Defining Mary

Started off with George Bryson and then took a few calls toward the end of the hour. Also announced that starting next Thursday, 2/1, I will be doing the textual criticism series, including explaining the textual critical symbols in the UBS4 and NA27 texts. Be watching for more details on this series.

Went over the opening statements in the Ehrman/Wallace debate from New Orleans. The topic of the integrity of the Bible is the central apologetic issue of our time, and Ehrman’s “400,000 variants, which is more variants than there are words in the NT” argument has become almost ubiquitous. Being able to respond meaningfully and clearly is vital to the Christian

We concluded our Radio Free Geneva series in response to Steve Gregg’s comments on Romans 9 (taken, basically, from the Forster/Marsten work from 1974) by playing another almost 30 minutes worth of his presentation, and taking a couple of calls. This program goes long (almost 80 minutes). This should wrap up this particular subject, to be sure.

Couldn’t exactly avoid the topic of “Marriage Equality” today (a phrase that is so utterly absurd in its meaning that one is left stuttering at its prevalence in society), so we started off there, looking at Ted Olson’s vain attempts to disassociate polygamy (and any number of other perversions of marriage) from his defense of the redefinition of marriage. Then

Please do not ask me why anyone would call a man who is a Muslim and now openly admits to having never believed in the deity of Christ a “Christian scholar,” but such is the odd world of The Deen Show. Another video has been posted featuring Laurence Brown pontificating on issues about which he seems to be woefully misinformed

Examined and responded to Roger Olson’s rather weak attempt to deflect the charge of Marcionism (found here), and then finally got to at least halfway through Austin Fischer’s opening statement in the recent “Calvinism” debate. I will be in Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, and I am uncertain of what Rich’s plans are, so keep an eye out! Here is the