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Oddly, there was a single thread throughout the program today.  Well, mainly.  I was asked to address a tweet by Andy Stanley, and I noted that in fact there was a thread that ran through that subject into the Marcionite doctrine of Roger Olson, Brian Zahnd, etc., all those who want to throw the Hebrew Scriptures out and who want

Took me a little longer than I expected to make it through the last half of Deedat’s horrific “crucifiction” arguments, but we sure did run into some real whoppers on his part as far as simple dishonesty goes.  Then I looked briefly at Paul Williams promoting non-Christian Christianity, then we started looking at the very recent “Calvinist debate,” starting with looking

Tried to reason with Dr. Joe McGee, the Director of the Consolation Association of the Georgia Baptist Convention, on the phone right before the DL started—mistake!  He chose the “I will just keep talking and accusing you of all sorts of things but thanks for calling because I know you are trying to intimidate me which means I’m really somebody

Spent most of the program today listening to Ahmed Deedat and taking apart his horrible arguments against the crucifixion.  We got to the point where we are ready to tackle his thirty arguments against the crucifixion “from the Bible.”  We will discover his arguments have very little to do with any honest or meaningful reading of Scripture at all.

Took a brief look at the “coming out” TV interview with “Christian rock-star” Vicky Beeching (sorry—never heard of her till last year, to be honest—is her music in the Trinity Hymnal?).  Then I played this amazing video of a giggling Sudanese cleric.  Then I demonstrated that I seem to pay more attention to what is actually found in the Muslim

Started off the program talking to Rudolph Boshoff down in Johannesburg via Skype. The connection was pretty iffy, and you have to listen carefully. But we discussed the state of the church in South Africa. I wanted to clarify a point where we had some audio problems…I was referring to one of the sound churches in SA, pastored by brother

Over the weekend Walid and Theodore Shoebat posted a number of items aimed my direction, and though most of what (especially) Walid produced is simply irrelevant (or too childish to respond to), it did provide a basis for a discussion of the centrality of the gospel, the nature of the gospel, and related issues, especially as they have to do

Christian militancy.  Reviving the Inquisition.  Wiping out heretics.  Sound like medievalism?  It is, but sadly, when you regularly encounter the medieval behavior of ISIS and Boko Haram and the like, it is easy to forget Christian teaching and adopt a bit of medievalism in response.  Evidently, that’s what Theodore Shoebat has done.  The son of Walid Shoebat, Theodore has been

We got started at 11am our time, but, our audio was cutting out like never before, so we bailed, and did it again at 1pm, this time using a completely different way of getting the audio to the net.  It worked fine, thankfully.  So we looked at John 6 again, this time as Don Johnson tries to insert synergism into

Discussed a bit more about the amazing use of 1 Cor 15:3 to attempt to overthrow Paul’s entire theology of atonement, then looked at an Arminian article on John 6:44 (which had little to do with the actual text), then a young Southern Baptist Pastor’s “journey out of Calvinism” (which really was no journey at all), followed by Bob Enyart’s

I figured I would go jumbo today, but instead, ended up going a full two hours instead!  Spent quite a while at the start on the First Baptist Church Woodstock/Johnny Hunt/Ergun Caner story, even talking to someone who was there, Horatio of Georgia, considering the real issues this situation illustrates (in particular, the lack of a concern to guard the