November 15, 2005

Played clips from Tim Staples, Shabir Ally, and Patrick Madrid today—in that order, though, amazingly, two of the three had something in common. You’ll just have to listen to find out what it was! Here’s the program.

Spent most of the program today listening to Ahmed Deedat and taking apart his horrible arguments against the crucifixion.  We got to the point where we are ready to tackle his thirty arguments against the crucifixion “from the Bible.”  We will discover his arguments have very little to do with any honest or meaningful reading of Scripture at all.

Took a great call on OT studies and the general slide into liberalism in that field, played a section on the Islamic view of intercession and how Islam parallels in Muhammad many of the key offices of Jesus, and finished with a call on the topic of inerrancy and textual variation.

Listening to a couple of hours of Dave Hunt railing on Calvinism gave me a royal headache last evening. But, you will benefit when you listen to the DL this afternoon. I am simply grieved to hear Dave repeat falsehoods upon which he has been corrected over and over and over again, without even trying to get it right. It

We examined Leighton Flowers’ attempt to a-contextualize John 6 (resulting in the inevitable conclusion that the many deep promises Christians have always claimed from John’s Gospel are actually not for us at all!) and hence to defend synergism and the autonomous will of man.  Then we looked at Zakir Hussain’s comments about Deuteronomy 18 and how this could not be

TurretinFan joined me yesterday for an hour-long examination of Tim Staples’ attempt to undermine Reformed objections to purgatory, specifically, his lengthy attack on Calvin’s doctrine of God’s sovereignty and providence found in his 5-CD series, published by Catholic Answers, on purgatory. Though we had much more material we could have covered, we managed to get to the key errors in