You're listening to k IF I am six forty on demand. Christy, welcome
to the Jesus Christ Show. Tell Jesus Him. My question is, um,
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 love 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 we're bombarding
you with religious stuff, that would be a problem. But it's really about
understanding a limit as a guideline for you. Um. 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 confuse and to frustrate the believer into not participating
in the lovely things of God. Ecclesiastes three four says 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 throughout 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 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 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, right, because part of the studio is it's just that's
part of dance, a particular dance that my daughter really loves his jazz,
and so it acquires movement as abotics to them, it's no different than moving
the legs than the arms examined. And so I've just had a dilemma without
a Christian say well, there are children, and you deherish them the ways
of the Lord, which is how I felt that. 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 on the
songs they choose to dance to. Now, some of it can have lyrics
that are you know, you're so ugly Christian. Unfortunately we're right up against
the clock. But it sounds like you're working through it in the health.
Hello Jesus, h I had a question for you. Shoot, I have
if a person believes in the tea your teachings, and we'll try to live
their life according to those teachings. But does not believe in the 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, and 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 as such a work
where it's taking just the messages of 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 the miracle 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 Meschia. 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. It is was there is there some
hang up about the resurrection? Uh? You know I could not well,
I I 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 um, 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
and read to be true as long as they are not dealing with my resurrection.
Why why do you find the other words so good? Well? I
guess I don't have enough a good answer. Okay, that's fair enough.
I'll no, that's fair enough. And I think that it's very brave 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
it'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's a really good dancer. It
really it's kind of just parsing the things that you want and leaving out the
other things, and that doesn't really benefit anyone. You're listening to kf I
am sixty on demand. Gary, Welcome to Jesus Christ shown. Thank you
Jesus. How you Gary? My question revolves basically for almost my entire adult
life. My mother was very religious, went to church, still does and
I've asked her several times. How does Darwinism an 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 them, 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. The interpretation of those artifacts is what's
at hand, not the artifacts themselves. Correct. You can't. It's like
take 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 a 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 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. Um 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, well, will and emotion, as God has intellect, will
and emotion. Um 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 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, and 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 of evolution,
which is amba to human. So as a Christian, there's no problem with
a 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. You're listening to KF I am
sixty on demand. 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, at least I shall 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 in from 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
Christian hearted. Well, there's there's a lot of debate that goes on between
Protestants and Catholics. They are both Christian. A lot of people referred Catholic
just means universal, so it's the stamp of saying we 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 Mary a little differently in the application the papal system and
the pope and those things. Uh, 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 your 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 teach 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
school, 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 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 Hannah fits into before Adam and Eve or after Adam and Eve.
I just can't find out where it says anything about that. Yeah,
that's a that's a tough one, and that's one that 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 if you could imagine that that people tend to refer to cavemen, but
prehistoric man 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. Um.
The Bible is about history. It has a beginning, as a middle end,
it has an end. So you wouldn't find pre history in a book
of history. Doesn't make sense. So um, 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 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, 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 at that outcome when you look
at the fossil record, if you look at it as distinct parts of particular
phylum, this is part of this group, and this is part of this
group, then you'll see that there are different types of ape and there were
different there 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 a 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 it'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
is not universal belief, but a great understanding in the scientific community that there
was a worldwide deluge, that the water, that the Earth was underwater at
one point, so and 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. I became a Christian in June of two thousand and eight.
Married. It's great. 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. Troubled because 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 why don't I have an under
control? Well, you know, 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 girting 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
ask yourself beyond normalcy because people fantasy is always always brighter. M Paul Simon
in his song Quota Chrome says that reality is always in black and white,
that in a fantasy, it's just so vibrant, and you make up,
you make up the rules. You know, there's 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. Um 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's something that you feel that your marriage is 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.
A fact, we're going to begin counseling with our church in a couple of
weeks. Excellent, Well, 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 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'll sit there and whispering, you're in your
all day. You're disgusting, 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're listening to KFI on demand. We've been talking with Bill, um
that you're you're going through, uh through issues dealing with There's some would argue
normalcy, uh, fantasies and the like. Um, 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 the issue of why are
they here? And you know, what do I do with them? Um?
Do you? Uh? Do you look at pornography at all? Occasionally
but not with any regularity. Sign in the barbershop and I may read a
Playboy or something like that, but typically not. Okay, keep in mind
that that that's that can be a fuel for the fire. And uh,
I realized that a lot of people find uh, you know, Playboy to
be quite tame uh and the sexuality part, and of course all men read
it for the articles, right so uh, but really that those are are
those plant seeds of fantasy because that's not real and you've got a lot of
digital airbrushing 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 waye 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 that 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 unders standing 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 um, 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 religislation and it's
worldwide and supported by the listeners and no no ads or anything like that.
And um. One of the main speakers on this program has been as saying
and preaching very hard about the end of UH the earth and UH and its
fiery demise and uh oh boy, mark your calendars. Oh thank you.
Well that that doesn't drive 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. Were I don't care about his mathematics.
I care about scripture. 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, uh look like they're going to equate,
but it depends on what they're using as uh, 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.
US people get into all that and plus numerology on top of it, and
it's garbage. Oh thank you it's garbage. So I sure, all right,
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 nine 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, even another
minute, closer to the end right now. But this whole kind of waiting
end. 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. It essentially means the study of last
things. And I 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, k IF.
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