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Pastor Doug: Hi Enoch, welcome. Enoch: Hey, thanks for taking my call. So here’s what I’m going to say to make it very quick. Marriage seem like a business to me, how do we know for a fact, that when the bible talks about fornication, that it means, sex before marriage being a sin? Because I consider some sex before marriage a sin but what if it is a guy and a girl that are very, very faithful to each other, and you can have 2 people who are married and cheat on each other constantly. So is sex before marriage really a sin because I think it’s absurd to say it is? What are your thoughts Doug? Pastor Doug: Well you’ll think I’m absurd, but it’s pretty consistent in the bible that, that, becoming one flesh and joining together in Marriage, it even says “that Joseph knew not Mary, until Jesus was born” because, you know, there was something sacred about that, but the idea of 2 people coming together in sexual intimacy like that was, these 2 people threw an act of love, they’re becoming one flesh, they co, they procreate in their own image by combining who they are, the cells come together and, it’s just a miracle, how 2 people, 2 separate individuals can combine their essence somehow, and it becomes another person, a child in their image, and that’s one of the ways that God made man in His image, is that man is able to procreate in his own image, though love. So, for people to recklessly use that gift in that sacred, it’s, you know, sex is a good thing, within marriage, but to use it just for selfish gratification, without the protection of a family, you can look in our culture today and saw these kids that are born in families, not always, but largely because of promiscuity, and they grow up without fathers, sometimes without mothers and that was never God’s plan, we need that whole unit. Enoch: I mean, I agree with you on that, in that sense but, like what if, you know, I have a girl, a girlfriends, like a very serious girlfriend and I don’t. Pastor Doug: But why don’t you get married, why don’t you wait? Enoch: Because it just doesn’t seem. Pastor Doug: It’s hard. Enoch: It seems like a business, it just seems like a business. Pastor Doug: (Laughing) Enoch: I don’t know, it just doesn’t seem right. Pastor Doug: Well it’s a sacred ceremony, if you want to call it a business but, you know, it tells us that were planned, you look in the bible, with Jacob, “He worked 7 years and waited for Rachel, he worked and waited 7 years for his wedding night because, you know, he needed to kind of earned the right and to be able to have that relationship”. So, you know, in the bible, it’s pretty clear that, when 2 people come together. In some countries, when people came together without the benefit of ceremony, they were declared married because they just said, “Look, if you’re going to have that kind of relationship that has the potential of producing children, you need to become a family unit and get married”. I would wonder, why would you want to have that kind of a relationship with a woman, if you don’t want to marry that? Enoch: Okay. Pastor Doug: So, you know, the bible is pretty clear on this, both New and Old Testament, and we do have, actually a book we can send you, I just wrote, well, it’s been a few months now, but it’s talking about, “Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage”, it just talks about, purpose of marriage is addressed in that book. We’ll send you a free copy Enoch, if you call the number. Pastor Jëan Ross: The number is 800-8356747; you can ask for the book “Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage”, number again, 800-8356747. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOK0tphOx_s

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Pastor Doug: Christie, you're on the air with Bible Answers Live. Christie: Hi, thank you. I'm calling to ask about, you guys were talking earlier about the water into wine or grape juice but I was wondering if you can explain that a bit more how it would be grape juice and not wine because I was always told that what made it such a great miracle was that, because wine takes time to ferment and Jesus could turn the water into wine right away. Pastor Doug: I don't know that it would be any easier to turn water into fermented grape juice then it would be to turn it into unfermented grape juice. The chemical difference between water and grape juice is pretty astounding to just speak the word and have that change. The reason I don't believe that it was fermented is the word wine in the Bible. You're not going to find the word grape juice anywhere in the Bible. It's always called wine because the word wine comes from an ancient word and it means the juice of the vine. Christie: I'm sorry. The juice of what? Pastor Doug: The vine. Like a grape vine. Christie: Oh, [crosstalk] Pastor Doug: It's a similar root word. You're not going to find a place where it says grape juice. You do find places in the Bible where it says, "You don't put new wine." What is new wine? New wine is grape juice, right? "You don't put new wine in old wineskins," because the new grape juice will expand and it bursts the skins. That's what Jesus said. Jesus compared his teaching to new wine, grape juice. You can read in Isaiah; I think it's 65 it says, "For as the new wine is in the cluster." Well, if it's still in the cluster, it's not fermented yet. In the original Greek here where it's talking about the grape juice, let me give you one more verse that I think is proof for that. At the Last Supper, there was bread and wine, correct? You know what Jesus said, He said, "I will not drink," and this is in Matthew, "I will not drink of the fruit of the vine again until I drink it with you new in my Father's kingdom." He specifically says, "I'll drink it with you new," meaning it'll be new wine. Old wine, you can get old wine all year long. Fermented wine, you can get any time of year. You can only get grape juice. Back then they didn't have Welch's grape juice. You can only get fresh grape juice around the time of the harvest. That's why at the wedding, they were amazed. They said, "You've saved the best for last." They didn't mean the hard stuff. Now, I've got a book I wrote on that because it's a really good question and people struggle with it and I'll send it to you for free. Then you also just need to ask this question Christie, would Jesus after people have been at a wedding feast for several days, would he make 30 gallons of booze? Look at what happens at weddings after people have had too much to drink. In some weddings, have gotten off to a really bad start because of the drinking that happens. Christie: That's right, yes. Pastor Doug: Typically, wine, the Bible says, "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging. Whoever is deceived thereby is not wise." That's setting proverbs 22. Let me send you the book called, Alcohol & the Christian. All you got to do is call this number. They'll take down your address, they'll send it to you. It's that easy. You can even read it online for free right now, at the Amazing Facts website. Just type in Doug Batchelor, Alcohol & the Christian. You just Google that, you'll find it and it'll– Christie: Thank you so much. Pastor Doug: All right. Appreciate your call. By the way, if you want a copy to hold it's 800-835-6747. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=213meE4YAd8

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Caller: I have a question about these people that claim they can talk to the dead. These other people who can, like, find out how somebody was murdered. What’s the truth behind that? Pastor Doug: Well, the Bible is clear that—Isaiah 8 tells us—that we should not consult those who claim to be able to talk to the dead. The law of Moses said that all that do that would be executed because it’s dabbling in diabolical, cultist demon-communication. Caller: Oh, they can? Is that why you’re saying ‘stay away’? Pastor Doug: No. What the person is doing is they’re communicating with demons. Caller: Not with someone who’s dead? Pastor Doug: Yes. Mortals do not have the power of resurrection. Even people inspired by the devil cannot communicate with the dead. The parable of the rich man and Lazarus tells us there is a great gulf fixed between those two dimensions. When humans try to consult with the dead, what they’re going to end up talking to is demons, fallen angels that are impersonating departed dead ones. That’s why it says in, I believe, it’s 2 Corinthians 11, even Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. So we are told it is absolutely forbidden for Christians even to venture to talk to people who claim to talk to the dead. The Bible says ‘The living know that they will die, it’s very clear but the dead know not anything’, that’s Ecclesiastes 9. So anyone who says they’re talking to the dead—let me give you one more: Job 34:14,15—are you writing this down, Dave? Caller: I will. Pastor Doug: Job 34:14,15 says ‘If he sets his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath, all flesh shall perish together, and man shall again return to the dust’. Actually that’s not the one I was looking for. It tells us ‘His sons come to honor and he knows it not’, speaking of a dead person. He doesn’t know what’s happening unto his house. He shall not return again’. You can read Job 34:14,15 and Job 27:3—there’s a number of verses that deal with the subject of death that make it very clear that the dead don’t know anything that we’re not supposed to be talking to them—not until they’re resurrected. Okay? Caller: Okay. Thank you. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lILyg-4Tz44

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