Does the Second Commandment forbid us from having nativity scenes?

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

Well, hi, we pray you had a wonderful weekend.

I'm Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day.

We'd love to hear from you with your question.

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Here's the number.

It's 833 The Core.

That's 1, 833-843-243-2673. Now, of course, you can post your question on one of our social

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and you can send him a question through YouTube. And of course, you're always welcome to email us

at Questions at CoreChristianity.com.

And speaking of emails up first today, Adriel, we have an email from Vanessa.

She says, in Matthew 1016, the Lord is talking with his disciples and tells them to be wise as serpents.

Is there a reason why he says this, especially when it was the serpent that deceived Eve in the garden?

Yeah, well, he does, I mean, he does explain this a little bit.

He says, Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves.

So, be wise as serpents and innocent as doves. These two creatures, right, the dove, this

picture of purity and innocence, the serpent, this picture of shrewdness, wisdom. He's saying,

look, be wise, but don't, you're certainly not saying be like the serpent in the Garden of Eden,

evil, deceptive.

He's saying, no, have wisdom, have shrewdness, because I'm sending you out into the world to preach the gospel.

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