As I have been unable to find his personal email address, I am issuing this open debate challenge to Bradley Campbell of "God Loves Mormons" as well as "Mormonism Research Ministry."
Bradley,
Zach Doumit reached out to you when the Book of Abraham
video dropped. I was one of the two LDS apologists willing to debate/dialogue
the matter. However, it appears you did not respond. As the Book of Abraham has
been receiving a lot of attention due to Capturing Christianity focusing on it,
and you presented on the topic again a few weeks ago, I thought I would send
the following debate proposals to you. As someone who does ministry to
Latter-day Saints, I am sure you would be game for the following.
(1) Thesis: "Sola Scriptura, the formal doctrine of
Protestantism, which teaches that the 66 books of the Protestant canon of the
Bible is the sole infallible rule of faith to which all other standards of
faith are to be subordinated, is taught by the Bible."
(2) Thesis: "The Book of Abraham is an 19th-Century
Translation of an Ancient Text" (of course, I will argue 'for' you will be
arguing 'against' on this one)
Structure of both debates to be:
20 mins opening statements each
10 mins rebuttals each
15 mins cross ex each
7 mins concluding statements
I am currently back in Ireland, but am happy to have this
via Zoom with a neutral moderator. I believe I could get atheist youtuber
Emerson Green to host/moderate the debate (and his channel has a pretty good
following). Alternatively, I am even willing to allow a Reformed Baptist,
Jeremiah Nortier (personal friends with James White) moderate the debate (we
are on good terms as I helped him prep for a debate on Mariology a few years
ago) or have Jacob Hansen host it on his channel (which has near to 60,000 subs
and you would get a lot of reach with LDS).
As you and the others at both GLM and MRM are active in
trying to “save” Latter-day Saints to your flavor of Protestantism, I am sure
you are more than willing to debate an informed Latter-day Saint on these
issues.
Robert Boylan
ScripturalMormonism@gmail.com
