:53] Speaker 2: say it is finished, or to tell us die secular
[8:56] Speaker 2: coine great the language of the day, saying in essence
[9:00] Speaker 2: that the debt is paid in full.
[9:05] Speaker 4: Okay, thank you very much and goah bless you in
[9:08] Speaker 4: your ministry.
[9:09] Speaker 2: Thank you, Linda, appreciate your call. I want to go
[9:11] Speaker 2: back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Anna Marie.
[9:15] Speaker 2: She's listening in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
[9:18] Speaker 3: High Animary, thank you for taking my call.
[9:22] Speaker 5: I was reading in First Summer, chapter twenty eight, and
[9:28] Speaker 5: God did not answer salt anymore. So he consulted a medium,
[9:32] Speaker 5: which brought up somewhere was this really Summer? Or what
[9:37] Speaker 5: was this a demon looking like samwe because God didn't
[9:40] Speaker 5: want to answer some salt anymore.
[9:44] Speaker 2: Well, I don't think there's any question whatsoever that this
[9:47] Speaker 2: was Samuel. If you read the account, it is clearly
[9:53] Speaker 2: Samuel who was brought back. But this is not done
[9:59] Speaker 2: by the a vendor. This is done in spite of
[10:05] Speaker 2: the witch of Vendor, and that is why she is
[10:08] Speaker 2: so amazed and also frightened when Samuel appears. So this
[10:13] Speaker 2: is not normative. This is a sovereign act of God
[10:18] Speaker 2: to judge the first king of Israel.
[10:22] Speaker 5: I'm glad you said that, because my friend said to me,
[10:26] Speaker 5: God doesn't caught people back out of paradise. And I said, well,
[10:30] Speaker 5: what about the transfiguration, you know when Elijah and Moses
[10:34] Speaker 5: came up, And he said, well, that's different, you know,
[10:37] Speaker 5: but I do believe that it was an act of
[10:40] Speaker 5: God in spite of that medium.
[10:42] Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's right. And remember I use the
[10:45] Speaker 2: word normative. Your friend is partially right in saying that
[10:50] Speaker 2: God does not do this on a regular basis. So
[10:53] Speaker 2: when it does happen, such as what you find in
[10:57] Speaker 2: for Samuel twenty eight or on the mamount of transfiguration,
[11:02] Speaker 2: these are not normative experiences. Right.
[11:06] Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
[11:07] Speaker 2: You got it. Thank you so much for your call.
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[16:00] Speaker 2: Back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Trey Canton, Georgia. Hi, Trey,
[16:06] Speaker 2: good evening.
[16:07] Speaker 8: I got your MOBL answer book from my parents for
[16:10] Speaker 8: Christmas and I'll join it ically.
[16:12] Speaker 2: Thank you.
[16:14] Speaker 8: My question is regarding a couple that's non married in
[16:19] Speaker 8: the church seeking baptismal. What kind of answer can they
[16:23] Speaker 8: expect from the pastor on that since they're not married.
[16:28] Speaker 2: Well, if the pastor is a genuine pastor of the church,
[16:32] Speaker 2: you'll see this as an opportunity to be a witness
[16:36] Speaker 2: to them. If they are not believers, then he has
[16:39] Speaker 2: an opportunity to communicate the Gospel, which will truly set
[16:42] Speaker 2: them free. If they are believers, of course, then they
[16:45] Speaker 2: are those who say they realize that they are sinners.
[16:49] Speaker 2: They've repented of their sin, which is to say that
[16:53] Speaker 2: they're taking a u turn on the road of life.
[16:55] Speaker 2: Is a change of heart, a change of mind, to
[16:57] Speaker 2: change of the will. They're now turning to follow Christ,
[17:01] Speaker 2: which is to say they're going to do it His
[17:03] Speaker 2: way rather than doing it their own way. So perhaps
[17:07] Speaker 2: he'll have an opportunity not only to baptize them but
[17:09] Speaker 2: marry them.
[17:11] Speaker 8: Okay, but if they have no intent of you know,
[17:16] Speaker 8: getting married in tom soon and then still plan on
[17:19] Speaker 8: living together, I mean you think he will still baptize
[17:21] Speaker 8: them anyway.
[17:22] Speaker 2: Well, I hope not, because again, baptism is a statement
[17:26] Speaker 2: that you become part of the body of Christ. And
[17:28] Speaker 2: when you become part of the body of Christ, you're
[17:31] Speaker 2: in a very tacit sense saying I don't want to
[17:34] Speaker 2: do it my way, I want to do it your way.
[17:36] Speaker 2: The idea of living together as husband and wife without
[17:42] Speaker 2: being married is a non biblical notion. And therefore, if
[17:47] Speaker 2: they want to subscribe to Jesus Christ as Lord, that
[17:51] Speaker 2: means they don't want to do it their own way anymore.
[17:54] Speaker 2: They realize that Jesus knows best for.
[17:56] Speaker 8: Them, so he may be condoning it in the sense
[17:59] Speaker 8: if he was to.
[18:01] Speaker 2: Indeed, in other words, you know, every single person that
[18:04] Speaker 2: is baptized is baptized as a sinner, and all kinds
[18:08] Speaker 2: of people who are baptized have besetting sins. But they
[18:11] Speaker 2: are willing to change. Doesn't mean that every room in
[18:15] Speaker 2: their life is swept clean. It means that they are
[18:18] Speaker 2: willing to change. They are willing for Jesus Christ to
[18:22] Speaker 2: become lord of every area of their life. Thus they
[18:27] Speaker 2: aren't going to continue doing it their way. They have
[18:29] Speaker 2: a plan to turn and follow Jesus Christ into it
[18:32] Speaker 2: his way. So a pastor who is one who knows
[18:36] Speaker 2: Jesus Christ will know that and see this as an
[18:38] Speaker 2: opportunity not only for regeneration, but perhaps for baptism after regeneration,
[18:45] Speaker 2: and as I said, after that, perhaps even an opportunity
[18:48] Speaker 2: to marry them. Great.
[18:49] Speaker 8: Thank you very much. I appreciate it. You got it.
[18:51] Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your call. Let's go right
[18:54] Speaker 2: back to the phone lines. We'll talk to Eric next.
[18:56] Speaker 2: He's listening Aboutklahoma. Hi.
[18:57] Speaker 9: Eric, Hi, thanks for taking my call. I've got a
[19:04] Speaker 9: question for you. I was wondering how do you reconcile
[19:08] Speaker 9: the two seemingly very conflicting ideas of predestination and free
[19:12] Speaker 9: will that both seem to be supported in the Bible,
[19:18] Speaker 9: especially citing the Exodus narrative where it says that God
[19:23] Speaker 9: hardened Pharaoh's heart and also, well, that would be predestination,
[19:32] Speaker 9: God choosing these things for Pharaoh and for free will.
[19:40] Speaker 9: Whenever Abraham was called to sacrifice Isaac. And it was
[19:47] Speaker 9: all the way up to the point that he had
[19:48] Speaker 9: the knife over his son that the Angel, that the
[19:52] Speaker 9: Angel of the Lord finally said, now I know that
[19:55] Speaker 9: you are faithful to me. Now I know that you
[19:58] Speaker 9: would trust me this much that you would sacrifice your
[20:01] Speaker 9: own son.
[20:02] Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, a couple of things. One thing gets back
[20:04] Speaker 2: to the art and science of biblical interpretation. The Bible
[20:07] Speaker 2: is replete with anthropomorphisms. They're heavenly condescensions. We have within
[20:13] Speaker 2: this not a normative circumstance, but rather a unique, a
[20:19] Speaker 2: one of kind of circumstance. Speaking of Abraham and the
[20:23] Speaker 2: sacrifice of Isaac and of course forever. This is an
[20:28] Speaker 2: exclamation point behind the sentiment that in a Christian worldview,
[20:33] Speaker 2: there is no place for sacrifices. There's only one sacrifice,
[20:38] Speaker 2: and that sacrifice is Jesus Christ. So again, this is
[20:41] Speaker 2: not a normative kind of situation. It's a historical narrative
[20:45] Speaker 2: that has significant import. A lot more could be said,
[20:48] Speaker 2: but as far as the basic question that you're asking,
[20:52] Speaker 2: remember that with Pharaoh, many things are being said. For example,
[20:57] Speaker 2: it is true that the text scripture tells us that
[21:01] Speaker 2: God hardened Pharaoh's heart. It's also true that the text
[21:05] Speaker 2: of Scripture says that Pharaoh hardened his own heart. From
[21:10] Speaker 2: the perspective of God hardening Pharaoh's heart, this is not
[21:14] Speaker 2: in the sense of hard determinism, because remember the fact
[21:20] Speaker 2: that God knows what is going to happen does not
[21:24] Speaker 2: militate against free will. We can know something in our
[21:28] Speaker 2: past with complete or exhaustive knowledge from a human perspective,
[21:35] Speaker 2: without having caused it. So those two ideas don't need
[21:38] Speaker 2: to be confabulated in any sense. But more to the point,
[21:41] Speaker 2: with respect to Pharaoh, what is the occasion for the
[21:46] Speaker 2: hardening of Pharaoh's heart? It was mercy. Every time Pharaoh
[21:52] Speaker 2: responded in disobedience, God exuded mercy and then Pharaoh would relent.
[22:02] Speaker 2: God would remove the plague, and then Pharaoh would once
[22:05] Speaker 2: again harden his heart. So mercy was the occasion for
[22:11] Speaker 2: the hardening of Pharaoh's heart. A lot more could be
[22:14] Speaker 2: said about this, but this takes a lot of explaining,
[22:17] Speaker 2: and for that reason, what we have done in the
[22:20] Speaker 2: Christian Research Journal is feature a debate between a Calvinist
[22:25] Speaker 2: and a non Calvinist, which allows you to grapple with
[22:29] Speaker 2: these issues by reading how they interact and then taking
[22:35] Speaker 2: their explanations, testing them in light a scripture, holding fast
[22:40] Speaker 2: to that which is good. Back to the phone lines,
[22:43] Speaker 2: we'll talk next to Lucien listing on the web in Lexington, Kentucky. Hi, Lucien. Good.
[22:50] Speaker 10: Yeah, Hey a lot as in southeast since she was
[22:53] Speaker 10: at a caverchapel over there and back in ninety five.
[22:57] Speaker 2: Wow.
[22:58] Speaker 10: Hey, My question is I strugly with forgiveness? And I
[23:02] Speaker 10: know what Bible says and forgives you know, seventy times seven.
[23:05] Speaker 10: And if you leave this world unforgiven, that means gonna
[23:09] Speaker 10: miss out on going to heaven.
[23:11] Speaker 2: Well, if you are a believer, you have been forgiven
[23:16] Speaker 2: a debt that cannot be quantified. And if you have
[23:21] Speaker 2: been forgiven a debt that cannot be quantified, it is
[23:24] Speaker 2: a horrendous evil to even consider keeping forgiveness away from
[23:31] Speaker 2: someone else. And Jesus makes that clear in his parables,
[23:35] Speaker 2: and one parable and specific underscores this in read letters.
[23:39] Speaker 2: So I would say that it's important for us to
[23:43] Speaker 2: recognize that we need to have the capacity to forgive
[23:50] Speaker 2: in this sense. We can't ultimately affect forgiveness because forgiveness
[23:56] Speaker 2: entails reconciliation, and thus is a two ways. It takes
[24:01] Speaker 2: someone who is wanting to be forgiven, it takes someone
[24:05] Speaker 2: who is willing to be a forgiver. And if you
[24:10] Speaker 2: have that, then you can have true reconciliation taking place.
[24:14] Speaker 2: And we don't suppose in any sense that our system
[24:18] Speaker 2: of forgiveness succeeds that of God. God objectively offers forgiveness
[24:23] Speaker 2: to all of us. It isn't realized until we subjectively
[24:26] Speaker 2: embrace his forgiveness. Then a reconciliation between God and man
[24:30] Speaker 2: takes place. The same thing is true of human beings.
[24:32] Speaker 2: They have to be someone who is willing to forgive,
[24:34] Speaker 2: someone who is wanting to be forgiven.
[24:37] Speaker 10: Right, Okay, you know because I struggled with forgiveness and stuff,
[24:40] Speaker 10: and I know I would say forgive and everything and
[24:43] Speaker 10: just like people to treat them in the past. And
[24:45] Speaker 10: then like I get some of the emails from even
[24:48] Speaker 10: the people that like saying you know, I love you,
[24:51] Speaker 10: or see any stuff about God. But is that appropriate
[24:54] Speaker 10: even if they even if they do that and they
[24:58] Speaker 10: that today wrongs you explain it to.
[25:00] Speaker 2: Me, Well, yeah, I think that there are people who
[25:04] Speaker 2: have wronged you and now they're reaching out to you,
[25:06] Speaker 2: and you have to have in your heart of willingness
[25:09] Speaker 2: to forgive them. And this is one of the most
[25:11] Speaker 2: beautiful things that can take place, not only in divine relationships,
[25:14] Speaker 2: but in human relationships that here you have an opportunity
[25:19] Speaker 2: to restore or reconcile. What a beautiful thing to someone
[25:23] Speaker 2: reaches out to you when you have an opportunity to
[25:25] Speaker 2: reach out your hand embrace that person and find in
[25:29] Speaker 2: forgiveness a freedom that is liberating, that is pure, and
[25:35] Speaker 2: that is ultimately divine because it is rooted in the
[25:39] Speaker 2: forgiveness that Jesus Christ has first given to us. I've
[25:43] Speaker 2: written about this in a book called The Prayer of
[25:45] Speaker 2: Jesus Secrets to Real Intimacy with God. It is a
[25:48] Speaker 2: book available through the ministry of the Christian Research Institute.
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[26:05] Speaker 2: We're off to the weekend. Look forward to seeing you
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