#375 Deconstruction: Proof They Were Never Saved? | Answering Your Hardest Questions
The Alisa Childers Podcast
Alisa Childers
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🗓️ 10 May 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
How do you know when a church has abandoned biblical truth? Can Christians practice discernment without becoming cynical? Why are so many young people deconstructing their faith? And can AI ever develop true discernment?
In this candid Q&A episode, Alisa tackles some of the biggest questions Christians are wrestling with right now — progressive Christianity, deconstruction, parenting in a hostile culture, false teaching, salvation, political division, and the growing confusion around truth itself.
Alisa explains why truth is not subjective, why discernment is a biblical command (not an optional spiritual gift), and why Christians must stop outsourcing their thinking to influencers, platforms, and emotional claims. She also shares practical wisdom for handling difficult conversations, responding to skeptical questions, and raising kids without fear in a culture designed to undermine faith.
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| 0:00.0 | God does not contradict himself. He does not disagree with himself. So if anybody comes and says something |
| 0:07.3 | as if they're speaking for God, but it disagrees with the scripture or commands you to do something |
| 0:13.1 | that is not commanded in scripture, you have permission from God himself to reject that. |
| 0:27.5 | Thank you. from God himself to reject that. Hey friends, welcome to today's show. |
| 0:29.7 | I'm Elisa Childers. |
| 0:30.7 | This is the Elisa Childers podcast. |
| 0:32.8 | And in today's episode, I'm going to be answering some questions that came in a few weeks ago when I did a Q&A at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Associations, The Cove. If you've never been there, it's a beautiful property where they hold all sorts of different kinds of seminars and conferences. And we had a three-day event where people came from all over the country. Many of them were parents |
| 0:55.0 | who had adult children, who had deconstructed their faith, left the faith, and in many cases, |
| 1:00.2 | even broken off relationship with their Christian parents. And it was such a sweet and special time |
| 1:04.9 | for them to come together, find one another, minister to one another, and hopefully are continuing |
| 1:09.5 | to walk with one another |
| 1:11.2 | in these difficult circumstances that they find themselves in. But on the last day, we did a Q&A, |
| 1:16.5 | we did not have near enough time to get through every question that came in. So I thought it might |
| 1:23.3 | be really helpful, maybe fruitful, to go through some of the questions here in podcast form |
| 1:28.3 | because they were such, honestly, such good questions. So we're going to do that today. |
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| 1:51.7 | that came in were in the arena of discernment. How do we discern truth from lies? How do we assess |
| 1:57.7 | a claim and discover, is this claim true? Is it false? How do we look at evidence and then come to a |
| 2:05.7 | conclusion? And, you know, we want to have an open mind, but we want to also shut it again on something |
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