Is our president appointed by God? 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.

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First up today, let's go to Michelle calling in from Ohio.

Michelle, what's your question for, Adrial?

Hi, yes. Thank you for taking my call.

I'm just kind of confused about Romans 3, where it says no one seeks God, that God has to basically seek you. But it says in Jeremiah, you'll seek me and find me when you're searching me with all your heart.

I was told that we were not supposed to seek God's, like, forgiveness or his blessing.

Just seek him for himself.

And after you seek him for himself, after you seek him for himself then you become a Christian but

aren't we supposed to seek God for forgiveness so like how do you purely seek God I'm sorry if I

don't know how to explain no Michelle that that was quite articulate and and wonderful question. So the first thing is the passage

that you bring up in Romans chapter 3. And context is always important when we're thinking about

interpreting the Bible. Here in the context of the book of Romans, the apostle Paul is highlighting

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