Alpha and Omega Ministries

Split the program in half today, covering the continuing developments in Mormonism, and the MIEs (Mormon Intellectual Elites) in contrast with the old view of authority and spiritual guidance. Then I gave an overview of what I expect in Saturday's debate, including putting Basil's words from On the Holy Spirit 18.45 on the big screen and discussing his original meaning in contrast with today's use of his words.

James started off with a brief discussion of the current state of Mormonism and then went to callers. Call topics included the Litany of Loreto and Marian Devotion, John 1:12-13, and how to witness to LDS Missionaries. Dan Chapa called in asking about Acts 2:23. The program finished with a caller asking about academic LDS studies and if James has looked into them.

Went over some developments on the Mormon front, the fact that Mormonism really is splintering fast into self-prophet groups with all sorts of different views and beliefs. We also looked at a statement posted by Leighton Flowers (written by someone else) that said that if Judas or Pilate had "repented" that God could have found "someone else." We thought through what that would mean and realized that's just Open Theism wearing a big nose and a fake mustache. Finally at the end I told everyone who didn't want something personal to tune out, and then I told the story of how I have been using Claude, the AI, to create programs that are allowing me to record my workouts and get a better idea of how hard I am lifting, etc. Just a little encouragement for my fellow aging athletes.

Did not intend to spend the first half hour talking about the challenges facing us in the US as the mid-terms approach, but, that's what happened! Then we moved to a clip of LDS apologist Hayden Carroll misrepresenting Millard Erickson and Charles Ryrie in a dialogue on the Trinity.

Introduced a new word to the world today, Βουλομάχοι, which means "those who fight against the decree." Identified Dinesh D'Souza and his cohorts by the term, and even offered to have a t-shirt made with the term for Leighton Flowers if he'd like one. Anyway, covered various theories of how God's knowledge relates to events in time from an X post Dinesh D'Souza reposted, and then went back to the final paragraph of the 3rd chapter of the Confession of Dositheos which just happens to be on the exact same topic as the first part of the program!

Today's episode features an introduction to the Pseudo-Dionysian Corpus. Dr. White takes some time to talk about the background of the corpus, looking at its general contents and discussing some of the viewpoints presented within the text. If you've been following the recent discussions on this topic and want a helpful overview of the source material, check out the full broadcast!

Covered a few things, such as the suicide of the West, Bart Ehrman's continued commitment to naturalistic materialism, the utter evil of Dr. Fauci (and the entire Big Pharma/Globalist Cabal), and the article I just finished in response to the Nickitopoulos/Truglia theory about Pseudo-Dionysius. Then finally we spent a lot of time looking at Cameron Bertuzzi's attempt to turn the old canon argument into the new, not-really canon argument, which is still the canon argument, and hence, has still been refuted for...centuries.

Covered three main topics on our road trip program from Grand Junction today, going about an hour and fifteen minutes. We started off with a response to a Mormon in reference to my presentation last evening at Calvary Bible Church on bridging the communication gap with Mormons. Then we looked at a fine post by Ron Henzel on Acts 13:48 in response to Provisionists actually pushing the NWT's tortured rendering of that text. We then got back to the Confession of Dositheus, and finished looking at Decree 3, noting how it uses the same prevenient grace argumentation of modern Arminianism.