May 30, 2012

Hank comments on why theistic evolution is the worst of all possibilities on the issue of the origin of life (0:52)

Questions / Comments

  • What is the significance of the transfiguration? Significance of Moses and Elijah appearing as opposed to two angels? (4:48)
  • This is the only instance where two people came back. What is the significance of this? (6:36)
  • Is Isaiah 65:17-25 talking about the millennium? Could there be death in the millennium? (8:12)
  • Does the thousand years in the millennium mean we will be with the Lord forever? (13:05)
  • What if we “press the language” when Jesus says, “No man can come to Me, unless My Father draws Him”? Does this mean we cannot come to God in our fallen state? (14:09)
  • I am a theistic evolutionist. I prayed to God about theistic evolution. God told me to continue study the topic. Can you clarify the words “kind” and “species” regarding evolution? (20:48)
  • Consider the cat example. A cat has a mother, that cat has a mother, that cat has a mother, and go back a hundred generations and you might come upon an animal that is different than a cat (21:52)
  • I would be very careful to not use the term “theistic evolution” because of the loaded language. (24:21)
  • I have a question on gay marriage. I am Methodist. Is it possible that Paul would not have conceived of homosexual practice, as we know it today, to be a sin? (26:15)
  • I am researching not adding nor subtracting from the Bible. Why isn’t Deuteronomy 12:32 missing in the Hebrew Tanakh and Septuagint but only in the Latin Vulgate? (38:43)
  • My husband and I have a large family. Two of them were high risk. Is it okay for my husband to have a vasectomy based on Leviticus and 1 Corinthians? (42:00)
  • What about the commandment regarding cutting yourself in the Old Testament? Does this apply to a vasectomy? (43:36)
  • What happens to people who have never heard the gospel? They live in countries where Christianity is suppressed. They never hear the gospel. Do they go to hell? Why aren’t the Gnostic Gospels included in the Bible? (46:03)

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