Just saw Jason Engwer link this: a debate between William Lane Craig and Bart Ehrman on the resurrection. Now this fascinates me. Aside from the textual questions I would expect Ehrman to raise
This past Lord’s Day I once again had the opportunity of speaking to a congregation about The Da Vinci Code. At the end I made a point I want to make here at the end of this series of blog articles. We have two ways in which we can view the advent of Brown’s novel, its deeply anti-Christian rhetoric and
“Every reading ever occurring in the New Testament textual tradition is stubbornly preserved, even if the result is nonsense…any reading ever occurring in the New Testament textual tradition, from the original reading onward, has been preserved in the tradition and needs only to be identified.” (Kurt and Barbara Aland, The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical
For those in the great state of Georgia (and surrounding areas), you might be very interested in attending the Greer-Heard Forum February 3-4, 2006, featuring William Dembski and Michael Ruse on the topic of Intelligent Design. Here’s the link. I’m reviewing a manuscript for an upcoming book so that I can write an endorsement for it (more when it
For every person who listened to my reviews of Shabir Ally’s debates, which included a brief section demonstrating some rather…silly errors on the part of Nadir Ahmed, and who heard the brief comments I made regarding some of his followers and their “you are afraid” e-mails, and the fact that we have invited Nadir Ahmed to call and respond repeatedly,
I am so glad Rich Pierce knows how to do… every- thing. He’s Tim Taylor without quite the same frequency of 1) disaster, and 2) trips to the emergency room (though I did have to take him once). Here Rich (crouching down), Larry, and Casey frame in a new door they just created in a wall in the new offices.
Well, I need to keep this short, as I want to run past the new office and see how things are going. Before moving we have walls to build, ceilings to install, network stuff to run…all that fun stuff. But the process has begun. It will be a long one. I’m behind the curve, obviously, but you do have
I just received my copy of Catholic Answer’s newest publication, The Essential Catholic Survival Guide authored by “The Staff at Catholic Answers.” I think that basically translates to, “Various articles from This Rock magazine put into a big book.” I do find it interesting that most of CA’s materials are couched in the “rescue/survival” mode, not the “demonstration of the
Sorry, we were unable to connect to the Real Audio server today. Don’t know if the server is down, or if our utterly unreliable ISP is to blame (yes, we are changing ISPs when we move the office), but I was not in the frame of mind, after losing a good bit of sleep after surprising and scaring away a
The Associated Press is carrying the story of the death of over 300 pilgrims outside Mecca. Note the description of the hajj in this secular report: Thousands of Muslim pilgrims rushing to complete a symbolic stoning ritual during the hajj tripped over luggage Thursday, causing a crush in which at least 345 people were killed, the Interior Ministry said. The
The mp3s of yesterday’s Issues Etc. program are now up here. Ehrman’s responses will start us off tomorrow evening on the DL. Chris Jenkins sent me the Wall Street Journal article on Wheaton’s firing of assistant professor Joshua Hochschild. Hochschild converted to Roman Catholicism. Wheaton stuck to its own rules and dismissed him because they have a statement of
I am so very thankful that in the interview on Issues Etc., Todd Wilken asked the perfect question of Bart Ehrman. I will be playing it on Thursday’s Dividing Line, but briefly, Wilken asked him what kind of conditions would have to prevail for him to believe the Bible was inspired and inerrant. This was similar to a question I
I received an e-mail from BB in which he mentioned a conversation that took place recently. An acquaintance piped up and said, “…tell lies at church? That’s what they do all the time. Ever read the Da Vinci Code? You should, great book.” We live in a society that wants to disbelieve. We can’t stop people providing them with excuses,
Heads up! Bart Ehrman will be on Issues Etc. today at 3:05pm. Here is the link. Watch for differences between the light, breezy confidence found in his statements on the NPR interviews and today’s program. He surely knows he is in a different context than the ultra-liberal context of NPR. Update: OK, sorry, the website said 3:05, but now it
Today I replied to a series of e-mails sent to me regarding the response to Ehrman, took two calls, one on presuppositional apologetics, and then spent a little time on Deedat and John 20:28. Here’s the program.
In our last segment we read Brown’s assertions about secret documents that somehow he knows a lot about (but, since they are secret, doesn’t have to prove). His last claim was an inaccurate comment on the Q source. We continue, “Writings by Christ Himself?” “Of course,” Teabing said. “Why wouldn’t Jesus have kept a chronicle of His ministry? Most people
After posting the link below Pastor Roger Brazier over in the UK (London, specifically–my host for my upcoming UK tour) dropped me this link to a series Dawkins is doing on channel 4 in England, and Jason from the UK came in channel and talked about it as well. Isn’t interesting how biologists become experts on religion and history? Dawkins
Many of us were simply disgusted with the judge who recently sentenced a child rapist to 60 days in jail so that he could go into “rehabilitation” on time, saying he (the judge) no longer believed in punishment. But, if we were thinking clearly about how our society is disintegrating and “slouching toward Sodom,” as it has been put, we
So far we have taken to memory a wonderful promise of the perfection of the work of the promised Messiah; we have also helped to prepare ourselves for almost every apologetic encounter by familiarizing ourselves with one of the key passages where the Word testifies to its own nature as God-breathed revelation. Next I thought we would consider a passage
William Dembski posted this parody on his blog. I found it very fitting on the morning after seeing the second hour of The Book of Daniel last night. I had not intended to watch it, though I had heard all about the furor over it. I simply do not watch a lot of television. But someone in channel mentioned that
Rich and I and our families and all involved with Alpha and Omega Ministries join with all the rest of the broader Christian community in praying for a man who has blessed us all mightily, pastor John Piper of the Bethlehem Baptist Church. His ministry has announced his diagnosis with cancer, and his upcoming surgery here. May God be glorified,
Sorry I had all my times messed upon on the program today. Not sure how I managed that (though I have a theory as to how Adobe Audition might have thrown me a curve), but in any case, we continued responding to Ehrman on textual critical issues, looking this time at the very, very minor variant found in a very
I thought I’d provide the uber-cool graphic centuri0n created for his Wooden Nickel Awards for 2005, but it is in various parts, and my 1993 vintage blog format can’t handle high class stuff like that, so this is all I can mange. I got the one for being the meanest Calvinist on the net. I’m honored. While folks like Pyromaniac
I assume most of my readers also read Steve Camp’s blog, so most of you are aware that Steve’s older brother passed away recently. But in case you didn’t, Steve wanted folks to know about his brother and his life of service and ministry. So here’s the link. May Steve find God to be his ever present strength and the
We have been examining the biblically relevant claims of Dan Brown in The Da Vinci Code. We are currently examining his claims regarding the alleged documents contained in four trunks, hidden together with the sarcophagus of Mary Magdalene, and what they allegedly contain. We are dealing with pure fiction here, of course—despite Brown’s claim that the references to historical documents
A twenty one year old LDS missionary from Bountiful, Utah, was shot and killed, and his companion wounded, by an as yet unidentified assailant Monday evening. Here’s the Salt Lake Tribune story. The article seems to suggest that the missionaries had witnessed a shooting and were themselves shot as a result. In any case, it’s such a shame to hear
Somone referred me to a feud between popular TV eschatologist Hal Lindsey (yes, I remember taking a standardized achievement test in my senior year in High School long ago and reading his Late Great Planet Earth between segments of the test) and TBN’s Jan and Paul Crouch. Here’s a letter from Lindsey to TBN, here’s another story on it. Seems
Started off reading parts of this article, commented on the King of the Blogosphere, centuri0n, giving me a Wooden Nickel Award for being the Meanest Calvinist on the Net, then continued working on the Ehrman NPR materials and more of Ahmed Deedat, this time from his debate with Shorrosh. One call included questions on dichotomy vs. trichotomy and who should
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