May 16, 2006

   I have been informed that Matthew Bellisario will be calling the DL tomorrow to take me up on my challenge to actually address arguments I have made against Roman Catholicism in debate and published works (rather than attempting to twist comments about the mindset of post-World War II New Testament scholarship into arguments against Rome). Maybe something useful can come

Started off with a brief correction to a pastor from Brisbane who pretty much got what RB’s believe on election completely backwards in a recent sermon (we listened to an anti-Calvinism sermon he preached a few months ago on a Radio Free Geneva), and then started listening to Abdullah Kunde’s presentation in a recent debate in Australia. Then took calls

Played clips from Tim Staples and…Dave Hunt today. Yes, an odd combination, but it was what I had collected over the past few days. Also took a call on Frank Beckwith’s appearance on EWTN.

Another eclectic discussion today, starting with “calciumboy’s” response to me on the Ankerberg stuff, then moving on to some comments by Jamal Badawi in his debate with Rittenhouse in Southern California last week, then going back to the Tim Staples/total depravity clip from last week.

Started out with a brief commentary on the Steve Ray blog post, then moved into the Jimmy Akin BAM program from 1995. Since Catholic Answers wants to make it look like we are somehow “afraid” of this program (though we have made it available for just as long as they have), and since Akin chose to take the low road