April 29, 2004

Started off with some of the very interesting comments made on the Catholic Answers Forums, and then moved to the specifics on the Staples debate, including reading the full context of both of the “Protestant” citations Staples offered. Looked at the broader issues of purgatory, and then moved on to some comments made by Dr. Brown on the issue of

I played a portion of a debate from Justin Brierley’s Unbelievable program in the UK where the Sikh representative turned out to be part of Dennis McKinsey’s Biblical Errancy group. Then we took calls, including two on the subject of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Made some hopefully helpful comments on the need to be grounded and balanced in studying the cults. Don’t

Only got about seven minutes into the presentation of this talk on Free Will from Church of Christ minister Winford Claiborne, but I think most folks will agree—that was far enough! Lots of discussion of the nature of God’s decree and what “unconditional election” actually means. Hope it is helpful to those who are in dialogue with folks who would

Well, Will Kinney got his 15 minutes of fame today…ok, 12 minutes, 19 seconds to be exact. I started off the program, explained the situation relating to Erasmus’ problems in accurately obtaining the text of the book of Revelation, went over what The King James Only Controversy says on the issue (including the footnotes containing relevant information), and then played

Sorry I had all my times messed upon on the program today. Not sure how I managed that (though I have a theory as to how Adobe Audition might have thrown me a curve), but in any case, we continued responding to Ehrman on textual critical issues, looking this time at the very, very minor variant found in a very