What If the Resurrection Is Just a Metaphor?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
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🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Episode 1200 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. How does it make sense that Jesus was dead for three days even though it was just from Friday to Saturday?
2. What does it mean that "love never fails" in 1 Corinthians 13?
3. Do the Pharisees in Matthew 13 demonstrate that we have free will to deny Christ?
4. Can Christianity still be true of the resurrection is a metaphor?
5. How can I move from fear in hell to joy in Christ?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Could the resurrection be just a metaphor? |
| 0:08.8 | That's one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. |
| 0:13.6 | Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program |
| 0:18.0 | where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian |
| 0:21.0 | life every day. You can call us right now with your question at 8333-3-3-2-6-73. You can also post your |
| 0:31.8 | question on one of our social media sites, and of course you can always email us at questions |
| 0:36.7 | at core Christianity.com. So Pastor Adriel, I of course, you can always email us at Questions at Core Christianity.com. |
| 0:39.7 | So, Pastor Adriel, I have to ask you a question. You have five kids in your house from like, |
| 0:44.7 | what about, 11 down to 1, to 1. Do you take them on Easter egg hunts? |
| 0:51.9 | Oh, good question, Bill. Yeah, I know that that's the thing this time of the year. |
| 0:56.2 | So actually what we do is a lot of times we get together with my family, extended family, |
| 1:00.9 | and we'll meet up at a park after church and have some food, barbecue. |
| 1:06.3 | And usually someone will hide Easter eggs. |
| 1:10.5 | Uh-huh. That's typically not me. Usually it's, you know, And usually someone will hide Easter eggs. |
| 1:12.4 | That's, that's typically not me. |
| 1:17.8 | Usually it's, you know, grandma or some of the, some of the aunts or something like that. |
| 1:23.7 | And so I think we're planning to do that, you know, this, this upcoming Sunday, we're excited about that. |
| 1:24.3 | That should be fun. |
| 1:28.7 | Usually, actually, grandma has like one special egg, the golden egg, and she'll put $20 in it or something like that and that's the egg that's the |
| 1:31.6 | I know she's she's generous and and so that's the one that everybody's looking for |
| 1:37.6 | including me I mean if I find that egg I'm I'm keeping that one but otherwise you know |
| 1:42.4 | it's just candy and all that stuff so how about the I mean your kids a little bit older now, so I'm guessing they don't do the Easter egg hunt thing. But did you, as they were younger? Oh, yeah. You know, interestingly enough, a few years ago, when they were younger, my wife used to put one on for the neighborhood kids. Oh, cool. And so she would invite all the neighbors to come over, |
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