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On tonight's show I kick around the idea of who should be allowed to vote. Show Notes Robert A. Heinlein Starship Troopers the book Voting at The Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Voting at Wikipedia Donkey Vote The Australian Tax OFfice Recommended Reading Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein for Kindle Starship Troopers [MP3 CD] for Audiobook Starship Troopers Trilogy (Starship Troopers / Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation / Starship Troopers 3: Marauder) the movie Trilogy. Ask your questions or share your feedback Comment on the shownotes Call (903) 231-2221 to leave a voicemail Email christianmeetsworld@gmail.com (audio files welcome) Please connect with me Subscribe, rate, and review Christian Meets World™ in iTunes Follow me on Twitter

I talk to Rev Dr Mark Thomspon about Calvinism on this episode. Dr Thompson is the head of The Department of Theology, Philosophy and Ethics at Moore Theological College here in Sydney Australia and he lectures in Theology and Church History.

I talk to Dr Jerry Walls about Arminianism on this episode. Dr Walls authored the book "Why I am Not a Calvinist" and he came highly recommended for questions on what Arminianism is, so Enjoy!

Are anti-discrimination laws an unmitigated evil? Do they have any redeeming features at all? Tune in and find out why I don't think so. Show Notes Some of the anti-discrimination law we deal with in Oz Affirmative Action Law A short video on the "pay gap" by Thomas Sowell Another Thomas Sowell video on the problems of Affirmative Action A Longer article on the wage gap Books to Consider The Case for Discrimination by Walter Block The Quest for Cosmic Justice by Thomas Sowell Ask your questions or share your feedback Comment on the shownotes Call (903) 231-2221 to leave a voicemail Email christianmeetsworld@gmail.com (audio files welcome) Please connect with me Subscribe, rate, and review Christian Meets World™ in iTunes Follow me on Twitter

Part 5 of 5 in the series of interviews "How would the Gospels look different if ...?" is with Dr Gary Habermas. Dr Habermas has written extensively on miracles and in support of the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus. Show Notes Dr Habermas's Website which contains many of his writings and a number of interviews. John P. Meyer Graham Twelftree and his book Jesus the Miracle Worker: A Historical and Theological Study Near Death Experiences Craig Keener and his 2 part work Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts (2 Volume Set) Bart D. Ehrman and his book Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth The minimal facts approach by Gary Habermas Abductive Reasoning or inference to the best explanation Explaining Away Jesus' Resurrection: The Recent Revival of Hallucination Theories by Gary Habermas Books to Consider The Historical Jesus: Ancient Evidence for the Life of Christ The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Did the Resurrection Happen?: A Conversation with Gary Habermas and Antony Flew (Veritas Forum Books) The Resurrection of Jesus: A New Historiographical Approach Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God) Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts (2 Volume Set) Jesus the Miracle Worker: A Historical and Theological Study Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth Ask your questions or share your feedback Comment on the shownotes Call (903) 231-2221 to leave a voicemail Email christianmeetsworld@gmail.com (audio files welcome) Please connect with me Subscribe, rate, and review Christian Meets World™ in iTunes Follow me on Twitter

Part 4 of 5 in the series of interviews "How would the Gospels look different if ...?" is with Dr Robert M. Price, he is skeptical of the bible and contends that Jesus is a mythical character and is the Professor of Biblical Criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute. Show Notes Dr Price has a website The Robert M. Price Homepage and hosts The Human Bible Podcast The Septuagint An overview of The Christ-Myth Theory from wikipedia Robin Hood and King Arthur are possible real figures with lots of legend accreted around them. Caesar Augustus and Apollonius of Tyre William Mitchel Ramsey The Works of Flavius Josephus Euripides and his play Aeneid Chariton Achilles Tatius Leucippe and Clitophon Carl Jung Books to Consider The Christ-Myth Theory and Its Problems Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition? Deconstructing Jesus The Case Against The Case For Christ: A New Testament Scholar Refutes the Reverend Lee Strobel Ask your questions or share your feedback Comment on the shownotes Call (903) 231-2221 to leave a voicemail Email christianmeetsworld@gmail.com (audio files welcome) Please connect with me Subscribe, rate, and review Christian Meets World™ in iTunes Follow me on Twitter

Part 3 of 5 in the series of interviews "How would the Gospels look different if ...?" is with J.P Holding of the Tekton Education and Apologetics Ministry. J.P and I chat about his article The Impossible Faith. Show Notes J.P runs the Tekton Education and Apologetics Ministry which I have been a fan of for many years He also does Tekton TV over at YouTube that has a collection of short humorous vidoes that contain a lot of useful information and are also very fun The Impossible Faith the essay that is the subject of this discussion. Why can we not have inerrant copies of the Bible today? my first tektonics article What Mithraism is and why it wasn't an influence on Christianity The Branch Davidians and the Waco Siege Confucious Honour and Shame in the Biblical World Klingons The Jesus Scandals: Why He Shocked His Contemporaries (and Still Shocks Today) by David Instone-Brewer Honour Killing Defending the Resurrection by J.P. Holding William Lane Craig's Reasonable Faith Mike Licona runs Risen Jesus The possible faiths (by comparison) of Mithraism, Mormonism and Islam Inanna a female Sumerian deity Books to Consider Defending the Resurrection by J.P. Holding Shattering the Christ Myth by J.P. Holding The Jesus Scandals: Why He Shocked His Contemporaries (and Still Shocks Today) by David Instone-Brewer Ask your questions or share your feedback Comment on the shownotes Call (903) 231-2221 to leave a voicemail Email christianmeetsworld@gmail.com (audio files welcome) Please connect with me Subscribe, rate, and review Christian Meets World™ in iTunes Follow me on Twitter

Part 2 of 5 in the series of interviews "How would the Gospels look different if ...?" is with John Loftus of the blog Debunking Christianity and used to be a christian minister. I'm pretty sure you can guess what side of the fence John sits on. Enjoy Show Notes John writes the blog Debunking Christianity Gotthold Lessing and his "broad ugly ditch" Søren Kierkegaard did espouse the idea of a Laap of Faith or fideism Karl Barth was a reformed theologian who is credited with founding Neo-Orthodoxy Apodicticity is the idea that we can be certain of something with no possible logical doubt, the classic example of this sort of thing is a mathematical proof. The Book of Mormon John recommended From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods The Jewish Stronghold of Masada The writings of Flavius Josephus and a short article on his mentions of Jesus of Nazareth Herodotus of Halicarnassus A summary of David Hume's on Miracles and the whole argument Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity, also available for Kindle The Shroud of Turin Books to Consider Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails The End of Christianity Why I Rejected Christianity: A Former Apologist Explains From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles Ask your questions or share your feedback Comment on the shownotes Call (903) 231-2221 to leave a voicemail Email christianmeetsworld@gmail.com (audio files welcome) Please connect with me Subscribe, rate, and review Christian Meets World™ in iTunes Follow me on Twitter

This week starts with Part 1 of a 5 part series of interviews with believers and skeptics exploring the question, "How would the Gospel look different if ...?". I hope you enjoy this first interview with my guest Dr Ben Witherington III from Ashbury Theological Seminary, look at the question, "How would the Gospels look different if they were False?". Show Notes Dr Witherington's website and also the website of Asbury Seminary where he teaches The website Early Christian Writings contains links to many of the non-canonical sources mentioned Early Christian Writings has a large collection of writings circulating in the first couple of centuries of the Christian Churches existence. The Diatesaron by Tatian Apollonius of Tyana The Books of the Maccabees and Wikipedia has an article on who they were The Gospel of Thomas The Gospel of Peter The Infancy Gospel of James and The Infancy Gospel of Thomas The Gospel of Philip The Gospel of Mary The Gospel of Judas Papyrology is the study of ancient documents The writings of Irenaeus of Lyons and who he was Books to Consider Dr Witherington writes a lot of books and here are couple to consider that are relevant to the topic The Gospel Code: Novel Claims About Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Da Vinci What Have They Done with Jesus?: Beyond Strange Theories and Bad History--Why We Can Trust the Bible New Testament History: A Narrative Account New Testament Rhetoric: An Introduction Guide to the Art of Persuasion in and of the New Testament Ask your questions or share your feedback Comment on the shownotes Call (903) 231-2221 to leave a voicemail Email christianmeetsworld@gmail.com (audio files welcome) Please connect with me Subscribe, rate, and review Christian Meets World™ in iTunes Follow me on Twitter

Tonight's show is an interview with Dr Alvin Plantinga about his new book "What the Conflict Really Lies". Dr Plantinga is one of my favorite living philosophers and I hope you enjoy listening to the interview as much as I enjoyed doing it. Show Notes Wikipedia has an overview of Dr Plantinga and you can find some of his publications at The Plantinga Page. Finally you can check out Dr Plantinga's page over at Notre Dame You can get Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism from Amazon I would also highly recommend The Analytic Theist: An Alvin Plantinga Reader to you as well You can find a lot of information about Dr John Lennox at his website Dr Lennox has a number of good books including God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God? and God and Stephen Hawking: Whose Design Is It Anyway? Dr John Polkinghorne has his own website and he is a Physicist and Anglican Priest. Dr Polkinghorne also has a number of books including Science and Theology, Questions of Truth: Fifty-one Responses to Questions About God, Science, and Belief and Quantum Physics and Theology: An Unexpected Kinship Ask your questions or share your feedback Comment on the shownotes Call (903) 231-2221 to leave a voicemail Email christianmeetsworld@gmail.com (audio files welcome) Please connect with me Subscribe, rate, and review Christian Meets World™ in iTunes Follow me on Twitter

I thought tonight I would kick around the criminal idiocy that is the new carbon tax legislation that has just gone into effect in Australia. If it isn't already obvious i'm opposed to it, even though consumption oriented taxes are normally the sort of thing I like, at least in so far as I like any tax. Show Notes Wikipedia has a good introduction to the idea of a Carbon Tax I was struggling to find pro-carbon tax sites, although I admittedly didn't look all that hard as I didn't want to need to take a shower There are a couple of different No Carbon Tax groups are easy to find Likewise websites exposing Global Warming Fraud are easy to find Ask your questions or share your feedback Comment on the shownotes Call (903) 231-2221 to leave a voicemail Email christianmeetsworld@gmail.com (audio files welcome) Please connect with me Subscribe, rate, and review Christian Meets World™ in iTunes Follow me on Twitter

On tonight's show I read the Letter by Archbishop of Sydney, Peter Jensen that he has written to all Sydney Anglicans on proposed same-sex marriage legislation and offer a few thoughts on it. Show Notes You can read the Peter Jensen's Letter on Redefining Marriage that was sent to all Sydney Anglicans Dalrock first taught me about Stanton's Heroes which is just horrifying Dads4Kids has a pretty comprehensive referenced list of the social ills associated with fatherless kids About.com has a reasonable overview of Marriage 2.0 The Christian Men's Defense Network has a great article on The Case for Christian Pre-Nups Unfortunately Peter Kreeft's talk on homosexuality doesn't seem to be available anymore, but all of his stuff is good In case you don't know what a Faustian Bargain is Ask your questions or share your feedback Comment on the shownotes Call (903) 231-2221 to leave a voicemail Email christianmeetsworld@gmail.com (audio files welcome) Please connect with me Subscribe, rate, and review Christian Meets World™ in iTunes Follow me on Twitter

TANSTAAFL is an acronym that means "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch". Show Notes Wikipedia has a pretty good starting bit of history on TANSTAAFL The Wikipedia entry on Heinlein is a good place to start and you can learn more about him and his philosophy at The Heinlein Society If you have never read it, pick up The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, it is fascinating And don't go past Starship Troopers if you have never read it. Don't be put off by the movie. Ask your questions or share your feedback Comment on the shownotes Call (903) 231-2221 to leave a voicemail Email christianmeetsworld@gmail.com (audio files welcome) Please connect with me Subscribe, rate, and review Christian Meets World™ in iTunes Follow me on Twitter

A fascinating interview tonight with Dr David Instone-Brewer from Tyndale House. We have an excellent conversation about the biblical grounds for divorce. I think the conversation is very interesting. Show Notes Divorce-remarriage.com is Dr Instone-Brewers website for his books You can find out more about Dr Instone Brewer at his Tyndale House website Divorce and Remarriage in the Bible: The Social and Literary Context The New Testament in Its First Century Setting: Essays on Context and Background in Honour of B. W. Winter on His 65th Birthday Ask your questions or share your feedback Comment on the shownotes Call (903) 231-2221 to leave a voicemail Email christianmeetsworld@gmail.com (audio files welcome) Please connect with me Subscribe, rate, and review Christian Meets World™ in iTunes Follow me on Twitter

I figured I would tackle a nice easy subject tonight. So abortion in the case of rape it is. Is it ever legitimate? Are there any cases where abortion is ok? Here are my thoughts, let me know yours. Ask your questions or share your feedback Comment on the shownotes Call (903) 231-2221 to leave a voicemail Email christianmeetsworld@gmail.com (audio files welcome) Please connect with me Subscribe, rate, and review Christian Meets World™ in iTunes Follow me on Twitter