podcast 153 – Mormons seeing the man behind the curtain – Part 1
Joseph Smith made some bold claims, many of which
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podcast 152 – Dr. Michael Rota on evidence for the Christian God
Is there evidence for God’s existence?
podcast 151 – Dr. Michael Rota on Pascal’s Wager
What if you believe in Christianity, and it’s false? Have you lost much, really?
podcast 150 – Dr. Larry Hurtado’s Destroyer of the gods – Part 2
In this second part of my conversation with Dr. Larry Hurtado about his book Destroyer of the gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World, we discuss the distinctive “bookishness” of early Christianity
podcast 144 – Dr. Timothy Pawl’s In Defense of Conciliar Christology – Part 2
Is Jesus both mutable and immutable?
podcast 143 – Dr. Timothy Pawl’s In Defense of Conciliar Christology – Part 1
Is “conciliar christology” coherent?
podcast 142 – Dr. R.T. Mullins on the coherence of “classical” theism
What is “classical” theism, and why is it controversial?
podcast 141 – Dr. R.T. Mullins – Is God timeless?
Is God “outside of time”? What does this claim mean, and should a Christian affirm it?
podcast 140 – Pastor J. Dan Gill’s The One
Pastor J. Dan Gill was a third-generation Oneness (aka “Jesus only”) Pentecostal, but he started to notice a disconnect between their ways of talking about Jesus and what we read in the Bible.
podcast 139 – Two Perspectives on the Doctrine of the Trinity in the Early Church
Is the Doctrine of the Trinity articulated in the New Testament?
podcast 134 – Dr. Jeffrey Koperski on 10 Science and Religion Myths – Part 2
Has “Science” shown that all causes are natural? Philosopher of science Dr. Jeffrey Koperski doesn’t think so.
podcast 133 – Dr. Jeffrey Koperski on 10 Science and Religion Myths – Part 1
Is “Science” at war with “Religion”? Philosopher of science Dr. Jeffrey Koperski says that this is myth and not reality.
Jesus: Not a Cheerleader
Saith the late Christian sage Dallas Willard: The Kingdom Among Us is simply God himself and the spiritual realm of beings over which his will perfectly presides – “as it is in the heavens.” That kingdom is to be sharply contrasted with the kingdom of man: the realm of human life, that tiny part of visible reality where the human will for a time has… Read More »Jesus: Not a Cheerleader
podcast 128 – Ehrman and Bird on How Jesus Became God – Part 1
In this episode I review the first portion of a recent debate/discussion between Dr. Bart Ehrman and Dr. Michael Bird, held at the at the 2016 Greer-Heard Point Counter Point Forum in February 12-13, 2016 at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
podcast 127 – Kermit Zarley’s Solving the Samaritan Riddle
“I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
review of The Son of God @ It’s In the Text
Check out this series of posts at the It’s In the Text blog reviewing The Son of God. In part, Charles Lee Irons, Danny André Dixon and Dustin R. Smith have written excellent essays, drawing their readers in by probing the very heart of ancient documents and dialogue with questions and propositions regarding the identity of Jesus of Nazareth. They have challenged, congratulated and clashed with each… Read More »review of The Son of God @ It’s In the Text
On Dr. James Anderson’s “Brief Response” to the Challenge
Thanks to Dr. Anderson for his carefully-reasoned reply to my Challenge. I have always been a fan of both him and his work, and RTS students are lucky to have such a capable and humble professor teaching them apologetics, philosophy, and analytic theology. I was at first puzzled by his use of an allegedly parallel argument – usually, an objector wields one of those in order… Read More »On Dr. James Anderson’s “Brief Response” to the Challenge
podcast 119 – The Son of God 3 – Dr. Dustin Smith’s “Socinian” view of Jesus
In this last of three interviews with the authors of The Son of God: Three Views of the Identity of Jesus, we talk with Dr. Dustin Smith of Atlanta Bible College.
podcast 118 – The Son of God 2 – Mr. Danny Andre Dixon’s “Arian” view of Jesus
Many Christians in the 2nd to the 4th centuries, and many since, have read the famous opening of the gospel according to John like this: In the beginning [i.e. at the Genesis creation, but not necessarily before] was the Word [i.e. the pre-human Jesus], and the Word was with God [i.e. the Father], and the Word was divine.