Episode 333 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. How is God’s justice grounded in his character? 2. I have never understood the Bible when it refers to God as jealous. When I think of jealousy, it sounds sinful and inconsistent with God. 3. Sometimes people’s biggest problem with hell is that they think that God’s judgment is arbitrary? How do you explain this? 4. How does God’s mercy and grace make sense in light of the cross? Why does the cross require understanding that God is both merciful and just? 5. In John 17 Jesus says, “And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.” Does eternal life refer to being saved? And how does that relate to knowing God?

Episode 332 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. How do I find best how to use my spiritual gift? 2. Can you explain the “Mark of the Beast”? 3. Should every Christian try to be baptized in the Holy Spirit? 4. How can I gain victory over my sin? 5. How should we understand the book of Matthew when it talks about people doing miracles in Jesus’ name and still not entering into the Kingdom of Heaven?

Episode 331 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. What do we say about Christians who tend to focus on the cross more than the resurrection? Shouldn’t Christians emphasize the resurrection over the cross? 2. What is a good place to start in the study of theology. I don’t have a background in it but I’m curious to learn and study the Bible. 3. When the Bible says that Jesus is the Son of God, does this mean the same thing as saying Jesus is God? 4. How do we explain to unbeliever that Jesus already defeated Satan but we as Christians still battle with our sin and the power of the world? Can you explain this? 5. I have a question about the gift of singleness. How do you know if you have that gift? I have been thinking about going into ministry and have been taking to heart what Paul said that it is easier to serve God if you stay single, but several people at my church think this is strange and have really pressured me to pursue marriage especially as someone who wants to become a pastor or missionary.

Episode 330 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. The statistics tell us that it seems like the younger you go in our culture, the less people want to identify with any particular religion, much less Christianity. Yet, you have written seculosity arguing that actually we’re very religious. What led you to write this book and where do you think these numbers don’t tell the whole story? 2. You write, “We want to feel good about ourselves, and so we edit our personalities to maximize the approval of others. Or we exaggerate our hardships to make ourselves seem more heroic or others more villainous.” You call this self-justification. Can you help our audience understand self-justification and how this is connected to a religious impulse? 3. How does a desire to be righteous lead to alienation among people? 4. Tell me how we craving self-justification in parenting? 5. You describe our culture as one where busyness has become a virtue. Can you explain this? 6. You describe performancism as “the assumption, usually unspoken, that there is no distinction between what we do and who we are.” You write, “Your resume isn’t a part of your identify; it is your identity. What makes you lovable, indeed what makes your life worth living, is your performance.” This is a problem you point out. Why is this a problem?

Episode 329 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. What does it mean that Jesus sits at the right hand of God? 2. I have been listening to the show for a while. You guys have made some comments about being the star of your own life movie instead of finding yourself in God’s story and that people are too concerned with felt needs. I’m not sure I understand what you guys are talking about. Doesn’t God care to meet our needs? 3. How should we think about the book of Revelation in light of current events? 4. What would you say to someone who has suffered a miscarriage? 5. What does it mean in 1 Corinthians where it says that, “Christians are made to drink of one spirit”? 6. What does Paul mean when he says, “do not let sin reign in your mortal body”?

Episode 328 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. I’m curious about Leviticus 20 and its application for the present day as far as punishment for sin. 2. What do you find edifying about the book of judges? It seems like this is a really dark book and I’m wondering what you take away from it after reading it. 3. How can I found joy amidst all the trials I’m currently facing? 4. What will be the difference between our resurrected spiritual bodies and the physical bodies we currently live in? 5. Is the father figure in the parable of the Prodigal Son supposed to be a picture of God? 6. What does Paul mean when he refers to Jesus Christ as being the “head of the church”?

Episode 327 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. Jesus wants you to turn your cheek. Jesus was historically a zealot who stole from the rich and gave to the poor. How does that come in line with the words in Scripture to turn the other cheek? 2. Please discuss spiritual disciplines. Why are these not taught as much as say in the days of the Puritans? 3. How do you know if you are truly repenting of your sin? What about people who struggle with the same sins again and again? 4. Where one word is shown in two places, for instance, in one place it talks about the judgment day where God will say, “I never knew you.” Yet isn’t it in the Old Testament where God said to someone, “even before you were conceived, I knew you.” These seem to be contradictory but I’m curious as to what you have to say about that.

Episode 326 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. In another episode you have encouraged Christians struggling with sin to look to Christ. What does it mean to look to Christ? I’m struggling with a certain sin in my life and would really like to understand you better. 2. It seems like my family is suffering from a generational curse. Is there any way to get out of it? Is there a spiritual solution? 3. Acts 7:56 says that Jesus is standing at the right hand of God but every week I confess that Jesus is seated at the right hand of God. What is the discrepancy here? 4. I have been listening to the show for a while and have always wondered about how to understand the Angel of the Lord in the Old Testament. Is the Angel of the Lord Jesus? And if it is Jesus what does that mean since Jesus wasn’t born yet? 5. What is the difference between the kingdom being inaugurated and consummated? I have heard you talk about this before but I’m not sure how to understand this. Thanks.

Episode 325 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. There are a lot of objections to Christianity concerning the doctrine of hell. Is hell eternal like heaven and why would people who don’t want to accept Christ go to eternal hell? I know what the Bible says, but how would you address this if someone asks you? I know that God doesn’t want anyone to go there but sometimes that doesn’t suffice as an answer to them. What do you guys think? 2. Should women teach in the church and in what capacity if so. I feel like I had a good understanding of this yet as of late am being questioned about this continually. 3. How was the Bible canonized? 4. Is it necessary for a Christian to believe that all the miracles in the Bible actually happened? 5. Why does Jesus seem to be so extreme in Matthew 5:29 when he suggests that we should tear out our own eye? 6. What should Christians be expecting living in the End Times?

Episode 324 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. Does God let the devil do bad things to us? 2. Do we need to first receive grace to believe the gospel? 3. What does it mean when the Bible says, “confess your sins to one another so that you may be healed”? 4. What does it mean when believers say that Jesus, “descended into hell”? When Jesus died, did he actually go to hell for a time? 5. If Jesus is God, how can it be true that he was tempted like the rest of us are?