Theopologetics

Greg Koukl from Stand to Reason joins me to discuss the importance of careful thinking when it comes to the Christian faith.

Music

Boston, More Than a Feeling from the album, Boston, 1976

Promoted Resources

Say Hello to my Little Friend, aka the Beretta Cast, with Glenn Peoples.

Glenn also created my podcast’s theme music, so visit his Theme Music New Zealand for all your theme music needs.

Stand to Reasonwith Greg Koukl

The Stand to Reason radio program is live on the air every Sunday 2-5 pm PST AM on 740 KBRT.

Listen online using Flycast here.

Also available in podcast form; each episode is published to the podcast the day after it airs.

He Is There and He Is Not Silent by Francis Schaeffer

The Bible teaches the bodily resurrection of Jesus and that of all the dead, contrary to claims made by theological liberals, hyperpreterists and Jehovah’s Witnesses that 1 Corinthians 15 speaks of a spiritual, non-physical resurrection.

Music

Alien Ant Farm, Flesh and Bone, from the Anthology album, 2001

Matt Maher, Christ is Risen, from the Alive Again album, 2009

Promoted Resources

What Color is the Sky in Their World? Podcast, with Phil Naessens.

Also check out the blog of the same name.

TheologyWeb, where “We debate theology… seriously!”

Follow a debate on physicalism and 1 Corinthians 15 here.

Michael’s Grassroots Apologeticsblog

Michael’s article, “The Immortality of the Human Soul.”

Also, “Physicalism, Dualism and 1 Corinthians 15.”

Unbelievable?, with Justin Brierley.

Available on Premier Christian Radio in the United Kingdom, Saturdays 2:30-4:00pm.

Also available in the Unbelievable? podcast (new episodes posted shortly after they air).

Listen to August 7th, 2010’s episode on the resurrection here.

Episode 1 of the Theopologetics Podcast, discussing the resurrection, citing support from the Church Fathers.

Historical References

Creeds

Apostle’s Creed

“Rule of Faith” cited by Irenaeus

Athanasian Creed

Church Fathers on the Resurrection

Polycarp: Epistle to the Philippians

Church of Smyrna: Martyrdom of Polycarp

Tertullian: On the Resurrection of the Flesh

Athenagoras: On the Resurrection of the Dead

Augustine: Exposition on Psalm 63, Exposition on Psalm 30, quoted in General Resurrection (Catholic Encyclopedia)

Commentaries

John Gill:

On 1 Corinthians 15:38

On 1 Corinthians 15:44

On 1 Corinthians 15:45

On 1 Corinthians 15:50

John Calvin

On 1 Corinthians 15:35-50

John Wesley

On 1 Corinthians 15:44

On 1 Corinthians 15:50

Robert Jamieson

On 1 Corinthians 15:44

On 1 Corinthians 15:50

Matthew Henry

On 1 Corinthians 15:45

Norman Geislerand Thomas Howe

On 1 Corinthians 15:45 in When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties, 1992, pp. 467-468

Alan Shlemon from Stand to Reason joins me to discuss Islam and how to reach out to Muslims.

Music

Tyson, Mecca and Medina, from the Ghetto Messiah album, 2004

Europe, The Final Countdown, from the The Final Countdown album, 1986

Promoted Resources

The Preterist Podcast, with Dee Dee Warren.

Check out the episode I guest-hosted, “Kicking Some Left Behind Pt. 5–Jesus, the Not-So Master Communicator.”

I am also a guest author Dee Dee’s The Preterist Blog, and she has a ton of eschatological study material available at The Preterist Site.

Date Power!, my powerlifting blog.

Stand to Reason, with Greg Koukl.

Brett Kunkle, Student Impact Directory at Stand to Reason, joins me to discuss youth ministry and the challenges to faith experienced by youth today.

Music

P.O.D., Youth of the Nation, from the Sattelite album, 2001

The Rocky Orchestra, Gonna Fly Now, from the The Rocky Story album, 1991

Promoted Resources

Confident Christianity, with Mary Jo Sharp

The Confident Christianity podcast, available in iTunes

Stand to Reason, with Greg Koukl

STR Place, Brett Kunkle’s STR website geared toward youth

Bulletproof, Brett’s podcast, also available in iTunes

In this episode of the Theopologetics Podcast I interview Joel Groat, Director of Ministries for the Institute for Religious Research, and discuss the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, otherwise known as Mormonism. This episode contains the second half of the interview; see episode 21, “The Saints Are Coming,” for the first half.

Music

Stan Ridgway, Mr. Smith, from the The Drywall Incident album, 1997

Promoted Resources

Institute for Religious Research

Mormons in Transition, IRR’s Mormonism resources

In this episode of the Theopologetics Podcast I interview Joel Groat, Director of Ministries for the Institute for Religious Research, and discuss the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, otherwise known as Mormonism. This episode contains the first half of the interview; see episode 22, “Mr. Smith,” for the second half.

Music

U2 featuring Green Day, The Saints Are Coming, from the The Saints Are Coming single, 2006

Promoted Resources

Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry(CARM)

Listen to CARM radio’s Faith and Reason Radio live with Matt Slick, Monday through Friday, 4-5pm PST on KSPD, Boise Idaho, AM 790

Or subscribe to the podcast

Institute for Religious Research

Mormons in Transition, IRR’s Mormonism resources

In this episode of the Theopologetics Podcast I interview Justin Peters and discuss the Word of Faith movement, its origins, its doctrines and its consequences.

Music

The Cult, Faith Healer, from the Best of Rare Cult album, 2000

Promoted Resources

The Whole Truthblog and podcast

Subscribe to the podcast

Available in the Zune Marketplace here

Justin Peters Ministries

Overview of Justin’s A Call for Discernment seminar

Resources page where you can purchase his seminar on DVD, as well as a copy of his Master’s thesis

Word of Faith

Notable Teachers/Ministries

Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN)

Kenneth Hagin, Sr.

Benny Hinn

Kenneth Copeland

Gloria Copeland

Jesse Duplantis

Joyce Meyer

Joel Osteen

Creflo Dollar

Paula White

“Dangerous Doctrines”

“Positive Confession” and “Substance of Faith”

Words are containers of the force of faith

We can speak our desired reality into existence using faith-filled words

“Little gods Doctrine” and the Fall

Adam was an exact duplicate of God and we are “little gods”

In the fall, God lost power of the world and Adam’s reign was transferred to Satan

Prayer is giving God permission to act in the world

“Mangled Manifestations”

Abuse of tongues

Spectacular claims of heavenly encounters and divine revelation

Bizarre behavior and slaying in the spirit

False prophecies

Occultic/demonic connection in communicating with the dead

“The Hurt of Healing”

If one is not healed, not enough faith

If one gives enough money, one will be healed

2 Peter 2:1-3 says these false teachers “make merchandise” out of their followers, and they are all filthy rich

In this episode of the Theopologetics Podcast I play some calls I made in to the Stand to Reason radio show with Greg Koukl on the topic of preterism, hyperpreterism and skepticism, as a follow up to episodes 17 and 18 in which I interviewed Dee Dee Warren on the same topics.

Music

Fates Warning, Leave the Past Behind, from the Parallels album, 1998

Promoted Resources

Stand to Reasonwith Greg Koukl

The Stand to Reason radio program is live on the air every Sunday 2-5 pm PST AM on 740 KBRT.

Listen online using Flycast here.

Also available in podcast form; each episode is published to the podcast the day after it airs.

Calls played:

Call #1 (me): “Reflections on UK Vacation,” 7/19/2010, @ 00:59:43

Call #2: “Nancy Pearcey – Saving Leonardo,” 10/25/2010 @ 00:22:52

Call #3 (me): “Our Task, God’s Problem,” 11/1/2010 @ 00:25:09

What Color is the Sky in Their World? podcast with Phil Naessens

My interview on apologetics, hyperpreterism, powerlifting and more

Terminology

Eschatology: a category within theology and philosophy concerned with what are believed to be the final events in history.

Preterism: the view which holds that most of the biblical prophecies concerning the so-called “end times” were fulfilled in our past.

Hyperpreterism: the heretical view that all biblical prophecies were fulfilled in our past including the Second Coming and resurrection.

In this episode of the Theopologetics Podcast I interview Dee Dee Warren on the claim made by skeptics of Christianity that Jesus was a false prophet, discussing how a proper biblical understanding of the “end times” turns the claim on its head. The interview spanned nearly 2 hours, so I’ve split it up into two parts. This episode contains the second half of the interview; see episode 17 for the first half.

Music

Three Days Grace, It’s All Over, from the One X album, 2006

Promoted Resources

The Preterist Podcast, with Dee Dee Warren.

Check out the episode I guest-hosted, “Kicking Some Left Behind Pt. 5–Jesus, the Not-So Master Communicator.”

I am also a guest author Dee Dee’s The Preterist Blog, and she has a ton of eschatological study material available at The Preterist Site.

Terminology

Eschatology: a part of theology and philosophy concerned with what are believed to be the final events in history.

Millennium: a “thousand years” seen by John in his vision, recorded in Revelation 20.

Premillennialism: the view which holds that the Second Coming of Christ will usher in the millennium, a period of exactly 1,000 years, during which Christ and His saints will reign physically on earth.

Postmillennialism: the view which holds that the Second Coming of Christ will follow a very long period of time, not necessarily exactly 1,000 years, a “Golden Age” or era of Christian prosperity dominance.

Amillennialism: the view which holds that the millennium is symbolic, either of a very long period of time after which Christ returns, or of no period of time at all.

Tribulation: the “great tribulation” Jesus speaks of in Matthew 24 after which He is to “come” in some sense, which He appears to have promised his contemporaries would experience.

Rapture: a belief held by dispensational premillennialists that before, during or after the tribulation, Christ will come to remove Christians from the world, and will bring them back after the tribulation to reign with Him during the millennium.

Pretribulationalism: the view which holds that the rapture will take place at the beginning of the tribulation.

Mid-tribulationalism: the view which holds that the rapture will take place halfway into the tribulation.

Futurism: the view which holds that most eschatological Bible prophecy remains to be fulfilled in our future.

Preterism: the view which holds that most of the biblical prophecies concerning the so-called “end times” were fulfilled in our past.

Historicism: the view which holds that Revelation does not foretell events which occur primarily in the first century or at the Second Coming, but symbolically foretells the Church’s experiences throughout history.

Idealism: the view which holds that Revelation does not foretell a chronological series of events at all.

Hyperpreterism: the heretical view that all biblical prophecies were fulfilled in our past including the Second Coming and resurrection.

More Show Notes Coming Soon…

In this episode of the Theopologetics Podcast I interview Dee Dee Warren on the claim made by skeptics of Christianity that Jesus was a false prophet, discussing how a proper biblical understanding of the “end times” turns the claim on its head. The interview spanned nearly 2 hours, so I’ve split it up into two parts. This episode contains the first half of the interview; see episode 18 for the second half.

Music

R.E.M., It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine), from the Document album, 1987

Promoted Resources

Ligonier Ministries, with Dr. R.C. Sproul

Subscribe to the Renewing Your Mind podcast for free

The Preterist Podcast, with Dee Dee Warren.

Check out the episode I guest-hosted, “Kicking Some Left Behind Pt. 5–Jesus, the Not-So Master Communicator.”

I am also a guest author Dee Dee’s The Preterist Blog, and she has a ton of eschatological study material available at The Preterist Site.

Books

The Great Tribulation: Past or Future? by Thomas Ice and Kenneth L. Gentry Jr.

The Last Days According to Jesus by R.C. Sproul

The Apocalypse Code by Hank Hannegraaff

Terminology

Eschatology: a part of theology and philosophy concerned with what are believed to be the final events in history.

Millennium: a “thousand years” seen by John in his vision, recorded in Revelation 20.

Premillennialism: the view which holds that the Second Coming of Christ will usher in the millennium, a period of exactly 1,000 years, during which Christ and His saints will reign physically on earth.

Postmillennialism: the view which holds that the Second Coming of Christ will follow a very long period of time, not necessarily exactly 1,000 years, a “Golden Age” or era of Christian prosperity dominance.

Amillennialism: the view which holds that the millennium is symbolic, either of a very long period of time after which Christ returns, or of no period of time at all.

Tribulation: the “great tribulation” Jesus speaks of in Matthew 24 after which He is to “come” in some sense, which He appears to have promised his contemporaries would experience.

Rapture: a belief held by dispensational premillennialists that before, during or after the tribulation, Christ will come to remove Christians from the world, and will bring them back after the tribulation to reign with Him during the millennium.

Pretribulationalism: the view which holds that the rapture will take place at the beginning of the tribulation.

Mid-tribulationalism: the view which holds that the rapture will take place halfway into the tribulation.

Futurism: the view which holds that most eschatological Bible prophecy remains to be fulfilled in our future.

Preterism: the view which holds that most of the biblical prophecies concerning the so-called “end times” were fulfilled in our past.

Historicism: the view which holds that Revelation does not foretell events which occur primarily in the first century or at the Second Coming, but symbolically foretells the Church’s experiences throughout history.

Idealism: the view which holds that Revelation does not foretell a chronological series of events at all.

Hyperpreterism: the heretical view that all biblical prophecies were fulfilled in our past including the Second Coming and resurrection.

More Show Notes Coming Soon…