Episode 240 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions.
Key questions answered in today’s show:
1. Can God save people who have never heard the gospel but are obedient to the light that they have received either through God revealing himself in nature or another religion?
2. In John 3, what does Jesus mean when he talks about the wind related to the Spirit and being born again?
3. In the beginning, Jesus was with Adam and Eve and then he was born as a child. That confuses me right there.
4. Should Christians seek to be tolerant? I know that there is a difference between being respectful and capitulating to the culture and some people are against the idea of tolerance. What do you think?
5. Jesus tells us that we must be born again? Can you get this little by little or is it like a real birth that happens all at once?
6. Genesis 1:26 says that Adam was to “have dominion over creation.” Is this still true today?
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Should Race Cease to Exist in the Body of Christ?
Episode 396 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. What is implied by calling the church the body of Christ given that Christ’s physical body has ascended into heaven? 2. Thank you so much for his show. I have a question about Paul’s comments in 1 Corinthians 11:29. When Paul tells his readers they need to discern the body when they take the Lord’s supper, I’ve heard some say this means before I can take communion, I first have to be able to understand the nature of Christ’s presence in the bread and wine. But it doesn’t seem like Paul is talking about that much in this chapter. His primary concern seems to be how we discern the community of the Church as his unified body. He’s upset about divisiveness in the church fueled by selfishness, and because the Corinthians are failing to do this as they sit at the Lord’s Table, they are eating and drinking judgement on themselves. What do you think it means to discern the body? 3. Where are Heaven and hell in your understanding? Because of science we know that hell isn’t under our feet and heaven above our heads, so I’m not sure how to understand Heaven and hell in the Bible. 4. In 1 Peter 2:9, “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession…” does this mean our own race and nationalities are now erased in a sense? Resources A Better Way: Rediscovering the Drama of God-Centered Worship by Michael Horton Core Christianity: Finding Yourself in God’s Story by Dennis Johnson
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If God Is Loving, Why Doesn’t He Save Everyone?
Episode 320 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. If God is loving, why doesn’t he save everyone? It seems reasonable that a God who loves everyone and has the power to save everyone would save everyone. 2. I have been a Christian for over 40 years. I have been an ineffectual Christian for over 40 years. I don’t know how to go back and start over. 3. Can doubting our salvation ultimately motivate us to become more holy? 4. Will the new heaven and earth be a physical or a spiritual place? 5. What does it mean that “God will right his law on our hearts”? Does this mean that believers will gain victory of their sin?
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Is It Wrong for Christians to Use Birth Control?
Episode 184 | Dr. Michael Horton and Adriel Sanchez answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com Key questions answered in today’s show: 1. What is the difference between being obedient to earn salvation and being obedient as a Christian? For some reason I don’t understand what the real difference is? 2. How often should we evangelize? Can we take part in anything and not evangelize? 3. What do you mean by the Word creates the church? How does the Bible create the church? Didn’t the church pick which books went into the Bible? 4. What is the difference between giving the reason for our hope and being argumentative? 5. How can I enjoy life and life happily without being attached to the things of this world? 6. Is it wrong for Christians to use birth control? 7. When people say that being a member of a church is necessary for salvation, it confuses me because I thought we were saved by faith?
