# The Talking Snake, and Q&A

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 22 Apr 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/22/26), Hank shares on the illumination principle on reading the Bible for all its worth and critiques Bill Maher’s flawed wooden literal interpretation of the talking snake in the Book of Genesis. Hank also answers the following questions: Was polygamy, plural marriage, and concubinage ever acceptable by God? Ross - Salt Lake City, UT (6:49) What does it mean to be created “in the image of God?” Joe - Omaha, NE (15:11) Beatitude in Revelation 22:14. Is it supposed to read blessed are those who do the commandments or those who wash their robes? Herb - AB (18:58) People say that the King James Bible is the fully inspired Word of God. Is that true? What is the best Bible translation to read? Herb - AB (20:27) Where does the Bible say that those who die without Christ have eternal condemnation? Tom - Newark, DE (24:13)

## Transcript

[0:07] Speaker 1: From the Christian Research Institute and Charlotte, North Carolina. You're
[0:11] Speaker 1: listening to the Bible answer Man broadcast with Hank Hannagraph.
[0:15] Speaker 1: We're on the air because life and truth matter. The
[0:19] Speaker 1: mission of the Christian Research Institute is to equip believers
[0:22] Speaker 1: to answer life's essential questions soundly and persuasively, and to
[0:27] Speaker 1: give the reason for the hope that you have with
[0:30] Speaker 1: gentleness and respect. For more information, go online to equip
[0:35] Speaker 1: dot org. The following program was pre recorded and now
[0:40] Speaker 1: here's Bible answer Man host Hank Canagraph.
[0:43] Speaker 2: Thank you very much for Randy in a couple of
[0:45] Speaker 2: words about the illumination principle of Biblical interpretation before we
[0:49] Speaker 2: go to our callers. You know, during the heyday of
[0:53] Speaker 2: Larry King Live, I could not help but tune in.
[0:57] Speaker 2: How that it is the greatest interviewer of all time,
[1:00] Speaker 2: and he engaged some of the most prominent people on
[1:02] Speaker 2: the planet, presidents, pastors, politicians, prominent personalities, and one of
[1:10] Speaker 2: the regulars was the punmeister Bill Maher. And of course
[1:15] Speaker 2: Bill Maher has made a veritable cottage industry out of
[1:18] Speaker 2: ridiculing the Bible. He characterizes himself as a rational list
[1:25] Speaker 2: who is far too intellectually advanced to believe in biblical
[1:29] Speaker 2: fairy tales. In evidence, he routinely goes off on the
[1:34] Speaker 2: talking snake of Genesis while he's on the Larry King
[1:38] Speaker 2: Live broadcast or just doing one of his stand up
[1:41] Speaker 2: comedy routines. He can't help but get back to the
[1:45] Speaker 2: talking snake. As a fundamentalist from the left who is
[1:50] Speaker 2: caught up in the labyrinth of his own laughter, he
[1:55] Speaker 2: seems blithely unaware of the literal principle of Biblical interpretation,
[2:03] Speaker 2: and therefore he embraces a literalistic at all cost method
[2:09] Speaker 2: of Biblical interpretation that is particularly troublesome when it comes
[2:13] Speaker 2: to reading books of the Bible, in which visionary imagery
[2:17] Speaker 2: is the governing genre. When the Bible variously describes Satan
[2:23] Speaker 2: as a dragon or an ancient serpent, Mar's fundamentalist mind
[2:29] Speaker 2: forces him into a host of literalistic absurdities. It should
[2:36] Speaker 2: be obvious the symbolism of a dragon or a snake
[2:42] Speaker 2: is not designed to tell us what Satan looks like.
[2:46] Speaker 2: It's to teach us what Satan is like. The real problem,
[2:52] Speaker 2: of course, is not merely that Mar interprets the Bible
[2:56] Speaker 2: in a woodenly literalistic fashion, it is that his heart
[3:01] Speaker 2: has not been illumined by the spirit. As such, the
[3:07] Speaker 2: issue is not intellect but illumination. The way of the
[3:13] Speaker 2: wicked is like a deep darkness, said Solomon. They don't
[3:18] Speaker 2: know what makes them stumble, which is precisely what I'm
[3:23] Speaker 2: driving at when I talk about the illumination principle of
[3:28] Speaker 2: Biblical interpretation. Illumination only comes from the Spirit of God,
[3:34] Speaker 2: and it is that grace by which the Holy Spirit
[3:37] Speaker 2: sheds divine light on the inspired text. While it is
[3:42] Speaker 2: crucial to defend the Bible as divine in an age
[3:46] Speaker 2: in which the Bible is clearly under siege, only the
[3:50] Speaker 2: Spirit removes the veil so that the blind may truly see.
[3:57] Speaker 2: Illumination does not end when the veil is lifted and
[4:02] Speaker 2: the spiritually blind receive their sight. However, the spiritually sighted
[4:10] Speaker 2: are in need of illumination throughout the duration of their lives. Truly,
[4:18] Speaker 2: we do not as yet know the treasures that are
[4:21] Speaker 2: mind from the Biblical text. If we're diligent, and such
[4:27] Speaker 2: minding is not dependent upon degrees, it is directly proportional
[4:33] Speaker 2: to our diligence. As we dig the spirit will continue
[4:40] Speaker 2: to illumine our minds. We don't have the spirit of
[4:44] Speaker 2: the world, but the spirit who is from God, that
[4:47] Speaker 2: we may freely understand what God has given to us.
[4:52] Speaker 2: The spirit of truth provides insights that permeate the mind,
[4:57] Speaker 2: as well as illumination that traits the heart. Far from
[5:03] Speaker 2: supplanting the scrupulous study of scripture, the Holy Spirit provides
[5:08] Speaker 2: us with insights that can only be spiritually discerned. But
[5:13] Speaker 2: another way, the Holy Spirit illumines what is in the text.
[5:17] Speaker 2: Illumination never goes beyond the text, and in that way
[5:22] Speaker 2: the Holy Spirit helps us to exegete, or draw out of,
[5:26] Speaker 2: rather than isogete, which means read into the scriptures. Nothing
[5:32] Speaker 2: should take precedence over getting into the Word and getting
[5:36] Speaker 2: the Word into us. If we fail to eat well
[5:40] Speaker 2: balanced meals in a regular basis, we will eventually suffer
[5:44] Speaker 2: the physical consequences. Likewise, if we do not regularly feed
[5:50] Speaker 2: on the Word of God, we will suffer the spiritual consequences.
[5:55] Speaker 2: Physical meals are one thing, Spiritual meals quite another. And
[6:02] Speaker 2: the thing that I want you to do is to
[6:06] Speaker 2: partake in spiritual meals, to get into the Word of God,
[6:12] Speaker 2: to get the Word of God into you to memorize, meditate,
[6:17] Speaker 2: mine the Bible for all it's worth. If you do,
[6:22] Speaker 2: you'll be prosperous and successful in whatever you do. If
[6:25] Speaker 2: you don't, you're a guaranteed failure, no matter how many
[6:30] Speaker 2: degrees you have behind your name. Again, we have a
[6:36] Speaker 2: lot of resources at the Christian Research Institute to help
[6:39] Speaker 2: you in mining the Bible for all It's worth. All
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[6:48] Speaker 2: we'll go right to the phone lines. First up is
[6:50] Speaker 2: Ross listening around Salt Lake City, Utah.
[6:53] Speaker 3: Hi Ross, Good afternoon, Hank. Whyted' to ask in my
[6:58] Speaker 3: discussion here with the local was politicy plural marriage concubines.
[7:06] Speaker 3: Of course, it took place in the Old Testament. My
[7:08] Speaker 3: question was it ever acceptable in God's eyes, in God's plan?
[7:13] Speaker 3: Was it ever ever condoned?
[7:16] Speaker 2: No, it was never condoned. In fact, the Bible is
[7:20] Speaker 2: very clear about the fact that you must not multiply wives.
[7:24] Speaker 2: You can find that in the memorable passage Dueteronomy seventeen seventeen.
[7:29] Speaker 2: So there's a difference between what is descriptive and that
[7:32] Speaker 2: which is prescriptive. The Bible describes all of the patriarchs
[7:39] Speaker 2: with their warts and moles and wrinkles, but it never
[7:43] Speaker 2: recommends polygamy. In fact, if you read through the Bible
[7:47] Speaker 2: from first to last, it is very clear that a
[7:51] Speaker 2: man leaves his father and mother and is united to
[7:54] Speaker 2: his wife, not wives, and the two, not three or
[7:58] Speaker 2: more of them, become one. Flet. Each man should have
[8:02] Speaker 2: his own wife, not wives, and each woman her own husband,
[8:08] Speaker 2: not husband's is first Corinthian seven tells us, and a
[8:11] Speaker 2: wife must not separate from her husband, not a husband's plural. So,
[8:16] Speaker 2: while polygamy was practiced, it was never something that was prescriptive,
[8:21] Speaker 2: something that God prescribed as being right and honorable for
[8:25] Speaker 2: a man to engage in.
[8:27] Speaker 3: Okay, Hank, of course I hear that the reason they
[8:31] Speaker 3: practice polygamy. Of course, I'm referring to the LDS faith.
[8:35] Speaker 3: The criteria was because of a shortage of man and
[8:39] Speaker 3: an overabundance of women due to a number of reasons,
[8:43] Speaker 3: and that's the main reason that I hear that they
[8:46] Speaker 3: took up the practice.
[8:49] Speaker 2: Well, let me tell you that's simply not true. The
[8:51] Speaker 2: Mormon practice of polygamy found its genesis and the teachings
[8:55] Speaker 2: and practices of Joseph Smith. In eighteen forty three, he
[9:00] Speaker 2: received what he thought was an eternally binding revelation which
[9:06] Speaker 2: is codified in doctrines and covenants, and according to Smith,
[9:10] Speaker 2: apart from the practice of polygamy, there was no hope
[9:14] Speaker 2: of attaining to the Godhead. The everlasting commandment of polygamy
[9:19] Speaker 2: revealed to Joseph Smith was considered so binding that Brigham
[9:24] Speaker 2: Young actually declared that if any deny the plurality of
[9:30] Speaker 2: wives and continue to do so, I promise you that
[9:33] Speaker 2: they will be damned. So why do we believe in
[9:38] Speaker 2: practice polygamy, he asked rhetorically, because the Lord introduced it
[9:44] Speaker 2: to his servants in a revelation given to Joseph Smith.
[9:49] Speaker 2: And the Lord's servants have always practiced it. And this
[9:53] Speaker 2: is the religion of Abraham. And unless we do the
[9:56] Speaker 2: works of Abraham, we are not abraham seed and heirs
[10:00] Speaker 2: according to the promise. So I think anyone that's telling
[10:03] Speaker 2: you that this is some pragmatic, practical thing that they're
[10:07] Speaker 2: engaged in is simply misrepresenting the leadership of the Mormon Church.
[10:13] Speaker 3: Wow, very good. As always, I enjoy your program and
[10:17] Speaker 3: your ministry, Hank, thank you for fielding those questions for me.
[10:20] Speaker 4: Thank you you got it.
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[15:10] Speaker 2: I want to go back to the phone lines and
[15:12] Speaker 2: talk to Joe. He's listening in all Mohammed, Nebraska.
[15:15] Speaker 3: Hi, Joe, Hi, Hank.
[15:18] Speaker 6: I got kind of a question that I've struggled with.
[15:22] Speaker 6: Do you believe that all humans are created in the
[15:27] Speaker 6: image of God? And if you do, what does that
[15:31] Speaker 6: look like?
[15:32] Speaker 4: What does mean?
[15:33] Speaker 2: Well, we're created in the image of God. We're not
[15:35] Speaker 2: reproductions of God of churs, we're reflections of God. And
[15:39] Speaker 2: what that means is that we reflect God's moral attributes.
[15:43] Speaker 2: So we are not omniscient, we are not omnipotent, but
[15:49] Speaker 2: we do reflect moral attributes like love and volition. Those
[15:55] Speaker 2: are how we reflect God. And that is what it
[15:59] Speaker 2: means to be created in the image of God.
[16:02] Speaker 6: So would you consider that to be the deepest thing
[16:06] Speaker 6: about us, the core of who we are as human beings?
[16:10] Speaker 2: For sure? Yes, because we are created in the image
[16:13] Speaker 2: of God, and as those who are created in the
[16:18] Speaker 2: image of God, we have the capacity to enjoy fellowship
[16:21] Speaker 2: with God and to develop personal relationships with one another.
[16:25] Speaker 2: These moral attributes also equip us to carry out God's
[16:28] Speaker 2: will that we tend and rule creation in such a
[16:34] Speaker 2: way that creation comes to realize its full potential. The
[16:39] Speaker 2: image of God in humanity comprises qualities of God which
[16:45] Speaker 2: reflected in humankind make worship and personal interaction and even
[16:51] Speaker 2: work possible in the sense as described and prescribed by God.
[16:57] Speaker 6: I'm confused because people say, all that you know, we
[17:01] Speaker 6: can't have this true relationship with God until we receive
[17:05] Speaker 6: Christ and know from what you just told me, it
[17:09] Speaker 6: sounds like it is possible to know God without the
[17:14] Speaker 6: formal you know, acceptance of Jesus.
[17:16] Speaker 2: Well, no, the relationship is broken, and through Jesus Christ
[17:21] Speaker 2: we can enter into the fullness of relationship with God.
[17:26] Speaker 2: That fullness develops over time. We go through a process
[17:32] Speaker 2: of sanctification where we're daily conformed to the image of
[17:35] Speaker 2: God and one day will be glorified. But although created
[17:40] Speaker 2: in the image of God, we have to recognize that
[17:43] Speaker 2: we will never possess non transferable or incommunicable attributes. Will
[17:49] Speaker 2: never possess self existence, immutability, eternality, We will never have
[17:57] Speaker 2: absolute sovereignty. These are attributes that God alone has and
[18:04] Speaker 2: that's why I say, far from being a reproduction of God,
[18:08] Speaker 2: humanity is more correctly portrayed as a reflection of God,
[18:13] Speaker 2: and we reflect what are called theologically communicable attributes. And
[18:20] Speaker 2: those attributes are personality, spirituality, rationality, knowledge, wisdom, morality, goodness, holiness, righteousness, love, justice, mercy,
[18:33] Speaker 2: and the like. Probably a lot more than I can
[18:37] Speaker 2: remember from the tip of my tongue, but those I
[18:39] Speaker 2: think are a pretty comprehensive list of communicable attributes that
[18:44] Speaker 2: we reflect God with. The incommunicable attributes are those attributes
[18:50] Speaker 2: of God that do not find a reflection in humankind.
[18:54] Speaker 6: Okay, thank you you got it.
[18:56] Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your call. Les, go right
[18:57] Speaker 2: back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Herb.
[19:00] Speaker 2: He's listening in Alberta, Canada. High Herb, Hello.
[19:03] Speaker 4: There, Hank. It's good to hear you give the answers
[19:06] Speaker 4: to those questions. Thank you, Praise God. Asking a question
[19:10] Speaker 4: about Revelation twenty two to fourteen in the King James
[19:15] Speaker 4: blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may
[19:18] Speaker 4: have the right to the tree of life and may
[19:20] Speaker 4: enter through the gates into the city. And then in
[19:25] Speaker 4: the NIV, in Revelations twenty two to fourteen, it's at
[19:29] Speaker 4: blessed those who washed their ropes, that they may have
[19:33] Speaker 4: the right to the tree of life and go through
[19:36] Speaker 4: the gates into the city. Yeah, what is the problem there?
[19:41] Speaker 2: Well, I don't think it's a big problem. Bruce Mexicer,
[19:43] Speaker 2: who was the great Princeton scholar, explained that some manuscript
[19:48] Speaker 2: as well as the textas Receptis, have here what are
[19:53] Speaker 2: in the Greek somewhat similar sounding words, and therefore there
[19:58] Speaker 2: was a scribal emendation here that simply is wrong in
[20:05] Speaker 2: the textas Receptis and correctly rendered in the NIV. So
[20:10] Speaker 2: I think it's correct to say, blessed are those who
[20:14] Speaker 2: wash their robes, that they may have the right to
[20:17] Speaker 2: the tree of life. And it would be incorrect to say,
[20:20] Speaker 2: blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may
[20:23] Speaker 2: have the right to the tree of life.
[20:25] Speaker 4: Yes, now people will say that the King James Bible
[20:32] Speaker 4: is the fully inspired Word of God. Is that two cores?
[20:39] Speaker 2: Well? The King James Version is a translation. And I
[20:42] Speaker 2: did a television taping on this very thing where we
[20:45] Speaker 2: were celebrating the four hundredth anniversary of the completion of
[20:49] Speaker 2: the King James Version. I remember it was commission in
[20:51] Speaker 2: sixteen oh four and then completed in sixteen eleven. And
[20:55] Speaker 2: it was certainly a great translation held sway for four
[20:58] Speaker 2: hundred years. But did it have mistakes? Of course, it
[21:02] Speaker 2: had all kinds of mistakes. Now we know that for
[21:05] Speaker 2: a lot of reasons. First of all, we now have
[21:08] Speaker 2: new and better manuscripts, and those manuscripts that we have
[21:13] Speaker 2: are more ancient than the manuscripts that the King James
[21:17] Speaker 2: Version relied on. We also have a better understanding today
[21:22] Speaker 2: of the Biblical languages, and as a result of that,
[21:27] Speaker 2: even the new King James Version has been greatly improved.
[21:31] Speaker 2: And then you know the other thing that the newer
[21:33] Speaker 2: translations do is they take out the connotative words, words
[21:37] Speaker 2: that have taken on the barnacles of time that are very,
[21:40] Speaker 2: very difficult for us to understand today. For example, in
[21:42] Speaker 2: Acts twenty eight, if you go to the King James version,
[21:45] Speaker 2: I was just looking at this. It's very interesting, they ask.
[21:47] Speaker 2: I actually was with a man who had three original
[21:52] Speaker 2: copies of the King James version that were produced between
[21:56] Speaker 2: sixteen eleven and seventeen sixty nine. So he actually had
[22:01] Speaker 2: them with him on display during the celebration, and I
[22:06] Speaker 2: interviewed him and it was a pretty exciting time. But
[22:09] Speaker 2: you know, you look at those old translations and you
[22:12] Speaker 2: go to Acts twenty eight, and this is one of
[22:14] Speaker 2: the things I was talking about actually when I was
[22:15] Speaker 2: doing the taping, is you look there and you see
[22:19] Speaker 2: Paul say, from thence we fetched a compass. Now you
[22:24] Speaker 2: scratch your head and say, well, they didn't have compasses,
[22:26] Speaker 2: at least for navigational purposes. Weren't even invented for that
[22:30] Speaker 2: purpose at that time, So how could he fetch a
[22:33] Speaker 2: compass when compasses didn't exist. Well, if you understand Elizabethan English.
[22:39] Speaker 2: You recognize that translated into common parlance today, that means
[22:44] Speaker 2: from thence we proceeded in a circular course. But there
[22:48] Speaker 2: are many other examples like that Jesus said, suffer little
[22:52] Speaker 2: children to come unto me. What does that mean? Well,
[22:54] Speaker 2: it means let little children come unto me. Think of
[22:58] Speaker 2: another one in Psalm for how long will you love
[23:02] Speaker 2: vanity and seek after leasing? Or what does leasing mean?
[23:06] Speaker 2: It means falsehood. So the modern translators just take the
[23:10] Speaker 2: language which is connotative and they make a denotative again,
[23:13] Speaker 2: gay clothing, They make fine clothing in the like.
[23:17] Speaker 4: Right, what's the best translation to read today?
[23:21] Speaker 2: Well, you know, there are so many good translations today.
[23:24] Speaker 2: I mean, we are so blessed in our epic of time.
[23:27] Speaker 2: I like the New King James version of the Bible
[23:29] Speaker 2: a lot. I memorize the NIV a lot because the
[23:32] Speaker 2: NIV is a thought for thought translation, and therefore it
[23:38] Speaker 2: is much more easy to communicate in a verbal way.
[23:44] Speaker 2: I love memorizing proverbs in the NEASB because NASB is
[23:48] Speaker 2: a translation that's more word for word, and proverbs are pithy,
[23:53] Speaker 2: So I like that translation best for memorizing proverbs. So
[23:56] Speaker 2: it just depends on what you're doing. But I think
[23:58] Speaker 2: it's good to read a number of good time translations.
[24:01] Speaker 2: Use one in particular for study, but having a whole
[24:03] Speaker 2: lot of translations available certainly doesn't hurt.
[24:06] Speaker 4: Yes, I agree with you, and thank you very much.
[24:09] Speaker 2: Hey, you got it. I want to go back to
[24:11] Speaker 2: the phone lines now and we will talk to Tom.
[24:14] Speaker 2: He's listening on the web in Newark, Delaware. Hi.
[24:18] Speaker 4: Tom, it's good to talk to you.
[24:20] Speaker 7: I've learned quite a bit from you. My question would
[24:24] Speaker 7: be life back to death? Of course, I am very
[24:28] Speaker 7: much aware that when we die in Christ, we have
[24:32] Speaker 7: that eternal life. But for those that die without Christ,
[24:37] Speaker 7: where does the Bible say that they have eternal condemnation
[24:43] Speaker 7: as far as suffering?
[24:45] Speaker 2: Yeah, well, the Bible says that in a lot of
[24:48] Speaker 2: different places. You have to start with the presupposition that
[24:52] Speaker 2: Jesus Christ forwarded, and that is everyone's going to be resurrected.
[24:56] Speaker 2: Do not be amazed if this a time is coming
[24:58] Speaker 2: when all who are the will come out. Some will
[25:01] Speaker 2: rise to live, and some will rise to be condemned.
[25:04] Speaker 2: If you look at Paul's writings Second Thessalonians one pops
[25:08] Speaker 2: out where he says the wicked are going to be
[25:10] Speaker 2: punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence
[25:14] Speaker 2: of the Lord and from the majesty of his power.
[25:17] Speaker 2: So obviously the conclusion here is that if the destruction
[25:21] Speaker 2: is temporary, it couldn't be everlasting. The plain reading is
[25:25] Speaker 2: shut out from the presence of the Lord implies continued
[25:30] Speaker 2: existence for all eternity. So I think the pictures that
[25:34] Speaker 2: you have in the Scripture of the horrors of Hell
[25:37] Speaker 2: is simply that it's everlasting separation from God. And of
[25:43] Speaker 2: course we know biblically that God does not merely rub
[25:47] Speaker 2: out the crowning jewels of his creation if they seek
[25:52] Speaker 2: to go a different way away apart from His glory
[25:55] Speaker 2: and grace. If they do that, he yet sustains them
[26:00] Speaker 2: in existence, though they have chosen to live apart from Him.
[26:04] Speaker 2: And we are done with another edition of the Bible
[26:06] Speaker 2: answer Man Broadcast. Can't wait to see it with more
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