Does the Bible's Teaching of "Forgive Us Our Debts" Speak to Student Loan Forgiveness?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
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🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Episode 1041 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. President Biden is planning to cancel a significant amount of student debt in America. In light of that, some Christians are frustrated that taxpayers are being made to pay off these loans, and some Christians are pointing out that since a huge part of the gospel is about us being forgiven our debts, that we should be celebrating such a decision. What do you think? Does the gospel impact the way we approach student loans and debt?
2. Why was Uzzah killed for simply trying to save the Ark of the Covenant?
3. How should we understand Satan being bound and released in Revelation 20?
4. Do Roman Catholics of a true understanding of salvation?
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| 0:00.0 | Does the Bible's teaching of forgive us our debts speak to student loan forgiveness? |
| 0:11.1 | That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. |
| 0:16.0 | Well, hi, I'm Bill Meyer along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions |
| 0:21.9 | about the Bible and the Christian life every day. You can call us right now with your question at |
| 0:27.3 | 8333-the-core. That's 1-833-843-243-2673. By the way, we also have a YouTube channel. You can watch |
| 0:36.6 | Adriel right now live in the studio on YouTube and send him your question that way. |
| 0:41.3 | And, of course, you can always email us your question at Questions at Core Christianity.com. |
| 0:47.2 | And, Adriel, before we get to our calls today, I've got a question for you about something that's been in the news this week. |
| 0:52.1 | I know you have heard that President Biden is planning to |
| 0:55.4 | cancel a significant amount of student debt in our country, and some people are going to be getting |
| 1:00.8 | $10,000 of their student loans forgiven. Now, I know there are some Christians who are frustrated |
| 1:07.0 | with this. They're frustrated that taxpayers are basically going to be footing the bill for this, |
| 1:11.9 | while others are saying, well, we should celebrate this decision because a huge part of the gospel |
| 1:16.8 | is about us being forgiven our debts. So I'm wondering what you think. Do you think the gospel |
| 1:22.3 | should impact the way we approach things like student loans and debt? Well, I mean, I think that the gospel should |
| 1:29.0 | impact the way we approach everything in life. So let me just start by saying that. But one thing |
| 1:35.9 | that I want, this is maybe one of the most helpful pieces of advice that I ever got as a pastor. |
| 1:41.7 | Somebody told me, no, pastors are not omni-competent, |
| 1:45.6 | meaning they're not experts on everything. I mean, we should be experts on the Word of God, |
| 1:51.7 | on scripture, exegesis. We should know theology, church history. But if you're looking for, |
| 1:58.5 | you know, your pastor to have hot takes on every, every political |
| 2:01.7 | issue that's happening, everything that's happening in broader society, that's not something |
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