# The Importance of Essential Christian Doctrine, and Q&A

An episode of [Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/569236334), 21 Apr 2026, 28 min.

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On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/21/26), Hank shares on the importance of essential Christian doctrine, which sets the line of demarcation between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the cults. Hank also answers the following questions: Why is giving a blessing in the morning considered a curse in Proverbs 27:14? Pam - Due West, SC (3:01) I divorced while I was an unbeliever, under illegitimate grounds. How long must I stay open to reconciliation? Robert - Sacramento, CA (5:56) Are shows where they hunt for ghosts contain legitimate footage? Are ghosts just demons messing with people? Andrew - St. Louis, MO (15:14) In John 4, what legitimacy does the Samaritan woman have to claim the well? Brian - Valentia, CA (16:46) How can you witness to someone with Alzheimer’s? Ezekiel - Lincoln, NE (22:38)

## Transcript

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[0:42] Speaker 1: the President of the Christian Research Institute, Hank Canagraph.
[0:46] Speaker 2: Favorite March Randy is always great to be in studio
[0:49] Speaker 2: as we answer your questions throughout the United States and Canada.
[0:52] Speaker 2: The importance of a central Christian doctrine can hardly be overstated.
[0:57] Speaker 2: To begin with these or the very doctrines that form
[1:01] Speaker 2: the line of demarcation between the Kingdom of Christ and
[1:06] Speaker 2: the Kingdom of the Cults, a central Christian doctrine is
[1:11] Speaker 2: the north star by which the course of Christianity is set.
[1:17] Speaker 2: As the north star is an unchanging reference point, a
[1:22] Speaker 2: point by which sailors safely guided their ships. So a
[1:27] Speaker 2: central Christian doctrine has safely guided the Church through the
[1:31] Speaker 2: doctrinal storms that have sought to sink it. Essential Christian
[1:36] Speaker 2: doctrine is the foundation on which the Gospel of Jesus
[1:42] Speaker 2: Christ rests, from his deity to the es catological certainty
[1:47] Speaker 2: that He will appear again a second time to judge
[1:51] Speaker 2: the living and the dead. Assential Christian doctrine is foundational
[1:55] Speaker 2: to the Gospel. All other religious constructs they comper, they confuse,
[2:02] Speaker 2: they contradict asential Christian doctrine. Muslims, for example, dogmatically denounce
[2:08] Speaker 2: the doctrine of Christ's unique deity as the unforgivable sin
[2:13] Speaker 2: of shirk. They readily affirm the sinlessness of Christ, but
[2:18] Speaker 2: adamantly deny his sacrifice on the cross, as well as
[2:23] Speaker 2: his subsequent resurrection as the only hope of salvation. In
[2:29] Speaker 2: order to internalize what you believe, in other words, essential
[2:34] Speaker 2: Christian doctrine the main and plain things of the Bible,
[2:39] Speaker 2: I've organized them around a memorable acronym. It is the
[2:44] Speaker 2: acronym doctrine. To master why you believe what you believe,
[2:49] Speaker 2: I've organized the supporting evidence into easy to assimilate points.
[2:56] Speaker 2: Check it out on the web at equip die, or
[3:00] Speaker 2: let's go right to the phone lines, a lot of
[3:02] Speaker 2: you hanging on. First up as Pam. She's listening on
[3:05] Speaker 2: the web in due west, South Carolina.
[3:08] Speaker 3: Hi, Pam, Hello Hank. I'm so glad to talk to you.
[3:12] Speaker 4: Uh.
[3:13] Speaker 3: I just discovered your ministry about four or five months ago,
[3:16] Speaker 3: and I have learned so much. But I just have
[3:19] Speaker 3: become a Christian I guess maybe two years ago. Oh well,
[3:22] Speaker 3: and you have really clear some things up. But one
[3:26] Speaker 3: question on Proverbs twenty seven, verse fourteen, where it says
[3:31] Speaker 3: a blessing given loudly and cheerfully in the morning, why
[3:36] Speaker 3: is that considered a curse? I don't understand that verse.
[3:39] Speaker 2: Yeah, remember that proverbs are truisms, they're generally true. And
[3:46] Speaker 2: what is being communicated in Proverbs at this point by
[3:50] Speaker 2: Solomon is that if a man loudly and the emphasis
[3:54] Speaker 2: there is on the word loudly, blesses his neighbor early
[3:58] Speaker 2: in the morning, it will be taken as a curse. Well,
[4:02] Speaker 2: why would that be? Well? Think about it. Timing, we
[4:05] Speaker 2: might say, is everything the wrong time for a wonderful
[4:12] Speaker 2: action is still a woeful thing. You don't want to
[4:18] Speaker 2: curse someone loudly, nor do you want to bless someone loudly,
[4:24] Speaker 2: particularly if it's early.
[4:25] Speaker 5: In the morning, blessing as a curse.
[4:28] Speaker 2: Right, No, No, I'm just saying either case, if you're
[4:30] Speaker 2: doing something loudly in the morning, it's going to be
[4:33] Speaker 2: taken as a curse. And I think this is related
[4:37] Speaker 2: to what you read in Ecclesiastes. There's a time for everything,
[4:42] Speaker 2: a season for every activity under heaven. A time to
[4:46] Speaker 2: be born, a time to die, a time to plant,
[4:50] Speaker 2: a time to uproot, a time to kill, a time
[4:52] Speaker 2: to steal, a time to tear down, a time to build,
[4:55] Speaker 2: a time to weep, a time to laugh. There's a
[4:58] Speaker 2: time for everything. Of that, of course, has to be contextualized.
[5:02] Speaker 2: You can, for example, lie, but only if it's a
[5:05] Speaker 2: greater good. In other words, rayhab purpose to lie to
[5:10] Speaker 2: save the Israelites from certain destruction. So the greater good
[5:15] Speaker 2: was the saving of life. So there's a time for everything.
[5:18] Speaker 2: If you do something at the wrong time, it still
[5:21] Speaker 2: will be considered a curse. That's the point.
[5:24] Speaker 3: Okay, all right, I just didn't understand that, But you've
[5:27] Speaker 3: cleared it up for me. And may God continue blessing you.
[5:31] Speaker 3: I really appreciate and love listening to you.
[5:34] Speaker 2: Thank you Pam, appreciate your call. And I was going
[5:36] Speaker 2: to say, what's probably going on as well, is there's
[5:39] Speaker 2: some reason to suspect the motive here. It's probably a hypocrite,
[5:43] Speaker 2: someone going to great lengths to create the impression of
[5:48] Speaker 2: friendship when in reality there's no real friendship intended. There's
[5:52] Speaker 2: a lot we can read into the possible meaning of
[5:55] Speaker 2: that proverb. Want to go back to the phone lines now,
[5:57] Speaker 2: talk to Robert in Sacramento, California, and.
[6:00] Speaker 6: Yeah, Hi Robert, Hi, Hey, thanks for taking my call.
[6:03] Speaker 6: My call revolves around the topics of a divorce and remarriage. Yeah,
[6:10] Speaker 6: so about five years ago, while I was still an unbeliever,
[6:14] Speaker 6: I obtained a divorce, and from what I understand from
[6:18] Speaker 6: talking to my pastor, that was under illegitimate grounds for divorce.
[6:23] Speaker 6: I mean, there was any sexual reasons. We just decided
[6:27] Speaker 6: we're no longer compatible and want to work on it.
[6:31] Speaker 6: So we decided to be divorced. And then we were
[6:36] Speaker 6: divorced about several months later. You know, we talked a
[6:41] Speaker 6: little bit about or I approached the subject of reconciling.
[6:45] Speaker 6: She wasn't interested. And you know, about a year after that,
[6:49] Speaker 6: and so I became a believer at point, what obligations
[6:55] Speaker 6: do I have to her if any, in terms of
[6:58] Speaker 6: like trying to reconcile and marriage.
[7:00] Speaker 2: Is she remarried, she is.
[7:03] Speaker 6: Not remarried, and she is still an unbeliever.
[7:06] Speaker 2: Yeah, I think as long as the door to reconciliation
[7:10] Speaker 2: remains open, I would pursue reconciliation. I would do it
[7:15] Speaker 2: in a way that's glorifying to God, because as a
[7:18] Speaker 2: new believer, you are a new creation in Christ. In fact,
[7:23] Speaker 2: as a new believer, when you're baptized, you're symbolizing that
[7:26] Speaker 2: you were buried to your old life, raised in newness
[7:29] Speaker 2: of life through His resurrection power. And that needs to
[7:32] Speaker 2: be manifest to your ex wife that there has been
[7:37] Speaker 2: a change in you, a change that is not just
[7:40] Speaker 2: articulated by the words you speak, but a change that
[7:45] Speaker 2: is demonstrated by both your life and your love. So again,
[7:50] Speaker 2: I would pursue reconciliation. Obviously, you cannot force it. You
[7:54] Speaker 2: can't force anyone else to reconcile. Reconciliation, at the end
[7:58] Speaker 2: of the day, is always going to be a two ways.
[8:00] Speaker 2: It takes someone that is willing to forgive and someone
[8:03] Speaker 2: that is wanting to be forgiven. If those two aspects aren't,
[8:06] Speaker 2: their reconciliation doesn't take place. But I think that as
[8:10] Speaker 2: long as the door to reconciliation remains open, I would
[8:15] Speaker 2: pursue that. Once that door is closed, if it's closed
[8:19] Speaker 2: through death or remarriage, well then you can unscramble the egg.
[8:24] Speaker 2: But right now there's still a possibility, and I think
[8:27] Speaker 2: as a Christian, you want to pursue that possibility.
[8:31] Speaker 6: Okay, from my understanding, it's contrary to marry a non believer.
[8:37] Speaker 6: Now that I am a believer. How do I make
[8:41] Speaker 6: sense of that?
[8:42] Speaker 2: Well? Yeah, I mean I think you could use that
[8:44] Speaker 2: as a sort of an obstacle or an excuse for
[8:48] Speaker 2: failing to reconcile. I don't think at this point, having
[8:53] Speaker 2: been married to your ex wife, that I would look
[8:56] Speaker 2: at that as a significant obstacle. I would more look
[9:01] Speaker 2: at the possibility of having her heart changed, because look,
[9:05] Speaker 2: if her heart isn't changed, there isn't going to be
[9:08] Speaker 2: reconciliation anyway, and likely only reconciliation will take place if
[9:15] Speaker 2: she becomes yoked to Christ and as a result of
[9:18] Speaker 2: that sees the possibility of being reoked to you.
[9:23] Speaker 6: Okay, So if I now it sounds like the ball
[9:27] Speaker 6: is in my court to pursue reconciliation. Is there any
[9:31] Speaker 6: sort of like time frame I need to give her,
[9:33] Speaker 6: like maybe write her a letter, give her some time
[9:36] Speaker 6: to think about it. And after Safety responds and I
[9:40] Speaker 6: understand I should work towards reconciliation. However, she says, you know,
[9:45] Speaker 6: I'm not interested. It's over between us. What would my
[9:48] Speaker 6: stance be at that point, Well, I.
[9:50] Speaker 2: Think this is a fluid situation. There's going to be
[9:52] Speaker 2: all kinds of converging factors, and as a result of that,
[9:55] Speaker 2: I think it's ill advised for me to give you
[9:58] Speaker 2: specific detail advice. If she does this, I'll do this.
[10:03] Speaker 2: If she does this, I'll do that. I think that
[10:05] Speaker 2: would be a mistake on my part. I think what
[10:08] Speaker 2: is necessary is someone who can deal with you specifically
[10:13] Speaker 2: in a very fluid situation, which is to say, within
[10:17] Speaker 2: the context of a church, A pastor or gifted Christian
[10:23] Speaker 2: laymen who are expert at dealing in these kinds of
[10:27] Speaker 2: circumstances would be a great deal of help to you.
[10:30] Speaker 2: It's analogous to having boots on the ground, people that
[10:34] Speaker 2: love you, that are a support network that can help
[10:37] Speaker 2: you through a very difficult situation. I can give you
[10:40] Speaker 2: general principles, but getting into the specificity I think would
[10:43] Speaker 2: be dangerous because again it's a fluid situation, which requires
[10:47] Speaker 2: counselors that are with you in that fluid situation.
[10:51] Speaker 6: I understand. Thank you so much for your time and
[10:54] Speaker 6: your help.
[10:54] Speaker 4: Appreciate it up. Let you you got it.
[10:56] Speaker 2: Thank you so much for your call as well.
[10:59] Speaker 4: We'll be right back.
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[15:13] Speaker 2: back to the phone lines now, I talk to Andrew.
[15:16] Speaker 2: He's listening in Saint Louis, Missouri. Hi Andrew, Hi, how
[15:20] Speaker 2: are you. I'm good, good talking to you.
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[15:30] Speaker 5: I had a question.
[15:30] Speaker 7: Do you know that show Ghost Hunters?
[15:32] Speaker 2: Yes?
[15:34] Speaker 7: Do you think that things are actually happening or do
[15:38] Speaker 7: they plant stuff for the media, because I thought when
[15:41] Speaker 7: people died they either go to heaventerpurgatory or are they
[15:45] Speaker 7: just like demons messing with people.
[15:48] Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. From a Biblical perspective, absent from
[15:51] Speaker 2: the body is present with the Lord, or as Jesus
[15:55] Speaker 2: Christ depicted in Luke sixty and being in a place
[15:58] Speaker 2: of torment awaiting the time that Jesus Christ returns. So
[16:01] Speaker 2: the notion that the spirits of human beings can come
[16:05] Speaker 2: back to this time space continuum and trouble people is
[16:10] Speaker 2: mythological there's no biblical basis for it whatsoever. So from
[16:15] Speaker 2: our perspective, ghosts or poltergeist are a figment of people's
[16:20] Speaker 2: fertile imagination. And you know, of course the media exploits
[16:23] Speaker 2: it with movies like Ghost Hunters, and you know, all
[16:27] Speaker 2: kinds of sensationalistic television programs and specials and so forth.
[16:31] Speaker 2: But the reality is there's no warrant for this biblically,
[16:35] Speaker 2: So as people living in a biblical worldview, we reject
[16:38] Speaker 2: the notion of ghosts.
[16:40] Speaker 5: Okay, cool, fair enough, fair enough.
[16:44] Speaker 2: Okay, appreciate your call back to the phone lines. We'll
[16:47] Speaker 2: talk next to Brian in Valencia, California.
[16:51] Speaker 4: Hi, Brian, Hi, I just had a quick question about
[16:56] Speaker 4: the woman that Jesus met at the well in John's
[16:59] Speaker 4: Goods in chapter four. Yeah, John wrote that she was
[17:03] Speaker 4: a Samaritan woman and she'd asked Jesus flipper the business
[17:08] Speaker 4: was being a Jew talking to her as a Samaritan.
[17:11] Speaker 4: There's two things. One usually guys that correct me if
[17:15] Speaker 4: I'm wrong. Didn't really have any dealings or public speakings
[17:18] Speaker 4: with women. And secondly, Jews, as she stated, to't that
[17:22] Speaker 4: much connection with Samaritans. But she mentioned later on that
[17:28] Speaker 4: something about Jacob being her father and not being her
[17:31] Speaker 4: well that she was at Where am I missing the
[17:34] Speaker 4: connection between her having validity in her claim stating that
[17:38] Speaker 4: was her father as well well.
[17:40] Speaker 2: First of all, I think you've assessed the situation correctly.
[17:43] Speaker 2: I think it's right to say that there's a point
[17:47] Speaker 2: being made here, that point being for a Samaritan to
[17:51] Speaker 2: speak of Jacob as our father would have been offensive
[17:57] Speaker 2: to an ancient Jew, an ancient Jew who viewed his
[18:03] Speaker 2: or herself as the true children of Jacob. While the
[18:07] Speaker 2: Samaritans were considered an impure people or half breeds. You
[18:12] Speaker 2: have to remember how they came about with the exile
[18:15] Speaker 2: and annihilation of the Northern Kingdom. What happened was there
[18:19] Speaker 2: were some people who were left, and they were generally
[18:24] Speaker 2: considered by the Assyrians to be dregs of society. The
[18:27] Speaker 2: Assyrians then repopulated the Northern Kingdom were that territory, and
[18:33] Speaker 2: as a result of interbreeding you have the Samaritans. So
[18:36] Speaker 2: from a Jewish standpoint, the Samaritans were considered nothing but dogs.
[18:41] Speaker 2: Not only that, but ancient civilizations, including the Jewish civilization,
[18:48] Speaker 2: put women on a substandard level. In other words, they
[18:53] Speaker 2: were on the lowest level of the socioeconomic ladder. But
[18:58] Speaker 2: Jesus Christ rem member sees things as they are. He
[19:03] Speaker 2: is the creator of male and female. He is the
[19:07] Speaker 2: one who inspired Paul's words that in Christ there's neither
[19:12] Speaker 2: male nor female. There's neither slave nor free, and there's
[19:17] Speaker 2: neither Jew nor Greek. So from Christ's perspective, no problem
[19:22] Speaker 2: whatsoever speaking to a woman, nor does he consider her
[19:29] Speaker 2: anything less. In fact, in his words, he is an
[19:33] Speaker 2: essence breaking down all of the stereotypes, because if you
[19:36] Speaker 2: look at the content of what he's saying, she's wondering
[19:40] Speaker 2: whether you worship in a templean garrism or whether you
[19:43] Speaker 2: worship in a temple in Jerusalem, and the temple not
[19:47] Speaker 2: built by human hands, ironically, is standing in front of
[19:51] Speaker 2: her right.
[19:52] Speaker 4: And that's why he said that you guys don't know
[19:55] Speaker 4: what you worship, but we worship what we do know.
[19:58] Speaker 4: My question is, so, is it because of what Assyria
[20:01] Speaker 4: had done while taking occupancy of the Northern Kingdom? Does
[20:05] Speaker 4: she have I mean, not that it really matters. Is
[20:07] Speaker 4: this something that caught my eye? Does she have validity
[20:12] Speaker 4: in saying that this is my father as well? Or
[20:14] Speaker 4: is it just because a mutilation of tradition.
[20:18] Speaker 2: No, she's got absolute right to say that. In the
[20:21] Speaker 2: truth of all censes, remember Jacob, his name was changed
[20:25] Speaker 2: to Israel, and he had twelve tribes, and Jesus Christ
[20:27] Speaker 2: is of the tribe of Jacob through lineage. Jesus Christ, however,
[20:33] Speaker 2: is true Israel, and true Israel is always reckoned, not
[20:39] Speaker 2: by race, but rather by relationship. So the Jews who
[20:45] Speaker 2: viewed Samaritans as dogs or half breeds were simply wrong.
[20:50] Speaker 2: They were no more dogs or half breeds than Raeb was.
[20:54] Speaker 2: Rahab was a Canaanite, Ruth was a Moa Bite, the
[20:59] Speaker 2: arch enemy of Israel. And yet in the lineage of
[21:02] Speaker 2: Jesus Christ, why not by ethnicity, but rather by relationship.
[21:08] Speaker 2: And this is the thing that many people miss. In
[21:11] Speaker 2: the Old Testament, people are related to God as a
[21:16] Speaker 2: result of spirituality, not in terms of genealogy. Means it's faith, Yes,
[21:24] Speaker 2: it's always a means of faith. Yeah. In fact, look,
[21:26] Speaker 2: if you look at the I think it's a last
[21:28] Speaker 2: verse in Esther chapter eight, but I don't remember off
[21:31] Speaker 2: the top of my head. If you go to the
[21:32] Speaker 2: last verse, you will see that the people are looking
[21:36] Speaker 2: at Esther as she is being sovereignly raised up to
[21:40] Speaker 2: save the Jews from certain destruction under Hayman. And as
[21:43] Speaker 2: they look on, they see how God has sovereignly used Esther.
[21:47] Speaker 2: And what the text tells us is that on that
[21:51] Speaker 2: day many different people from many different nations became Jews.
[21:56] Speaker 2: Well how do they do that? They didn't do that
[21:59] Speaker 2: by changing their birth mother. They did that because they
[22:03] Speaker 2: believed in Yahweh, the God of Viscrael, and therefore they
[22:07] Speaker 2: were brought into all the types and shadows pointing forward
[22:10] Speaker 2: to Christ.
[22:11] Speaker 4: As Paul I think said, one is not a Jew
[22:14] Speaker 4: outwardly where the circumcision is done by man's hands, but
[22:17] Speaker 4: done by the hand of God.
[22:19] Speaker 2: On the heart precisely. Yes, yes, not the circumcision of
[22:23] Speaker 2: the flesh, but the circumcision of the heart. Yeah.
[22:25] Speaker 4: I find it interesting. He never rebuked her before making
[22:28] Speaker 4: that claim, but he challenged her and what she worshiped. Yes,
[22:32] Speaker 4: thank you for your time.
[22:33] Speaker 2: Hank, Hey, you got it, and thank you for your
[22:35] Speaker 2: insights as well. Appreciate your call. Let's go back to
[22:38] Speaker 2: the phone lines. Talk to Ezekiel. He's listening in Lincoln, Nebraska. Hi, Ezekiel, Hi,
[22:44] Speaker 2: how you doing, egg, I'm doing well, Thank you.
[22:47] Speaker 5: Hey. My question is how can you witness to a
[22:50] Speaker 5: person that's got Alzheimer's. She's in her eighties, her relatives
[22:58] Speaker 5: go to a Christian church, but she was only involved,
[23:03] Speaker 5: you know, as religiously, not not as a believer.
[23:07] Speaker 2: Yeah, well, a couple of things. First of all, treat
[23:09] Speaker 2: her with love and dignity and respect, care for in
[23:13] Speaker 2: all ways. Testify to her by your life and by
[23:17] Speaker 2: your love. It may be that she cannot remember or
[23:21] Speaker 2: recognize your words, but she can sense and feel and
[23:25] Speaker 2: experience your love. As far as a relationship to the
[23:29] Speaker 2: Lord is concerned, Also, remember that anyone that desires a
[23:34] Speaker 2: relationship with the Lord, the Lord knows about that, He
[23:38] Speaker 2: knows the intense of the heart, and he will never
[23:41] Speaker 2: cast that person away. So I don't think that we
[23:44] Speaker 2: can presume to be the judge. What we can presume
[23:47] Speaker 2: to do is be faithful in our interactions with anyone,
[23:51] Speaker 2: regardless of their condition.
[23:54] Speaker 5: I think, now just quit. If a person you know
[23:57] Speaker 5: like she has Alzheimer's, does she need to urbally confess,
[24:03] Speaker 5: you know, do the confession of faith in order to
[24:07] Speaker 5: be saved? Or is that you know, totally out because
[24:11] Speaker 5: she's got that disease.
[24:14] Speaker 2: Well, remember, Christianity is not a magical religion where you
[24:18] Speaker 2: have to have exactly the right incantation and then you're saved.
[24:23] Speaker 2: That's not the Christian worldview at all. You are saved
[24:27] Speaker 2: by God's grace through faith on account of Jesus Christ.
[24:30] Speaker 2: And you recognize always that it is Jesus Christ that
[24:33] Speaker 2: knows the heart. We look on the exterior. God knows
[24:36] Speaker 2: the heart. We cannot bring into factoring every single converging
[24:42] Speaker 2: condition in a person's life, but God can do that.
[24:45] Speaker 2: And so we leave that person in the hands of
[24:48] Speaker 2: an infinitely just and infinitely merciful God, knowing that he
[24:52] Speaker 2: will not reject anyone that wanted a relationship with him.
[24:58] Speaker 2: We can't sort it all o out here, but in
[25:00] Speaker 2: the greatest size, with people from every tongue and tribe
[25:03] Speaker 2: of nation, we will see that the judge of Heaven
[25:07] Speaker 2: and Earth does right. And we will then say, oh,
[25:11] Speaker 2: my goodness, he was able to take into consideration every
[25:16] Speaker 2: single converging factor. His justice is absolutely pure, pristine, and
[25:22] Speaker 2: you will glory in his righteousness in that day.
[25:26] Speaker 5: All right, thank you very much.
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