10 Questions with Mike Winger (Episode 15)

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Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Welcome to the new weekly stream! 10 questions every Friday at 1 p.m. Pacific Time.Today's Time Stamps:1. 0:07 {What Makes a Cult?} What makes a cult? I grew up in a church that took many hard stances on issues that led our elders to act in unbiblical ways. Most would say it was a cult. Where is the line drawn?2. 25:30 {Female Elders under Male Elder Headship?} Any advice for a member of a church with a male lead elder pastoring alongside ordained female elders who often teach on Sundays? Is there any warrant to the idea that they are under his headship?3. 31:40 {Does God Overlook Ignorance?} In Acts 17:30, what does Paul mean by God overlooking the times of ignorance? Was He more lenient toward idolatry before the time of Christ? Or did He stop trying to save the idolaters of that time?4. 40:18 {Evangelizing the Apathetic} My wife and I are having difficulty ministering to her father who doesn’t seem to care about the topic of God at all. How do you help someone realize the importance of salvation?5. 46:57 {Does God Operate Outside of Time?} Can you talk about your views on God’s relationship to time? Personally, I find the timeless God view incoherent and unbiblical. It seems He operates within time.6. 54:52 {What if Election Isn’t about Salvation?} What are your thoughts on election being about service and blessing rather than salvation (i.e., Judas was chosen by Jesus to serve Him but obviously wasn't saved)?7. 58:08 {Mark of the Beast: Literal or Symbolic?} Could the Mark of the Beast being on the forehead or right hand symbolize something that dominates the mind or actions of those who submit to it instead of a literal mark on the body as many assume?8. 1:00:37 {Ancient Israel & The Trinity} Did ancient Israelites believe in the concept of a "multi-personal God"? By multi-personal God, I mean a concept similar to the Trinity, where there is one God made up of multiple Persons.9. 1:06:11 {Christ Ascending & Descending} What is Paul talking about in Romans 10:6-7 when he’s speaking of Christ descending and ascending? The way he phrases things seems like it should be the other way around.10. 1:10:11 {Making True Disciples} According to Scripture, if the disciple you make doesn't make a disciple, have you really made a disciple? LINKS BELOW: ***HERE is the Clip Search feature on my website. Find any topic I've talked about by searching freely here Click Here for the giant Women in Ministry research project Click Here for the study on Romans 9:25-10:9 I’m Mike Winger and my goal is to help people think biblically about everything. My website: BibleThinker.org

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0:00.0	Let's talk about cults soberly. So I'm Mike Winger here to answer your questions about the Bible. Try to help you learn to think
0:15.6	biblically about everything does not mean I have the answers. It means the Bible does, which is good news.
0:22.2	The first question we have to deal with today is about
0:24.4	Colts. While I take nine questions from the live chat, I come with one
0:28.8	prepared every week on Fridays at 1 p.m. Pacific time or California time.
0:34.3	And that is right now.
0:35.7	The question coming in is from Meganator
0:38.9	who says, what makes a cult?
0:41.4	I grew up in a church that took many hard stances on issues that led our
0:45.2	elders to act in unbiblical ways. Most would say it was a cult. Where is the line
0:51.4	drawn? And this issue, now quickly you might start just explaining, here's what a cult is,
0:57.0	but I think we have to start by realizing, I'm sorry this is kind of complicated,
1:01.0	the word cult has gotten a little complicated and more so in the
1:04.6	last 10-15 years than it was even before that for people. There are multiple definitions of the term
1:10.1	and here's what I'm going to do. Let me just walk you through what I did today on Twitter.
1:14.4	Okay, I went on to Twitter or X, and I asked people,
1:18.2	what is a cult?
1:19.5	That was my tweet.
1:21.0	Let me, my post, let me show you guys right here. And let's walk through their answers to show you how confused people are on this topic and why I think it's worth being careful how we talk about it. So I asked when you use the term cult, what do you think it means? Now I post it. So I asked when you use the term cult, what do you think it means?
1:34.0	Now I posted my question this way on X because I wanted, and I'm on X a lot, I try to post
1:39.2	there frequently just because of the likelihood of freedom of speech being more durable on that platform.
1:49.4	At any rate, the reason why I said why when you use the term called is because I wasn't asking them to give me a dictionary definition.
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