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Questions and Answers with Hank

October 7, 2011 Hank shares on the way Mormon Church has a P.R. department better than anyone else, which tries to make Mormonism sound like Christianity, but such is like trying to say a cat is a dog. Find out more in the Memorable Keys to the M-O-R-M-O-N Mirage...

Questions and Answers with Hank

October 6, 2011 Hank clarifies the official Mormon position on the conception of Jesus, specifically the Latter-day Saints [LDS] teaching on the Father having sexual relations with the Virgin Mary (0:38) Questions / Comments Response to caller citation of 1 Nephi...

Questions and Answers with Hank

October 5, 2011 Hank shares on Memorable Keys to the M-O-R-M-O-N Mirage and responds to a letter from Brad, a Mormon listener (0:33) Questions / Comments What about the role of the prophetic voice and modern-day prophets? (9:09) What about those who have never heard...

Questions and Answers with Hank

June 30, 2011 Questions / Comments What verses support Jesus’ suffering more than the cumulative sufferings of all humanity? (0:45) Have a friend who rejected Jesus and was influenced by Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman. (7:15) Are tattoos ok? (26:20) Was the Immanuel...

Questions and Answers with Hank

June 24, 2011 Hank addresses the popular claim about fossilized human footprints being discovered alongside dinosaur footprints proving a 6000 -year-old creation (0:34) Comments / Questions How to share about what the Bible says about dinosaurs? (4:38) Wondering about...

Exposing the Intellectual Bankruptcy of Atheism

Many Christians may have been shocked at Ben Stein’s 2008 documentary Expelled, which exposed the closed-mindedness of many university and post-graduate school leaders around America. The film documented how educators who dared question the theory of evolution...

A Reasonable Belief

This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 31, number 6 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Since 9/11, many in the “New Atheism” movement have done their...

LDS Church Acknowledges Anniversary’s Ban on Priesthood for Blacks

On June 8, 1978, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS or Mormon Church) gave an announcement that many Mormons never expected to hear in their lifetimes. Today Official Declaration—2 is found in the back of the LDS scripture Doctrine and Covenants and...

Questions and Answers with Hank

June 10, 2011 Hank Hanegraaff answers the question: What is your authority? (0:31) Questions / Comments 62 years old, Vietnam veteran, had conversion experience, converted to Mormonism, prayed about the Book of Mormon, found passages in Book of Mormon like the Bible....

Questions and Answers with Hank

April 8, 2011 Hank shares on how hell disappeared in the kingdom of the cults a long time ago, as in the cases of Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormonism, but universalism is gaining ground in Christian circles (0:39) Comments / Questions Do humans consist of spirit, soul,...

Questions and Answers with Hank

February 21, 2011 Hank shares the testimony of Michelle who came out of Mormonism (0:33) Questions / Comments I am having a discussion on the two natures of Christ. Did Christ have two spirits, a human spirit, and a divine spirit? (5:30) What is the sin leading to...

Questions and Answers with Hank

Hank shares a word on wisdom (0:28) Questions / Comments What about the Urantia Book? (1:50) Where does gambling stand in the Christian life? (4:53) Became a Christian at a very young age. Committed a sin a long time ago, but I am too ashamed to share about it with my...

Finding Faith through Fiction

The mixing of philosophy or theology with fictional literature is certainly not a novel idea. British thinker C. S. Lewis used this technique with flair. While he showed his deep thinking with Mere Christianity, Lewis also penned The Chronicles of Narnia, the...

Engaging Culture with Truth

With the Christian worldview under heated attack, Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, uses bite-sized chapters in his newest book to address challenging cultural issues. Mohler—a columnist, blogger, and radio...

Creation: Full of Bad Design and Pointless Waste?

The explosion of intelligent design (ID) is undoubtedly one factor that has united the efforts of the New Atheists such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. There is another, lesser-known group that has also been provoked by the progress of ID: theistic...

Questions and Answers with Hank

August 31, 2010 Questions/Comments Genesis 16 account of Abraham and Sarah using Hagar as a surrogate to bear an offspring, which then created problems with Hagar, her child Ishmael, and Sarah and Abraham. Do the same problems illustrated in the Bible repeat...

Questions and Answers with Hank

August 31, 2010 Questions / Comments Did Jesus command us to avoid certain foods? (0:32) Glenn Beck and Mormonism. Do they worship the same God as Christians? (2:57) Peter crucified upon the cross upside down? (5:13) What about Jack Deer and Mike Bicke with the...

Questions and Answers with Hank

May 31, 2010 Questions / Comments How to explain to youth group about slain in the spirit happening at prayer times (2:09) What are the dubious beliefs about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s theology? (4:51) Female friend says she gets sexually aroused when she thinks of...

Questions and Answers with Hank

April 9, 2010 Hank shares on how there are so many preachers who wrongly teach that anytime a believer has a problem receiving a healing that believer suffers from the ignorance of God’s Word. Truth is the false teachers who have miscarried justice, righteousness, and...

Questions and Answers with Hank

September 23, 2009 Questions / Topics 27-year-old son identifies as an agnostic Christian. Contradiction? What of his salvation? (1:20) Concerning the effect that sin has upon a Christian, is it possible to live a consistent life without an up and down struggle with...

Questions and Answers with Hank

August 18, 2009 Questions: Did Muhammad receive his revelations in the same way as Joseph Smith did for the Book for Mormon? Moroni inspired both Islam and Mormonism? (7:31) Are we to have total abstinence of alcoholic beverage or drink in moderation? (12:39) Are...

Satanism

Satanism

Volume 28/Issue 5 To purchase this individual issue click here. Contents: From the Editor: The Proper Basis and Spirit for Discernment Ministry by Elliot Miller Feature Articles: Satanism: A Taste for the Dark Side by Richard G. Howe The Essential Doctrines of the...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Bible Versions

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Bible Versions

To purchase this individual issue click here. Contents:  From the Editor: <What Are We to Teach about How to Handle Scripture? by Elliot Miller Feature Articles: Bible Versions: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part One) by James R. White Faith’s Psychology and the...

Left Behind

Left Behind

Volume 24/Issue 4 Contents:  From the Editor: The Peril of Newspaper Eschatology by Elliot Miller Feature Articles: When Truth Gets Left Behind by Gene Edward Veith Life in the Big Tent: Traditional Creationism and the Intelligent Design Community by Paul A. Nelson...

Homosexuality: Fact and Fiction

Homosexuality: Fact and Fiction

1992 Summer Contents: The Near-Death Experience: Alternative Explanations (Part 2) by J. Isamu Yamamoto Homosexuality: Fact and Fiction by Joseph P. Gudel Mormonism and the Question of Truth by Latayne C. Scott Witnessing Tips: Sharing Your Faith with Asian Americans...

How Wide Is the Mormon Divide?

One of the questions I get over and over again is "How wide is the divide between Mormonism and Christianity? Is it really substantive?" Well, in 1997 Stephen Robinson, a professor at a Mormon university, BYU, and Craig Blomberg, a professor at a Christian seminary,...

Muhammad: Prophet of God

This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number1 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org With the publication of Robert Millett’s A Different Jesus,1 major...

Are Mormons and Muslims Apples and Oranges?

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 4 (2005). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here.   SYNOPSIS When it comes to stereotypical caricatures, Islam and Mormonism could very well be the two...

The Martyrdom of Joseph Smith

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number3 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Critics and supporters agree that the veracity of Mormonism hinges...

Book of Mormon Word Change

This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number3 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org A recent word change to the introduction of the Book...

Is the Book of Mormon Credible?

This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 3 (2005). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org “I am astonished that you are so quickly...

2 Nephi 2 in the Book of Mormon

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 3 (2004). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, emerged on the scene in...

Is Jesus Christ the Spirit Brother of Satan?

This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number2 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org/christian-research-journal/ Chris Wallace: “What...

Joseph Smith’s First Vision Tested

This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume30, number6 (2007). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org The central pillar of historic belief in...

Was Min the True God of Joseph Smith, Jr.?

This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number2 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org There are few better tests of Joseph...

Devout Mormon Mitt Romney Announces 2008 Run for President

This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number1 (2007). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org After many months of hints and media speculation,...

A Different Jesus? The Christ of the Latter-day Saints

This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 4 (2005). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org The advertisement for the book from Eerdmans includes this claim:...

LDS Apologetics and the Battle for Mormon History

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 1 (2005). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org SYNOPSIS Apologetics, historically, has not been a high priority for the...

Mary Magdalene’s Modern Makeover

This article first appeared in the News Watch column of the Christian Research Journal, volume29, number2 (2006). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Revisionist portraits of Jesus promulgated today by...

god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number3 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org Christopher Hitchens does not like “god” one bit. In his polemical...

Navigating the Emerging Church Highway

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 31, number 4 (2008). For further information about the Christian Research Journal, click here.   SYNOPSIS Wading through the entire emerging church milieu is incredibly complicated. In this...

Discerning the Defects of Discernment Ministry

This article first appeared in the From the Editor column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 4 (2005). For more information about the Christian Research Journal, click here.   The Christian Research Institute (CRI) was founded in 1960 for the...

Bible Versions (Part Two)

This article first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 4 (2005).   SYNOPSIS Christians who are serious about the Bible tend to gravitate toward a single version, which results in the tendency to identify versions that differ from their...

Are We Really Willing?

When professor Tatiana came to the Christian Research Institute on a January afternoon, she had one thing in mind: getting help for her people. Tatiana is a language instructor at Moscow State University, and a fairly new Christian. But even as God's love and peace...