Well, this will have to hold you all till the 26th of May. Talked a bit more about Mormonism, then Pierre, our favorite Mormon, called, so it fit together nicely. Here’s the program.
This is the earliest picture I have been able to find of my ancestors. This is Robert and Jessie Jeannette White in September of 1889 in Broken Bow, Nebraska. The tiny baby, barely visible in Jessie’s arms, 2 months old, is my grand-father. Robert and Jessie had married in Newton, Scotland, December 11, 1884. So far, on my father’s side,
Different site, same stuff. ReformedCatholicism.com is gone, now we have in its place, www.communiosanctorum.com (Latin is so much more classy than English could ever be, of course). OK, the good things: love the template. I want one like that. Nay, I demand it! OK, so I don’t have much control over that. But I do like it, though, if you
1) I do not know who put up the Dave Armstrong blog. I was pointed to it last night. 2) If they did not obtain permission from Angel for the use of his cartoon, whoever it is should take it down. 3) If you want to see how to deal with Dave Armstrong, look back a few months to what
One of the most common activities of those who defend falsehood goes like this: if you have to twist your sources out of their original contexts, and you know it, then before you do so, accuse your opponent of doing the same thing. If you have to act like a spoiled child, then complain that your opponent was doing it
The Testimony of the Book of Abraham Certainly the most unique section of LDS Scripture is found to be the Book of Abraham, contained in the Pearl of Great Price. This work, Translated from the papyrus, by Joseph Smith is allegedly A Translation of some ancient Records, that have fallen into our hands from the catacombs of Egypt.The writings
A while back I mentioned that Solid Ground had published a hardback edition of Fairbairn’s 1858 work, Opening Scripture. Fairbairn was a leading Scottish Presbyterian in the mid-19th century, and this work provides a wide-range of exegetical discussions on important issues. We have the hardbacks in now, and, Solid Ground has done a run of softbacks as well. I’d recommend
Well, we even skipped the break today. I should have known once I started getting into the specifics of the Millet book I would start preaching. Well, I did. Read just one section from it about how Mormons really don’t know anything more about God being an exalted man that a snippet from the KFD and Lorenzo Snow’s couplet. You
Michael Thomson, Sales Director of Eerdmans, has responded to Pastor Kinchen and Pastor Curlee regarding the Mouw/Millet LDS apologetics work (here is the blog entry). I would like to provide the response and interact with it. You are moved to action in your anger but I wanted to state what the case was…from the publisher’s side. First, the evangelical endorsements
Ironically, Denver Seminary professor Craig L. Blomberg (whose co-authored work with LDS scholar Stephen Robinson, How Wide the Divide? (IVP, 1997) opened the door, I believe, to this new work, but itself was severely flawed on many levels–I wrote the summary review of the work for the CRI Journal) has written the following endorsement for the new Eerdmans LDS apologetics
I only got to see from about 20 minutes after the hour, but Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason graciously, fairly, kindly, steamrolled Deepak Chopra on Faith Under Fire last night. I mean, it wasn’t even fair. Wasn’t even close. TKO first round, except the fight kept going. I have no idea how Greg managed to wrangle the whole hour—the
I read this sermon over dinner last night, and was so blessed I had to invite others to re-read it. Yes, it’s the one Hunt and O’Guinn and others didn’t bother to read before slaughtering it, which only makes it worth the read all the more. Follow the link for the whole thing, but for those without a lot of
I confess, I had to look it up just to make sure I wasn’t going to blow it this coming weekend. Don’t panic completely, it’s the 8th. So, going to send flowers again? My friends over at Solid Ground sent out a really counter-cultural idea. Hey, Mom can read! Yes indeedy, and if you are blessed, like I, with a
Mormonism is not Christianity. It is fundamentally different. While it differs in hundreds of minor details, what is most important to us is that it differs in the most definitional and fundamentalaspects from the Christian faith. Christianity worships one God. Christianity knows that there is one God who has eternally been God and is the Creator of all things exhaustively.
Was going to spend the whole time going through quotes from A Different Jesus? but forgot to sorta announce that we wouldn’t take calls, so, we took calls anyway. Made for a little bit of a roller-coaster, topic wise, but hey, you’ll survive. Good calls and my meanderings about Mormonism and the like, found here.
With thanks to those of you who pre-ordered, we are thankful to announce that the NO COMPROMISE wrist bands arrived five days early. If you had been waiting to order yours until you knew they were actually sitting in the back room—well, they are sitting in the back room. And because a few of you noted that we were using
As I look around my office I see literally hundreds of volumes produced by the venerable old Christian publishing house, Eerdmans. Many of my best resources bear that name on the spine. And I truly wonder what the founders of that company would think about its newest book. Robert Millet is the Richard L. Evans Professor of Religious Understanding and
For those of you who get Bob Ross’ e-mail updates, yes, I know he’s still on the warpath. I feel for him, but decided last year that he is beyond correction, and in light of his encouragement of Wilkin’s efforts, and his manifest ignorance of Wilkin’s views, and his continued comments about a debate he did not see or hear
Who wrote the following? “…unconditional election of individuals to eternal life was not taught by the Apostles. God did elect or predestinate, that all those who would be saved, should be saved in Christ Jesus, and through obedience to the Gospel….” Was it: 1) Dave Hunt 2) Adrian Rogers 3) Benedict XVI 4) Joseph Smith, Jr. 5) Billy Graham You
Man, too many things going on. Forgot again. Sorry. Here’s today’s DL…quick review of…stuff I’m doing, upcoming Long Island Debate, good calls on the Wilkin debate, Billy Graham crusades, and some Open Theism stuff. Wow, a true potpourri. Here it is.
We’ll call him Machaira, since that is his IRC nick. Bright…no, brilliant young man from the Philippines. I didn’t have any idea that he was an anime artist, and in fact, that he does this on his computer. I can’t draw a decent stick figure on a piece of paper, let alone on a computer. This is simply amazing. Well,
First, we note the phrase “no one is able.” The verb “to come” (evlqei/n) is filling out the verb dunatai, which is what you always expect: even in English when we say “able” we follow it with an infinitival phrase, “to do something.” In this case, it is a negation, “no one is able to come to Me.” Is there
I was just writing a note to my friend Steve Camp when I saw an article pop up on Dave Armstrong’s blog. He was talking about Dobson appearing on Hannity & Colmes and being asked about Al Mohler’s 2000 statement about Rome being a false church (amen!) with a false gospel (amen again). (Just in case you haven’t noticed, that
This picture sort of sums up the end of the debate: I’m listening to the moderator who is trying to make some serious closing remarks, and Wilkin is…well, I guess only he knows. At one point he was taking pictures of the audience. All I can say is that Dr. Wilkin evidently is not interested in convincing serious Calvinists of
In case you didn’t read it, you need to. Chairman Dobson, I read in today’s newspaper a quote from your organization that said I should be “alarmed about the anti-Catholicism of some of colleagues.” Your newspaper and radio ads also target Christians like me and Senator Harry Reid. I am proud that Senator Reid is a devout Mormon
Back from Oklahoma City. Saw the memorial downtown and was quite moved! Very, very well planned and laid out. The museum was very well made, too. Can’t believe that was a full decade ago now. My how the world has changed. I may hold off commenting more on the Wilkin debate till the DL on Tuesday. It is just hard
Well, if I had written out how I expected the debate to go…I would have been wrong. I never expected legions of straw-men, enough ignorance of Reformed theology to make Dave Hunt proud, and a nasty, cutting presentation aimed not at the thesis but at me, in particular. But hey, I can roll with the punches, and once again, as
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