March 21, 2006

Just a couple of topics today.  Briefly mentioned the promotion of hatred, and maybe even violence, by the HRC; then briefly addressed Walid Shoebat’s odd canon comments (taking an interesting rabbit trail on the Pope’s strange actions and the issue of defining marriage); and finished up reviewing Brian Zahnd’s opening statement on the atonement against Michael Brown. Here is the

Covered some interesting Catholic Answers clips and noted the parallel between their arguments and those of Arminians like Steve Gregg, and took some calls along the way!

I continued my review of the Slick/Sungenis discussion, today discussing issues relating to sola scriptura and textual critical issues. We will continue with a discussion of tradition and Scripture on the next DL, which will be Monday afternoon at 4pm.

Started off briefly addressing some issues that arose from my reading of a great new book by Michael Brown, A Queer Thing Happened to America. I hope to have Michael on to discuss this topic soon, but till then, you will want to get your own copy. Want to help A&O out in the process? Get it through our Amazon

I would have somewhat changed the title on this myself.  Here is the idea from Chris Pinto’s movie:  a 19  year old Greek named Simonides wrote Codex Sinaiticus in late 1839/early 1840.  He did so with some assistance from his uncle.  He used the Moscow Bible and Codex Alexandrinus as his primary sources.  His uncle made corrections.  The codex was

I managed to get a good bit of ground covered in the Beckwith/George dialogue today, but once again, over and over again, the centrality of the Gospel, and the shallowness of ecumenism, were illustrated. Important interaction that, sadly, isn’t taking place nearly as often as it should in our truth-starved culture.