DVD available here (#520).
I played portions of the Today Show interview and the Larry King program from last night and gave an overview of the many problems in the Tomb of Jesus story today on the DL. If you know folks who are more likely to listen to something than read something, today’s program might help. Of course, this is all preliminary. I
I am listening to Larry King Live. At least the outlines are becoming very clear, even before the release of the video. (I find it ironic that Jacobovici keeps pointing out people who are responding to his claims have not seen the film as if that means something. Well, try following the normal canons of scholarship so that those responding
This is not going to surprise anyone, but I intend to tackle the Tomb controversy tomorrow. They may have the collective ignorance and gullibility of the secular media on their side, but that is not going to stop me from replying. I have found that there are some real questions about the reading of the inscriptions, and I likewise have
I’ve created a blog category “Tomb Issues” for the on-going discussion of the claims regarding the 1980 ossuary finds. Unless the on-going fraud trial in Israel right now turns up conclusive evidence of tampering regarding the inscription on the James ossuary (and hence blows this entire thing up–which may, I emphasize may, explain in part the speed at which this
With the advent of The Blasphemy Challenge Brian Flemming’s The God Who Wasn’t There is once again garnering attention. I have addressed some of the more glaring aspects of this video on the DL in the past, but since the kind of “scholarship” that this kind of film promotes is so common in humanistic “academia” today, it is good to
At this very moment, in New York City, a press conference is getting underway. Some ancient ossuaries are being displayed, and the key men involved in the production of The Lost Tomb of Jesus. Here are a couple of links (here / here). A statement in the Discovery Channel press release immediately makes any sober-minded person sigh in frustration and,
I got this voice mail on my new Blackberry last week. This MASSIVE RADIO VOICE guy calls me. I mean, I can do a radio voice. I grew up doing radio. But, it isn’t natural. This guy has a radio voice 24/7. It’s…just how he sounds. And of course, I am referring to Todd Friel, host of Way of the
Prepare for a flood of media coverage of the Cameron/Jacobovici film, The Lost Tomb of Jesus. Fox News has already picked it up, and I imagine you will be deluged with pictures of the ossuaries in question by tonight, with the major news outlets grabbing various folks with the film to do the morning shows on Tuesday and Wednesday. Don’t
As expected, there isn’t any such thing. Student newspaper, reporter without understanding, confusing what they’d like to find with what they have in fact found. Here is a letter from the actual scholars doing the imaging. Of course, that does not really explain the comments of the undergraduate student which still, it seems to me, give an insight into the
Well, it isn’t a joke. Looked like it, but it’s not. Here’s a Time article, which links to this blog entry. The utter lack of scholarly approach in this stuff is very troubling. It may take years to dig through the fiction to get to the facts. Of course, that won’t stop folks from claiming the fiction is itself factual,
Is this a joke? Maybe—but, it is too early to tell. Indications exist that this might be a spoof, and given that no details at all are given as to where this “press conference” is going to take place, that might be the case. However, this link suggests the film is real. So it is very hard to say. We
Once again I wish to thank everyone who has expressed concern, and support, with reference to the break-in a few weeks ago. A lot of progress has been made. If it is a computer in my office, it is now cabled down securely. Our doors are finally in. In fact, here is a shot I just saved from our security
OK, I have joined the legions of mind-numbed zombies with a Blackberry. I must admit it is the most amazingly well designed, intuitive electronic device I have ever used. It is the closest thing I will probably ever have to a secretary. Just amazing. So, I’ve been looking to put juts a few things on it to increase its usefulness
Well, it took me two months to find the time to actually get around to doing this again. Back in December of 2005 I did a “triple ascent” of South Mountain here in Phoenix for my 43rd birthday, and so I was going to do it again for my 44th. I figured if I added a little in I could
More from the cross-examination of Peter Stravinskas on vital issues of apologetic import. DVD available here (#520). For details on Stravinskas’ error regarding Sermon 131, see here.
This note came through our website from DC in Tennessee: Dear Dr. White I grew up in a KJO home. My grandfather wrote a book on the subject (pro KJO) and as a result was close with Peter Ruckman. In 1995 I was 20 years old and I was clueless about truth but addicted to Ruckman’s crazy ideas. I remember
Well, evidently, I answered all possible questions on textual criticism, or, bored the world to death with that series, so we moved on to listening, sort of on the fly, to last weekend’s sermon by Johnny Hunt in which he once again did the “here’s the template, we are all going to keep repeating this, without modification, without accuracy, and
He taught at two well respected universities. Two earned doctorates. Numerous books authored. Editor of “The Catholic Answer.” Ordained priest. The debate was on purgatory. Only a few biblical texts are relevant to the topic. 1 Corinthians 3 is the main one. Watch and listen. DVD available here (#520).
I have to admit, it is one of the most humorous comments I’ve seen in print, from a Calvinist anyway, in a long time. When Lance Quinn updated the work of Steele and Thomas, The Five Points of Calvinism for P&R, he expanded the book tremendously by adding a wonderfully useful bibliography. During the process he asked for not only
This is interesting in light of the discussion we have been having on the DL about textual criticism. Here is a story that claims that scholars working on the Oxyrhnchus papyri using multi-spectral imaging have discovered “an unidentified Christian apocryphal Gospel, a new ending to the Gospel of Mark, a different version of two verses in the book of Philemon,
Started to wrap things up today on the TC series. Here is the textual data I discussed at the top of the program regarding Mark 1:41 and Bart Ehrman: Greek text: kai. splagcnisqei.j evktei,naj th.n cei/ra auvtou/ h
We’ve seen it coming for a while now. With the entrance of Mitt Romney into the 2008 presidential election, the subject of Mormonism would be front and center. But, given the mind-set of Secular America (might as well capitalize it: it’s the official religion of the nation), I for one expected exactly what we are getting. First, anyone who dares
About a week ago I commented on Owen’s discussion of the Bodily Assumption of Mary, and noted how serious Rome was when she defined this as a dogma of the faith, something to be accepted de fide. It is truly a testimony to the internal collapse of the Roman system in our day that so few who profess Roman Catholicism
I’ve seen a lot of chatter about Open Theism over the past week. Here is a clip from the cross-examination portion of my debate with John Sanders at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando a few years ago. The DVD is available here (#551).
It is hard to believe my son, now engaged to be married, was only nine years old when this video was shot. This is from the John Ankerberg series on the King James Only movement (available here). Look at those glasses! Ah, but you can see the hair on the top is thinning, and that quickly. Oh well. This was
I am truly enjoying providing these video and audio clips on the blog, but, as most of you know, since A&O has a massive staff of…two, I am doing all of this on my own. I have two writing projects I must get done next week, so I am going to have to slow things down. I have a bunch
If you have not read this book, you must. Not just you should, you really must. I read it over two decades ago in a single sitting. And it changed my life. It planted the seeds that eventually produced Pulpit Crimes, to be honest, because so much of what I decry in that work is the shallow, fluffy preaching of
Yup, you guessed it, continued with the textual criticism seminar. Going to try to start wrapping things up on Tuesday, hopefully taking your calls on textual issues on Thursday. We will see. Started today’s program with a clip from ol’ Texe Marrs, which will appear on the blog soon.
It was one of the most humorous occurrences in my debates. The context was anything but humorous. I was debating noted liberal Barry Lynn on the subject, “Is Homosexuality Compatible with Biblical Christianity” on Long Island. This is the debate Lynn tried to suppress, threatening legal action if we distributed the tapes. During the cross-examination, as is so often the
Over the past few years as I have responded to the public statements of Paul Owen my language, and my predictions of his eventual abandonment of any form of evangelical belief, have undoubtedly caused some to wonder. The “behind the scenes” issues, and years of previous private interaction, explain a lot of it. This is not a “I told you
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