# Theistic Evolution, and Q&A

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

Audio: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72089248/bam20260527.mp3

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (05/27/26), Hank shares his thoughts on theistic evolution and the biblical account of creation, which teaches that kinds reproduce after their own kind. Hank also answers the following questions: What are your thoughts on Francis Collins and theistic evolution? Bill - Meadow Vista, CA (3:02) How do you share your faith with an evolutionist? Alex - Omaha, NE (15:12) I saw spirits at my Aunt’s house, which made me afraid. Can you please help me? Sheila - Honolulu, HI (20:22) How could Jesus eat the Passover on Friday when he was crucified on Friday? Delene - Columbia, MS (22:46)

## Transcript

[0:07] Speaker 1: From Charlotte, North Carolina. You're listening to the Bible answer
[0:11] Speaker 1: Man broadcast with Hank Hanagraph, president of the Christian Research Institute.
[0:16] Speaker 1: The reason the Bible answer Man is on the air
[0:18] Speaker 1: is to defend the Christian faith, proclaim the gospel of
[0:22] Speaker 1: our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and to teach discipleship
[0:26] Speaker 1: to his followers, because life and truth matter. For more
[0:30] Speaker 1: information or to order equipping resources, call eight eight eight
[0:34] Speaker 1: seven thousand CRII, which translates to eight eight eight seven
[0:39] Speaker 1: thousand two seven four, or go online to equip dot org.
[0:44] Speaker 1: That's equip dot org. The following program was pre recorded,
[0:50] Speaker 1: and now here's your host, Hank Anagraph.
[0:53] Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Randy. As we get the broadcast kicked
[0:56] Speaker 2: off today, I want to say just a couple of
[0:57] Speaker 2: words about theistic evolution, because under its banner, a growing
[1:02] Speaker 2: number of Christians are maintaining that God used evolution as
[1:07] Speaker 2: his method for creation, and that, in my estimation, is
[1:11] Speaker 2: the worst of all possibilities. I think it's one thing
[1:14] Speaker 2: to blame in evolution, it's quite another to blame God
[1:18] Speaker 2: for it. The Biblical account of creation specifically tells us
[1:22] Speaker 2: that God created living creatures according to their own kinds.
[1:29] Speaker 2: And therefore, while the Bible and science allow for micro evolution,
[1:34] Speaker 2: they do not in any way allow for macro evolution.
[1:39] Speaker 2: In other words, Amiba's well evolving into apes or apes
[1:43] Speaker 2: evolving into astronauts. Furthermore, evolution is the cruelest it's the
[1:49] Speaker 2: most inefficient system for creation imaginable, and therefore I am
[1:54] Speaker 2: quite surprised that Christians today are defending the idea that
[1:59] Speaker 2: this is the process which God more or less set
[2:02] Speaker 2: up in order to have evolution. Theistic evolution, from my perspective,
[2:07] Speaker 2: is simply a contradiction. In terms, It's like talking about
[2:11] Speaker 2: flaming snowflakes. God can no more direct an undirected process
[2:15] Speaker 2: than he can create a squared circle. And yet that
[2:19] Speaker 2: is precisely what theistic evolution presupposes. Look, evolution is fighting
[2:26] Speaker 2: for its very life, so rather than prop it up
[2:29] Speaker 2: with theories like theistic evolution, thinking people everywhere should be
[2:34] Speaker 2: on the vanguard of demonstrating its demise. I've written about
[2:38] Speaker 2: this and much more in the Creation answer Book. Many
[2:41] Speaker 2: of the resources I'll talk about during the broadcast you
[2:43] Speaker 2: can find them at equipped dot org. During we can
[2:47] Speaker 2: also write me at post office Box eighty five hundred, Charlotte,
[2:50] Speaker 2: North Caroline, HASIP code two eight two seven one and
[2:53] Speaker 2: has always Resource Consultants are standing by the number triple
[2:58] Speaker 2: eight seven thousand, and the literacyri I want to go
[3:01] Speaker 2: to the phone lines. We'll talk to Bill. He's listening
[3:04] Speaker 2: in Meadow Vista, California.
[3:06] Speaker 3: Hi. Bill, Hi, how are you.
[3:08] Speaker 2: I'm good? How are you?
[3:10] Speaker 3: I'm fabulous. I just got back from vacation and I
[3:16] Speaker 3: finished up the last of your trilogy On the Last Disciple,
[3:21] Speaker 3: as well as The FEUs of Armageddon. And I'm a
[3:25] Speaker 3: nationally published Christian writer as well as a physician. And
[3:29] Speaker 3: the writing in your books is phenomenal, and the book
[3:34] Speaker 3: The FEUs of Armageddon, I think could be one of
[3:37] Speaker 3: the most important books you know of this sanctuary, you know,
[3:41] Speaker 3: with the implications of it. But be that as it may.
[3:46] Speaker 3: Just want to plug your books.
[3:47] Speaker 2: Well, let me say thank you before you go on.
[3:49] Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
[3:51] Speaker 3: What I was calling about is that I had been
[3:54] Speaker 3: looking at Francis collins Biologos website and in some ways
[4:00] Speaker 3: that appealed to me in that I don't believe that
[4:04] Speaker 3: there are such things as blind natural forces, because even
[4:09] Speaker 3: randomness has an elegance to it and a complexity to it.
[4:15] Speaker 3: As to mathematics and all physical laws that you know,
[4:19] Speaker 3: they screen intelligent design, and so, you know, the traditional
[4:24] Speaker 3: view of theistic evolution is that God uses these blind
[4:29] Speaker 3: natural forces that you know. To me, it sounds like,
[4:33] Speaker 3: you know, there's something that happened when different species were created,
[4:39] Speaker 3: something at that instant, and God either does primary causation
[4:43] Speaker 3: where he kind of puts something into existence, or he
[4:46] Speaker 3: uses its natural laws. And I think, consistent with Saint
[4:51] Speaker 3: Augustine in the two Books of Scripture and Nature, that
[4:54] Speaker 3: God uses to show us the universe. You know, it
[4:58] Speaker 3: seems to me that in some ways intelligent design stifles that,
[5:03] Speaker 3: you know, sorting out and exploring into God's mysteries of
[5:07] Speaker 3: what seems so improbable.
[5:09] Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I think intelligent design is just designed,
[5:13] Speaker 2: if you will, to follow truth wherever it leads. But look,
[5:17] Speaker 2: in the view of the Biologuist foundation, science dictates that
[5:22] Speaker 2: modern human beings emerged from primates one hundred thousand years
[5:26] Speaker 2: ago in a population numbering some ten thousand, not two.
[5:31] Speaker 2: And while Collins and companies staunchly defend Darwinian evolution, their
[5:36] Speaker 2: views don't correspond to reality, and that's my big problem
[5:40] Speaker 2: with what he's teaching and saying. For example, Darwin hung
[5:44] Speaker 2: his hopes on hundreds of thousands of transitional forms leading
[5:49] Speaker 2: to the fossils of the Cambrian explosion, but in actuality,
[5:53] Speaker 2: the poverty of the fossil record has been an embarrassment.
[5:57] Speaker 2: Virtually all known body places appear abruptly in the Cambrian
[6:03] Speaker 2: and therefore, as I've said many times on this broadcast,
[6:05] Speaker 2: I think the Cambrian radiation vaporized the Darwinian tree of life.
[6:10] Speaker 2: But not only so. Scripture plainly opposes the collective rhetoric
[6:15] Speaker 2: of theistic evolutionists who are denying the reality of a
[6:19] Speaker 2: historical Adam and Eve. The Bible makes it very clear
[6:22] Speaker 2: from one man, God made differing nation of men that
[6:25] Speaker 2: they should inhabit the whole earth. So sacred scripture, in
[6:30] Speaker 2: concert with sound science, makes plain that kinds reproduce according
[6:36] Speaker 2: to their own kinds. And therefore the evolutionary paradigm that
[6:41] Speaker 2: is being perpetuated by Collins simply doesn't correspond to reality.
[6:46] Speaker 2: And if the first Adam and Eve had not fallen
[6:49] Speaker 2: into elves or perpetual sin terminated by death, there'd be
[6:52] Speaker 2: no need for God to send a second atom.
[6:55] Speaker 3: Well do you think that God did a special primary causation,
[7:02] Speaker 3: miraculous de novo ex nihilo production of all the various
[7:10] Speaker 3: species out of nothing at that instant.
[7:13] Speaker 2: Well, yes, this is what the Bible states. The Bible
[7:17] Speaker 2: states that kinds reproduce after their own kinds, that one
[7:22] Speaker 2: kind does not evolve into another kind. So we allow
[7:26] Speaker 2: for microevolution in the Biblical worldview, but not for macro evolution.
[7:30] Speaker 2: But the point that I'm trying to make here is
[7:33] Speaker 2: that what the Bible states is cooborated by science. So
[7:39] Speaker 2: what Collins is hanging on to is mythology. The Cambrian
[7:44] Speaker 2: explosion underscores from hard evidence in general revelation that all
[7:53] Speaker 2: known body plans appear abruptly in the Cambrian And therefore
[7:58] Speaker 2: this whole notion of great days and mutations as posited
[8:03] Speaker 2: by the Darwinian viewpoint which is espoused by Collins and company,
[8:08] Speaker 2: they don't correspond either biblical reality or scientific reality.
[8:13] Speaker 3: Well yeah, they have what they call a more flexible,
[8:20] Speaker 3: less wooden interpretation of the Book of Genesis, that it
[8:28] Speaker 3: was not written as as a science literature. But you know,
[8:34] Speaker 3: that it did speak to what happened in general and
[8:39] Speaker 3: specifically how that happened scientifically, right, But.
[8:43] Speaker 2: I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm not disagreeing with that
[8:46] Speaker 2: point of view. I mean, I think that what Genesis
[8:49] Speaker 2: is doing is never contra science. But it's not meant
[8:53] Speaker 2: to be a scientific handbook. It is rather meant for
[8:58] Speaker 2: us to understand the chirological impact of God's creative prowess.
[9:04] Speaker 2: In other words, God's purposes in creation. So it's not
[9:09] Speaker 2: meant to give us a chronology of creation, but it
[9:11] Speaker 2: is meant to give us God's purposes in creation. But
[9:15] Speaker 2: what I'm pointing out is that general revelation militates against
[9:20] Speaker 2: the view of Collins. In other words, the fossil evidence
[9:24] Speaker 2: simply says no to the viewpoint that he's espousing, and
[9:29] Speaker 2: I think that this is the way I'm arguing now.
[9:33] Speaker 2: I'm also arguing that the whole notion of God's special
[9:38] Speaker 2: creation of Adam and Eve is explicit in the scriptures,
[9:42] Speaker 2: and unless you hold to this, the scriptures become contradictory,
[9:46] Speaker 2: because our Savior himself said at the beginning, the Creator
[9:50] Speaker 2: made them male and female. And unless one be tempted
[9:54] Speaker 2: to allegorize the words of the Lord. It's instructive to
[9:57] Speaker 2: note that Jesus further affirmed historical Adam and even when
[10:01] Speaker 2: it referred to the murder of their son Abel. But
[10:04] Speaker 2: not only that, Luke, writing to a primarily gentile audience,
[10:08] Speaker 2: extends the genealogy past Abraham to the first Adam, and
[10:14] Speaker 2: therefore highlights Christ the second Atom is the savior of
[10:17] Speaker 2: all humanity. And even if that's insufficient in someone's mind,
[10:22] Speaker 2: Chronicles provides a historical record from Adam to the exile. Likewise,
[10:27] Speaker 2: starting at Genesis five to one, Moses gives the written
[10:31] Speaker 2: account of Adam's line. So I think that Genesis is
[10:36] Speaker 2: a historical narrative interlaced with Jewish poetry, but it's hardly
[10:41] Speaker 2: an allegory. Come to the station break. We'll be right
[10:44] Speaker 2: back on the other side of the break with more
[10:46] Speaker 2: answers to your questions right here on the Bible answer
[10:49] Speaker 2: Man broadcast.
[10:50] Speaker 1: If you were going into combat, what would be more
[10:53] Speaker 1: important the number of those who were for you or
[10:56] Speaker 1: the number of those who were with you. Now apply
[10:59] Speaker 1: that question to today's battle for the hearts and minds of
[11:02] Speaker 1: literally millions of people at home and abroad. That's what
[11:06] Speaker 1: makes members of CRI's support teams so vital. They're not
[11:11] Speaker 1: simply for CRI's critical mission. They're standing with CRI each
[11:16] Speaker 1: and every day. If you want your voice and your
[11:19] Speaker 1: values to be heard twenty four to seven through the
[11:21] Speaker 1: outreaches of the Christian Research Institute, become a member of
[11:25] Speaker 1: CRI's support team today. Just call eight eight eight seven
[11:29] Speaker 1: thousand CRII to stand with CRII daily in the battle
[11:33] Speaker 1: for life and truth. And as our thanks, Hank Canagraph
[11:38] Speaker 1: will personalize to you a copy of his Complete Bible
[11:41] Speaker 1: answer Book Collector's Edition, revised and expanded. Call eight eight
[11:45] Speaker 1: eight seven thousand CROI or visit our website at equipp
[11:50] Speaker 1: dot org. Hank will be back right after this. Anyone
[12:01] Speaker 1: who's been paying attention knows there's a war going on,
[12:04] Speaker 1: not just on traditional morality, civility, and decency, but even
[12:09] Speaker 1: more fundamentally on historic notions of truth. And the enemy
[12:12] Speaker 1: isn't just the onslaught of fake news, facilitated by a
[12:16] Speaker 1: post truth culture and turbocharged by growing legions of ideological spinductors.
[12:21] Speaker 1: Note the real enemies of truth range from postmodernist convictions
[12:25] Speaker 1: that there is no objective truth to militant scientism that
[12:29] Speaker 1: claims that only science can determine truth, and religion is
[12:33] Speaker 1: little more than primitive superstitions. But CRI Support Team members
[12:37] Speaker 1: are not waving a white flag of surrender. They're holding
[12:41] Speaker 1: the fort by undergirding everyone of Christian Research Institute's mind
[12:45] Speaker 1: shaping and life changing outreaches twenty four to seven. To
[12:49] Speaker 1: learn how you can make a difference and enjoy all
[12:51] Speaker 1: the benefits of Support Team membership, simply visit equip dot org.
[13:01] Speaker 4: Hank Hanigraph has dedicated his life to defending truth because
[13:05] Speaker 4: truth matters. However, his life and ministry were radically transformed
[13:09] Speaker 4: by another three word phrase, Life matters more. Truth matters
[13:13] Speaker 4: because Christianity is rooted in history and evidence. Life matters
[13:17] Speaker 4: more because it is the experience of union with God.
[13:21] Speaker 4: The goal of Christian life is union with God. All
[13:24] Speaker 4: attempts to understand Christianity from a solely rational perspective put
[13:28] Speaker 4: us in danger of devolving into a transactional rather than
[13:31] Speaker 4: transformational relationship with God. Truth matters, Life matters more will
[13:36] Speaker 4: equip you to move beyond intellectually knowing about God to
[13:40] Speaker 4: experientially knowing him. In Christ. To receive your copy of
[13:44] Speaker 4: Truth Matters, Life Matters More, called eight eight eight seven
[13:47] Speaker 4: thousand CRI and make a gift to support the Christian
[13:50] Speaker 4: Research Institute's Life Changing Outreaches eight eight eight seven thousand CRI,
[13:55] Speaker 4: or visit us online at equipp dot org.
[14:00] Speaker 1: The Complete Bible answer Book Collector's Edition is the comprehensive
[14:04] Speaker 1: collection of the most often asked questions Hank Hannigraph has
[14:08] Speaker 1: received throughout his four decades as host of the Bible
[14:11] Speaker 1: answer Man broadcast. With more than half a million copies
[14:15] Speaker 1: already in print, this newly revised and expanded Collector's Edition
[14:19] Speaker 1: helped seekers and skeptics alike sort through the truth on
[14:23] Speaker 1: topics such as reliability of the Bible, religions and cults,
[14:27] Speaker 1: the resurrection and afterlife, and many more issues vital to
[14:31] Speaker 1: a better understanding of God in Christ and our relationship
[14:35] Speaker 1: to Him. To receive your copy of the Complete Bible
[14:38] Speaker 1: answer Book Collector's Edition, Revised and expanded, call eight eight
[14:43] Speaker 1: eight seven thousand CRII and make a gift to support
[14:47] Speaker 1: the Christian Research Institute's Life Changing Outreaches eight eight eight
[14:52] Speaker 1: seven thousand CRII or visit us at equip dot org.
[15:07] Speaker 1: Once again, here is.
[15:09] Speaker 2: Hand catagraphs ivery much Randy, and we go right back
[15:12] Speaker 2: to our phone callers. Next up is Alex listening in
[15:15] Speaker 2: oh Maha, Nebraska.
[15:17] Speaker 5: Hi Alex, Hi, Hi, thanks great to talk to you.
[15:20] Speaker 2: Nice to talk to you.
[15:21] Speaker 5: I have a question I've been I've been talking and
[15:23] Speaker 5: preaching online to people, like especially on YouTube, and I
[15:28] Speaker 5: keep talking with some evolutionists. I remember respect, but one
[15:33] Speaker 5: of my problems is that every time I prove them wrong,
[15:36] Speaker 5: not to win nothing, just to prove that evolution is wrong.
[15:40] Speaker 5: They have like this ability to escape, like in like
[15:43] Speaker 5: in such ways like how do we know this is reality?
[15:46] Speaker 5: And stuff like that, Like I don't know how to
[15:49] Speaker 5: deal with it. Like they don't change their view no
[15:51] Speaker 5: matter how many evidence I show them proving evolutions that
[15:55] Speaker 5: haven't work right, and and how much evidence that there
[15:59] Speaker 5: is for Jesus archaeological and history and by the historians
[16:04] Speaker 5: there was a Jesus and all this, they just don't
[16:06] Speaker 5: change their mind. I don't know what to do when
[16:08] Speaker 5: I talk to them, because I feel bad because they're
[16:11] Speaker 5: teaching wrong teachings to young kids on YouTube. You know
[16:15] Speaker 5: they're there, they believe it. You're like, Wow, I'm amazed.
[16:18] Speaker 5: I can't believe I was a monkey, you know, or
[16:20] Speaker 5: ape like teacher, and it's just sad and I try
[16:24] Speaker 5: to and they're spreading. I don't know what to do
[16:26] Speaker 5: about it.
[16:27] Speaker 3: Yeah.
[16:28] Speaker 2: Well, first of all, it's great that you're hanging out
[16:30] Speaker 2: on YouTube and being a witness for Jesus Christ. You're
[16:33] Speaker 2: to be commended for that. But remember that it's never
[16:36] Speaker 2: your province to change anybody's heart. That's the province of
[16:41] Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit. What you ought to be doing is
[16:45] Speaker 2: precisely what you are doing, and that is equipping or
[16:48] Speaker 2: preparing yourself to be an ever more effective tool in
[16:52] Speaker 2: the hands of the Holy Spirit in terms of reaching people.
[16:55] Speaker 2: So the results are not what you're after. What you're
[16:58] Speaker 2: after is precisely what you're doing, always being ready to
[17:02] Speaker 2: give an answer or reason for the hope that lies
[17:04] Speaker 2: within you with gentleness and with respect. When I was
[17:08] Speaker 2: a person who believed in philosophical naturalism and evolutionism, I'm
[17:12] Speaker 2: sure there were many people who witnessed to me over
[17:14] Speaker 2: the years who probably sighed deeply and thought no one
[17:19] Speaker 2: will ever reach him. But eventually the seeds that they
[17:24] Speaker 2: planted someone else came along and watered, and God gave
[17:27] Speaker 2: the increase, and I was able to take an objective
[17:30] Speaker 2: look at the evidences and recognize that the evolutionary paradigm,
[17:35] Speaker 2: which I once thought made so much sense, makes no
[17:38] Speaker 2: sense whatsoever. You're forced to believe that life came from
[17:44] Speaker 2: non life, that nothing produced everything, and for that matter,
[17:49] Speaker 2: that the life that came from non life produced morals.
[17:52] Speaker 2: I mean, this is a stretch, to say the least. Logically,
[17:56] Speaker 2: we know that every effect has to have a cause
[17:58] Speaker 2: equal to her greater than itself. If you look at
[18:00] Speaker 2: the universe, you must certainly be driven to the notion
[18:04] Speaker 2: that there's an uncaused first cause by which the universe
[18:09] Speaker 2: came into existence. So I think all of the evidence
[18:12] Speaker 2: is on our side of the ledger, and we need
[18:14] Speaker 2: to simply communicate it with gentleness and with respect. But
[18:18] Speaker 2: leave the conversion process in the hands of the Holy Spirit.
[18:22] Speaker 2: We can be an effective tool, but he ultimately is
[18:25] Speaker 2: the one who transforms the heart.
[18:28] Speaker 5: Thank you, man. What do you recommend to people that
[18:30] Speaker 5: just keep on going on like you don't listen whatever
[18:32] Speaker 5: you write? So I just leave it alone.
[18:34] Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean again, you shouldn't feel the obligation to
[18:39] Speaker 2: do something that you're not obligated to do. What you
[18:41] Speaker 2: are obligated to do is to be an effective witness.
[18:44] Speaker 2: What you are not obligated to do is change anybody's heart.
[18:48] Speaker 5: I thank you. That's a clip that or you have
[18:50] Speaker 5: resources for evolution by teaching how creation?
[18:52] Speaker 2: Yeah, you know. I have a book that I've mentioned
[18:55] Speaker 2: on today's broadcast called the Creation answer Book. In this book,
[18:59] Speaker 2: I basicly go through the evidences against the evolutionary paradigm.
[19:06] Speaker 2: I demonstrate that the whole notion of one kind evolving
[19:12] Speaker 2: into another kind simply does not correspond to reality. Then
[19:16] Speaker 2: I go over the ape men, fiction fantasies, and frauds
[19:20] Speaker 2: that are being taught to young people today in the
[19:23] Speaker 2: classroom and show how they don't correspond to reality. Then
[19:28] Speaker 2: I demonstrate the chance that which happens without cause implies
[19:33] Speaker 2: the absence of both design and a designer. However, all
[19:36] Speaker 2: of the evidence points in a different direction. And then
[19:40] Speaker 2: I point out that the basic laws of science militate
[19:43] Speaker 2: against the evolutionary hypothesis. And therefore, as we move farther
[19:49] Speaker 2: and farther in an age of scientific enlightenment, more and
[19:52] Speaker 2: more evidence comes to light which causes the evolutionary foundation
[19:58] Speaker 2: to start to crack in such a way that ultimately
[20:00] Speaker 2: it's going to have to completely disintegrate because it's simply
[20:05] Speaker 2: is a theory that people are sort of forced to
[20:08] Speaker 2: communicate and believe, but it has no real basis and evidence.
[20:13] Speaker 2: It is a fairy tale for adults.
[20:15] Speaker 5: Thank you, Hank Minelo Kei. Blessing you for what you're doing.
[20:18] Speaker 5: You're helping millions.
[20:19] Speaker 2: Thank you, Alex. Appreciate your call back to the phone lines. Sheila, Honolulu, Hawaii.
[20:24] Speaker 3: Hi, Sheila, Hi, thank you for picking a call.
[20:28] Speaker 1: You're welcome to know.
[20:30] Speaker 2: I guess I saw two.
[20:31] Speaker 3: Different spirits at my aunt's house when I was sleeping
[20:34] Speaker 3: over and being a.
[20:35] Speaker 5: Christian, I shouldn't be afraid, but yet I don't know
[20:38] Speaker 5: why I'm seeing it.
[20:40] Speaker 2: Well, Sheila, you have to take your subjective experience and
[20:43] Speaker 2: test it in light of an objective frame of reference,
[20:47] Speaker 2: which is the Word of God. And what we know
[20:50] Speaker 2: for certain about the Word of God is that when
[20:53] Speaker 2: someone dies, they are either in torment, which is to say,
[20:58] Speaker 2: they're away from the loving presence of God, or they
[21:01] Speaker 2: are being comforted in the presence of God. But they
[21:05] Speaker 2: do not and cannot return to this time space continuum
[21:10] Speaker 2: without God's divine prerogative, and God does not do this
[21:15] Speaker 2: in a normal or a normative fashion. Therefore, the subjective
[21:20] Speaker 2: experience of seeing a dead relative is something that does
[21:25] Speaker 2: not correspond to the truth of scripture. Now, it doesn't
[21:28] Speaker 2: mean that you didn't have a real experience and that
[21:31] Speaker 2: you really think that this is true. Of course you do.
[21:35] Speaker 2: But there are many things that we experience subjectively that
[21:40] Speaker 2: objectively are invalidated. And that's why we also have to
[21:43] Speaker 2: test the subjective experience again in light of the word
[21:48] Speaker 2: of God, which is the final test for faith and practice.
[21:52] Speaker 5: What do you mean by test it because it's not
[21:53] Speaker 5: a relative. I don't know this person.
[21:55] Speaker 1: I cannot see the faith.
[21:57] Speaker 2: Well, but I'm saying whether it's a relative or anyone else.
[22:00] Speaker 2: We know that those who have died do not return
[22:05] Speaker 2: to the land of the living. But we also know
[22:08] Speaker 2: something to be absolutely true on the basis of scripture,
[22:11] Speaker 2: and that is that Satan will play upon the field
[22:15] Speaker 2: of our imagination and our superstition. And that's why when
[22:20] Speaker 2: you test things in light of scripture, you know it
[22:22] Speaker 2: can't be a ghost or a departed person. But you
[22:26] Speaker 2: can know that why you cannot see Satan that he
[22:30] Speaker 2: will try to influence your thoughts. And that's why you
[22:34] Speaker 2: have to put on the full armor of God so
[22:36] Speaker 2: you can take your stand against principalities and powers of darkness.
[22:41] Speaker 2: All right, thank you, you got it, Sheila. I've written
[22:44] Speaker 2: about this in a book called The Covering. Back to
[22:46] Speaker 2: the phone Lines. We talked to Deleen in Columbia, Mississippi High.
[22:50] Speaker 6: Deleen, Hi, thank you for taking my call.
[22:53] Speaker 5: You're welcome.
[22:54] Speaker 6: My question is about the passover. So is it just
[22:57] Speaker 6: traditions a man that they call the last for the Passover.
[23:01] Speaker 6: I know in the Gospel it speaks as passover. Peter
[23:05] Speaker 6: and John were instructed to go and prepare for the Passover,
[23:08] Speaker 6: but Jesus, being on passover lamb, was crucified at three
[23:12] Speaker 6: pm on the day that they fill the lamb. The
[23:16] Speaker 6: Passover supper is to be eaten that night, which will
[23:18] Speaker 6: be the beginning of the next day, the first day
[23:21] Speaker 6: of eleven bread. Why does the Bible say that Jesus
[23:25] Speaker 6: ate the Passover supper with the disciples when it's impossible
[23:30] Speaker 6: he was crucified.
[23:32] Speaker 2: Well, I'm really glad that you're reading your Bible carefully.
[23:35] Speaker 2: One of the things you'll find as you read the
[23:37] Speaker 2: Bible carefully is that Jesus died on Passover Day or
[23:40] Speaker 2: Friday to fulfill the conditions of being or Passover lamb.
[23:45] Speaker 2: So you're correct in that presupposition. But there's a time
[23:50] Speaker 2: difference between the household observance of the Passover meal on
[23:56] Speaker 2: the evening of the fourteenth of Nissan, which is Thursday evening,
[24:01] Speaker 2: which the lords celebrated with his disciples as the Lord's Supper,
[24:05] Speaker 2: and the public sacrifice on the altar on behalf of
[24:07] Speaker 2: the nation of Israel on the fifteenth of Nissan. And
[24:11] Speaker 2: I think therein lies the answer to your question.
[24:14] Speaker 6: Well, see, I believe Jesus was in the grade three
[24:17] Speaker 6: days and three nights, because he says Jonah was in
[24:19] Speaker 6: the belly of the fish three days and three nights,
[24:23] Speaker 6: So the son of Man would be in the heart
[24:24] Speaker 6: of the earth three days and three nights.
[24:27] Speaker 2: Yeah, but that doesn't mean seventy two hours.
[24:30] Speaker 6: You can't get three days and three nights out of
[24:32] Speaker 6: Friday afternoon.
[24:33] Speaker 2: But I was just going to explain that to you. Again,
[24:35] Speaker 2: you're correct in the basic idea that you're communicating. The
[24:39] Speaker 2: Gospels say that he died and he was buried the
[24:43] Speaker 2: day before the Sabbath or Friday, and rose on the
[24:46] Speaker 2: day after the Sabbath or on Sunday. And the answer
[24:51] Speaker 2: therefore to the conundrum that you pose is that in
[24:54] Speaker 2: the Jewish mind, part of a day was counted as
[24:59] Speaker 2: an entire day. And that's why it's so important to
[25:03] Speaker 2: learn the idioms or figures the speech that are used
[25:06] Speaker 2: in scripture. And by the way, you know that it
[25:09] Speaker 2: couldn't have been seventy two hours that were in mind,
[25:12] Speaker 2: because Christ rose on the third day, not after three days,
[25:18] Speaker 2: according to Matthew chapter sixteen. So again I think it's
[25:22] Speaker 2: important to understand that part of a day and part
[25:27] Speaker 2: of a night constituted as a day and a night,
[25:30] Speaker 2: and so you don't have to have a full seventy
[25:32] Speaker 2: two hours. Literally, that's not what is in view. In fact,
[25:36] Speaker 2: if you read the text carefully, you know not only
[25:40] Speaker 2: by the function of Jewish idiom that I've just described,
[25:43] Speaker 2: but you know from the text itself that it couldn't
[25:46] Speaker 2: have been a full seventy two hours that are in view.
[25:50] Speaker 2: We are at a time for this edition of the Bible.
[25:52] Speaker 2: Answer Man Broadcast has always our address on theweb equipped
[25:56] Speaker 2: dot org. You'll find out materials there via the Maila's
[25:59] Speaker 2: box eighty five hundred Charlotte, North Carolina is a two
[26:02] Speaker 2: eight two seven one, or you can talk to one
[26:04] Speaker 2: of our resource consultants that never triple eight seven thousand
[26:08] Speaker 2: in the letters CRI read it here for today. Thanks
[26:11] Speaker 2: for joining in.
[26:13] Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us today. Our mission at the
[26:16] Speaker 1: Christian Research Institute is to defend the faith, answer Bible questions,
[26:21] Speaker 1: and encourage Christians to watch their life and doctrine closely.
[26:26] Speaker 1: To find resources to help equip you go to equip
[26:29] Speaker 1: dot org. That's equip dot org, or call us at
[26:34] Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven thousand, CRII. You can also write
[26:38] Speaker 1: CRI at Post office box eighty five hundred, Charlotte, North Carolina,
[26:43] Speaker 1: two eight two seven one. The Bible answer Man Broadcast
[26:47] Speaker 1: is supported by listeners like you. We're on the air
[26:51] Speaker 1: because life and truth matter to the number of wolves
[27:02] Speaker 1: surrounding the Christian flock is growing, and they relish nothing
[27:06] Speaker 1: more than docile's sheep, utterly incapable of defending themselves from
[27:10] Speaker 1: militant secularists at home to militant Islamists abroad. The assaults
[27:15] Speaker 1: on biblical Christianity are growing dangerously, but Christian research institutes.
[27:20] Speaker 1: Support Team members aren't in favor of feeding these wolves. Instead,
[27:24] Speaker 1: each day they're making possible an array of outreaches that
[27:28] Speaker 1: defang these wolfpacks with solid arguments and evidence that have
[27:32] Speaker 1: stood the test of time. What's more, Support Team members
[27:35] Speaker 1: are equipping themselves with criis Equipping Essentials, a handpicked collection
[27:41] Speaker 1: of the best apologetics tools around. Your selection of resources
[27:45] Speaker 1: are just our way of saying thanks. To learn more
[27:48] Speaker 1: about the benefits of membership, simply visit equip dot org.
[27:52] Speaker 1: Once again, that's equip dot org.

Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. Every show and episode belongs to its publisher and plays from the publisher's own feed; this site hosts none of them.