Is It Biblical to Pray for Loved Ones Who Have Died?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
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🗓️ 1 November 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Episode 1088 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. Why is baptism referred to as a sign of judgment in the Bible?
2. In John 4, does Jesus teach that we should only worship the Father and not him?
3. Is it biblical to pray for family members who have died?
4. How can I meditate on God's Word without practicing Eastern or transcendental meditation?
5. What is the difference between infant baptism or baby dedications?
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| 0:00.0 | Is it biblical to pray for loved ones who have died? |
| 0:09.2 | That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. |
| 0:14.1 | Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and you are listening to the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. |
| 0:23.6 | Our phone lines are open right now. You can call us for the next 25 minutes or so. Here's the phone number. It's 833-the-core. That's 1.833-843-243-2673. Now, you can also post your question on one of our social media sites, and you can always |
| 0:39.4 | email us at Questions at Core Christianity.com. And first up today, we do have an email. This is from |
| 0:46.6 | Craig. He says, hi, Pastor Adriel. We wanted to let you know that our small group is enjoying the Jonah |
| 0:52.4 | Bible study immensely. Thank you. We are now in |
| 0:55.6 | lesson number five, and we're finding we need some clarification in the segment titled |
| 1:00.1 | Waters of Judgment. It says that the waters of baptism also represent judgment. This is a new |
| 1:06.9 | perspective that we've not heard before, and we'd appreciate any further explanation |
| 1:11.1 | that would help us understand it more. We continue to be big fans of core Christianity, |
| 1:15.8 | and we're looking forward to your further Bible studies. |
| 1:19.2 | Hey, Craig, thank you for that. Encouragement. I had a blast preaching through Jonah some years |
| 1:24.6 | ago. Actually, right now, Bill, I'm reading through the book of Jonah |
| 1:27.5 | with my kids. I mean, it's a short book, but we've been doing a chapter every morning. So we just |
| 1:31.2 | read chapter three this morning. And Jonah is an amazing book because you have all of these types |
| 1:38.3 | and shadows of Christ. I mean, obviously Jonah there in the belly of the whale for three days, |
| 1:45.9 | crying out to the Lord in this picture of resurrection, you know, being spewed out there on the shores of Nineveh. But with |
| 1:50.9 | regard to this idea of baptism as a kind of judgment, I think it's a great question. It's |
| 1:57.6 | something we don't oftentimes talk about when we're talking about baptism. Baptism is this picture of judgment. But it's a great question. It's something we don't often times talk about when we're talking about |
| 2:01.3 | baptism. Baptism is this picture of judgment, but it's just frankly what we see in scripture. |
| 2:06.9 | You remember that the flood, for example, in Genesis chapter 6 is referred to as a type of baptism |
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