Doug’s Journey Home
Doug Beaumont‘s interview on the Coming Home Network is now up on YouTube. I’ve shared quite a few of Doug’s article’s here before. I’ll also be writing up a review of his book Evangelical Exodus sometime in January.
In the interview he speaks about the formation he received at Southern Evangelical Seminary, the relationship between philosophy and apologetics, as well as his wrestlings with “the canon question”:
Pilgrim wrote: “as well as his wrestlings with “the canon question”:
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Pilgrim wrote:”as well as his wrestlings with “the canon question”:”
And THAT is the heart of the problem for so many. Starting to see now where many ignore the question and simply dismiss it as if it is irrelevant, always claiming that it was “decided by God”. If pressed on the issue, I’m usually responded to with the sound of crickets.
Yeah, it’s the main question I try to focus on when speaking to any non-Catholic Christian. In fact, I wrote a post with a series of specific questions I ask:
https://restlesspilgrim.net/blog/2011/10/14/canon-questions/
In fact, this is the only question I discuss when the Jehovah Witnesses come to call. You can read about one encounter here:
https://restlesspilgrim.net/blog/2014/09/30/sitting-down-jw/