Josiah Concept Ministries

Gene Bridges turned down the debate because Dave didn’t send him a notice by e-mail. He had to Google search to find the challenge on his own blog.

Saint & Sinner turned down the debate because he’s already doing an extended critique of Dave’s book, The Catholic Verses.

TurretinFan deferred the debate  because Dave changed his mind one too many times on the terms, and couldn’t even decide if he (Dave) was going to debate as a Roman Catholic or not.

Even though I am announcing that I’m turning the debate down today, it seems that DA had made the announcement for me Thursday-ish. Either Dave now possesses exhaustive divine foreknowledge, or he jumped to an unwarranted conclusion. I’m guessing the latter.

Even though I created a thread expressly for the DA debate challenge, Dave continued to post notes about it in my blog entry on the celebration of atheist women. He continued to accuse me of saying that Catholics aren’t Christians, which is something that I have never asserted.

I, like Gene, am a little miffed that DA didn’t contact me by e-mail, when my address is the easiest of the whole group to locate: top left corner of my blog. So, along with everyone else, I am rejecting Dave’s Debate Challenge. Even though Dave already did that a few days back for me.

Today was a day for housekeeping, or “blogkeeping.”  I tweaked a few things on my layout, most notable is dropping the image in support of Fred Dalton Thompson for President in 2008.  It’s not that I’m not going to vote for the former Law & Order star, it’s just that I don’t want this blog to become a political blog.  I want to keep this an apologetics blog.

Mike will be interested to know that I finished the critique of the founding principles of Geocreationism.  You’re a real sport, buddy!  I’m not converted, sorry, but you do have some really good ideas.  You’re welcome to keep trying to convert me, however.

Internally, I alphabetized the list of articles under my Articles tab, and placed a star next to all of the ones that aren’t done yet.  Readers won’t notice that, but it will help me.  That is when I noticed that I have three articles that I started but never finished.  So I will finish those over the next three to four weeks, in addition to my regular posts.  I’m going to start with finishing my answer to the Jesus Tomb documentary (better extremely late than never), followed by a critique of open theism, and finally a more satisfactory answer to this video than this guy (part 2).

I’m going to try to get back into a 4-6 post per week habit, as that is the only way to increase my blog’s rank, attract more readers, and retain the readers that I have.  If I were asked the secret to blogging success, I would have to say that regular posting is it.  Regular posting gets me more hits per day than any links that float out there.  Although I’m still going to try to collect those by interacting with some other blogs, and maybe by conversing on TheologyWeb.

That is a preview of what is to come on Josiah Concept Ministries.  Stay tuned!