Alpha and Omega Ministries is a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. James White, director, is a professor, having taught Greek, Systematic Theology, and various topics in the field of apologetics for numerous schools.
Today’s DL will air at the normal Thursday time, that is, 4pm MST, 6pm EST, 3pm PST, and at 4:23:15 in Fargo. I will be playing a clip from Anthony Buzzard where he provides his listeners with a “simple and effective” means of demonstrating that Jesus was not divine. Will you be prepared to point out his rather simple error?
Just a quick note about an amazing graphic I stumbled across in Misha’al ibn Abdullah’s book, What Did Jesus Really Say? Here it is: Let’s look at the claims. First we are told that at the Council of Nicea “The Trinitarians gain the backing of the pagan Romans.” I suppose that is the really accurate way of saying “The vast
Some of you may remember a less than encouraging e-mail we received from a Dave Hunt fan last week. You remember…key phrases like “snide and arrogant” “mockery” “pompous contradictions” and the identification of yours truly as a “heretical wolf.” Well, Angelz happened to be passing by the blog and saw the letter, and we all know what happens when you
Memorization verses, John 20:28…it all gets to wait till I finish an article due today. Maybe tomorrow. Only so many hours in the day. Sorry!
I have been shocked over the past few weeks to realize that the best Mecca has to offer apologetically, particularly in reference to their attacks upon the Deity of Christ, fall far short of even that presented by our home-grown “Christian cults” like Jehovah’s Witnesses. This has been particularly clearly demonstrated in the comments I have been hearing and reading
Read about it here.
I intended to have a blog article up on the bankruptcy of Islamic apologetics with reference to John 20:28. However, as I have been chasing down references and URLs I have found some simply fascinating stuff, and with a major article for the CRI Journal due Monday, I may have to provide only the start of the series this weekend
A bit of an odd DL today. I needed to use the first ten minutes or so to respond to some questions I had received about some comments I made on Isaiah 44:24 here. A JW apologist cited my comments, so I needed to provide a response. After that I very quickly read the 14th chapter of Catholic Answers’
Though Debating Calvinism has been out for a while now, many of Dave Hunt’s fans trust him so much they only rarely wander outside the realm of The Berean Call to see what others have to say. But when they do, the reactions can be quite interesting. Today we received this note from T.D. up in Wisconsin. Evidently it is
Just a few days ago it was reported that for every 100 babies born in New York City, 74 babies died in abortions in 2004. There were 124,100 live births and 91,700 murders of helpless, unique human lives at the hands of “doctors” in NYC in 2004. Face it: Saddam Hussein didn’t kill as many people in one place in
Today on the DL I launched into Bart Ehrman’s statement that if the Bible had truly been inspired, there would be no textual variants in manuscripts. Then we handled a few questions on…various subjects, then listened to a little John Shelby Spong. Here’s the program. By the way, who is this guy at the end of this promo clip?
Just saw Jason Engwer link this: a debate between William Lane Craig and Bart Ehrman on the resurrection. Now this fascinates me. Aside from the textual questions I would expect Ehrman to raise
This past Lord’s Day I once again had the opportunity of speaking to a congregation about The Da Vinci Code. At the end I made a point I want to make here at the end of this series of blog articles. We have two ways in which we can view the advent of Brown’s novel, its deeply anti-Christian rhetoric and
“Every reading ever occurring in the New Testament textual tradition is stubbornly preserved, even if the result is nonsense…any reading ever occurring in the New Testament textual tradition, from the original reading onward, has been preserved in the tradition and needs only to be identified.” (Kurt and Barbara Aland, The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical
For those in the great state of Georgia (and surrounding areas), you might be very interested in attending the Greer-Heard Forum February 3-4, 2006, featuring William Dembski and Michael Ruse on the topic of Intelligent Design. Here’s the link. I’m reviewing a manuscript for an upcoming book so that I can write an endorsement for it (more when it
For every person who listened to my reviews of Shabir Ally’s debates, which included a brief section demonstrating some rather…silly errors on the part of Nadir Ahmed, and who heard the brief comments I made regarding some of his followers and their “you are afraid” e-mails, and the fact that we have invited Nadir Ahmed to call and respond repeatedly,
I am so glad Rich Pierce knows how to do… every- thing. He’s Tim Taylor without quite the same frequency of 1) disaster, and 2) trips to the emergency room (though I did have to take him once). Here Rich (crouching down), Larry, and Casey frame in a new door they just created in a wall in the new offices.
Well, I need to keep this short, as I want to run past the new office and see how things are going. Before moving we have walls to build, ceilings to install, network stuff to run…all that fun stuff. But the process has begun. It will be a long one. I’m behind the curve, obviously, but you do have
I just received my copy of Catholic Answer’s newest publication, The Essential Catholic Survival Guide authored by “The Staff at Catholic Answers.” I think that basically translates to, “Various articles from This Rock magazine put into a big book.” I do find it interesting that most of CA’s materials are couched in the “rescue/survival” mode, not the “demonstration of the
Sorry, we were unable to connect to the Real Audio server today. Don’t know if the server is down, or if our utterly unreliable ISP is to blame (yes, we are changing ISPs when we move the office), but I was not in the frame of mind, after losing a good bit of sleep after surprising and scaring away a
The Associated Press is carrying the story of the death of over 300 pilgrims outside Mecca. Note the description of the hajj in this secular report: Thousands of Muslim pilgrims rushing to complete a symbolic stoning ritual during the hajj tripped over luggage Thursday, causing a crush in which at least 345 people were killed, the Interior Ministry said. The
The mp3s of yesterday’s Issues Etc. program are now up here. Ehrman’s responses will start us off tomorrow evening on the DL. Chris Jenkins sent me the Wall Street Journal article on Wheaton’s firing of assistant professor Joshua Hochschild. Hochschild converted to Roman Catholicism. Wheaton stuck to its own rules and dismissed him because they have a statement of
I am so very thankful that in the interview on Issues Etc., Todd Wilken asked the perfect question of Bart Ehrman. I will be playing it on Thursday’s Dividing Line, but briefly, Wilken asked him what kind of conditions would have to prevail for him to believe the Bible was inspired and inerrant. This was similar to a question I
I received an e-mail from BB in which he mentioned a conversation that took place recently. An acquaintance piped up and said, “…tell lies at church? That’s what they do all the time. Ever read the Da Vinci Code? You should, great book.” We live in a society that wants to disbelieve. We can’t stop people providing them with excuses,
Heads up! Bart Ehrman will be on Issues Etc. today at 3:05pm. Here is the link. Watch for differences between the light, breezy confidence found in his statements on the NPR interviews and today’s program. He surely knows he is in a different context than the ultra-liberal context of NPR. Update: OK, sorry, the website said 3:05, but now it
Today I replied to a series of e-mails sent to me regarding the response to Ehrman, took two calls, one on presuppositional apologetics, and then spent a little time on Deedat and John 20:28. Here’s the program.
In our last segment we read Brown’s assertions about secret documents that somehow he knows a lot about (but, since they are secret, doesn’t have to prove). His last claim was an inaccurate comment on the Q source. We continue, “Writings by Christ Himself?” “Of course,” Teabing said. “Why wouldn’t Jesus have kept a chronicle of His ministry? Most people
