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Catholic Answers Focus

#280 Hey America, Jesus Is God! - Karlo Broussard

Catholic Answers Focus

Catholic Answers

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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A recent survey is heartbreaking for those who know Jesus is God come among us. Larger percentages of Christians no longer believe this. Karlo Broussard explains why we can be confident that Jesus is, in fact, God. Cy Kellett: American confusion over the person of Jesus. Karlo Broussard with us next. Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending the Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host. I’m just going to read you the first line or two of a story from Newsweek magazine that all of us around here found a bit disheartening and …

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American confusion over the person of Jesus, Carla Boussar, with us next.

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Hello and welcome to focus the Catholic Answers Podcast for living,

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understanding and defending the Catholic faith.

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I'm Cy Kelle at your host and I'm just gonna read you

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of the first line or two of a story from Newsweek magazine that all of us around here found a bit disheartening and

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alarming. A slight majority of American adults say Jesus was a great teacher and nothing more

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during his lifetime. That's a slight majority as a as a matter of fact.

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The article goes on to say,

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65% of evangelicals say Jesus is a creature and not the Creator.

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This is now, polling people about their religious beliefs

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is always fraught with difficulty and you got to take these polls with a grain of

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salt. However, even if this is off by 50%, you know, that's serious business.

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Many, many people don't know the identity of Jesus and many of them are sitting right next to you in the pew in church on Sunday.

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So we've got to do something about that.

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We asked Carlo to come and talk about it.

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And before I said, we talked to Carlo.

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All right, so we talked to Carlo about the identity of Jesus. How can we know what it was or what it is?

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And how can we maybe help other people settle that issue in their mind especially our fellow Christians. So Carlo about this survey. I'm just done this year in March and I'm actually shocked at one aspect. Well, one part of it is just

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