Alpha and Omega Ministries

Two Evenings at the LDS Easter Pageant: Mormonism Has Changed

Twenty seven years ago yesterday my wife and I, newlyweds, hopped on my Kawasaki 440 and drove out to the Mesa Temple in Mesa, Arizona. We stood in amazement at the large crowds attending the LDS Easter Pageant. We stood next to the now long-gone Arby’s and pondered the ministry possibilities. The next year we were back, this time with

Imam Sayeed

James White, November 10, 2009, The Dividing Line

Started off with a song from our KJV Only friends, via the Amazing Grace Baptist Church KJV, called “Bogus Bible Blues.” What a way to start! Then gave a brief report on Saturday’s encounter with Imam Sayeed, and then dove back into the Geisler sermon, taking one call on God “changing his mind” at the end of the program. More

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The Wildest, Nuttiest Blog Article I’ve Read So Far…and Another in the “Runner Up” Category

James White, October 27, 2009, King James Onlyism

I know people will say this isn’t meant seriously…believe me, it is. CT is a well known figure on the net. I ran into this person on the PuritanBoard originally, defending the Comma Johanneum. Since then there have been various odd encounters here and there, but never anything like this. Click and read. Yes, friends, not only is yours truly

Mark Shea: Always On Top of Those Pesky Facts!

James White, September 8, 2009, Roman Catholicism

When you think about it, if you can write a three-volume set about a theology based upon thin air in Scripture, you can’t be too concerned about little things like facts, truth, reality, etc. And surely, Mark Shea doesn’t sweat the “little stuff” along those lines! No indeed. He noticed the Newser mistake where someone threw my picture up instead

Richard Dawkins: the Peter Ruckman of Atheists

James White, August 30, 2009, Christian Worldview

There have been a number of excellent works recently nailing down the undeniable evidence for intelligent design from sound, solid, scientific sources. I have mentioned how much I enjoyed Why Us?: How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves and if I could ever get a few hours I am looking forward to reading Signature in the Cell. The evidence for

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Look Who Came to my NT Reliability Seminar

James White, July 9, 2009, Textual Issues

It was Saturday evening–I think. I was running on reserve batteries, having done the Shamsi Ali debate, spoken earlier that day across Long Island, and was now way out on the Eastern part of the island. A small group gathered at the church to hear my presentation on the reliability of the New Testament. I will admit, I was a

Gail Riplinger: Just a Bit Afraid?

James White, July 8, 2009, King James Onlyism

A few days ago I put Gail Riplinger’s new book on the Ministry Resource List. It is not that I take her writing seriously–no one possibly could–but people ask questions, and this topic looked like it might possibly produce more basic errors of fact than even New Age Bible Versions. So, one of our supporters attempted to purchase the book

A Few Things I Have Learned Since…Yesterday

James White, February 19, 2009, Textual Issues

1) Do not attempt to offer a possible reason for why someone would completely misread your purpose and statement. You will be accused of “mocking” people if you do. Of course, if you do not do that, you will be accused of being mean anyway. So, lesson learned: you can’t win. Specifically, I am sitting here in shock this morning

More Examples of the “Truth Divide”

James White, February 13, 2009, General Apologetics

There is a truth divide in the realm of apologetics. I refer to the attitude one has toward truth, and how consistently one seeks to live in light of one’s own confession of fidelity to truth itself. The first is found in the continued ramblings of William Albrecht, a Roman Catholic layman “apologist.” It is hard to take William seriously,

Hebrews 2:9

James White, January 2, 2009, The Dividing Line

I began today addressing Hebrews 2:9 and following, demonstrating the a-contextual, eisegetical use of the text by Arminians. I then addressed question #79 on William Lane Craig’s website which mentions my comments on Romans 9 and John 6:65. Then we took a number of calls on textual critical issues before returning, briefly, to listening to the Covenanter’s Call radio program

Ruckmanism Abounds

James White, December 26, 2008, King James Onlyism

I will be continuing my response to, and rebuttal of, Bryan and Jason on “The Covenanter’s Call” radio program on the DL on Tuesday. They did another program on Tuesday evening where they said they would take calls. I listened to the program, and when they attempted to respond to Revelation 16:5, they indicated that they did not understand the

More 25th Anniversary E-mails

James White, December 13, 2008, Testimonies

Greetings Dr. White and fellow AOMIN laborers. I have a wonderful testimony to share about how the Lord used your ministry to open my partially blinded eyes. It would take multiple pages to relate. So, I’ll heavily abridge it and try to just hit the major points. For some years I was deeply involved in KJV Onlyism. I was an

From Florida

James White, October 9, 2008, Testimonies

Greetings from sunny Miami, Florida! I remember when I was first introduced to Alpha and Omega ministries. It was 2001, and I was a sophomore attending Clearwater Christian College taking Greek for the first time, and I had a dear friend of mine that was KJV only (actually there were four of them, but I’m only going to mention one

A Testimonial from Pennsylvania

James White, October 8, 2008, Testimonies

I am very grateful that God brought my attention to the ministry of James White and A & O Ministries. About nine years ago I came into contact w/ a fellow Christian at work who was TR Only and thus against the modern Bible translations. He had a lot of information from most of the KJV Only advocates. I didn’t

Through a Lecture on Textual Issues…

James White, October 3, 2008, Testimonies

Hi Dr. White and Rich, Hopefully this e-mail won’t be too long winded and you will be able to persevere to the end and gain some encouragement from my little testimonial. I don’t expect a personal response as I know you are probably getting tons of these (though I would not turn one down.) 🙂 I wanted to briefly tell

Lots of Calls

James White, June 3, 2008, The Dividing Line

Well, it’s Tuesday, and Tuesday mornings are supposed to be “no phone call” times. Not today! Lined them up early and they kept coming! Spent most of the hour on a wide variety of topics from the KJV Only denial of the Septuagint (LXX) to the wills of God! Quite a potpourri of topics! Then, for the last fifteen minutes

Hamza Yusuf

James White, May 29, 2008, The Dividing Line

Started out with a period of mourning for the demotion of Tim Staples from one of the “Church’s foremost Biblical scholars” to just “a top apologist.” We are still pondering whether we should send a dozen Tulips as a consolation prize. Then we looked at Hamza Yusuf repeating the “Nicea set the canon” myth, and then played a random clip

Bob Ross: Slanderer of the Brethren

James White, May 9, 2008, Misc

I had removed Ross’ feed from my RSS reader last week. This evening while doing something else I opened up my Google homepage, and it has a blog search window in it that pulled up Ross’ most recent slander. Bob Ross has been corrected, many times, on his spreading falsehoods about others, and in this case, in his questioning my

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James R. White

Micah Burke, November 19, 2007, Misc

(Click here for media bios and photos.) Publications Books The Fatal Flaw (Crowne Publications, 1990) Answers to Catholic Claims (Crowne Publications, 1990) Letters to a Mormon Elder (Crowne Publications, 1990, reprinted by Bethany House, 1993) Justification by Faith (Crowne Publications, 1990) God’s Sovereign Grace (Crowne Publications, 1991) Drawn by the Father (Crowne

On Being “TR” (Truly Reformed)

James White, September 12, 2007, Reformed Baptist Issues

Jonathan Bonomo has replied to the immediately preceding article. While I truly have no desire for this conversation at all (Mr. Bonomo’s ability to embrace contradictory gospels so as to see both Baptists and Roman Catholics as his brothers is far more important, and telling, than anything that comes below), I feel it necessary to clarify some issues. Mr. Bonomo

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Steve Ray Illustrates the Nature of RC Apologetics Methodology

James White, August 17, 2007, Roman Catholicism

Tuesday morning I posted an article that interacted with various aspects of the Roman Catholic claim that we must believe, as a de fidedogma of the Christian faith, that Mary was bodily assumed into heaven. This has been a defined dogma of the Roman religion for less than sixty years, but it is, in fact, a dogmatic teaching. I provided

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Street Abusers: Mesa

James White, April 4, 2007, Mormonism

As soon as the music ended, the screaming began. The band of street abusers (they call themselves preachers, but that has a particular biblical meaning that is utterly disconnected from their disjointed harangues) with their barely relevant signs held high began yelling out at those gathered on the front lawn of the LDS Temple in Mesa, Arizona, “Mormonism is a

Monday Miscellaneous

James White, April 2, 2007, Misc

Looks like the blog flood has subsided a bit! Wore TQuid and cds and DV out, I do believe! By the way, I wanted to especially thank cds for that tremendous series on Qadar. If you missed it, head for the March archive and make sure you catch up! Speaking of that, I have been playing catch-up on “real life”

An Escapee From the Playground

James White, March 13, 2007, General Apologetics

Sometimes I just sit here at my desk staring at my screen when Rich forwards some of the e-mails we get. The Internet creates “thugs,” bullies with a lot of hot air but zero substance who thrive on acting out their childhood playground fantasies from behind a keyboard. Almost every group has them, sadly. I’ve run into KJV Only types

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A Blast from the Past

James White, February 17, 2007, King James Onlyism

It is hard to believe my son, now engaged to be married, was only nine years old when this video was shot. This is from the John Ankerberg series on the King James Only movement (available here). Look at those glasses! Ah, but you can see the hair on the top is thinning, and that quickly. Oh well. This was

Upcoming Video Clips and Discussions

James White, February 15, 2007, Blog Stuff

I am truly enjoying providing these video and audio clips on the blog, but, as most of you know, since A&O has a massive staff of…two, I am doing all of this on my own. I have two writing projects I must get done next week, so I am going to have to slow things down. I have a bunch

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Graphics Related to the Textual Critical Series

James White, February 6, 2007, Textual Issues

I pulled down an image of the end of Jeremiah and the beginning of Lamentations in Sinaiticus (a) from the British Museum. It is super high resolution (12 megs, 4000×5000 resolution). Here is a portion of it, just to give you a feeling of the nature of the manuscript. It is such a good quality picture you can see elements

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Qur’an 101: the Uthmanic Revision

James White, January 27, 2007, Islam

Sometimes just having a small number of specific vocabularly terms mastered will help you feel more at home in a conversation or discussion. This is especially the case when it comes to Islam. For regular readers of this blog, you have undoubtedly heard me make reference to the “Uthmanic Revision.” It is best to give you the direct statement from

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I Just Could Not Resist

James White, October 31, 2006, Textual Issues

Jeff Downs sent me a link about the reading of 1 Timothy 3:16 in Codex Alexandrinus, and though I have a ton of things to be doing this morning before the DL (mainly packing!), I just could not resist taking the time to do what I love to do. Here’s a close up of the text. For those who are

Oh, OK, That Makes Sense Now

James White, October 3, 2006, King James Onlyism

Now it all makes sense. Michael Dries, the KJV Onlyist who melted down on the Puritan Board back in March, is c.t., i.e., owner/writer of Plain Path Puritan. Now it all makes sense, including the desperate dishonesty, the cultic denial of salvation to anyone who rejects KJV Onlyism, etc. I simply didn’t make the connection in reading his one article.

Amazing Calvinist Rant…

James White, October 2, 2006, King James Onlyism

In the brief citation from Pulpit Crimes posted below I made a very quick comment about the rendering of the KJV at I Timothy 6:10. Here is what I had written on the text a dozen years ago now in The King James Only Controversy: The Root or A Root? Another favorite passage of KJV Only adherents is found in

Two Evenings at the LDS Easter Pageant: Mormonism Has Changed