Should Evangelicals Observe Lent?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Episode 914 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. If the Bible was written by men, how can it truly be considered God's Word?
2. With Ash Wednesday coming up, I am wondering why it has become a sort of debate and topic of discussion for evangelicals. Catholics seem to have always observed Ash Wednesday and Lent, and some evangelicals see observing it as cool and hip, while others think it's entirely unbiblical. What are your thoughts are on the merits of observing or refusing to observe Lent?
3. Where in the Bible does it teach about the sovereignty of God?
4. What is the significance of the cleansing of the unclean animals in Mark 7?
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| 0:00.0 | Should evangelicals observe Lent? That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's |
| 0:11.4 | edition of Core Christianity. Well, hi, I'm Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez. This is the |
| 0:17.5 | radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. |
| 0:22.7 | We'd love to hear from you, and you can call us right now with your question at 8333-the-core. |
| 0:28.8 | Our phone lines will be open for the next 25 minutes or so, so jump on the phone right now. |
| 0:33.0 | Give us a buzz, 833-843-2673. |
| 0:37.1 | You can also post your question on one of our social media sites. You can join |
| 0:41.3 | Adriel Live in the studio right now through our YouTube channel. And of course, you can always |
| 0:46.3 | email us your question at Questions at Core Christianity.com. First up today, let's go to David |
| 0:53.5 | calling in from Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
| 0:55.8 | David, what's your question for Adriel? |
| 0:58.9 | Hi, Adriel. Yeah, my question was related to something that I hear some Christians ask, |
| 1:05.0 | believe it or not, some friends have asked, or whenever I talk about defending the Bible and saying what the Bible says about certain things, some of them will respond that, well, the Bible's just written by men, and it's outdated. |
| 1:22.1 | How can you trust it? |
| 1:23.6 | And so, you know, first of all, that's surprising me. |
| 1:26.4 | It's from them, but then I just |
| 1:27.9 | kind of wonder how you might respond to something like that. |
| 1:31.7 | Yeah, thank you for that question. I mean, it sounds like there are two things there, right? |
| 1:35.1 | The claim that it's simply written by men, therefore it cannot be inspired by God. |
| 1:41.7 | And then, number two, just that it's irrelevant, that the Bible is outdated. |
| 1:47.2 | With regard to the first piece there, it is true that the Bible was written by men, that God |
| 1:53.9 | used men to write the word. But these individuals were inspired by the Holy Spirit so that they are communicating to us God's |
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