Core Christianity

Episode 740 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. I heard your question about if a protestant should marry a Catholic, but I'm going to a Nazarene church and am wondering about my relationship with a woman who is a Seventh-Day Adventist. Is this wise or unwise? 2. In Colossians 2:15, it says Jesus disarmed the rulers and authorities and put the...

Episode 739 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. Does God will all people to be saved? 2. How do we correct our friends who believe in a bad theology with love and respect? 3. I want to walk in God's will for my life, but I don't want to wait around to figure out what it is before doing something with my life. What should I do? 4. Can a Protes...

Episode 738 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. I heard that you are preaching through Genesis. Because of that I thought that you might help me answer a question in Genesis chapter 6. My husband and I are reading Genesis and in verse 2, it says, "the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive," who are the "sons of God" in the...

Episode 737 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. Is it important to remember when you are born again? 2. Has Satan already been bound? 3. Can you truly be saved if you struggle with addiction? I know you can't lose your salvation, but can you lead a double life where you go to bible study and church and yet still struggle with certain addictio...

Episode 736 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. Does God only hear prayers prayed in the name of Jesus? Would a Jew or Muslim prayer be heard or not since its not in the name of Jesus? 2. Will Jews be saved purely based on their ethnicity? 3. A biblical counselor told me that anyone who disagrees with us is our enemy? I thought Satan, sin, an...

Episode 735 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. If someone receives the Mark of the Beast, can they repent of that or is it unpardonable? 2. I am reading a Christian book where the author says that Christians experience heaven differently based on their good works. What do you think about this? 3. What do you think about astrology, should Chr...

Episode 734 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. If God cannot be in the presence of sin, why is Satan allowed to stand in God's presence in the book of Job? 2. Do you know anything about the supposed letters about Jesus's childhood? These stories are from other Gospels not in the Bible, and in them, Jesus's father, Joseph, tells Jesus to stop...

Episode 733 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. I have heard a pastor say that Christians should not take offense to things they see in the culture. Is this right? It seemed that Jesus was offended in the temple where he turned over the tables. 2. My coworker is not a Christian and yesterday his son passed away from cancer. His son wasn't eve...

Episode 732 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. I have heard an explanation that, in Mark 8, Jesus was telling his disciples not to ask for signs and miracles like the Pharisees, but I fail to see how that is the case because no matter how many signs Jesus performed, the Pharisees still never accepted him. So what is Jesus really telling his...

Episode 731 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. Every time I make the conscious decision to get right with God it seems like everything in my life slowly begins to fall apart and I'm really confused by that. Is there a lesson God is trying to teach me here? 2. Is it ok for a Christian to be hypnotized? 3. What is the Abomination of the Desola...

Episode 730 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. I work with first responders and sometimes they have to respond to tragic calls. There is not always a chaplain to help the community members, so what passages in scripture would you recommend first responders to share with people in those scenarios? 2. In John 6:52-53, Jesus says talks about ea...

Episode 729 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. Why is it that Jesus commands us in Matthew 28 to baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but in Acts 8, 10, and elsewhere, the early church is shown to baptize in the name of Jesus? 2. What is prevenient grace and is it biblical? I have heard this said from the pulpit but am no...

Episode 728 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. What was God doing before he created the universe? 2. I am wondering, what does the Bible say about suicide? 3. In 2 Peter 2:20, it seems like Peter is saying people can lose their salvation, but in John 6 and 10 it seems like Jesus says we can't lose our salvation. How do we make sense of these...

Episode 727 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. I know in the Bible that it says that marriage is supposed to be one man and one woman, but where does it say we have to have a written document to legitimize a marriage? 2. If we promote or condone stories that use sorcery, aren't we encouraging the practice of sorcery and suggesting that one s...

Episode 726 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. Lots of people talk about the topic of God's sovereignty as it relates to if we choose God or if God chooses us, but I am wondering if this truth is good news to those who are suffering or does it add to their pain, knowing that God allowed it to happen? Should we not mention it at all to those...

Episode 725 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. What do Jesus's warnings in Matthew 24:20 mean? 2. How do I find rest when I feel like I am experiencing spiritual warfare? 3. My wife and I have stopped attending church and I don't feel that bad about it and this surprises me. Do I have to be apart of a church? 4. Is it ever wrong to keep pray...

Episode 724 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. What does it mean that Jesus "emptied himself," as Paul says in Philippians 2:7? 2. There are so many different denominations, and even within those no one agrees on everything 100%. I am having anxiety about if I don't agree with a certain pastor or elder about everything. Is this ok or what sh...

Episode 723 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. Folks like to say, "if it's good enough for Paul, it's good enough for me." But Paul says that he puts a curse on anybody in the church that doesn't preach the gospel, he says that twice in Galatians quoting from Deuteronomy. And he says in Acts 28 that the gospel he preached was the Gospel of t...

Episode 722 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com 1. If I still sin, am I truly repentant? 2. What was the purpose of God's threat to Moses's life in Exodus 24? 3. How do we know that all of the New Testament epistles are God's inspired word? 4. I was told by a 'reformed' theonomist that the fact that I am a Mexican man and am married to a white w...

Episode 721 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com I called in a few days ago to ask you about if Christians should give money to homeless people. I wanted to let you know that I took your advice and I bought multiple gift cards to hand out to different people who are homeless. I really appreciate your work and ministry—thank you! On a previous pro...

Episode 720 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. Is there a correlation between the scapegoat going to Azazel in Leviticus 16 and Jesus? Or is that too much of a stretch to connect those things? 2. Does the Bible teach that we are assigned guardian angels? 3. Is "Jesus" the real name if the Messiah? 4. What does it mean that Jesus came to "d...

Episode 719 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. I am a new Christian and recognize that women are not qualified to be pastors. But how do we talk to family members who are female pastors and do so lovingly and biblically? 2. When we die, do we go immediately to heaven or do we wait in some kind of soul sleep until Jesus returns? 3. Does 1 C...

Episode 718 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. If what we deserve is eternity in hell, how does Jesus's payment on the cross cover our debt to God since he did not spend eternity in hell? 2. If we are rewarded in heaven, does that mean some will receive more rewards than others and that there will be different levels for believers in heave...

Episode 717 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. How do we make sense of John's vision of Jesus in Revelation 1? 2. Is Jesus still living among us today? 3. Recently my wife and I were talking about Christ on the cross and how he said to the thief that, "today you will be with me in paradise" (Luke 23). But then in John 20 Jesus says to Mary...

Episode 716 | Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions. Show Notes CoreChristianity.com   1. What is theological liberalism? 2. Is God's love conditional in some way? 3. How are those with mental illness judged? 4. Why is Bartimaeus, the blind man the Jesus heals, named in the Gospels and other people Jesus healed not named? Is there some special about Bartimaeus? 5. In Genesis 32 it...