Matt Slick Live: December 17, 2024

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The following program is recorded content created by The Truth Network. It's Matt Slick Live!

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Matt is the founder and president of the Christian Apologetics Research Ministry, found online at karm .org.

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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.

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Here's Matt Slick. Hey everybody, welcome to the show. It's me, Matt Slick, listening to Matt Slick Live.

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If you want, you give me a call, as usual. The number is 877 -207 -2276.

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We have nobody waiting right now if you want to call. The first one today. Today's date is December 17th, 2024, for the podcasters.

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I've got a debate in two nights on whether or not Mary is playing an intercession role in Heaven.

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It will be with a Roman Catholic, so I'll be prepping on that. We'll see how that goes.

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Of course, I say no. She's not able to hear millions of prayers simultaneously spoken and thought all over the world.

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I'd make sure I didn't do a functioning goddess. Let's see what else.

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Next week, there will be no live radio. It won't be on until the 1st or the 2nd of January.

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I'm going to find out which one it is. It's a first. Is the radio station on the 1st?

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If not, I'll be on the air and I'll find out later. Not a big deal. December is matching funds drive.

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If you want to support us on the radio show and the ministry, then all you have to do is go to karm .org.

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All the information is there. Maybe you want to know why you might want to support a ministry like this.

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Let me give you some reasons. One, the Karm website has had 165 million visitors.

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We have an average of 165 million visitors, 93 million returning visitors.

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What that means is that 165 different individual computers have come to visit the site.

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Of those, 93 million have come back repeatedly. The site reaches a great deal of people.

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It's 29 years old. From that, we've developed other outreaches.

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karm .org is the website. What we're doing now is overhauling it. Several of us are going through and looking at the articles.

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We are improving it in all kinds of ways. We had to do this because the search engine optimization algorithms and technology has grown past us.

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We have to play catch up now. That's okay. A lot of websites have to do that when different search engines change how they work and change what they look for.

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We're going through and doing that. We have a nice program that we're using that points out issues.

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That's what we're doing. It takes a lot of work. It's just taken a lot of work. I haven't read any new articles for a while because of it.

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We're just doing that. Also, we've been doing radio now for 20 years.

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On January 2nd, it will be the 20 -year anniversary of me doing radio five days a week.

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We've been with this network, I don't know, three, four, five, six years. I can't remember. It's a great group of people there.

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I've talked to them over the phone. I met Stu in person and others there. I'll probably be going out to Dallas for the

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National Religious Broadcasting Network. I'll probably be going out there at the end of February to meet the people and do stuff.

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We've got lots of stuff we've got to do. There's that. We also have a newsletter that goes out to I don't know how many thousands of people.

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We do outreaches on Facebook, X. We have over 20 ,000 people who watch the videos on YouTube.

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I don't know how many we have on Rumble. Maybe someone could look it up and tell me in the private chat there.

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We have Hunt with thousands also. We've only been on there for a little while compared to YouTube. Plus, we have missionaries in Nigeria.

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I don't want to say his name because we're trying to protect him.

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He's been threatened with death because of the Muslims who are being supported by Iran are going into outskirts of villages in Nigeria and killing people, kidnapping them, and holding them for ransom.

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Then they use the money to buy more weapons to attack more people. Islam, that's what true

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Islam really is. People call it radical Islam. That's just not true. It's true Islam.

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If you read the Koran and the Hadith, it talks about killing and subduing people. That's a whole other issue.

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Then we have another guy in Malawi. We support him, not full -time, but we support him partially.

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The other ministries work with him. On Fridays, we have meetings. We have guys from Africa that come into our meetings.

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They're usually on a single phone. A lot of times, electricity is out on their house or whatever it is because that's just how it is out there sometimes.

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They come in on the phone, and sometimes they can't even do that. There's that. We have David, and he is in Brazil.

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He works on the Portuguese site. He converts our articles into Portuguese.

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He also runs an orphanage. We're supporting him, and he's got, I think, 200 kids he's working with.

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We've been supporting him for, I don't know, how many years? He's been doing that. He does the outreach down there.

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We have another guy named Carlos, and he's in Bogota, Colombia. He runs the

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Spanish outreach. His English is really good. So is David. We all talk in English.

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They run the Spanish outreach, or he runs the Spanish outreach. He's been with us 10, 12 years. I forgot.

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We've been supporting him on a monthly basis. They tell us how the Bible studies go and the outreach that they have and the e -mails that they get from people in those areas and around the world who speak those languages, and they're reaching people.

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So I'm just telling you this is what we do here at CARM. I work.

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My wife works part -time with CARM as well. Then we have volunteers.

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We have volunteers. We have Charlie Spine, and I've known Charlie since 1980.

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He's the guy who read me the quote from Joseph Smith where Joseph Smith boasted he did more than Jesus to keep a church together.

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He started me studying on apologetics, on Mormonism, and then from there went to Jehovah's Witnesses and went to other groups, and then here we are.

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He does a lot of good stuff for CARM as well. Then we have Laura, and Laura is in Utah, and she oversees a lot of stuff and kind of trains people in certain aspects of what we do here at CARM.

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So she's helpful. We have Joanne, and she runs the prayer ministry, and she's on the

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East Coast, and she's a sweetie. So we have a lot of people gathered around us who are really good.

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We have another guy named Dave who's in Southern California. I've known Dave almost as long as I've known

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Charlie, but since 1980. Dave does a lot of the legal wrangling with CARM when there's legal issues because we've got to make sure we're doing things right.

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If there's any legal questions, we have a lawyer, we have tax lawyers, things like that to make sure things are good.

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So he's also very knowledgeable. Charlie and Dave have been doing this for a long time too.

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They're not as dedicated to it as I am because they've had other jobs and done other stuff, and they've both retired.

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I've been doing this full -time for a long time, and they're great. They know their stuff. They can take over the radio show easily, either one of them, and do a lot of Q &A.

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So we've got a good team. We have a good team. Then we have Dara, and Dara runs the forums.

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A lot of people don't know we have forums. So if you go to forums .carm .org,

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is that what it is? Let me check. forums .carm .org. Yeah, that's where it is.

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So you can join the discussions that go on there. I don't go there very often, and the reason is because if I do and I say anything, they jump on me like a bunch of ants until they get dropped on the floor, do this all over a dog pile because they want a piece of me.

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I just don't have time to read everybody's posts. And then I just give up because I've got too much to do, and I can't follow 18 threads.

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Then they claim victory that they beat me because I don't know how to answer them, stuff like this. I get tired of that kind of stuff. But the forums, and there's a lot of good discussions going on there and a lot of good outreach.

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So that's good. Plus, like I said, we go out to Facebook. We go out to X. We go out to, where else do we go to?

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We go to Clubhouse. I do things, outreaches on Discord. So we're constantly reaching out.

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Anyway, having said all of that, when you support calm, you're supporting all of that, not just the radio.

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But the radio does, you know, it's a big outreach too, trying to get good theology out there,

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Bible this and Bible that out there for people. So you will not see how your donations make a difference because, well, there's just a lot of different areas that calm is involved in.

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And God is the one who knows, and God is the one who sees, and God is the one who blesses. So if you like what you hear and you want to support this ministry that can reach out to literally millions of people, literally, for very little cost, relatively speaking, then, you know, support us.

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So I've got two of my favorite emails I got from people. I just like saying, and then we'll get to the callers. I got an email, broken

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English, one of my favorites. It's a guy from Vietnam, and he would take calm articles, and he'd print them up.

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He'd get in his motorcycle, and he'd go up into his scooter, actually go up into the hills of Vietnam, and then he would walk miles on paths to get to the villages and then teach the

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Bible and use the articles. That's what he told me he's doing. And that was just awesome.

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And then another one that I remember was an email from an island chain, this guy in an island chain.

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He goes, man, we use your stuff here, and blah, blah, blah. So I had to look this up, and I mean, it was a dot in the middle of the

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Pacific kind of a thing. I'm like, no way, it's awesome. And so we're just reaching out everywhere, and by God's grace, and we're trying to improve that outreach as well.

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So anyway, there you go. Let's get on with Rusty from South Carolina. Rusty, welcome.

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You're on the air. Hey, how you doing, Matt? Doing all right. Hanging in there, man.

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Hanging in there. What do you got, buddy? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. So OK, one of my first questions is, do you believe once you're saved, you're always saved?

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Yes, I do. I affirm that we cannot lose our salvation. Yes. Yes. That's right.

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Yes. And I think the same thing, because me and my friend was talking about it.

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He said he don't believe in that. He believes you can't lose it. But I remember you saying it a long time ago about if they still do the same thing they used to do, they might really not be saved.

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Right. Yes. OK. Yeah, and one of the things I ask people, if they say you can lose your salvation,

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I say, OK, what do you have to do to lose it? And they'll give me a list. I say,

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OK, so then what things have you got to do to not lose your salvation? And they'll give me a list.

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And I say, so then you keep yourself right with the infinite holy God by your goodness? Is that it?

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Yeah. Yeah. OK. So OK, with the Korans, while I was looking it up, it said the

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Korans were made after the Holy Bible. Yes, about 600 years after.

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Their Bible was made after. Hold on, buddy. We've got a break. We've got a break. Hold on.

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We'll get back to this about the Koran and some stuff. Yeah. All right? OK, hold on now. Hey, folks, be right back after these messages if you want to give me a call.

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The number is 877 -207 -2276. We'll be right back after these messages.

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It's Matt Slick Live! Taking your calls at 877 -207 -2276.

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Here's Matt Slick. All right, and welcome back to the show. Let's get back on here with Rusty.

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All right, Rusty, you're on. OK, yes. Mm -hmm.

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Yes, hello? Yes, I hear you. OK, so OK, so from my understanding, the

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Korans were made after the Holy Bible. Right. From what I was searching,

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I was just wondering, so but the religion was before Christianity, right?

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No, no, no, no. Islam started with Muhammad, who died in 632,

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I think it was. Yes, yes, you're right. Supposedly, yeah, with the Koran.

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So no, it came afterwards. OK. OK, so people at my school was trying to say that Christianity is the baby religion.

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No, no, no, no. Islam started 600 years after Christianity. OK. Right, yes.

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That's why I looked up and searched, too, because it tried to mimic a lot of stuff from the

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Holy Bible to try to make it seem like, to make it right. Do it speak of any angels in the

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Koran? Yes. Michael is mentioned. Gabriel is mentioned. There's some other ones.

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Azazel, I'm trying to remember, but yeah, they do mention. They mention Mary. She's the only woman mentioned in the

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Koran. It mentions the Trinity and denies the Trinity, misunderstands the Trinity. It makes lots of mistakes.

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The Koran is an invention of just a desert guy, and it became popular because of force and threat and stuff like that.

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My teacher, I kind of figured that out, too, because that's why I was looking it up, and they got mad because they were like,

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OK, OK, they don't want to go through all that. But because I know

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Islam came from Ishmael, they were saying. Well, they can say that, but there were

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Arabs around at that time beforehand. So Islam, see, back in the

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Arab area geographically, before the rise of Muhammad, there was the

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Kaaba, which is that area where they have the big cube that everybody circles and bows down before and things like that.

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There were 360 idols in there, and so they were polytheists in the area.

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360 degrees in a circle, and there's some evidence that the year used to be 360 days long, and it's a whole other topic that it changed.

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So let me tell you what happened. So Muhammad came in, Muhammad got strong, and he destroyed all but one of the figures, the idols, whatever you want to call it in the

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Koran, or got rid of all of them and then said that it was Allah, which is

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Arabic for God, and it was... I've heard different things, I've read different stuff, that it was the moon god is the one that he focused on.

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That's why the crescent moon is the symbol of Islam. But there's a little debate about this, but there you go.

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Okay, okay. And with Mormonism, do their

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Bible speak of angels? Yeah, their

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Bible is the King James. So yes, it does, okay. Oh, really?

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Yeah. I didn't know that. He just taught me something else. Okay. Yeah, they have four standard works, the

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Bible, the Book of Mormon, Pearl of Great Price, and Doctrine and Covenant. And so the

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DNC, Doctrine and Covenants, was altered, and a lot of Mormons don't know this, but it's a fact, and it's documented as history.

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It is. Mormons are not taught. They're taught to don't ask questions, don't think, don't research. But yeah, the

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Doctrine and Covenants were altered after it was supposedly revealed by Joseph Smith. He corrected the

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King James. It's called the... Oh, wow. The Inspired Version.

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Wow. The Inspired Version of the Bible, and they don't use it, though, because it's severely altered.

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And then Pearl of Great Price. And that is...

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It's got some... I can explain all this, but... Okay, go ahead. So while I was looking up something earlier, too, it said something about Buddhism, something with Buddhism was around when

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Jesus walked the earth. Yes, it was before Christianity. Uh -huh. It existed 1 ,000 miles away, 2 ,000 miles away, whatever it is.

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So that's how Jesus would be familiar with them, right? With their religion?

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Well, there's a yes and no. There's a yes and no because the Jews were very cloistered.

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And what's interesting, a lot of people don't know, is that the Jewish nation tried to avoid a lot of paganism and stuff from out there.

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Right, right. What's interesting about Christianity and Judaistic thought is what is not in there compared to the polytheistic systems that were around them.

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And it's really interesting. Yes. People say, oh, they borrowed from this and that. No, no, they didn't. And so, yeah, but I'm sure...

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I don't know if they knew about Buddhism or Hinduism. They were around before Christianity was. Okay. Okay.

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Okay. Thank you. You carried on a lot. Okay, so one more thing.

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So with the angels that is mentioned, should we think of them as angels from heaven or is part of Satan's army?

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What, with Tobit? You mean in the Bible? When Tobit talks about an angel? Yeah, no. Forget Tobit.

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Tobit is not Christian. The angel is not in the Bible. Tobit's not Christian. Okay. So the apocryphal books are not inspired.

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Right. So the angel they spoke of... Mm -hmm. Yeah. So the angel they spoke of is...

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Who's they? Could not be from heaven. Who's they, though? Which books are...

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Like Tobit. Tobit. When they mentioned an angel, I think... Tobit is not

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Scripture, all right? It's added by the Catholic Church and the

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Eastern Orthodox Church, but it's not Scripture, all right? So it mentioned an angel. I can't think of his name right now.

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But it mentioned an angel. Yes, yes.

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Let me see if I can find it. Raphael, sorry. Raphael, yes.

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Uh -huh. Raphael. So that's not part of heaven angels, right?

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I wouldn't trust anything it says. It's not an issue of it's true or false. Right. It's apocryphal.

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Right, right. Okay, okay. Okay. Okay. Right. Okay. Okay. Okay, yeah.

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Okay. Okay? Yes, sir. Thank you.

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All right. All right, man. Well, God bless. All right. Thank you. God bless you, too.

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Okay, we'll see you. Okay, bye. All right, now let's get to Tom from Florida.

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Tom, welcome. You're on the air. Hello, Matt, and thank you for your commitment to Sola Fide.

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Oh, yeah. Many, many people appreciated listening to you, so thank you. And may I please ask your interpretation and teaching on a verse where Jesus says, since the days of John the

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Baptist, the kingdom has suffered violence, and violent men take it by force.

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Could you expound on that, please? From what I understand, what it means is that the hostility of Christianity, to Christianity, excuse me, is there because of demonic forces and secular forces.

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And it suffers, the Christian faith suffers violence from persecutors of all sorts.

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Now, we've got a break, so hold on, and we'll be right back, okay? Okay. Hey, folks, we'll be right back after these messages.

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If you want to give me a call, the number is 877 -207 -2276.

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

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Here's Matt Slick. All right, welcome back to the show. If you want to give me a call, the number is 877 -207 -2276.

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Also, December is our matching funds drive month. If you want to support us, now is a great time to do that.

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Whatever you donate will be doubled, so we have a matching funds donor. So if you donate $10, it will become $20.

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If you donate $100, it will become $200. That's how it works, and it's easy to do. Just go to CARM .org,

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C -A -R -M dot O -R -G forward slash donate. All right, let's get back on the air with Tom from Florida.

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Tom, are you still there? I am, thank you, yes. All right, now just because we're rushed, the context is talking about John the

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Baptist who's imprisoned and the Jewish nation and stuff. So I believe what Jesus is saying is that the people, the

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Jewish leaders, wanted the kingdom of God, but they wanted it the way they wanted it, and it was violence being perpetrated against the prophet of God of the true kingdom,

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John the Baptist. And so they were taking it by violence. They wanted it that way and not with the peaceful means that Jesus Christ was instituting.

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So that's what I believe, okay? Yes, and thank you very much. I appreciate it.

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Have a good night. Okay. Well, God bless, man. God bless. All right. All right, let's get to Jay from Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Jay, welcome. You're on the air. How are you doing, Matt? Good to talk with you. Hanging in there, man.

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Hanging in there. Oh, boy, a lot of hanging, too. So what do you got? Now, you said that you're not going to be on the air next week or something?

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That's correct. Not next week. It'll be back on the first day of, will be the January 2nd.

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What's going to be on next week? Reruns or? Yeah, reruns. What I was telling your screener there, when the other caller was discussing

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Islam, I was curious if Islam might be considered like a

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Christian cult, the technical idea of a cult, not like where you're insulting them or calling them a cult, but the idea that if you look at a lot of different things in Islam, you can say, well, their roots come out of the

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Bible and stuff. I was just thinking now, even if you consider all of the way that they conquered the

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Islamic world through the sword, you can say, well, that comes out of the Bible. That was what happened when the

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Jews went into the Promised Land. Do you have a question? Do you have a question, though? Do you have a question? Well, would you consider

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Islam to be a Christian cult? No, it's just a false religion.

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They don't use the Bible, but they do use biblical figures. Some have considered it to be a

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Christian or a cult offshoot of Christianity because Muhammad came in, took Christian concepts and messed them up, used

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Christian characters, did the same thing, Old and New Testament. And so some have called it that.

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And to me, when I look at different things that Islam does now, they would probably be pretty close to how the

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Bible was interpreted in the sixth century. And the thought being that. Well, hold on.

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Hold on. So wait until you have a Bible was interpreted in the sixth century. So what do you mean?

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How was it interpreted in the sixth century? Well, I mean, to me, it's like basically the slam on Islam has been that they are basically haven't haven't grown at all since the sixth century.

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And my thought there is, well, a lot of the things that they do. Well, I'm confused. Yes, they have grown significantly in the sixth century.

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I mean, not not theologically, though. They've developed

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Christianity. Hold on. I mean, just as Christianity has developed theologically, as more has been learned out of the

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Bible. So, too, in Islam, more of its theology has been developed over centuries.

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OK, but they would probably still stick with a lot of the truths that were learned in the sixth century.

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Yeah, there were no truths learned because Mohammed was a false prophet. He was a liar. And Islam is simply a false religion.

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So there's no truth that they learned. But what they did is they bought into the demonic forces and believed lies.

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And that's what Mohammed. I would agree with you, which you said that that there are false religion and all that.

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But what I'd heard previously was that Mohammed had interaction with Christians and Jews back in the day.

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And that was how he came into possession of the

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Christian knowledge, which he did basically corrupt. He didn't get there.

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There's some theories about this. He had definitely some influence from the Jews, contact with them.

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Now, there was an error called Aryanism that was around prevalent at the time.

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And some people think that he came in contact with some Aryans. And that's a Christian, false -based cult.

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And it denies the Trinity and says Jesus is a created thing and things like that.

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So it looks like that was prevalent in the area, some think, and that he got his ideas from a lot of them and then misrepresented them and the

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Trinity and things like that in the Koran, which he obviously didn't know what he was doing. Right.

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What I was thinking, though, is like, it seems like there's a lot of things that if you were strictly to look at the

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Bible from a legalistic point there, that there's a lot of things that the

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Muslims do that Christians don't do. And maybe that's getting them brownie points with God that Christians are losing out on.

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No, no, no, no brownie points. Islam is a false religion. They have a false God, a false prophet, and a false gospel.

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There's no brownie points with them. I don't mean brownie points where it's actually going to do anything for you in eternity.

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But just with the different things that, I mean, as far as divorce or different things like that, where Christianity, maybe not true

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Christianity, but the Christian culture around us has accepted divorce lock, stock, and barrel.

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But I don't believe that that is something that Islam would say that they approve of that or accept it such as it is in the

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Christian world. Well, no, it's not the Christian world. It just doesn't accept divorce like that.

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Remember, Christianity is diluted in America in a lot of areas. And so there are people who claim to be

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Christians and get divorced. So that's just not a good representation. However, in Islam, a man can divorce his wife by saying,

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I think it's four times, I divorce you. And then they're divorced. You can just say it.

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But she can't do that. Yeah. So they do have that in Islam. All right.

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And I wasn't aware of how that worked for them. But OK, Matt, it was great talking with you.

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God bless you. Have a great day. Love your program. All right. God bless. Thanks. All right.

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Hey, if you want to give me a call, it is easy to do. All you have to do is dial 877 -207 -2276.

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We've got nobody waiting right now. So I'd like to let you know that I'll be doing a

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Zoom meeting tonight. Let's see. I'm looking at the notes.

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It will be on at 8 p .m. Eastern time in a Zoom meeting to discuss total depravity.

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So let me ask the guy right now. Will this be live for others to see, watch?

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All right. Or is it just a discussion? So I've been invited to a discussion group on total depravity.

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Oh, my God, hiccups. So I'll be doing that. I don't know if it will be broadcast outside or not or what.

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I don't know if the guy's doing it private and edits it later. So we'll find out. I just texted him. And there's that.

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And if you want, you can give me a call. It's easy, 877 -207 -2276.

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You can also e -mail me. And to do that, just send an e -mail to info at CARM .org,

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info at CARM .org. And the subject line, please put in radio comment or radio question, and then we can get to it, stuff like that.

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So, hmm, that's interesting. All right, all right. I'm looking at stuff. I've got some e -mails that we've gotten from people, and I can get to some of those.

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I've got some radio questions. And, hey, look at that. We've got some, we've got a lot of, you know,

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I get some e -mails from, like, the same person. It's just constant e -mails from one or two people.

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Check this out. This is an e -mail. The Gospels found in 1945 are true, except Judas and Gnostic Gospels, Luke, Thomas, John, Philip, Mary, Magdalene are all true.

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Judas was a host for Satan. His Gospel is a lie, says Cindy.

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They're probably talking about the Dead Sea Scrolls. And always, you know, I get a kick out of people who just say things, you know,

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Luke, Thomas, John, Philip, they're all true. How do you know that? There's no evidence for it. There's no reason to just make a statement and then go on.

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Not a very good way to do something like that. Hey, there's the music. We'll be right back after these messages. Please stay tuned.

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

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Here's Matt Slick. All right, everyone. Welcome back to the show. Last segment of the hour on this lovely day.

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So I just found out that it'll just be this discussion, excuse me, that I'll have in about an hour and 15 minutes.

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It's not going to be live. It's going to be prerecorded. We're going to do it, and then he's going to edit it and then release something later.

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So that's what's going on. So it won't be for everybody to watch. There you go. Just letting you know. And Thursday night,

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I'm having a debate, and we'll give more information on that, what, when, where, and all that, on Mary's intercessory role in heaven.

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Is she an intercessor in heaven? You know, I wish

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Catholics would just stop turning her into a goddess. I just wish they would. Well, she's not a goddess.

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You know, she's a goddess. So I wish they would stop that. But, hey, you know, that's what idolaters do.

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They don't submit to God's word. They submit to what their church tells them.

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All right. So there's that. And also, this December is matching funds drive month. So like I was saying there, if you want to support us, it's easy.

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Just go to karm .org forward slash donate. Whatever you contribute will be doubled.

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Just letting you know. It's easy. And there you go. So we have nobody waiting right now. I think what I'm going to do is get to some of the e -mails.

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And we'll check them out. Here we go. Hello, Matt. It's been a long time.

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I have a question or a few that I feel is very important. I'm going to respond by Christian shouldn't.

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I want to be able to respond as a Christian should, but I'm not sure how to defend this.

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Okay. So her husband thinks that her dog is seeing a spirit or something.

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She's a certain kind of dog and isn't even afraid of a mountain lion.

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She has no fear. Every once in a while she's terrified in a certain spot in our house.

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She will hide behind the couch before running, but like she's scared for her life.

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Her husband started putting pictures of Mary around the area. I just said demands aren't afraid of, oh, demons aren't afraid of Mary.

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Or would a picture of Mary blessed by a human. Get rid of the pictures.

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Don't put Mary statues and Mary pictures there. It's occultic to do things like that.

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It's like saying, look, there's a magic rock and a magic picture. Here's a magic necklace or whatever it is.

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We're going to put it over here and it'll get rid of evil spirits. It's the same thing when they do it. It's a picture of Mary.

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See, they're afraid of Mary. It's ridiculous. It's not going to do anything. It doesn't help anything.

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If anything, it can make things worse. It really can make things worse. I remember watching a show where they were doing interviews with people with scary things happening in their house.

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I remember this one I was watching. It's interesting stuff to me, so I'm watching it every now and then. All these bad things were happening.

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Doors opening and closing, objects moving, things happening, noises. It was really bad to the point where the people actually left the house.

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But before they did that, they had an exorcist come in who does with spirits.

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It was really something. This exorcist said, you got any Bibles in the house?

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Yes, get rid of them. Because the demons don't like the Bibles. So they got rid of the Bibles. I was like, wow. I said, don't do that.

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It's God's word. But at any rate, do you remember that? I remember yelling at the TV, don't do that.

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So I just said, they're not afraid of Mary. But he gets so angry when I said that demons only fear

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Jesus. Good for you, because it's true. Then he got weird and asked if I believe in aliens.

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I said no. It got even weirder. Well, aliens exist. What are those unidentified things?

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Those things are real. There's actually physical craft that have been spotted on radar.

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People have physically touched objects, abductees. There are stories all over the world. So something's going on.

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There really is something going on. The question is, what are they? So we call them, generically, aliens, as though they come from another planet.

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Personally, I don't believe that. I believe that they're demonic manifestations. That's a whole other topic we'll get into some time.

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Then it changed to a documentary stating that if an evil spirit was in our house, it would be coming after all of us.

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Not necessarily. There are demonic forces that are interested in children. There's poltergeists.

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These are just the terms and behaviors associated with them. They tend to be mischievous in the house, not malicious.

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A lot of times, when there's young children, there's more occult activity around children sometimes.

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I don't know why, but I've heard that a lot. Anyway, I just said that we are not going to, all of a sudden, start throwing up split pea soup.

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I've got to say that right. He got mad and demanding or so who was already baptized, be baptized

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Catholic or Greek Orthodox. See, there right there, because it's Catholic and Greek Orthodox, it's just making things worse.

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The superstition and the idolatry in those two religions can only increase demonic presence and activity.

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So you've got to be careful there. I'm Greek, but I was baptized in a

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Christian church, not Greek Orthodox. I know I was Christian as well. My son is 13, chooses our Christian church, and even chose to do his book report on the case for Christ.

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I just want to be able to point to where the Bible defends this. It doesn't really do that. It's not like that.

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But I don't know what my dog's issue is, but I'm not praising Mary or using her as a defense.

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Good for you. Good for you, good for you. So you don't want to do that.

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So let's just talk about this a little bit. What do you do if there's some weird stuff going on in your house?

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What should you do? Well, basically, you want to look for doors and things that open up doors.

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So objects can open up doors. I'm not saying that if you have any particular objects, it automatically is occultic.

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I'm not saying that. But sometimes people with well -meaning intentions can open a door in your home, your life, your house by giving you an object as a present.

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They're not malicious in this. Giving an object that has an occult connection to it.

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Let's say that someone goes to a New Age convention or a New Age bookstore or whatever and goes through contacting a spirit in a seance to find out which crystal has the right energy for whatever.

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And then they find this one crystal and they give it to you as a gift. Now, this doesn't mean it's automatically going to be a demonic manifestation associated with it.

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Because I don't know all the particulars and ins and outs of all the ceremonies and all the things. But objects do sometimes seem to carry the ability to be a focal point for demonic activity.

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And so, that's a kind of a door. So if you've had objects that are used in seances, you probably want to get rid of them.

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If you have like a Ouija board in the house, it's definitely an occult toy. You want to get rid of that.

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Just various things. You want to just remove them. So I'm not saying that anything and everything a person has given you is automatically demonic.

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I'm not saying that. You've just got to be careful and just be aware of things like that. And what

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I'd recommend is, preferably the husband and father do it. But if he's not available because he's an occult himself or a false convert like out of the

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Catholics or the Greek Orthodox or whatever it is, then the wife can do this. And that is just go through the house and anoint the house with oil.

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And what I mean by that is you just take a little bit of oil. It could be olive oil if you want.

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And just take your fingers and just lightly touch it into there. Just feel it in your fingertips.

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And then go around the house and just touch the walls and just pray out loud.

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Pray to Jesus and ask Jesus to bind the evil ones and that this house is for the

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Lord. Or apartment or whatever it is. Car even. You know, whatever it is. And you want to do that on a regular basis.

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Not a regular basis, but you want to do that with the entire house. Now I've done that in my house here. And we started having some things that were happening more and more.

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And I got to the point where I said, okay, I'm going to anoint the house, have my wife take the kids out. And there we got for a couple of hours and I went through the entire house.

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And when I do something like that, I'm not saying my way is the only way, but when I do it, I touch every door, every wall, every closet, every wall and every closet, every wall and every bathroom.

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I mean, I really do it. I just go through the entire house. And even the floors, I'll do that. And sometimes

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I think I jumped up and touched the ceiling a couple of times, just anointing. It's not like everything has to be done all the time.

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It's the idea of consecration. And it's not that the oil has any magic quality.

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So you think about this. People were anointed with oil. They were anointed with blood.

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That means the object was applied to that. And you're baptized with water. So think about that.

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And so the thing that has the element applied to that object or that person is consecrated, is anointed in that, so to speak, ceremony.

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Now, I'm not saying you have to go through a certain formula, a certain way, you have to do a certain thing as if it's a ritual.

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For $9 .95, you call me up and I'll give you the three things you've got to do. Nothing like that. Just go through the house or your apartment, wherever it is, and just do this little ceremony where you're praying.

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I like to pray out loud when I do that to my Lord and my Savior and ask Him to bind the evil one and consecrate the house to the

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Lord and all who pass through the door. You just talk out loud. Even if you repeat your prayer 100 times during the process, that's okay.

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It's not that repetition is a formula. Sometimes you just don't know what to say when you do this for a while and you repeat yourself.

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Just don't think of it as a ritual. Don't think of it as a formula and that this guarantees stuff.

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We don't want to get into magic and things like that. The issue is a humble submission to the

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Lord and a desire to consecrate your home and your family to the

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Lord. You just go through and just do this by faith. That's what

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I recommend people to do if they think weird things are happening in the house. Now, what else should you or might you do about that?

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Let's say there's a certain area. Like this dog is looking at this one area. Well, here's a question.

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Was the house previously owned? And if it was, maybe there's a demonic connection that was left over from somebody who was bad there.

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Who knows? I'm not saying it was the case. I'm not trying to get everybody spooked out. I bought this house five years ago and it's 20 years old.

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What would I do? Well, if nothing's happening, don't worry about it. It's always a good idea, I think, to anoint the house anyway.

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I think it's a good idea. In fact, I got a car. I should do that. My car I got last year. And objects and things like that.

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But it doesn't have to be mystical. It doesn't have to be all this superstitious stuff. Don't worry about it.

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If you don't do it, don't worry about it. But when you have activity like that, I generally recommend people do that.

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Preferably the father and husband because he's the federal head. But if he's not open to it or capable, whatever reason, if he's not a believer, then the mom can do it, the wife can do it.

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Not a problem. And go through the house and do that. There you go. Hey, we are out of time.

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May the Lord bless you. And by His grace, we'll be back on there tomorrow. And we'll talk to you then. God bless everybody.