Love Your Neighbors (LDS)
My friend John Divito recently (2/4/12) had an article posted on the Gospel Coalition website, dealing with the LDS. Last time I checked, there were 62 comments, which has ended up in a back and forth....
View ArticleHow to Show Love for Mormons
Dr. Albert Mohler, President of The Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, spoke to the faculty of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah this morning. Here is a transcript of his presentation....
View ArticleWhat’s With the Dudes at the Door?
This is a bit dated at this point (Sept. of 2013), but Aimee Bird (aka, Housewife Theologian) posted a short review of What’s With the Dudes at the Door?. You can check it out by clicking here....
View ArticleThoughts on Visiting the New Phoenix Arizona LDS Temple
And the debate I referred to on temples: Wow, just saw the freeze frame for that one—wooohoo, 2004…height of my Jesse Ventura days. Yikes. Eighty pounds, 54,000 miles of cycling, nearly 3,000,000...
View ArticleSeer Stones, Hillsong Church, and KJVOnly Deceitfulness
Three topics on today’s program: started off with the story of Joseph Smith’s “Seer Stone” and the recent publication of pictures of it by the LDS Church (my, how times have changed!). Then we moved...
View ArticlePresuppositionalism/Evidentialism, and then Apologetically Useful Verses
Reviewed comments by Dr. Peter J. Williams on the subject of evidentialism and presuppositionalism, and then moved to a review of key verses you might want to be familiar with in sharing with various...
View ArticleEnns, Mouw, and the Foundation of Scripture
Covered a wide range of themes but tried, anyway, to connect them together. Will let you judge if I succeeded! Discussed a little bit of Peter Enns’ new book, noted Dr. Mouw’s continued white-washing...
View ArticleMore on Simple Truthfulness and Consistency, Steve Hays Melts Down, Quick...
Went over some developments in the Orlando situation and once again had to address the insanity of asserting that there is only one monolithic Islam and that everything done in the world by anyone who...
View ArticleKJVO Discussion, the Pope Escapes His Handlers Again, Debate Tomorrow, the...
Covered a WIDE range of topics today. Started off expressing our deep condolences to Tony Bartolucci and his family in the death of his daughter Giana. Then we discussed the debate we will be doing...
View ArticleA New Journal – Call for Articles
Do you or someone you know (sounds like a commercial) have a special interest in the following area: cults, the occult, new religious movement, world religions, and general apologetics? If so please...
View ArticleEphesians 4:29-32 Applied to Christian Communication, A Hack-Job Video, and...
Started off with some geeky stuff, a few new books, etc., then moved to Ephesians 4 and how we are to behave as believers, especially in the realm of communication. Moved seamlessly into a hack-job...
View ArticleOrthodoxy, Justification, James 2, Dale Tuggy, and Jordan Hall Rebukes Rodney...
Jumbo (90 minute) edition of the program today starting off with a discussion of Hank Hanegraaff’s video in response to John MacArthur leading to a lengthy (though somewhat concise) exegesis of James...
View ArticleBeyond Mega Length Edition of the DL: Textual Critical Topics, Islamic...
Went two hours and eleven minutes today (sorry!), but had a lot to cover. Too many topics to list, but basically a lot on the new Tyndale House Greek New Testament, textual critical topics, Muslim...
View ArticleBrief Thoughts on the Death of Thomas Monson
There is simply no question in my mind that Joseph Smith did not expect his “work” to continue into the future. He left no meaningful mechanism for the continuance of that work in reference to its...
View Article2 John 11 Abused by Imbalanced Calvinists, the Death of LDS President Monson,...
Started off looking carefully at the text of 2 John 7-11 once again, this time as it has been abused by ostensibly Reformed folks. Then we looked at some of the shenanigans of the “only Calvinists are...
View ArticleG3 Debate Report, Being Fair in Dealing with the Qur’an
Did a little under 100 minutes on the program today dealing with the debate with Adnan Rashid and then looking at Surah 3 and the allegation that I should not be witnessing to Muslims. We mentioned...
View ArticleWhat Justin Martyr Actually Said, Transmission of the Text, Open Phones
Discussed Justin Martyr’s words in reference to Malachi 1:11 as found in his Dialogue with Trypho (in reference to a call from Tuesday), and then went over a textual critical issue relating to partial...
View ArticleHumanzees, Jordan Peterson, Parallel Gospels, and Open Phones
Spent most of the start of the show looking at a video from Jordan Peterson and interacting with the concepts of suffering and human purpose in his lectures. Dr. Peterson has been great in exposing...
View ArticleChasing Textual Criticism into BYU, then Open Phones
Started off with a (to me) really interesting discussion of a recent study in textual criticism that led me, in the minutes just before the program, off into the woods of Mormonism and BYU. At least I...
View ArticlePelagians on Twitter, Man-Centered God at Bethel, Presuppositions in Ehrman,...
Started off looking at a Pelagian on Twitter by the name of “C G.” Then played an entire ten minute long clip from a guy on the “Dead Raising Team” from Bethel Church in Redding about how we should...
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