Alpha and Omega Ministries

Going to try to get two programs in before we head back out on the road, so hopefully Wednesday at 6pm EDT for the next one. Started off looking at some stuff that happened over the weekend, including people mocking Fritz Erbe, the man martyred by the sacralist Lutherans for not having his children baptized. We looked at the direction being taken by the young Christian Nationalists, and how it requires going soft on the key issues regarding Roman Catholicism. Then we moved back to David Allen's book and started looking specifically as his Romans 8 section.

Started off looking at a new video from Joel Webbon, who recently called Nick "F-Bomb" Fuentes a "political savant," where he had Dr. Taylor Marshall, former Protestant, now more-Catholic-than-the-Pope promoter of Papalism, to talk about (ready for this?) dispensationalism and the red heifer! Webbon is now amplifying his "Rome really isn't our enemy" theme, just as predicted by certain folks who were mocked and ridiculed for it months ago. Then we looked at a particularly bad (though very popular) anti-sola scriptura argument, and finished off noting that the new Pope is promoting Alfonsus Liguori, the author of the astonishingly idolatrous book, The Glories of Mary.

Three major portions to the program today, starting off with some observations on the relationship of the Prologue of the Gospel of John (John 1:1-18) to the Prologue of the First Epistle of John. Then we looked at a post on X from a few weeks ago presenting a very one-sided view of the supposed "Petrine Promise" in Matthew 16, and finished off with about twelve minutes more looking at David Allen's new book.

We continued looking at the unhinged attacks on Penal Substitutionary Atonement today, following up on yesterday's program. Looked at a lot of the reasons for the attacks, as well as the fact that you won't believe the doctrine without the highest view of Scripture, its sufficiency, and its consistency as well. Hopefully a blessing to those wondering why this topic keeps coming up over the years.

After a brief note of some words from Mark Miravalle about the "5th Marian Dogma" movement that continues to this day, we started talking about Penal Substitutionary Atonement, PSA, which exploded on social media a few days ago. It is not that denying PSA is anything new: it's a theological minority broadly speaking. But most evangelicals are unaware of its history, let alone the reasons offered to reject PSA by its opponents. So we started looking at the various kinds of objections, but ran out of time, so we will continue tomorrow at the same time (6pm EDT) with the same topic!

Had to keep it to an hour today, but we started looking at some statements from Dale Tuggy in his debate from a number of years ago with Michael Brown in preparation for my second debate with Dale in Tullahoma next month. Then we got back into David Allen's new book as we move toward it's attempt to deal with Romans 8.

Covered a few personal items at the start, talked a bit about Calvin Robinson and Rome, then about Pope Leo's intention to elevate John Henry Cardinal Newman to the position of "Doctor of the Church" and what this might mean. Then we looked at a Leighton Flowers tweet on God's sovereignty, and finished up moving back into David Allen's book on Romans.

Started off talking about exciting news about a new upcoming debate, and that it should be the big #200! Then switched over to some Islamic topics regarding whether Muhammed existed and the debate about that amongst Christians working in the field. Then we took a look at some material from David Allen's new book and demonstrated that, once again, the text of Scripture, and the Text of David, are often two different things.

So I received word last week that Midwestern had not extended Barrett's contract, so he was leaving. Then it came out he was taking a position at an Anglican seminary, and finally, his own article explaining his reasons for converting to Anglicanism. So today we walked through the article in light of the fact that we have spoken often of the impact of the "Great Traditionists" and the fact that promoting such a perspective at a Baptist institution is inherently self-contradictory (and Barrett's conversion is actually proof of the correctness of our assertion).

Talked about Charlie Kirk calling for Protestants to "venerate Mary more as the answer to feminism. Also addressed some young men and their need to pursue wisdom and maturity before thinking they can simply dismiss those who plowed the ground before them. I also patted myself on the back about helping some uber, super cute kittens survive the Arizona heat. Live from The Views RV Park and Campground in Dolores, Colorado!