Is Native American spirituality compatible with Christianity? That's just one of the questions

we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. Well, hi, and happy Friday. 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.

Our phone lines are open and we'd love to hear from you. If you have a question, you can call us for the next 25 minutes or so at this number. It's 8333-the-core. You might want to make a note of that for future reference, 8333 The Core, or 833-843-243-2673.

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First up, we've got a voicemail from two different people,

Jennifer and Sterling from Arkansas.

I am raising my two grandchildren and my grandson, who is eight, we have been studying the

Bible and he has a question for everybody.

I'm Sterling and I have a question and it is how did God start? So he's wanting to know

how did God start. He fascinates me sometimes with these questions and I'm just not sure how to

answer that and I told him about your program and we decided to call in.

So thank you very much. We're excited to hopefully hear our question and he's excited to hear what you have to say.

God bless and thank you. God bless you as well, Jennifer and Sterling. What a great question. Thank you so much for giving us a call with that question. I hope that anytime you have questions, you feel free and excited to give us a call, and we're more than happy to try to answer your questions. And this is a really good one. How did God start? And in fact, Sterling, I'll just say, this is a question that my kids

have asked as well. I have kids who are around your age. And what we believe as Christians is that God

never had a beginning. I know it's hard to kind of wrap our minds around this because, you know,

we have beginnings. We start. You know, we have a mom and a dad. And so many of the things

around us have a beginning. But God is different from his creation. And one of the ways that he's

different is that he never had a beginning. He always was. And the word that we use to describe that

is to say that God is eternal. He always was.

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