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On todays Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank devotes his time to talk more about our resource of the month, On Wealth and Poverty, a book that contains multiple sermons from St. John Chrysostom on the parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man. The point of the parable is that if you are richand certainly most of us are, at least by world standardsyou immediately realize that wealth is worthless apart from virtue. And if you are poor, you will refrain from thinking that poverty is an evil in itself. We learn from this parable not to call the rich man fortunate, nor the poor man unfortunate. For the rich are not those who collect many possessions, but rather those who need few possessions. Likewise, the poor man is not the one who has no possessions, but the one who has myriad desires. Throughout his sermons, St. John speaks again and again of the criticality of reading the Scriptures. He points out that ignorance of Scripture is like a great cliff or deep abyss. The Scriptures are replete with wisdom that transforms. It causes us to properly consider this life and its significance with respect to the life that is to come. Because once we are in eternity, there is no changing of our fate.

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On todays Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank addresses an article in National Review, Bidens Pick for Coronavirus Task Force: Living Too Long is Also a Loss by Jim Geraghty. President-elect Joe Biden announced that his coronavirus task force will include Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. According to Dr. Emmanuel, its morally problematic to live past the age of 75. Whether one is feeble or not is irrelevantand a calculation of consumption over contribution is equally irrelevant. The meaning of ones life should not be bound up in ones autonomy, personal happiness, or engagement in a particular activity that brings satisfaction. Rather, our purpose, and where we find our meaning in life, is in glorifying, loving, and serving the Triadic Oneentering into the life of the Trinity, in which the omnipotent Father engrafts the life of His Son into us by His Spirit so that we may become partakers of the divine nature.

Hank also answers the following question:

I am both a Muslim and a Christian. I believe that if were going to follow Jesus, we need to submit our will to God, which falls into the definition of Muslim. What are your thoughts?

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On todays Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank reminds listeners that today is a special day; today is Veterans Day. A day in which Americans honor those that have served in the United States Armed Forces. Today was not always known as Veterans Day, it originated in 1919 as Armistice Day, a day that commemorates the war to end all warsor so it was thought by President Woodrow Wilson. Armistice Day was formally changed to Veterans Day in 1954and for good reason. World War I was not the war to end all wars. World War II followed closely on its heels, and the twentieth century would become the bloodiest in human history. We have come to realize that the very notion of world peacethe idea behind Armistice Daywill never be realized until the Prince of Peace returns to the planet. Only then will world peace be inaugurated. In the meantime, we rightly celebrate Veterans Day. For there will always be veterans, just as there will always be wars. Which begs the question that Hank wants to address on todays broadcast: under what conditions is war justified?

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On todays Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank answers the following questions:

I heard a professor claim that there is no definitive answer to where Satan came from. What are your thoughts?

I believe in the Unitarian view of God; do you view God as three distinct persons?

How can one be certain that they are saved?

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On todays Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank discusses transgenderism, after reading in USA Today about three trans women who have been elected to state positions. Sarah McBride will now be the highest-ranking trans legislator in the United States, serving as Delawares first transgender state senator. Taylor Small will be the first transgender person to serve in the Vermont state legislature. Stephanie Byers, who taught in Wichita schools for 29 years, told USA Today if Kansas, the big red republican state, can elect a trans person to a state legislator, the doors open up in a lot of other places for people. Transgenderism today is one of the most fashionable social justice issues in America. And the word gender no longer means what it did just a few short years ago. As Christians in a liberal democracy, we as yet have the means to effect change. If we do not, the transgender phenomenon will prove to be just one more domino in the collapse of a country that was once the greatest missionary-sending force in the world.

Hank also answers the following questions:

How do you deal with a demon-possessed person?

Where in the Bible does it say that the disciples met for worship on the first day of the week?

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On todays Bible Answer Man broadcast, we present an episode of the Hank Unplugged podcast. Hanks guest is Professor Francis Beckwith, author of Politics for Christians: Statecraft as Soulcraft. Hank and Beckwith discuss Statecraft as Soulcraftif politics is essentially about making people good citizens, the etymology of politics, the commonly held thought that lobbyists are bad, what liberal democracy is, the power of administrative agencies and the significance of the separation of powers, Amy Coney Barrett, and Originalism and Constitutional interpretation.

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On todaysBible Answer Manbroadcast, Hank continues his discussion on the life and teachings of St. John Chrysostom, the golden-mouthed preacher. Hank focuses on the first sermon in the bookOn Wealth and Poverty, which contains a series of sermons St. John preached on the parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man. It is noteworthy that St. John began his first sermon on Lazarus and the Rich Man on the second day of January 388one day after the feast of Saturnalia, a day in which the Stoic satirist Lucius Seneca fulminated something to the effect of the whole mob imbibing itself in the pleasures of hedonism. By contrast, said Chrysostom, the faithful shunned the festival of Satan and partook of the cup of spiritual instruction, fortified themselves with spiritual music, and surrendered their souls to the breath of the Divine Spirit. As contrast is the conduit to clarity, St. John provides us with the stark differences between the rich man and Lazarus. The rich man who practiced luxury every day, and dressed himself splendidly, was preparing himself a more grievous punishment, building himself a greater fire, and making his penalty inexorable and his retribution inaccessible to pardon. While everything seemed to flow to the rich man as from a fountain, he foolishly spent his fortune on parasites and flatterers while Lazarus lay wasting away in hunger. And yet in the end it was Lazarusnot the rich manwho was led away by the angels in triumph while the rich man found himself in torment.

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On todays Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank discusses the life and teachings of St. John Chrysostom, the golden-mouthed preacher. St. John Chrysostom preached at a crossroad in the history of Christianity. He was born in 350, which was around the time that St. Constantine established Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire. This was before the Church had an officially ratified New Testament canon and only 25 years after the first ecumenical council. At age 36, John was privileged to speak in the most popular church in Antiocha church founded by St. Paul and visited by St. Peter. Although St. John was the golden-mouthed preacher, he was careful to warn the faithful against listening to his sermons as a substitute for participation in the liturgy and in Holy Communion and was well-known for urging people to read and study the Bible regularly. It is Hanks personal belief that Chrysostoms sermons on Lazarus and the Rich Manwhich are contained in the book On Wealth and Povertyare the most poignant and profound in the annals of Christian preaching. Over and over again, he returns to a strand in the triple-braided cord made famous by his Lord: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. St. John looks beyond earthly externalities to those things that are truly good, namely virtue and heavenly reward.

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On todays Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank warns listeners that America has just voted for socialism, or worse, communism. Regardless of who wins the Electoral College, the popular vote has decisively headed toward the socialist dogma of legislators such as Kamala Harris. The Democratic vice presidential nominee posted a video on Twitter a few days ago wherein she discussed the difference between equality and equity and concluded that her government needs to ensure both. Her conclusion of Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place is the quintessence of Marxist communism. It is fair to say that everyone desiresor should desireequality of opportunity. But government-enforced equity of outcomeensuring that we all end up at the same place as Harris put itis the steel-toed sole of communism.

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On todays Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank urges our American listeners to do two things today: to pray, and of course, to vote. This morning Hank reread a document put out by the Orthodox Church titled, For the Life of the World. By it, he was reminded that over the course of Christian history, Christians have lived under diverse forms of government some of which have proved amicable to the institutional Church, some hostile, and some indifferent. The document goes on to enjoin Christians, as did the Apostle Paul, to obey the justly constituted civil authority of the city and empire, and to recognize the legitimate authority of those who carry the sword, which is to say, soldiers, military policemen, civil guards empowered to preserve civic peace. But this isolated council clearly does not constitute any kind of absolute rule for Christian conduct in all imaginable circumstances. When the commands of even a legally established political authority contradict our responsibilities as Christians, we must obey God rather than men. Christians may and often must participate in the political life of the societies in which they live, but must do so always in service to the justice and mercy of Gods Kingdom. As Christian citizens, we have the responsibility to vote. Make sure your informed voice is heard by voting today.