Did a few more minutes commentary on the atonement in response to David Allen’s Liberty presentation, and then took calls on such subjects as the sovereignty of God, theodicy, original sin and infant salvation.
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James observes that both the Catholic Karl Keating and the Protestant Dave Hunt reject the Reformed Doctrines of Grace with the same argumentation. He then demonstrates that Keating does not accurately represent Svensson’s argument, and also exaggerates the quality of the performance of Roman Catholics apologists in their debates with Protestants, and exaggerates their willingness to do more direct interaction.
Talked about two relevant issues relating to Rome and the Reformation today, and used that as a springboard to start into a series I am going to do on the history of the Reformation. I have a pretty interesting perspective on the topic for a number of reasons. The first class I taught upon graduating from seminary was church history.
I started to get into Pope Francis’ comments on Mary as co-redemptrix with Christ when I discovered that the Keynote presentation I had cued up included a picture of me and Gerry Matatics in the studio at WEZE in Boston from (someone hand me the Geritol) 1993, so I took the time to give all the background to the story.
Aside from a few technical hiccups and a bit of wandering about, spent pretty much the entire hour on Rome’s Marian teachings, looking in particular at where they came from. I read from such sources as the Odes of Solomon, the Ascension of Isaiah, and especially from The Protevangelium of James. Be warned! Some of this material is a bit difficult to listen
Based on strong feedback from his last program, Dr. White revisits America’s need for repentance and God’s purpose in tragedy. Also, while the world may reject both Christianity and Islam for making truth claims, or even attack Christianity more for having laid a godly foundation in America, Islam has significant issues with a violent founding prophet, dubious textual criticism, and
Snuck another program in up here in Moscow, looking in-depth at John 5 and John 17 in reference to the Scriptural testimony to the relationship of Father and Son. Commented along the way on “Classical Theism’s” obfuscation of Biblical truths and serious concerns about the development of this new “Baptist Scholasticism,” which, by its adherents, is a “recovery of classical
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