Alpha and Omega Ministries

Well, it took me two months to find the time to actually get around to doing this again. Back in December of 2005 I did a “triple ascent” of South Mountain here in Phoenix for my 43rd birthday, and so I was going to do it again for my 44th. I figured if I added a little in I could

Who is the Blessed Man? And Augustine Said What Again?

James White, February 24, 2007, Roman Catholicism

More from the cross-examination of Peter Stravinskas on vital issues of apologetic import. DVD available here (#520). For details on Stravinskas’ error regarding Sermon 131, see here.

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Calvin Said What?

James Swan, February 23, 2007, Roman Catholicism

It’s been a while since Tiber Jumper’s Crossed The Tiber has been in the spotlight. Every so often, this Catholic convert provides quotes from the Reformers. It amazes me how Catholic converts become so seemingly fluent in Reformation history and writings (I do wonder, though, how much of the Reformers writings actually are read prior to Catholic conversion). This time,

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An Encouraging Note on Multiple Fronts

James White, February 23, 2007, Mail Bag

This note came through our website from DC in Tennessee: Dear Dr. White I grew up in a KJO home. My grandfather wrote a book on the subject (pro KJO) and as a result was close with Peter Ruckman. In 1995 I was 20 years old and I was clueless about truth but addicted to Ruckman’s crazy ideas. I remember

Johnny Hunt’s Biblical Illiteracy Then Calls

James White, February 22, 2007, The Dividing Line

Well, evidently, I answered all possible questions on textual criticism, or, bored the world to death with that series, so we moved on to listening, sort of on the fly, to last weekend’s sermon by Johnny Hunt in which he once again did the “here’s the template, we are all going to keep repeating this, without modification, without accuracy, and

Why Cross Examination is Vital

James White, February 22, 2007, Roman Catholicism

He taught at two well respected universities. Two earned doctorates. Numerous books authored. Editor of “The Catholic Answer.” Ordained priest. The debate was on purgatory. Only a few biblical texts are relevant to the topic. 1 Corinthians 3 is the main one. Watch and listen. DVD available here (#520).

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A Classic Updated–in the AOMin Bookstore

James White, February 21, 2007, Blog Stuff

I have to admit, it is one of the most humorous comments I’ve seen in print, from a Calvinist anyway, in a long time. When Lance Quinn updated the work of Steele and Thomas, The Five Points of Calvinism for P&R, he expanded the book tremendously by adding a wonderfully useful bibliography. During the process he asked for not only

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Rumors Out of BYU

James White, February 20, 2007, Mormonism

This is interesting in light of the discussion we have been having on the DL about textual criticism. Here is a story that claims that scholars working on the Oxyrhnchus papyri using multi-spectral imaging have discovered “an unidentified Christian apocryphal Gospel, a new ending to the Gospel of Mark, a different version of two verses in the book of Philemon,

Finishing the Textual Critical Series

James White, February 20, 2007, The Dividing Line

Started to wrap things up today on the TC series. Here is the textual data I discussed at the top of the program regarding Mark 1:41 and Bart Ehrman: Greek text: kai. splagcnisqei.j evktei,naj th.n cei/ra auvtou/ h

Tuesday Morning Odds and Ends

James White, February 20, 2007, Misc

We’ve seen it coming for a while now. With the entrance of Mitt Romney into the 2008 presidential election, the subject of Mormonism would be front and center. But, given the mind-set of Secular America (might as well capitalize it: it’s the official religion of the nation), I for one expected exactly what we are getting. First, anyone who dares

Another Bodily Assumption Thought from the 1996 Debate

James White, February 20, 2007, Roman Catholicism

About a week ago I commented on Owen’s discussion of the Bodily Assumption of Mary, and noted how serious Rome was when she defined this as a dogma of the faith, something to be accepted de fide. It is truly a testimony to the internal collapse of the Roman system in our day that so few who profess Roman Catholicism

Dave Hunt Defends the Irrationality of Man’s Autonomy

Dr. Alan Kurschner, February 19, 2007, Reformed Apologetics

I am not sure why I check Dave Hunt’s newsletter every month. Maybe there is a ray of hope that he will begin to engage with concrete objections presented to him over the years. But once again, we find his February Newsletter Q&A section consistently disappointing. Someone wrote in with a Calvinist persuasion and asks Hunt some honest questions about

Roman Catholic Apologetics Goes Presuppositional

James Swan, February 19, 2007, Roman Catholicism

Never underestimate the writing output of a Catholic apologist. You can be easily buried with facts on several different topics spanning numerous pages. Most of their arguments are exercises in reasoning from the facts back to the Roman Catholic Church. One fact supports another in arguing back to the church Jesus is said to have established. The Catholic apologist will

Open Theism Debate

James White, February 19, 2007, Reformed Apologetics

I’ve seen a lot of chatter about Open Theism over the past week. Here is a clip from the cross-examination portion of my debate with John Sanders at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando a few years ago. The DVD is available here (#551).

Helping out a Faithful Reader…

Mike Porter, February 18, 2007, Reformed Apologetics

A faithful reader of this blog has borrowed some of the quotes from my first blog article on Heinrich Bullinger. Unfortunately, he also borrowed four points where I summarized a section of his sermon and confused them with Bullinger’s words. As honored as I am to be confused with Bullinger, I concede that there is a bit of an age

Catholic Answers Responds to “Who Has The Fullness of Truth?”

James Swan, February 18, 2007, Misc

The folks over on the Catholic Answers board came across my entry, Who Has The Fullness of Truth? The first set of criticisms concentrate on the differences I noted between Biblical conversion and Roman Catholic conversion. First I was said to miss the need for baptism in my citations of Acts 8:35 and 16:14. While indeed there is a Biblical

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A Blast from the Past

James White, February 17, 2007, King James Onlyism

It is hard to believe my son, now engaged to be married, was only nine years old when this video was shot. This is from the John Ankerberg series on the King James Only movement (available here). Look at those glasses! Ah, but you can see the hair on the top is thinning, and that quickly. Oh well. This was

Upcoming Video Clips and Discussions

James White, February 15, 2007, Blog Stuff

I am truly enjoying providing these video and audio clips on the blog, but, as most of you know, since A&O has a massive staff of…two, I am doing all of this on my own. I have two writing projects I must get done next week, so I am going to have to slow things down. I have a bunch

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From the Bookstore at AOMin…

James White, February 15, 2007, Blog Stuff

If you have not read this book, you must. Not just you should, you really must. I read it over two decades ago in a single sitting. And it changed my life. It planted the seeds that eventually produced Pulpit Crimes, to be honest, because so much of what I decry in that work is the shallow, fluffy preaching of

A Brief Clip from Texxe Marrs then More Textual Criticism

James White, February 15, 2007, The Dividing Line

Yup, you guessed it, continued with the textual criticism seminar. Going to try to start wrapping things up on Tuesday, hopefully taking your calls on textual issues on Thursday. We will see. Started today’s program with a clip from ol’ Texe Marrs, which will appear on the blog soon.

When Liberals <strike>Attack</strike> Debate!

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When Liberals Attack Debate!

James White, February 14, 2007, General Apologetics

It was one of the most humorous occurrences in my debates. The context was anything but humorous. I was debating noted liberal Barry Lynn on the subject, “Is Homosexuality Compatible with Biblical Christianity” on Long Island. This is the debate Lynn tried to suppress, threatening legal action if we distributed the tapes. During the cross-examination, as is so often the

Serving the Mormon Jesus (Update)

James White, February 14, 2007, Mormonism

Over the past few years as I have responded to the public statements of Paul Owen my language, and my predictions of his eventual abandonment of any form of evangelical belief, have undoubtedly caused some to wonder. The “behind the scenes” issues, and years of previous private interaction, explain a lot of it. This is not a “I told you

Continuing the Textual Criticism Series

James White, February 13, 2007, The Dividing Line

Pressed on with the textual criticism series on the DL today. I took some time to address the “ecclesiastical text” argument before moving into some more specific variants. We just got started on looking at the NA27 text near the end of the program. Also, I made reference to my disputatio with Douglas Wilson on the issue of textual critical

“Reformed Catholics” and the Bodily Assumption

James White, February 13, 2007, Roman Catholicism

Paul Owen has opined on the Bodily Assumption of Mary, perhaps as a result of my posting the clip of the debate portion between myself and Gerry Matatics. He writes, I struggle as a Protestant who longs for catholicity over the dogma of Mary’s bodily assumption into heaven. I do not struggle as a biblicist who longs for unity based

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Quick Note for the DL Today

James White, February 13, 2007, The Dividing Line

Here are the links for the documents for the textual criticism series (UBS, UBS2, NA27). Oh, and I will probably mention the SESB for Libronics today as well. Here’s a glorious image of how you can have the full textual data on your computer as well.

Impact of the Secular Mind on Scholarship

James White, February 12, 2007, General Apologetics

While riding yesterday I listened to the folks at The Things that Matter Most interviewing Dr. Bock. In the process they played three clips from a previous interview with Robert Jensen of the University of Texas. Jensen is not a biblical scholar, nor a historian. His field is journalism. But, despite that, for some odd reason, he decided to opine

Who Has The Fullness of Truth?

James Swan, February 12, 2007, Roman Catholicism

Roman Catholic conversions are not descriptions of God’s sovereign grace- that is, as something God does perfectly and completely. Rather, they describe a progressive development in one’s understanding and spiritual life.This development may culminate in eventual salvation, or it may not. In the Surprised By Truth series, many of those crossing the Tiber claim to have experienced some sort of

One of the Most Memorable Moments in My Sixty-One Debates

James White, February 12, 2007, Roman Catholicism

It was The Great Debate I. The first big debate on Long Island. An intense evening of debate between myself and Gerry Matatics. Unfortunately, we have not gotten this debate off of VHS onto DVD as yet (it’s on the list). You can find it in the mp3 list, of course. In any case, this was the third cross-ex period

A Wonderful Example of Why Audience Questions Should be Banned

James White, February 11, 2007, Islam

Make your question short, succinct, direct. Make sure it is a relevant question. We give instructions to the audience every time we have audience questions with an open microphone. Thankfully, we have pretty well stopped doing that (we ask for written questions now), but when folks insist upon having that format, it is always interesting. Nowhere was this more true

Primer on Paleography…

Dr. Alan Kurschner, February 10, 2007, Textual Issues

For those who are really ambitious about learning textual criticism and want to place it in a concrete context (the various characteristics of the materials and the human process of making or copying actual manuscripts), I recommend the following classic primer on paleography, Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Paleography, by Bruce M. Metzger. Though someone with a

An Insight into the Islamic Mindset

James White, February 10, 2007, Islam

What is the result of the decades of popularity of the lectures of Ahmed Deedat? Well, he has legions of followers to this day who repeat his questions almost verbatim. Here’s an example from the Malik debate. And in case you are confused, it is “fig tree.” DVD available here (#585).

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