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Happy Friday it is welcome again to call the communion in the program for a Catholic brothers and sisters if you've got a question about the Catholic faith and you just don't know who to turn till you're certain late willing to you're certainly able and invited to call us at 18058593961805859396 we're here to answer those questions you may have if you are in a texting mood you can certainly text the letters e.w.t.n. . And 255000 wait for the automated response and then that text as your 1st name and your brief question message and data rates may apply again the phone number 180-585-9396 you can e-mail us 247 c.t.c. At e.w.t.n. Dot com Michael McCall is our producer Maggie Bensky is handling the phones Jeff person is on social media today I'm Tom Price along with Dr David Enders some How are you today I'm doing very well and you had a graduation in your family last night yes my. Child graduated from a Dominican school that he's attended for most of grammar school and they they only go up through 8th grade so it was moving out of. School and. Middle school in high school so I had before mass at the cathedral I recognize the cantor from afar that would be my wife that's exactly right and so it was a beautiful mass and afterwards the rector of the Cathedral of the chancellor paradises soldier about came out he switched out of his vestments and to his head to his academic Beretta if you've never seen one of those it looks like a. Triangular box with a green ball on top that's very cool I really enjoy it now absolutely So congratulations to your son thank you that is awesome Here's an email to start us off Jack in Texas says I would like to hear your response to the following objection raised by some atheists believe in a god people are always going to like the god they believe in is the right one because they will have a bias towards it from their culture their upbringing etc Now I'm a cradle Catholic this question kind of threw me for a loop again from Jack in Texas Yeah really I appreciate the question a lot and I think it goes to the heart of a lot of the atheists misunderstanding of what Catholics claim when they say that they believe in God so there is a kind of a. Patrimony theistic belief that's not unique to Catholicism but you'll find it in the Catholic tradition of the Protestant tradition the Orthodox tradition Islamic tradition the Jewish tradition strands of the hand or tradition arguably even in strands of Mahayana Buddhism. Confucianism. Paganism. Greek and Roman origin and Aristotelian philosophy Platonism you will find it until Titus you will find it. Find it in the indigenous religions of West Africa got to know several West Africans of the last few years and take a personal interest in African indigenous religion and find it is a deep deep tradition of man to theism. In traditional African paganism in fact you find it very very many cultures throughout the world the realization that however many emanations or or stages or or links in the chain there might be in the course the different cosmologies construe this thing a little bit differently that at the at the end of the chain at the back at the beginning at the source and origin of all things there lies some ineffable eternal utterly self-sufficient reality. And that is simply what we mean by the term God and that is far from unique to the Catholic tradition one of my favorite pagan texts philosophical tax is from ancient China it's called The Tao Te Ching but lots too. Well to identify as just you don't know what to call it he just calls it the way you're the Tao and he says I don't know what it is you know I don't know what it is if you think you know you know more than I do but what I do know about it hides itself right it's not visible to the I could I it's. Short of all intellectual categories. And yet it seems to give life and being to all things so I want to be that way I want to be the kind of guy who hides myself who self-effacing but whose life giving in a farming and provide sustenance to others now that's that's an insight that an ancient Chinese philosopher Drew about the ethical life from speculations on natural theology that any contact with the Christian tradition whatsoever at all and that's simply what Saint Paul addenda fison Romans chapter one he says look the truth about God's invisible an affable character and nature and the moral demands that flow from that are evident to everybody from the things that have been made and the history of human religiosity and philosophy bears that out and that's simply what we mean by the word God now to deny that that exists to deny that reality is intelligible in a wide of a 1st cause. Is to claim something that no one except God could ever know. So God is the only person that could ever be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. Wow Wow Jack thank you so much for your e-mail what a great way to start the program in a moment here we'll get to Glenn in the early Iowa we also have a wonderful you too question from neuron Jeff which we will also get to here is our phone number 180-585-9396 or you can tax us text or letters e.w.t.n. 255000 again the number 180585939 sex it's the Friday edition of call to Communion on e.w.t.n. . Here in the template going to. Be $99.00. On the. Little Catholic Radio Network. How about this apple t.v. Allows you to instantly stream e.w.t.n. To your t.v. Get e.w.t.n. Today it's easy all you need is a high speed Internet connection a t.v. And the eval cd player to Lisa tell me oh every time I go to Mass I see my husband serving on the altar as a deacon and it's me with God all things are possible I mean there is no way that we should be still married number one base now the problems we have to let him achieve the 2nd time in captivity and he has been as it is simply a testimony to the power of guide and the teachings of the church and save their marriage and more importantly our souls a Catholic connection with Theresa. Mandate to Friday at 9 am Eastern on e.w.t.n. Radio letting the Beatitudes Because they be aware and bless it are those who are persecuted for rightist mistake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven if you're on a football team I don't want to just run up and down the field in the bar and never cross into the end zone to get attached to you on vacation you want to drive all . Of Truth live carefully. This is a type an equation this is this your brother Barron of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles this is Dr Greg. Thanks for listening to a little. Don't be. Coming into. The Doctor's a little. Time. With one line open right now and 18058593961805859396 before we get to the phones David I want to lead off with this You Tube question from Duran Jeff the ranch it says Could you please explain how a prayer works I appreciate the question so. Prayer is a complex reality by complex I mean it has this more than one part is more than one type so that does not simply one form of prayer. But in the most general terms prayer is is his relationship with God Ok in the most general terms it is intentional relationship with God that can take the form of of vocalizations it can take a form of speaking to God intelligibly intelligibly in language to praise Him to thank them to adore him to invoke him for benefits to ask him for things all right but doesn't it doesn't have to take the form of petition as a very common form of prayer Dear God help me like so I'd say but can also just be an expression of praise and thanksgiving of gratitude God I love you Tom and prayer does not have to involve the use of vocalizations at all either either mentally or or physically with you know the apparatus of the non-elect can also include simple meditation on truth is that we know about God either from Natural Theology like God's existence is goodness is eternity or events from the Gospel we might meditate on the life of Christ if any intentional effort to come into relationship with God at all this is all falls under the rubric of prayer Ok now. When Prayer is specifically petition area when we ask God for things it's very important to realize that we are not changing the mind of God because eternal he's utterly simple he has no parts there are no there are no transitions in God from one state to another state so God can't be is not a god sitting around wondering what to do and then also he gets the mail and says oh it's Or you know Tom Price is question doesn't work that way aren't God already knows the in from the beginning and has planned out the whole course of human history at a single prominent instant of the Divine intellect but in that in that plan God chooses to make use of secondary causes of instruments to bring about his will God doesn't directly calls every single thing that happens you know when I when I put a glass of water on the stove I'm trying to heat on God's not making the water hot the stove makes the water hot true but God's creating and sustaining the conditions that allow for the exits station of the elements that create Caliph But what's the word Kalak ation heating you know yeah Ok right you know the word God allows the Secretary Council well God also use the secondary causes in the spiritual realm All right so he he directly causes he caught not directly he causes the events that he wants to take place but he can do so if he wishes through the instrumentality of human prayer. Yeah so God might inspire me for a sense. To recognize my need for grace. And then determined to give me grace in response to my prayer. But in God that's all a prominent instance you say he's in control the whole time my prayer is not nothing it's not just affection it really is a means that God uses to bring about his will but it's also true that I am not I'm not actively changing God's mind by my activity giggler Gracia Catholic religion that I enjoy is analogies as imagine a giant rock on the edge of a shore and you're setting out a boat and you lasso the rock or you've got a rope tied around rocky start pulling the rope and from one sort of relativistic point of view it looks like you're pulling the rock closer to yourself but we know that's not have that's true you're being drawn closer and closer to the right this is us a good metaphor for the way the petitioner prayer works. As if my producer Michael that this is no ranch Yes Question Could you please explain how prayer works if God is all knowing and he knows already best for you yeah I think I answered that and I very good Let's go to the phones then and talk with Glenn in illing Iowa listening e.w.t.n. On Spirit Catholic radio Glenn what's your question today. So my own. Ended up and. And. And. A. And they have. And I was wondering how do you do. Yeah sure absolutely I really appreciate the question so how shall we differentiate. Eastern Orthodox Christianity from Catholicism Well we're not going to differentiate them by liturgy. He is not simply the use of the Byzantine liturgy because there are Catholics that use the Byzantine liturgy it's not going to be by spirituality because the spirituality of the eastern churches is something that is incorporated within the body of the Catholic faithful is not going to be by the recitation of the created sometimes Orthodox will make a big deal out of the insertion of the feel of a clause that the phrase and to the Son and to the recitation of the concept of Politan nice and creed. But not all Catholics to the Eastern Rite Catholics don't use that phraseology they follow the eastern pattern in reciting the creed so there are a lot of things that differentiate Greek or Russian speaking Christians from the Latin West but those things are what determine the difference between Catholicism and orthodoxy because all of those traditions paraded somewhere somewhere within the body of the Catholic faithful Catholic means more than Roman Catholic means more than Latin Catholic Catholics simply means universal it's the body of all the Christian faithful throughout the world that are in communion in one single Fellowship of the Church founded by Christ continuity you know it's 2000 years of Christian history. And communion with. Our that's that's what Catholic mean so how do we differentiate Catholic from Don Catholic Well the key issue is is that Christian community in communion with the bishop with the sea of Rome. Thank you mean without objection to the authority of Rome right now. From the foundation of the church by Christ. She gave the church a certain constitutional right and that constitution included the primacy of St Peter and it's very obvious from the revelation so in the Gospel of Matthew Chapter 16 he was Jesus he said I will I will my church says to Peter you are the rock and on this rock I will build My Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it many many other instances in Scripture where we identify say period has primacy has a very important role the Constitution of the church and it's the universal belief of east and west. That that Peter's see that his authority passed to the city of Rome so that in the 2nd century. Church Fathers like to. Write in the 3rd book Against Heresies that is a matter of utter necessity that all the churches throughout the world agree with adoption of Rob on account of its preeminence right Stephen and the 2 fifties who clearly indicates his belief not refuted by anybody else that he has his authority as the Roman bishop because he sits in the sea of Peter and you can multiply those Testaments are those those testimonies to the doctrine of Roman primacy Apache and promising not only in the Latin West but also in the Arabic speaking east and the Syria speaking east and the Greeks behaved of Byzantium someone like Maximus the Confessor Byzantine many many Testaments. Ancient Christian history of the primacy as a Russian theologian necklace. Is very explicit about that he's not a Catholic not very explicit about this that. The test case for whether your doctrine was received as orthodox in the 1st 4 centuries of the church was it did did it have the. Rueful of the Roman say. Even even modern Russian theologians like. They never became Roman Catholic recognizes from history and argued for the Doctrine of Primacy right so that's that's universally held throughout the church the modern Eastern Orthodox position really differentiate Eastern Orthodoxy from from Catholicism is is a very specific claim it's the claim that the Pope's the pope's own claim for universal jurisdiction reversal of the of the church that that claim is objective erroneous and heretical and in preference to Papal authority they would they would argue for the authority of church councils so I'm going to come back to my water x. Runs and I'm going to say Fine if that's what you believe show me the church council that defined the doctrine of papal authority as a heresy and there isn't one. Such council but I can give you plenty of councils that recognize the authority of Roman primacy then I ask my Orthodox friends Ok so you believe in the councils which councils. Now here we have a problem because within the body of Orthodoxy there is not agreement about which counsels are authoritative between the Byzantine Orthodox and the Oriental Orthodox there's significant disagreement over which councils are valid documentable So you come back to. How do you know which are the true councils. The ones affirmed by the real church how do you know which is the real Church the one that affirms the real councils say it's a circular you've got to get outside the circle you have to have some objective. Criteria for determining what is or is not a valid Council what is or is not a valid book of the Bible and course we have that Christ gave us that that's the authority of the opposite college with Peter as its head. And so that's that's that's just the constitution the Church established by Christ 2000 years of Christian history sustain. I think you've got a very interesting conversation with your and I would rather resources and one of them is. Nichols is a Dominican and has a really accessible and it's not very friendly but in the eastern churches it really lays out the status of Rome's relationship to Eastern Christianity as a very helpful one the other one which is much more polemical written by a former expression he became Catholic is called The Divine primacy of the bishop of Rome. And I think of his name in just a minute but I'll come back to that kind of puts the cards with the title there yeah sure does Glenn thank you so much for your call our phone number 180-585-9396 look at this James like a set of good l.k. 180-585-9396 let's go to David in St Charles Missouri City e.w.t.n. On covenant radio a David what's on your mind today. I hear a call screener asking. Twice and I had to repeat the question back home twice that has to do with. Sola Scriptura is count spoken down or spoken against the Catholic faith when I hear Jessica apologists trying to answer questions or debating people they sure use the Bible lot so my question is. Testament mainly of the oral tradition that was written down on paper or parchment because when I when I hear you guys talk to gee Bill I never really hear you quote. Some kind of tradition and so on just 100 years ago or whatever century and you quote a New Testament quite a bit so it just seems like it seems strange that you cut down so Mr Turner but on the other hand you use it to answer a lot of questions so I really appreciate it stay with me David this is a wonderful question and we need to draw a couple of distinctions to clarify Ok so Catholics believe that the Bible including the New Testament is the authoritative inspired and inerrant word of God given to us for our salvation that's the Catholic belief about the Bible is revealed by God It's His Holy Word and if God said it then we have every reason in the world to want to read it study it and proclaim it and teach it Ok so in rejecting the doctrine of sola scriptura we are not rejecting Scripture right scripture means we're not rejecting the Scriptures what we are rejecting is the doctrine that the scriptures alone. Are sufficient to give us everything that we need to know about God or the moral life for salvation and we're also rejecting the belief. That the scriptures are only divine authority all right or highest divine authority or that God intends them to be able to answer in every question that we might have about about the Christian life so. I gave you a couple really really put it this way if you ask your Protestant friends to formulate the doctrine of sola scriptura give me a definition and a common definition of the doctrine of sola scriptura is that we can believe no article of faith unless it can be sustained by the teaching of the Bible with no article of faith and less sustainable a teaching the Bible Well I would like to put that challenge to my promise and friends and I would say Ok that's an article of faith but you just articulated is an article of faith we must not believe anything that is not taught in the Bible as an article of faith or saying we must believe it Ok So show me where that article of faith is contained in the Bible where has the Bible taught that we may only believe those things taught in the Bible find the Bible says no such thing. Another difficulty for sola scriptura. In order to have a doctrine of sola scriptura you've got to have a scripture up you have to have a Bible to appeal to the Bible earn a Babel is not one book the Bible is a collection of books compiled over the centuries and you know into Under was single cover guy but the texts of the Bible themselves don't give us a table of contents there's no there's no divinely reveal sources says hey if you want to know the contents of the Bible Here's your list the list was put together by men. Now is the list itself at article of faith. Is For example a question obligated to believe that the Book of Romans should be in the Bible if you say he is obligated to believe that then you're saying the contents of the Bible itself is an article of faith but scripture doesn't specify it's own table of contents the table of contents is drawn up by the church so you have a dilemma either the contents of the Bible are not an article of faith or we don't have to believe them what they are and of and the principle of sola scriptura is violated in the very composition of the Bible itself. But the most important question is how does Jesus intend for the Christian faith to be handed on does Jesus himself ever instruct us to go to the Bible the 27 books of the canonical New Testament and the books of the Old Testament as our rule of faith and the answer is no Jesus Himself gives us instead the principle of tradition and the authority of the Apostles and our successors. 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Right now we're going to go back to the phones and talk with looks like Al in Fort Walton Beach Florida and what's your question today hi how are you today doing great thanks for your call that bit of a dilemma about I was born and raised Catholic and about 89 years I left the Catholic faith because I really want to learn the Bible and it really was never taught to us and they kept it a which it seems like they're now back into it but anyway and I mean it's down think they're going to have Baptist Church because they they really got into this. Like and then I got married hand. And I've got no point where I was really really sick at the bait and been in the south I've been to every denomination you could ever imagine and maybe some you couldn't imagine and none of them have what they can't ask and my problem is I got married to a Pentecostal and they very much are raised to say that Catholics are evil and. So my wife has the barriers up against it. And she doesn't necessarily think it evil but she's. Now for lack of better word brainwashed into or that they are away from Catholicism and now that I'm wanting to get back into the 8 how can I and I said if I pray for my life every day starting with myself that you know her change be broken a binder to star in it I lead and guide or as mostly a cheater's guy can reach me but how can I gently stop. Asked her bringing her back out and showing her the Catholic faith. I'll be honest I couldn't just take it at the church you got here we're going to hear because she would put up the barriers and probably. Now I completely understand your dilemma I have lived it Ok And you are not the 1st person in the world far from it to go through exactly that struggle and in fact I'd say most converse of the Catholic faith or reverse the Catholic faith that I know who are married have have similar stories and I don't know I only know of a couple of occasions I think it's the minority where husband and wife suddenly kind of wake up at about at the same time and joyfully join the catholic church together at that happens but it's it's the minority of cases Ok so 1st of all I think that the attitude the disposition that you've expressed about tenderness and gradualism is absolutely the right way to go Ok. And. And and you know you don't have to read what Dalton a day you get back in a day Ok you take the time when you work you try to you try to do this in a way to preserve the integrity of your marriage in your home life or your loved so what share and yet you still have to follow your conscience Ok you start fire conscious. And some of the answer your question is going to be particularly your situation because you know your wife better than I do you know the approaches that are going to work in the ones that are going or because of her personality. Now something that I think is hard to argue with no matter where you're coming from. And especially if he was a Protestant I'm going to say you know Martin Luther he started Protestantism So we should follow a Bible but later said something that was really really. Very true. You know what he was a diet of worms he said My conscience is held captive to the Word of God. And to disobey conscience is neither right nor safe. I said that's that's so true don't you think that's true when a man's conscience is held captive to the Word of God. It would just be very odd say for him to disobey conscience Oh yeah sure that's true that's good stuff but what is a man to do if his conscience convicts him that Luther may not have had the whole story. That maybe he got a few things wrong. That's where my conscience is leading me this is the crisis for now I know the response is going to be you're blind you've been blinded you've been brainwashed you've been Ok all right all right I wanted to have that conversation I could be wrong i could we have the conversation well it opens the door in a very non-threatening way you're now you know obviously you've heard the show from a there are a couple of bedrock issues that have got to be settled. Other And there's only one way for them rationally to be settled in the very 1st one is How does Jesus and the faith to be handed on as the very 1st one and it takes a couple of times asking the question for the significance to filter down of the most people's minds especially if they're just defaulting to the Bible the Bible while the Bible the Bible but once you get them to see the intelligibility of the question Did Christ ever specify the Bible as. And if not which he didn't by the white what does that do to that action of sola scriptura and specify the Bible what did he specify all right and you know to begin those really foundational sort parodic Matic questions about the whole structure of the Christian faith and then I think you know if you're telecom. Hey you know do you know that the Protestant Reformers But later in John Calvin these are the guys that 1st articulated the doctrine of cessation as a station ism is the doctrine that spiritual gets no longer occur you know what I counted and later articulated cessation ism is because the Catholic Church had all these miracles going on. And the Protestants did not and that was undercutting the credibility of the Protestant position and so to deal with that polemical problem they said well those are fake miracles we don't believe in miracles anymore even though the evidence that they were bonafide was right there sure and the Pentecostals you know the late ninety's 1900 this is a street that course. Can Kansas Bible College invented optional. Clear they think they've rediscovered this great thing gifts of the Spirit battles the church did you know that the Catholics never stopped believing in those things . Prophecies and miracles and healings and so that's always been a part of the Catholic tradition even the pentecostal doctrine of of being. A baptized in the Holy Spirit did you know that Catholics have been doing that from day one they call it confirmation. Right. So you know Pentecostalism often can be a bit than other Catholic a lot of times but there are also a lot of bridges there to the calf lots to think about there and we'll certainly keep you in prayer you and your wife as well i Phone number 180-585-9396 this is our last live show of the week we will have an encore for you on Sunday but today we're lied so give us a call 180-585-9006 if you have a question for Dr David Enders Janice said as a text Jan says I'm having a hard time explaining priestly celibacy to some family members could you please explain this Yeah absolutely so Jesus was celibate he didn't have a life he was perfectly confident St Paul was celibate he did have a life he was perfectly content and both Jesus and Paul identify perfect consonants chastity and virginity as the more perfect way they don't say it's the mandatory way for everybody but identified is the perfect way and St Paul says specifically it's more perfect precisely because it facilitates Apostol like work he says I wish everybody were like me I don't have a life because when you don't have a wife you can give yourself entirely to the work of the Lord. Christ said that some people back to you 19 he says marriage is a divine institution and a saw able to you die. That some people make themselves eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven and remember when he was asked well Sadducees if a man has you know 76 I said was each one die before the other gets to the resurrection here's who's husband will. He says you don't you don't understand the way this thing works and haven't we won't we won't be buried or given a badge we'll be like the angels we want to give advantages for here marriage for this world marriage for bearing children for Earth but but heaven is not like that so the life of perfect confidence and celibacy is more in accord with our Escada logical destiny right which is which is a perfect spiritual fellowship with God All right it also facilitates our our active apostle active ministry now the Catholic Church following Christ following St Paul says this is preferable that's all right this is preferable It is not under all circumstances mandatory there are exceptions to the rule I have a friend here in the diocese of Birmingham who is a married Catholic priest he's got 2 kids they go to school around here and of course Eastern Catholic Church is a many of them have never practiced the discipline of clerical celibacy except in certain instances there are bishops or celibates and there monks and so forth but many of their parish priests are are married have been for 2000 years and there are exceptions to the rule so it's a discipline and in accord with the values expressed in sacred scripture about that about disappear already of that for the clerical state but it's not absolutely under every circumstance for sure Ok thank you so much for your text we do appreciate that this is called a communion here on e.w.t.n. 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News and we are delighted to bring it to you back to the phones we go now for Carrie in Dallas it was indeed a radio on Guadalupe radio and Carrie what's your question today. About I did what I did to and love love love your show doctor and any I don't much play with my x. Even though I find myself I guess by your show. I mean if you could explain how if we. Believe. An accurate conception. And I understand where we get at. And I know I don't think you're married great so if you were born without original then why would she need or want what she gave you. Yeah absolutely I really appreciate the question so this pertains to the relationship of nature to Grace Ok. Natural man flesh and blood human being. Has no inherent right to eternal bliss and the vision of God Even a man who's morally perfect right it would have been perfectly just if God had created Adam and Eve and moral integrity and they had lived good natural lives born children written poetry made music you know. Maybe compose a few novels build a just society for the children die and return to dust there would have been nothing unjust had God made that world and have Adam in that state had come to the end of his days you know smiling happily and looked up to heaven and said Well when I close my eyes you're going to take me to heaven because I deserve that right. God could have it all fairness Well you've done nothing wrong you live the life of perfect moral integrity you know he says you deserve an eternity of bliss and a vision of God There's nothing in your experience that proportionate to that there's no there's no equality of proportion there are a finite human life even in a life of natural goodness deserves an eternity of bliss some proportion the right so so for that to be deserved our nature must be different eyes there has to be that in us that corresponds in justice to a life of eternal beatitude that is the gift of sanctifying grace a share in God's very nature 2nd Peter 14 says that we become participants in the divine nature right and no creature deserves that gift of sanctifying grace it is a gift I cannot merit the gift of sanctifying grace because again anything I do in my temple human experience is finite How can I deserve a gift of that kind of infinite proportion or everlasting proportion can't do it can or can't merit. Even the boss of Virgin Mary as a creature. If she is going to enjoy a life of everlasting bless the vision of God It can only be because she has received this gift of sanctifying grace. Now the difference she married us is that she receives that gift from the 1st moment of her conception she she comes into existence in that union with God that we call grace for the rest of us we don't get that baptism you know some days after our birth or am some cases some years after our birth chart we also come into the world by originals and she doesn't come into the world where to buy original sin but she still needs grace to get to heaven Christ's merited that Grace for her. And for the whole human race it's just that the manner of its application is radically different in her case than it is at ours but that she needed grace to get to heaven that had to be merited by the death of her son. That's true there you go Carrie thank you so much for your call Matthew checking in on You Tube right now has another question about Mary Mattie says if the title of a woman is exclusive to Mary as the new Eve Then why does our Lord refer to the woman at the well as the woman and also Mary Magdalene as woman right Ok so I never said that it was exclusive to Mary as an area it was typological as applied to Mary as the new way Ok and. Another time I'd like to get into an exit John 4 and and the Samaritan woman at the well I guess that's a fascinating story but right I never said it was exclusive to the Virgin Mary but it's particular as a typological application to her and that we see both in Genesis 3 John Chapter 2 charge after 19 and again in Revelation Chapter 12 Ok very good day than Fort Wayne Indiana listening to lead on Redeemer radio a longtime partner of ours a day but your question today we're going to get your Ok. Much better go right ahead Ok well. I. Want You know. I'm Mary. Mary. Yeah thanks I really appreciate the question so it's true that the death of Christ for the whole human race the gift of grace and the forgiveness of sins Ok. And we can receive that grace in this life. And began the process of growing in holiness but the Temple effects of said still effect us all right and not everyone is redeemed in Christ so there's a simple facts of send a fact to me personally not only in my own body my decrepitude and my creeping Dick . I get into my grey hairs my bad joints and my eventual demise I will die one day all right but also continues to affect us in the social realm flip on the news and eat it away can you find horrific stories of. For violence and exploitation and warfare and. You know fraud and all the rest of it trafficking the worst kind of abuse and and and horrible suffering and the salvation that we enjoy in Jesus is not just the promise of eternal life after we die. But the redemption of the entire created order occluding this body that I live in in this world that on habit and so the creator of the world cannot have came incarnate and His Son Jesus Christ. Will return at the end of time not only to save the just but to be vindicated in the sphere in which he has been dishonored and to redeem not only our souls but our bodies and the whole created order Ok Dave thank you so much for your call let's take a question here from Facebook Live Alex is watching us right now Alec says my Hindu cousins strongly believe in pluralism that all gods are one in India I had a hard time convincing about Jesus any advice so I would really really enjoy having a longer conversation with Sam Ok I thought it had to as I'm to be absolutely fascinating tradition all right with so much to commend it but it's a fact that Hindu ism itself as a system has a historical evolution in the position that there articulating right you know that that all these gods are just symbols of the one the vanity or whatnot and that's a pretty modern idea that evolution of Indian religions so when you go back and look at the Vegas it's pretty obvious had the holy scriptures it's pretty obvious from the Vedas themselves that there's a very deep tradition of polytheism I mean we're talking you know sure enough flat out polytheism in Asia. An agent had to as I'm sacrificial right Agni the Fire God Brahman and all the rest of innovation and so forth and and of course historically in evolution of any religions we fight all over the continent all of the sub continent. Devotions that purges and so forth it evolves a different communities to different tribal in particular deities. And and then the caste system and all the rest of it and then of course over time there's a philosophical tradition that emerges and do as I'm illustrating the a part of shots but in that tradition there's a radical disagreement among scholars about how to interpret this mass of very material so you have guys like Shankara but he's at odds with Ramana job and that's a completely different system from Pantheon Jalee. And they have arguments with one another now the influence of Buddhism coming in around you know several centuries before the era of Christ introduces an element that gets taken entity apart a shot at tradition. And and then this this whole kind of swirling mass of of religious devotion polytheism and philosophical disagreement during the time of the Muslim conquest the Moslems look at all of that and they they don't differentiate any of it they just see a whole body Indians all doing their stuff and I look at it go see what all these Hindus do Hindu means Indian and read Arabic tongues they go what I always had to do that's Hinduism so they lump it all under one category but it was a very diverse phenomenon it's kind of like looking at the the smorgasbord of American Protestantism and saying that Protestantism as if it were one single thing what it's of 80000 different denominations all right and it's not until the 19th century when English Protestant missionaries show up in India and they start arguing with Indians about religion that the Indians kind of develop a national consciousness about the real. And you begin to find Hindu apologists arguing in defense of India against England and embracing the idea of can do is as a single thing and so that's when you get in the 20th century philosophers like Radhakrishnan who will articulate the position you just gave that there is this this grand overarching fame that sort of encompasses all of India and takes it into this great philosophical synthesis of. Feel good happy want God or some sort of you know nondescript modalism But that's that's just one philosophical position on Monk thousands and the history of Indian spirituality right now but he's all of that but he thought all of that there are some genuine philosophical insights and about some about monotheism right and many times on the show I've given out the title of a book by David Bentley Hart who's an Eastern Orthodox theologian called the experience of God. And he frames in fact his entire book around the the India and the Hindu concept of such it a number being consciousness and less like this one divine chance and in reality in which a lot of which everything makes sense and is intelligible All right. But if you go there if you take that sort of date. Theistic tradition which is one strand offended as a man you argue for that right and that rules out pluralism. Ruled out because if there's one God If there's one God is one divine reality then polytheist are mistaken. They're mistaken all right they're mistaken. And that this commonality between the traditions between Christianity and that kind of theistic Hindu Muslim and the Specifically I'm of Jesus right is that that One God has revealed himself in a definitive way in the person of Jesus Christ all right now the credibility of that claim how is Jesus that different from any Hindu suppose at Avatar like Krishna for instance Krishna is a mythological character from the Bhagavad Gita and other epics All right we can't locate him in time and space Christ as a historical person. Is a den of file bill in the stream of actual human history in the fullness of time Saint Paul says all right he was born of a woman born under the law to redeem us under the law and he gave testament to this to all men by rising from the dead not in the mythic epic past of the Hindu epics but in real time and space of Roman history rotatable on a map. 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