https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDc3YvNf41c
The reason that I didn’t do a review of the movie Silence several months ago, is because that movie is very disturbing. It haunted me for quite a while. I probably should have known this since I read the book several years ago.
Forged…Boo
Bart Ehrman has really been helping the enemies of God. He has quite a corpus of material against Christian orthodoxy. Atheists and Muslims are more than eager to purchase his books and accept his conclusions; often uncritically. Sadly, there is nothing that we can do about this except to learn to respond to these criticisms.
Irenaeus of Lyons – An Early follower of Christ who was definitely not a Muslim
My greatest critique of Islam is that it is an ahistorical religion. Their key text, the Quran, re-writes religious and secular history. As a Christian, when I dialogue with a Muslim, I focus on the character of Christ. According to the Quran, the earthly disciples of Christ were Muslims. In Surah 5:111 we read:
My non-Catholic Russian Bible containing the book of Sirach
Matt Slick is an extremely anti-Catholic polemicist. He claims to know a lot but whenever he debates a Catholic apologist he comes up short. This was the case with Mark Bonocore and Robert Sungenis. He claims that he’s studied what Catholics believe for years but I just don’t see that with his knowledge of Catholic theology and Church history.
On January 18, 2017, two top notch apologists debated the subject of “Can a Christian Lose Their Salvation?” The debaters were Catholic apologist Trent Horn and Calvinist apologist James White. James White has had numerous debates with Catholic apologists and rarely loses against them. With the exception of Robert Sungenis, I would say that no Catholic has won over half of their debates against him. He’s good, I’ll say that much.
Who are the Noahides? Over the last 30 years, there has been this movement among Jewish apologists. They claim that God does not want everyone to be Jewish, however God apparently wants Gentiles to follow seven laws that were given to Noah. A plain reading of the Bible shows that these laws weren’t given to Noah, however these laws exist throughout the Old Testament.
The Forgotten Trinity by James White
I’ve criticized James White on several occasions. The most recent criticism was for the modernist ecumenical dialogue where he discussed religious perspectives with Islamic apologist Dr. Yasir Qadhi in a Protestant Church. Looking beyond this, I actually admire the man for many of his writings. I’ve probably read a dozen books by the man and some of them are quite good. Here are the top three James White books that I would recommend to everyone.
Dr. Yasir Qadhi – Islamic Scholar
I happen to watch quite a few UFC fights. If I were to go back to visit my parents in my hometown, and talk to my mom and she said: “How were the fights yesterday? Didn’t you think the main event was a good fight?” my jaw would simply drop. Obviously I talk with my mom often and I also discuss UFC with some friends. I happen to know that my mom isn’t a fan and if she wanted to discuss the fights, something would seem quite out of place.
Those who read this blog know about Dr. James White. He is a Calvinist apologist and runs a Calvinist apologetics organization called Alpha and Omega Ministries. He has responded to this blog more than once. Though in the past I have disagreed with him, I actually found myself agreeing with him a lot on his Monday Webcast.
The Heretic James Brownson
Emotion is a powerful thing. For the last 50 years, people growing up in the West have been taught not to think. They’ve been taught to go with what feels good. Sadly, this has spilled into the Church as well. I just want to say that emotion is not a bad thing, but only bad when it’s alone. It needs to be coupled with reason, spirituality and rational thought.