Author Archive for: DrOakley

We had some phone problems during the first part of the program, but, ye olde “reset” fixed that, so we covered…a lot of stuff! Mainly Roman Catholic topics today, even in the calls.

In the first half hour we discussed Sean Penn’s anti-Christian diatribe where he pontificates that Christians should be ashamed of our faith, and then in the second half we discussed apologetic methodologies, contrasting a soundly biblical approach with that of evidentialism.  

Surely one of the most eclectic DL’s in our history, any only partially on purpose! I had intended to address three issues: the discussion over on the ETC blog, some comments on the deep insights available from the 119th Psalm, and a discussion of the Islamic understanding of the nature of man as created by God. Got to all three,

Started off with some comments on Roman Catholicism, then played some interesting segments from a talk given by a BYU scholar. Took a call after the break that led to a discussion of a review of Greenlee’s new work on textual criticism. We went a bit long because I wanted to have enough time to decry the promulgation of a

Started out with a discussion of the “labyrinth” in the theology of John Calvin, a heart-felt plea to hear Calvin’s warning to not go beyond Scripture and to honor God in humbly accepting the limitation of divine revelation. Then we took some great calls and also listened to some clips from John Martignoni, a Roman Catholic apologist.

Started off looking at a few odd comments made in the textual arena since last week, then moved on to two clips from Jimmy Akin, one on prayer to the dead, the other on predestination and election, and another “I think the Greek says” error from Mr. Akin. Then we looked at a quote from Greg Koukl’s new book, Tactics.