Can You Practice Superstitious Rituals And Still Be A Christian?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Episode 1211 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. Did Jesus Have Mary's DNA Or Was He A Completely Separate Person?
2. Is The Command To Love Our Neighbor The Same As Loving The Brethren?
3. Can A Christian Practice Superstitious Rituals?
4. What Are The "Principalities And Powers Of The Air"?
5. Are Christians Able To Rebuke Satan Or Pray A "Hedge Of Protection"?
6. Do I Need To Tithe A Portion Of My Inheritance?
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| 0:00.0 | Can you practice superstitious rituals and still be a Christian? That's one of the questions we'll be |
| 0:11.5 | answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. Well, happy Friday. This is Bill Meyer, |
| 0:16.6 | along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions |
| 0:21.6 | about the Bible and the Christian life every day. You can call us right now with your question. |
| 0:26.9 | Our phone lines will be open for the next 25 minutes. Here's the phone number. It's 833 The Core. |
| 0:32.9 | That's 1, 833, 843-243, 2673. You can also post your question on one of our social media sites, |
| 0:40.4 | and of course you can always email us your question at Questions at Core Christianity.com. |
| 0:46.5 | First up today, here's a voicemail from one of our listeners named Gail. |
| 0:50.1 | I wanted to know with Mary, when the Holy Spirit overshadowed her and she was expecting that Jesus, |
| 0:59.2 | was it part of her DNA or was Jesus placed whole in her? Thank you. |
| 1:05.1 | Yeah, thank you for that question. You bring up such an interesting passage in the book of Luke, the gospel of Luke in Luke |
| 1:12.3 | chapter 1. Let me just read what the text says. And Mary said to the virgin, how will this be |
| 1:18.2 | since I'm a virgin? In other words, how am I going to give birth? And the angel answered her, |
| 1:21.8 | the Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore, the child to be born will be called |
| 1:30.0 | holy, the son of God. And so the Holy Spirit is going to overshadow you. That word overshadow you is |
| 1:36.7 | very significant. And I'm going to bring that up in a second. But it's not that there was just this sort |
| 1:41.7 | of being already just sort of placed there, who didn't take |
| 1:47.1 | anything from Mary. We believe that the eternal word of the father, God the son, took flesh |
| 1:53.4 | from the womb of the Virgin Mary. And so, yes, there's DNA, true humanity. It's not that, you know, there was just this person that God |
| 2:04.5 | adopted, if you will, this person that was already there, but that the eternal son himself |
| 2:10.6 | assumed humanity from the womb of the Virgin. Now, that language of overshadow, it's an interesting Greek word that's not used |
| 2:19.6 | very frequently. It's actually in the Septuagint, in the Greek translation of the Old Testament, |
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