How can we be sure that the Bible was written without error?

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, and this is the radio program

where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. You can call us right now with your question. Here's our phone number. It's 8333-the-core. Our phone lines will be open for the next 20 minutes or so. 833-843-2673. Now you can also post your question on one of our social media sites. You can also

watch Adrile live in the studio right now on our YouTube channel and send him your question that

way. You can also email us anytime at Questions at CoreChristianity.com. First up today, here's a voicemail

from one of our listeners named Paul.

I was wondering if mediums have the power to call somebody out of the presence of the Lord,

kind of based on the story in the Old Testament about Saul. So that's my question.

It's an excellent question. And this is a difficult passage because it does seem to indicate that this medium

had the ability to speak to the dead to call Samuel down.

And there are a couple of ways that people have taken this text in particular.

Some people say, well, this was all theatrics.

This didn't really actually happen.

No, I mean, it does seem to me

when you read this text, like Samuel does appear. And what he speaks to Saul is true. It really is

a terrifying passage of scripture, a sobering, scary text of the Bible. I'm going to read the text.

This is really coming to the end of Saul's life and his ministry.

He's being rejected by the Lord because he disobeyed the word of the Lord.

In verse 3, it says Samuel had died and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city.

And Saul had put out the mediums and

the necromancers out of the land. The Philistines assembled and came and encamped at Shunim.

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