Bible Answer Man Podcast with Hank Hanegraaff

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank comments on statements made by Bill Maher that the entirety of the Bible was not meant to be read as history, but as parable. Hank also answers the following questions: Can you explain the meaning of 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 with respect to building upon the foundation of Christ and testing with fire? Alan - Oklahoma City, OK (7:12) Can you define praying in the Spirit? Duncan - High River, AB (8:50) Why wasn’t King David stoned for adultery? Kevin - Kansas City, KS (15:11) I struggle with depression. One part of the bible says that if I ask believing it will be given, but Paul prayed for the thorn to be removed, yet the thorn remained. How do I make sense of these different responses? Collin - NE (18:58) My son says he saw an angel at the age of three. How do I know if that’s true? Bill - MO (22:53)

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/24/26), Hank answers the following questions: My Son thinks God is egomaniacal because He created us to worship him, while knowing that we would sin. How do I respond? Debra - Mesa, AZ (1:13) Is using a Ouija board dangerous? Andrew - St. Louis, MO (15:14) I see nowhere in the Bible that we have free will. How can you say we can choose? Tony - Tulsa, OK (17:16) Can demons inflict physical harm like scratches or illnesses? Are demon possessions still possible today? Mike - St. Louis, MO (20:47) What are your thoughts on Seventh-day Adventism and Ellen G. White? Zack - Charlotte, NC (23:59)

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/23/26), Hank answers the following questions: Someone received a word of knowledge about preaching the gospel to a Catholic man with cancer, and his being healed and saved. Why is this unbiblical? Edmond - CA (0:51) During his reign, was King David also the Chief Priest? Wyatt - Bakersfield, CA (4:39) What are your thoughts on the NIV translation of the Bible? James - Cleveland, OH (6:10) I do premarital counseling, and most couples I meet with are already living together. Should I tell them they are doing something wrong? Hellen - Lithonia, GA (15:13) What are your thoughts on John Coleman and his book, The Committee of 300? Montez - St. Louis, MO (21:01) What is the biblical definition of prophecy and a prophetic word? Eric - St. Louis, MO (24:02)

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/22/26), Hank shares on the illumination principle on reading the Bible for all its worth and critiques Bill Maher’s flawed wooden literal interpretation of the talking snake in the Book of Genesis. Hank also answers the following questions: Was polygamy, plural marriage, and concubinage ever acceptable by God? Ross - Salt Lake City, UT (6:49) What does it mean to be created “in the image of God?” Joe - Omaha, NE (15:11) Beatitude in Revelation 22:14. Is it supposed to read blessed are those who do the commandments or those who wash their robes? Herb - AB (18:58) People say that the King James Bible is the fully inspired Word of God. Is that true? What is the best Bible translation to read? Herb - AB (20:27) Where does the Bible say that those who die without Christ have eternal condemnation? Tom - Newark, DE (24:13)

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/21/26), Hank shares on the importance of essential Christian doctrine, which sets the line of demarcation between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of the cults. Hank also answers the following questions: Why is giving a blessing in the morning considered a curse in Proverbs 27:14? Pam - Due West, SC (3:01) I divorced while I was an unbeliever, under illegitimate grounds. How long must I stay open to reconciliation? Robert - Sacramento, CA (5:56) Are shows where they hunt for ghosts contain legitimate footage? Are ghosts just demons messing with people? Andrew - St. Louis, MO (15:14) In John 4, what legitimacy does the Samaritan woman have to claim the well? Brian - Valentia, CA (16:46) How can you witness to someone with Alzheimer’s? Ezekiel - Lincoln, NE (22:38)

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/20/26), Hank shares on Dick Staub’s book, The Culturally Savvy Christian, and how you can be an effective ambassador for Christ. Hank also answers the following questions: Is it okay for Christians to get tattoos? Danny - Modesto, CA (4:36) Why was man forbidden to eat from the Tree of Knowledge? Jason - Graham, NC (6:10) What are the 7 angels, 2 witnesses, 42 weeks, and 3 1/2 years in the Book of Revelation? Mike - OK (15:41) What is the meaning of Matthew 7:6, where it says, “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs”? Jeanie - KS (20:29) What is a good way to go through the Book of Zechariah, since it contains so much symbolism? Jeanie - KS (21:40)

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank shares on Jesus being the fulfillment of Old Testament messianic prophecies. Hank also answers the following questions: When should you leave your church for another church? Michael - Rochester, IN (8:27) What are your thoughts about the New Living Translation? Michael - Rochester, IN (10:37) Is the Antichrist not necessarily just one person? Chuck - Cleveland, MS (15:12) Is the story about the sons of God and daughters of men in Genesis 6 referring to angels having sex with women? Debra - Dallas, TX (18:21)

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/17/26), Hank comments on statements made by Bill Maher that the entirety of the Bible was not meant to be read as history, but as parable. Hank also answers the following questions: Can you explain the meaning of 1 Corinthians 3:10-15 with respect to building upon the foundation of Christ and testing with fire? Alan - Oklahoma City, OK (7:12) Can you define praying in the Spirit? Duncan - High River, AB (8:50) What about the ministries of Joseph Prince and Joyce Meyer? Reliable teachers? Jim - WA (15:14) What about the Gap Theory between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2? Paul - Vancouver, BC (21:41)

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/16/26), Hank answers the following questions: How do we know the assembly of angels and Satan took place in the Book of Job? Cathy - Bakersfield, CA (0:58) Why were some people in the Bible, like David and Solomon, not known as adulterers, since they had multiple wives? Kevin - KS (6:53) The same thing (abomination of desolations) talked about in the Book of Daniel and Mark 13:14? Eugene - Freehold, NJ (15:12) Genesis 6 talks about angels cohabitating with women. Are these demon/human hybrids in the world and influencing the government? Don - Charlotte, NC (20:33) Is Charles Spurgeon a reliable teacher? Tyler - NE (24:05)

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/15/26), Hank answers the following questions: Is the rapture biblical? Linda - Pittsburgh, PA (0:48) Must Christians tithe or face the curses mentioned in Deuteronomy 28? Alicia - St. Louis, MO (5:38) Why wasn’t King David stoned for adultery? Kevin - Kansas City, KS (15:11) I struggle with depression. One part of the bible says that if I ask believing it will be given, but Paul prayed for the thorn to be removed, yet the thorn remained. How do I make sense of these different responses? Collin - NE (18:58) My son says he saw an angel at the age of three. How do I know if that’s true? Bill - MO (22:53)

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/14/26), Hank concludes his overview of the days of Holy Week, arriving at Pascha—also known as Easter. It is the day in which the body of Christ worldwide celebrates the ultimate game-changer—the resurrection of Jesus Christ. “If I face hardships in life for merely human reasons,” wrote Paul in his first letter to the Corinthian Christians, “what have I gained? If the dead are not raised, ‘Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.’ If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ are lost. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all men.” Without resurrection, Christianity crumbles. Thus, in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, the apostle Paul provides a four-part argument underscoring the irrevocable reality of Christ’s resurrection. Of one thing Hank has become certain—if twenty-first-century Christians would grasp the reality of resurrection like first-century Christians did, their lives would be totally transformed.

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/13/26), Hank resumes his overview of the days of Holy Week, arriving at Holy Saturday, which was observed by the Eastern Church this past weekend. Holy Saturday marks one of the most enigmatic of all mysteries—the mystery of Christ’s descent into Hades. Being “put to death in the body,” says Peter, he was “made alive by the spirit through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it, only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also.” Peter here reminds us of two great and glorious truths. First, that we are saved through water, and second, that the descent of Christ into Hades inaugurates resplendent triumph. A triumph by which Christ “tramples down death by death.” Hank also answers the following questions: When a person is baptized, do they become a new creation right away, or is it an ongoing process? Debra - Stony Plain, AB (15:49) What provision does the Bible make for young children or some adults who don’t have the mental capacity to accept Christ? Robert - Tallahassee, FL (21:07) I have a cross pendant that has discolored over time. I bought a replacement, but what should I do with the old one? Paul - San Diego, CA (23:36)

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank shares the testimony of Michelle, who came out of Mormonism. Hank also answers the following questions: I am discussing the two natures of Christ. Did Christ have a human spirit and a divine spirit? Michael - Fort Worth, TX (5:11) What is the sin leading to death in 1 John 5:16? Why pray that people should not commit that sin? Zeke - Old Ridge, NE (9:00) What is the difference between an apostate and a heretic? Carl - WI (15:13) Can you explain Judgment Day to me? If our sins are forgotten, why is God going to judge Christians? Patty - St. Louis, MO (16:24) Can you explain Peter’s vision regarding the eating of animals? Chip - Bloomington, IL (20:52) Genesis says, “God created the heavens and the earth.” Are there multiple levels of heaven? Mark - Omaha, NE (23:04)

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/10/26), Hank picks up his overview of the days of Holy Week, arriving at Holy Friday, the day a united Church is brought face-to-face with the fatal torment of Jesus Christ. A torment that began in the garden of Gethsemane following the emotional Last Supper of Holy Thursday. That night, Jesus was betrayed by Judas, disowned by Peter, and arrested by the temple guard. Before Caiaphas the high priest, he was mocked, beaten, and spat upon. The next morning, Jesus—battered, bruised, and bleeding—was stripped and subjected to the brutality of Roman flogging, reducing his body to quivering ribbons of bleeding flesh. As Christ slumped into the pool of his own blood, soldiers threw a scarlet robe across his shoulders, thrust a scepter into his hands, and pressed sharp thorns into his scalp. After they mocked him, they took the scepter and repeatedly struck him on the head. A heavy wooden beam was thrust upon his bleeding body, and he was led away to a place called Golgotha. There, the Lord of Glory experienced ultimate physical torture in the form of the cross. Today, as we remember the passion of Christ upon the cross, as we recall his dying words, “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit,” we are reminded that we, too, will breathe our last. Whether we are old or young, rich or poor, male or female, we light the sky for the briefest of moments. And then eternity. In the meantime, what we do today will have direct consequences for all eternity. Thus, while the culture seeks to focus your gaze on greatness, Christ rightly focuses your gaze on grace and godliness.

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/09/26), Hank resumes his overview of Holy Week with Holy Thursday, the epicenter of the divine narrative. A narrative that begins with the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden. If Adam and Eve had rejected the serpent, they would have eaten from the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge would not have been withheld from them. Instead, they were exiled from the Edenic garden and from traversing the slope leading upward toward the peak of deification. Thankfully, the narrative does not end there. For in the panoply of history, a Second Adam clothed himself in fallen humanity. It was above all in his death on the cross and resurrection from the dead that Christ returned humanity to the life of Eden. This then is the great arc of the biblical narrative. From the Tree of Life in the Edenic Garden to the Tree of Life in the eternal garden. An arch that finds its apex with the Eucharistic bounty spilling forth from the trodden grapes of Golgotha’s hill. The Last Supper that we commemorate on Holy Thursday constitutes the central mystery of the Church. It is the source and zenith of Church life. By it, we are changed from human multiplicity to one body in Christ, the temple of the Holy Spirit. Within the Eucharistic assembly, divine life flows into us and penetrates the fabric of our humanity. The future life is infused into the present one and is blended with it, so that our fallen humanity may be transformed into the glorified humanity of the new Adam, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/08/26), Hank continues to provide an overview of the days of Holy Week, picking up with Holy Wednesday, otherwise known as Spy Wednesday. For on the Wednesday of the last week of Christ’s earthly sojourn, Judas became a spy for the enemies of the Messiah. On this day, the ancient Church commemorates the ultimate in contrasts: a prostitute transformed into a pure bride in contrast to a chosen disciple who conspires with sinful men to betray the King of Truth. Hank also answers the following questions: I have a friend who is a member of Rodney Howard-Browne’s church. If he believes in the essentials, how does that make his ministry a cult, and how can I explain that to my friend? Nancy - PA (15:46) What is your take on sola scriptura now as an Orthodox Christian, and do you think it is biblical? Chris - Seattle, WA (19:33) I heard you say the other day that there was no rapture. Am I incorrect, or did you actually say that? Charles - Dexter, MO (23:04)

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/07/26), Hank continues to highlight the days of Holy Week. On Holy Tuesday, we commemorate the Parable of the Ten Virgins as found in Matthew chapter 25. In this parable—this extended simile with extraordinarily sharp teeth—the coming of Christ is likened to the coming of the bridegroom to the home of his bride during the sacramental ritual of marriage. In the narrative of the parable, there are ten virgins—five wise and five foolish. The five wise virgins are illustrative of those who practice almsgiving and mercy. The five foolish represent those who selfishly squander God’s provisions upon themselves. In the end, the bridegroom arrives, and the five who were prepared went in with him to the eternal wedding banquet. And then, says Jesus, “the door was shut.” To the five foolish virgins who belatedly asked for the door to be opened, the bridegroom replied, “I tell you the truth, I don’t know you.” Hank also answers the following question: My son struggles with knowing that he’s saved. He said that he’s prayed and prayed but doesn’t feel like he hears from God. What can I say to him? Carol - Nashville, TN (19:41)

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/06/26), Hank focuses on Holy Week, with Christians in the Eastern Church celebrating Palm Sunday yesterday while Christians in the West celebrated Christ’s resurrection, concluding their Holy Week. Holy Week for Christians in the East begins the day before Palm Sunday. It’s the day christened by the ancient Church, Lazarus Saturday. It is on that day that we remember afresh that our Lord Jesus Christ raised Lazarus, a historical reality that points forward to the universal resurrection of all humanity. The next day, Palm Sunday marks the commemoration of Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Christ’s entrance into Jerusalem announced the establishment of the Kingdom of God and a foretaste of the time that He will gather His perfected bride and carry her over the threshold of Jordan into the New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God. On Holy Monday, the fig tree is set before us as a reminder of the danger inherent in having an appearance of godliness but being devoid of its reality. A reminder to be vigilant and bear the fruits of righteousness and repentance. Hank also answers the following questions: If you believe that salvation is “once saved, always saved,” would this mean your free will no longer exists? Tim - Keller, TX (15:49) To me, the term replacement theology seems to be an accurate term as opposed to a misnomer, would you not say? Mark - Vancouver, BC (21:10)

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank interviews Dr. Paul Maier, former Russell H. Seibert Professor of Ancient History at Western Michigan University, about the DVD The Week that Changed the World. Hank and Dr. Maier discuss the significance of Holy Week, those who erroneously deny the fatal torment of Jesus, extra-biblical evidence for the life of Christ that corresponds to Scripture, and more questions and misinformation surrounding the most important week in all of history.

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast (04/03/26), Hank reaches the conclusion of the four-part argument for the resurrection of Jesus Christ, transformation. What happened as a result of the resurrection is unprecedented. In the span of a few hundred years, a small band of insignificant believers succeeded in turning an entire empire upside down. The Twelve—minus Judas, plus Paul—were radically revolutionized. Peter, once afraid of being exposed as a follower of Christ, became a lion of the faith. Paul, the ceaseless persecutor, became the chief proselytizer of the Gentiles. Within weeks of the resurrection, not just a few, but an entire community of thousands of Jews, willingly transformed the spiritual and sociological traditions underscoring their national identity. Of one thing Hank has become certain—if twenty-first-century Christians would grasp the reality of resurrection like first-century Christians did, their lives would be totally transformed. Today, Great and Holy Friday, “he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed” (Isaiah 53:5 NIV). As Theanthropos (God-Man), the spotless Lamb of God lived a perfectly sinless human life and died a sinner’s death to sufficiently atone once for all for the sins of humanity. Isaiah not only foreshadows the death of Christ but His resurrection as well. Isaiah prophetically looks forward toward the resurrection of “a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering” as the earnest of our resurrection on the last day. “After the suffering of his soul,” says Isaiah, “he will see the light of life and be satisfied.” In like fashion, our bodies will be resurrected from the dust of the ground. Jesus, who fulfills the entire mosaic of Old Testament resurrection prophecies left no doubt about this coming resurrection: “Do not be amazed at this, for a time is coming when all who are in their graves will hear his voice and come out—those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned” (John 5:28-29 NIV). If Christ had not himself been resurrected, the promise that he will resurrect dry bones in scattered graves would be as empty as the tomb guaranteeing its fulfillment.