Archive for category: General Apologetics

Some members of my church joined other believers yesterday in open-air preaching in Jersey City. They were wrongly shut down by the authorities who accused them of attempting to stir up a riot, which was patently untrue. Their rights were clearly violated by lying, corrupt police officers. Speaking to one of the individuals who participated yesterday, he told me police

Dan Wallace just posted this: “News flash: Harvard Theological Review has decided not to publish Karen King¹s paper on the Coptic papyrus fragment on the grounds that the fragment is probably a fake.” This from an email Dr. Craig Evans, the Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Acadia University and Divinity College, sent to me earlier today. He said

And so another round of “the story of Jesus in the Bible is bunk, there were all these Christians back then who believed wildly different things” has begun. It will go for a few months, then fade away, only to be replaced by some new book, film, movie, etc., next year or the year after. For young folks who don’t

Remember the Gospel of Judas a few years ago? Yeah, most people don’t. It was one of the last “Look, the Gnostics were a bunch of heretics, let’s call them Christians and say Christianity is silly” waves that was sponsored by a major institution with hundreds of thousands of dollars to burn in the never ending campaign to attack the

A few corrections and notes on last night’s debate. First, having quoted John 1:1 in Greek a few thousand times in my life, I think I ended up trying out for a spot on the TBN team at one point last night, but without an interpreter. My apologies. Secondly, I am really slowing down in my old age. OK, maybe

Combine easy believism, man-centeredness, humanism, cultural secular dominance, and and abandonment of any deep seated knowledge of the holiness and “otherness” of God, and you have a situation rife for stuff like this, coming in September:

Let’s hope this doesn’t get pulled.

I have engaged Sir Anthony Buzzard on a number of occasions. We engaged the relevant subjects on the Unbelievable Radio Broadcast on March 13, 2010, and I had to correct his constant assumption of unitarianism, esp. as it refers to the name Yahweh, at that time. Michael Brown and I engaged Buzzard and a cohort on the Jewish Voice Broadcast

No Compromise: Ever – Teaser Trailer from Joshua McDonald on Vimeo.

Paul Helseth’s lecture which he delivered on Tuesday night at the GPTS conference is now online. You can access it here. Dr Helseth’s book can be found here and some sample pages here.

As I wandered a bit in my commentary (and interaction with the chat channel) I decided not to delve into the Ehrman materials today, but instead finished Diaa Mohamed’s opening statement. Also announced that we will be doing a Radio Free Geneva this coming Thursday, so join us at our regular time!

To all the folks in the Phoenix area: Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary is offering an apologetics class in January (see the banner ad). They have had a number of inquiries about it, but I wanted to let you know that the time period to sign up will soon pass, and since the class is up against a number of

You could not have a stronger contrast between the mindset and behavior of my two debate opponents this week, and, in particular, in their response to how I bent over backwards to try to make these debates as fair, even-handed, and useful as possible. I refer to my taking a tremendous amount of time on the Dividing Line going over

Even though Harold Camping isn’t actively speaking on Family Radio since his illness, his followers are still busy. On Family Radio’s website the most recent recording appears to be from Tom Evans (Evans is on the board of Family Radio, and claims to have known Mr. Camping for thirty years). They are promoting his “Latest Study (Oct 16,2011)” (mp3).  It’s a

Christology for Christians: A Study of the History and Theology of the Person of Christ Tuesday, October 4th, 2011 The Dividing Line, 1 to 3:30pm MST (appx) “On Tuesday beginning at 1pm MST we will have the equivalent of a seminary level class on Christology on The Dividing Line. Christology should be a fundamental area of study of any serious

The folks at Choosing Hats have produced a very nice looking, useful journal of apologetics that would be of great interest to most of our readers. (Click graphic for pdf download)

On Open Letter to Harold Camping of Family Radio Dear Mr. Camping: In July of 2009 you and I engaged in a debate on the Iron Sharpens Iron radio program concerning your teaching that the church age had ended and that Christ would return on May 21, 2011. I trust you recall our exchange. I am also aware that you

A few days ago Dr. White mentioned some NPR broadcasts commenting on Harold Camping. These brief clips can be found here: Is The End Nigh? We’ll Know Soon Enough Divining Doomsday: An Old Practice With New Tricks I’ve been following the Harold Camping situation closely. In my area, Family Radio has had a large presence. I can never recall a time when

I was listening to Camping’s Open Forum program tonight. I was struck by two callers. One called to ask about 1 Corinthians 15:28, “When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also will be subjected to the One who subjected all things to Him, so that God may be all in all.” Camping’s reply was that he

My sincere thanks to Justin Brierley for inviting me to dialogue with the biggest name in the Emergent movement, Brian McLaren on Justin’s fine program from London, Unbelievable. You can download the program here, and I would strongly suggest subscribing to Justin’s program. You sure hear enough of it on The Dividing Line as I interact with the discussions that

I used to spend a lot of time on the subject of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. It was the second major group I tackled and studied. I still have a huge number of their old, old books, shelves of them, actually. I also have a whole set of what are called “bound volumes,” yearly compilations of all of

This past Sunday my pastor announced that each member of the church received a copy of the latest Christian Renewal Magazine. We received this because it contained an article on Harold Camping. Over the past fifteen years we’ve had Family Radio supporters in our church (they’ve all since left, of course). There are a number of people my church is concerned

Given how useful I find Justin Brierley’s program in London (and yes, I enjoy participating in the program), I thought I would mention for our UK readers the upcoming conference Justin is putting on. You can read all about it here. And don’t forget to tune in Thursday as I continue my review of the Licona/Ehrman discussion from last Saturday’s

Robbed Hell – C.A.S.T. Pearls Presents from Canon Wired on Vimeo.

Just a quick note: I will be on the ReformedCast discussing apologetics tonight at 7pm EDT here. The program will then be posted here. Listen in!