# Who Do You Say I Am? and Q&A

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 23 Jul 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (07/23/26), Hank addresses Jesus asking the mother of all questions, “Who do you say I am?” Hank also answers the following questions: Is there any indication in the Bible that the Flood was global or regional? Jason - Raleigh, NC (3:45) Will we see our pets in heaven? My dad says no, because animals don’t have souls. Aaron - UT (7:10) My neighbor believes that after the millennium, the dead will be resurrected and receive Christ as their Savior. How do I address this? Yulanda - MD (15:12) How does the Sabbath apply to us today? Steve - Charlotte, NC (20:47)

## Transcript

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[0:50] Speaker 1: Now here's the president of the Christian Research Institute, Hank Canagraph.
[0:55] Speaker 2: Thank verity much, Randy. When Jesus came to Cesarea, Philippi,
[0:59] Speaker 2: he asked his disciples the mother of all questions, who
[1:05] Speaker 2: do you say that I am? His disciples asked a
[1:09] Speaker 2: similar question, who is this? Even the wind and the
[1:15] Speaker 2: waves obey him. Well, Jesus left no doubt as to
[1:21] Speaker 2: the correct answer. He claimed he was God in human flesh.
[1:28] Speaker 2: On one occasion, he was so direct the Jews picked
[1:33] Speaker 2: up stones, and then Jesus said to them I have
[1:36] Speaker 2: shown you a great many miracles from the Father. For
[1:41] Speaker 2: which of these are you trying to stone me? And
[1:46] Speaker 2: they said to him, We're not stoning you for any
[1:49] Speaker 2: of these, but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man,
[1:55] Speaker 2: claim to be God. Jehovah's witnesses, just like the first
[2:02] Speaker 2: century Jewish and Headris, do not believe that Jesus Christ
[2:07] Speaker 2: is God. In their view, he was created by God
[2:13] Speaker 2: as the archangel Michael, and then during his earthly sojourn
[2:18] Speaker 2: was a mere man, and after his crucifixion he was
[2:21] Speaker 2: recreated an immaterial spirit creature. From their perspective, the tiny
[2:28] Speaker 2: little letter A makes all the difference in the world.
[2:33] Speaker 2: Christ was not God, they say he was a God.
[2:39] Speaker 2: God created him as his firstborn, and then he became
[2:44] Speaker 2: a junior partner in the creation of all other things. Well,
[2:50] Speaker 2: the moment they commenced their grammatical gyrations, our blowney detectors
[2:55] Speaker 2: should register read it's true that Jesus Christ is God.
[3:05] Speaker 2: It certainly is not true that Jesus Christ was just
[3:10] Speaker 2: a God. Does the designation first born substantiate the contention
[3:17] Speaker 2: of the Jehovah's witnesses. We want to take the deviations
[3:23] Speaker 2: of the Watchtower and compare them to the essentials of
[3:27] Speaker 2: the historic Christian faith. My purpose as president of the
[3:32] Speaker 2: Christian Research Institute has always been the same. I want
[3:36] Speaker 2: you to be so familiar with the truth that when
[3:40] Speaker 2: the counterfeit looms on the horizon, you know it instantaneously.
[3:45] Speaker 2: Let's go right to the phone lines. First up is
[3:47] Speaker 2: Jason listening on the web. He's in Raleigh, North Carolina.
[3:50] Speaker 2: Hi Jason, Hi, Henk.
[3:52] Speaker 3: How you doing good.
[3:53] Speaker 2: How are you?
[3:53] Speaker 4: I'm doing great, Thank you. I don't deny the flood,
[3:57] Speaker 4: I mean very much share your belief about a lot
[4:01] Speaker 4: of things. I'm just curious, is there anything in the
[4:03] Speaker 4: Bible that would substantiate one way or the other whether
[4:06] Speaker 4: it was a regional event or a global event.
[4:10] Speaker 2: Well, I don't think that the Biblical text is designed
[4:13] Speaker 2: to communicate whether the flood was global with respect to
[4:17] Speaker 2: the earth or universal with respect to humanity. That debate
[4:21] Speaker 2: is ultimately settled by a proper reading of the Book
[4:25] Speaker 2: of Nature. When I say that, I don't want to
[4:28] Speaker 2: be misunderstood, because talking about the Book of Nature is
[4:32] Speaker 2: tantamount to talking about what David described in Psalm nineteen,
[4:35] Speaker 2: where he said the heavens declare the glory of God.
[4:39] Speaker 2: The skies proclaimed the work of his hands. And I
[4:43] Speaker 2: think also you want to know that since civilization was
[4:46] Speaker 2: largely confined to the fertile Crescent, you don't need to
[4:51] Speaker 2: automatically presume that the flood waters covered the globe. In
[4:55] Speaker 2: other words, that doesn't have to be your starting presupposition.
[4:59] Speaker 2: When scripture tells, for example, that the whole world sought
[5:02] Speaker 2: audience with Solomon to hear the wisdom of God, well,
[5:07] Speaker 2: no one really supposes that this includes aborigines from Australia
[5:11] Speaker 2: and indigenous people from the Americas. So it's important that
[5:17] Speaker 2: we don't empty the scripture of all objective meaning. On
[5:22] Speaker 2: the one hand, but we also don't want to imply
[5:25] Speaker 2: literalistic proclivities because if we do, we're going to wreak
[5:30] Speaker 2: havoc on the text. We want to read the text literally,
[5:33] Speaker 2: and that means we want to read the text as literature. Again,
[5:36] Speaker 2: I use this illustration a lot from Genesis because it's appropriate.
[5:39] Speaker 2: It comes very early on in the Genesis account, where
[5:43] Speaker 2: we hear that God walked with Adam and Eve in
[5:45] Speaker 2: the cool of the day. That does not mean God
[5:47] Speaker 2: had feet. So if you read that in the wrong way,
[5:52] Speaker 2: you're going to render the text an absurdity.
[5:57] Speaker 4: I appreciate that I had someone showing you a heretity
[6:00] Speaker 4: the Bible that seemed to continue through the flood. So
[6:03] Speaker 4: they were suggesting there was a way that you could
[6:04] Speaker 4: escape God's judgments. I was trying to combat with them
[6:07] Speaker 4: that that was true. And I appreciate your logic.
[6:11] Speaker 2: Thank you very much for your call.
[6:12] Speaker 4: Thank you.
[6:13] Speaker 2: And even if you do a cursory Google search, you
[6:16] Speaker 2: find out that the belief in the Genesis account of
[6:18] Speaker 2: the flood is one of the favorite whipping boys of
[6:21] Speaker 2: fundamentalists from the left. They say, if the flood covered
[6:24] Speaker 2: the mountains, it would put sea level at twenty nine
[6:28] Speaker 2: thousand feet, where everything on the arc would have frozen
[6:32] Speaker 2: to death and not had enough oxygen to breathe. The presumption, however,
[6:37] Speaker 2: that the flood waters covered Mount Everest at twenty nine
[6:41] Speaker 2: thousand and fifty five feet is misguided at best. Given
[6:45] Speaker 2: the science of plate tectonics, it's abundantly clear that Everest
[6:50] Speaker 2: is significantly higher today than it would have been at
[6:54] Speaker 2: the time of the great Primordial deluge. One thing we
[6:58] Speaker 2: know for certain, and that is there was a great
[7:02] Speaker 2: primordial deluge that is impregnated on the collective consciousness of
[7:08] Speaker 2: the ancients. I want to go back to the phone calls.
[7:12] Speaker 2: Talk to Aaron in Utah. Hi, erin how are you?
[7:17] Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm doing well. Thanks for asking to take my
[7:20] Speaker 3: phone call. I just recently lost a dog and my
[7:25] Speaker 3: father says that dogs don't have souls, and we tried
[7:31] Speaker 3: looking up some stuff in the scriptures, and it doesn't
[7:36] Speaker 3: say very much about animals. And will my dog will
[7:40] Speaker 3: I see him in heaven? Is basically my question. My
[7:43] Speaker 3: dad says no, but I tend to believe that he
[7:48] Speaker 3: does have a soul and I will see him again.
[7:52] Speaker 2: Well, let me answer this in a comprehensive fashion, because
[7:55] Speaker 2: this is a question that so many people not only
[7:57] Speaker 2: have an intellectual interest in, but a very emotional interest in.
[8:01] Speaker 2: As you do, I would say, first of all, the
[8:03] Speaker 2: scriptures from first to last suggest that animals do have souls.
[8:07] Speaker 2: Both Moses and Genesis and John in Revelation communicate that
[8:11] Speaker 2: the Creator endowed animals with souls, and in the original
[8:18] Speaker 2: languages of Genesis one in Revelation chapter eight, the words
[8:23] Speaker 2: nefesh and suke, respectively, refer to the essence of life
[8:31] Speaker 2: or the soul, And it wasn't until the Cartan Hobbes
[8:35] Speaker 2: and the Enlightenment period that people thought otherwise about animals. Now,
[8:41] Speaker 2: having said that, I think a very important qualification should
[8:46] Speaker 2: be given, and that is because the soul of an
[8:48] Speaker 2: animal is qualitatively different from the soul of a human,
[8:52] Speaker 2: there is reasonable doubt that it can survive the death
[8:56] Speaker 2: of its body. But one thing I think is and
[9:00] Speaker 2: certain from scripture, and that is there is sufficient precedent
[9:05] Speaker 2: for believing that animals will inhabit the new Heaven and
[9:10] Speaker 2: the new Earth. You might even look at the words
[9:12] Speaker 2: of Isaiah, where the wolf will live with the lamb,
[9:15] Speaker 2: and the leopard will lie down with the goat, and
[9:17] Speaker 2: the calf, and the lion and the yearling together, and
[9:19] Speaker 2: a little child will lead them. I think when you
[9:22] Speaker 2: think about animals, they are among God's most avant garde creations.
[9:26] Speaker 2: And to imagine that there'll be trees and flowers in
[9:30] Speaker 2: heaven but not animals, I think is an unreasonable prejudice.
[9:35] Speaker 2: Animals populated the Garden of Eden, and therefore I think
[9:38] Speaker 2: there's precedent for believing that animals will populate restored as well,
[9:43] Speaker 2: not only that while we cannot say for certain that
[9:47] Speaker 2: the pets we enjoy today will be resurrected in eternity,
[9:50] Speaker 2: I'm not willing to preclude that possibility. And some of
[9:55] Speaker 2: the keenest thinkers in biblical history have been very quick
[10:01] Speaker 2: to say that they think that even petted pets will
[10:03] Speaker 2: be in heaven. So again, while we can debate that,
[10:06] Speaker 2: I think that there's ample room for the notion that
[10:09] Speaker 2: this is certainly possible within the purview of God's purposes.
[10:15] Speaker 3: Okay, well, thank you very much for your time. I
[10:18] Speaker 3: appreciate it, and I'll have this conversation with my dad
[10:22] Speaker 3: again and see what he thinks about all that.
[10:25] Speaker 5: Yeah.
[10:25] Speaker 2: Let me mention as well that in my book The
[10:28] Speaker 2: Complete Bible answer Book Collector's Edition, I actually have an
[10:31] Speaker 2: entry on this particular question. Also in my book Resurrection,
[10:35] Speaker 2: I deal with whether or not animals will be in heaven,
[10:39] Speaker 2: and it's something that I take up in more detail
[10:41] Speaker 2: in a book called Afterlife. Okay, great blessings to you,
[10:46] Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your call. Will be right
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[15:09] Speaker 2: Very much Randy, and back to the phone lines. Let's
[15:13] Speaker 2: talk next to you, Londa Ulanda's listening in Maryland.
[15:17] Speaker 5: How you Londa, Hi, Hank, you have such a blessing
[15:19] Speaker 5: to me. I'm so glad I'm able to listen to you.
[15:21] Speaker 5: Thank you very much for taking my call.
[15:23] Speaker 2: You got it.
[15:24] Speaker 5: My question is I have a neighbor or you know.
[15:27] Speaker 5: It just broke my heart when she asked a question.
[15:29] Speaker 5: When she said this to me, because I was telling
[15:30] Speaker 5: her about a friend that had passed on and she's
[15:33] Speaker 5: and I wasn't sure if I told I wasn't sure
[15:35] Speaker 5: if the friend was a believer. And she said to
[15:38] Speaker 5: me that after the thousand years, after the Christian's reign,
[15:40] Speaker 5: a thousand years with Christ on earth, and then she
[15:45] Speaker 5: was saying that they're able to come back again and live. No,
[15:50] Speaker 5: the person able to be resurrected and come back again
[15:53] Speaker 5: and receive Christ as their personal savior.
[15:57] Speaker 2: Yeah, well, simply wrong on a lot of care. The
[16:00] Speaker 2: paradigm that you just described is wrong to begin with.
[16:03] Speaker 2: But here's the point. It is a pointed unto a
[16:07] Speaker 2: human being wants to die, and after that, the judgment,
[16:12] Speaker 2: there's nothing in the Bible that would lead us to
[16:15] Speaker 2: think that there's a second chance after death and everything
[16:20] Speaker 2: in the Bible that says precisely the inverse. And I think,
[16:24] Speaker 2: of course, immediately of Luke chapter sixteen, where a rich
[16:28] Speaker 2: man dies and he wants to go back and warn
[16:32] Speaker 2: his brothers so that they would not come to the
[16:34] Speaker 2: place of torment that he is experiencing. And the reply is,
[16:39] Speaker 2: they have Moses and the prophets. If they don't believe that,
[16:43] Speaker 2: they're not going to believe even if someone rises from
[16:45] Speaker 2: the dead. So we have the indication that the rich
[16:49] Speaker 2: man who dies is now in torment and he's awaiting
[16:53] Speaker 2: the final judgment when Jesus Christ returns again. There's no
[16:57] Speaker 2: indication whatsoever that there's a second chance after death, neither
[17:03] Speaker 2: biblically nor is this part of Orthodox Church history.
[17:07] Speaker 7: Now.
[17:07] Speaker 2: Unfortunately, and I've mentioned this in various forums, there are
[17:11] Speaker 2: those today who have huge platforms who are suggesting that
[17:17] Speaker 2: there is a second chance after death. In fact, not
[17:21] Speaker 2: only suggesting that, but saying that if there is a
[17:25] Speaker 2: God who does not give everyone who rejected him in
[17:28] Speaker 2: this life a second chance after death, that God is cruel, mean, vicious,
[17:34] Speaker 2: and a quote tormentor. And if there was an earthly
[17:38] Speaker 2: father who was like that, we would call the authorities.
[17:40] Speaker 2: If there was an actual human dad who was that volatile,
[17:45] Speaker 2: we would contact child protection services.
[17:48] Speaker 5: Immediately, right, you know, you know that sounds to me, Hank.
[17:51] Speaker 5: She listened to this program called World of the Way
[17:54] Speaker 5: or something. I remember them. I'm so sorry I could
[17:57] Speaker 5: remember the name. But they have a television program. Yeah,
[18:00] Speaker 5: that comes on and she listens to them. She's actually's
[18:02] Speaker 5: seven the Adventists.
[18:04] Speaker 7: Yeah, well, is that what they believe?
[18:07] Speaker 2: It sounds like an offshoot. It sounds like it is
[18:10] Speaker 2: a splinter group. It is something that has gone through
[18:13] Speaker 2: a metamorphosis. The reality is, when Jesus Christ returns, all
[18:19] Speaker 2: who in the graves will come out. Some will rise
[18:21] Speaker 2: to live, and some will rise to be condemned. So
[18:24] Speaker 2: the notion that there's going to be a second chance
[18:28] Speaker 2: for people who live after the second coming of Jesus
[18:31] Speaker 2: Christ simply doesn't pass muster.
[18:34] Speaker 3: Jesus says wants to die.
[18:37] Speaker 2: Yeah, right, And the basic belief of a lot of
[18:42] Speaker 2: people is that there will be people who live after
[18:46] Speaker 2: the second coming of Jesus Christ, and those people will
[18:49] Speaker 2: have an opportunity to not after death, but they will
[18:55] Speaker 2: be alive. Those people then will have an opportunity to
[18:58] Speaker 2: come to faith in Christ after the second coming of
[19:00] Speaker 2: Jesus Christ. So the basic progression is that there is
[19:05] Speaker 2: a secret coming, a seven year tribulation, then a second coming,
[19:09] Speaker 2: and then a thousand year semi Golden Age with rebuilt temple,
[19:13] Speaker 2: reinstitute of temple sacrifices, and at the end of that
[19:16] Speaker 2: age a great uprising and then the eternal state. I
[19:20] Speaker 2: would simply say that paradigm is indefensible biblically. In other words,
[19:25] Speaker 2: it's something that you have to impose on the scripture
[19:28] Speaker 2: as opposed to something you extract from the scriptures.
[19:32] Speaker 7: Right.
[19:33] Speaker 5: I do have your Bible answer Book, and I think
[19:36] Speaker 5: the two in one edition, and for some we're going
[19:40] Speaker 5: to find that because I'm going to go back and
[19:41] Speaker 5: I'm going to talk to her. I don't know if
[19:43] Speaker 5: you know if it's worth talking to her, but I
[19:44] Speaker 5: just it's to bring sadness on my heart.
[19:47] Speaker 2: Well, as long as she's willing to talk, it's worth it.
[19:50] Speaker 2: I mean, you can't force feed anybody, but if someone
[19:53] Speaker 2: is willing to talk, it's helpful, particularly when they're listening
[19:56] Speaker 2: to a television broadcast that is hardly Orthodox. It's not
[20:02] Speaker 2: the kind of thing that at least it sounds like
[20:05] Speaker 2: I don't know exactly which television broadcast this is, but
[20:08] Speaker 2: it sounds like it's a broadcast that may be taking
[20:11] Speaker 2: somewhat of an aberrant view. But again, it's a little
[20:13] Speaker 2: sketchy from what you've said, so I don't really know
[20:15] Speaker 2: what we're talking about specifically, but I can deal with
[20:18] Speaker 2: this in principle, and by the way, has specifically dealt
[20:21] Speaker 2: with this issue in The Apocalypse Code. So if you
[20:26] Speaker 2: get a copy of that book, I think it'll really
[20:28] Speaker 2: help you understand where people have gone wrong in establishing
[20:32] Speaker 2: these far fetched paradigms.
[20:34] Speaker 5: Okay, I will definitely get that. But what is it
[20:36] Speaker 5: the Apocalypse Code.
[20:37] Speaker 2: Yes, and it's available through the Mystery of the Christian
[20:39] Speaker 2: Research Institute.
[20:41] Speaker 5: I will get that.
[20:42] Speaker 3: Thank you, Hank, you got it.
[20:43] Speaker 2: God bless you. Thank you Ulund to appreciate your call
[20:46] Speaker 2: so much. I want to go back to the phone
[20:48] Speaker 2: lines now and talk to Steve. He's listening right here
[20:51] Speaker 2: in Charlotte, North Carolina.
[20:53] Speaker 3: Hi, Steve, very great.
[20:56] Speaker 7: My question is about the Sabbath day. And you know,
[21:00] Speaker 7: in beginning God created heavens and earth, and he rested
[21:03] Speaker 7: on a seventh day, But how does that, you know,
[21:06] Speaker 7: relate to us as for today? You know what day
[21:11] Speaker 7: to rest on and what to do on a Saturday.
[21:14] Speaker 7: I heard you talk about it before, and you were
[21:17] Speaker 7: mentioning that he entered into God's rest when you know
[21:21] Speaker 7: Jesus came and finished to work.
[21:23] Speaker 3: On a cross.
[21:23] Speaker 7: So can you tell me about that and give me
[21:25] Speaker 7: subscription on it?
[21:27] Speaker 2: Yeah. Basically, what I'm saying is that as a result
[21:29] Speaker 2: of the Resurrection, the emphasis with respect to the Sabbath
[21:34] Speaker 2: shifted to the rest or the celebration of the rest
[21:38] Speaker 2: we have through Christ, who delivers us from sin and
[21:41] Speaker 2: the grave. We see that in Hebrews chapter four. And
[21:44] Speaker 2: so for the emerging Christian Church, the most dangerous snare
[21:47] Speaker 2: was a failure to recognize that Jesus was the substance
[21:52] Speaker 2: that fulfilled the symbol of the Sabbath. So there are certainly,
[21:58] Speaker 2: from a Biblical perspective, Sabbatarian laws that no longer apply
[22:03] Speaker 2: to us today, which is to say, we don't want
[22:06] Speaker 2: to be slavishly bound to Old Testament laws which are
[22:10] Speaker 2: hazardous to our health. Because according to the Mosaic law,
[22:14] Speaker 2: anyone who does any work on the Sabbath must be
[22:17] Speaker 2: put to death. But Paul explains Christ redeemed us from
[22:22] Speaker 2: the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.
[22:26] Speaker 2: But that again points out two things. The sabbatarian laws
[22:32] Speaker 2: that were part of the civilian ceremonial context and the
[22:35] Speaker 2: Old Testament have been abrogated. But that is not true
[22:38] Speaker 2: with respect to the Sabbath as it is fulfilled in
[22:43] Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, which is to say, all of the ten
[22:46] Speaker 2: commandments then have impact for us today. We want to
[22:51] Speaker 2: work six days and rest the seventh day, and those
[22:56] Speaker 2: seven days collectively remind us not only of God's creative prowess,
[23:02] Speaker 2: but the fact that Jesus Christ is the one in
[23:06] Speaker 2: whom we have our sabbath rest. And therefore, one day
[23:10] Speaker 2: a week we celebrate the rest we have through Christ,
[23:15] Speaker 2: who saves us from sin, death and the grave, and
[23:19] Speaker 2: ensures the fact that, like heroes from the dead, we
[23:22] Speaker 2: two will rise immortal, imperishable, incorruptible. So all of the
[23:26] Speaker 2: ten commendments, therefore have significance for us today, have not
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[23:38] Speaker 2: of all God's creation, the rest we have in Jesus Christ,
[23:42] Speaker 2: and we celebrate the Decalogue because it properly codifies how
[23:50] Speaker 2: we are to relate to God as well as how
[23:52] Speaker 2: we are to relate in this world.
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