Metaphysics Mike talks about his recent debate with Al Garza over the question is Jesus Yahweh. In the four-hour ordeal, two aspects of Garza’s unusual belief system made for a confusing and frustrating discussion: (1) Garza believes that Yahweh is not a name but an attributive title asserting eternality, and (2) he thinks the Syriac Peshitta and Aramaic Targums have primacy over the standard Hebrew and Greek Scriptures that virtually all Christians recognize as the foundation of our faith. In this debate review we talk about Mike’s experience and how he handled these curve balls and I give some suggestions of my own.
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2 thoughts on “629. Debating Al Garza: “Is Jesus Yahweh?” (Mike Temperato)”
The podcast app only showed part of the title and I thought this was going to be about “debating AI.” Clicking through, I was briefly confused as to whether Garza was some LLM I’d never heard of. This is what I get for missing the original debate. I need to check Mike’s channel more often.
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The podcast app only showed part of the title and I thought this was going to be about “debating AI.” Clicking through, I was briefly confused as to whether Garza was some LLM I’d never heard of. This is what I get for missing the original debate. I need to check Mike’s channel more often.
Thank you for your long, thoughtful response to my comment. Always appreciate your deep dives and reasoning based on Scripture.