Should Christians Boycott Target?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
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🗓️ 9 June 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Episode 1246 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. Is God condoning adultery and polygamy in 2 Samuel 12?
2. Why are there so many Christian denominations?
3. Should Christians boycott companies like Target and Disney?
4. If we can't lose our salvation why did Jesus heal people and say "sin no more"?
5. Does God cause people to sin as a means to fulfill His will?
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| 0:00.0 | Should Christians boycott target? |
| 0:08.4 | That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. |
| 0:13.2 | 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. |
| 0:21.7 | We would love to hear from you. Our phone lines are open right now, and you can call us on this |
| 0:26.5 | Friday. Here's the phone number. It's 833-the-core. That's 1-833-843-243-2673. And you can call us for the |
| 0:35.7 | next 25 minutes or so, or you can go to our YouTube |
| 0:38.9 | channel, watch Adriel Live in the studio, and send him a question through YouTube. And, of course, |
| 0:43.5 | you can always email us at Questions at Core Christianity.com. First up today, here's a voicemail |
| 0:50.2 | from one of our listeners named Timothy. I would like to ask about 2nd Samuel chapter 12, |
| 0:57.5 | verse 7 and 8, where the Bible tells us that God gave David his master's wives into his bosom. |
| 1:03.9 | And I was wondering, wouldn't that be the definition of adultery, especially since God had |
| 1:09.9 | established 15 commandments about 400 years before |
| 1:12.7 | that. I would like to know your thoughts on why God gave David wives into his bosom. Thank you. |
| 1:20.1 | Yeah, so, I mean, the tension here is, God is, well, one, God is rebuking David. |
| 1:27.3 | Nathan, the prophet, went to David after David sinned in the matter of Bathsheba. |
| 1:32.3 | And Nathan confronts him, says, you are the man, thus says the Lord of the God of Israel. |
| 1:36.3 | I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul, and I gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. |
| 1:50.1 | And so is God condoning adultery here or multiple wives? |
| 1:56.5 | Is he even saying, I gave this to you, David? |
| 2:00.0 | Is that the point here? |
| 2:02.7 | We know that elsewhere in the Torah that God told Israel, and especially the kings in Israel, |
| 2:10.3 | not to take multiple wives. |
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