Author Archive for: DrOakley

At first I didn’t even see it.  I saw a reference to it on Dave Armstrong’s blog, of all places.  Good ol’ Alexander the Coppersmith (AtC), who has the amazing ability of joining hands with anyone, no matter what their beliefs, as long as it means he can get into print insulting me, had posted on l0g0s’ blog regarding the

Did you know that Terminal 7 at JFK Airport is closed if you arrive at 2:25am? Yes indeedy. The things you learn when you travel. And did you know you have to get on that train thing and go to Terminal 4 to hang around at that time in the morning? And that they had Attila the Hun design the

With what effrontery then will the Papists boast that they possess the gospel, which is not only corrupted by many inventions, but more than adulterated by many wicked doctrines? Let us remember that it is not enough to retain the name of the gospel, and some kind of summary of its doctrines, if its solid purity do not remain untouched.

Alexander the Coppersmith blew a fuse a couple of days ago. I’ll try to find time to document the words of this “zealous Reformed Catholic” later on, though the next few days do not look good for allowing much time for that. Just one gem from the words of this wonderful correspondent: The theology of the Baptist schismatics stinks. Its

Hey, dynamic equivalency is all the rage, and no one wants to be a literalist and actually worry about things like context and word meaning, so the NRCT may well be a big hit. Here’s an example: For Christ did not send me to make people Christians and join them to the new covenant by an external religious act, but

In case you’ve run into the new-fangled “Reformed Catholics” running about the web, eagerly displaying their erudite insights, “ecumenical” willingness to read Calvin (they only seem to see parts of what he wrote, however) while extolling Chesterton and the like, you may be a tad confused by their constant discussions about how everyone else (hey, isn’t that very sectarian?) believes

The Gobbler (a not-so-famous theological super-hero) sent me this quote from a sermon by Greg Bahnsen. No date was included, but it may have been post-ECT and had relevance to (seemingly) Gerry Matatics. In a sermon titled The Road to Rome, Was the Reformation Right?, the late Dr. Bahnsen said, “No, I cannot embrace a Roman bishop and say we

A while back I was reading Jimmy Akin’s comments about my being a Christian on his blog. Of course, the idea was “White was validly baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, therefore he is a Christian.” And this has been the basis many RC apologists have used for saying that I am an anti-Catholic but

  As one very familiar with the work of James White, and having been myself involved in a number of discussions with him over the past year specifically arising out of my affiliation with the work in Moscow, this debate will be very interesting to me as well. There may be…many Reformed Baptists who are the friends of Presbyterians. However,

A few weeks ago there was a small chance that maybe, maybe TGE would truly get away from the net long enough to maybe regain a little balance and some perspective. Sadly, that did not end up happening, and lo and behold, “He’s baaaack.” You will note the title of the blog article below: “Theocentric vs. Anthropocentric Religion Illustrated.” It

Over the course of the debates we have done I have often had to point out the difference between theocentric religion and anthropocentric religion. This normally comes up when encountering someone who reads one of the passages in the Bible that can be read prescriptively (“do this so as to be saved”) or descriptively (“this is what a saved person

Just got back from a most enjoyable morning exercising my 2nd Amendment rights and launching model rockets, all at the same time (ah, the smell of gunpowder in the morning!). When I popped into my office to watch an AVI I shot of one of my old, old rockets CATOing on the launch pad (engine mounts gave way…I’m still laughing

Just a couple of items. First, I tracked down the Dividing Line program where I played the phone call where Akin tried to deal with his claims about inceptive aorists in John 6:44. Here’s the link. Fast forward to 33 minutes in, if you wish to only hear the relevant section. I would love to ask Mr. Akin how he

I took a few hours off of writing tonight to sorta de-compress, came back over to the office to do a little more work on an article, and found it necessary to put on my helmet and dodge a flood of incoming fire, both in channel and then in the “blogosphere.” Though I had commented

I grabbed my copy of Jimmy Akin’s book to write my second response (linked immediately below) and as I thumbed through it again I ran across the following argumentation, which is quite similar to the errors Mr. Akin made in our KIXL debate when he mis-identified the aorists in John 6 as inceptives. He writes, One passage