How do I know if my faith is genuine?

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

Hi, I'm Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez.

This is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day.

We would love to hear from you. Our phone lines will be open for the next 25 minutes or so. Here's the number to call. It's 833-the-core. That's 1.833-843-243-2673. Of course, you can always post your question on one of our social media sites.

You can watch Adrile right now live in the studio on our YouTube channel, and you can send

us a message that way. And, of course, you can always email us your question at questions

at core Christianity.com. First up, today, here's a voicemail we received from one of our callers earlier this

week. Yeah, I have a question about the second coming of Christ. Jesus says that only the father

knows, the angels know, don't know when he's coming back, but Jesus is God, why did he not know when he would

return? Thanks.

Yeah, thank you for that question. And actually, that verse you bring up is one that has been

used by those throughout the history of the church who have wanted to deny the divinity

of Jesus Christ, who've taught that, you know, Jesus was not God, reject the doctrine of the church who have wanted to deny the divinity of Jesus Christ,

who've taught that Jesus was not God, reject the doctrine of the Trinity today.

People like the Jehovah's Witnesses, for example, in the ancient church there was a group of people

known as the Aryans, followers of an individual named Arias, whose teaching was that there

was a time when the word Jesus was not, that he was a created being.

They would say he was the first created being, but that he was still a creature, not in the

category of creator.

And one of the texts that they would go to was Matthew chapter 24, verse 36, where Jesus said,

but concerning that day and hour, no one knows. He's talking about the coming of the

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