# Q&A: The Body of Christ, Dementia, and the Unreached

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 3 Aug 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (08/03/26), Hank answers the following questions: What do you believe is the purpose of the Body of Christ? Steve - WI (0:58) Several places in the New Testament say the whoremonger will not see heaven. What about pornography? Kendal - SD (2:55) Does the soul leave the body of people with dementia or Alzheimer’s? Are they accountable for their actions in that state? Rob - Oklahoma City, OK (6:59) Is there such a thing as a spirit of fear or anger? Jason - NC (15:43) Did we get the leap year from Joshua 10 when the sun stood still? Guy - PA (19:08) What is the fate of those who never heard the Gospel? How could a loving God create people that He knows will go to hell? Chris - Allentown, PA (23:02)

## Transcript

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[0:50] Speaker 1: and now here's your host, Hank Hanagraph.
[0:53] Speaker 2: Say very much for Randy and a lot of you
[0:55] Speaker 2: hanging on. We'll go direct to the phone calls. First up
[0:59] Speaker 2: is Steve. He's listening in Wisconsin.
[1:01] Speaker 3: Hi Steve, Thank you, Hank, and I appreciate you taking
[1:04] Speaker 3: my call, my pleasure. I, among any consider you a
[1:07] Speaker 3: master of discernment, which is why I'm willing to ask
[1:10] Speaker 3: you this next question. What to believe is the purpose
[1:16] Speaker 3: of the Body of Christ.
[1:18] Speaker 2: Well, first of all, the fact that we are a
[1:21] Speaker 2: body is significant. It's indicative of the fact that we
[1:25] Speaker 2: have ahead Christ is the head. We are the body
[1:27] Speaker 2: in Christ is building his body, and ultimately, when we
[1:32] Speaker 2: come to faith in Christ, we become part of a body. Therefore,
[1:37] Speaker 2: we're never lone ranger Christians. We're always part of a
[1:42] Speaker 2: community of faith. And as a community of faith, we
[1:46] Speaker 2: worship God, we have oneness with one another, and ultimately
[1:52] Speaker 2: we become a witness to the world as Christ builds
[1:57] Speaker 2: his bride. So God has created humankind for fellowship, for
[2:03] Speaker 2: relationship with Him, and that is what our end is,
[2:08] Speaker 2: relationship with God, and that comes through worship. And again,
[2:12] Speaker 2: while that is done individually, the Christian Church knows nothing
[2:18] Speaker 2: about individualized Christianity. We only know something about being part
[2:23] Speaker 2: of a community of faith, which is exemplified through communion.
[2:30] Speaker 2: It is entered into through baptism, which is the first
[2:35] Speaker 2: sign of obedience by which we express that we are
[2:39] Speaker 2: one in testimony to the world, one with the Body
[2:43] Speaker 2: of Christ. And it is something that ultimately is expressed
[2:49] Speaker 2: in corporate worship through prayer, praise, and the proclamation of
[2:54] Speaker 2: the world. Want to go back to the phone lines.
[2:56] Speaker 2: Talk to Kendall listening on South Dakota High.
[2:58] Speaker 4: Kendall, Yeah, I was. I listened to the Bible on CD,
[3:03] Speaker 4: you know, when I'm driving, and you know, several places
[3:06] Speaker 4: in the New Testament it talks about, you know, no
[3:08] Speaker 4: horror monger, We'll see the Kingdom of God. I was wondering,
[3:11] Speaker 4: what about pornography. You know, that seems like a pretty
[3:14] Speaker 4: fine line there.
[3:16] Speaker 2: Well, remember that it's not people whose sin that do
[3:20] Speaker 2: not enter the Kingdom of God. It's those who do
[3:23] Speaker 2: not recognize that their sinners, repent to their sin and
[3:27] Speaker 2: receive Jesus Christ as Savi, your and Lord, which is
[3:30] Speaker 2: to say, as a believer, you're still going to be
[3:33] Speaker 2: a sinner. You're still going to fall, You're still going
[3:35] Speaker 2: to slip, you're still going to slide, You're still going
[3:37] Speaker 2: to have inconsistencies in your life. But as a believer,
[3:41] Speaker 2: you recognize the Christ that justifies you as also sanctifying you,
[3:46] Speaker 2: which is to say, daily conforming you to His image.
[3:49] Speaker 2: So if you have a problem with pornography, you don't
[3:51] Speaker 2: take a lightened. What you do is you seek accountability
[3:56] Speaker 2: within the body of Christ so that you can overcome
[4:00] Speaker 2: a sin which ultimately enslaves you, enslaves you to your
[4:05] Speaker 2: own lust. Because pornography breaks the sacred bond of marriage,
[4:10] Speaker 2: it tears apart the fabric of society. And when pornographic
[4:16] Speaker 2: images are used to satisfy sexual desire, not only is
[4:20] Speaker 2: a marriage partner defrauded, but you yourself are left empty because
[4:27] Speaker 2: it is a vice that does not satisfy.
[4:32] Speaker 4: It seemed like it was almost an unforgivable thing.
[4:35] Speaker 2: There no, there is no such thing as an unforgivable sin.
[4:40] Speaker 2: It's always a continuous, willful, ongoing rejection that becomes unforgivable.
[4:48] Speaker 2: So it's never an act, it's a continuous action. So
[4:52] Speaker 2: as long as you recognize that you're a sinner and
[4:56] Speaker 2: you want to do it God's way, you have the
[5:00] Speaker 2: I promise that he will not only justify you, but
[5:02] Speaker 2: he will sanctify you. But that doesn't help in isolation.
[5:06] Speaker 2: That's why, as I was talking about in the first call,
[5:08] Speaker 2: we're part of a body, the Body of Christ, and
[5:11] Speaker 2: we need one another not only for accountability, but we
[5:14] Speaker 2: need one another in general so that we can be
[5:17] Speaker 2: a witness to the world and so that we ourselves
[5:21] Speaker 2: can be sanctified through Christ. Working through others who are
[5:27] Speaker 2: part of the body is curious. Well, it's a significant issue,
[5:34] Speaker 2: but even the strongest addiction to pornography can be overcome
[5:38] Speaker 2: again by taking practical steps to remove the temptation, by establishing,
[5:45] Speaker 2: as I had just mentioned, an accountability structure, and by
[5:48] Speaker 2: putting on the full armor of God. And I think
[5:50] Speaker 2: this is really critical that we learn to put on
[5:54] Speaker 2: the full armor of God, the covering described in scriptures,
[5:58] Speaker 2: the full armor of God is an penetrable barrier against
[6:02] Speaker 2: which the fiery darts of the evil One are impotent.
[6:05] Speaker 2: So when you're clothed in the covering, you're invincible. When
[6:09] Speaker 2: you're not, you're merely pawns in the devil's malevolent schemes. Again,
[6:15] Speaker 2: I've written a book on this. It's called The Covering
[6:18] Speaker 2: God's Plan to Protect You from Evil, and certainly pornography
[6:21] Speaker 2: fits in that category, and it is available through the
[6:25] Speaker 2: Ministry of the Christian Research Instident. I think it's really
[6:27] Speaker 2: instructive too, because a lot of people will say, I'm
[6:29] Speaker 2: addicted to pornography. Therefore I have the spirit of pornography,
[6:34] Speaker 2: as though pornography is a demon, and if you have
[6:39] Speaker 2: the demon expelled, you'll have the problem solved. That sounds
[6:44] Speaker 2: like a magic bullet, and that's exactly what it is.
[6:46] Speaker 2: It's a magic bullet. In other words, it doesn't exist. Ultimately,
[6:52] Speaker 2: the solution to a problem like pornography is accountability within
[6:57] Speaker 2: the body of Christ. To go back to the phone lines,
[7:00] Speaker 2: doctor Rob Oklahoma, I Rob good, How are you?
[7:05] Speaker 5: I am good.
[7:07] Speaker 6: It's a pleasure to talk to you. I had a
[7:09] Speaker 6: question about I've been interacting with my grandmother over the
[7:13] Speaker 6: last seven years or so, and she's slowly declined with Alzheimer's,
[7:17] Speaker 6: and I kind of just wondered if there's anything biblical,
[7:19] Speaker 6: or any literature or anything of your knowledge that you
[7:21] Speaker 6: could tell me if the soul leaves the body in
[7:25] Speaker 6: that state, because it almost seems like she's not even there,
[7:29] Speaker 6: She's not the person I knew.
[7:31] Speaker 2: Well, I'm sorry to hear about this. These kinds of
[7:34] Speaker 2: things are always difficult to deal with. We dealt with
[7:36] Speaker 2: the same thing with the death of my mother in law,
[7:40] Speaker 2: and it was a very difficult thing to see the
[7:42] Speaker 2: deterioration of the body, and is that body deteriorates, there's
[7:46] Speaker 2: a deterioration in the mental faculties as well, and that's
[7:49] Speaker 2: a difficult thing to abide or to endore. But that's
[7:53] Speaker 2: the whole issue with respect to the Christian worldview. In
[7:57] Speaker 2: a Christian worldview, you don't have a peaceful way to
[8:01] Speaker 2: come to terms with the suffering and the scourge of
[8:05] Speaker 2: diseases like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's or other such maladies, cancer
[8:11] Speaker 2: and the like, but you do have something far better,
[8:14] Speaker 2: a way to overcome them through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
[8:19] Speaker 2: and that means that we too will rise immortal, imperishable,
[8:22] Speaker 2: and corruptible. So the short answer to the question is no,
[8:25] Speaker 2: the soul has not left the body at death. The
[8:28] Speaker 2: soul leaves the body. But when the body ceases to function, well,
[8:33] Speaker 2: the very thing that you just described happens. But again,
[8:38] Speaker 2: that is the condition of a sinful humanity. We go
[8:42] Speaker 2: through those stages, we go through those things, and it's difficult,
[8:47] Speaker 2: but it gives us an even greater desire to reach
[8:51] Speaker 2: people while their faculties are there A and B to
[8:55] Speaker 2: recognize that we will one day be restored and hopefully.
[9:00] Speaker 6: Her mind is completely gone, but her body still acts
[9:04] Speaker 6: and acts out in anger and it's just not her.
[9:08] Speaker 6: So I'm wondering if she is being held accountable for
[9:11] Speaker 6: her actions in that state.
[9:13] Speaker 2: Well, God takes every single converging factor into consideration rob
[9:19] Speaker 2: and we know that God is just, so for me
[9:21] Speaker 2: to take an anecdote and try to ferret it out
[9:23] Speaker 2: would be a very difficult thing to do. But we
[9:26] Speaker 2: can say with certainty that in that process, the real
[9:31] Speaker 2: issue now becomes you. How do you respond and how
[9:34] Speaker 2: are you shaped in the cauldron of this adversity, And
[9:39] Speaker 2: ultimately you have to leave the judgment up to the Lord.
[9:43] Speaker 2: The Lord knows all converging factors, as I just mentioned.
[9:48] Speaker 2: And ultimately, if your grandmother is a believer, she is
[9:52] Speaker 2: still covered by the blood of Jesus Christ. And you know,
[9:56] Speaker 2: when you're covered by the blood of Jesus Christ, it
[9:58] Speaker 2: doesn't mean that you don't sin. It simply means that
[10:02] Speaker 2: you are covered by the righteousness of Jesus Christ while
[10:06] Speaker 2: yet a sinner. So we all struggle with sins in
[10:09] Speaker 2: one way or another. That does not mean that we
[10:12] Speaker 2: sin in a cavalier fashion, because with sin comes consequences,
[10:17] Speaker 2: But it also underscores the fact that we're not in
[10:20] Speaker 2: a position to fare it at everything out We know
[10:24] Speaker 2: that Jesus Christ, the ultimate judge as well as the Savior,
[10:28] Speaker 2: will do all things rightly. So we stand in the
[10:31] Speaker 2: greatest size with every person who is born again, who
[10:36] Speaker 2: is washed by the blood, who is covered by the
[10:38] Speaker 2: righteousness of Jesus Christ. When we stand in that greatest size,
[10:42] Speaker 2: we know that He will judge us rightly. And first
[10:44] Speaker 2: of all, our salvation is based on His righteousness, not
[10:48] Speaker 2: our own. And then of course there is a judgment
[10:52] Speaker 2: of rewards. Have written about that in my book Resurrection
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[15:42] Speaker 2: Back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Jason.
[15:46] Speaker 2: He's listening on the web in North Carolina. Hi Jason,
[15:49] Speaker 2: Hi Hank, thank you for.
[15:50] Speaker 8: Taking my call, my pleasure call kind of hines. It
[15:54] Speaker 8: spoke to or earlier talking about the spirit of pornography,
[15:57] Speaker 8: but real fast before I asked the question, wanted to
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[16:16] Speaker 8: that was it's pretty amazing journal.
[16:19] Speaker 2: Well, thank you, yes.
[16:22] Speaker 8: So my question is anger. You hear people talk about
[16:25] Speaker 8: that kind of thing a lot, and obviously in the
[16:27] Speaker 8: evangelical movement, and you hear people speak on it a lot.
[16:31] Speaker 8: I'm just curious what can we take from the Bible.
[16:34] Speaker 8: I mean, there's the emotion of fear and anger and
[16:37] Speaker 8: things like that, which I believe are natural. And then
[16:39] Speaker 8: there's mental conditions like you're speaking of. Someone can have
[16:43] Speaker 8: a fear of a phobia that obviously might or maybe
[16:47] Speaker 8: it's not so obvious. I don't know, is it a demon?
[16:49] Speaker 8: I mean, can we think think of that way? If
[16:50] Speaker 8: it's that way, then then there is a magic bullet.
[16:52] Speaker 8: And if you don't cure it, then you must not
[16:55] Speaker 8: have really accepted or something to that effect. I mean,
[16:58] Speaker 8: how do we discern those those three.
[17:00] Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it gets down to reading the Bible for
[17:03] Speaker 2: all it's worth, or as I like to say, minding
[17:05] Speaker 2: the Bible for all its wealth. If you ask about
[17:07] Speaker 2: a spirit of fear, there's no such thing, not in
[17:10] Speaker 2: the sense of a demon that specializes in causing fear.
[17:15] Speaker 2: In One Timothy one seven, Paul says to Timothy, God
[17:18] Speaker 2: did not give us a spirit of fear, but a
[17:22] Speaker 2: spirit of power, of love, of self discipline. And Timothy
[17:29] Speaker 2: therefore should not lack confidence. And that's what Paul's telling him,
[17:34] Speaker 2: don't lack confidence. Your life should be characterized by power, love,
[17:39] Speaker 2: self control, not a spirit a fear. So this is
[17:43] Speaker 2: not saying that a spirit of fear is a demon,
[17:46] Speaker 2: as in a spirit that can trouble you or inhabit you.
[17:51] Speaker 5: Know.
[17:51] Speaker 2: It is a condition of mind. It is a state
[17:55] Speaker 2: of being. And we should not be anchored and that's
[18:00] Speaker 2: state of being, but rather anchored in self confidence because
[18:04] Speaker 2: we're rooted and grounded in the one who not only
[18:07] Speaker 2: spoken the universe leapt into existence, but the one who
[18:11] Speaker 2: died so that we might genuinely live with confidence and
[18:16] Speaker 2: hope and power and an eternal purpose. So when you
[18:21] Speaker 2: misunderstand the Bible in this regard what happens you do
[18:24] Speaker 2: look for that magic bullet, You go to a deliverance session,
[18:27] Speaker 2: and Christians are all too happy to accommodate you in
[18:30] Speaker 2: that enterprise. And you have the spirit of fear cast
[18:33] Speaker 2: out of you, and you think that you've really solved
[18:35] Speaker 2: the problem when you haven't solved the problem at all,
[18:38] Speaker 2: And you have the attended benefit of thinking that it
[18:41] Speaker 2: wasn't your fault to start with, it was the spirit
[18:43] Speaker 2: that made you do it. So this is a wrong
[18:45] Speaker 2: way of looking at things. And Paul is admonishing Timothy
[18:49] Speaker 2: not to look at things like this, but rather to
[18:52] Speaker 2: look at things in the sense in which they're intended.
[18:55] Speaker 2: So Timothy is not misunderstanding at all what Paul is saying.
[19:00] Speaker 2: Norris Paul misunderstanding Timothy's condition.
[19:04] Speaker 8: I appreciate that. Thank you very much.
[19:06] Speaker 2: Hey, you got it. Thank you so much for your
[19:07] Speaker 2: call back to the phone lines. Guy is next, he's
[19:11] Speaker 2: listening on the web in Pennsylvania.
[19:12] Speaker 5: Hi, Guy, heyn Kyle.
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[19:32] Speaker 5: Question. About eight years ago I was reading I was
[19:35] Speaker 5: in teen Challenge ministries and I was reading Joshua ten
[19:38] Speaker 5: twelve and thirteen the sun stood still at Gibeon and
[19:42] Speaker 5: the moon at age one. I think you pronounced it
[19:45] Speaker 5: like that. I just wanted to know, like a media.
[19:48] Speaker 5: A light bulb went off my head. Is this where
[19:50] Speaker 5: we got a leap year?
[19:52] Speaker 2: No, it is not. And again you have to remember
[19:55] Speaker 2: that at the base of this you have phenomenological language.
[19:58] Speaker 2: The sun does not stand still. We don't believe in
[20:02] Speaker 2: a geocentric universe where the Sun circles the Earth, but
[20:06] Speaker 2: rather a heliocentric universe in which the Earth revolves around
[20:10] Speaker 2: the Sun. So the notion that the sun stood still
[20:13] Speaker 2: and the moon stopped is not language that we should
[20:17] Speaker 2: try to press in a literalistic fashion, because if we do,
[20:20] Speaker 2: we'll end up with nonsense that doesn't correspond to reality.
[20:23] Speaker 2: As God has reviewed that reality in the universe. And
[20:27] Speaker 2: remember God has placed this in such a way that
[20:29] Speaker 2: we know things about the universe. We're in a flattened
[20:33] Speaker 2: arm of a flattened spiral galaxy, and we're in exactly
[20:37] Speaker 2: the perfect position to be able to see things in
[20:40] Speaker 2: our universe, to discover things about our universe. So we're
[20:43] Speaker 2: not left without any information about the universe that God created.
[20:48] Speaker 2: But beyond that, let me say this that there's no
[20:51] Speaker 2: problem whatsoever in a biblical worldview looking at a passage
[20:55] Speaker 2: like this and recognizing that the God who spoke and
[20:58] Speaker 2: the universe leapt into exist is also a God who
[21:01] Speaker 2: can create a miracle, and create that miracle in such
[21:06] Speaker 2: a way that there's no after effect. There's no problem
[21:09] Speaker 2: for God. So we do open our minds when we
[21:12] Speaker 2: encounter things like Joshua chapter ten. We open our minds
[21:16] Speaker 2: to the possibilities that this could be explained in a
[21:18] Speaker 2: natural way, but also could be explained in a supernatural way.
[21:23] Speaker 5: Okay, I took this literally when I read it, you know,
[21:26] Speaker 5: and I figured, well, God probably you know, superseded the
[21:30] Speaker 5: natural law just to you know, to get Joshua, you know,
[21:34] Speaker 5: while he was in battle to win this. And that's
[21:37] Speaker 5: how one took it, you know.
[21:38] Speaker 2: Well, And that's right though. I mean, I think that's
[21:40] Speaker 2: really good guy, because look, here's the point of the passage.
[21:44] Speaker 2: You have divine intervention. The text is not clear about
[21:50] Speaker 2: the exact nature or form of that intervention. But one
[21:55] Speaker 2: thing you know with absolute certainty, Yahweh, the God of Israel,
[22:01] Speaker 2: saved his people from their enemies and glorified his holy
[22:07] Speaker 2: matchless name. That you know with certainty, And that is
[22:11] Speaker 2: the point of the passage.
[22:13] Speaker 5: Okay, all right, and.
[22:15] Speaker 2: Remember there's no reason why we can't take this as
[22:19] Speaker 2: a unique miracle. But the other part of that equation
[22:24] Speaker 2: is what I said at the very outset and answering
[22:26] Speaker 2: the question, you have to take the language and the
[22:29] Speaker 2: sense in which it's intended. We don't get mad at
[22:31] Speaker 2: meteorologists because they say the sun rose at a particular
[22:34] Speaker 2: time and it's going to set it a particular time.
[22:36] Speaker 2: We don't say, how stupid. Don't they believe in heliocentrism.
[22:40] Speaker 2: Don't they live in the twenty first century. No, we
[22:42] Speaker 2: realize the language for what it is, and we take
[22:45] Speaker 2: it in the sense in which it's intended.
[22:47] Speaker 5: All right, I really appreciate you bringing light to it
[22:51] Speaker 5: for me. And you know, and I've looked at Tea
[22:53] Speaker 5: on the web every day. I just again want to
[22:55] Speaker 5: thank you so much for your ministry. It's helped me
[22:58] Speaker 5: in my Christian walk so much.
[23:00] Speaker 2: Well, bless you guy, And I want to go back
[23:02] Speaker 2: to the phone lines now. Talk to Chris. He's listening
[23:05] Speaker 2: on Ellentown, Pennsylvania.
[23:07] Speaker 9: Hi, Chris, Hey you Hank real quickly. My son came
[23:11] Speaker 9: back raising a Christian home and he came back with
[23:14] Speaker 9: a question that I have really difficult time answering, and
[23:18] Speaker 9: I thought, if anyone can, Hank, and I appreciate the opportunity.
[23:23] Speaker 9: He asks me, all the you know, before printing presses
[23:26] Speaker 9: were invented, before the Bible was able to even be
[23:30] Speaker 9: printed and get out there all of humanity, whether existing
[23:34] Speaker 9: now or pasted in Asia and all the other religions,
[23:39] Speaker 9: you know what exactly happens to those folks? Either is
[23:44] Speaker 9: it just one of two options? Is it Heaven Hell?
[23:47] Speaker 9: Or is there a third non existent? And I guess
[23:50] Speaker 9: that kind of ties into Part B, which is also
[23:53] Speaker 9: you know, the whole notion of predestination and the elect
[23:57] Speaker 9: And you know, how could a loving God create eight
[24:00] Speaker 9: people that he knows already are going to go to.
[24:03] Speaker 1: Hell or not exist.
[24:04] Speaker 2: Yeah, but remember when you had your son, you knew
[24:09] Speaker 2: with certainty that your son was going to experience pain.
[24:12] Speaker 2: You knew a certainty that eventually your son was going
[24:15] Speaker 2: to die, and yet you chose to have your son
[24:17] Speaker 2: fully knowing that those things would happen. With respect to God,
[24:22] Speaker 2: God created us in such a way that we had
[24:25] Speaker 2: the ability to choose to love him or to choose
[24:28] Speaker 2: to do otherwise. So God did not create evil, but
[24:31] Speaker 2: he certainly created the potential for evil. But to your
[24:34] Speaker 2: big question, the Bible tells us and Paul, speaking on
[24:38] Speaker 2: Mars Hill in Athens, he says, from one man, God
[24:42] Speaker 2: made every nation of men that they should inhabit the
[24:44] Speaker 2: whole earth, and he determined the exact times set for them,
[24:49] Speaker 2: the exact places where they should live. And he did
[24:51] Speaker 2: this so that men might reach out for him and
[24:55] Speaker 2: seek him. Though he is not far from each one
[24:57] Speaker 2: of us, which is to say, no matter where you
[25:00] Speaker 2: live on planet Earth, no matter when you lived on
[25:03] Speaker 2: planet Earth, you all have light of creation. The heavens
[25:09] Speaker 2: declare the glory of God. So when you see the
[25:11] Speaker 2: universe around you, you know there's a God. You also
[25:14] Speaker 2: have the knowledge of God imprinted on the tablet of
[25:18] Speaker 2: your consciousness. Paul talks about that in Romans chapter one.
[25:22] Speaker 2: In Romans chapter two, and we have the certainty that
[25:25] Speaker 2: if we respond to light, we will be given more light.
[25:30] Speaker 2: And Jesus made that plan when he was talking to Nicodemus.
[25:32] Speaker 2: The problem was not that there wasn't enough light, because
[25:35] Speaker 2: Jesus said to Nicodemus, men loved darkness rather than light
[25:39] Speaker 2: because their deeds were evil. If you have the Complete
[25:42] Speaker 2: Bible answer Book Collector's Edition, and I'm saying this only
[25:45] Speaker 2: because I'm running into a hard break, I wrote about
[25:49] Speaker 2: that in an entry called what happens to a person
[25:52] Speaker 2: who has never heard of Jesus? The principles in that
[25:56] Speaker 2: entry will answer your question thoroughly. Thanks again for tuning in.
[26:02] Speaker 2: We'll see you next time with more.
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