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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bible answer Man Broadcast with Christian Research

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Institute President Hank Canagraph. Our mission at CRII is not

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only to equip you with sound biblical teaching and spiritual discernment,

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but to help you become a winsome and fruitful witness

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of Jesus Christ. Because the credibility of our faith hinges

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on the answers we provide to life's biggest questions. There's

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often not a second chance to get those answers right,

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to learn more, or to find resources to help you

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dot org. The following program was pre recorded and now

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here's Hank Canagraph.

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Speaker 2: Thank very much, Randy. We start broadcast today with a

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Facebook question from Michael who asks for a summary of

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specific archaeological evidence that supports the Gospel. And I actually

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did this in my book Has God Spoken? And I

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use the acronym spade as in the archaeologist's spade. The

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ass represents steels and stones in demonstrating that what was

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once concealed in the soil corresponds to that which is

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revealed in the scriptures. The mer Nepta and Dan Steele's

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come immediately to mind, of course, so do the Moabite

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and Pilot stones. The Mernepta steel presents as formidable a

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challenge to exodus deniers as the Dan steel does to

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those pontificating that the biblical account of King David is

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no more factual than tails of King Arthur. In light

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of the Moabite stone, it's also difficult to contend that

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biblical kings such as Omri and Meshia, and places such

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as Nebo and Moab are the stuff of myth. Likewise,

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the Pilot stone demonstrates in spades that Pilot was the

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Roman authority in Judea at the time Christ was crucified.

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The P in the acronym spade stands for pools and fools.

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In fact, until quite recently, skeptics viewed the existence of

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the pools depicted in John's Gospel to be little more

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than a religious conceit, a predilection on the part of

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Christians to believe what they think is true is true

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solely because they think it's true. All of that changed

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June two, thousand and four. That's pretty recent history. Workers

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in the Old City of Jerusalem unearthed the place that

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Jesus cured the man born blind. Likewise, you can rest

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your arms in the guardrail overlooking the excavated ruins of

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the Pool of Bethesda, where Jesus cared for the physical

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and spiritual needs of a man who suffered the revages

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of sin for thirty eight years, and you can stand

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amazed that what was once secreted in soil accurately reflects

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that which is sealed in scripture. The a reminds us

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of Assyrian archaeology, which is significant as well. From six

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hundred years before Christ until eighteen hundred years after Him,

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Assyria and its chief city, Nineveh, lay entombed in the

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dust bin of history. The stones cried out again in

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eighteen forty five Henry Austin Layard began digging along the

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Tigers River and he unearthed Nineveh Diamond of Assyria. Among

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the stunning archaeological gems discovered there were Senecrib's prison, Shalmaneser's

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Black Obelisk, and the Palace of Sargon, previously known only

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by a single reference in the Biblical text. So together

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they provide weighty testimony to the reliability of the Biblical record.

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And then there's the D in spade representing Dead Sea scrolls.

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You'll remember, perhaps because this was big news. It was

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all over the news in fact nineteen forty seven and

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the sound of splintered pottery, which led to what archaeologist

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doctor William Albright recognized as one of the greatest archaeological

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discoveries of modern times. Incredibly, we now have access to

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virtually and entire first century Old Testament library at the

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click of a twenty first century mouse. The Dead Sea

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Scrolls provide significant insight into the text of the Old Testament,

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and they add considerable clarity to the text of the

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New Testament as well. Finally, the e and spade represents

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Epic of Gilgamesh. Until the late nineteenth century, the masses

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presumed the great Primordial deluge to be relegated to the

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text of scripture. All that began to change in eighteen

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fifty three when Rosom discovered the Palace of Esherbanipal, and there,

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among the treasures of Assyria's last king, he uncovered clay

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tablets that provide independent confirmation of a vast flood in

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ancient Mesopotamia, the flood was complete with a Noli like

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figure and an arc. And while the epic views the

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waters of the flood through the opaque lens of paganism,

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it lends significant credence to an actual event. It is

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likewise a reminder that the reality of a great deluge

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is impregnated on the collective consciousness of virtually every major

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civilization from the Sumerian epoch to the present age. Again,

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that information is presented in memorable format in my book

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Has God Spoken, And in each chapter summary there is

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a snapshot which presents the information to you in memorable fashion.

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And then at the end of the parts you have

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memorable snapshots so that you can again internalize the information.

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Why because I want you to use the information to

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make a difference while there is yet time. The Book

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Has God Spoken available through the Christian Research Institute in

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a safe, secure fashion at equip dot org. First up

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today is Derek listening on the web in Indianapolis, Indiana. Hi, Derek,

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I'm doing well. Thank you.

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Speaker 3: I had listened to Joyce Maris over the television and

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she says she has faith just because she has faith

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in God. Are we supposed to, are Christians supposed to

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have faith in evidence instead of just faith because you

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have faith in God.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're supposed to have faith in God. In fact,

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the true biblical faith is faith in God. The problem

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with faith teachers like Joyce Meyer is not that they're

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saying you ought to have faith in God. They're telling

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you that you have to have faith in faith because,

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in her view, words are containers for power. They carry

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creative or destructive power, positive or negative power. And so

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we need to be speaking right things over our lives

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and about our futures if we expect to have good

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things happen. And all of that means simply this, You

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yourself are responsible for the things that happen to you.

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If you speak negative words, negative things will happen to you,

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even if you speak them inadvertently. If you say something

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like that tickled me to death, you might be speaking

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death into your life. So positive or negative words create

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your reality. So that's not a biblical view of faith. Rather,

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it is an occultic view of faith that is dressed

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up in Christian terminology.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so you're saying what she said is there is

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not a biblical view.

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Speaker 2: No, it's not a biblical view, because again, in her view,

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you have to have faith in faith, whereas inn a

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biblical view, faith is a channel of living trust between

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a human being and their God, and faith is only

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as good as the object in whom it is placed.

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So if it's faith in your own faith, it's credulity.

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If it's faith in God, obviously it's credible.

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Speaker 3: Okay, thank you.

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Speaker 2: You got it. Thank you so much for your call.

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Let's go back to the phone lines. We'll talk next

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to Stephen in Oklahoma. Stephen, I think I had.

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Speaker 4: A question of reference to creation, the seventh Day.

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Speaker 3: Does it end?

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Speaker 2: Well? The seventh day is unending according to the Biblical text,

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and the un ending nature of the seventh Day constitutes

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a major exegetical problem for a twenty four hour interpretation,

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because logically and literarily, the seventh day cannot simultaneously be

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unending and temporal.

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Speaker 5: Okay, So I just noticed that at the end of

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the seventh day that it's written different than the other

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sixth Yeah, it is.

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Speaker 2: It is. That's exactly the point.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the sixth days are meant to impress on your

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mind the fact that God created all things. The seventh

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day is meant to impress on your mind that it

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is in Christ that we have our sabbath rest, if

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you take the whole panoply of scripture and see the

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ultimate fulfillment in Jesus Christ, in whom the writer of

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Hebrews says, we have our sabbath rest.

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Speaker 5: Okay, that sounds good.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it. You got it. We'll be right back

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at a moment with more of your questions.

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Speaker 1: Has God spoken? Are the words of Scripture merely human

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in origin? Or are they in fact the very words

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of God himself? Three years in the making, and based

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on two decades of research and reflection, Hank Henigraph's monumental

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book Has God Spoken answers what is surely the most

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important question facing our world. In Has God Spoken? Memorable

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proofs of the Bible's divine inspiration, Hank counters the contentions

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of the Bible attackers and clearly shows that belief in

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the Holy Scriptures is not a guess or wishful thinking.

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It is the only logical conclusion after an honest examination

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extraordinary courage and resoluteness to turn the tide of the

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Willingness to fight and munitions in the arsenal were pivotal.

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Speaker 2: Thank you about Brandy, and I want to go back

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to the phone lines. We'll talk next to Barry listening

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in Saint Louis, Missouri. Hi Berry, Good evening, Hank, good evening.

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Speaker 4: Just a quick question for you. And this is not

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any great theological question, but my wife and I teach

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middle schoolers at our church. Yeah, and a question has

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come up in just some studying and reading that we've

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done dealing with actually the creation account and Genesis. Right

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in the very beginning we read where God created light,

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separated the light from the darkness, so on and so forth,

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and that was the first day. And then just a

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little bit later on we read I believe in verse

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sixteen where it talks about he created the sun and

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the moon stars, and that was the fourth day. I

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guess my question is, essentially, and what was brought up

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by some of the kids, is what was the light

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that was created in the first day? Seeing as how

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you know, as humans light being from the sun, what

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would be the best way to I guess respond to that?

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And how would I back that up?

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Speaker 2: Sure? Yeah, well, I want to take seriously the biblical text.

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you very clearly that on day one there was light

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and there was darkness, right, I mean, that's part of

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the passage itself. And he separated the light from the darkness.

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God called the light day, and the darkness he called night.

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at face value, you have a solar day on day one,

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way through day six. Obviously, day seven is an unending day,

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and therefore we wouldn't say that's a solar day, and

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there's nothing in the text that would lead us to

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the notion that that is a solar day. So if

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you take the text at face value, the text is

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communicating solar days. Now, the problem is there are people

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in a Young Earth camp that want to take this

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and they don't want to take it literally, so they

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say the light came from somewhere else, it's not light

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that comes from a solar day. And again I don't

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like that way of reading the text because I want

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to read the text literally. I want to take the

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text as literature inspired infallible literature. There are Old Earth

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creationists that go to the same passage and they say, no,

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these are long day ages, And so you have geological

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time that's sandwiched in the biblical text here, such that

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you've got a problem just from a scientific standpoint, and remember,

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we don't want to commit either scriptural heresy or scientific

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heresy as they do then is they put geological ages

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into the first three days. But the problem with that

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is how do plants survive without direct sunlight for geological ages?

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best off taking the text in the sense in which

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it's intended, which is to say that the text is

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using literal solar days to communicate God's purposes in creation.

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I think where we get into trouble is where we

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want to make a chronology, where a chronology isn't warranted,

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or we try to take the text and rework the

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text in some way to make the text other than

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what it actually says. This is not a chronology of creation,

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but it is a hierarchy of creation, and it's wonderfully

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placed such that we can remember it both with the

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days of creation themselves and in triads. For example, day

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one and day four you have light and luminaries. On

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day two and day five you have the place for

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fish and fowl, and fish and foul on day three

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and day six you have the dry land, and that

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dry land becomes the habitation for man and animals. So

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it's a wonderful mnemonic. It's a wonderful way of imprinting

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on your minds. And remember Moses was writing to an

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oral culture, but imprinting on your minds God's literal creative prowess,

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the fact that God created all things. And I always

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want to caution people because people either don't want to

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take the text literally, and that again means to read

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the text as literature, and sometimes they read unintended meanings

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into the text. For example, if you go to Job

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and Job talks about God tipping over the water pots

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of heaven, they want to come up with some kind

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of a container theory. No, the water pots of heaven

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are used as a metaphor, and if we take that

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in a way other than a metaphor, we miss the meaning.

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I mean, this is true in common parlance as well.

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I wish I would have written it down. I actually

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thought of doing this while I was watching the US

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Open and they were using superlatives like the whole world

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is now at Rory's feet, And if you took that

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in a wooden literal sense, you would miss the intent

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of what the announcer was meaning to communicate. And I

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think the same thing is true with scripture. Again. We

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want to remember this because if we don't read the

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text in the sense in which it's intended, we're gonna

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have God with feet, because in Genesis, God walks in

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the cool of the day with Adam and Eve. We

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certainly don't want to do that and then destroy the

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biblical orthodox meaning of the nature God important to read

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the Bible literally. We will talk next to Margie. She's

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listening in New Jersey. Hi Margie, Hello, Hanks.

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Speaker 5: I have a question about the genealogy of Jesus. I

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know it's through its foster father Joseph, but in Matthew

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and in Luke. When Alista genealogies, some of the names

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don't seem to correspond, like the Joseph's father was Jacob

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or something, and then the other one it says it

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was Eli, and some of the names are off. I

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was wondering if you know, if you know the reason

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for that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a reason for the reason. And that's what's

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going on in scripture. This is one of the big

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things that we have to learn to do. A lot

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of people will go to Genesis and they will say

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that we can figure out some kind of a chronology

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on the basis of Genesis, and therefore we can come

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up with a timeframe. And that has led to all

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kinds of perversions. That's based on a misunderstanding of chronologies,

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and that ultimately points to a misunderstanding of genealogies. What's

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going on in Genesis And I'll get to the Matthew

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in Luke situation just a second. But what's going on

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in Genesis is Moses is giving an oral culture a

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way of being able to remember the main characters in

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the plot, so to speak, with the ten fingers of

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your hand, and that includes primeval history as well as

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the patriarchs. So you can remember five and five with

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the two hands. I won't go through that right now,

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but I've done that before in the biblanche Man broadcast

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in seminars and teachings around the country and teach people.

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You can remember this kind of stuff. But when you

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get to Matthew, Matthew is doing a similar thing. He's

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not giving you all of the genealogies in sequence, but rather,

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as a former tax collector, he is skillfully organizing the

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genealogy of Jesus into three groups of fourteen happens to

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be the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew letters in King

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David's name. So what is he doing. He's simultaneously highlighting

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the most significant names in the lineage of Jesus Christ

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and artistically emphasizing our Lord's identity as Messiah who would

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forever sit upon the throne of David. Now Lucas doing

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something completely different, So he's got a different purpose in

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mind with the genealogy. He's writing to a primarily gentile

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instead of Jewish audience, and therefore he's extending his genealogy

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past Abraham to the first atom, and in that way

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he highlights that Christ, the second atom, is savior of humanity.

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And so it's important to recognize the purposes in the

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genealogies because the different emphasis in the genealogies are explanatory

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in terms of the dissimilarities between them. So Matthew is

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tracing his genealogy through David's son Solomon. Luke is tracing

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his genealogy through David's son Nathan. And it might be

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that Matthew's purpose is to provide the legal lineage from

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Solomon through Joseph, while Luke's purpose is to provide the

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natural lineage from Nathan through Mary. Now look, it could

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also be that Matthew and Luke are both tracing Joseph's genealogy.

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Matthew the legal line, Luke the natural line, and the

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legal line diverges from the natural line in that Leveright

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law stipulated if a man died without an heir, his

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genealogy could legally continue through his brother. But here's the

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takeaway point. This is how it all cash is out.

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The fact that there are a number of ways to

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resolve dissimilarities rules out the notion that they're contradictory, which

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is what a lot of people want to say about

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the genealogy. And again, I think this is such an

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important case study in terms of how to read the Bible.

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For all this worth, you not only have the beginning

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of the Gospels, but the beginning of Genesis in view.

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And if you miss it in terms of the art

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and science of Biblical interpretation at the beginning, you may

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well miss it all the way through. Well you can

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hear the music or out of time for this edition

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of the Bible. Answer Man broadcast is always it as

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a delight to be able to answer your question. But

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remember why, I want to use the answer as a

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springboard or an opportunity to share the truth and the

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