You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. Christy, Welcome to the
Jesus Christ Show. Hello Jesus Hi. My question is what is your view
on a young child dancing and a secular dance studio where at times the attire
can expose parts of their body and movements, maybe of the buttocks that may
appear sexual, but they that child loves to dance and love being at that
particular studio. Well, there's nothing wrong with a secular studio to say,
well, this is secular. You shop at a secular grocery store, you
go to a secular mechanic, you go there's nothing wrong with these types of
things at all within reason. If you, you know, went to a
grocery store where they, you know, constantly were bombarding you with religious stuff,
that would be a problem. But it's really about unders standing a limit
as a guideline for you. The devil loves to pervert that which God made
beautiful, so the body, the form, sexuality, all those things that
God created. The devil loves to pervert so that that the people of God
don't like to do them anymore and run from them. And if you look
at things in life, passion. Oh, that's of God. That's wonderful.
Lust is of the devil. It's a perversion of passion. If you
see those things, it's like anger, that's that's of God, that's that's
a just. Anger is a is a legitimate way of expressing yourself. Rage
is not. It's a perversion of anger. So the devil does those things
to to confuse and frustrate the believer into not participating in the lovely things of
God. Ecclesiastes three fources. There's a time to weep, and a time
to laugh, a time to mourn, and a time to dance. Dancing
is a beautiful and wonderful thing out scripture, throughout scripture. So you have
to gauge whether one this is something that is objectifying the child or the individual,
or if it's a celebration of movement and passion and stories and insights and
as far as being revealing, that's another thing that's that needs to be age
appropriate and in the context of what's being done. The expression of the physical
form is wonderful. The body is beautiful. And that's not to say that
there isn't an importance in modesty. It's that there are times where through art
the expression of the of both the male and female form is important. So
you can't make that ugly and perverted just because perverts make it ugly and perverted.
Well right, because part of the studios it's just that's part of dance,
a particular dance that my daughter really loves as jazz, and so it
requires movement as the botics, and to them it's no different than moving the
legs in the arms, exact mind. And so I've just had a dilemma
with other Christian say, well, there are children and you nurture them the
ways of the Lord, which is how I felt. But then I've had
other people say it's just for the stage. Just tell her it's just for
the stage, and off stage, we don't dress like that and we don't
act like that. But yet at times the studio is modest, depending all
the songs they choose to dance to. Now, some of it can have
lyrics that are you know, you're so ugly, Christie. Unfortunately we're right
up against the clock. But it sounds like you're working through it in a
healthy way, just continuing down that path. Remember I am with you always.
Bill. Welcome to the Jesus Christ show Hello Jesus. Uh huh Hi.
I had a question for you. Shoot, I have If a person
believes in the teach your teachings and will try to live their life according to
those teachings, but does not believe in the resurrection, would you consider that
person to be a Christian? No, okay, no, because you're not.
Really it's not even a completely honest statement to say that you believe in
my teachings because you believe in some of them. Because John two nineteen I
said, destroy this temple in three days, I will raise it up again.
So you're kind of taking certain things that you believe, and if anything,
you'd probably categorize yourself, if you must, into Deism. The Thomasonian
Bible is considered such a work where it's taking just the messages, the things
like the everyday things that people tend to like about what I said and putting
them in a Bible, but taking out all the miracles, so the resurrection
being probably the king miracle of of the miracles in scripture. It's it's a
necessity to Christianity. Christian comes from the word christ. Christ comes from the
word Messiah. Messiah comes from the word Mashiah. So really that's dealing with
the anointed One, and and so it's followers of the Anointed One. In
the context of Christianity, the power of that and the way that it is
verified deals with that resurrection. If you remove the resurrection from the equation,
you're just going, well, you know what, there's you know, some
really good writings out there of which Christ's words were one and if that's the
sense, if that you get, then then that's what you believe. But
that certainly wouldn't make you a Christian. Okay, okay, thanks for thanks.
Thanks. Was there is there some hang up about the resurrection? You
know? I could well, yes, I think there is. I think,
without getting into like a debate, I kind of view the You know,
the Gospels were written years after your death, and I know that most
of our modern day teachings deal with only a portion of the Gospels. So
but most history, you know that most history is written after the fact,
And you're looking at the Gospels within sixty to seventy years, which isn't too
bad of the actual actual occurrences for one, and still enough that you find
the words in red to be true as long as they are not dealing with
my resurrection. Why do you find the other words so good? Well,
I guess I don't have a good answer. Okay, that's fair enough.
No, that's fair enough. And I think that it's very of you to
call just the whole thought about the Christian and the well I like these words,
but I don't like the others. Is you know, the difference between
a circle and a ball. Not every circle is a ball, but every
ball is a circle for the most part, So it's you need more than
just that two dimensional shape. And the words are part of it. But
those words only have value because of that death and resurrection. See, if
people die for things, you know, they die for beliefs, false beliefs,
all these kinds of things. But people don't die for what they know
to be false. They wouldn't. They would die for something that's false if
they believed it to be true, but they wouldn't die for something that's false
that they knew was false. And I did. And you can't really call
me a good person, a guru, a smart guy because I kept claiming
to be God and then died for it. So that would kind of negate.
That's like saying Hitler is a really good dancer. It really it's kind
of just parsing the things that you want and leave out the other things,
and that doesn't really benefit anyone. Gary, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show.
Thank you Jesus. Hi you Gary. My question revolves basically for almost
my entire adult life. My mother was very religious when to church, still
does and I've asked her several times, how does Darwinism and evolution play into
a question that I have? Is God made man in his likeness? What
did man look like back when God created man? Did he merely create him,
create us as we are today? Or have we evolved? Because I
can't dispute some scientific artifacts that are in the world that are tangible. Oh,
go ahead and dispute them. There are there. The interpretation of those
artifacts is what's at hand, not the artifacts themselves. Correct. You can't.
It's taking somebody's experience away. You can't take their experience away because you
weren't there for it and you didn't experience it the way they did. But
you can interpret it based on other understandings. You know, if somebody tells
me that they were lying in bed and they had this experience where they were
being held down by a spirit or what have you. You can look back
and scientifically understand there's something called sleep paralysis that happens when somebody's in a state
of lucidity and they think that they're awake fully and they're not, and so
their body is not responding, but it's not somebody holding them down necessarily.
So you can look at those artifacts and say, yes, this is this
is obviously bones from X, Y, and Z, but it doesn't necessarily
mean that it evolved from something else. That's why they call the concept of
missing link, because they don't have those transitional fossils the way Darwin actually originally
pothesized. So, having said that, I want to get to the the
core of your question, which is about the image of God. When you
deal with the image of God, God is not a person in its original
state, right God any of those anthropomorphic terms, you know, God walking
through the garden, that's not God literally walking through the garden. That is
so that humans understand that God is moving through the garden in a way that
they that represents the way they think. So when you hear the term God
made man in his image or his likeness, it's not about physical physical likeness
the well the the group think on this would be that it is that man
has intellect, will and emotion, as God has intellect, will and emotion.
That God is a creator. Man desires to create. That's why you
have people that build things, and we want to desire. You know.
The devil wants to tear down God wants to build up. Another problem you
you get into when it comes to the evolutionary theory in Scripture, because there
is evolutionary theists or those that believe that God used evolution in the process.
The problem arises in chapter one at the very beginning. In Genesis, verse
twenty one, it says in God created the great sea monster, speaking about
those animals in the ocean, and every living creature that moves with which waters
swarm, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. Go
on to verse twenty four. Then God said, let the earth bring forth
living creatures after their kind, cattle and creepy things, and beast of the
earth after their kind. And truly that it talks about after their own flesh.
So it doesn't leave room. It leaves room for adaptation different than evolution,
the difference there being between the special theory of evolution that there was a
great change in fixed kinds, or the general theory of evolution, which is
a me but to human. So as a Christian, there's no problem with
the special theory of evolution that there's great change possible in fixed kinds. But
keep in mind in Scripture there it says of their own kind, so not
breaking up the phylum to come from one place, but showing that it all
has the same creator, but different paths. Lauren, welcome to the Jesus
Christ Show. Thank you for taking my call. Jesus my pleasure. What's
going on? I have a silly question relief, I still was kind of
silly. I have two children. I love him very much. One child
is ten years old. He goes to a Christian school. Another child is
four, and we're looking to enter her into school next year when she turns
five. The problem is, my son's school ends in the sixth grade,
and there's a Catholic school a block and a half away from where my husband
and I work, and I just wanted to know if that was a good
choice because I'm not very familiar with Catholicism, and I just wanted to make
sure it was still well, there's a lot of debate that goes on between
Protestants and Catholics. They are both Christian. A lot of people referred to
Catholic just means universal, so it's the stamp of saying were the universal Church,
saying that they essentially that Protestants branched off of Catholicism, which isn't true.
What's true is that there was a split in the general Church and one
kept that moniker of Catholicism, the other took Protestant, which, slow it
down, just means Protestant. It's just someone who protested the church at the
time and broke off into a faction. So Christians fall into those two groups.
Now, Catholicism does have some distinct differences when it comes to traditions and
the way they revere marry a little differently in the application the papal system and
the pope and those things. Some will criticize the way they look at the
saints and their their appreciation for the saints. So there are differences as far
as the church is involved. Dealing with the church systems are very different in
a lot of ways, depending on you know which group of Protestants you land
and if you're a Lutheran, it may not be as different to some.
If you're a Methodist may not be as different. Or Episcopalian, these types
of churches may not find it as much of a shock. The main message
is going to be the same, and really school is going to be about
schooling. Most of the time there is religion classes and in that point there
might be some confusion with your children versus what you tea them. That would
be My only concern is that mommy and daddy are teaching them one thing,
and then they're going into the school that mommy and dad sent them, and
it's going to be different. But but I will tell you, Lauren,
that a lot of Jewish folks do the same thing. Put their children,
sure, and it's because it's the quality of the education. And so you've
got you have to weigh all those things. But are they going to be
taught something you know, horrible or heinous? No, but it's got to
be based on your understanding that it's going to be different than what you're teaching
them as a Protestant. Joe, Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Hi
Jesus, how are you good? Joe? What do you know? Well,
I'm trying to find where it says or in the Bible about the prehistoric
man and how that fits into before Adam and Eve or after Adam and Eve.
I just can't find that where it says anything about that. Yeah,
that's a that's a tough one, and that's one that theologians and Christian sociologists
and the like struggle with at times. Let's look at a few of the
necessities of understanding for this particular topic, and that is, first, if
you can imagine that people tend to refer to cavemen, but prehistoric men doesn't
make sense. If it's prehistory, then you don't know. And really it's
forensics that you're using to kind of look backwards. The Bible is about history.
It has a beginning, as a middle, and it has an end.
So you wouldn't find pre history in a book of history. Doesn't make
sense. So but is there a place for it? Absolutely. It's been
attributed to Albert Einstein the quote that I don't know how World War three will
be fought, but I know that World War four will be fought with sticks
and stones, implying that World War three would be so devastating that it would
knock man and back to having to use simple tools again. So imagine it
this way. Essentially, what is attributed to Einstein saying is that there is
catastrophic possibilities in life that would knock man not back to prehistoric levels, but
to simple tools and simple means. So you have to come from an already
believed presupposition to think that cavemen were Neanderthals. That is something that's been kind
of put into the psyche but is not ever truly explained or scientifically proven.
You've got what are believed to be transitional fossils, but you have to look
at them as transitional fossils to get that. Otherwise you can look at them
and say, no, that's an ape, and then you could see when
they're a man and say no, that's definitely a man. And so if
you go in with a preconceived notion that there were cavemen that were prehistoric,
then you get that outcome when you look at the fossil record. If you
look at it as distinct parts of particular phylum, that this is part of
this group, and this is part of this group, then you'll see it.
There are different types of ape, and they were different they were man.
But if man, there's a difference between a prehistoric caveman and someone who
lived in a cave, not because of you know, they were primitive,
but because they were without means or they were destitute. So I don't think
that that that quote by Albert Einstein was speaking about that man would become primitive
again. In thinking or understanding, it would be that all the things,
all the technology, would be destroyed and they have to start over. Don't
you think that's fair to come to that conclusion based on that statement. It's
not like, yeah, it's not like the world was going to start over
again as humans. It's that they would start over again with technology because it
would have been destroyed. So there are catastrophic things that took place in scripture.
Many scientists would even back up that. They that there's not universal belief,
but a great understanding in the scientific community that there was a worldwide deluge,
that the that the Earth was underwater at one point. So then the
scriptures back that up as well. So there's also a possibility that this is
the catastrophic instance that would have made the need for people to live in caves
and go back to that kind of what is considered primitive living. Bill,
Welcome to the Jesus Christ Show. Good morning, Jesus, Hi Bill.
I became a Christian in June of two thousand and eight. Well, praise
be married. I've been married for twelve years. My wife and I have
been completely faithful to each other. Good. But I'm troubled as I read
scripture, and I certainly haven't read nearly as much as I need to read.
Trouble because as I think of relations with other women and fantasize other women
almost on a daily basis, I ask for repentance for that, and I
pray on a daily basis, several times a day. But I'm really bothered
about the contradiction of the feelings I have. And certainly God gave us this
wonderful gift of sexual relations, So why don't I have an under control?
Well, Paul said it best when he said the spirit is willing and the
flesh is weak. You're going to be battling that. You're going to consistently
be battling with that. And that's why I explain in scripture that it's not
just about adultery, it's even thinking about it that's committing the sin. Because
God is reading your heart and your head, not just your actions. But
having said that, it's better to have thought about it and not done it.
And it's about girding those thoughts. You're going to have bad thoughts,
you're going to have lustful thoughts, to keep them in control and not act
upon them. It's key. That's imperative also to yourself beyond normalcy, because
people fantasy is always always brighter. Paul Simon in his song Codochrome says that
reality is always in black and white, that in a fantasy, it's just
so vibrant, and you make you make it the rules. You know,
it's dream. There are no rough edges, No one lands and dies in
a dream. Truly, they always can wake from it. So in the
fantasy, it's everything you want and nothing you don't want, and all of
those things. And of course it's going to be attractive. It's when you've
got to keep yourself away from the arena of fantasizing too much. Don't connect
too much with the opposite sex, don't put yourself in a position where you
connect with them, because that grows fantasies, and then fantasies can sometimes grow
into actualities. And that becomes a problem. But is there something that you
feel that you're just lacking or you're embarrassed to ask sexually or with the intimacy
you have with your wife. There are problems in that area, and we've
we've had counseling. Fact we're going to begin counseling with our church in a
couple of weeks. Excellent. There there have been issues with that. But
I think even in past relationships, and this is my first and only marriage,
hopefully, I had the same thoughts and I was bothered about them then
because there's anything wrong with the with the physical aspect of the relationship. But
I well, don't let the devil creep in and start, you know,
beating you over the head to the point where you're losing focus on the beauty
of the relationship you have. And because the devil will sit there and whispering,
you're here all day, you're discussing you're horrible, you don't even deserve
her, and that makes it worse. Hold on one second, as we
take a moment here, I want to talk to you, So don't go
anywhere. Bill. You know we've been talking with Bill that you're you're going
through. Uh, through issues dealing with There's some would argue normalcy, uh,
fantasies and the like, but you're wrestling with where are they a sin?
At what point they become a sin? And how come you have them?
Is that really the issue of why are they here? And you know,
what do I do with them? Do you? Uh? Do you
look at pornography at all? Occasionally but not with any regularity. I'm in
the barbershop and I may read a Playboy or something like that, but typically
not. Okay, keep in mind that that's that can be a fuel for
the fire. And I realized that a lot of people find uh, you
know, Playboy to be quite tame uh in the sexuality part, and of
course all men read it for the articles, right, so but really that
those are are those plant seeds of fantasy because that's not real and you've got
a lot of digital air brushing going on and placement and lighting and everything,
and so that sets standards to a place that's not realistic as well. If
there's something going on in your life with your wife sexually in a sense that
and this happens with guys a lot guys are beat up over and over again
and told that they're perverts, and that they only think about one thing and
they only want one thing, and all of this to the point where even
when a man is in a wonderful relationship and is in love and wants to
experience, you know, his woman that way, that sometimes you'll hold back,
or you won't request things, or you won't explore or ask or articulate,
you know why a certain part of her body you respond to a certain
way and say, oh, I really like this or the way you look
or the lighting. I know that you don't always feel comfortable, but when
the lights are on, I get to see you or whatever it is.
And men feel so dirty that a lot of times they have a hard time
expressing these things, so they start to do it in quiet. And that
means sometimes with pornography, and that means sometimes with just your thoughts. But
all in all, your thoughts are really just a way of you know,
having to, you know, to look at pornography that's not on the page
or on a video screen. It's just a way for you to fantasize and
have an outlet that way. And I'd like to funnel that back to the
healthy part, which is passion. The devil has an unhealthy part to every
healthy part that God has. So rage is unhealthy, anger is healthy,
Passion is healthy. Lust is unhealthy. So finding the balance and understanding your
passion and applying that to your to your wife and understanding her passion and what
makes her feel good or what makes her feel sexy or beautiful or lovely and
you know, feels womanly and wanting to be in that scenario with you is
important. But it starts with honesty. Bill. If you don't, if
you don't come from that place of honesty and explaining this is how I feel.
And trust Sometimes when you get into a relationship is when you you know,
you lose that trust because you're going, oh, you know they're going
to think this about me or think that about me. And I want you
to explore and God's will on the on the Counseling Julia, Welcome to the
Jesus Christ Show. Yes, hi, Hi, I'm concerned about religiousation and
it's worldwide and supported by the listeners and no no ads or anything like that.
And one of the main speakers on this program has been saying and preaching
very hard about the uh the earth and its fiery demise in oh boy mark
your calendars. Oh, thank you. Well that that doesn't jive with scripture.
Just so you know, Scripture is very clear that no man shall know
the day nor the hour. Yes, people call in and tell him that
very often. But he's got he's got all of his mathematics worked out where
I don't care about his mathematics. I care about scripture. H he can,
he can do. The beauty of mathematics is that it depending on you
know, where you go with them. You can make a lot of things
look like they're going to equate, but it depends on what they're using,
as you know, a jumping point to calculate. So if they're saying,
well, this is because this many characters are in scripture, and if you
multiply them by this and that, or if you look at these particular Julian
calendars versus the Gregorian calendars, people get into all that and plus numerology on
top of it, and it's garbage. Oh thank you, it's garbage,
so iright, Julia. That's something that's gone on since I left two thousand
years ago. Since I left two thousand years ago, people have proclaimed that
the end was nigh and that it was going to happen sooner than later.
I will tell you you're closer to the end than ever before, closer to
the end right now. You're even closer to the end right now, given
another minute, closer to the end right now. But this whole kind of
waiting. And be prepared, how about that, be prepared for my return.
Continue to work every day to purify yourself, to get to know me
better, to be in the word of God, to be with God's people,
to make your mark on earth, all of these things, and don't
worry about that. You know that the formal study of the end times and
those types of things is called eschatology, essentially means the study of last things.
And my producer Neil often jokes that's why he studies it last, because
people get the cart before the horse, and they start worrying about these things
and lose focus on the things of God and the here and now. And
there's countless times in scripture where somebody was not in the moment, and I'm
saying, no, be in the moment with me now, and don't get
lost in that other stuff. And remember, as all the nuttiness surrounds you
this week, as it always does, push it out of your mind and
remember these words. I Am with you always. KFI A six on demand