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Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff - Ditching Religion for Astrology, and Q&A · WOAY Podcasts

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bible Answer Man broadcast with the president
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  Speaker 1: of the Christian Research Institute, Hank Hanegraaff. Our mission is
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  Speaker 1: to equip you with answers to share the hope that
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  Speaker 1: you have within you because life and truth matter. Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because being armed with truth will equip you to counter
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  Speaker 1: the corrosive worldviews at work in our world today. while
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  Speaker 1: experiencing the authentic Christian life will make you a winsome
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  Speaker 1: witness of the purpose of life, which is to experience
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  Speaker 1: union with God and Christ, both for today and for
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  Speaker 1: all eternity. For more information about CRI and the Bible
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  Speaker 1: Answer Man broadcast, our phone number is 888-7000-CRI. You can
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  Speaker 1: find us online at equip.org. The following program was pre-recorded.
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  Speaker 2: And now.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Hank Hanegraaff.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Randy. And we will be going
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  Speaker 2: to your calls a little later on. The information that
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  Speaker 2: I talk about on the broadcast you can find on
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  Speaker 2: the web at equip.org. You can also write me at
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  Speaker 2: Box 8500, Charlotte, North Carolina, zip code 28271. Earlier this morning,
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  Speaker 2: I read an article titled, Why Millennials Are Ditching Religion
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  Speaker 2: for Witchcraft and for Astrology. It's written by Carrie Paul,
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  Speaker 2: who is a personal finance reporter. And she points out
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  Speaker 2: that a woman named Coco Lane, who happens to be
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  Speaker 2: a Brooklyn-based producer, when she meets someone new these days,
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  Speaker 2: the first question that comes up in the conversation isn't
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  Speaker 2: where do you live or what do you do, but
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  Speaker 2: what's your sign? And she goes on to say, so
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  Speaker 2: many millennials read their horoscopes every day and they believe them.
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  Speaker 2: It is a good reference point to identify and place
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  Speaker 2: people in the world. The point here, according to Carrie Paul,
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  Speaker 2: is that interest in spirituality has been booming. On the
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  Speaker 2: other hand, interest in religion has been plummeting, especially among millennials.
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  Speaker 2: And more than half of young adults in the United
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  Speaker 2: States of America believe astrology.
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  Speaker 1: To be a science.
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  Speaker 2: And what's really interesting about this, I've looked at the data,
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  Speaker 2: 92% of the Chinese, you think about Chinese believing in
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  Speaker 2: ancestor worship, for example, many of them. But many of
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  Speaker 2: the Chinese public, 92%, think horoscopes are a bunch of baloney.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, it is high-priced baloney in the West because
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  Speaker 2: the psychic services industry, which includes astrology or tarot card
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  Speaker 2: reading or palmistry, is now worth $ 2 billion plus every
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  Speaker 2: single year. Danielle Ayoka, who is the founder of Mystic Lipstick, sells...
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  Speaker 2: Think about this. She sells a mystic box subscription that
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  Speaker 2: includes crystals and Reiki-infused bath salts, incense, customized to the
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  Speaker 2: unique energy of the current moon cycle. And her business
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  Speaker 2: is absolutely booming. She said, when I first started out
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  Speaker 2: in this business, I was considered a weirdo. Now it
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  Speaker 2: is becoming more and more normalized. Why? Because millennials are much,
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  Speaker 2: much more open-minded. Carrie Paul concludes her article with the
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  Speaker 2: assertion that, like the existence of God, there's no actual
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  Speaker 2: scientific proof for astrology. There is, in fact, and she's right,
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  Speaker 2: no actual proof for astrology. But for the existence of God,
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  Speaker 2: she's absolutely wrong. The heavens declare the glory of God.
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  Speaker 2: The skies proclaim the work of his hands. God's invisible qualities,
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  Speaker 2: his eternal power, his divine nature have been clearly seen.
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  Speaker 2: They are understood from what has been made, and therefore
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  Speaker 2: we are without excuse. The order. The complexity of the visible,
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  Speaker 2: physical universe eloquently testifies to the existence of an uncaused
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  Speaker 2: first cause. And of course, the fact that we can't
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  Speaker 2: see God should not lead anyone to the mistaken assumption
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  Speaker 2: that God does not exist. Black holes can't be seen. Electrons.
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  Speaker 2: The laws of logic. They all exist despite the fact
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  Speaker 2: that that they're not visible. The idea that the existence
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  Speaker 2: of God and the efficacy of astrology are equal with
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  Speaker 2: respect to epistemic warrant is utter and complete nonsense. But
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  Speaker 2: as for astrology, it's a rigged game. It's a rigged
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  Speaker 2: game replete with self-validating prophecies and with dangerous forms divination.
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  Speaker 2: Why do I say dangerous? It is because the God
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  Speaker 2: who created the stars condemns astrology as detestable. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: the prophet Isaiah went so far as to say that
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  Speaker 2: the counsel of the astrologers and the stargazers, those who
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  Speaker 2: make predictions month by month, could not save the Babylonians.
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  Speaker 2: from certain destruction. Despite the clear condemnation of the Scriptures,
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  Speaker 2: there continue to be pseudo-Christian people who maintain that there
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  Speaker 2: is a biblical precedent for using the stars to chart
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  Speaker 2: the future. One of the pretexts is the star that
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  Speaker 2: guided the Magi to Messiah. But that, of course, hardly
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  Speaker 2: validates astrology. A quick look at context reveals that this
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  Speaker 2: star was not used to foretell the future, but to
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  Speaker 2: foretell the future. In other words, the star of Bethlehem
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  Speaker 2: did not prophesy the birth of Christ, it pronounced the
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  Speaker 2: birth of Christ. Moreover, science has debunked astrology as a pseudoscience,
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  Speaker 2: a pseudoscience based on the odd predilection that galaxies rather
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  Speaker 2: than genes determine inherited human characteristics. So think for a
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  Speaker 2: moment about 9-11. Astrology cannot account for the problem posed
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  Speaker 2: by mass tragedies. Not everyone at 9-11 had the same horoscope.
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  Speaker 2: Or consider twins. Twins born under the same sign of
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  Speaker 2: the zodiac frequently end up with very different personalities and
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  Speaker 2: widely diverse futures. What astrology does is it subverts the
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  Speaker 2: natural use of the stars, a use which God ordains
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  Speaker 2: for a superstitious use which God disdains. Genesis points to
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  Speaker 2: the natural use of the stars to separate the day
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  Speaker 2: from the night, to serve as signs that mark seasons
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  Speaker 2: and days and years, and to illuminate the earth. They
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  Speaker 2: also can be rightly used for varied purposes, ranging from
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  Speaker 2: navigation to natural revelation. And therefore, you could see sailors
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  Speaker 2: who use astronavigational charts in order to Plan their course. However,
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  Speaker 2: you dear saints may not use astrology to chart your careers.
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  Speaker 2: The words of Isaiah ring down through the ages. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to use that as the quote of the day.
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah 47. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, and the
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  Speaker 2: monthly astrologers Prognosticators stand up and save you. From what
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  Speaker 2: shall come upon you? Behold, they shall be a stubble.
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  Speaker 2: The fire shall burn them away. They shall not deliver
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  Speaker 2: themselves from the power of the flame. They shall wander,
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  Speaker 2: each one to his quarter. No one shall save you.
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  Speaker 2: So here you have Isaiah warning the Babylonians about what
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  Speaker 2: was going to happen to them. They're involved in all
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  Speaker 2: of these very popular astrology and witchcraft practices and they
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  Speaker 2: had forgotten that there was a God who spoke in
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  Speaker 2: the universe, let into existence. They could know there was
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  Speaker 2: a God because if you see a universe, which is
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  Speaker 2: an effect, there has to be an uncaused first cause
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  Speaker 2: that caused the universe. Simple logic tells you that. But
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  Speaker 2: they turned from the God of the universe to astrologers,
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  Speaker 2: to mutterers, to fakes and frauds. Unfortunately, we're doing the
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  Speaker 2: same thing in America today. We are coming up on
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Randy. And we are going to
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  Speaker 2: go right to our callers. First up, Scott in White Rock,
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  Speaker 2: British Columbia, Canada. Thanks for your patience, Scott.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Hank. I love you and the Lord dearly. And
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  Speaker 3: you know what? I really like you. I really appreciate
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  Speaker 3: your talk about the move to the Orthodox and how
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  Speaker 3: you distinguish that from the Catholic faith. Back to the question,
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  Speaker 3: does God motivate by love or by anger? And intrinsically,
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  Speaker 3: the Bible says if you have ought against your brother,
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  Speaker 3: you go straight to him, straight to the person, unless
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  Speaker 3: it's sketchy and there's violence involved. We need to have
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  Speaker 3: the gospel mind. So if the gospel mind is there,
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  Speaker 3: we need to motivate and walk together. in love towards everybody.
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  Speaker 3: So anyways, but motivating by love and not by anger,
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  Speaker 3: but yet that God still instills that thing, be angry
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  Speaker 3: and sin not. In other words, if you have ought
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  Speaker 3: against your brother, you go and speak your mind clearly
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  Speaker 3: and you proclaim the truth in a rightful manner.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, God uses many means to motivate us because he
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  Speaker 2: wants us to come to repentance. He wants us to
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  Speaker 2: live as we ought. And so one of the means
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  Speaker 2: that God uses in terms of wrath and bringing us
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  Speaker 2: back to a proper valuation of things is discipline. And
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  Speaker 2: I think about the passage which you find in Proverbs,
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  Speaker 2: but also in Hebrews chapter 12. My son, do not
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  Speaker 2: reject the discipline of the Lord or loathe his reproof
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  Speaker 2: for whom the Lord loves. He reproves even as a father,
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  Speaker 2: the son in whom he delights. But God also uses love,
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  Speaker 2: so we don't have to choose between wrath and love.
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  Speaker 2: God uses all things for our good. God reminds us
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  Speaker 2: to treat others as he has treated us. He has
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  Speaker 2: been kind to us, and therefore we have to be
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  Speaker 2: kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another as God
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  Speaker 2: in Christ has forgiven us, or as Jesus once said,
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  Speaker 2: love one another as I have loved you, so you
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  Speaker 2: must love one another. So God uses both discipline and
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  Speaker 2: love to reach us. I think about the fact that
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  Speaker 2: God often in his love sends us an illness. And
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  Speaker 2: the reason he does that is the illness of the
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  Speaker 2: body often becomes a means of bringing the metaphysical aspect
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  Speaker 2: of our humanity into proper line with his love and
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  Speaker 2: his will with his goodness and with his grace. So
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  Speaker 2: we are not to despise the riches of his goodness,
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  Speaker 2: his forbearance, his long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of
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  Speaker 2: God ultimately leads us to repentance. Repentance meaning to a
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  Speaker 2: true valuation of things. Let's go back to the phone lines,
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  Speaker 2: talk to Sheila in Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Sheila.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Sheila.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Hank. Thank you for taking my call, and I
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  Speaker 4: do thank you for what you do. I have learned
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  Speaker 4: so much from you. My question is that, what can
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  Speaker 4: you tell me about Reiki healing and energy healing? And
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  Speaker 4: sometimes they try to say that it's relating to when
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  Speaker 4: Jesus told the disciples to lay hands on people to
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  Speaker 4: heal them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think you have to look at the
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  Speaker 2: system as a whole. Reiki is a system of laying
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  Speaker 2: on of hands by which individuals can allegedly be healed,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a form of psychic healing. The founder was
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  Speaker 2: supposedly to be a Christian, but the worldview that he
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  Speaker 2: embraced was not Christian at all, and he developed his
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  Speaker 2: system through Hindu writings. And the whole idea was to
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  Speaker 2: channel spirits, which supposedly assist us in these healing sessions,
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  Speaker 2: and then the messages that are channeled in those sessions
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  Speaker 2: are channeled by what are called the masters. Again, they're
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  Speaker 2: spiritual masters that have nothing to do with the biblical worldview.
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  Speaker 2: So this is an occult practice which is clearly condemned
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  Speaker 2: in the Bible, and therefore the Reiki teachings of laying
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  Speaker 2: on of hands is not concordant with the laying of
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  Speaker 2: hands that is prescribed in Scripture.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: You got it. Thank you so much for your call.
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  Speaker 2: Back to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Brian
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  Speaker 2: in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Hi, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Hank.
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  Speaker 3: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing well. Thank you. Great.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so much for taking my call. I have
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  Speaker 5: two questions for you, and then I'll listen to you
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  Speaker 5: off air. The first one is, what are your views
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  Speaker 5: on Louis Farrakhan and his doctrine and his beliefs? And
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  Speaker 5: the second one would be also, what are your views
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  Speaker 5: on women in ministry? And again, thank you for taking
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  Speaker 5: my call. I'll listen to you all here.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. Yeah, well, with respect to Louis Farrakhan, he heads
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  Speaker 2: up the Nation of Islam, which was founded by Wallace
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  Speaker 2: Fard back in 1930. And this is a movement that
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  Speaker 2: is blatantly anti-Semitic. It's also anti-white, so it's a very
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  Speaker 2: racist movement. In fact, in the movement, you have this
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  Speaker 2: idea that the white race was grafted into existence somewhere
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  Speaker 2: around 7,000 years ago by a scientist named Dr. Jacob.
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  Speaker 2: And if you've listened to Farrakhan for any period of time,
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  Speaker 2: you'll hear him say all kinds of discordant things, including
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  Speaker 2: praising Hitler as a great man. And he has praised terror.
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  Speaker 2: He praised Muammar Gaddafi when he was alive. So he
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  Speaker 2: actually got funded by millions of dollars in loans from Gaddafi.
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  Speaker 2: But the whole nation of Islam theology is what's most troubling. Christianity,
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  Speaker 2: they say, is the white man's religion, which is absurd
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  Speaker 2: at the face of it. The belief is that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is not God in human flesh, that Allah is had
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  Speaker 2: sex with Mary and produced Jesus Christ. They denied the afterlife.
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  Speaker 2: And on and on it goes. So this is a horrible, horrible,
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  Speaker 2: cultic construct that is extraordinarily dangerous, virulently racist, and therefore
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  Speaker 2: should be spoken out against in no uncertain terms. We
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  Speaker 2: need to know what they believe so that we can
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  Speaker 2: counter their false beliefs. In terms of women in ministry,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's very important that we recognize that if
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  Speaker 2: a woman has a gift, that gift ought to be
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  Speaker 2: used in ministry. You can't say, well, I'm a woman
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  Speaker 2: and therefore I don't have to use my gifts. No,
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  Speaker 2: whether you're a male or a female, if you are gifted,
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  Speaker 2: you must use that gift. As God gives you the opportunity,
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  Speaker 2: to use that gift. It is a sacred trust that
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  Speaker 2: he gives us. And so, again, there can't be a cop-out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a woman and therefore I can't use my gifts. No,
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  Speaker 2: you are going to be called into account for what
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  Speaker 2: you did with the gifts that God has given you.
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  Speaker 2: The talent, the time, and the treasure that he has
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  Speaker 2: afforded you. Now, it's important to recognize that there are ecclesiologies,
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  Speaker 2: and within those ecclesiologies there's precedent. That precedent comes down
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  Speaker 2: through the ages, the Old Testament into the New Testament,
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  Speaker 2: from the New Testament to the early church fathers, and
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  Speaker 2: on to the present. And I think it's important to
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  Speaker 2: follow those precedents, because those precedents are precedents that have
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  Speaker 2: a biblical base. And therefore, while there's no ontological difference
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  Speaker 2: between men and women, We're humans created as icons of God,
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  Speaker 2: and therefore, again, we need to use our gifts. There
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  Speaker 2: are certain roles that men play, and there are certain
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  Speaker 2: roles that women play. And church ecclesiology has determined that
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  Speaker 2: in many different forms, but I think we're best off
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  Speaker 2: to go to the biblical and then the historical precedent
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  Speaker 2: for that. I've written about this in an entry in
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  Speaker 2: my book, The Complete Bible Answer Book Collector's Edition. It
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