Date: Tuesday, December 20th (or Thursday, December 22nd if unforeseen circumstances rule out Tuesday), to be published in the podcast feed shortly thereafter.
Resolution: The punishment of the damned will be actual torment forever and ever.
Participants: Hiram Diaz from Grassroots Apologetics affirms. Chris Date, host of the Theopologetics Podcast, denies.
Moderating: Michael Burgos, also from Grassroots Apologetics, will moderate. If he is unavailable, Mike Felker of The Apologetic Front will moderate.
Audience Questions: To submit a question to be posed to either participant, please email the moderators at voluntaryenslavement@gmail.com and mike@theapologeticfront.com with your question and the participant to which you would like it posed.
Debate format:
- 20 minutes opening affirmative
- 20 minutes opening negative
- 10 minutes rebuttal affirmative
- 10 minutes rebuttal negative
- 10 minutes cross-examination of affirmative
- 10 minutes cross-examination of negative
- 10 minutes cross-examination of affirmative
- 10 minutes cross-examination of negative
- 30 minutes "audience" Q&A, alternating
- 10 minutes closing negative
- 10 minutes closing affirmative
