Covered my two weeks overseas with lots of side-trips and commentary on related issues, and toward the end focused upon some issues that came up in my debate with Zakir Hussein on the crucifixion, especially John 17:5 and Psalm 22:16. Also showed off a new Bible, a Polish translation of The Roman Catholic Controversy, my Bates hat from London, and the upgrading of the DL to full warp power! Lots of stuff on a 90+ minute episode today.
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Had to do a Jumbo (90 minute) edition of the DL today to fit it all in. First half was all in response to Let the Lion Roar and the accompanying book. Had many things to discuss–can’t say it was overly well organized, but hopefully helpful. Then moved on to a Puritan Board discussion about me and the textual critical issue.
I am very thankful Rich has managed to get the mp3 audio of the debate with Shabir Ally on the crucifixion uploaded and ready to go! Here is the link. Enjoy and be encouraged!
Continued both the Ehrman and Deedat responses and took a phone call on whether we should write letters to the editor in response to false teachings appearing in publications. Here’s the program.
The Ehrman debate will be a gold mine of quotes and topics for some time to come. Sadly, the really important portions of the debate have not been the focus of the initial flurry of commentary in the blogosphere, but that is to be expected. Instead, in this video I not only provide the first glimpse of the actual debate
Here is this morning’s Sunday School lesson in Matthew 19 (part of the multi-year study of the Synoptic gospels) from PRBC. I spent a good bit of time on how we can use such texts as an “entry” into conversation with our secular society, especially on the topic of marriage.
I’ve been asking Catholic apologist Dave Armstrong a very simple question lately. It all has to do with one of Armstrong’s books. Dave cites one of the Reformers, and I’ve simply been asking him if he’s actually read the Reformer he’s citing, in context. So far, I’ve gotten a massive amount of response from Dave, but a simple yes or
Looked at a number of stories on the cultural front, observing how the tsunami of compromise and abandonment of biblical authority is on-going. Then we finished up the hour with an examination of Leighton Flowers’ view that individual Christians today are not given by the Father to the Son (only the Apostles were). The cost of importing human autonomy into the
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