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As my readers know, I have been working very hard on the tomb story, doing the kind of background reading and research necessary to provide a sound response. But, despite the energy I have been investing, some think we are merely providing a “knee jerk” reaction. Here is an e-mail that came in last night: Yea, okay. Let me first
Here’s a shocker: Kevin Johnson over at ReformedCatholicism.com actually liked a recent entry I wrote for Team Apologian. I would like to put forth a point of correction and clarification. Johnson notes, “We’ve been attacked before by James White, Swan, and others for stopping just short of the Tiber and not stepping on to the firm rich soil that leads
The other day I spent some time at the big chain bookstore. I usually grab a cup of coffee, and then head over to the religion section. Most of the time I’m thumbing through books on Roman Catholicism. It’s unbelievable how many books Catholic apologists and those devoted to Rome put out. Usually, the ones I want to thumb through
Spent the program looking at the first portion of the dialogue between Ergun Caner of Liberty University and the guys from the “Rational Response Squad.” If you are expecting me to be going after Caner, you will be disappointed. Sure, it was a bit hard to listen to, and I would love to send him a t-shirt that says “Greg
For the serious minded person, this controversy is over. Finished. Dr. Stephen J. Pfann of the University of the Holy Land in Jerusalem has just posted his paper, “Mary Magdalene is Now Missing: A Corrected Reading of Rahmani Ossuary 701” here. And with this information the case is quite literally closed. Without Mariamne, Jacobovici and his team have nothing whatsoever.
After the Discovery Channel aired The Lost Tomb of Jesus, a follow-up show was presented, The Tomb of Jesus: A Critical Look. Hosted by Ted Koppel, two guests were brought on to challenge the conclusions of Simcha Jacobovici and James Tabor. Archaeologist William Dever was asked what he thought of the documentary. Dever replied, “For me it represents the worst
Well, Carla came through and set up an entire CafePress page for our blog, featuring Angel Contreras’ classic artwork. So we were chatting and came up with the idea of maybe buying the sleeveless-T version, shown here, and sending it as our love-gift to Ergun Caner? I’m sure he would appreciate, and utilize, such a gift, don’t you? Definitely. That
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Sometimes I just sit here at my desk staring at my screen when Rich forwards some of the e-mails we get. The Internet creates “thugs,” bullies with a lot of hot air but zero substance who thrive on acting out their childhood playground fantasies from behind a keyboard. Almost every group has them, sadly. I’ve run into KJV Only types
Spent the first fifteen minutes discussing the big story in the news today, the utter audacity of a leading military general in the United States—he has morals! We watch those who would deny us the right to say “homosexuality is wrong” writhing in anguish at the continued existence (by God’s grace) of men and women in our society who still
Here is more evidence of the errors of the tomb film, this time in spinning such a wild web of conspiracy theories that they can’t keep time frames and simple logic together. They throw John the Baptist’s death (pre-Christian, politically driven, not due to his relationship to Jesus) in with James’ (post-cross) and then a tradition about Simon’s death. Then
Work on the book progresses (those of you waiting for e-mail replies from me, please be patient! There are only so many hours in a day). My biggest problem is choosing which errors of logic, fact, and argumentation, to leave out simply due to a lack of time. Here’s one that would be a real hoot if not for the
We all know James Cameron knows how to use a camera to create an emotional impact. Sadly, when his starting information is grossly flawed, the results can be downright deceptive. Let’s take the Mariamne inscription. Fourth century encratite text–a group of ascetics condemned by the orthodox followers of Jesus, and that quite rightly; that is, the author(s) of The Acts
One of the regulars in our channel has a Cafepress shop and designs shirts. On a lark, when I saw her come into channel earlier today I said, “Hey, Carla should design an ‘I Survived the Tomb Story’ t-shirt!” Well, she took me seriously and did a great job with it. So, if you’ve been reading all of my blog
To say that The Lost Tomb of Jesus is a biased work is to engage in a tremendous understatement. It is very easy to document the bias of this work, and its incredible level of inaccuracy when presenting historical subjects related to the Christian faith. It lives and breathes in the air of the “Gnostic Academy,” that popular area of
I must confess, I am concerned. Over the past few days as I have been writing, gathering primary resources, and in general immersed in this project, I have taken the time to listen to the responses being offered by others. I am desirous of learning as much as I can from others, and I am truly hopeful that others will
For those interested in presuppositional apologetics, here is a new resource: Pushing the Antithesis: The Apologetic Methodology of Greg L. Bahnsen. Ed. Gary DeMar (American Vision, 2007). Dr. Greg L. Bahnsen believed that to deal with the academics of the day and their arguments against the Christian faith, it is necessary to do battle with them at the highest levels
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Started out with an e-mail from Francois Bovon demonstrating, very clearly, the exaggerations presented in the tomb book and documentary. Then we took a call on the issue, and moved from there to some more of George Bryson’s lecture against Calvinism, and closed up with some more Shabir Ally on the crucifixion.
A few days after this debate a young lady, maybe 14 or so, came up to me after I spoke at a local church. “Dr. White, why did Mr. Sungenis hate you so much?” Yes, it was a pretty nasty debate. It led, for a brief period of time, to a bit of a “truce,” meaning that at least the
Kevin Johnson writes, There are those who actually advocate that textual criticism is an essential thing for people to understand in practicing and exercising the faith. I don’t need to advocate this, given that it is believers themselves who want to learn such matters when they ask “Where did we get our Bible?” and “Is the Bible we have today,
Didn’t get enough of the Word on the Lord’s Day today? Well, Dr. James Renihan, one of the leading Reformed Baptist scholars in the US, head of the Institute for Reformed Baptist Studies at Westminster Seminary in Escondido, spoke in our services today. His morning message was on Revelation chapters 4 and 5. His seven observations, and then three points,
I would like to comment on your Jesus family tomb article. You can always find arguments to support your belief system and disregard other arguments that do not fit in with your beliefs. This is only natural. Because you only chose to choose quotes from people that would like to discredit the documentary it is clear where you stand. I
Hey, do you think if I link to this for the folks at Solid Ground (who are putting out From Toronto to Emmaus as well), they might sneak a copy into my current order? Hey, it’s worth a try! Seriously, having been mercifully removed from the Pseudo-Scots Club Presidency by as great an authority as Pastor Jim Handyside, I truly
During the past month, Dr. White gave an instructive primer on Textual Criticism, explaining the history of the transmission of the text, textual methods, and its practice in concrete Biblical examples. It should be self-evident that this apologetic field is essential for defending the faith and providing confidence that our source for the knowledge of God is true. Because the
John Piper, Mark Dever and Bruce Ware join together for a two hour discussion on topics such as particular redemption, N.T. Wright on justification, megachurches and more. Here is the link to the audio. This was recorded in November of 2006 during the ETS Conference. BTW: James preached a great sermon this past Sunday on The God Who Justifies.
Whatever happened to Catholic apologist Gary Michuta? Recall, Dr. White debated Gary on the apocrypha a few years ago (MP3’s of the debate can be found here). Well, Gary has put together a large website and a blog with occasional entries. A recent entry stated, “Christians often fool themselves into believing that the bible is guiding them into all truth
What a wonderful surprise we had yesterday on the program! It was Julie Staples’ birthday. Now, a number of years ago, I and some others tried to sing Happy Birthday for Julie, and the resultant mess was…humorous. We about blew up our phone system. So I put out a call for the world famous Mylo Hatzenbuhler to come to my
This is one of the reasons I am working on a book: there are so many little tidbits of important information floating about on the net, in this book, that article, this old journal entry, that trying to keep it all straight is pretty difficult. That is part and parcel of the problem with the Jacobovici/Cameron/Tabor/Pellegrino project: it merrily skipped
I will be joining Chris Arnzen on Iron Sharpens Iron today and tomorrow on the tomb story. Here’s the link. Listen in at 3pm EST.
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