Do demons possess people today like they did in the gospel accounts?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez.

We pray you had a wonderful weekend.

This is the radio program where we answer your

questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. And you know, we would love to hear from you.

We'd love to hear your question, regardless of what it is. Here's the phone number you can call

for the next 25 minutes or so. It's 833 The Core. That's 1, 833, 843-243-2673. Now, of course, you can also post your question on one of our social media sites, and you're always welcome to email us at Questions at Core Christianity.com. Well, first up today, let's go to a voicemail from one of our listeners. This is from Danny.

I was wondering if groups like Church of Christ in Lutheran, today, let's go to a voicemail from one of our listeners. This is from Danny.

I was wondering if groups like Church of Christ in Lutheran churches who believe in baptismal regeneration are being cultic in that they're adding works to salvation. Thank you.

Hey, thank you for that question. Great question. You know, sometimes we do talk about cults on the broadcast, and I'll mention groups like

the Mormons or the Jehovah's Witnesses, but are those who believe in baptismal regeneration

cultic?

And I think that's what you, I think you were, you know, are they cults?

I would say that the answer to that is no.

So whether we're talking about Lutherans or even the Roman Catholic Church, for example,

the belief in baptismal regeneration dates back pretty early in the history of the church.

And the idea is this, for those of you who are not familiar with baptismal regeneration,

is that through baptism, the spirit of God is at work and that those who are baptized are indeed undoubtedly regenerated, made the children of God born again. Now, for those who embrace this view, I mean, they believe that these individuals can still fall away. So, I mean, you can be made a child of God and then fall away from grace and end up in hell.

And so, I mean, for my opinion, in my view as a minister of the gospel, I differ from that.

I don't believe that every person who's baptized is undoubtedly regenerated.

But this is where I think Christians, genuine believers, differ and have differed for some time.

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