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Questions and Answers with Hank

January 12, 2012 Hank comments on the USA Today Cathy Lynn Grossman article "Mormons Optimistic about Fitting In" (0:35) Questions / Comments We were blessed to birth a new church. Looking into a discipleship program. Found one I sense is almost a kind of legalism....

Questions & Answers and Kenda Dean Interview

November 18, 2011 Questions / Comments: What does the Bible mean by the 144,000 being “marked by the seal” who survive the tribulation? How to look at Revelation as symbols or literarily? (3:21) What about the three levels of heaven talked about by E.W. Bullinger?...

U.S. Senator Defends the Book of Mormon

This review first appeared in the Christian Research Journal, volume 33, number 02 (2010). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org The Book of Mormon has been controversial since it was first published by...

Recognizing and Interpreting Anthropomorphic Language

Recognizing and Interpreting Anthropomorphic Language

This article first appeared in the Practical Hermeneutics column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 33, number 02 (2010).   The term "anthropomorphism," in its restricted sense, refers to the representation of God with the forms of humanity (such as an arm...

Questions and Answers with Hank

October 28, 2011 Hank critiques the authority Mormons place upon the Book of Mormon (0:53) Questions / Comments: How can I witness a religious pluralist? (4:30) Is it ok for a Christian to celebrate Halloween? (7:16) How can I help a friend who is being witnessed to...

Questions and Answers with Hank

October 26, 2011 Hank shares the Mormon moment in history that we are experiencing in the present (0:38) Questions / Comments Why do Christians consider Islam a false religion? (7:58) Mormons stopped polygamy not because of illegalization in America but they done so...

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 4, 2011 Hank shares on the Memorable Keys to the M-O-R-M-O-N Mirage which outlines the way Mormons appear to share the same beliefs and Christianity, but it is a wholly different gospel. (0:38) Questions / Comments   What is the unpardonable sin? (7:33) Is...

Questions and Answers with Hank

September 7, 2011 Hank shares on the practices of Old Testament copyists and the reliability of the transmission of the sacred text (0:32) Questions / Comments Can a Christian lose their salvation? (6:36) Can women serve as deacons in the church? (6:36) Can you...

Questions and Answers with Hank

August 11, 2011 Hank speaks on the question “Has God spoken?” Muslims speak of the Qur’an. Mormons the Book of Mormon. But God has not spoken through the Qur’an and the Book of Mormon (0:33) Questions / Comments Deuteronomy 22:5-7 condemns women wearing pants 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 27, 2011 Hank shares on the Book of Knowledge and the Book of Nature (0:52) Questions / Comments What is the best English Bible translation? (10:02) Can a divorcee after leaving an abusive marriage remarry another divorcee? (21:15) How can I discuss the deity of...

Mormonism with Joel Kramer Part 2

March 16, 2011 Hank Hanegraaff continues the interview with Joel Kramer of Living Hope ministries on the problems with the theological claims of the Book of Mormon. Questions / Comments Since there are lots of scientific problems with the Old Testament, why ignore...

Looking Under the Surface of the Millennial Generation

Looking Under the Surface of the Millennial Generation

Volume 34:Issue 1 To purchase this individual issue click here. CONTENTS: 04 From the Editor Reaching the Children of the Revolution 06 Effective Evangelism Witnessing to Black Theological Liberals 08 Practical Hermeneutics Can a Loving God Hate Someone? Examining the...

Questions and Answers with Hank

October 11, 2010 Hank comments on the USA Today Forum op-ed article “Science and religion aren’t friends: religion in America is on the defensive “ by Jerry Coyne (0:52) Questions / Comments Discussing eschatology and end times in young adult group. Like the idea of...

Questions and Answers with Hank

October 4, 2010 Hank shares on the undeniable fact that human life begins at conception and about meeting the Elise, who was a frozen embryo, but she was adopted by parents who brought her to maturity.  (0:030). Questions / Comments Can you explain the letter S in the...

The Need for Doctrine in a Biblically Illiterate Culture

Well it’s finally out. The US Religious Knowledge Survey was released today by the Pew Forum on religion and public life. This religious knowledge survey says that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons, a group adding up to less than 7% of all Americans, scored the...

Questions and Answers with Hank

September 28, 2010 Hank comments on the findings in the US Religious Knowledge Survey 2010, which found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons, a group adding up to less than 7% of all Americans, scored the highest on understanding world religions. The survey...

Questions and Answers with Hank

August 16, 2010 Questions / Comments How to evangelize Mormons? (0:37) Address problems with couples living together outside of marriage. Sharing Christian ideals of marriage with non-Christians (4:01) Responding to public controversy about Muslims building a Mosque...

Questions and Answers with Hank

August 6, 2010 Hank comments on taking on the mark of the beast and the FDA approved Verichip technology (0:42) Questions / Comments Work at company that uses RFID tech but heard criticism it is intrusive to privacy (3:36) Is tithing for the net or gross income?...

Questions and Answers with Hank

June 22, 20 Hank interviews Chad Meister on his Christian Research Journal article “Atheists and the Quest for Objective Morality” (0:35) Questions / Comments What about the Joel Osteen saying Mormons being “born again” on Larry King (22:52) What about spiritual...

Arnold Murray and the Shepherd’s Chapel

A teacher who has recently become popular over television is a man named Arnold Murray of the Shepherd’s Chapel in Gravette, Arkansas. We at the Christian Research Institute do not endorse the teachings of Arnold Murray. This paper will demonstrate why we consider Mr....

Questions and Answers with Hank

September 17, 2009 Questions: Ezekiel 28 talks about Lucifer. Did God know Lucifer was going to rebel? How does this square with God’s regret on account of Adam’s fall? (3:10) God wanted to wipe out mankind, the birds, and so forth, and start over with the Flood....

Questions and Answers with Hank

August 27, 2009 Hank shares that new dangers of Word of Faith teachers in the twenty first century have arisen which are dealt with in Christianity in Crisis 21st Century (0:47) Questions: Many Mormons I know have good character. What is dangerous about them? (5:33)...

Questions and Answers with Hank

August 11, 2009 Hank comments on the USA Today article “We believe in evolution and God: Nearly half of Americans still dispute the Indisputable that humans evolved to our current form over millions of years. We’re scientist and Christians our message to the faithful...

The Trinity and Submission

The Trinity and Submission

Volume 31:Issue 1 Contents: Feature Articles: Is the Son Eternally Submissive to the Father? An Egalitarian-Complementarian Debate by Kevin Giles and Robert Letham Civilization and Its “Malcontent”: Sigmund Freud and the Problem of Guilt by C. Wayne Mayhall The...

Hell as Eternal Conscious Punishment

Hell as Eternal Conscious Punishment

Volume 30:Issue 4 To purchase this individual issue click here. CONTENTS: 03 From the Editor 10 Effective Evangelism Apologetic Nonstarters: Arguments to Avoid in Defending Christianity 12 The Dark Side of Eternity: Hell as Eternal Conscious Punishment by Robert A....

The Apocalypse Code

The Apocalypse Code

Volume 30:Issue 2 To purchase this individual issue click here. Contents: Feature Articles: Apocalypse When? by Hank Hanegraaff Neither Hindu nor Muslim: Inside the Universal Brotherhood of Sikhism by Natun Bhattacharya and C. Wayne Mayhall Storytelling as Subversive...

Christian Response to Gay Rights

Christian Response to Gay Rights

Volume 29:Issue 6 To purchase this individual issue click here. Contents: From the Editor: Look! The Emperor Has No Clothes by Elliot Miller Feature Articles: Speaking of Homosexuality: A Christian Response to the Arguments of the Gay Rights Movement by Joe Dallas...

Undoing the Death of God

Undoing the Death of God

Volume 28/Issue 4 To purchase this individual issue click here. Contents: From the Editor: Discerning the Defects in Discernment Ministry by Elliot Miller Feature Articles: Holocaust Apologetics: Undoing the Death of God by Barry R. Leventhal Bible Versions (Part 2)...

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...

Near-Death Experiences: Research Update

Near-Death Experiences: Research Update

Volume 26/Issue 2 From the Editor: Books, Books, and More Books by Elliot Miller Current State of NDE Research (Part One) by Michael Sabom The Great Divide: The Church and the Postmodernist Challenge by Don Williams Should We Keep the Sabbath? by James Borland Book...

Operation Rescue / Civil Disobedience

Operation Rescue / Civil Disobedience

1995 Spring Contents: Feature Articles: Tibetan Buddhists: Exiled from Their Homeland, Extolled in the West by J. Isamu Yamamoto Close Encounters of the Celestial Kind: Evaluating Today’s Angel Craze by Ron Rhodes Psychology and the Church: The “Biblical Counseling”...

Identity

Identity

1992 Fall To purchase this individual issue click here. Contents: Feature Articles: Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism: Mystical Materialism for the Masses by John Weldon Catholicism for the New Age: Matthew Fox and Creation-Centered Spirituality by Mitchell Pacwa Identity: A...

Channeling

Channeling

1988 Winter/Spring Contents: Feature Articles: Channeling: Spiritistic Revelations for the New Age  by Elliot Miller News Watch: Watchtower Instructs Followers to Breach Professional Confidentiality by David A. Reed Witnessing Tips: Witnessing to Mormons—Some First...

Why Mormonism Isn’t Christian (part 2)

Click Here to listen Mormons do not believe that the Bible is the infallible repository for redemptive revelation. In their view it's the Book of Mormon that is the most correct of any book on earth. Not only so, but in Christianity Jesus is the self-existent Creator...

Why Mormonism Isn’t Christian (part 1)

Click Here to listen The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was birthed back in the 1800s by an alleged vision in which two celestial personages appeared to Joseph Smith and claimed that all existing churches were wrong, that all their creeds were an...

The First Born Over All Creation

Click Here to listen   I do an "Ask Hank" column in the Christian Research Journal, and in the current edition of the Journal I deal with the issue of how the eternal Son of God can at once be the firstborn over all creation and yet the eternal Creator of all...

Jehovah’s Witnesses

Mormons are not the only non-Christian cult. There are Jehovah's Witnesses who believe that Christianity died with the last of the apostles. They believe that Christianity was not resurrected until their founder, Charles Taze Russell, began organizing the Watchtower...

Is Polygamy Biblical?

Polygamy has been in the news as a result of Warren Jeffs and the child custody case that's become so prevalent in the news. As a result a lot of people are asking questions about polygamy, questions like "Is this not consistent with what the founder of the Mormons...

Benny Hinn/Kenneth Copeland/Todd Bentley

I get a lot of letters that come across my desk and some of them are letters from people who are just plain angry. Why are they angry? They don’t like what I’m saying about some of their favorite teachers. I recently got a letter from a man named William...

Do Works Contribute to or Confirm Salvation?

This article first appeared in the Practical Hermeneutics column of the Christian Research Journal, volume31, number1 (2008). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org “Don’t Mormons believe that...

Time for a Second Wind

This article first appeared in the From the Editor column of the Christian Research Journal, volume29, number5 (2006). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org Christians who have grasped the value of...

Worldview Awareness

This article first appeared in the Effective Evangelism column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 28, number 3 (2005). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: https://www.equip.org For centuries most people throughout...