Monday, October 31, 2011

Theopologetics Debate: Conditionalism (Again)

Well I've moderated three debates, now it's time to participate in one myself. I've wanted to try my hand at it and get some practice, and have come in recent months to find the case for annihilationism quite compelling. Friends of the show, www.grassrootsapologetics.org, have accepted my invitation to debate the topic.

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