January 2023 | thebereancall.org

January 2023

Question: My pastor claims that baptism can only involve water, but isn’t the same word used for other kinds of baptism in the Scriptures? Response: Never does the Bible say that the Holy Spirit baptizes us only in water. The word in Greek (baptizo) simply means that we have been...Read more
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Question: I recently attended a service in which the speaker taught about “healing family trees” by renouncing generational curses that are supposedly maintained by demons who are assigned to individual families generation after generation down through the years. Afterwards, I watched as several people were “healed” amid great expenditures of...Read more
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Question: What will be the church’s role in restoring Israel during the End Times ? Response: I don’t believe that the church is going to somehow play an active role in the restoration of Israel . The disciples’ very question—“Lord wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel...Read more
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“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.” ( Romans:8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might...Read more
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At the Atlanta, Georgia, Promise Keepers conference that saw 39,000 clergy gathered together, PK founder Bill McCartney said, “This is a dream come true…. It is exciting to see the denominational barriers come down as we have Protestants and Roman Catholics [and Mormons] here together. The purpose of this meeting...Read more
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[TBC: “CIS” is a made up word, short for cisgender, meaning you remain the recognizable gender you were at birth.] An event titled “Tired of White Cis Men?” scheduled for Gettysburg College on Saturday prompted students to file bias complaints against it. The Nov. 12 event, which reportedly ended up...Read more
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“Flocking to Fables” has to do with great numbers of people being overwhelmingly drawn to things that have no basis in reality. They have been bewitched by myths...or what the Bible calls "fables." Hopefully, that will be made clear as we proceed. As we wonder what we may be facing...Read more
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What Role Do Evidence and Reason Play? Question: I can see that it makes no sense and would be very dangerous to believe something simply because some church or religious leader says I must do so. Clearly there must be some basis for believing. But I’m confused because it wouldn’t...Read more
Dave Hunt Classic
On June 23, 1997, “200 delegates from scores of religious bodies around the world” met at Stanford University under the leadership of Bishop Swing. Plans were laid to establish on June 26, 2000, the “United Nations for all religions” that has been Swing’s dream. The United Religions Initiative “seeks to...Read more
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