

Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff
The Christian Research Institute
Welcome to the podcast of the Bible Answer Man broadcast with bestselling author and CRI President Hank Hanegraaff! On the Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank answers your questions with well-reasoned answers to equip you in the essentials of the historic Christian faith and strengthen your walk with the Lord. When it comes to the essentials of Christianity, there must be unity: "In essentials, unity; nonessentials, liberty; and in all things, charity."
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Sep 21, 2023 • 28min
Q&A: Homelessness, Students Leaving the Faith, and the Name of God
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (09/21/23), Hank answers the following questions:Is it God’s will for some people to be homeless? (0:49)I got a large pagan tattoo on my back before I was a Christian. What should I do? (2:17)Why are so many students who were raised in church walking away from the faith? How can we encourage them to want to participate in church? (3:56)What is the true name of God according to the third commandment? (15:11)My daughter was raised in the church but is drifting away because of historical instances of Christians using violence to advance the gospel. She wants to know: how can people go to hell if they were never presented a faithful gospel message? (18:56)

Sep 20, 2023 • 28min
Q&A: The Days of Creation, Evangelicalism, and Spiritism
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (09/20/23), Hank answers the following questions:What are your thoughts on T.D. Jakes? (0:42)Can you explain replacement theology? (5:05)Why doesn’t Genesis mention evening and morning on the seventh day of creation like the other days? (7:58)Are Seventh-Day Adventists’ Christians? Do they believe in the Trinity? (15:14)What do you mean by the term “Evangelical Christian” and where did this word originate? (17:23)Is it acceptable to work on Sunday? (18:55)Are there any passages of Scripture I can use to counter the idea of Spiritism? (21:12)

Sep 19, 2023 • 28min
Q&A: Joel Osteen, Miracles, and Universalism
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (09/19/23), Hank answers the following questions:Was Joel Osteen’s father John a good Bible teacher? (0:53)How do you reconcile the Bible saying no one has seen God and also saying that Moses did see God? (3:44)Since you believe Christians can consume alcohol, will God hear the prayers of a preacher with alcohol upon his lips? (5:35)Do you believe in miracles? (8:46)Can you explain what it means to worship the Father in spirit and truth? (16:12)Have you heard of this teaching which claims that everyone will eventually be saved? (19:00)My wife has a pagan friend who says there is a higher power than God, and when we bring up Christianity, she shuts us down. How should I handle this situation? (22:03)

Sep 18, 2023 • 28min
Dying to Self and Living for Christ, and Q&A
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (09/18/23), Hank quotes from Charles Spurgeon, reminding listeners to die to self and live every moment in the service of Christ. Hank echoes the words of Jesus: for what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?Hank also answers the following questions:Can you clarify your statements on physical resurrection? It doesn’t seem to fit with the Greek and Hebrew. (5:44)What advice would you share with an aspiring apologist? (9:29)Why did God create the Devil? (15:10)When Jesus turned water into wine at the wedding in Cana, what kind of wine was that? Why would Jesus do this if people could have gotten drunk from it? (18:20)What is the difference between angels and demons and how do they affect us? Is there a biblical reference to guardian angels? (21:57)

Sep 16, 2023 • 28min
Best of BAM: The Toxic War on Masculinity with Nancy Pearcey
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, we present an episode of the Hank Unplugged podcast. Hank’s guest is Professor of Apologetics and Scholar-in-Residence at Houston Christian University Nancy Pearcey, author of The Toxic War on Masculinity: How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes. Hank and Nancy discuss The Toxic War on Masculinity vs. toxic masculinity, the importance of Christian apologetics, whether masculinity is toxic or a good thing, what it means to be a good man, and if there are real differences between men and women.

Sep 15, 2023 • 28min
Q&A: The Shroud of Turin, Besetting Sin, and Hearing From God
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (09/15/23), Hank answers the following questions:Is the Shroud of Turin legitimate? What about Noah’s Ark and the Ark of the Covenant? (0:50)Is it acceptable for me to attend a gay friend’s wedding? (3:31)Since I am struggling with besetting sins, does Hebrews 6:4-6 apply to me? Am I re-crucifying Christ again and again? (8:09)What is the old earth perspective on Exodus 20:11, which seems to give six 24-hour days of creation? (15:12)Will we have free will in heaven? Will there be a chance for another rebellion? (18:07)I hear people at church say that God speaks to them, but I don’t have this experience. Is there something wrong with them or me? (19:29)Is it true that there are one hundred fifty million angels? (20:59)Are we in the midst of another Great Awakening? Is there evidence for this today? (22:46)

Sep 14, 2023 • 28min
Q&A: The Elect, Homosexuality, and Demons
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (09/14/23), Hank answers the following questions:My son says he believes in God but not Jesus. How do I explain to my son that Jesus is God? (0:43)What does the Bible say about predestination and election? Who are the elect? (3:43)What is the biblical criterion of an Apostle or Prophet? (6:10)I have a brother who claims he is gay. Is it still possible for him to go to heaven? What about someone who commits a sin like stealing; will they go to heaven? (15:10)Can you explain Luke 14:25-27? Was Jesus telling them to hate their family? (18:47)Can you expound on a previous broadcast in which you were discussing the Nephilim mentioned in Genesis chapter 6? Can demons materialize? (20:28)

Sep 13, 2023 • 28min
Q&A: Healing, the Crucifixion, and Mediums
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (09/13/23), Hank answers the following questions:Can you address Jesse Duplantis’ teaching on healing? (0:46)If Jesus was God incarnate, how then did God die on the cross? And if God died, who was overseeing the world? (15:39)My friend visits a medium to communicate with his deceased wife. Do you have any advice on how to handle this situation? (19:30)

Sep 12, 2023 • 28min
Q&A: The Sabbath, Seventh-day Adventism, and Sons of God
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (09/12/23), Hank answers the following questions:How does Jesus’ fulfillment of the law change the fourth commandment? Whose idea was it to change the day on which we observe the Sabbath? (0:52)My mother became a Seventh-day Adventist and has been trying to convert me. Is this a sound denomination? (15:12)Are the sons of God mentioned in Genesis chapter 6 referring to demons? (19:26)

Sep 11, 2023 • 28min
Something To Ponder on the 22nd Anniversary of 9/11
On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (09/11/23), Hank recalls one of the most epic events in American history that took place 22 years ago—the Manhattan massacre of September 11, 2001. And yet in those 22 years, we have largely become complacent to the Islamic terrorism that spawned its devastation. Some have forgotten, and others are blithely unaware of the reality that Islam is the only significant religious system in the history of the human race with a socio-political structure of laws that mandate violence against the infidel. And that this graphic global reality makes Islam a religious ideology espousing terrorism as a permanent policy rather than a temporary expedient. Tragically, the current narrative is that to tell the truth in this regard is tantamount to radicalizing Muslims and exacerbating hostilities that might otherwise lie dormant. That narrative is, of course, patently false. We are at a tipping point in history. While squarely in the blind spot of the West, Christians in the Middle East face mass genocide. Concurrently, a demographic time bomb threatens a Western world seemingly blind to the polygamous rush of migrant Muslims filling the vacuum left by aging, dying, and aborted Europeans. The only real solution to a disintegrating West and resurgent Islam is the power of the Gospel. Thus, says Hank, it is crucial for the church to awaken from a diabetic coma brought on by a steady diet of fast-food Christianity. We must not only be intellectually equipped to communicate the truth of the gospel via answers, biblical literacy, and countering cults—but also be internally equipped during this anti-Judeo-Christian moment. What that means is that the church must be energized for its mission—by a power that is in it but not of it, as underscored by the Apostle Paul in Colossians 1:29. This is the energy that alone is sufficient to empower a twenty-first-century Pentecost moment.


