Alpha and Omega Ministries

Covered two primary topics today, both with a strong church history and apologetic element. Started off responding to the citation of Irenaeus and how everyone must be in agreement with the church at Rome. Spent quite a while providing the context and meaning of the statement. Then, spent the last part of the program reading a five chapter book. I will leave it to the listener to figure out why. Telling you what it was about would prejudice your listening!

Replied to Dale Partridge briefly, then interacted with "Bishop Jaxi" and "Pope Respecter" on salvation issues before moving back to the appearance of Jacob Hansen on Allie Beth Stuckey's "Relatable" episode. Don't forget, we are on the road next week, so use the app and follow us here to keep up with when the program will be live from the road for the next two weeks.

Another wide ranging show with lots of topics including the cringey cigarette picture from NXR, Stephen Boyce's unwillingness to defend Rome's dogmatic claims, the House of Loreto, and LDS priesthood discussions.

A super wide ranging 75 minute program today covering everything from working out in your mid sixties to the collapse of the Black family, the repeal of the 19th Amendment, the evolution of the Papacy, and Jacob Hansen the neo-Mormon on Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey. A little something for everyone on today's program!

Covered a really wide variety of stuff today from Stephen Boyce's convert syndrome to the impact of monetization on the social media discussions to a lengthy introduction to the Pseudo-Dionysian Corpus (DC). Also briefly discussed some issues raised in the appearance of Jacob Hansen on Relatable with ABS, but we will be covering that on the next program.

Every time we open the phones we get such excellent questions! A huge thank you to everyone who joined the Zoom and called in today—all of your questions were truly great. Today we tackled tough questions like the canon of Scripture and its relationship to epistemology as well as how believers need to view politics, voting, etc. We got calls from Ireland and Hungary as well! Went in depth in our responses as well. Remember, Rich is out of town for a bit, so we will be back, Deo volente, next week.

After some comments on a variety of topics at the top of the program, we dove deep into the following citation from Basil the Great, "because the honor paid to the image passes on to the prototype." We looked at the original context and meaning, and then how it was plucked out of that context and used by John of Damascus, and how that then became central to the arguments of the iconophiles at Nicea II, and hence became the basis of "infallible dogma" for both Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. Not an entertaining program, to be sure, but hopefully a helpful one. Tomorrow we will be doing a Zoom call "open phones" program, so join us then!

Covered the waterfront today to be sure! Talked about Trump's healing meme, the Pope and the Muslims, and Joel Webbon playing footsie with Catholics on the Reformation, all because...the Jews!

Was joined by Aaron Shafovaloff of Mormonism Research Ministry (mrm.org) to discuss developments in Mormonism and to review a clip of a recent LDS discussion wherein the historic view of God is questioned by Blake Ostler, an ostensibly LDS philosopher and attorney, and others in the "New Mormonism" movement. If you have LDS friends and neighbors, you will want to listen to this one!

In light of the resurrection of a particularly bad parable by Jacob Hansen we went over the lengthy rebuttal of the story of the "boys in the pond" parable (Hansen made it girls in a lake), showing that it fails on every level to correspond to biblical truth. We also touched on a good bit of LDS theology as well today.