Has the Holy Spirit Stopped Working? PLUS Is the Bible All We Need?

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Why does the Church seem so ineffective (and sometimes corrupt) when it claims to carry the truth? Does this mean the Holy Spirit is no longer at work? And why does Frank recommend so many books on his podcast: Isn't the Bible all we need? Tune in this week as he tackles these pressing listener questions and quickly recaps last week's popular series on the Book of Revelation and the end times while addressing other questions like:* Why would God allow His Church to be so corrupt, chaotic, and unfaithful?* Do we need to sense the Holy Spirit working in our lives in order for Christianity to be true?* Despite its shortcomings, what positive impact has the Church made in the West and all over the world?* What is the contrasting difference between Jesus and Muhammad that many people don't understand?* What is Sola Scriptura? Does it mean everything we need to know is in the Bible?* What are the three tiers of understanding the Bible?* What are the three ways to gain wisdom?* What is prolegomena and why is it essential to a proper understanding of Scripture?* What's the #1 subject kids (and adults) should learn in addition to the Bible?* Why is redemption better than innocence?Do you have a question for Frank? Send it to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) for a chance to be featured on a future episode!Resources mentioned during the episode:The Revelation YouTube playlist with Dr. Chip Bennet & Dr. Warren Gage - http://bit.ly/44LbAGL (http://bit.ly/44LbAGL)Person of Interest by J. Warner Wallace - https://a.co/d/2nuyHyi (https://a.co/d/2nuyHyi)Train Your Brain Self-Paced Course - https://bit.ly/4lMq6ni (https://bit.ly/4lMq6ni)How to Interpret Your Bible Self-Paced Course - https://bit.ly/4asZCD6 (https://bit.ly/4asZCD6)Digging Up the Bible PREMIUM Course -https://bit.ly/446eWTr (https://bit.ly/446eWTr)

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0:00.0	Has the Holy Spirit stopped working? A listener wrote in and basically tried to make the case.
0:10.7	The Holy Spirit has stopped working. I mean, if he's still working, why is the church so ineffective
0:15.9	and apostate? Another question that came in. You get all your information from the Bible, don't you?
0:23.9	Isn't that what solar scripture is all about?
0:26.2	We're going to try and address those two questions.
0:28.6	We get questions, a lot of questions here at Cross-Examined.
0:31.7	If you have a question, send a question into hello at cross-examine.org.
0:36.5	I apologize if we can't get to all of them, but
0:39.0	on these midweek podcasts, we quite often try and answer these questions. So let me deal with
0:46.2	those two here in this program. But before I do, we got lots of feedback from the three shows
0:53.7	that we had recently dealing with the end times,
0:56.8	one on the end times, and a couple on the book of revelation. I want to update and respond to a
1:04.0	couple of comments that have been made mostly in the YouTube videos. First of all, I want to
1:08.7	clarify, just to be clear here, that when I was talking about
1:13.8	end times in the first show, the main point is this. Even if the dispensational pre-trib
1:22.5	rapture view is true, you should not be date setting. Say, you know what, Jesus is going to come at any time now
1:30.5	and here's the time he's coming. We know he's going to come at any time, but we don't know when he's
1:35.3	coming. We talked about that quite a bit on that podcast. Jesus pointed out that no one will know
1:42.8	the day, the hour, the times, or the season, that he's
1:45.5	going to come as a thief in the night.
1:46.8	So we're contradicting Jesus.
1:48.1	If we come up with these date-setting times, we start date-setting and say he's going to come
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