Matt Slick Live: September 3, 2024

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It's Matt Slick Live! Matt is the founder and president of the Christian Apologetics Research Ministry, found online at karm .org. When you have questions about Bible doctrines, turn to Matt Slick Live for answers.

Taking your calls and responding to your questions at 877 -207 -2276. Here's Matt Slick.

Hey everybody, welcome to the show. Hope you all had a good weekend. I had a busy, busy weekend.

I always do.

Except for Sunday. I think Sunday's off. And I watch a lot of TV. My wife, actually, she's really good about it.

She just kind of avoids me on Sunday. You know, she just lets me watch TV.

I don't watch sports. A lot of guys watch sports. It just doesn't interest me. But I watch stuff on quantum physics. I actually enjoy watching stuff like that. And astronomy, and the Big Bang, and science.

My wife and I, on Saturday mornings, we like to watch... This is going to sound odd, but we watch car wrecks.

We saw some one day, and we're like, what the heck?

Look at this.

And so it became kind of a tradition for us. On Saturdays, we'll watch it for a half hour or something like that. It's a good reminder. Boy, it's a really good reminder on how to drive better, I'll tell you.

So anyway, there's that. And what I'll say here is, give me a call if you can. 877 -207 -2276. Everything should be working. All the connections and everything look like they're in the right place. We always have problems, but we'll see.

All right.

And...

Wow, that's a good question. Let's get to Jamal from North Carolina. Jamal, welcome. You're on the air.

Hi, this is Slick. Thanks for taking my call once again. And I'm glad to see that reaction. I know you like the tough one, so I've got another one for you.

No, you gave me a good one, a good tough one. This is a good tough one. Go ahead, ask it.

Yes, sir. And I'll try to be respectful. So, what I've learned is that transgender people go through the transition because they don't feel comfortable in their bodies for whatever reason. Some of them have struggles, and I won't get into all of it because I don't know.

I just heard that some of them have struggles and challenges. With that being said, if they are transgender, and they have some struggles, some of them, should they be allowed to have high political office and high business office and to sit on boards and school board and all that other kind of positions?

No.

And the reason I would say no is because they're going to be prejudiced towards sexual perversions in schools. They're going to be for all kinds of stuff. If they're going to go that way, and they don't even know what they are, and they're going to, which I think is they've got some serious issues, they need some counseling, and then you put them in positions of power, they're going to be pushing that kind of stuff on everybody else.

So absolutely not. I'd say no way.

Okay.

And thank you for that, and I'm glad to see you standing firm on your values. I actually agree with that and share that response. I was kind of wondering how to frame that, which is another reason why I called, so you really helped me out with that.

And I'm pretty sure you know, I think it's our department, our Secretary of Health and Education or something like that, or the country, he's transgender, Mr. Rachel Levine. And he has done what you said.

I'm sorry?

Yeah, that's whack.

Go ahead.

Sorry.

No, it's okay. It's all right. Yeah, it's your show. Jump in whenever you want to.

Of course.

He's pushed for transgender kids to allow them to go through the transition. And this is a guy working for the federal office. He's transgender and pushing these kind of efforts on kids. So that just confirms your point, Mr. Slitt.

Yep.

The thing about, I've been thinking a lot about this from a spiritual context, and it's difficult to put my finger on it. And so all I can do is kind of think out loud. But there's the issue, there's a spiritual issue, because transgenderism is a denial of God's sovereignty and God's declaration of righteousness.

And it's also a result of sin. And what I mean that way is both the effect of sin on people, because people can have all kinds of problems, you know, just because of how sin has worked in the world. And also they can be affected by someone else's sin.

You know, it's going to be a natural effect. And then people can how do I say this carefully? The affront by people upon people that causes them to have sexual confusion. Okay? So put it that way. And then there's just self-confusion at the hands of, I don't know, of propaganda and confusion that follows.

So, you know, there's a lot of things there. And I think some of the people are mentally ill. But I think a lot of them, you know, are just not. I think they're just deceived, and they need counseling.

You know, and, you know, so

They're a bit too.

Yeah, they do, you know. And there's nothing wrong with going to see counseling, you know, about various issues. I think it's good. So those are some of the things. But one other thing is how do I say this?

Because it's one of those things, back of my mind, that percolates. And waiting for it to kind of manifest. But sexuality is the means of redemption. And because it is the means by which Jesus was born.

And so sexual stuff, like homosexuals, lesbians, trans, they are how do I put this? They are I don't say an attempt. People are trying to do this. But they are in the way of that redemptive procedure.

Now, of course, Jesus is already born. But Jesus has already been born, you know. So they can't back affect it.

Right.

But I keep wondering if I just don't know. I just keep wondering if there's some demonic influence going on upon people. And it's a purposeful affront to the created order of God. That's what I'm wondering.

Well, when you look at the Olympics, and kind of like how people are blowing off Joe Biden's mental decline, oh, nothing to see here, you guys are watching the wrong feed, and then we see it under the bait for everybody to see, both left and right.

Now it becomes something on the worst stage to where nobody can deny that. And I tie that to the Olympics. And people might say, oh, you guys are overreacting about drag queen stuff and the mockery of Christianity until you see it on the Olympic stage.

Now, nobody can deny it now, believers and not believers. Yes, we are being mocked. Yes, they are coming after us and nobody else. Nobody's mocking Hare Krishna and Buddha and Confucius and all that. They mock Christianity.

And they did that for the opening ceremony. And from what I heard, because I didn't watch it, I heard they also mocked it in the closing ceremony. So there's no denying that they're coming after us and mocking us.

Well, that's one of the things that's out of Genesis, Sodom and Gomorrah, because I talk about this there, that the, let's just say, the sexually active community, let's just say that, was aggressive and dangerous.

They were dangerous. They wanted to come in and, it might be children listening, so R-A-P-E, they wanted to do that. And so, yeah, you know, so I've written on it, and I can't help but think that there's something demonic behind all of it.

Because the Bible says we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities of darkness.

There you go.

And Ephesians 6, 12. And so, you know, we're going to be fighting something. Why is this the case? Well, in part, it deals with passions. Human passions are powerful, and the devil can use this kind of stuff to take people's eyes off of him and put it on their genitalia.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm going to write an article on this. I'm taking notes, okay? Because this is an interesting topic.

And...

Yeah, and... Go ahead.

Yeah, it's...

And also, what'll probably happen is, this will probably... I'll probably get banned or something on YouTube.

I was just about to say that.

Yeah, I'll probably get banned for what my opinion is. And you know, I don't know if you're aware of this, but in different countries in Europe now, they're starting to arrest people for what they say, their opinions, about various things on Facebook and other places.

They're trying to arrest them.

You can't say things. So it's becoming a Marxist, totalitarian, fascist system. And it's going to happen here, too.

I'm not surprised, because when I hear about people being openly arrested for praying out in the open and in France, I'm not surprised. And then Twitter, now known as X, being banned in Brazil, yeah, I'm not surprised.

And then we have, I think the guy's name was Nader in Congress, saying that prayer does not belong on the Congress floor. It's like, dude, you know what your constitution that you swore to, you know where that came from?

It came from Christian Judeo values. But you're saying that prayer doesn't belong on the Congress floor. So sorry. You know, I can go off on these other topics and can go all over the place. So I'll end this with this, and I'll let you get to other callers.

So if I'm sitting on the board, if I'm the CEO of my company, if I'm some guy in a political office and a transgender hands me their resume and say they want to work for my company, work for my office, and I know what you said before, but I kind of want to frame it in the employer kind of facet.

What can I tell them to why can I hire them?

Well, that's, you know, you have to talk to a lawyer at that point because I don't want to give any bad advice.

Someone looks,.

But one of the things I found out through a lawyer is manifested in CARM, the statement of faith.

So let me get to it.

Let's see. Statement of faith. And I'll explain why this is necessary. And furthermore, I'm waiting for my website to be shut down and me be arrested. It's just I don't know when it's going to happen, but I wouldn't be surprised.

I pray that doesn't happen.

Yeah, I pray it doesn't happen.

We also pray that doesn't happen as well.

Yeah, and also, I'm going to say this. I'll just take a little moment out here. The past few months, let's just say, the CARM presence on the web has noticeably declined. So, for example, the article, What is the Trinity, used to be number one,.

Number two, or number three, depending.

And now it's on the fourth,.

Fifth,.

Sixth page of Google. Now, hold on.

We'll get back.

I'll talk more about this and what's going with different ideas of value persecution, what may be coming. So hold on, folks. We'll be right back after these messages. Please stay tuned.

We'll be right back. It's Matt Slick live, taking your calls at 877 -207 -2276. Here's Matt Slick.

All right, everyone.

Welcome back to the show. If you want to give me a call, it's easy, 877 -207 -2276. Jamal, are you still there?

Yes, sir.

All right, so your question prompted a response and then a comment about how this will lead to persecution of Christians,.

Ultimately,.

The suppression of free speech, various rights, and things like that. And then that led to me commenting that the CARM website, for example, what is the Trinity article, used to be number one, and now it's on the fourth,.

Fifth page of Google.

And I've kept records on things, and it's getting worse and worse. CARM has been around for 29 years almost, and it's had 164 million visitors, and they've written 6 ,000 articles, and yet there are sites that are far smaller who are more neutral, and they rank higher.

So this is just a point to make that I've observed, let's just say, a suppression, shadow banning of certain kinds of information because of the people and the corporations that are in control. So if you have trans people and LGBT people who are in control in those areas, they are going to work shadow banning, information dissemination, they're going to work against it.

They're going to also work against the proliferation of Christian freedoms and ideas which stand in contrast to the LGBT mob. So this is coming.

There you go.

In fact,.

We have been effective, I'm going to take this as an opportunity, we've been affected by this. And so our traffic is going down, our donations are going down. And because people don't see us enough.

Yeah.

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What,.

Two, three, four years ago,.

I don't know if people are aware of this, there was a movement by some liberal people to try and get PayPal to defund and cancel conservative groups' bank accounts so they couldn't receive money and funds.

They shut us down.

Not us,.

But other groups.

Get out of here. Wow. Oh no,.

It's for real.

So when we found that out, we moved away from PayPal. We don't do PayPal anymore. And we have to go to another place. And we had to work all that out. And there's problems when you shift because there are a lot of people still on PayPal.

You know,.

It's fine. But we can't have new signups because we can't trust PayPal. We can't trust the bank system that we're at because we noticed that it's going liberal. How much longer. Before they say, well, I'm sorry, the Christian Apologetics Research Ministry has spoken of LGBTQ and said it's sinful.

Therefore,.

We will not do banking with you. Your assets are frozen because of the law that was passed recently, blah, blah, blah, et cetera, et cetera. This is the kind of thing that we're waiting for here at CARM.

For real.

Yeah.

And it can happen just like that. J. Seculo, which is also featured on this network, Truth Network, if anybody's wondering, J. Seculo, this has said that this is a form of lawfare. If they can't take you down physically, they will just write you away out of existence.

Mm-hmm. That's right. And so all they have to do is go in and say that we cannot have any bank accounts here. So then what we would have to do is go to a bank outside the country and see if we could find one someplace that would let us work with them.

That wasn't too difficult to work. And then what the government would probably do when ministries start doing that is probably pass a law that if you do that, 50 or whatever it is is now taxed.

You know,.

They work against conservatives. They work against it. This is why I keep saying to Christians, it's time to stand up and fight back. But the Christians, in my opinion, are taught mamby-pamby crap in most pulpits, not taught what we need to do and what we need to know in order to stand up and fight against the enemy.

But if you start talking like I'm talking, then people say, I'm going to go to the church. That tickles my ears. And that's what's happening. So anyway, it's a whole thing I've been saying for years and years.

So yeah, and we have a plan. I'm just rambling now, but if karma becomes illegal, then hopefully what we can do is continue to email people on a weekly basis with information and articles that I would write and ask for support that way because we support missionaries in Africa, two of them in Africa, and a full-time guy in Brazil and a full-time guy in Colombia who have boots on the ground and they're talking to people and doing websites in those languages and issues that are there.

We're supporting them, enabling them to do that and reach hundreds and hundreds and thousands and thousands of people in their countries for the Lord Jesus Christ. And that would have to be stopped because I've already warned them.

I say, look, it's getting thinner and thinner here in America as a whole and ministries all over the place are being attacked.

And I say,.

You guys just got to be aware of that, that it may be the case because our funding is decreasing. I'm not complaining and whining, you know, it's just decreasing as a result of the shadow banning and stuff that's occurring of the conservatives on the internet.

So, yeah, it's a serious thing, which is why I say, hey, you know, if everybody's out there, they like what they hear on the radio, you need to support the people, not just me, but other people because otherwise it'll go.

And get this, did you know that there's a movement to the FCC to get AM removed? Do you know that?

I only heard about that again on Truth Network. I did not hear that anywhere else. And that is absolutely crazy. But again, that was an effort to silence Christian conservatives.

That's right, because conservatives are mostly on AM. Yeah, AM has to go. And then what will happen is they'll probably get rid of people on FM as well. They'll pass some law. And then if you try and go to some other network, they're slow to follow, but they always follow and they always do what they can to penalize people.

After a while,.

And oh,.

There's also been a movement to classify the Bible as hate speech.

Yeah.

I was going to say in Iran. I think it's Iran. If you're caught with the Bible in public, you can be killed or arrested.

They call that honor killing in some countries.

Well, honor killing has to do with families. And if a family member has done something, you can go and kill.

Your family member.

But Islam is an evil religion.

Oh, that's true. Sorry.

But the political people in control, unless they're regenerate, they will become corrupt. Because the regenerate people want to honor God in the responsibility of the position they're in. But those who are not regenerate, like Muslims, Roman Catholics, atheists, trans, LGBT, they're in places of power.

They're not going to be submitting to the will of God.

Because they just won't.

They're going to be taking, not all of them, of course, people will be taking kickbacks and favors, doing what they can do to promote their sexual agenda and their preferences. And Christians, Christians are an easy target because Christians are waiting.

To get raptured out of here.

And not do anything.

Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. Well,.

I thank you very much for your time. I said I was going into it a while ago. It's just real easy to have this back and forth with you. And also, hopefully, it's empowering to other people to stand up and offer this charge.

There's music.

There's music.

Hold on.

There's a break, buddy. After the break,.

You say your point.

And then we'll move on.

I want you to say it, okay? Look, hold on, buddy.

Okay.

Hey, folks,.

We'll be right back with Jamal.

And we'll get to,.

Let's see, Luke, then Jim, then Elijah. We'll be right back.

Please stay tuned.

It's Matt Slick live, taking your calls at 877 -207 -2276. Here's Matt Slick.

All right, everyone, welcome back to the show. It's the bottom of the hour.

If you want,.

You can give me a call, 877 -207 -2276.

You can also email me.

A comment or question. Just go to karm .org.

On your email.

Or just info at karm .org.

On your email.

And put in their subject line, a radio comment or radio question and we can get to them.

Let's get back to Jamal. Okay, Jamal, buddy,.

You're back on the air.

All right.

Thank you for your time. I'll get off the phone real quick. My challenge to the listeners out there, whatever political stripe you belong to, ask yourself this question, which party will allow you to exercise your freedom of speech?

Again, which party will allow you to exercise your freedom of speech, your freedom of religion or lack thereof? One party will shun you and excommunicate you and counsel you for certain various, certain forms of speech and certain religions.

Now, another party, I would say the conservative Republican Party, while they might not agree with you, from what I've seen, their stance on freedom of speech, freedom of religion, again, while they might not agree with you, they will protect your freedom of speech because they want to have freedom of speech themselves.

So freedom of speech not only protects the person speaking, but it also protects the hearer as well. It protects everybody. That's why they have it in the Constitution because they don't want anybody under any kind of persecution.

So go for the party that allows you to be who you are to say what you want within reason, and that's not going to be the other party. That's going to be more so the conservative party. We need to have our freedoms.

Some other people don't have it. We need to have our freedom of religion and congregation, freedom of also lack of religion, freedom of voting. You need all your freedoms. One party wants to shut down your freedom.

Another party wants to uphold your freedom. Vote for that party. Vote for your values. Thank you for your time, Netslick, and God bless you.

God bless you. And buddy, you need to move to Idaho.

You're my neighbor. Just saying.

Just saying.

All right. All right, man.

God bless.

All right.

That's Jamal from North Carolina, and let's get to Luke from Washington, D .C. Luke, welcome. You are on the air. Are you there?

Luke.

I'm calling out to you, Luke.

Luke.

Luke.

Luke-ness. Let's see. Obi-Wan Kalook. I don't know if he's... There, let's see. What would be another good thing to say?

Luke.

You're Luke-y.

I don't know.

I'm not going anywhere.

Oh, I was just going to hang up.

What do you got, man?

What's up?

What does it mean to not despise prophecies?

To what is prophecy?

What does it mean to not despise prophecies?

There's one word I don't understand. Something... What does it mean to... What's the one word?

Not despise.

Not despise?

Yeah.

To not despise...

Not despise. Prophecies.

What does it mean to not despise... You're asking, what does it mean to not despise the prophecies?

Yes.

Well, to despise means to be negative towards and have an attitude of revulsion towards or hatred towards. And so that would be to not do that, but I would assume to accept them. Why are you asking that?

Yeah, 1 Thessalonians 5 .20. 1 Thessalonians 5 .20.

1 Thessalonians 5 .20. Oh, no, it says do not despise prophetic utterances. Okay.

Yeah.

So, yeah, I'm glad you brought that up. Because as the non-cessationist that I am, that's a good verse. It says do not quench the spirit. Do not despise prophetic utterances. Actually, I'm going to see what the other Bibles render to that.

Let's see. 1 Thessalonians 5 .20. Do not despise prophetic utterances. Do not despise prophecies, prophesying, prophecies, prophesying, prophecies, prophecies. Oh, the NASB is the only one that says prophetic utterances.

Interesting. All the other ones say just prophecies. And that's because the Greek may exeuthanate a prophetess. So, yeah, it's do not despise prophecies. And that's what entered in the word utterances in there.

And it says, or gifts, the prophetic. Well, anyway, we're not supposed to despise them or negate them or be against them. Now, that's really interesting because I know, I know of people who are cessationists, who work against the charismatic issues and they go around speaking against it.

They are despising the prophetic, you could say. So interesting. Right, because it's in the accusative. Interesting.

So you can tell me next day, tomorrow or something, you know, if you think about it.

Yeah.

Well, I got so much to do. I got a thing. I mean, but so it's interesting. It says in the Greek, do not despise prophetic. But it's accusative. It's the direct object. So it's referencing to receive the direct object.

Let's see. Let's see.

Prophetic.

It's like saying do not despise prophetic. But it's a direct object. So it's like saying I walked on the beach. The beach would be the accusative. It's a direct object. It's in that condition of being in that grammatical place of the direct object.

So the word don't despise a direct object. It's like don't despise the beach. Don't despise prophetic. But it doesn't have a definite article, the. That would be really interesting if it did, but it doesn't.

It just retains it at the. This is interesting. It got me thinking about that.

The prophetic.

It's like saying don't despise prophetic things. Because there's no definite article, the. Yeah, interesting. Okay. Anyway, you got me thinking about it.

Yeah, you can write an article about it.

Yeah.

So what's the reason for this?

What happened?

One of the pastors was telling me do not despise prophecies. I didn't know. I don't know.

That he despises them?

Yeah, he's not. He's a continuationist. He's not a cessationist. He's a Pentecostal pastor.

Okay.

Well, he's good in that area at least.

Yeah.

Okay. Yeah, my reform brethren basically don't like my position. They don't like that I'm a continuationist. And they barely talk to me and accept me.

So, okay.

Well, that's what it is.

All right.

Interesting stuff.

Yeah.

First Thessalonians 520.

I will get a credit today.

What's that?

I will get a credit.

You'll get the credit for me being despised?

Yeah. Okay.

Well, sounds good.

All right, buddy.

Well, God bless, man.

Okay.

All right.

I'll talk to you later. All right. Hey, if you want to call me, the number is 877 -207 -2276. Let's get to Elijah from Pennsylvania. Elijah, welcome.

You're on the air. Hey, Matt.

How are you doing?

Doing all right. Doing all right. Just super busy. You know, that's just me. So, what do you got, man?

Yeah.

My question is, do you think that Daniel 1013 is a good verse to use to prove to people that Michael is not Jesus Christ? Because in the verse, it says that Michael is one of the chief princes. But people who say that, you know, they like to say that Michael is the pre-incarnate Christ.

But this verse says that he's one of the chief princes, and the chief princes are the other angels, the other high ranking angels. The New Living Translation says one of the archangels. So, do you think this is a good verse against that?

Yes.

Because this verse seems to put Michael on the same level as other angels or other archangels.

I agree with you.

I think it's a good verse for that. It's not proof, because proof is for logic and mathematics. But it is definitely a good verse to use against the error that Jesus is Michael the archangel in the Old Testament.

Now, I've got to say this, that when they say he's Michael the archangel, they don't mean he's an actual angel. But that the representative form of him is in an angelic form. The Lord's Honored Angel is a pre-incarnate word.

But they're wrong about that. Hold on. We'll be right back after these messages, okay? Hey, folks, be right back. Please stay tuned.

It's Matt Slick live, taking your calls at 877 -207 -2276. Here's Matt Slick.

All right, and welcome back to the show. Let's get back on the air with Elijah from Pennsylvania. Elijah, welcome. Are you there?

Yeah, I'm still here. And I digged into, on BibleHub, about Strong's Concordance for the word chief. And it says reshawn. And one of the arguments to be used for Michael being a pre-incarnate Christ is because this word has many different meanings.

It can mean that we're before time, beginning, eldest, first, forefather, old time. So what are your thoughts on that?

Well, words mean what they mean in different contexts. And so what we call that is a semantic domain. So the word green in English has a range of meanings. It has a semantic domain including envy, color, money, sick, naive, and more.