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Webcasting around the world from the desert metropolis of Phoenix, Arizona. This is the dividing line. The Apostle Peter commanded Christians to be ready to give a defense for the hope that is within us.
Yet to give that answer with gentleness and reverence. Our host is dr. James White director of Alpha Omega ministries and an elder at the Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church. This is a live program and we invite your participation.
If you'd like to talk with dr. White call now at 602 9 7 3 4 6 0 2 or toll-free across the United States. It's 1 8 7 7 7 5 3 3 3 4 1. And now with today's topic here is James White and good morning and welcome to the dividing line.
We have a full plate today may end up going a little extra distance today Just to make sure that we have sufficient time To fully document and discuss Recent events that have taken place within well, I would call it within the realm of Roman Catholic apologetics.
But the fact the matter is this really doesn't fall within the realm of Roman Catholic apologetics. It did one point I guess did but it doesn't really anymore in the sense that we are going to be discussing allegations that have been made public by Catholic apologetics International the Apostolate of Roberts and Janice.
These are libelous and defamatory accusations made against William Webster David King Richard Pierce and Colin Smith and the late Andy Anderson who Unfortunately is not around to defend himself. Accusations of altering citations citations interestingly enough that in the vast majority of Instances are available for anyone to examine in already published works.
This is without a doubt in my opinion one of the most Inane ridiculous campaigns that has ever been launched by anyone in opposition to the truth. This is absolutely a major league joke, but because it has been put out there we need to respond to it and the document the many errors and Falsehoods that are being pushed upon people because I certainly know that once rumors like this get started No matter how absurd they are no matter how unverified they are no matter how they should never have seen the light of day No matter how indicative of complete yellow journalism.
They are tabloid ism. They are. They develop a life of their own. There are people who are so desperate to continue to believe a lie That they will simply Believe anything and as long as they've heard that someone did something they will Utilize that kind of information.
So I'm going to give a background to this Situation first because we cannot assume that our listeners are familiar with everything that has gone on. I don't claim to know everything that's gone on because there's obviously there has been stuff going on for quite some time and You know, I don't sit around wondering about these things.
I often wonder about people who even dreamed these things up. I live a very very full life and I have plenty of things to be doing outside of the realm of Roman Catholic apologetics or Mormon apologetics or whatever else it might be and So I just don't even understand the mindset of these kinds of people to be perfectly honest with you.
But I'm gonna give some background so that the people Listening who have not been in channel who have not been following this saga on the web. We'll have some background and then we will be joined By a number of the people who are a part of this situation specifically by David King William Webster Rich Pierce is right across the the studio also knows my office from me here and we will have questions for all of them, especially when we get to the specific allegations that have been made and The demonstration of just how completely ridiculous this whole situation really is, but let's go back in time a little bit.
Those of you who are not familiar with a chat channel you hear me talking about all the time and in this situation It is important indeed Catholic apologetics international has posted an article. It has now been removed.
But it was there for a number of days many of us saved it of course on our hard drives to make sure that we would be able to Document this information and in this article one of the statements that's made was that the three volumes set Holy Scripture published Written and published by a William Webster and David King was written primarily in IRC chat channels and specifically our IRC chat channel.
There is an individual that was identified as mr. X now. We immediately stop right there and just simply just stop and go excuse me. They they posted material from an unnamed source called mr. X. Yes, and as we will discover they failed to verify any of mr. X's claims before making them one of the most ridiculous activities you could ever have and I think reflects completely upon the methodology That Robertson genesis has always used and that Catholic apologetics international uses with the rate on a regular basis.
Both in its historical and in its theological argumentations as well, but mr. X is the individual that Was producing this information. One of the things he said was this was written in an IRC chat channel, so we go to the subject of the IRC chat channel first because What has taken place is an individual and we could tell as soon as we saw this article an individual Who is at one point a regular an individual who is in our chat channel with sufficient regularity to become familiar With the regulars in channel and the regulars involved in this ministry myself Richard Pierce the president of the ministry.
People in channel such as Colin Smith CDS is his Nick in channel. Colin Smith lives back east. He is a British citizen working on becoming American citizen. We sometimes called him silly Brit. You've heard him on the program a number of times before he's one of my students a very fine Christian man a scholar in his own right and so.
Also in our chat channel, especially the past number of years There would be discussions of when I was going to be on various radio programs Including Andy Anderson's program back in New York and at times when that was available.
You could listen if I was to be on Janet partial or if we were going to do something to where we actually webcast. My portion when I was good on a radio program there have been a few times. We've actually made that available to the folks in the channel to listen to while I was doing the interview on the program.
Obviously, mr. X whoever he was was someone who was very familiar with these things because he provided details in this interview the Catholic apologetics international posted wherein he spoke about People by name made certain allegations by name and so we could tell very quickly.
It was someone who either was still in channel or who had been in channel at some point in the past. And so we spent this this article was posted last week. We spent some time thinking about this try to figure out who it was.
Well, we have determined who this individual was and this has been verified to us by the people at CAI. And we are talking about an individual by the name of Michael Roberts. He first joined the channel according to my logs.
Now again, let me explain that When you're in an IRC chat channel You can set your program to create a log that is to record everything that is said in the chat channel. And I do that automatically. I've been logging our IRC chat channel all the way back about 96 or so.
I don't have all of them still some have been lost in hard drive crashes and things like that, but I have a pretty complete Log file for about 98 onwards and a search of my log files shows that This individual who used the Nick RW came into our channel for the first time on September 2nd 1999 he joined the channel asked about me and then immediately changed his Nick to KJV thumper and He was claimed to be a King James only fundamentalist.
That had encountered my materials. I talked to him about King James only issues asked answered questions that he had on translation issues things like that and He said he eventually abandoned the King James only position.
He was very active in channel from about 1999 through 2001 and according to my logs the last time that our W was in our channel at all was in June of 2002 very briefly. He was even made an operator there are certain number of people that Can kick people out of channel or or ban people or do things when you know you'll have people come in and start advertising websites or use foul language or whatever and the operators or individuals who take care of situations like that and he was even an op in channel and He was a very young man, I think by my recollection he was about 19 when he first joined the channel, which would make him around 23 now by my calculations and He was a very zealous young man.
And he was what I would call a text sponge. We had over the years I especially had over the years created a series of pop-ups and a pop-up is a you can you can utilize your mouse to bring up a certain menu and You can quote in channel a particular things.
Maybe it's explanation of a Bible verse or in this case especially he showed interest in the pop-ups I had of quotations of early church fathers especially on the subject of Sola Scriptura. And so it was a very regular thing that I would pop up a quote from Basel or from Augustine and a few minutes later.
He would pop it up as well. He had taken it cut pasted he learned how to make pop-ups put it into his IRC setup and would then do the exact same thing and It was during this period of time the David King Who is an operator in our channel a very good friend of mine? was doing the Biggest section of his research and writing on this project.
It was a many-year project. He and Bill Webster worked on this for a long long time and what? David King or as we call him in channel sky man would do is as he was typing up citations as he would be reading and he read extensively just So many volumes and and I know he was doing this because we would discuss the books that he was purchasing.
Investing his own money in buying these things and and he'd say hey, hey James look at look at this book I found and we go and he'd give the URL to the exact book on Amazon or Barnes and Noble or whatever it was that it was found and man sometimes these were very expensive books and sometimes they were just part of a series or something like that and Not always but many times I'd go ahead and pick up the same book myself for my own library.
And so as he'd be reading these works. He'd be typing these things up and he always has and if anyone who has the Holy Scripture series knows there is a particular Form of citation that he utilizes very very regular.
It's a very good form of citation gives the name the general dates birth and death of the individual the quotation source and in a particular format and Everyone who's been in channel in possibly on for any period of time at all from 99 onwards.
Is familiar with the the sky man patristic flood. I mean there were some times when he'd have a whole bunch of them and and the channel would just be filled and You know people got so used to it that if you were interested you'd stop you'd go back.
You'd read all of them and go wow, that's really cool and there'd be a discussion of it. But if you weren't if it wasn't your thing, you just kept going it's it's just like it was just a part of what it was to be in the channel at that time to see these citations and So these things be would be appearing and what would happen is our W would be collecting all these things and In fact, we have a number of citations some of the people in the channel.
Yesterday once we had confirmation that this mr. X source that CAI is saying has converted to Catholicism and is making all these accusations was in fact our W we started looking through our logs and Some of the stuff that came up was very very very interesting for example Eric Nielsen found this one from May 9th of 2000.
I'm involved with it. I don't have this log myself. The reason being and reading it I saw this the part that I'm going to read came from when I was at home and Our home unit has since died and I lost all the logs I had from home.
Then I came back over to the office and I have the rest of this day's Log identical with what mr. Nielsen has sent to me and There was a Catholic that came in channel and RW and Skyman began Dialoguing with him and both of them began posting large portions of text concerning the early church fathers and I believe even materials about the Apocrypha and things like that and We're talking a very large amount of text even I made a comment about man I'm getting dizzy here from all the pop-ups and so on and so forth and then The time here central standard time or this would be mace.
This would be central at daylight time problem 2026 which would be a little bit later in the day, obviously RW says to me after I had made a comment about How many things were being posted. He says this is RW speaking to me.
This is mr. X. I'd make a first-class plagiarist. To which I responded too late. You already are our W. This is at 826 p .m. Is the is the time on on this particular time stamp in this particular log and this is in the midst of Posting all this stuff, which very clearly RW had gotten from Skyman we found places where he's saying.
Hey, did you send me that file and Skyman responds? Well, I'm not holding out on you and I've even got one here. This is from July 28th of 2001 RW messages me and I had men made mention of Something concerning the fact that I had done a PowerPoint presentation the Trinity and I actually have done a very extensive PowerPoint presentation the training and so he messages me and he says that do you have a PowerPoint presentation the Trinity or in the deity of Christ and I responded.
Yes, and He said that do you think I could ask if you email them to me? I would really like to use one this week and one next week on my Sunday school class and My response to him was I'm sure you can produce something quite nice yourself.
No and so by 2001 I have a very clear recollection of quite honestly being a little tired of the constant request. Could you send that to me? I just heard you just did that. Could you send me your debate notes?
Could you send me that? Could you send me this? Constantly collecting all these things and We will I hope remember to do we have by the way those on the other side of the wall. Do we have folks online yet or?
Or not. Oh, we do have our guests online Pastor King as well as mr. Webster are online and you need to reconnect to the chat room. Oh, I do. Yes, sir. Oh, okay. Well, we we had some technical difficulties about five minutes into the webcast and those cleared up real quick.
But you didn't come back. Oh. Well, that's that's nice. That's that's good to know. I wonder why I just figured everybody was absolutely positively fascinated absolutely, I think I just thought everybody's absolutely riveted to what I was saying and That's why it had gone completely quiet and the chat channel was because of that that's that's good to know well, I was simply going to ask a Question at this this point just to verify make sure that I was being accurate as I try to give this introduction.
But if if you could bring a David King up for just a moment, and I just want to verify David in light of what I I had sent things to to Mr. Roberts and you indicated that you had sent actually a number of multiple numbers of text files of patristic citations and Materials you are working on to mr. Roberts as well.
Is that correct? Hello. You got the You hung up on him All right, let's let's get let's try to get Pastor King back in as soon as we do. Okay, we got it. We got okay got down there. Okay, David you there?
Yeah, hey David. I was just gonna ask you real quickly as I'm trying to give this introduction. I had mentioned that I had sent materials To mr. Roberts that he was collecting stuff out of the chat channel and I just wanted to verify from you you also sent him a number of text files of patristic citations during the course of time that we Had contact with him the chat channel, is that correct?
Yes James, that's correct. And that would include Basically, most of the stuff that you were posting bits and pieces in the chat channel The sources that you were pulling that from you you sent them to him.
Did you not? Yes. Okay All right. I just wanted to I just want to double-check that what I'm doing here I'm not sure the nature of the technical difficulties, but I'm just trying to give a background as to where all this this came and Just very quickly You had the opportunity a couple of times I think you said to talk to mr. Roberts on the phone.
I think I recalled calling him the comfort him and the loss of his mother, right? And then I recall another time when his dad was seriously ill and send him an email and Gave him some counsel with respect to that and he was at that time.
He was always Responded to me very.
Respectfully. Okay. All right. Well, that was my understanding. I do not have any recollection of having spoken to To mr. Roberts directly myself outside of the fact that during that period of time he called the dividing line on a regular basis and Those who want to take the time to go back into the archives can tell That there is a Michael from New York who called very frequently.
And he would almost always be Asking questions on the subject of the papacy and Roman Catholicism, even if that was not the subject of the Topic at the time and so there were times that I just quite honestly said this is when we were back on kpxq I would I would message or or during a break.
I would say to the folks in the control room. Look Let's take the ones that are on topic first and if we you know can get to others We'll get to others and maybe that was part of what caused a problem here.
I don't know. We'll get back to Pastor King and to Bill Webster here in a moment. Let me just finish giving this introduction so you all know why this is has happened right before The publication of the Holy Scripture series the three book three volume series of books I learned that RC Roman Catholic apologists Were claiming to be already in possession of the of the text of the book in electronic format and I even remember being asked by either William Webster David King because I had been sent the book because I wrote a forward for the book.
Whether I still had that material if I'd given it to anybody else and I remember digging through the material behind my desk which during During book writing Seasons shall we say tends to grow and become bigger and bigger.
I remember looking through the materials behind my desk and finding the manuscript to make sure no one had Snatched it when I wasn't looking or something like that and hence I was the source of of this materials and like that and I still had it and so we didn't know where this This material had come from.
But I remember very clearly people claiming to have had it In the past week. I have discovered in talking to various Roman Catholics That this material was offered to them by our W And then in fact this of this material that I now am in possession of the text file Is very clearly the work of David King.
It is a compilation of all the materials that have been sent to him over time Utilizing his exact citation methodology, etc. Etc. And This was being sent by our W to Roman Catholic apologists. And this is the first indication that we got of course we did not know this at the time we none of us I mean when this first had when this whole story first broke I was sitting here going who could that be and this man's name and Nick never Crossed my mind at all never.
And so this is just absolutely amazing. So let's fast forward here because I want to bring my guests on real quickly a Few weeks ago. I posted on our website an article. I had written for a an online journal a couple years ago.
They had pulled it. They had taken it off for another for other reasons and so some of you know that I posted a dialogue on Sola Scriptura on our website and A few weeks ago. I discovered that Jacob Michaels Jacob Michael who is as far as I can tell one of the very few people who has stuck with Robert St. Genes over the past year as St. Genes has swung off into not only traditionalism, but also a number of other strange offbeat beliefs Conspiracy theories and so on so forth so much so that even dr. Art Sippo Who is without a doubt the most egregiously nasty Roman Catholic apologist I have ever encountered in my life Has broken ranks with St. Genes and you go to St. Genes's website and you can see Sippo and St. Genes going at each other accusing each other of all the same things that used to accuse me of which I find again very very interesting and So he's gone off and all this stuff and it seems that Jacob Michael was one of the few people that has stuck with St. Genes.
I don't see very much anybody else really writing a lot there and He Started he wrote a response To my fictional dialogue and I had said in my dialogue I see you have not read good. I'm speaking to a Roman Catholic here.
I see you have not read good or Whitaker or salmon or Webster and King. I said smiling yes I surely am but I think it better if we begin with a biblical issue first you said the doctrine is unbiblical correct.
So I was making reference to works on the subject of solo scriptura. And I made reference to historical works good Whitaker salmon. And then I mentioned Webster and King the modern set produced by our guest today then.
He responded with these words. Yes, it is unbiblical. But before we get into that is that the same Webster and King whose historical research assistant recently converted to Catholicism and Revealed that neither Webster nor King even know Latin.
Well, that's another issue I guess let's go back to the part about solo scriptura being unbiblical. Well really I had I had been a part of watching this work being produced over the years, and and I had watched as especially David King with whom I had contact with an almost daily basis through our chat channel was doing this research and and By the way, the only thing I really helped out with was other than praying for them encouraging them was when?
There was be something in Greek to look up because I had the TLG CD-ROM. This is far as lingua greca CD-ROM. I had I had leased it. I don't know about back about 96 97 somewhere around in there and So there would be times that sky man would say James.
Could you look up this statement by? Chrysostom or or something like that if it was an early church father writing in Greek and I remember some times till late at night and and he lives a lot farther east to me.
It's to be a lot later at night for him. We'd be checking citations an amazing thing to do. I realized this may be difficult for a lot of Roman Catholic apologists understand. But see a Webster and King wanted to make sure that what they're finding was accurate and so they were checking Citations and sources and so we would I would try to help with that and there be sometimes I would I would suggest maybe a translational issue with the Greek or something like that and.
So that was you know, that was something that was ongoing. I knew nothing about a historical research assistant let alone conversion and so this this citation came out and David King challenged Jacob Michael about this and That Led to well all sorts of stuff.
So let's go ahead and bring our guests on now so we can talk about this all together I'm joined by David King. We talked just briefly with Dave a few moments ago and by William Webster.
Let's make sure we've got everybody there David. Can you hear me? Yes. Thanks James. Hi deal. Hi David. Hi James.
Hi, how you doing boy? You guys sound great. I'm glad we have this new phone system. All right, so Jacob. Michael says David King had a historical research assistant that converted. Was that the first time that either of you had heard anything about this at all?
It was the very first time I had ever been informed of a historical research assistant James. I I have. Every time I hear it, it's very difficult for me to keep from laughing. I Did have a historical research assistant, his name is Bill Webster, that's right.
No kidding. Yeah, it was news to me to James and you know, I thought it I thought I knew David pretty well. He must be hiding somebody in the closet. I didn't know about I thought I was his research assistant.
There you go. Yeah, this was this was totally.
News to us. Okay. So now David you had contact with Jacob Michael through Eric Spenson's web board and so you challenged him and.
How would you characterize his response to your challenge? Well his response to my challenge was that basically mr X said it and we know what that mr. X what he said is true and therefore it must be true.
And then You would very distinctly get the impression that the burden of proof then shifted upon me to disprove what? Mr. X has alleged. And You know, it's sort of like asking you to prove a negative.
How can you prove something that never was right, right?
And so basically he would not step up to the plate now myself Timothy Enloe. Both of us pointed out the fact and I believe bill you even came on to the web board. Which is not your type of thing. In fact bill.
Have you ever been in our chat channel? No. So to say this book was written in IRC chat channels would mean you didn't have anything to do with right? Oh, that's right so Timothy Enloe and myself we went on the on the board and you actually signed on to the web board to also post a Response to this and Timothy and I both pointed out the same thing and that is well, let's for a moment.
Let's just for a second. Guess and say okay. Let's say there was a research assistant exactly. What is the apologetic value of this person's conversion and what we're trying to get to is the fact that by mentioning this their entire?
Thrust has been to try to in some way to cast aspersions upon the quality and the the nature of The the set that you all have produced. That's very clearly. Is that not how you read it as well?
It's only the way that I read it because no one to this to this point in time has really Engaged us in a in a responsible way on the the subject of the book itself, right? You know, there are all these allegations out.
No one has ever taken a look at what it really says and try to deal with us in an honest way. I.
Just I'd mentioned in passing that Eric Svensson has just joined the chat channel. So we have we have everybody on board here all at once. So in essence, he he basically would not reveal his sources. I wrote to him personally.
This is Jacob Michael Challenging him on this. He he would not he said. We look we can't we can't tell who this is and I'm like How can you make this kind of accusation? Make these kind of assertions.
By the way in what I read This this source has revealed that you gentlemen are not Latin scholars. Now, could you show me where in your three volume set you all claim to be Latin scholars?
We've never made a claim to be Latin scholars. Never made a claim that we could translate. Obviously if we're not Latin scholars. We can't translate. The interesting thing is then the entirety of the except for the section that deals with the Canon in volume 2 one quotation.
Well, no, let me put it this way. There is one quotation from Ambrose standpoint. That is a translation that we had done that deal with the Canon. There's one from Isidore Seville that deals with the Canon and there's one from Pope Galatias That deals with the Canon.
Those are all from the patristic age. Apart from those and there is no other and that all deals with is and the major theologians of the Middle Ages.
Well now there is a I'm aware of this but not necessarily everyone else. Is David your volume.
You wrote Volume 1 and that deals primarily with what deals primarily with the biblical case for sola scriptura.
Now it does contain some patristic citations or does it not? I think it has about 59 if our account is correct.
I think that's right bill. 59 patristic citations. 59 Latin patristic citations. Okay, my father's to that there may be an equal number from the Greek fathers. Okay. Oh, yes, that's correct.
But everything that you just mentioned bill is in volume two, which you wrote on the historical issues. That's right. Now then what would be the relevance of anything that mr X had to say then regarding any of this unless he's saying that the Notre Dame scholars don't know what they're doing.
Well, he did not. He was apparently not aware that all of the translation work we had done came from the University of Notre Dame. He makes the allegation that we were using someone from Emory University to do the translation work because we didn't.
We found that the Translations didn't agree with what we wanted them to say. Right. And we did not use anyone from Emory.
And that would not be something that someone who merely had The Quotations from the chat channel would have any knowledge of. Is it well.
Well, certainly not. And another thing involved in what bill just mentioned. Apparently, mr. X claims he was privy to a conference call that revealed the.
Conspiracy, but none of its true. Yeah, I was yeah, I want to talk about that in just a few moments I want to get the rest of this accusation out then we can take apart the the details. So we've got David King writes volume one.
It's on the biblical material volume two is on the historical material and in Canon and volume Three is primarily a compilation of patristic sources citations both from Latin and Greek fathers and people like that.
Will that be a fair evaluation of just sort of an outline of what the the set is all about right, right? Okay. All right. So Mr. Let's go back to Jacob Michael. He's challenged. Who is this person? What's the apologetic value of this?
Don't you realize this is a pretty this is this is pretty low stuff to use an unnamed source To basically attempt to attack a work Not on the basis of what it says. But on and and and you all did not even claim to be Latin experts in the first place.
Isn't this pretty much yellow journalism? His response wasn't overly positive. And as I understand he was kicked off of the Web board that is run by our expense. Is that correct?
Yes, that's correct change, okay. All right.
So that was what about two three weeks ago. Nothing happens in between time and then. Bill. When did I call you this week or last week? Was it was it Wednesday or Tuesday? I was the same day that David you went away.
Which I was gone two or three days on vacation. Yeah, I'll be on Tuesday. I think okay.
I come into channel and Eric Nielsen very quickly gave me a URL and I went to The Catholic International Catholic apologetics international website and that is where I read coming soon the Lion King ly I an apostrophe or David King and the Deformation deception.
Now, you can still see that title at least at the time that this Program began you can still see that title on the front page but if you click on it just takes you back to the front page because this has been pulled and Here Jacob Michael, this is dated April 22nd 2004.
Promises the posting of a full-length interview Sunday sometime on Sunday and This is the article in which mr. X is quoted. Now, I'm going to pretty much ignore some of the Silliness at the beginning of this article that talks about the NTR min web forum and and Things like that because I think it's sort of silly.
He mentions that I emailed him that That I hinted threatened is probably too strong of a word that he was going to dedicate an upcoming episode of his radio program. The dividing line to this very issue supposedly to expose another in a long line of examples of deceitful Catholic apologetics.
Well, that's exactly what's ended up happening. Again I refused to reveal anything more than I was allowed to reveal. So he then posts a section Saying to mr. King that you owe him an apology now. Where he is allegedly?
Dialoguing with mr. X and mr. X. Let me just give some of the specifics of what he says here because this is no longer on the Catholic international calm website. And Mr. Michael says I know what you mean.
Can I ask a few preliminary questions now to give our readers an idea of what's coming this Sunday? Mr. X sure can mr Michael, okay. Did you work directly with William Webster or David King or both? Mr. X?
I worked mostly through David King. I met with David King often. Let me stop right there. Have you ever met?
Mr. X David. Well at the time. I didn't know who mr. X was. Well, I had no idea who I'd been meeting with often. But when this person's name was revealed, I'm certain that I have never met with him face-to-face.
Okay, that'd be Michael Roberts. Okay.
We continue. Mr. Michael interesting and this is a little confusing because it's Jacob Michael and Michael Roberts. So it's it's hard to that's why I'm using mr. X so we don't lose track of who's who here.
Jacob Michael interesting. He has denied having worked with any kind of a research assistant. Mr. X interesting. Mr Michael how extensive was your involvement in your opinion? Here's here's an interesting one.
Mr X I would be given a list of books to find. I would find them read certain areas, etc. I did some editing work. I also funded an extensive amount of this project as well. You can't keep from laughing here there David.
It is hard, mr. Michael, how many hours would you say you put in per week? Mr. X 20 or more? Mr. Michael for how many weeks or months? Mr. X I'd say about seven months. Actually, I would say I worked on the book for almost a year because I sent Scott Windsor Stephen Ray and a few others Around 200 pages of quotes that I put together.
Now, let's let's stop right there first of all Mr. Roberts is approximately 23 years of age and how would he be able to work many hours for you without getting paid and then also fund an Extensive amount of this project as well.
Now. He will later make a claim concerning the amount of the funding. That he provided let me skip down to that here. He said if you would like a copy of cash checks, I sent William Webster and David King.
I can send you the bank copies. I sent two $5 ,000 checks and many other checks in the sum of several thousand dollars each and then he later says I probably sent about $18 ,000 to these two now now gentlemen $18 ,000.
What is your response to that kind of assertion? My response is I wish he had a.
Bill from this individual. It's I've never had a check forwarded to me from David King In any amount what this individual supposedly had sent to him to help fund this project. These checks that he mentions that have been cashed and that he can provide I Make them forthcoming Because I don't have them.
One penny.
Hey gentlemen, this is rich Pierce. I have a suggestion. I have his address. Let's send him a bill. Yeah. Really?
Remark to you the other day. I mentioned, you know, I would love to have the money because I need a new car. There you go. There you go. We've never know seriously. We have.
Did anyone help either one of you at all with any of your costs whatsoever.
There was one individual remind help me to remember David. There's one individual his name was Hendrick, okay. Yeah, it was I think $400. That was all that's all we've ever received from anyone and he was very that was to help us with some of the Latin Yeah translations we were doing for the Canon.
Right and because those those folks at Notre Dame didn't work for free. No, they didn't. Oh, come on. I mean they work at Notre Dame that you'd think they'd want to translate Latin. I mean.
Get paid for what they do. No, no, unlike. Mr. X. They did not want to pay us to work for. Okay. All right. So let me say one other thing to James and it's this fact if I had indeed Received this money from this individual.
I would have nothing to gain by denying it, right? I would readily accept it. Oh admit it and Say yes, this individual did but it's just the whole thing is so bizarre and absurd That my first response to all of this was just shock.
Yeah, okay. No. Well, yeah.
Well, see you weren't there. And so I'm the one who informed William Webster of this. I called you bill and said have you seen this scene right? Well, yeah, then I read it to you and Your response was very similar to David's right now.
You see a couple times you just broke out in laughter because you just couldn't believe what was being said. Let's continue with some of the things in the in the text here. He mr. Michael says any idea why mr. King would be denying any assistance on your part now.
Mr X's response is very interesting. Maybe because he was the first person I told I was converting. Um, when was the last time you had any contact that you're aware of David with.
Michael Roberts, I think I checked my emails and the last time that I had email contact with him. And I think that was probably the last time I ever had any contact with him. It was dated.
June the 10th of last year June of 2002. Yeah, my last Contact from my logs was June of 2002 as well. So that's. And he did not inform you he was converting.
No, not a word this Michael Roberts net has never indicated to me that he was okay now.
Mr. Michael asked him. Can your work as a research assistant be substantiated? Mr. X? I have documents all over my hard drive discussions in IRC where we discussed where we were placing what? Etc. Now, I don't have any doubt whatsoever because my logs show him Receiving files and my logs show him copying things that you've posted to the channel your posts come first his come second.
That's not exactly consistent with this assertion. But I don't doubt that he has all sorts of documents all over his hard drive but discussions in IRC where we were where we were placing what as if he was in in In on the organization of the text of the book itself.
Yeah, see. Well, that's just okay.
Mr. Michaels is very interesting. Then he talks about now. Here's here's something for Bill. I probably sent here's mr X. I probably sent about 18 ,000 to these two. I thought it was funny how King and Webster said.
Webster would be the primary source but after all was said and done with. Webster was quoted in a newsletter from Reformation Press as having paid every penny of the 26 ,000 out of his pocket. I also have receipts from Colgate divinity where I did my daily research now.
That's one of the first things that Made you think of Michael Roberts. Was it not David?
Yes, it was when I saw the connection with Colgate because I'm I know that he had attended Colgate and.
Had informed me he had been dismissed from the school and he had been dismissed for in essence Arguing with the professor and being disrespectful class. Yeah the professor. Right now. Now bill. You were quoted.
Do you have any knowledge of a Reformation Press newsletter or anything where you're quoted.
Discussing the the costs of of your book. Absolutely. None. I didn't know Reformation Press had a newsletter. I didn't either. By the way, could I ask question of bill while we haven't? I'd like to know where this figure $26 ,000 came from that comes out of the air.
I have no idea like, you know, he's quoting Mike Rotolo. They're in Reformation Press, so I don't know. Interesting. Well, I have never spoken to Mike Rotolo. Well, I think I need this. These volumes other than after I believe they were actually published.
I need to get hold of mr.
Rotolo and see if he can shed a light on this too because I'm sure he would be very interested to discover that he's been Cited by this individual. Now here comes the fun part. Mr. Michael now in the course of this research Kang and Webster must have come across several protistics patristic citations that refuted their thesis, correct?
Mr. X It's hard to stay on topic here David I remember I'm not a dispensationalist, you know, I remember a Conference call. Little inside joke there folks. I remember a conference call now. Here's the here's the conference call issue and We'll go ahead and get mr. Pierce involved here because he's going to become a part of this.
Here's the conference call. I remember a conference call in which King told Webster that the translations from Emory University Did not say what they wanted them to say and Webster came back with use Ellipses and change a few words if we are caught we will blame it on Emory University.
Mr. Michael, I'm speechless. Mr. X there were three other people on the line when he said that mr. Michael, who were they? Mr. X one was a radio show out of New York. His name escapes me at the moment.
Dr. White was often on his show. Mr. Michael Andy Anderson, mr. X. Yes, that's the name. Mr. X. Mr Pierce from Alpha and Omega was also on the line as well as another person who is working on Webster's side.
We were discussing promoting the book etc. J. Michael and what was a will skip my alleged non-involvement here. Even though that's where it says this book was basically written in internet chat rooms.
Mr. Michael Keep in mind the King denies having any research help and he told me it was impossible. The Webster might be using someone he didn't know about so he denied having any help at all. Mr X no King knew everything and he also had help from Colin Smith Who did spell-checking grammar and actually wrote a few arguments in the book.
Smith also took out the bad words. Mr. Michael bad words, mr. X Yes. We use that as a term when there were words that didn't agree with what we said. We would either change them or take them out or add ellipses.
Mr. Michael and those were the bad words. Mr. X. Yes so here is this this alleged conference call and The people involved here as I'm looking very closely at it Andy Anderson you too and rich Pierce and a guy working on Webster's side and Mr. Michael Roberts.
Now we've already talked about this, but let's go ahead and make it clear.
Any conference calls like that. Absolutely, not that never ever happened.
Have you ever been. I'll start with the with with Bill. Have you ever been on a conference call? With Andy Anderson.
The only call I've ever been on with Andy Anderson is when he's interviewed me for his radio program. But never off the air never off the air never on a conference call David especially of the kind that this man is alleging.
David No We we never had any such conference calling. Today is the first day that I've ever spoken with rich Pierce on the phone.
And so before today you never spoke with rich Pierce Richie out there. Yes. I'm right here James. Have you been have you been off in your office out there? Engaged in grand conspiracies and on conference calls with with folks like like Andy Anderson.
Yes, it's a matter of fact the Conspiratorialists have returned to the scene of the crime. Here we are again. No. Okay. You know that there is an element of humor in all of this that we We have to resort to in order to keep our sanity and all this I I've personally never spoken with Andy Anderson.
Even in setting up Interviews that you've done where we've live-streamed them through here. I spoke with the people in the control room. I never had any interaction with Andy Anderson whatsoever as Pastor King just said this is in fact today when I screened his call when he came in was the first time he and I Have ever spoken to each other in any form other than in a chat room and the only thing that I've ever talked with Bill Webster about regarding these books is Purchasing them for our stock right and so the fact that I would be mentioned in this Implicated rich implicated in this what what boils down to nothing short of a really bad joke It is is it just floors me it absolutely floors me.
Well, you know we've always suspected your dog Jesuit infiltrators so that that may have something to do with it. Well. He's relieved that the the real mr. X has finally stood up, and he has been exonerated.
That's good all right. Well Okay, so this conference call now a conference call that would include that many people would not only require a special System to be able to do it, but Obviously this would be long-distance and hence it would be very easy to document The initiation of these long-distance phone calls to these various numbers, and it's interesting mistress and Janice who is now desperately and the term desperation is really not even a Good term to describe his current condition is Desperately trying to defend this kind of stuff Has has made the the assertion that well You know you attack the one thing to be the hardest to prove a conference call baloney.
That'd be the easiest to prove. Well if that's the case then why did he raise it? I have yeah? Well, I. Very good question.
And so and which it wouldn't be that difficult for Michael Roberts who lives in is it New Jersey or New York. New York New York? To show a phone bill. Where if he is working with Pastor King in this matter.
He's going to have several long-distance calls. I'm sure. To that phone number at David King's house. Maybe. And so he should be able to easily produce those kinds of calls and that interaction. Yep, yeah, very very much so very much so well.
This is this at the end of this Brief snippet this teaser that was posted on the 22nd. We have that's all for now stay tuned this Sunday for a full-length interview. Jacob Michael. Catholic apologetics international.
April 22nd 2004. Now on. During obviously the period of time after this all of us have spoken. I immediately called you David, but you weren't there. I left a message for you quick. You only found out about this one on Saturday.
I found on out about it Saturday morning when I returned home from vacation Saturday morning.
Bill you called me a couple times in between time we talked about a few things. I sent you some stuff. I started asking some folks in in IRC one thing that that that struck me was in in since Scott Windsor was mentioned in the in the article and in fact One of the things that has has concerned me all along I do need to say this one of the things that is said in that article that I didn't read I Should bring it back up here.
This man says that his conversion To Catholicism was due to those kinds of conference calls where you were saying to alter Citations which of course by the way, we should mention and if you two would like to comment on this would be absolute Suicide.
It would be the dumbest thing you could ever do because this is documented information. Anyone who goes to it can show exactly where you've doctored the citations. It would be Yeah.
He makes the allegation here that we are done that were given to us by those that we utilized at Emory. We did not utilize anyone from Emory. If you go through these volumes as I mentioned a little while ago There are no that relate directly in the in the entirety of these volumes.
That was done by anyone. I seen fathers the nice thing post nice thing fathers the fathers of the church the John Rotel series on Augustine. In fact, I'll just give you some statistics real quick. And David King's volume on the Latin fathers.
There's 59 from the anti-nice thing fathers the nice thing post nice thing fathers Series and John Rotel and come from those series. And from the reading and preaching of Scripture in the worship of the Christian translated Tuttes of Atlantic Francis Turreton and then one quotation from Augustine by William Goode.
That's it and so all of those would be completely verifiable.
As to any non Specialist who simply has access to a library a good library would have most of these works where you can go and check out. The quotations. Yes, and that's Latin fathers, too. And of course the only thing in question here I guess is Latin fathers.
I did cite some Greek fathers as well. But again, they were by Other translators, we we didn't translate anything ourselves, right? Okay, so.
This this. This man who says he's converting to Catholicism says is converted because of conversations that never took place and then he said that he's converting because of the dividing line. Encounter between myself and Scott Windsor.
Now bill. I doubt you've you've heard that.
I've heard that at all. Okay, David, you know this man Michael Roberts is a total mystery to me, right? I've never spoken with him. The first I'd ever heard is when they started posting at the CAI site.
Now David you did hear that encounter. Yes, and with all due respect I don't believe that he came out very convincingly. A log.
Well, not only that I got a lot of complaints from Roman Catholics that I was basically picking on non specialists and and It it did not go well for him. Very very clearly anyone who listens that I would invite anyone to go back.
We still make this stuff available we have nothing to hide go back and look that together with the the the connection of Andy Anderson who Andy Anderson passed away about three months ago. He died of cancer and I have spoken.
I knew Andy Anderson I have spoken with the Chris Arnson Who knew Andy Anderson very well and Chris has confirmed my statement and that is it is absolutely positively absurd. That Andy Anderson would have even any interest in this subject.
It just that was I mean that was not in his thing. He'd have there the fact that he his name was included that that contact with Scott Windsor and that program was included the the rather strange reference to Reformation press there are only two conclusions.
I've been able to come to and I'd like to get your opinions on this as well one Mr. X has basically lost his noodle. Something has happened something radical has happened. He has truly lost his balance and And he is absolutely making up the most outrageous stories simply to gain something from from Roman Catholics to whom he's now joined himself or and This is something that everyone everyone the chat channel can confirm Rich Pierce can confirm I've mentioned this to everybody one of the things that has concerned me from the very beginning is this story is so absurd and It would appeal only to a very limited realm of of of people who are desperate to Defend a false system.
It is so absurd that I have to keep over the possibility of. The idea that this is a massive joke being placed being played on Catholic apologetics international so as to Show them to be disreputable show them to be willing to post information that is unverified and unverifiable to be engaged in tabloidism and yellow journalism a Massive joke being played by a non-catholic who is playing as if he is a convert.
Now if that were the case, and I don't know if it is I we have tried to contact Michael Roberts. We found out in fact Tim Dudek and channel Sunday Afternoon made an offhand comment. He said you know I just took him off of my my buddy list because His away messages were profane, and I immediately asked him you mean you mean RW you mean Michael Roberts.
And he says yeah, and I said what was what was the screen name and so he gave me the screen name I started watching and David you were involved with this Sunday afternoon. That screen name came on AOL instant messenger so you myself and Tim Dudek we all attempted to instant message of course.
That's green name. We wanted to talk to him. We wanted to go. What in the world are you talking about and.
Did you get a response. He never responded to me. I mean would if this fellow was such a close friend. I can't imagine why you wouldn't speak to me. I had no knowledge of Him since June and I certainly had no knowledge of him having converted if indeed he has.
To Roman Catholicist well he didn't respond to you. He didn't respond mr.. Dudek. He didn't respond to me. And then he signed off. Now the reason I know beyond all question that this is Michael Robert is that a few minutes later Michael Jacob Michael comes into our chat channel and instant messages me at a screen name no one else knows so it was given to him by Michael Roberts.
And he is two messages me we tried to talk with mr.. Jacob Michael in our channel. He eventually stopped responding, but he and I had a long discussion in AOL instant messenger about all of this stuff and he confirmed it was it was Michael Roberts and Given what happened, then he didn't even need to have to it was very obvious that it was so here.
You have an individual we've tried to contact, and we don't know what he's doing. But my point is that I've wanted to make very clearly and I realize we're at the top of the hour words could go as Late as long as we need to to be able to make this this work.
I Want to make as clear as possible to anyone who's listening that if this is a joke if this mr. X story is a joke, and it is meant to discredit Catholic apologetics international etc etc or any Roman Catholic apologetics ministries because remember this file That contained your work.
David was sent to Scott Windsor and Stephen Ray and Scott Butler in fact.
That's where I first heard about. Wasn't it from you. Bill didn't bother. Call me and let me know that they had a Significant amount of the. He said that we have your book. And I know you're crazy. You don't my book.
When I you know the only thing I could figure out. I just called you because I'd sent you a Manuscript right of the book because you're going to do the foreword right and. So I just said well forget it.
I'm not going to worry about it the books coming out soon enough, right?
So he this is. When did when exactly the book come out?
Came out in September of 2001. Well, I think October's that might be the date in the book. I can't can't recall specifically somewhere. September October.
Okay, so right around that period of time even before that when when Jacob or when Michael Roberts is still Active in the channel he has been offering this to Scott Windsor and others who did not trust him because they knew That he was an op in our channel, and they didn't even trust him.
So here's an individual and if this is a joke I Rebuke anyone who would do something like this it is not something that should be done. It is not something we would ever dream of doing and if it's a joke. It's wrong now.
It's a it's a joke. It's already been been played. I mean Catholic Apologetics International has already put they've already done the damage. Whether they post the rest of this interview or not they've already put it out there.
They've already done the deed. They may try you know they didn't post the rest that interview. It's that was supposed to be Sunday night. It is now Tuesday morning and I you know reading the stuff and in fact. We were just sent a note by.
It's been forward to us the writings of Roberts and Janice. He well First line dealing with a bunch of desperate and dishonest Protestant apologist who will stop at nothing to make up false statements about the fathers of The church that's what some Jenna says so this he has made his bed.
He will not draw back He he's he's ready to they're going to post something whether it they go with This this story of mr.. X or abandon it. They're going to come up with something. They simply will not accept correction they do not seem to realize this is pure yellow journalism.
It's tabloid ism, and I want to make an announcement, and I've already told mr.. St. Janice this he did not respond, but I've already told him that Mr.. St. Janice, and I have done our last debate. I will not debate this man again.
I will not give this man the time of day in in the sense of engaging in public Dispute with him he had already marginalized himself tremendously. I was told by a leading Catholic apologist only a few months ago.
Bob has gone over the edge quote unquote and He anyone who goes to his website sees him attacking all the other Roman Catholic apologists out there and so therefore Debating him is is making those debates pretty much irrelevant because they're only for a small group of people.
There's only a small number of people who would find them to be relevant. He no longer represents the mainstream of Catholic apologetics in any way shape or form. But this kind of behavior is absolutely positively unforgivable.
It is reprehensible it Demonstrates that he cares nothing about the quality of the information. He will repeat to others and so There will be no more debates with Roberts and Janice. I wish there hadn't been one only a few weeks ago but there was.
And we have to buy contractual agreement make that available and we will didn't have anything to do with this. But that's it. There's going to be no more of that because mistress and Janice has proved himself to be utterly without any Integrity in this matter and if he does not post a complete and abject apology to both of you for for giving me to Apology and I want a retraction a retraction and apology to everyone involved Including Colin Smith for Colin Smith.
The poor man is now known as the person who removes bad words. I mean, come on the bad word conspiracy. It's incredible if that is not posted on the CIA website I would encourage every honest Roman Catholic out there to contact them and say what in the world are you people doing?
This is just simply the most unbelievable stuff I've ever encountered and it proves to me that it is the material in the book. That is the problem for them. They can't deal with the argumentation. That's that is the true issue.
Would you would you agree with that? Everyone anyone? Yes. Yes, absolutely. You know, the thing is I look at the fact that my name is up there and it just absolutely flabbergasts me but we are men of goodwill and that is something that You look at what has been put together.
This is not just a a fabrication of Well, you know you skipped over this stuff because you didn't like what it said or something like that. What is depicted in this scenario is fraud? We are being charged publicly with fraud By these people and I Wrote a note to mr. Syngenis personally yesterday.
No, actually I did sign it president Alpha Omega Ministries, but Alpha to me. I was actually referenced there as Of Alpha Omega Ministries. And I told him I want I demand a retraction and an apology. Because I believe what you did you you failed even the most basic test of verification that any newspaper is required to.
That their lawyers, you know, unless you work for the Enquirer, which their lawyers are well Hey, you know high paid and they get a lot of money doing what they do because they get sued a lot but in they're supposed to follow the absent malice rule and I don't believe they did that here.
I Believe that what they they put out there what they got their hands on seemed so juicy That they just had to run with it and It's still so juicy. They have to they have to hold on to it. They can't let it go before I let Bill and and David both give their their thoughts.
I would like to Make sure folks know this is a live program and if Roberts and Janice or Michael Roberts Or Jacob Michael told me last night that he's gonna be in meetings all day so he's not gonna be available and cannot be listening, but If you all would like to call this isn't just we're gonna present our side and sit around and do nothing.
And not allow you to do anything. If you think you know, mr. Roberts, I would assume if he has the ability he's listening RW we don't know what happened to you. I don't know what's happened in your life.
But I have my logs and we know what really happened. Eight seven seven seven five three three three four one eight seven seven seven five three three three four one it's toll-free call and if you I Saw earlier.
I need to scroll down here to see if if he's still around. Yeah, Eric Svensson's in channel you know if Eric if you'd like to call and make a comment on this some of you who've been in channel for years and You you have some relevant information.
You'd like to share Feel free eight seven seven seven five three three three four one. We'll go for another if you guys can hang around if you can't another 21 minutes. We'll go ahead go for the full 90 minutes today give us a call and that'll cause us to lose rich, but give us a call and Toll-free all across the United States.
We'd love to have you on there bill your thoughts well.
I'm appalled Number one that this would be made public. Just out of courtesy to say bill. You know, we've got these charges. Is there any truth to this? Mm-hmm. And of course, you know, there's picture possible.
It wouldn't condemned. Before any verifiable facts are really put out there. The the allegations have put out there without Substantiation. Jacob Michael is asking. Mr. X. Can you substantiate what you are saying?
And he says yeah, I've got the bank checks and all of this. If you just take some of these statements about Emory University and our manipulation of text with respect to translations. And see there's nothing there from Emory.
If you just go and check the quotes, it's very obvious. We haven't changed anything. We would never do that. If you put it it would be suicide trying to manipulate anything. We don't have to for itself.
I don't have to do anything except let them speak for themselves. The other thing is that he claims to have these bank checks. That have been cashed. Smith and David King's endorsement on the on the back.
There would be a stamp. From Mike fine that they were indeed cashed verify this they didn't do that in the public listen that we don't have.
It definitely is and it is so much though. It's so standard for the Roman Catholic Apologetics organizations that I've dealt with and I'm not trying to paint with a broad brush there I I know of Roman Catholic apologists who would never do this but unfortunately a larger portion of them would then would not and the idea being some sort of genetic fallacy that if.
Well, if you had a research assistant, that means this isn't any good. I mean, it's such there's such desperation looking for anything to find a way around this. This simply documented fact that the the the glib Statements of Roman Catholic apologists about well, the church has believed this for 2 ,000 years just simply isn't the truth.
It just does not hold up to any level of meaningful examination. It's much more complex than that. There were many views expressed by early church fathers on many different subjects and they just aren't comfortable with that.
David. What about you or your thoughts?
Well, the fact is that all of these allegations were brought forward without ever having been Substantiated based upon the testimony of mr. X. It's rather interesting to me that Jacob Michael was willing to to take the ball and run with this and throw it up on the web before any of this Had been confirmed.
He's acting solely on the basis of the word of an individual that he can't even reveal and I would I think that if The shoe were on the other foot I wonder how he would regard it if I Suddenly made these allegations against him of some nature and I said well, I have proof of this and it's based upon.
Mr X right whose identity I cannot reveal to you and then all of these absurd claims about money about Private phone conferences It's all this cloak-and-dagger stuff. You would this is surely the stuff that you read about National Inquirer.
This is tabloid apologetics. I'm I'm strictly appalled and yet never once Have these people sought to address our work the substance thereof in any kind of meaningful way.
Well, it certainly is an amazing example and I think David and I at least know of a couple people that we've talked to briefly in channel Who are Roman Catholics and who are likewise appalled? at this kind of behavior and I'm certainly hopeful that They will press this issue and that they will press others to Basically have nothing to do with these individuals as long as they continue in this kind of pattern of behavior.
It cannot in any way shape or form aid or assist in The discussion of the truth to engage in this kind of behavior deal with the issues. You know, it'd be very simple for me to say I think that I think that Tim Dudek wrote all of Robertson Genesis books and I dare him to just prove it.
I mean what kind of what kind of argument is that? It is so it is so ridiculous on many levels, especially when when you know brother Dudek. So you realize it's distinctly possible that Robertson Janice could be a member of the Trilateral Commission.
Let's see. There you go. I mean, there's no excuse me. No, and I just about died coughing there. There's no end to where you can go with this, but it's not apologetics and it's not honoring to anyone.
It's not honoring to the truth and to honesty to engage in this kind of thing. If you don't like the arguments then obviously the only meaningful way that you could respond To the materials produced by Bill Webster and David King is to say look All right.
The fathers had a tremendously high view of scripture and the fathers made the scripture the norm. However, let's look at what they said about tradition. Honestly deal with what you guys said about the nature of tradition and try to make an argument that from that point onward Tradition has a nature that you just simply aren't willing to accept and that it's there in an implicit fashion.
I mean I can see someone at least trying to make that kind of argument. It doesn't require them to accuse you of all sorts of strange weird things along the way. Would you agree?
Well, that's what I would hope that someone who's responsible and honest would seek to do. I mean, this is the worst form of ad hominem argument. Rather than deal with the you you're going to attack The authors to try to discredit them any way you can so that somehow that will color the book in people's minds.
But yeah, you know if if they find quotations that they think. And there are some ellipses. There's no doubt about that and the reason is and especially in the volume that I wrote there are hundreds of citations.
There's a point where you have to realize and they're in very small font if you look in the appendices that you know for the sake of The largeness of the book you hate of what an individual is saying and any work is going to have ellipses.
That's not the issue. You can check out the quotes. They're there for anyone who wants to take the Nicene post-Nicene fathers and start looking. You know if you think we have somehow missed something let me know.
I'd be more than happy to Dialogue with someone over that if I've made a mistake somewhere point it out. We'll correct it. That's great. You know and then let me know I'm not purposely sitting here manipulating things to make them say what I want them to say.
Well, you know deal with me this other garbage is just that.
Well you know it's it's interesting it is the the appearance of ellipses that mr.. St. Genes is now focusing on. Seemingly hoping to avoid the reality that he is guilty of posting unverified libel and slander on defamation on the web.
He says he's going through these these infamous ellipses. And says that the world is going to be shaking their heads for months Over what he and his cohorts deliberately and maliciously eliminated in those ellipses, and so I can tell you what's going to happen is.
Because I've experienced this myself. I've been on the on the Receiving end of Robertson Genesis wild and wacky interpretation of patristic sources. Remember that the Bob is now in a magisterium of one.
He has no one who has any.
Way meant now James he said the world would be listening. Oh, yeah, that's what he says.
I guess he thinks the world is hitting his website, but he he is a Magisterium of one no one can correct him any longer. And I don't think ever really could even before he became Roman Catholic he called himself Bible Bob.
So if anyone goes on our website they can see interaction that I had with him over certain patristic citations back in 1999. And the the ability he has to read things into words that have nothing to do with what he's thinking is absolutely Incredible.
So I'm gonna make a prediction right now bill. That what you're going to see in a few weeks is a huge file where At least 10 or 15 citations will be given as you gave them. And then the material that was not relevant to the point you were making is going to be cited and the most amazing incredible and irrelevant interpretations of that Ellipses material the the material you didn't quote is going to be provided.
Ah see here's here's what the conference call was talking about which is not what the conference call was talking about the conference call was Talking about changing the actual translations, which you didn't have anyway.
So he's could do as best he can to come up with something that will Will at least satisfy That small cadre of traditionalists who are still following what it is that that he has to say so well. He will he will have an interesting time actually posting that at that time.
Given the fact that I also informed him in my note yesterday that if he doesn't print that Retraction and apology by the end of the week I will file a grievance with his ISP. Which I've already looked at their policies and guess what?
They'll take him down. Well, I don't know if that's the case or not because in the sense that what they'll do. You know these the problem is you may not know the language that you need to file the complaint in.
Your Arabic may not be good enough. Communicate with some ISP providers today. To be able to Communicate to them anything what they mean? But I think that's what's going to come out from this is going to be a presentation of that kind of material and Because that's what I've experienced in the past and I just simply recommend to people.
First of all, I can affirm confirm exactly what you just said bill because I remember Hearing David in channel and in private communication over and over again saying well, I don't think Bill's going to use this because he says it's just getting too big and it's gonna cost too much to produce and We're we're squishing the fonts again.
I don't know if anyone's gonna be able to read this, you know, and you had I mean How many pages 1100 pages? That's not easy to to produce. Let alone sell and there was a I saw long before I saw the books.
The concern about the size of This project there is no two ways about that. You were very concerned about it, weren't you?
Oh, we had hoped to have all of this in one volume and it became very obvious very quickly. That was not possible. So we thought well We'll put volumes one and two in one volume and then we'll have a second volume of just the quotes from the Church Fathers for anyone Who's interested?
Well, it became pretty obvious pretty soon because as I got more and more involved with the Canon and wanting to do the translation work on those the theologians of the Middle Ages and even with small fonts, it's a lot of pages so we I ended up determining that what we would do is just put it in three volumes and Make it available to people and it worked out better that way.
Well, I know there was that concern and.
Because you have to do that it would be very easy for any one of us to go through Roberts and Genesis books and I'm gonna say something straight up here. Roberts and Genesis books are three times larger than they need to be.
They were not professionally edited. There are entire footnotes that are repeated verbatim more than once in the book. If these were actually published by a major publisher, they would be much smaller than they are.
And Your books are just the opposite in the sense that they are busting at the seams and You had to squish things get in there. But despite all that you could go through Roberts and Genesis books Find ellipses and if you want to come up with some wild and wacky way of dealing with those things I mean even the way he quotes me I could find stuff like that.
You won't see me wasting my time doing that. There are more important things to do in life than to waste that kind of time.
Unless you don't have the truth and then it is a legitimate argument on one on one hand that you know You can leave out pertinent information Which is detrimental to your argument if you're using ellipses.
That is a possibility. So if he wants to engage me on that basis and anyone that you know, that's fine that that I don't mind. No question at all. That's a legitimate concern. And where there are ellipses people need to check it out and see if there's information there.
And you know I went through David's volume the other day and I was looking for ellipses and in all the Latin citations He has there are two citations that have ellipses from both come from Augustin and as I checked it out There are there is no pertinent information that's left out of the point that he's making right from which he's quoting Augustin.
Yeah, well go ahead go ahead. And the ellipses bill were in the translations that we had quoted. Well, there are a couple there that that I put in because in doing the editing I noted that we didn't need that particular because he's embellishing on a point.
He's already made and it we don't need the information there. Because the points already made in the quote that's given but one of William Goods something we did. That's something he did and that he gives which have the ellipses.
But that is something that he was responsible for right exactly and we can't exactly go back and talk to him much anymore. Anyways, but well gentlemen, I really appreciate your joining us on the program today.
I like I said, I Not seem trying to whack wax prophetic, but that is going to be the nature of Material it's not going to be a meaningful interaction with ellipses. It is going to be the fact that they exist and anything that is That Could be stretched Beyond the realm of imagination is going to be presented and it's all going to be Aimed to try to do damage control and to cover up what is the real issue here and that is the the posting of libelous material from a source that that has simply Demonstrate itself to be completely unreliable and you'll notice we we opened the phones.
We we certainly would have allowed Mistress and Janice or mr. Roberts or mr. Michael. Though as I mentioned he said he would not be available today to call him and to to do whatever they would want to do.
And no one has and we certainly informed them that we were going to be doing this program. There are a number of people in channel listening there are a number of people I know Are coming into another interesting way we have into our channel that we don't know.
There's a number of of unusual folks and channel right now. They're listening in and I have a feeling I know who some of them are but be that as it may we've been very open About this. I appreciate your joining me for the program today.
I I am very thankful for the work that you've done on this. I know that there are many people who have been greatly blessed by them. Their faith has been increased in the sufficiency of the scriptures.
They've been given a an answer to give to those who? Who asked them a reason for the hope that's within them. It was it's a very timely work. I would like to see it much more widely distributed than it is and I would like to invite.
Especially those Roman Catholics that are listening right now, and I know there are a number of them. And who will be listening to the archive of this program, which we will put up immediately afterwards.
We will make this archive available very very quickly because there are many other people who want to listen as well. I would invite all the Roman Catholics that are listening. Obtain these volumes and read them with an open mind consider the kind of apologetic that you have heard which constantly takes as a given as an assumption the Idea that sola scriptura is a theological novum that the scriptures are not Sufficient outside of some extra biblical concept an extra biblical authority.
Listen to what the arguments are. See that they fairly and accurately interact with the assertions of men including Robert St. Genes who if I recall David. Wasn't there something on his website for many months right after the books came out promising a full refutation of you all's.
Argumentation. Well, I saw that as versus myself James. It was there for a few months and then suddenly It disappeared so I don't know what became of the intention.
But there was never any article posted. That's not my knowledge. That's your knowledge. That's mine either. You all fairly dealt with the arguments of those that you were disagreeing with. You didn't have to use this kind of argumentation.
So I would invite Roman Catholics to consider this. And to take the time to examine these works and to really struggle with why it is that it is the fundamental element of Roman Catholic epistemology to deny the sufficiency of the God-breathed scriptures.
And Gentlemen, I really appreciate your your being on the program today. Any quick final thoughts. Because we're we've got about 30 seconds for the music.
Comes up I just like to say James that after the publish in not by scripture alone the Constant cry from the Roman Catholic side of the table was when is someone going to produce an answer to this work?
Well, we spent some six years and We didn't have to resort to these sort of tactics. We spent six years of hard work Pouring blood and sweat into it and many many hours and We didn't have to resort to these tactics.
That's right and Bill. Well, I just might add to that you'll find in these volumes not only the patristic citations, but we back up our conclusions with the conclusions of legitimate scholars and historians.
The both volumes are just full of the documentation from well-known historians be it Orthodox Protestant or Roman Catholic. Because we we are not pretending to be those who are patristic scholars, but we do the reading.
And you've backed up our conclusions with the with the scholarly opinion of many and we truly appreciate that.
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