Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Centrality of the Deity of Christ

Spent the last portion of the show trying to finally finish up the Calvinist Call In Show, and made a little progress there. But the first half was spent responding to this article and considering the fact that just because a child is born of Christian parents that is not a guarantee of election and salvation, despite our firm desires

Played portions of an Iron Sharpens Iron program from last year with F. LaGard Smith, author of Troubling Questions for Calvinists…and all the Rest of Us. Dealt with issues of God’s knowledge, decree, Romans 9, etc.

We are reviewing the comments of Diaa Mohamed in his debate with Samuel Green from Sydney the week after my debate with Abdullah Kunde.

We began with a Jerusalem Jones update, listening to Steve Ray once again misrepresent his former faith. This time, though, we provided appropriate intro music! Then we continued listening to Norm Geisler’s “Why I’m Not a Five Point Calvinist” sermon, noting the regular equivocation in his arguments against the Reformed position.

Here is Tuesday’s show information: Here is the YouTube link: and here is the Thursday show: Here is the YouTube link:

Had a ton of articles in Evernote to catch up on, including a bunch the continued crusade of the LGBT revisionists to demand Christianity change its fundamental beliefs so that they can feel better, and the fundamental degradation of our culture in promoting human autonomy (hmm—isn’t that a theological issue too?).  Then I moved on to some interactions with Roman

Started off with a brief report on my encounter with Brian McLaren on the Unbelievable program in London (the show airs on Saturday, we will link to it once it is posted). Then finished off the Ehrman/Licona dialogue, alson from Unbelievable, and then took a call from Patrick on the role of evidence in apologetics.