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BibleThinker

20 Questions with Pastor Mike (Episode 84)

BibleThinker

Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Here's the link I told you about, for searching on my site for answers to your questions. HERE’S my video on the unforgivable sin. HERE’S my video on how atheist scholar, Bart Ehrman, misleads millions. My goal is to help you on the road to thinking biblically about everything. Question Time Stamps for Quick Reference: 0:00 - Intro 0:39 {Did Jesus Contradict Himself?} Why would Jesus instruct us to let our good works be seen by others (Matthew 5:16) if He also instructed us to do our good works in secret (Matthew 6:1-4)? Am I misunderstanding something? 12:19 {Do Some People Get More Grace?} Romans 5:2 says we stand on grace. In Acts 4:33, it says great grace was upon them all. Does that mean some people have more grace? I’ve heard you say we don't get grace little by little. 18:10 {If You’ve Forgotten a Promise to God} What do you do when you’ve made a promise to God and either forget the specifics of it or forget you’ve made it altogether? 20:58 {Should We Fear Future Events?} What is a healthy way to look at the future with all the disasters in Revelation? I have trouble building up my life without fearing everything will change soon, for the worse. 25:51 {Responding to Pro-Choice Thinking} How can we respond to someone who uses, “A creator has the right to do whatever they want with their own creation” as a pro-choice argument? 30:54 {About “Holy Water” or “Blessed” Objects} A local street preacher uses holy water on the ground, which he says keeps demonic activity from disrupting his preaching. I haven't seen Scripture support this. Is it biblical? 36:18 {About the Millennial Kingdom} If God is eternal and He knows everything from the beginning to the end, then why does He set up a 1000 year Millennium Kingdom? What are the reasons for this, biblically? 42:18 {Perichoresis vs. Modalism} Can you explain the difference between the concepts of perichoresis and modalism? They seem to be very similar ideas on the surface. 46:06 {About Bart Ehrman’s Teachings & Tactics} You have talked about Dr. Bart Ehrman (ex: your “Atheist Scholar Misleads Millions Of People” video). Does he also use these "techniques" on his professional peers? 51:27 {Trusting God when He Seems Silent} What practical steps do you do to trust in the Lord? I frequently have difficulty trusting Him during difficult times, especially when He doesn’t seem to be answering prayer. 59:20 {Were the Nazis Appointed by God?} Were the Nazis as a government authority "appointed by God" according to Romans 13? 1:03:39 {Why did God Send Jacob to Egypt?} In Genesis 12:10, Abraham goes to Egypt. That decision is considered by many as disobedience to God. If going to Egypt is related to a bad decision, why is it that later, God sent Jacob to Egypt? 1:06:30 {Are We Dead to Sin, or Sold Under It?} Why does Paul say "…reckon ye yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God through Christ Jesus our Lord" in Romans 6:11, yet in Romans 7:14, he says, "…but I am carnal, sold under sin"? 1:10:05 {Traditional Preferences over Biblical Theology?} I’m an ex-Catholic, but I’m getting pulled back in. I don’t know why, but I just like praying in Latin, the Rosary, praying to saints, and using scripted prayers because I don’t know how to pray on my own. 1:18:15 {How to Understand the Bible} What is your general advice on understanding Bible verses that we don't understand? 1

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0:00.0

All right, sorry I'm a bit late. Let's get into it. My name is Mike Winger. I'm here to

0:12.5

try to answer your questions on Jesus, the Bible, Christianity, whether that's evidence

0:17.9

for the Christian faith or different types of proofs or maybe pastoral type of advice

0:22.8

or counsel that you might have or just theological questions that you've got. I just promised

0:27.1

not to make up answers and to be open and transparent about where my limits are in my

0:32.5

own knowledge or my own understanding of a thing. And I think by doing this, you learn

0:36.5

how to think of it quickly about everything. And that's why we do these Friday Q and A's.

0:39.8

And so our first question that we've got for today comes in from Malcolm T. And Malcolm

0:46.7

says, why would Jesus instruct us to let our good works be seen by others, Matthew 5.16?

0:53.1

He also instructed us to do our good works in secret, Matthew 6 versus 1 through 4. Am I

0:58.8

misunderstanding something? And this is one of those moments where it's like, hey, did Jesus

1:03.7

contradict himself? And I know it was a younger Christian. Malcolm, I'll tell you it was a younger

1:08.1

Christian. And I don't know how long you've been a believer or not, but I'm just speaking

1:11.5

of myself, not you here. I would get nervous when I saw something like this because you know,

1:16.5

I dealt with a lot of non-believers in my family. Whether they were non-believers or maybe

1:22.1

they just weren't comfortable with the degree to which I was going to follow Jesus and take

1:27.2

it seriously. You know, they just want to be like tone it down a bit. You know, be Christian,

1:30.8

but don't be like that kind of, you know, all all in sort of Christian. And so I dealt with a

1:37.1

lot of that stuff. And it gives you this like awareness of how someone uses a question like this

1:44.7

against the truthfulness of Christianity. And also the more you look into it, the more you study,

1:49.1

the more you realize how silly the whole thing is. So let's dig into this and let's look at

1:53.9

the actual passages. And we will see is Jesus contradicting himself? What is going on here? So

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