Alpha and Omega Ministries

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.

Started off looking at the necessity of stating your presuppositions, your beliefs, in any theological discussion, and then illustrated it with a video from Hayden Carroll lying to Frank Turek recently at an event in the Phoenix area. Then further illustrated it with the deceptiveness of Jacob Hansen in misrepresenting Deuteronomy 22 in a recent discussion online. Went to the big board and walked through the text, vindicating the Law of God from Hansen's cavils.

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.

Started off digging into Hayden Carroll, LDS influencer and, I honestly believe, deceiver, finally looking into Deuteronomy 32:8 and the claims LDS make about a textual variant in 4Q7 from the DSS. Then we moved to a presentation on the relationship of Jeremiah 18 and Romans 9, the potter and the clay, looking at both texts, their languages, applications, and other places where the potter and vessels metaphors occur. About 70 minutes today!

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.

Went a bit long today so we that could cover a lot of ground, including more D'Souzian silliness with CS Lewis, and then Matt Fradd saying Jimmy Akin "destroyed" me (when he didn't even address my actual argument), and finishing up with a look at four key texts on the decree of God in the Bible, all up on the big board.

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!

Made the mistake of reading, and responding, on X right before the program started so...ended up covering enough D'Souzian hubris to do an entire edition of Radio Free Geneva, if we had wanted to play the theme! But, got back to the Confession of Dositheos though we are right at the part where it is addressing the very same issues, so, the topic did remain fairly consistent for the full hour. Briefly responded to an LDS apologist in the middle there somewhere, but, similar topic as well.

Touched on a few items from the web to get started, but then transitioned back to the Confession of Dositheos, which, honestly, is the confession of Provisionism, too. I have already heard of Provisionists who swam the Bosporus, it is a really short swim!

Three major topics today, first, some more on the upcoming "debate" involving Dinesh D'Souza and his ever worsening diatribes against Calvinism. Then we responded to Joel Webbon's pious defense of having Alex Jones speak at a "Christ is King" Conference, and finished up doing in-depth in response to Leighton Flowers on Genesis 50 and motivations and actions.