July 15, 2021 Show with Kenneth R. Samples on “Christianity Cross-Examined” (Part 2)

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For those of you who yesterday heard a program that was part one of a discussion that we actually began weeks ago on Christianity cross -examined, is it rational, relevant, and good?

That was a rerun we were airing yesterday on July 14th and so today, if indeed you are listening on July 15th, it is not a rerun.

It may be a rerun at some other date, but if you are listening on Thursday, July 15th, this is a live broadcast and it's part two of that very discussion that we aired as a rerun yesterday,

Christianity cross -examined. This is part two of that discussion and that is the title of Ken Samples' new book.

Kenneth R. Samples is a former panelist on The Bible Answer Man.

He is a Reformed Anglican theologian. He's an author and currently the

Senior Research Scholar at Reasons to Believe and it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Audience Representative Radio, my dear old friend,

Kenneth R. Samples. Chris, it's good to talk with you again. I enjoy our discussions and you're very generous to have me on your program once again.

Oh, it is my pleasure, brother, and I really thoroughly enjoyed our previous discussion on Christianity cross -examined, is it rational, relevant, and good?

And the last time we discussed your book on the air, we got very thoroughly involved in addressing, is it rational and relevant?

But probably the most important part, is it good? We had very little time to address at the end because we had already nearly completely run out of time and only had a couple of minutes to squeeze in that very prominent and vital aspect of Christianity cross -examined.

In fact, before we go to the topic that we really did not adequately address last time, is

Christianity good? Tell us perhaps a summary or a recap of Christianity cross -examined, why you wrote the book, and perhaps a little bit of what we covered when it comes to Christianity being rational and relevant.

Yeah, very good, Chris. You know, when I was hosting the Bible Answer Man, when

I was one of the panelists back in the early 1990s, working at the

Christian Research Institute, when I would go to a college or university and give a talk, students were asking me almost exclusively what

I would call truth questions. Does God exist? Was Jesus the son of God?

Jesus rise from the dead? How does Christianity differ with the competing world religions?

However, I noticed about 10 or 15 years ago, and this is my 25th year working at Reasons to Believe, I noticed about a decade or so ago that when

RTB would send me to a college or university, that the students were asking different questions.

I still got occasional truth questions, but they asked me a lot of questions about whether Christianity was actually a good force in the world.

Has Christianity been good for women? Has Christianity been good for racial minorities?

What about the God of the Old Testament? Is he a God of wrath, and how does that square with Jesus in the

New Testament? And I thought to myself, Chris, that I wonder if I'm seeing a shift.

And from a philosophical perspective, you know, we might talk about modernism or modernity.

That was an era where there was a focus on truth questions. Postmodern era often is suspicious of truth questions and focuses on questions of goodness.

And so I thought to myself, you know, maybe in this apologetic book,

I should structure it that way. The first half of the book will deal with truth questions or whether Christianity is rational.

Is it logically relevant? So I look at, and we talked about it on our first program about Christianity's relationship to science,

Christianity's relationship to logic, you know, to history. Whereas in the second part of the book,

I decided to address questions that focus on whether Christianity has been good for human history and the character of God.

And so I think if there is a distinctive feature of this book,

I think it's setting it up that way. And by the way, I might tell you that I have interacted with atheists.

And this is kind of a thought experiment that I'm going to give you.

In the introduction of the book, I talk about two types of atheists. Now, I'm not sure that every atheist would fit in one of these two categories, but I know that some do.

One atheist might reason this way, Chris, they may say, look, you know, I don't know, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea if God existed.

Maybe I'd survive the death of my body. Maybe I would be reunited with my loved ones.

But the problem is, Christianity is just not rational. It's not something I can, in good conscience, rationally believe.

Now, I don't know if the atheist Graham Oppie fits that category, but he might. He's a leading academic atheist.

Now, there's another type of atheist. The other type of atheist says something like this, oh no, there's arguments for God, and there's arguments for Christianity.

And some of the people who make them are pretty sharp, reasonable people. But the fact is,

I don't want that God to exist. I don't want that God intruding into my life, pushing his moral dictates to me.

I think Thomas Nagel, the New York philosopher of mine, New York University, fits really well into that category.

Now, again, I'm not saying all atheists are in those camps, but I have heard atheists like the first one say, my problem is reason.

The second one says, my problem is, I just, I don't want that kind of God to exist.

I can't see that God as a moral being. So I kind of un -dollop that in my new book, and I try to pick questions that are the kinds of questions that skeptical people really ask, and I try to quote the most outspoken of the atheists.

And as far as the relevancy of Christianity, if you want to give a very brief overview of what we've already addressed?

Yeah, I think that Christianity speaks, in I think the most relevant way possible, it speaks to the human condition.

I mean, one of the reasons that I'm convinced that Christianity is true is that it explains who we are as human beings.

It notes our brokenness, our fallenness. It talks to us meaningfully about salvation and what went wrong, and so if you think about the

Christian worldview in terms of creation, fall, redemption, consummation,

I think Christianity is important in its deep relevance.

And of course I would say this, if Jesus rose from the dead, and I present 20 evidences for that in one of my chapters, the first part of the book, if that's the case,

Chris, there's no more important question, because all of us are going to die. And if Jesus conquered death, then you need to know it.

So I think Christianity is quite relevant in its application, especially of the human condition.

And of course, people may wrongly, and many, many, many, unfortunately, many, many, many people do, they will react to the

Bible and say it is not relevant, because look at the condemnations they have against homosexuality, and look at the roles, the specific roles they have for men and women in certain areas of life.

These things are outdated. Well, that's because the majority of humans have changed.

That doesn't mean truth has changed. Just because the world has become more, or the population of the world has become increasingly more selfish and demanding that they write the rules, and that many things that the

Bible commanded or prohibited, just because those things are either rejected or embraced, rejected if they were commands of God, and embraced if they were things that God condemns as wicked, just because humans in a greater majority have responded that way, doesn't mean that the problem is with the

Bible, the problem is with humans. Right, let me give you a powerful contrast, which

I think it is. I watched a lot of debates that Christopher Hitchens did, the late

Christopher Hitchens. Yes. Journalist, articulate, outspoken atheist, wrote a best -selling book,

God is Not Great. You know, Hitchens said that the worst thing about believing in God is that it would be like living in North Korea.

Big brother, God is pushing himself upon you. You can never be alone, you can never be free, because God is always intruding on your space.

I contrast that, Chris, with what Saint Augustine said. Saint Augustine said you're never alone, even when you are in despair, even when you are at the bottom of life's experiences, that God is closer to you than your closest friend.

He's closer to you than your closest brother, your family member. Augustine says

God is closer to you even than your lover, and thus that contrast of Hitchens on one hand, living in North Korea, God's butting into your business, whereas Augustine says, hey, when you're at the bottom, when you feel despair,

God's right there. His grace is reaching out to you. I thought, wow, what a powerful contrast.

Your worldview makes all the difference about who God is and your relationship to him.

Yeah, isn't it interesting that when the Lord is softening the heart of someone that was lost, or just simply in regard to somebody who is already born again, that the

Bible is so relevant and always has been, ever since God gifted it to his people.

You will see how the Bible speaks to you personally, even though written thousands of years ago.

And that is unlike culture. When you see old movies, when you see or even read secular literature, there is a stark contrast, typically, from yesterday, from what we experience today.

And sometimes we laugh at things, how they change. But with the

Word of God, and even biblically faithful Christians who have written valuable volumes for us to bless the church of all ages, when you read the

Puritans, when you read even further back, the writings of the

Reformers, how they strike a chord, even though some of the language, if the edition of whatever it is you're reading has not been updated in modern

English, even if some of the phraseology and the wording and so forth may be a bit antiquated, the content and the message hits right on and strikes a chord as if it was written yesterday.

And powerfully, Chris, in the case of Hitchens, his brother

Peter was a journalist and a Marxist. He was at an art library or art museum looking at a painting called

The Last Judgment, and he said that God spoke to his heart about how he could stand before the wrath of God.

Peter converted to Christianity. Here's two brothers in the same family, and God is at work in Peter, whereas Christopher was challenging these ideas.

And so the relevance of Christianity and the grace of God is very powerful. Yes, it was such a shame that after Christopher Hitchens accepted my invitation to debate

James White, and I was so looking forward to witnessing that exchange between two great minds on opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to ideology, it was such a shame that he had to cancel because of his developing and being diagnosed with esophageal cancer, which eventually took his life.

But I had the posters all printed up and was getting ready, had already begun actually to promote the event, and just tragically it never came to be.

Well, Christianity is good, or if you want to put it in a question form as your subtitle does, is

Christianity good? As you just hinted at, there are many people who do not think

Christianity is good. They think that it has been of great harm to humanity, whether it is due to the oppression of people because of their skin color, their ethnicity, that is, in their minds, and what they have been brainwashed to believe in our modern education system.

They think that Christianity has been a horrible thing for humanity, a horrible thing for the oppression of those with different sexual preferences, or I don't even know if that is an acceptable way to phrase it today.

The left changes the dictionary so often, I don't know if I'm up -to -date with what they demand, although I really don't care if I'm up -to -date with what they demand.

So, obviously, you are a Christian, you obviously believe

Christianity is good, and if you could start explaining some reasons why, even on the basis of how humanity has been helped, obviously only

God can determine and define what is good and what is evil in all truth, but there are even ways that there have been

Orthodox Jews and even atheists and people of other religions who have come to recognize,

I know that I personally have benefited enormously, incalculably, and my ancestors and those that would share my heritage have benefited greatly from Christianity's existence, even though I and my people, as it were, do not share that religion.

I have even heard Orthodox Jews and others make statements like that. So, tell us, how do you respond to that question?

Is Christianity good? Yeah, I think it's a fair question. I don't begrudge anybody asking that question, and I think that we've got great answers to give people.

Let me talk, first of all, about education and literature. Christian science began one time in the 1600s in Christian Europe, and it began and was birthed and ultimately flourished because of the

Christian worldview. Now, what's interesting, of course, when I was growing up, I was told that the

Middle Ages were a very dark period, but I discovered later that they weren't nearly as dark as what people suggested.

For example, the reason that science could be birthed in the 1600s was because of these great medieval universities—University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, the

University of Paris, Cologne—these universities are more than a thousand years old, and it was the intellectual firepower that came out of these universities that allowed for this remarkable revolution called science.

So science was one of the products of the Christian civilization. Not to say that the

Chinese, the Greco -Romans, the Mesopotamians, even the

Muslims made contributions to things like math and science—algebra is an Arabic word, for example—but the intellectual firepower, the educational system, came out of Christian civilization, and it was

Christians who preserved learning and education. Literature, if you look at so many of the great works, they're not only written by many

Christians, but they engage with the Christian story and the

Christian ideas. You can also talk about some of the social movements. I mean, one of the big issues, as you've suggested today, is looking at race, gender, and class, where we seem preoccupied with those topics.

But of course, the ending of slavery in Great Britain and then in America came at the hands of largely abolitionists who were distinctly

Christian. They viewed the Bible as teaching the fundamental principle that people are made in the image of God, and that black people bore that divine image.

And so the abolition of slavery was headed by people who were

Christian in orientation. And I would say to our secularists, if you deny that the world is created, then you also deny that people are made in the image of God, and be careful there, because that is the foundation of the sanctity of human life.

We could also talk about law and government. Here, there's kind of a unique feature for the

Protestant Reformation. I mean, the idea of rights not coming from government, but coming from God, and the idea that people, again, have the ability to have rights in government, this is, again, strongly within the

Christian tradition. Some people have said of John Calvin, and by the way, I think Calvin is probably the most controversial of all

Christian thinkers, but people sometimes fail to appreciate that Calvin's idea of liberty,

Calvin's ideas had a strong influence on government. Some historians would say, for example, it's hard to imagine

America being founded without the Protestant Reformation. We could also talk about charity and philanthropy.

You know, when I was a kid, I'd see these trucks drive through the neighborhood, you know,

I would see Salvation Army, these attempts to care for people.

I mean, in the ancient world, Chris, there was no help, there was no safety net.

In the Old Testament period, slavery was rampant. It was

God, through the Mosaic Code, that told the masters that they needed to treat those indentured servants with dignity and respect.

And God, again and again in the Old Testament, tells the Jews, don't treat the foreigners the way the

Egyptians treated you. It was Christians that created orphanages. It was

Christians who built hospitals. In fact, the word hospice is a

Christian development, that there are people suffering, they couldn't be cured, but they could be cared for.

I think that Christianity has been an enormously positive good for civilization.

Doesn't mean there aren't some difficult areas. History is messy when you're dealing with fallen, broken people.

Things were done in the name of Christ that we should reject. But all in all,

Christianity is not recognized, in my mind, for the enormous benevolence that it's brought to people on planet

Earth. In fact, I think you brought up something very important about things done in the name of Christ, because not everything done in the name of Christ is of Christ.

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USA. Now, opponents of Christianity, critics, skeptics, they will often bring up things that professing

Christians have done throughout history and lay the charge at Christianity itself as being the root and the blame for these evils, like chattel slavery is probably the most often repeated thing because there were, admittedly, many

Christians, even Christians that we agree with theologically and agree with on a host of other issues, who promoted slavery.

The Southern Baptist Convention at one time was a predominantly Calvinist institution, and it promoted the institution, as it were, of slavery.

And having said that, we must also remember that the

Reformed Presbyterian Church was the first denomination to openly oppose slavery and conduct integrated worship services and Bible studies and so on, but the fact of the matter is that these

Christians who promoted and participated in and even fought for things that we recognize today as being horrific and evil and wicked and even satanic, like chattel slavery, this was never something that was promoted in the

Word of God as something with which God was pleased or that God commanded, aren't people very often confusing, because of the word being used, slavery, the fact that God's people throughout the ages did have enslavement of prisoners of war, of people who actually sold themselves into slavery because they could not pay debts, and there are a host of other reasons why

God's people participated in slavery that had nothing to do with the kind of chattel slavery that was known in England and other parts of Europe and America, that in fact had a very crucial element in it, the type of slavery that was practiced in the

United States, which was a crucial element of the reason the Civil War was fought.

That crucial element involved something that was so evil in the scriptures that God commanded the death penalty for doing it, and that is man -stealing.

Stealing a man and selling him was a sin punishable by death, and that was a crucial element in the way that slaves initially found themselves on the shores of America and other parts of the world where slavery was practiced, am

I right? Yeah, that's exactly right, and I think you're right on target when you say that people pick up the

Bible, and in the Old Testament you have words like indentured servitude, you have bond servant, the

English, we use the word slavery, and in the minds of some of these critics, they think, well, slavery in the

Old Testament, it must be identical to the chattel slavery of the antebellum

South or in other parts of the West, when in reality it's a very different situation.

Chris, I don't know that there's any civilization in the ancient world that didn't practice slavery.

It makes me think that slavery, the terrible evil that it was and is, there are still people today that are under slavery, certainly human trafficking includes incredible evil, but it makes me think that slavery was not just an

American problem or even a Caucasian problem. Slavery seems to be a fundamental human problem.

Still goes on where blacks enslave blacks in the Sudan and other parts of Africa and the world.

This is exactly right, and what you have in the Old Testament is by and large indentured servitude.

Again, no safety net in the ancient world. People whose crops failed, people who were in debt, they would sell their service to a master, but it never involved the kind of chattel slavery.

They could be set free after seven years, and even the more difficult issues of Israel taking foreign slaves in battle.

Remember that Yahweh reminds the Jews again and again, don't treat aliens, don't treat foreigners the way the

Egyptians treated you. And so there are principles in the Torah, in the

Mosaic Code, that tell the masters that you can be held accountable.

Now, what are we to say about these kinds of things? I completely agree.

I mean, I think Jonathan Edwards is arguably the greatest philosophical theologian in American history, and yet while his son and close associate in ministry were abolitionists battling against slavery,

Edwards didn't see it. He just had a blind spot. You know,

I think the problem that we have in our modern day is a lot of people think if they were placed back in Nazi Germany, or they were placed back in the antebellum south, or in various places in history, that they would be people who were courageous and would stand up.

I would tell you that, you know, Christians are not without blind spots, and everything has not been rosy in Christian history, but I can tell you this, that the

Old Testament set down rules for how bond servants were to be treated, and in the

New Testament, in Galatians 3 verse 28, this revelatory statement by the

Apostle Paul, note in the Christian church, no difference between Jew, Gentile, slave, free, male, female, all are one in Christ.

I mean, that's an incredible statement, and so in the primitive Christian church, you would have people who were free, but they were slaves in Christ, and then you had slaves who were free men in Christ.

I think, I think, again, what ultimately ended and made illegal slavery in Europe and America was the moral force that all people are made in the image of God, and could

I say, because I think our country gets a lot of criticism these days, I know my family came from West Virginia, I know that West Virginia was very proud that they stood with the

Union against the South, and that we fought a war over these kinds of issues, so yeah, history is messy, but I think that we also need to factor this in,

Chris, that God has a plan for history. In philosophy, we talk about a teleos, a purpose.

I'm old enough to remember Martin Luther King preaching during the Civil Rights Movement, and he says that the arc of history is long, but it tends toward justice.

Well, as a reformed Anglican, I say amen. God is sovereign, and he has a purpose, even in corrupted history, to bring about his purposes, and I think

Christianity, by and large, was the most powerful force in bringing an end to slavery in the

Western world. In fact, it's interesting you brought up the fact that you are a reformed

Anglican, and the Church of England is a very vivid example of God using history to bring about the fulfillment of a plan, and even though the

Church of England involved a very wicked king, Henry VIII, who his archbishop,

Thomas Cranmer, didn't even believe his friend Henry was regenerate until Henry's deathbed, where Cranmer said, if you believe in justification by faith alone, squeeze my hand, and he did, because a lot of people don't realize, even though Henry helped to launch the

Church of England's Protestant identity, he remained theologically

Roman Catholic, but in spite of this wicked king being involved in the genesis of the

Church of England, many fine and biblically faithful and Christ -loving men and women and children rose up out of that to spread the true gospel.

Am I right? Absolutely, and you know, when you think about history, again,

I come back to this idea of the Church's history is messy. You know,

England had a lot of power, and sometimes they used that power to oppress people, but they also spread other things, like the

Bible, like democracy, like human rights, and so when you think of those kinds of issues, and you have people coming out of the

Church of England, again, Wilberforce in Europe, and again in America, you have many particular groups who took these, you know, took these issues seriously, and so I think to blame

Christianity, I think reflects a poor understanding of the development of Christianity within the

West, and even in the East. And it's also interesting how people view themselves so highly that they believe if they were born and raised in an era, let's say, in the

United States prior to the Civil War, where slavery had already been an established institution for centuries, they think they could have so easily flipped a switch, and that slaves would be free and safe immediately.

You know, for people who have that insanely high and narcissistic view of themselves, people very often who reject original sin and total depravity, they view the same, they view the garden in the same way.

They say that if they were Adam or Eve, they never would have fallen for Satan's seduction, so therefore they believe that it is insane and it is ridiculous for mankind to have bore the curse of Adam and Eve's sin, because I would have done better.

And isn't this the height of pride, really? And I think, Chris, if you look at history and you see the brokenness of humanity, you see the fallenness of humanity, you see the doctrine of original sin, remember that the

Bible is diagnosing humans that way, and it's, you know, Islam denies original sin.

Eastern Orthodoxy has difficulty with original sin. It's scripture that says that all of us are fallen in Adam.

The New Testament talks about a sin nature that's been passed on. So, you know, if you're troubled by hypocrisy, and I am as well, if you're troubled by the fact that there's been evil in the world, remember that one of the fundamental teachings of scripture is that human beings are sinful.

And, Chris, I love it that in Philippians 2, this ancient hymn that Paul weaves into the

Colossians, to the Philippian epistle, it says that Jesus didn't hold on to his privileged position in heaven, but became a bond servant, became a slave on our behalf.

I think that's incredibly powerful, and I think that that's why two of the largest people groups to join

Christianity at the earliest point in its development were women and slaves.

They heard something in Jesus of Nazareth. They saw something in him that they didn't find in Greece and Rome, and they didn't find even in first -century

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Part 1 as a rerun yesterday, but before we return to Part 2, I would ask of your patience as we provide you some important announcements.

The first is, continue to pray for my oldest brother John, 76, now in a skilled nursing facility after leaving the hospital, where he continues to battle pneumonia.

He has cancer and critical stage emphysema. Pneumonia is always deadly, but it's even a lot more deadly for a man of my brother's age and with his medical conditions.

So please pray that the Lord has mercy on him and spares his life, and most importantly, gives him the gift of eternal life.

My brother has made no clear statements that he has embraced the true gospel, but I did receive a very encouraging email from him today.

Actually, it was a private message on Messenger, Facebook Messenger. Very encouraging to me.

It may sound very simple and small to those listening, but to me it was enormous.

He voluntarily told me, without me asking him and without me coaching him, he voluntarily told me that he prays every day and that he prays very simple prayers, much like he learned as a child, that are simple conversations with God.

And that made my heart rejoice. It is not as detailed a message from him that I would like.

I would love to hear him singing praises to the Lord, that he has embraced the gospel in very clear terms, but even hearing that from my brother is an enormous source of comfort and encouragement to me.

And I replied by not only saying amen to his using very simple prayers in conversations with God, I reminded him, or informed him for the first time, if he did not know this, that our

Lord provides us with his blessing on such simple childlike prayers as we find in Luke chapter 18, 9 through 14, a very famous portion of scripture where a

Pharisee and a tax collector are in the same temple praying. And the Pharisee has a much more flowery and elaborate prayer, but it is also a very prideful and boastful prayer.

In fact, it says that he prayed to himself. And he was basically boasting about all the things that he did not do as wicked people do.

He was boasting about being a better person than others in his mind.

And the tax collector beat his chest and could not even raise his eyes to heaven and said,

Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner. And Jesus said that the tax collector was saved, that he went home justified that day.

And I reminded my brother, or told my brother for the first time, that our mother on her deathbed, dying of pancreatic cancer, voluntarily and without coaching, brought that text up when

I asked her if she believed she was going to heaven. And our mother, at 70 years old, dying of cancer, said she believed she was going to heaven.

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Give us your first name at least, your city and state of residence, and your country of residence if you live outside of the good old

USA. So Ken, tell us more about why

Christianity is good and obviously if we as Christians believe

Christianity is from God, that this is the true faith of God, we obviously believe it must be good because God is good, always good, and only good to his people.

So give us some more reasons why we should be confident Christianity is good. Yeah, that's such an important thing today, our questioning the goodness of Christianity.

Well again, I think if we look at history, God cares about the little guy in the

Old Testament, Yahweh. He's unlike the gods on Mount Olympus that simply want to seduce the maidens.

Yahweh is different. He watches out for the widow. He watches out for the orphan, for the alien.

And again, this idea that God is good, that God is gracious, it certainly permeated the teaching of Jesus.

And so we see so many different varieties of philanthropy that comes out of Christianity.

The human beings again have dignity and value. So that's a very strong component.

You know, today's world is very different than the ancient world. No safety net,

Christians building hospitals, building orphanages, creating alms houses, sharing their food with people.

You know, what I like is the early Christians, they treated everyone as if they mattered.

And that was regardless of their race, their sex, their country of origin.

You know, we live in a time where some people are just obsessed with these categories of race, gender, and class.

But what you find in Christianity is a faith that is lived out in such a way that we express respect for people.

And you know, we could go into other areas, Chris. The development of art and beauty.

You know, if you think about the areas of the aesthetic side of life,

Christianity has played a very powerful role in the medieval period.

The Church was the patron of the arts. So there are many ways that Christianity has been good for the world.

And you know, whether it's the YMCA or whether it is various other...

And that is not the song by the village people, you're referring to. That's correct. The YMCA actually was started by a

Christian group. You know, I would tell you this, Chris... Young Men's Christian Association. That's exactly right.

I had a friend who struggles with alcohol, and I went to some meetings with him just to kind of be supportive of him, and I was reading, you know, some of the principles that they follow, and I could tell that these early ideas had been influenced by Christian ideas of trying to help people who, you know, struggle with addiction and things of that nature.

You know, there are many areas you can look at, and Christianity has been a very powerful force for good.

Let's see here. We have an anonymous listener who asks,

Before the break, you were mentioning that the Bible prohibits the stealing of a human being and selling him or her.

Where in the Bible is that? Oh, okay. That's in Exodus. Exodus 21.

21 to 16 is where you can find that prohibition, which is punishable by death.

And of course, there may have been slave owners who balked at that and said, Oh, I didn't steal anybody.

I bought these slaves. Well, they were originally kidnapped. In their heritage, they wound up on the different shores of different continents and different nations to be sold initially because they were kidnapped and sold.

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Let's see here. We have another anonymous listener. The anonymous listener says,

I have been dealing with people in my own home who are professing

Christians and yet they are opposed to Christianity as an organized religion and don't believe that they are compelled to be members of any church because they say that that's where men always screw things up.

So how shall I answer these family members during these ongoing arguments that we have over this?

Very good question. And I think a very common problem in Christendom, is it not, in Christianity, that you have a lot of people,

I know personally, people that either bounce from church to church to church to church or are not a member of any church and never go to any church because they have no heartfelt attachment to the church.

They don't think that God requires of them to be subject to the authority of local elders and to be members of local churches and therefore they just stay at home on Sunday or church hop perpetually for decades.

So how do you respond to people like that? Yeah, I think that you're right. This is a very relevant question.

I think there's a couple elements that I'd want to speak to. One is, we have a lot of people,

I think maybe especially today, who think that their relationship with God is very personal, but it's not corporate.

That is, they look at Christianity as a relationship but not as a structured faith or religion.

And I try to remind people that it's true, you have a personal relationship with God, but that doesn't rule out the fact that the church exists in the world and it's been around for 2 ,000 years and there is a structure to it.

And I think, too, Scripture is very clear that we're to belong to a church.

This is a place where you can be taught the Word of God, you can receive the

Lord's Supper, you can fellowship with other Christians. I think that's, again, one of the challenges that we have in kind of our individualistic type of age.

And I think even more than that, a lot of people don't realize how much good can be done by your church and you being involved in it and supporting various things like that.

So absolutely, being part of a church body is not an option, and there are many benefits to be derived from it.

Yes, and it is, again, very arrogant for a

Christian. I mean, the Bible itself lists specific requirements for those who are to be leaders and teachers, and therefore, being a member of a church is obviously an important thing.

It's the height of arrogance to think, I don't need anybody else. I just need my

Bible and I can just sit at home and I am smarter and wiser and I could just interpret the

Scriptures just as good as anybody else, maybe better than anyone else.

And I have never, ever seen that work out well.

Have you? No, it doesn't work out well. And it's, again, there's so much to be benefited from, and by not doing it, you put yourself in a very vulnerable position.

And again, I think many modern people don't like to think of Christianity as a religion.

They think of it as a very personal relationship. I think it's both. I think Christianity is a redemptive relationship with God, but it also involves the structure of the church and all kinds of other things.

So, you want to encourage and invite people back to be members of a solid, local church community.

Yeah, and let's not forget Hebrews 13, verse 17,

Obey those who have the rule over you and submit yourselves, for they keep watch over your souls as ones who must give an account, that they may do it with joy and not with grief, for that is unprofitable for you.

So, for you to think that you know your Bible and yet think that you don't need to be submissive to God -appointed elders in a local church, that's just proof that you really don't know the

Scriptures. Wouldn't you agree? Yep, yep. I mean, we want good people in our churches, we want good pastors, we want good elders, we want people that can use good responsibility, but that also means that members of the church need to be part of that, be supportive of that, and to be submissive to it.

And, you know, again, I think there's this individuality that people experience, but, you know, a good church home is a great place for you and your family to live out the faith.

You know, and I think we have to be cautious also, I'm sure you would agree with this, Ken, knowing of your kind and compassionate and tender heart, and I'm not exaggerating,

I do uh believe those are very noticeable and strong elements of your character, but we have to be careful not to just beat up and yell at and scold and rebuke people who are not members of a local

Bible -believing church, because very often, not always, but very often these are people who are victims of very serious abuse, either in a cult, or a false religion, or even a church that is theologically sound on paper, but have leaders that really violated the scriptural principles of church leadership, and have either mentally, emotionally, and spiritually abused their congregants, but perhaps even physically, and molested them sexually, and who knows.

But, as I have said to people when they have responded that they are a victim of something like that, and they said they'll never be a member of a church again,

I remind them, first of all, do not reject Jesus because of Judas.

Judas was one of Christ's hand -picked apostles, and in an earthly realm,

Judas led Jesus to his death. Now obviously we know God ordained that, and Jesus willingly laid down his life for his sheep.

He was not forced to do this, but on an earthly sense, Judas betrayed his friend, a man who appointed him as an apostle, and so why would we think, why should we think, that the church is going to be perfect here on earth?

There are going to be Judas's. In fact, one of the reasons we know the scriptures are true is that it warns against false teachers, false apostles, and if they were not in existence, we would have reason to doubt the truthfulness of the scriptures.

Am I making sense here? Absolutely. I mean, chapter 11 of my book, I talk about the question of, you know, why are so many

Christians so unlike Christ? And I think you've made some really critical points.

In fact, how did you phrase that? Because there was that stupid sound effect by the computer that drowned you out. The question of what?

Yeah, chapter 11 is, why are so many Christians so unlike Christ? Okay. And of course, you're right,

Chris, there are people that have, they have been victims, and they have been treated badly, sometimes by clergy, sometimes by elders, sometimes by other

Christian individuals, but I think what's critical in all of that is the recognition that, you know,

Ken Samples and Chris Arntzen, you know, we might step on your toes, we might be difficult people at various times, but I guarantee

Jesus isn't going to let you down. And I want to underscore how important it is, you know, to be gracious.

We want to put our best arguments forward, we want to make our case, but, you know, we're saved by grace.

And I know I desire to be a gracious, loving, caring person.

I want to contend for the truth, I want to promote unity, but I want to be a very charitable individual.

So sometimes, if you've been hurt by other Christians, what you might discover is there are really a lot of very caring

Christians who are empathetic, who want to encourage you and kind of help you work through the difficulties that you have.

And so, part of that second part of the book, Chris, is to try to talk about how

Christians can also be very powerful help to people who have been hurt.

And, you know, there are too many hypocrites, but Jesus is not one of them.

He will never fail you. Amen. And that goes back again to a denial of the necessity of being a member of the body of Christ.

It all goes back to really self -absorption, narcissism, where you think that you don't need anybody else.

You could do it better than anybody else, or just as good at the very least. And that is every single person

I have seen behave that way has made a shipwreck of their faith and life.

So although we have to be tender and patient and compassionate with those that we know and love who are not members of the local church, we still have to remind them, perpetually remind them, that they need to be attached to the body of Christ.

In fact, we have a first -time, I think it's a first -time listener, or at least first -time questioner,

J .W. in Dallas, Texas. And I don't know if J .W.

means he's a Jehovah's Witness, or those are his initials. Actually, as I read the question,

I see he can't be a Jehovah's Witness. Now, isn't the church one of the primary ways that the

Lord draws the lost to salvation? I understand there are occasions, like the thief on the cross, where people have come to saving faith in Christ apart from a connection to the church.

But isn't that the normal and primary ways that he saves people, making that one of the best examples of why

Christianity is good? Oh yeah, I agree with it. Everything you just said. How about you, Ken? Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, we tend to have, I think over the last couple hundred years, we talk a lot about, you know, kind of evangelism that is, you know, hearing a message, maybe coming forth, you know, to an altar call.

I think what that misses, however, is that the vast majority of people come to hear and understand

Christianity because they are brought into a church community. Often they're born into families of parents who are dedicated

Christians and nurture their kids in the faith. But absolutely,

I mean, the church has many roles to play. And you know, when things go on in the church that shouldn't be, it causes all kinds of problems.

But I think often we do not hear about the very gracious people, people who are sacrificial, who want to help each other, and the tremendous friendships and relationships that we can have.

And you're very good at that, Chris. I mean, you really have a...you're constantly talking about the importance of being part of the body of Christ.

I mean, even telling people not to support your show, if it takes it away from supporting the church,

I mean, that takes a lot of humility. That's not the typical way that radio talk show hosts, you know, present yourself.

But it again shows your depth of commitment, and I know your listeners appreciate it.

Yeah, I was just actually reminded by a pastor recently who, that's his favorite part of the show, and he actually is submitting his request that the church he pastors add

Iron Triple Zion Radio to a domestic missionary budget every month.

So I hope that pastor's congregation is as much in favor of that idea as he is.

Yeah, very good. I like it. We're going to our final break. It's going to be a lot more brief than the other breaks.

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Welcome back and 10 samples. I'd like you to have, before we go to any other listener questions, if we have time to take any after you're finished,

I'd like you to uninterrupted give our listeners several minutes of explanation and description of what you most want etched in their hearts and minds today about this subject,

Christianity Cross -Examined. Yeah, thanks Chris. You know,

I think it's very important to be able to talk about the faith, to communicate the faith, and you know, what

I attempt to do in that book is to try to tackle the real tough questions.

Again, the first part of the book looks at questions about science, about history, about logic, you know, can the

Trinity and the Incarnation, are those reasonable? I also look at, you know, the spread of Christianity and the resurrection of Christ.

I developed, you know, 20 evidences for Christ's resurrection.

But the second part of the book, I try to honestly address the kinds of objections that people really do raise.

We talked a bit about slavery. I also raised the question of what about Joshua's conquest of the

Canaanites. I look at Christendom. There are non -Christians at times that look at the divisions within Christendom, and they're not, they don't understand it.

They don't understand why Christians are divided. I try to look at that very carefully, and so what

I'm attempting to do in the book is to help Christians. I think

Christianity Cross -Examined is a book that a Christian could get a lot of use out of, and I think it's the kind of book you could actually give to a non -Christian, to a skeptic, to an atheist.

That's why I wrote the book, to really try to take objections seriously.

And one of the things I do like about the way the book came out is, Chris, you don't have to read the entire book.

You can look at the particular questions and chapters, and you can gravitate toward the issues that you are most interested in.

So I appreciate you giving me an opportunity to talk with your listeners about my latest book.

Oh, the pleasure is all mine, brother, and we do have Susan Margaret in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, with a question.

The question is, how do we respond to people that will say to us, truthfully, that how can

Christianity be the best religion, ideology, and theology if it often produces people that are worse husbands than some lost husbands are, worse wives than some lost wives are, worse parents, and we could go on and on.

Christianity does not always produce better human beings than the world has to offer.

How do we respond to this? Because it is a truth that is very difficult to deal with.

Yeah, that is true, and we also have to remember the inadequate or horrible husband or wife or parent didn't die for the sins of his people.

But if you could go on with your own answer to that. Yeah, well,

I appreciate that very candid and very pointed question, and I think it's a reasonable one to raise.

I think I'd make a couple points. First of all, the truth of Christianity, whether it is the truthful revelation revealed to God, doesn't rest with all of the followers of the religion.

Ultimately, it rests with the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. And yeah, there are husbands who are

Christians who have a great need to grow in their love and care for their family, and there are

Christians who struggle with addiction. There are Christians who struggle with all kinds of things.

But remember what the Bible says. The Bible says that people are fallen. They are sinful. We live in a broken world.

That's why Jesus came into the world, to redeem us. So I think it's important to recognize that ultimately the truth of Christianity rests on the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

But you know, I would also add, I think that Christianity has produced some pretty remarkable people.

People who are very humble, people who are very giving, people who are very courageous, and I think

Christianity has a remarkable history for changing people.

Yeah, in fact, wouldn't you say that those failures of husbands and wives and parents and every other category of human, it is never because of Christianity.

It's because of a disobedience to the principles of Christianity and the commands of Christ.

And you very often have lost people who might even be unconsciously obeying

Christ when it comes to being a spouse and a parent and an employee and an employer and on and on.

Absolutely. I mean, nobody lives the Sermon on the Mount except Jesus, and yet when we do fail in our relationships and in our various involvement in life, it is not because of the teaching of Christianity.

It is because of our own brokenness, our own fallenness, our own rebellion, and things of that nature.

And so, I don't know, I think you could point to many people in the history of the world whose lives have been utterly transformed.

And that doesn't mean, though, that sanctification is a long process.

It is up and down, back and forth, and yet Jesus will never fail you.

That wasn't the case with me. I was instantaneously made perfect. Just kidding, folks.

I know your wife, and I think she might have another word. She definitely would.

Well, if anybody wants more information about the ministry where Ken Samples uses his gifts primarily, it is reasons .org,

reasons .org. And is there any other contact information that you care to provide?

Well, we have the book there, and we're making it available to anybody who wants to make a donation.

And I write a lot of articles, Chris, and so our website, reasons .org, is a good place to check in.

Great. And don't forget, folks, anytime we discuss a book on Iron Trip and Zion Radio, you can also get it at cvbbs .com,

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I want to thank you, Ken, for doing another outstanding job with us today. I want to thank everybody who listened.

I want you all to always remember for the rest of your lives that Jesus Christ is a far greater Savior than you are a sinner.