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20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 61)

BibleThinker

Mike Winger

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.93K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Question Time Stamps for Quick Reference:0:00 - Introduction1. 0:34 {What does it mean that God IS Love?} What does it mean that God IS love, rather than just saying that He is loving or that He loves us?2. 9:37 {Is it Wrong to have Vaxxed & Non-Vaxxed Services?} My church has decided to have 2 different services: one for those who have gotten the vaccine, and one for those who have not. I love my pastors, but I disagree with this approach, and I see it as divisive. Is this something I should leave the church over? I wouldn’t think Jesus would ever be for this option.3. 14:38 {Should we Worship the Holy Spirit?} Why isn't the Holy Spirit mentioned in any of the instances in Revelation when praise is being given to the Father and the lamb if He is to be worshiped as separate? For example: Revelation 5: 13.4. 19:48 {About Jannes & Jambres} Why does Paul mention Jannes and Jambres in 2 Timothy as being part of the Exodus story when they weren’t? Did he have a different exodus? Is he referring to an extra-biblical book so authoritatively?5. 26:55 {Is Being Poor a Godly Virtue?} In Luke 16: 19-31 we read the story of Lazarus and the rich man and it seems that the only thing Lazarus did to deserve Paradise was being a sick beggar. Does this story teach virtue in being poor?6. 35:36 {How to Respond to Friends’ Ungodly Behavior} How should I respond when hanging out with friends who cuss / curse or play foul music celebrating sinful behavior, some of them being believers?7. 39:12 {About “Twilight” relating to Passover} What does “twilight” mean when the Passover lamb is sacrificed? Is it the start of the 14th, or the end leading into the 15th (first day of unleavened bread)?8. 40:28 {How to Forgive the Abuse of a Loved One} My disabled daughter w/ MS was abused by her ex (hit, pushed her head through a wall, broke her jaw twice requiring three surgeries, told her he’s going to have her killed, & more). I know I should forgive him, but how?9. 45:10 {When to Lovingly tell Someone they’re Deceived} If you spend years lovingly bringing scripture to someone in a religion that corrupts it, hoping to open their eyes but fail, is it wrong to finally say directly they've been deceived, and that the religion is a lie?10. 47:46 {About “Dynamic Omniscience} Could you please explain and give your take on the Open Theist position called " dynamic omniscience" and how biblical or unbiblical the position is?11. 50:18 {Called to be Single? How to Know} How do you know if God has called you to be single?12. 1:01:39 {Did Jesus Not Know Who Touched Him?} In Luke 8: 45, Jesus asks who touched His garment while in a crowd. Did Jesus really not know who had touched Him, nor that this miracle would take place?13. 1:06:23 {About Jews & the Great Tribulation} I heard a pastor claim that 2/3 of Jews will die during the Great Tribulation, and the ones who survive will become Christians. Is this what Paul was referring to with “all Israel will be saved”?14. 1:13:26 {Can Mental Issues Sometimes be Demonic?} Could my Generalized Anxiety Disorder and OCD be a demonic issue rather than a mental health issue? I'm a believer, but I suffer from both of these issues and I feel trapped.15. 1:17:02 {Was Creation an Incarnation of God?} What do you think of Richard Rohr's claim that "creation was the first incarnation of God"?16. 1:19:51 {About “Boot Camp” Churches} What is your opinion on "Boot Camp" Churches such as Elevation and Newspring that say that their church is for unbelievers and is not a permanent space for believers to remain?17. 1:22:26 {About the Virgin Birth} Is the virgin birth an invention by Matthew to buff up the Gospel narrative? The "double-fulfillment" of Isaiah's prophecy sounds like a convenience interpretation. Does the virgin birth matter?18. 1:25:20 {Overcoming Fear while Witnessing} I am currently attending...

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0:00.0

All right, everybody. Welcome. This is 20 questions with Pastor Mike. I'm here to try

0:05.3

to answer your questions as biblically as as I can as I'm capable of doing. And part

0:10.3

of this isn't so much knowing that I have the right answers. There's something those

0:14.2

of you who've been watching this series of this Q&A for a while know, which is that there's

0:19.0

something in the process of just working through a question biblically, where even if you

0:24.5

don't know everything, you don't get everything perfectly right, you're learning like a skill

0:28.6

set of being able to take a question and the bibl sort of being open to you as you process

0:33.8

that. So the first question we have today and it's coming in. There's my mouse from an

0:40.6

anonymous source and it says, Hi Pastor Mike, what does it mean that God is love rather

0:45.2

than just saying that he is loving or that he loves us? Now the Bible affirms all of these,

0:50.3

right? It says that God loves us, right? He loves the world. He's loving. That's part of

0:53.9

his his his character. But the Bible goes a step much further than this and says something

0:59.5

much more when it says God is love. To my knowledge, this is a uniquely Christian thing like

1:03.5

nobody was saying this at the time, right? There's no other religion than I know of at the

1:07.8

time. Nowadays, it's common in new age and some some sort of when you've Eastern mixed

1:14.2

with hippies where you get this like God is love stuff. But that I would consider to be

1:20.0

sort of a fluff version of what what is originally true in Christianity that God just is love. So

1:26.2

it's not just that he behaves in loving ways. He just is love. How is that bigger than God

1:31.3

being loving? One of the things I'll I'll say is that love permeates God's very nature.

1:37.1

So him being love elevates the idea of God acting loving from from him acting loving

1:44.6

to him being love. I mean, you can let me put it this way poetically speaking, you can feel the

1:51.4

weight of this idea that God is love. Like you can you can sense it. Oh, let me bring my light

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