A Debate Challenge For Timothy Dunkin

Timothy Dunkin is the author of an online apologetic entitled, "A Defense of the Johannine Comma: Setting the Record Straight on 1 John 5:7-8" (now located here). He is hereby challenged to a public debate on a number of his statements concerning the Comma Johanneum and his advocacy of Johannine originality. I will be responding to Mr. Dunkin's arguments online in the coming months. Incidentally, his blog can be downloaded as a PDF, where he states that he was helped in his research by a person named Steven Avery. Avery has been challenged to debate this issue multiple times over the last six years but has chosen the coward's route. I would not have called it that save for the fact that his entire corpus of internet postings consists of little more than third-grade level insults. If you're going to insult someone, you should at least be man enough to back up your charges in a public debate. I will also note for the record that Avery is a Oneness believer who denies the Trinity, but he carefully does not come right out and state those words as I just did about his theological views. It is not that I care about a critic's theology since two authors from whom I've learned much are Dr. Bart Ehrman (agnostic) and Dr. J.K. Elliott (liberal). However, Mr. Avery has chosen to insult people from the safety of his keyboard but doesn't want his KJV Only brethren to know his own theological views - all while he accuses others of 'hiding' information from people. The hypocrisy is maddening but hardly unexpected; indeed, if I were the low level of non-scholar as Steven Avery of Queens, New York, I would at least have the consistency to not post about subjects I know nothing about. This debate offer still extends to Avery as well, should he ever actually take the time to learn Greek grammar (an important omission that has not stopped him from incompetently commenting upon it).

So Mr Dunkin, consider yourself challenged. You will find me polite as long as you remain the same, sir.