We went 8 minutes long today to get them all in. Calls covered a broad range from issues relating to Calvinism, Catholicism, Greek, exegesis, etc. Great callers!
My apologies for the time since I last continued the examination of Saifullah & Azmy’s article on the transmission of the text of the New Testament, and in particular, at this point, seventeen articles in, their lengthy citation of Bentley’s Secrets of Mount Sinai regarding Codex Sinaiticus (a). Life, at times, is so very distracting! Once again we encounter a
It is fairly clear “Mr. Holding” (not his real name) has a lot of time on his hands. Long, rambling, insult-filled responses have already been posted on his site. Feel free, if you wish to abuse your sensibilities, to peruse them. I could only sit and read with a bemused awe as this man, a librarian (M.L.S.) seeks to impress
I sorta stumbled into my office this morning, doing my best to get the brain working before a 7:15am radio program. I’ve become a bit of a night-owl, as I can get a lot more done in the late hours than in the morning hours, seemingly (fewer distractions, and the phone goes silent!). Anyway, I was on with Tim and
I’m doing two radio programs today (March 2nd): 8:15am CST on KJSL with Tim and Al on Calvinism, and then 2:05pm EST on “Engaging Your World” on WVNE. You can listen here, at least I hope, to the second program, which will discuss either my Scriptural sufficiency work, or the KJV Only issue, or both. Sometimes I really don’t know
In the preceding installment we addressed J.P. Holding’s claim that Paul is using a “negation idiom” in Romans 9:16, based upon his particular interpretation of Jeremiah 7:22. We demonstrated that there is no reason to accept this argumentation, and good reason to reject it, from the text of Romans 9 itself. But there is another good reason to reject it:
Started off introducing folks to the concept of the calendar page over there on the left side of the website, talking about upcoming debates and trips. Even managed to try an Italian accent that came out sounding like Dr. Frankenstein. Then we took calls, and the calls focused on scriptural sufficiency and sola scriptura. Useful information.
So then it not on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy. (Romans 9:16, NASB) So then it is not of the man willing nor of the man running but of the God mercying. “For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I
After sending out his “response” (the one I responded to a little earlier) to the same folks he sent out his “White isn’t a Christian anyway” e-mail (and posting it on a yahoo discussion group), Carpenter finally got around to sending it to me, prefaced with the following: On your web site, you have a post entitled “Hyper Calvinism Revisited”
Marc Carpenter of outsidethecamp.org has written another article, “responding” to my comments on his e-mail in which he judges my heart and declares me an unregenerate unbeliever. It is odd indeed, when you realize that this man’s tiny little group seems to encompass, in their thinking, the entirety of the Kingdom of God, that he would be writing and complaining
One of the upcoming debates that is sort of “flying below the radar” is my encounter in April in Oklahoma City with Dr. Robert Wilkin, the Executive Director of the Grace Theological Society. Though we had a fair amount of difficulty getting the debate set up, I think its focus upon the nature of regeneration and the issues of monergism
If you do not know the name Hugh Nibley, you are not familiar with Mormonism and Mormon apologetics. He was the father of the modern movement that is today F.A.R.M.S., the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, the chief arm of LDS apologetics out of BYU. Oh, he wasn’t the only source of LDS apologetics: that movement really predated
OS_X in channel wrote this one and said I inspired it, so I could used it: Answer: Seven PLUS one Protestant. One Protestant to nail a sign to the door of the monastery in Latin, explain 95 reasons why the light is burned out, THEN, one Catholic to call Rome and ask if it’s okay to change the bulb, one
The following appears on numerous news websites, etc.: Ziwar Muhammad Isma’il, a Christian convert from a Muslim background, has been shot and killed for his faith, according to Middle East Concern. The tragedy seems to be part of a growing hostility towards Christians in the country as the threat of military action increases. Ziwar, who worked as a taxi driver
Sorry, forgot to provide the link to yesterday’s DL! My apologies. Yesterday I started off discussing the illness of the Pope in Rome, and then we took calls.
The folks over at reformedcatholicism.com would like us to think they are still Reformed in some meaningful fashion. But I simply ask you to read their own self-chosen subtitle to their site: Where Being Reformed Isn’t The Dead Faith of the Living, But the Living Faith of the Dead Now, I know it is very dangerous to actually attempt interpretation
Libronics is happy again. Norton re-installed (n.b. to anyone who tries to de-install and re-install Norton SystemWorks: DON’T!), BibleWorks fonts close to where they were, things looking pretty much as they were (just running a LOT faster), and all the humorous Mac e-mails filed away (even got a blog entry out of my comments about the Mac cult–maybe Mac’s don’t
A while back in my response to Mark Bonocore’s errors regarding Irenaeus and a few other matters, I noted his association with Dr. Art Sippo, a medical doctor and Roman Catholic “apologist” of sorts (if angry ad-hominem and blustering denunciation can be equated with doing apologetics). I first encountered Sippo in Toledo, Ohio in 1991. It does not look like
Well, I try to look at it positively. My system had been upgraded from Win98 to Win2k and then WinXP. The body of data encompassed in the system registry was OLD. We found stuff in there from programs I had last used when I had hair! So when we just couldn’t find out why the new motherboard was not working,
Four more devastating refutations (#1, #2, #3, #4) of the man who evidently has no idea how to handle being in way over his head. Yes, I do intend on continuing that series, though given the level to which Holding has sunk in his responses to both myself and Steve Hays, I have no interest at all in engaging him
Been a wild day here, as my main computer is down for the count (upgrading issues—all techies understand the issues). Some will want to skip to the last twenty minutes or so…if you lack a sense of humor. Others will enjoy the lighthearted program. I’ve given up trying to please everyone. 🙂
I was translating John 9 last night before going to bed, and was struck by the following dialogue (super-functional translation warning): The blind man said to Jesus, “Lord, I believe!” And he worshipped Jesus. Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see may see, and so that those who see may become
Very few Christians have ever read the Qur’an, but the interest in the topic has grown steadily since 9/11. We have been looking at some passages from the Qur’an and comparing them with God’s Word, the Bible. One will find a great deal of the most important passages relating to Islam and the Christian faith in Surahs 4, 5, and
I noted a while back the response of a hyper-Calvinist to the announcement of the topic of the tenth in the Great Debate Series on Long Island, “Can a Non-Christian Enter Heaven?” Despite my lengthy history of apologetic interaction with Rome, my consistent affirmation of the fact that Rome does not possess the gospel of Jesus Christ, and my defense
Demonstrating that he has significantly more patience with simply outrageous behavior, Steve Hays has responded once again to Holding. One has to wonder when you simply give Holding the last word and find another path upon which to walk. There seems no means to reason with those who are infallible in their own minds. Here are Hays’ responses: #1 #2
I was trying to get a laptop back into a meaningful state of functionality after it was sent back to me by Compaq with its original Win2k installation and nothing more on the hd (i.e., waiting for updates to download, installing virus protection, etc.). So I had the TV in the room on, and was watching a 20/20 program on
I had lunch with one of our channel regulars today. He’s a student at Grand Canyon University, my alma mater. He was looking through a book sale at the library, and found a 1985 yearbook, and looked me up. Bought it for me for 60 cents. I couldn’t really afford the yearbook when I graduated from GCU, so, I got
Someone came into channel last evening and posted a statement from a Ph.D. student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School regarding the interaction between myself and Holding. Specifically, he was making a comment based upon John Piper’s September 1979 JETS article that I cited as I began my response. Specifically, he asked about the following: Heck, for that matter Piper and
But let us hurry to the real issue: Armstrong wrote, “…Christians were, therefore, bound to elements of Pharisaical teaching that were not only nonscriptural, but based on oral tradition, for this is what the Pharisees believed.” Armstrong assumes no distinction between practice, interpretation, or doctrine, regarding the teaching of the Pharisees, ignoring the function of the seat of Moses in
OK, so you may need to keep dictionary.com open on your browser, but it is well worth your effort. Steve Hays has commented on the current state of dialogue between myself and Mr. Holding. I truly appreciate the perspective he brings as well as his wit. I found myself chuckling frequently in reading through this article. I appreciated especially the
My text was John 8. I just preached. Some seemed to enjoy it. Hope you do, too.
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