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20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 72)

BibleThinker

Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2022

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Question Time Stamps for Quick Reference:0:00 - Intro1. 0:25 {Do we Need Religion to have Morals?} How would you respond to this statement?: “You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy, not religion.” 2. 6:19 {Can we be Sure of the Resurrection?} In Acts 25: 20, if Festus and Agrippa can't be sure of the resurrection claim, how can we be sure now?3. 12:23 {Comments on Reincarnation/Simpsons’ Prophecies?} Do you have any suggestions to help a believer of reincarnation? Ex: Ryan Hammons has 55 verified statements about having a past life. Also, Bible prophecies mean nothing since The Simpsons have predicted the future many times.4. 16:38 {Was I Really Saved in the Past?} Was I ever really saved and had a relationship with Christ if I left heterosexuality and embraced my same sex attraction and married my wife?5. 20:46 {Resolving a “Contradiction”} Does Ezekiel 18: 20 contradict the stoning of Achan and his family in Joshua 7: 24-26 (the idea of original sin passed down through Adam) and 2 Samuel 12: 13-15?6. 29:59 {Do we “Just Believe” to be Saved?} To be saved, all we need to do is believe? Like how I believed that Santa was real when I was younger? Or is there more to this belief?7. 33:19 {How are Miracles Proof if Satan Can Also Do Them?} One of the proofs you've put forward that the Bible is from God is miracles and prophecy. If we see that Satan is also able to do miracles, like Pharaoh's magicians, then why are those things proof it’s from God?8. 36:53 {Can an Infinite God relate to Finite Creation?} How can an infinite God relate to a finite creation? Compared to infinity, our world's age is nothing, be it 10,000 years or billions. Same with the size of universe.9. 39:44 {Could God Exist but Not be Perfectly Good?} Atheist here. What stops a supernatural but not perfectly good being from being the author of the miracles in the Bible, especially when you already accept the existence of supernatural beings?10. 43:57 {Does Creating Time Require Time?} An atheist posited this question: If God created time, doesn't that require time, to create time?11. 46:09 {Is a Belief in God an Attempt to Personalize the Impersonal?} An atheist claims: “Belief in God is what happens when social brains try to explain an impersonal universe. Personal explanations for impersonal events fail to deal with logic of uncertainty.” Any help?12. 51:38 {How can Jesus be Sinless if “Unclean” at Times?} My professor brought up this question and I need to know your opinion. According to Hebrew Scripture, anything not of God’s perfect eschatological view is sin (human excretion, etc.). So how can we say Jesus is sinless?13. 54:46 {Should Mormons Celebrate Christmas and Easter?} As a Mormon, since you'd consider us non-Christian, should we be allowed to celebrate Christmas or Easter?14. 57:29 {Why Christianity vs. Other Religions?} Why should a person be Christian over another monotheistic religion which claims to be the truth, such as Islam?15. 1:01:55 {Why does God Allow Children to have Cancer?} Why does God allow children to get cancer and other terminal illnesses?16. 1:08:07 {Why Didn’t God Show Sodom Miracles?} In Matthew 11: 23-24, Jesus says that Sodom would have been saved if they had seen His miracles. Why, then, didn’t God perform miracles so that they would believe? Doesn’t He want everyone to be saved?17. 1:14:43 {If God Doesn’t Change, Why do His Rules?} From a non-Christian friend: If God doesn’t change over time, how come He commands Jews not to eat certain foods in the Old Testament, but deems them OK in the New Testament?18. 1:17:46 {Can God Give Commands when He Forced us to Exist?} Is it fair for God to demand our everything when we are f

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0:00.0

Here we go. Welcome to the non-Christian Q&A. This is where I'm going to answer questions

0:09.0

from non-believers. And that means you could be Muslim, you could be New Age, you could

0:13.4

be pagan, you could be atheist, agnostic, you're just not a Christian. And I'd love to

0:18.2

hear your questions. Don't hold back, bring them now, put them in the live chat and I'll

0:22.4

be taking a bunch of them 19 at least. And this will be the first question I pulled off

0:26.9

of Instagram. I think my wife pulled off Instagram and actually sent to me. The first

0:32.0

question we're going to cover is this, you don't need religion to have morals. If you

0:37.2

can't determine right from wrong, then you lack empathy, not religion. And so I have a

0:43.0

number of these memes. If we don't get enough questions from a non-Christian perspective,

0:47.5

I'll use the memes. And just in case anyways, wondering, if you're a Christian but you

0:51.9

have a question from a non-Christian perspective, you're welcome to put that in the chat. I

0:56.5

want to answer the questions that non-Christian's ask. That's the goal of today's live stream.

1:01.8

And we do this every Friday at 1 p.m. and you're always welcome to come and ask any questions

1:05.7

from any perspective you like. I just want to especially highlight those kinds of questions

1:10.3

today. So you know, this I've seen before many times in different forms, this particular

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meme that we're looking at on the screen while you guys are loading your questions in the

1:17.9

chat. You just put a capital queue to put your question in, if it's your first time.

1:24.4

So it says, you don't need religion to have morals. This is obviously meant to be a response

1:29.4

to religion or to religious people or claims that religious people are making. Sometimes

1:34.0

when you respond to a claim though, you're misrepresenting people and that you pretend

1:39.8

they're making a claim, they're not making. And in this case, at least with Christianity,

1:44.3

we don't say you need religion to have morals. Like this is something, and I know some Christians

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