When is commenting about another person gossip, and when is it just giving an opinion about that person and their questionable actions?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Hi, it's 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. Our phone

lines are open. Here's the number to call. It's 833 The Core. That's 1, 833, 843-2673. You can also

email us any time at Questions CoreChristianity.com. First up today, let's go to Ryan

calling in from Oklahoma. Ryan, what's your question for, Adriel? My question is in Mark, I think,

chapter three, it's when Jesus removes the dude from the guy that's, you know, in the

graveyard and he cast a request and he put in the pigs and he obeys that. And then the pig just

run off the belt and went in the water. I just confused where the demons go.

I just don't understand why the digos is just what I run the pigs over the edge.

They're going in the abyss or where they go or there.

I just wasn't sure where they went.

Okay.

So I think that the text you're thinking about is in Mark chapter 5, and Jesus heals a man who is demon-possessed.

And as a result, I mean, there's this whole scene.

Verse 9, Jesus asked him, what is your name?

And he replied, my name is legion,

for we are many. And there the demons are speaking. And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country. Now, a great herd of pigs was feeding there on the hillside. And what's

interesting about this is pigs were, of course,

unclean animals for the Jews. So you have this unclean animal. And this man who is in this state of

uncleanness, he's possessed by a legion of demons. And they begged him, saying, send us to the pigs,

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