Archive for category: General Apologetics

One of the questions that Mr. Arnzen asked Mr. Harold Camping, during the four-day discussion on Iron Sharpens Iron between Dr. James White and Mr. Harold Camping, was about whether the listeners of Family Radio have their own gatherings. Mr. Camping indicated that, aside from a small group in Almeda, California (where Mr. Camping resides), he does not encourage his

Greetings from Great Falls, Montana! I really wish the wind was whipping and it was like 20 degrees, but alas, it is a gorgeous day in the 60s. Oh well! So while traveling yesterday I started a little firestorm by asking a simple question: why does Ergun Caner claim to be a leading apologetic figure when he doesn’t do apologetics?

. MP3 Available Here James R. White, founder & director of Alpha & Omega Ministries, a theologically Reformed Christian apologetics ministry based in Phoenix, AZ, will address the theme: “Obama & Gommorah: Our President’s pledge to Homosexual Activists to Bring the US closer to Sodom“. Today, Dr. White will air clips from Barack Obama’s Saturday speech to the Human Rights

   I was directed to an amazingly arrogant, yet, “What do you expect from Northern European academics these days?” article, found here, that illustrates one of the problems we have in our modern day due to the Internet. In the “olden days,” academics (a term that could, in some contexts, refer to someone with trained insights and disciplined study, but today

The two most frequent objections to the Trinity can be illuminated with two simple, but effective, illustrations. First, “How can there be three and one at the same time”? This question conflates two categories into one. But Christians understand that there are two categories involved. There is one “What” (Being/Deity) and three “Who’s” (Persons/Father-Son-Holy Spirit). Here is the best illustration

   I fully expected Dan Barker to use (or, I should say, misuse), the quotation from Justin Martyr’s First Apology, and so I had invested a fair amount of time reviewing the material prior to our debate. In fact, in the video below, watch my face during Mr. Barker’s opening statement when he mentions Justin. That is the smile of “Another

Last weekend, Dr. White debated Dan Barker on whether the Biblical account is derived from prior mythology (Topic, with Dan Barker Affirmative: “The Jesus Story is Cut from the Same Story as Other Ancient Mythologies”). I understand that eventually Alpha and Omega Ministries will make a DVD of the debate available. In the meantime, here’s my take on the debate

I never saw this one coming. I had a feeling Dan Barker would be going a different way in his presentation than he had in his 2007 book, Godless. But when he gave a completely different presentation than he had in a book published only two years ago (with a foreword by Dawkins—a book he was selling in the foyer

   I should be firing up the feed about now, so, I’ve timed this blog article to appear so as to provide the link you will need to listen live to the debate in Newberg, Oregon between myself and Dan Barker. Lord willing, the following link will get you connected! Click here to listen!

Rich was learning a new program, so it took a while to get the original Barker debate media finished. The video of the debate is available here, and audio recording here. Don’t forget to be praying for the next debate with Dan Barker up in Newberg, OR. I will be taking my mini computer to live webcast the debate as

   Justin Brierley is hosting a two-part conversation featuring Richard Bauckham on the topic of his views of the eyewitnesses and Jesus’ ministry on his “Unbelievable” radio program this week and next. I listened to the first part while riding yesterday, and found it fascinating (though at one point I was a bit distracted by riding through a long stretch of

The recent number of visits to Iron Sharpens Iron due to Dr. White’s debate with Harold Camping provides a great opportunity to recommend the show. Reformed Baptist Chris Arnzen has a truly unique show on a wide variety of theological and controversial topics. We’ve been recording the shows for a few years now. All rebroadcast MP3’s are free of charge.

The interactions with Harold Camping’s flee the church reminded me of a recent discussion I had with a person intrigued by the house church movement. He explained there was a grass roots movement of serious Reformed Christians that believed big churches were a leftover from medieval Catholicism. That big building you go to every Sunday wasn’t what the Apostles had

   A couple of months ago I was directed to a website promoting an anti-Trinitarian book by an apostate. I did not spend much time on it for the simple reason that the apostate is playing games, calling himself “Servetus the Evangelical,” and even running a contest as to who can “guess” his identity before he “comes out” in September of

   Some of you may know that over the past three weeks Le Tour de France has been going on. Those of us who are avid cyclists find this time period to be our “Super Bowl,” so to speak. It just lasts for three weeks. Anyway, in the mountain stages you will hear the commentators use a particular phrase. When someone

   We have arranged to be able to webcast the Iron Sharpens Iron program on our regular Dividing Line link tomorrow. So here is how it will work: tomorrow starting around 10:25am or so (1:25pm EDT) we will start streaming the seminar I did on Camping’s attack upon Christ’s church back in 2002 or so. That will take us right up

   This morning I really pushed myself hard (too hard, as it turned out), on a 42 mile ride, starting at 4:05am, climbing 1250 feet. But while out there in the dark I listened to more of William Lane Craig’s lectures on soteriology. I could literally write a book, I really could. But at one point the issue of the “general

   We just confirmed that next Tuesday and Wednesday, July 28th and 29th, I will be debating Harold Camping on the Iron Sharpens Iron radio program on the topic of Camping’s teaching that the church has ceased to exist. As some of you may know, Harold Camping has been teaching for years now that the church age has ended; that no

We have just placed the MP4 video recording of the debate at the University of Illinois here.

   I managed to just find enough time to put together a number of clips from the Biola debate a few months ago between William Lane Craig and Christopher Hitchens. Once again, as I explained at the beginning of the program, I have been focusing on this because very few understand the underlying reasons why there is such a major difference

Introduction I have listened to the Barker-White debate of last Thursday twice (an mp3 of the debate can be obtained here). Many things could be said about the debate. I have a few quick thoughts on why Dr. White dominated the debate: 1) Dr. White presented a Biblical case. This is the primary reason that Dr. White dominated. Dr. White

I wanted to take a few moments to write down some thoughts on the debate with Dan Barker at the University of Illinois on Thursday evening, April 30th, 2009. When I first began involvement in apologetics in my early 20s I had the opportunity of engaging many atheists on our local talk station, KFYI. Dan Barker was one of them.

   Just a quick note to thank everyone who made tonight such a wonderful success. A group of “channel rats” pitched in to do a lot of work in getting the debate video taped, including ENielsen, Dale, Algo, and brigand. We also had DaveHewitt and Celticman and wonky in attendance, too (and SN was there….in command of it all). Thanks to

   So late on Easter Sunday someone in channel mentions that my name appeared in a USA Today opinion piece. I click on the link and find the graphic to the right. At first I didn’t give it a second thought until I noticed that the guy on the left isn’t wearing a tie, and hence is dressed just like Bart

   It looks like Google pulled up a few of my blog articles relating to Bart Ehrman. Tom Krattenmaker has written a piece for USA Today titled, “Fightin’ words.” Included was the following: One of Ehrman’s chief critics is the theologian and author James White, a leading practitioner of apologetics, the branch of theology devoted to defending and proving the orthodox

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Attentions Reformers! Do you have a question you’ve always wanted to ask Mike Horton from the White Horse Inn? Here’s your chance, he’s going to be on IRON SHARPENS IRON live, Thursday, March 19, 3-4 PM Eastern Standard Time. For details on how to call in, visit the IRON SHARPENS IRON website. The first five callers with a question will