CBMW Cannot Be Criticized in Counter-Cult Apologetics Forums -- Late April 2008 Correspondence

 Noting the change in the discussion.  It was understood that anything I experienced did not happen.  I understood that I would be challenged for remembering things differently.  I really did not know how to respond.

Open Letter to XXXX in Response to Press Release, April 2008

 

Conclusion of Peer Review on March 13, 2008

The last communication I had before the organization urged me to delete the online video of the presentation a few days after it went live online.  My contact at the organization seems to be describing what I would call Ware's informal logical fallacy of Equivocation in the articulation of his doctrine.  But by all means, read up on Equivocation and decide for yourself what it means.  Ware divides authority from power in his Trinitarian view, and while he claims that the Father and the Son have equal power, the Father has what is denies is greater authority but has eminent authority.  As a result, Jesus can only carry prayer to the Father, and He cannot hear prayer Himself.  To me, that is a distinction that claims to have no difference, but what good is power without full authority to use it.

Read more about Equivocation here:

• Fallacy in Logic
• The Fallacy Files
• Thought Co
• Wikipedia

I was then denied any opportunity to present any additional information regarding this topic to defend my stance.  I was told that everyone was too busy investigating the Emergent Church to spend time on it.

Requests for Additional Peer Review on March 11, 2008

 In response to a critic who was a Board Member of the organization, I requested additional peer review as soon it was possible after the conference concluded.  That person required me to contact several persons to claim that I'd misrepresented them which was, in fact, a critical opinion of their teachings. This was not required of me.  

PPT Slides Sent and Reviewed Six Months Prior to Presentation (August 24, 2007)

I shared two phone conversations with my contact on Friday, August 24, 2007.  First was to arrange a phone conversation with Dr. Jerry Buckner to discuss whether it was proper to discuss the Quiverfull/Theonomy embracing of slavery and reliance upon Confederate Presbyterian texts as a guide to modern day conduct.  Thereafter, my contact reviewed every slide with me.  I made an offer to drop the names of the SBC professors and the seminaries while continuing to include the contact.  I would only keep them in the bibliography.

The first email indicates that we did speak.  Scroll down to the second email.  At the bottom, the powerpoint document can be viewed, and I posted that original draft written and reviewed -- slide by slide --  with my contact on August 24, 2008.

View the final version HERE and compare it against the draft which can be accessed HERE.  I've made both available on Slideshare.

Original Proposal for the Development and Practice of Patriarchy (August 10, 2007)

 Submitted to the Christian counter-cult apologetics organization on August 10, 2007