Why Does the Bible Call Satan the "God of this World"?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
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🗓️ 27 October 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Episode 1085 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions.
Questions in this Episode
1. What do you think of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his theological views?
2. Can someone really be saved if they don't do good works or have fruit in their life?
3. Why Does the Bible Call Satan the "God of this World" in 2 Corinthians 4:4 and John 12?
4. How can I move beyond the guilt of my past sins?
5. How can we show Christian love with those we politically disagree with?
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| 0:00.0 | If Jesus defeated Satan, then why does the Bible call him the God of this world? |
| 0:11.4 | That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. |
| 0:16.4 | Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, |
| 0:19.3 | and this is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. We would love to hear from you, and here's our phone number. It's 833-3-the-core. That's 1-833-843-26-7. You can also post your question on one of our social media sites. In fact, we have a YouTube channel, and you can watch Adriel right now live in the studio and send him your question through YouTube. |
| 0:43.9 | And you can always email us your question at Questions at CoreChristianity.com. |
| 0:49.9 | First up today, let's go to David, calling in from beautiful Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
| 0:54.1 | Hey, David, how are you? |
| 0:55.7 | Good. |
| 0:56.2 | How are you? |
| 0:56.8 | Thank you for taking my call. |
| 0:59.8 | Pastor Adriel, I wanted to ask you about, I wanted to ask you a question in regard to Eric Metaxus book on Dietrich Bonhoeffer and actually about |
| 1:15.6 | just him in general because I know that you've recommended some of his works and I know |
| 1:21.2 | that Eric Metaxus recommends him and after a lot of other evangelicals but what I was |
| 1:26.3 | wondering about was because I've also heard some controversial things about him, |
| 1:30.3 | that he still had, I guess, a liberal lean, like with Paul Barth, |
| 1:36.3 | and also that he even rejected apologetics, and that he denied biblical and herency. |
| 1:42.3 | So I wanted to know what you know about the truth about |
| 1:44.9 | Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Hey, thanks, David, for that question. I've actually not read |
| 1:49.7 | Mettaxas' book. I've read some Bonhoffer, not a ton, but I think I've also heard that, |
| 1:57.5 | at least with regard to his views on scripture, especially later in life, |
| 2:18.3 | that there are some really serious issues. So, you know, I think with anybody that we read, we want to be discerning, you know, there are some people I think that we just should avoid altogether if they're, if they're teaching things that are really deceptive, heretical. Then there are other people that we can glean from and say, okay, look, I don't, I don't agree with him on this issue, but I think he does a good job here. |
| 2:18.3 | And one of the things that I can glean from and say, okay, look, I don't agree with them on this issue, but I think he does a good job here. |
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