Friday, April 17, 2009

Interview with Webster King Part 1

A lot of you have been asking for this interview conducted on April the 1st, we apologize for the delay in posting this interview. As most of you know we were out on vacation, and by the time we came back some Catholic burglars had stolen the intial transcripts.  We know they were Catholic because they left some statues behind, turns out Romans can't even give up their idols even in the process of stealing. Now you know why the mafia has Italian origins. Be that as it may, here is our exchange with Mr. King on his best-selling book:



Dr. Oakley: Thanks you for joining us today Mr. King, for this very important interview.

Mr. King: Please call me Doctor King, and thank you for having me on, i'm delighted to talk about this book.   I believe its very important for evangelical, specifically Calivinist apologetics in the Christian world today.

Dr. Oakley:  Now this i believe is Volume-9, you took a slightly different angle with this iteration.
 
Mr. King: Well yes, its all in the title, i'm really proud of the work we put into it.

Dr. Oakley: Well, Mr. King since you've mentioned it, lets start with the title.

Mr. King: Are you deaf? Didn't i just tell you to call me Doctor King?

Dr. Oakley: There is no need for ad-hominems, this is reminiscent of Roman tactics, besides the title Doctor denotes some type of qualification, but will call you Doctor if need be.

Mr. King: Well and good.

Dr. Oakley: Now, the title says; "Church Fathers: How to Quote Them out of Context"

Mr. King: Yes, as you mentioned earlier, we took a different approach with this book .  We wanted explain to the elect,  how we were able to excise quotes from works of the Early Church Fathers, and create an appearance of support for reformed doctrines, like Sola Scriptura and Sola Fide.  After volume-8 we ran out of quotes to mine, and so we decided to just describe the process. This allows others to mimic our strategy, and hopefully employ it as regards other sources.

Dr. Oakley: But this can be seen as a sort of dishonest tactic.

Mr. King: Look who's talking.

Dr. Oakley: I'm not complaining, i admire your work, Mr. King, i've been able to use your book to keep my audience in the Reformed camp.  I was just asking if you might have been scared of using an underhanded approach.

Mr. King: After writing the first volume, i figured, i didn't get struck by lightning, so i became even more bold.


Update: Part 2 of the Interview will be put up as soon as we transcribe it, thanks for your continued support.

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