Real Seekers

Fellow Christian, Chris Date, joins me in this episode to discuss the merits of Calvinism and to compare/contrast the Doctrines of "Meticulous Divine Providence" & Predestination/Election within the Calvinist (Compatibilist) vs. Molinist (Libertarian Freewill) perspectives.

Part 2 finishes off our conversation on Calvinism by looking at the soteriological  doctrines of Predestination and Election (i.e. is it conditional or not).

Fellow Christian, Chris Date, joins me in this episode to discuss the merits of Calvinism and to compare/contrast the Doctrines of "Meticulous Divine Providence" & Predestination/Election within the Calvinist (Compatibilist) vs. Molinist (Libertarian Freewill) perspectives.  

Part 1 features our discussion on meticulous divine providence and how the 5 aspects of "freedom" (ability condition, control condition, rationality condition, nature of causation and personal agency) in relation to how a Calvinist would address the issues compared to a Molinist/Arminian. 

Was Abraham justified in placing his faith in God and obeying God's command to kill Isaac?  I answer yes he was and further I outline some of the relevant factors that account for moral disagreement on this issue; i) Factual differences, ii) Disagreement on the nature of the violated moral principle/s & iii) Differences on the Moral Hierarchy. 

I'm joined by David Kemball Cook to discuss two main views about the end times; NT Wright's Partial Preterist View vs. Dale Allison's Dispensationalist View.  

In this episode, I'm joined by fellow Christian apologist and philosopher Marvin Wallace, to discuss morality and the field of ethics.  We first discuss what differentiates moral truths from non-moral ones, normative ethical theories and the significance of objective morality for Theistic belief.

I'm joined by Dr. Dale Tuggy, a Biblical Unitarian and expert on the issue of the Trinity.  In this show, we focus on assessing the logical coherence of a model for making sense of the Trinity; namely the one proposed by Drs. William Lane Craig and JP Moreland, called the “Trinity Monotheism” model.

In this 4th and final S&S episode on Messianic Prophecy, I finish off my minimal case by arguing that the Jewish Messiah must come prior to the destruction of the Second Temple in  70 A.D.  We address Daniel 9 and Haggai 2 to prove that the Messiah had to come by that time to fulfill his mission in part before that time.

I moderate a discussion on the intelligent design debate in biological cases, specifically the origin of the information in DNA.  The debate is between ID advocate David Pallmann from "Faith because of Reason" and Proselytize or Apostatize vs. David J. from the Skeptics and Seekers Podcast (traditional evolutionist).

With Part 3 in our series on Messianic Prophecies and my “Jesus or Bust” circumstantial argument, we will focus exclusively on perhaps the most famous Messianic prophecy of all time- the Atoning Death & Resurrection of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah 53.

In the second of four S&S shows on Messianic Prophecy, I further my new circumstantial argument from Jesus or Bust using prophecies related to the Messiah's mission from Jeremiah 31:31-34, Isaiah 49:6 & Zechariah 12:10.