# Q&A: Goliath, Prophetic Healing, and Belief in God’s Existence

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 27 Apr 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/27/26), Hank answers the following questions: What is the meaning of “the Scriptures cannot be broken” in John 10:35? Christopher - MI (0:56) How was David able to pick up the giant’s sword, as mentioned in 1 Samuel 17? Walter - Orange, NJ (3:07) What is the meaning of Jesus’ statement about “no sign will be given except the sign of Jonah” in Matthew 16? Tammy - Calgary, AB (6:09) What about the prophetic healing and deliverance ministries course with Life Ministries? Is this program biblically based? Sam - Atlanta, GA (7:13) Where does one get information about the history of the Bible? Fanny - TN (9:45) Regarding Celebration of Disciplines by Richard Foster, is what he says about simplicity and redistribution of wealth accurate? Susan - CA (15:10) How do you know that God exists? Tom - Kansas City, MO (18:36)

## Transcript

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[0:50] Speaker 1: and now here's your host, Hank Hanagraph.
[0:53] Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Randy. We will go right to the
[0:55] Speaker 2: phone callers. First step is Christopher listening on the web
[1:00] Speaker 2: in Michigan. Hi Christopher, Hi Hank.
[1:02] Speaker 3: How are you doing today?
[1:03] Speaker 2: I'm good. Good talking to you.
[1:05] Speaker 3: Good talking to you as well. I had a question
[1:08] Speaker 3: I was reading yesterday in John. It was chapter ten
[1:14] Speaker 3: and somewhere in the thirties verse and Jesus said the
[1:18] Speaker 3: scriptures cannot be broken, and I was trying to figure
[1:22] Speaker 3: out what that meant. I kind of took it as
[1:24] Speaker 3: if he was saying he can't pick and choose or
[1:27] Speaker 3: what part of the scriptures you want to believe. You
[1:30] Speaker 3: have to take it as a whole. But I just
[1:31] Speaker 3: wanted to run it by you and see kind of
[1:35] Speaker 3: get an idea, a better idea.
[1:36] Speaker 4: Of what that meant.
[1:37] Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting because right here Jesus Christ is actually
[1:41] Speaker 2: quoting Psalm AD two, and in doing so, he's pointing
[1:46] Speaker 2: to the Old Testament text, but beyond that, he's pointing
[1:49] Speaker 2: to himself as the fulfillment of the Old Testament text.
[1:54] Speaker 2: In fact, the Old Testament is a tapestry, and the
[2:00] Speaker 2: visage of Jesus Christ is emblazoned upon that tapestry. For
[2:05] Speaker 2: he is the one who fulfills the entirety of the
[2:09] Speaker 2: law and the prophece. And that's precisely what he said
[2:11] Speaker 2: in the Sermon on the Mount. Not a single jot
[2:15] Speaker 2: or a tittle will disappear from the law until everything
[2:20] Speaker 2: is fulfilled. And that's what Jesus Christ is speaking of.
[2:23] Speaker 2: Scripture cannot be broken. Scripture instead will be fulfilled. It
[2:28] Speaker 2: will be accomplished. Not the smallest letter, not the least
[2:33] Speaker 2: stroke of a pen, not a jot, not a title,
[2:36] Speaker 2: a tittle. By the ways, a microscopic appendage at the
[2:40] Speaker 2: end of a Hebrew letter, a jot is the smallest
[2:43] Speaker 2: letter in the Hebrew alphabet, and Jesus saying nothing is
[2:46] Speaker 2: going to disappear until everything has been accomplished. So Jesus
[2:51] Speaker 2: here demonstrates that he will fulfill the entirety of the
[2:55] Speaker 2: Old Testament, which he indeed came as the five.
[3:01] Speaker 3: Okay, well, thank you so much for that help. You
[3:04] Speaker 3: got it.
[3:04] Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your call. We'll go right
[3:07] Speaker 2: back to the phone lines now. Talk next to Walter.
[3:10] Speaker 2: He's listening on the web in Orange, New Jersey.
[3:13] Speaker 5: Hi Walter, Hi Hank, thank you for taking my call,
[3:15] Speaker 5: my pleasure. My question in reading in First Samuel seventeen,
[3:21] Speaker 5: when David killed the giant who was about ten feet
[3:25] Speaker 5: tall and had these huge weapons, how was David able
[3:31] Speaker 5: to pick up the giant's sword, small as he was,
[3:37] Speaker 5: and kill him with it and then keep it?
[3:40] Speaker 2: Well, I think first of all, we have a misconception
[3:42] Speaker 2: of how tall Goliath was. In fact, interestingly enough, the
[3:47] Speaker 2: findings that Kumaran, or what are known as the Dead
[3:51] Speaker 2: Sea Scrolls, actually suggest that the seemingly impossible height of
[3:56] Speaker 2: Goliath resulted from a corruption in their original version of
[4:01] Speaker 2: for Samuel. In truth, what we have determined not only
[4:06] Speaker 2: through a proper rendering of the Greek, but through archaeological
[4:11] Speaker 2: discoveries like the one I just mentioned, is that Goliath
[4:14] Speaker 2: was four cubits in a span. And if you take
[4:18] Speaker 2: that and actually communicate that in common parlance, it means
[4:23] Speaker 2: that he was about six feet six inches tall, and that,
[4:27] Speaker 2: of course is very tall for it.
[4:29] Speaker 5: He was about six feet six inches tall about saw fight, Well,
[4:34] Speaker 5: I saw was about sixty six right.
[4:36] Speaker 2: Well, I don't know exactly how tall Saul was. I
[4:39] Speaker 2: don't think he was six'. Six but the point here
[4:42] Speaker 2: is That goliath was very tall for, antiquity but it
[4:48] Speaker 2: was at least within the conceivable anatomical range for human.
[4:53] Speaker 2: Beings so probably the best way of describing this is
[4:57] Speaker 2: to say That goliath could have been about as big
[5:00] Speaker 2: and tall As shaquille O'Neal m m.
[5:03] Speaker 5: Okay BECAUSE i was, wondered Since david is always depicted
[5:07] Speaker 5: as being small and. RUDDY i was trying to figure
[5:11] Speaker 5: how could somebody small pick up a big man's checks
[5:17] Speaker 5: sword and kill him with it and.
[5:19] Speaker 2: Keep it so, well you, know a couple of. Things one,
[5:22] Speaker 2: is you have to get the right size Of, goliath
[5:26] Speaker 2: and unfortunately that has been. Exaggerated, Secondly david was not
[5:31] Speaker 2: a shrinking. VIOLET i, mean he was a very rugged
[5:34] Speaker 2: individual who fought off the bear and the wolf and
[5:40] Speaker 2: anyone that would come and try to violate the sheep
[5:44] Speaker 2: that he was called to take care. Of so he
[5:47] Speaker 2: was a very, rugged strong. Individual and sometimes we have
[5:51] Speaker 2: this idea that he is a wallflower or something like.
[5:54] Speaker 2: That nothing could be further from the. Truth SO i
[5:56] Speaker 2: think we've greatly exaggerated the size Of goliath then underwhelmed
[6:03] Speaker 2: the size and strength Of.
[6:05] Speaker 5: David, okay thank you very, much you got.
[6:08] Speaker 2: It appreciate your. Call back to the phone. Lines now
[6:11] Speaker 2: talk To. Tammy she's listening in Cal, Real, Bertic. Canada Hi, Tammy,
[6:16] Speaker 2: hi he thanks for taking my.
[6:18] Speaker 6: Call.
[6:18] Speaker 7: PLEASURE i have a question About matthew, sixteen where near
[6:24] Speaker 7: the end of the Paragraph jesus states regarding a demand
[6:29] Speaker 7: for a, sign he, states but none will be given
[6:32] Speaker 7: except the sign Of. JONAH i was wondering what your
[6:36] Speaker 7: take was on.
[6:37] Speaker 2: That, well Actually matthew explains. That did you go back
[6:41] Speaker 2: to the twelfth chapter Of matthew Where jesus is a
[6:45] Speaker 2: wicked and adulterous generation asked for a, sign but none
[6:50] Speaker 2: will be given it except the sign Of. Jonah for
[6:55] Speaker 2: As jonah was three days and three nights in the
[6:58] Speaker 2: belly of the huge, fish the son Of man will
[7:01] Speaker 2: be three days and three nights in the heart of the.
[7:04] Speaker 2: Earth So Jesus christ here is pointing to his.
[7:07] Speaker 7: Resurrection, yeah that's WHAT i wanted to. Know very, Good
[7:10] Speaker 7: thank you very.
[7:11] Speaker 2: Much oh you got. It thank you so much for your.
[7:13] Speaker 2: Call we'll go back to the phone lines. Now talk To.
[7:15] Speaker 2: Sam sam was listening on the web In, Atlanta. Georgia, Hi, Sam,
[7:20] Speaker 2: HI i.
[7:21] Speaker 4: Think my wife AND i just really enjoy your. Broadcast
[7:24] Speaker 4: my question has to do with a class that my
[7:27] Speaker 4: wife has or is. Attending it's a workshop that goes
[7:30] Speaker 4: for several weeks through an outfit's Called Life ministries there
[7:36] Speaker 4: in The atlanta, area also goes BY, rtf and the
[7:41] Speaker 4: program that she's attending really is Titled Prophetic healing And
[7:46] Speaker 4: Deliverance Ministry, training and she was attracted to that probably
[7:51] Speaker 4: because a New christian friend of hers asked her to
[7:53] Speaker 4: attend with, her but also because it talks About i'm.
[7:57] Speaker 4: Healing it's something my wife is interested in helping, people
[8:01] Speaker 4: counseling with them and overcome addictions and that sort of.
[8:04] Speaker 4: Thing but my question really is their program really biblically
[8:09] Speaker 4: and based in that it purports to teach people through
[8:13] Speaker 4: what they call prophetic insights and gifting is the terminology
[8:19] Speaker 4: they use to actually help people. Heal the title of
[8:25] Speaker 4: the program it self cost me sort of check in
[8:27] Speaker 4: my spirit and Then, i've you, know study the outline
[8:30] Speaker 4: a little, bit and you, know purport to be biblically,
[8:33] Speaker 4: based BUT i just have a question about can you
[8:36] Speaker 4: actually teach people to do? That and listening to her
[8:38] Speaker 4: talk about the class they ask people, to you, know
[8:41] Speaker 4: get up and practice. PROPHESYING i don't know.
[8:44] Speaker 2: That, YEAH i, MEAN i think you're right to have
[8:46] Speaker 2: some red flags. There you can't learn to be a.
[8:48] Speaker 2: Profit so you, know prophesying is a fluid. Term it
[8:53] Speaker 2: is not, Unifical it is. Equivocal so there's A New
[8:56] Speaker 2: testament sense in which you can talk about, prophesying not
[9:00] Speaker 2: as learning how to foretell the. Future we wouldn't want
[9:03] Speaker 2: to do that. Anyway thank god he keeps it hidden from,
[9:06] Speaker 2: us because if we knew what was going to happen
[9:08] Speaker 2: in the, future we probably wouldn't face the. Future god
[9:10] Speaker 2: gives us the grace we need when we need, it
[9:12] Speaker 2: and oftentimes not a moment. Before but if you're talking
[9:16] Speaker 2: about prophecy rightly in The First corinthians fourteen, sense then
[9:20] Speaker 2: you're talking about strengthening and edifying the, believers and that's.
[9:25] Speaker 2: Biblical that's not for telling the, future that's. Forthtelling, unfortunately
[9:31] Speaker 2: today we have people teaching wrongly in terms of how
[9:35] Speaker 2: you can become a, prophet and then false prophets who
[9:39] Speaker 2: are teaching false things about what are going to happen
[9:41] Speaker 2: in the. Future both are decidedly. Dangerous back to the phone,
[9:45] Speaker 2: lines we'll talk To fanny next listening In. Tennessee, Hi, Fanny, oh, Hello.
[9:50] Speaker 8: Hank i'm so glad you're taking my. Call god bless.
[9:52] Speaker 3: YOU i really enjoy your.
[9:53] Speaker 2: Show thank.
[9:54] Speaker 8: You my question to you was all this history about The.
[9:58] Speaker 8: Bible you know THAT i didn't know what's Name lasar's
[10:01] Speaker 8: mat SO i heard a pasture talking about. It where
[10:03] Speaker 8: do they get this kind of information about the history
[10:05] Speaker 8: of The. Bible is there like a website or someplace
[10:09] Speaker 8: THAT i can go to to research some of this,
[10:11] Speaker 8: stuff maybe the old judaic rules or the old levitical.
[10:16] Speaker 1: Rules or stuff like.
[10:16] Speaker 2: That well in terms of a name in civilian ceremonial
[10:20] Speaker 2: laws and things like, THAT i, mean a Good bible
[10:22] Speaker 2: dictionary or a commentary would be helpful to. You if
[10:24] Speaker 2: you go to The New Illustrated Bible dictionary put out By,
[10:28] Speaker 2: nelson for, example you'll find a commentary on the Name,
[10:32] Speaker 2: lazarus what it, Means god has, helped and other details
[10:36] Speaker 2: that are.
[10:36] Speaker 8: Pertinent, okay, Awesome i'll take into. That god bless you
[10:40] Speaker 8: and thank. You he's doing good.
[10:41] Speaker 3: Work.
[10:42] Speaker 8: Work god's.
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[15:12] Speaker 2: California Hi, Susan Hi.
[15:14] Speaker 6: Hank thank you so much for taking my call a.
[15:17] Speaker 6: Pleasure my question is our church is going through the
[15:21] Speaker 6: Book celebration Of discipline By Richard, foster and in one
[15:26] Speaker 6: of the, Chapters i've had a couple of red flags.
[15:29] Speaker 6: Personally but when he discusses, simplicity he says that the
[15:36] Speaker 6: one purpose of The year Of jubilee was to provide
[15:39] Speaker 6: a regular redistribution of. Wealth AND i was wondering if
[15:44] Speaker 6: that is.
[15:44] Speaker 2: Accurate, well, yes but certainly not in our. Context remember
[15:52] Speaker 2: that this context was far different because it was within
[15:57] Speaker 2: the context of the. Theocracy so there are all kinds
[16:01] Speaker 2: of civil and ceremonial laws and propositions that work well
[16:06] Speaker 2: within the context of a, theocracy but do not work well.
[16:09] Speaker 2: Today in, fact we can, say just looking at the
[16:12] Speaker 2: ceremonial aspects of the, law that they have been completely.
[16:16] Speaker 2: Abrogated what we celebrate in our modern democratic republic is
[16:24] Speaker 2: WHAT i would Call christian, capitalism which is to, say
[16:28] Speaker 2: responsibility associated with. Wealth so it is never a matter
[16:33] Speaker 2: of how much money you. Have it is always a
[16:36] Speaker 2: matter of what you do with what you. Have and
[16:39] Speaker 2: as A christian you recognize with fear and trembling that
[16:43] Speaker 2: you are going to be called to account for what
[16:46] Speaker 2: you did with what you. Had one of my best,
[16:48] Speaker 2: friends while he was, alive was one of the wealthiest
[16:51] Speaker 2: men in the, world AND i remember him agonizing over
[16:55] Speaker 2: the fact that he had been given hundreds of millions of,
[16:59] Speaker 2: dollars much of which was in a, foundation and he
[17:03] Speaker 2: would give an account To god for what he did
[17:06] Speaker 2: with What god had given. Him and of course he
[17:09] Speaker 2: also had the great trepidation of how that money would
[17:13] Speaker 2: be spent and allocated after he. Died and in retrospect
[17:17] Speaker 2: to with twenty twenty vision, today you can see that
[17:20] Speaker 2: that trepidation was well. Founded.
[17:22] Speaker 6: Right, okay are you familiar with this book or this?
[17:28] Speaker 2: Author, YEAH i, Am and you, KNOW i think one
[17:30] Speaker 2: of the things that is good about the book is
[17:33] Speaker 2: that there are inward in private disciplines like prayer and
[17:39] Speaker 2: study and meditation on The word Of, god, fasting and
[17:43] Speaker 2: some of the things that you mentioned in terms of
[17:45] Speaker 2: outward disciplines like simplicity and solitude and submission and service
[17:49] Speaker 2: and so. Forth and that's not too short circuit the,
[17:52] Speaker 2: book because it's more that could be said with respect
[17:54] Speaker 2: to corporate. Disciplines but the point is that you don't
[17:58] Speaker 2: want to walk through the door or enter through the
[18:03] Speaker 2: window of relying on subjective. Experiences so when you practice the,
[18:09] Speaker 2: disciplines you have to do so guided by objective verities
[18:14] Speaker 2: rather than subjective. Experiences so test all, things hold fast
[18:20] Speaker 2: to that which is, good recognizing that the objective corpus
[18:25] Speaker 2: Of god's word is always your plumb.
[18:28] Speaker 6: Line all, right, okay, Wonderful thank you so.
[18:32] Speaker 9: Much you got.
[18:33] Speaker 2: It thank, You. Susan appreciate your. Call back to the phone.
[18:36] Speaker 2: Lines we'll talk next To tom listening On Kansas, City. Missouri.
[18:40] Speaker 10: Hi, Tom, Hey, hey thanks for chicking my call. Pleasure
[18:44] Speaker 10: my question, is how do you Know god? EXISTS i
[18:49] Speaker 10: started reading The bible on a pretty regular, basis almost every,
[18:52] Speaker 10: day probably about six seven years. Ago AND i was
[18:56] Speaker 10: not searching For. GOD i was more searching or the
[19:00] Speaker 10: nature of. Reality AND i was a student in law
[19:02] Speaker 10: school at the, time AND i was reading Like descartes De,
[19:07] Speaker 10: anima which talks about the split between the spirit and the.
[19:11] Speaker 10: Body AND i was reading a bunch of books on
[19:14] Speaker 10: neuroscience and started. Meditating and then that's WHEN i started
[19:20] Speaker 10: reading The. Bible And i've been reading The bible ever.
[19:24] Speaker 10: Since BUT i can't get, past or at least the
[19:28] Speaker 10: times in my LIFE i have trouble getting past the threshold,
[19:31] Speaker 10: question WHICH i think is for me, anyway Does god?
[19:36] Speaker 10: Exist DO i really believe That god is sitting in
[19:39] Speaker 10: my car with me right? Now SO i wonder how
[19:42] Speaker 10: you came to believe that wholeheartedly and how you maintain.
[19:48] Speaker 2: It, yeah a couple of things THAT i would say
[19:51] Speaker 2: at the very, outset and that is that the inverse
[19:55] Speaker 2: would be to believe that nothing created, everything and the
[19:58] Speaker 2: life that exists came from. Life so that is a
[20:02] Speaker 2: very difficult proposition to maintain or to believe in an
[20:06] Speaker 2: age of scientific. Enlightenment but simply, stated the reason we
[20:11] Speaker 2: Know god exists is because the heavens declare the glory Of.
[20:16] Speaker 2: God the skies proclaim the work of his hands day after.
[20:20] Speaker 2: Day they pour forth, speech night after. Night they proclaim.
[20:24] Speaker 2: Knowledge there's no speech or language where their voice is not.
[20:27] Speaker 2: Heard their words go out to the ends of the,
[20:29] Speaker 2: earth which is to, say we have an outer. Light
[20:33] Speaker 2: that outer light is the light of. Creation if you
[20:36] Speaker 2: look at the, sun the, moon and the, stars you
[20:39] Speaker 2: know that every effect has to have a cause equal
[20:43] Speaker 2: to or greater than. Itself that's just plain old. Law
[20:50] Speaker 2: that's just plain old common. Sense that is what we
[20:55] Speaker 2: immediately into it when we pick up a basketball and
[21:00] Speaker 2: say that basketball had to have a. Creator how much
[21:05] Speaker 2: more when you see the irreducible, complexity abundant in the
[21:10] Speaker 2: universe around. You how much more when you see on
[21:13] Speaker 2: a cosmic scale the, sun the, moon and the. Stars
[21:17] Speaker 2: so you have an outer. Testimony but, then As paul
[21:21] Speaker 2: points out In romans chapter, two you also have an inner.
[21:25] Speaker 2: Testimony you have your. Conscience And god lets us know
[21:29] Speaker 2: that you have written or inscribed upon the table of your,
[21:35] Speaker 2: consciousness in your conscious, being the knowledge Of, god so
[21:40] Speaker 2: that you not only have an outer, light but that
[21:43] Speaker 2: outer light augmented by an inner, light your. Conscience and
[21:47] Speaker 2: that's why we sometimes say tongue in. Cheek there are
[21:50] Speaker 2: no such things as atheists in. Foxholes the moment all
[21:55] Speaker 2: hell breaks loose around, you you cry, out Oh, god help.
[21:58] Speaker 2: Me there's a knowledge Of, God god written on the
[22:02] Speaker 2: tablet of your. Consciousness and if you respond to, that
[22:05] Speaker 2: you can have the greatest knowledge of, all which is
[22:08] Speaker 2: the knowledge Of. Christ and even that is not without
[22:12] Speaker 2: history and. Evidence you can build a cumuative case for
[22:15] Speaker 2: the resurrection Of Jesus. Christ so it's not something you
[22:19] Speaker 2: just believe because you have blind, faith but you believe
[22:23] Speaker 2: because you have faith in, evidence and that evidence is
[22:28] Speaker 2: given in outline form By paul In First corinthians chapter.
[22:32] Speaker 2: Fifteen we know That Jesus christ, Died we know that
[22:35] Speaker 2: the tomb was. Empty we know That Jesus christ appeared
[22:38] Speaker 2: and gave many convincing, proofs and we know that the
[22:42] Speaker 2: disciples were utterly. Transformed they gave up the spiritual and
[22:46] Speaker 2: sociological traditions that had given them their national, identity and
[22:51] Speaker 2: they were willing to do that because they had seen
[22:53] Speaker 2: the Resurrected.
[22:54] Speaker 10: Christ have you read this, Book The Grand design By Sea.
[23:00] Speaker 3: HAWKINS i have read.
[23:01] Speaker 2: It in, FACT i listened to it with two of
[23:04] Speaker 2: my boys when we went on a golf. Excursion we
[23:07] Speaker 2: actually drove and we're in the car for eight. Hours
[23:10] Speaker 2: they're eight hours back and we listened To dawkins and quite,
[23:15] Speaker 2: frankly my boys were in stitches most of the. Time
[23:20] Speaker 2: we also did an incredible article in The Christian Research
[23:23] Speaker 2: journal on This Grand design Or Grand Delusion Stephen hawking
[23:29] Speaker 2: on science And. God so, yeah we've not only read,
[23:32] Speaker 2: it listened to, it but parsed it in The Christian Research.
[23:34] Speaker 10: Journal what's your take on What Steven hawkins is writing
[23:39] Speaker 10: in there about The Big bang and all.
[23:40] Speaker 2: That, well The Big bang is never a. Problem Whether
[23:44] Speaker 2: Stephen hawkins writes about it or someone else talks about.
[23:47] Speaker 2: It the Big bang is not a problem To. Christianity,
[23:50] Speaker 2: NOW i would not necessarily tie my wagon too tightly
[23:55] Speaker 2: to modern cosmology because things are ever in a state of.
[23:59] Speaker 2: Flux but there's nothing wrong from a biblical perspective with
[24:03] Speaker 2: believing in a big. BANG a big bang is something
[24:08] Speaker 2: that can be harmonized with The. Bible if there's a big,
[24:12] Speaker 2: bang there always has to be a big, banger so
[24:15] Speaker 2: that has no. Problem we believe in the Beginning god,
[24:18] Speaker 2: created so there was a point in time where, space,
[24:22] Speaker 2: time and matter came into.
[24:23] Speaker 10: Existence that's What i'm thinking When i'm reading his. Book,
[24:26] Speaker 10: also but are there moments in your life where When
[24:29] Speaker 10: i'm reading his, Book i'm thinking the same. Thing this
[24:31] Speaker 10: doesn't seem inconsistent with A god creating the. Universe but
[24:37] Speaker 10: do you lack faith in your? Life?
[24:40] Speaker 2: WELL i have in the past lacked. FAITH i MEAN
[24:43] Speaker 2: i didn't come to faith in CHRISTILL i was twenty
[24:46] Speaker 2: nine years of, age and even after coming to faith In,
[24:50] Speaker 2: christ there have been times that my faith has been.
[24:53] Speaker 2: Shaken but the reality is, THIS i always go back
[24:56] Speaker 2: to those pillars and, posts and those pills and posts
[25:00] Speaker 2: Are god. Created the. Universe we are not functions of random.
[25:04] Speaker 2: Chance Jesus christ Is god and demonstrated that he Was
[25:09] Speaker 2: god through the immutable fact of his. Resurrection and, thirdly
[25:13] Speaker 2: we can establish a cumulative case for the notion that
[25:17] Speaker 2: The bible is divine as opposed to merely human in.
[25:20] Speaker 2: Origin SO i can always go back to those pillars
[25:23] Speaker 2: and post when the winds and waves of doubt beat
[25:27] Speaker 2: upon my house AND i have to leave it at.
[25:29] Speaker 2: That i've written about that in a lot of different.
[25:31] Speaker 2: Forums if you hang, on we can put that information
[25:34] Speaker 2: into your. Hands out of time for, Today we'll see
[25:37] Speaker 2: you next time with more of the Byblance men.
[25:39] Speaker 1: Broadcast thank you for joining us for The bible Answer Man.
[25:43] Speaker 1: Broadcast in today's post truth culture of, Confusion The Christian
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[27:05] Speaker 1: Spoken are the words Of scripture merely human in? Origin
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[27:13] Speaker 1: Himself three years in the making and based on two
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