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Friday, August 14, 2009

Sola Scriptura debate

Posted by at 7:25 PM
Rhology (at Rhoblogy), whom I met through David Bryan's blog, and I have agreed to have a formal debate on the topic of Sola Scriptura. The resolution and schedule of entries for the debate is as follows:

Resolved: "The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible rule of all saving knowledge, faith, and obedience." [This taken verbatim from the 1689 "Baptist Confession of Faith" and aptly summarizing the doctrine of Sola Scriptura]

[I, obviously, will be taking the negative position on this thesis and he taking the affirmative.]

1a) Rhology's opening and position statement. 2000 words limit DUE: Saturday, 22Aug
1b) David's opening and position statement. 2000 words limit DUE: Saturday, 5Sept.

2a) Rhology's 1st rebuttal. 1600 words limit. DUE: Saturday, 19Sept
2b) David's 1st rebuttal. 1600 words limit. DUE: Saturday, 03Oct

3a) Rhology's 2nd rebuttal. 1200 words limit. DUE: Saturday, 17Oct
3b) David's 2nd rebuttal. 1200 words limit. DUE: Saturday, 31Oct

[We've decided to skip the usual third rebuttal in order to trim down the length of the debate a bit.]

CROSS-EXAMINATION
4a) Rhology poses David a question. 400 words to formulate. DUE: Saturday, 07Nov
4b) David answers. 1600 words to answer. DUE: Saturday, 14Nov

5a) David poses Rhology a question. 400 words to formulate. DUE: Saturday, 21Nov
5b) Rhology answers. 1600 words to answer. DUE: Saturday, 05Dec

6a) Rhology poses David a question. 400 words to formulate. DUE: Saturday, 12Dec
6b) David answers. 1600 words to answer. DUE: Saturday, 19Dec

7a) David poses Rhology a question. 400 words to formulate. DUE: Saturday, 02Jan
7b) Rhology answers. 1600 words to answer. DUE: Saturday, 09Jan

8a) Rhology poses David a question. 400 words to formulate. DUE: Saturday, 16Jan
8b) David answers. 1600 words to answer. DUE: Saturday, 23Jan

9a) David poses Rhology a question. 400 words to formulate. DUE: Saturday, 30Jan
9b) Rhology answers. 1600 words to answer. DUE: Saturday, 06Feb

10) Final statements: 1500 words, posted simultaneously at agreed-upon time. DUE: Saturday, 20Feb

He and I will each be posting our entries at our respective blogs. I'll make sure that each of my entries includes links to all prior entries, both his and mine, at the bottom of the post. I'm looking forward to debating with him and I welcome your prayers for both he and I as we debate this very important topic.
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5 comments:

  1. David,

    Best wishes for this ambitious undertaking. I am familiar with Rhoblogy through David Bryan's blog.

    I am enjoying the YouTube videos as well. From the intro I learned that your home parish is St. John the Forerunner in Cedar Park. I manage to work in a visit there every time I am in the Austin area.

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  2. Thank you for the encouragement! St. John's is definitely a great parish. My wife, my son, and I have been going to St. John's since 2006. I'm going to miss it when I move to Georgia in January. You'll have to let me know if you're in the area between now and then.

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  3. David,

    Thank you for taking this on and I look forward to following it as it unfolds!

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  4. Thanks for the invitation/challenge. I've considered engaging in a formal debate for a while but never got enough burr under my saddle to actually do it. All credit to you for needling me enough. :-)

    My opener is on track and on schedule, so it'll be great to start. See you out there!

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