Is It OK to Pray to Christian Saints?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Episode 1018 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. How do I forgive a Christian who continually hurts and sins against me?
2. I believe the Catholic teaching about praying to the saints essentially says that as we live life, we often forget who came before us. So Roman Catholics would not truly pray to saints, but they remember how God was faithful and close to the saints of old. What do you think of this?
3. Are there different classes of Christians?
4. What does it mean that we are made in the image of the triune God if we are not triune?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is it okay to pray to Christian saints? |
| 0:08.7 | That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. |
| 0:13.9 | Hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program |
| 0:18.2 | where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian |
| 0:21.5 | life every day. Here's our phone number, and you can call us right now for the next 25 minutes or so |
| 0:26.8 | at 833 The Core. That's 1, 833, 843-243-2673. Of course, you can always post your question |
| 0:35.0 | on one of our social media sites. You can watch Adriel Live in the studio right now on our YouTube channel and send him a question |
| 0:42.3 | that way. |
| 0:43.0 | And, of course, you can always email us your question at Questions at CoreChristianity.com. |
| 0:49.3 | Well, let's go to the phones. |
| 0:50.6 | Dee is on the line from Nashville, Tennessee. |
| 0:53.5 | Dee, what's your question for, Adriel? |
| 0:56.2 | Hello, gentlemen. I've noticed that the preaching and teaching that I've heard about forgiveness |
| 1:02.0 | tends to focus on past incidents when there is some distance between the offender and the |
| 1:08.8 | offender, and that seems easy enough to understand. |
| 1:11.6 | You're no longer going to feel the hurt feelings towards that person, so you can be fairly certain when you have forgiven them. |
| 1:17.6 | I'm wondering about situations where the offense is ongoing. |
| 1:22.6 | You can't really put any distance between yourself and the other person. |
| 1:26.6 | And maybe you have tried to confront |
| 1:28.8 | them and they're not showing any willingness to repent or apologize or change anything. And |
| 1:34.5 | therefore, the offense is likely to continue indefinitely. How then, if those hurt feelings are |
| 1:40.6 | probably going to continue, how can you know that you have forgiven them? |
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