I listened to a "debate" of sorts between Tim Staples and Mike Gendron recently. I do not know when it took place, but it could not have been too long ago. In any case, it was very, very brief. Tim Staples has a pretty much set presentation in those situations, and he does the rapid-fire "carpet bombing" routine of using isolated texts to create the illusion that Rome's gospel is truly biblical. And while you can't really provide much in the way of contextual exegesis in a brief radio "debate," the fact is that if you slow it down and look at each text, Staples' house of cards collapses in a heap. I took the first 50 minutes of the program to go through his presentation on the gospel verse by verse, and then took one call on what questions I would ask William Lane Craig if I had the opportunity. Here's the program.

I had a real "Stack-O-Stuff" to get through today, so I felt like I was moving at warp speed as I covered the past weekend in Southern California, and a failed Arminian attempt to refute my criticism of Middle Knowledge from last week's DL. Then we dealt with Patrick Madrid's significantly less than "in depth" comments on 2 Timothy 3 and our debate from 1993 on Marcus Grodi's "Deep in Scripture." Then I started responding to an article by anti-Trinitarian Anthony Buzzard, when in the middle of reading the article TurretinFan posted a link in channel that caught my eye. He posted a link where "Servetus the Evangelical" responded to some of the brief comments I have made on my blog. The nature of the commentary offered gives you a good insight into the mindset of this individual, and why his long-refuted arguments against the deity of Christ are hardly worthy of re-examination. I then finished up on the Buzzard topic (including noting that Dan Corner wrote an entire article attacking Calvin for Buzzard's most recent newsletter---and I thought Corner was at least a Trinitarian!) and took one call on the doctrines of grace and one fast call on inerrancy. Quite a range once again! Here's the program.

While I started out with a brief discussion of Frank Beckwith's claims about the Council of Trent, I spent the vast majority of the hour (even skipping the break) presenting William Lane Craig's understanding of Middle Knowledge from his book, The Only Wise God, and interacting with it from a biblical perspective. I haven't taken the time to do this to this depth in the past, so I hope this will be useful for folks. Here's the program.

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