He seems a bit like a self-righteous blow-hard. Reading through this online debate he had is like torture.
He basically just kept sticking to the point "The trinity does not appear in the bible", then the other man in not-so-many words was saying that the concept appeared in the bible. The person he was debating though never thought to ask Stafford if he believed in the Paradise Earth. Then if Stafford answered yes then he could say that Stafford clearly believes in concepts that are not specifically mentioned in the bible because Paradise Earth does not appear in the bible.
I usually diffuse all this arm-chair scholar BS by simply asking this series of questions:
Where did you study Greek and Hebrew? Who did you Study under? What are their credentials?
Nine times out of ten they're going to tell me they didn't study under anyone but they have done "mass amounts of research" to which I go with this series of questions:
Since neither you nor I would be considered scholars of either of these subjects if you do quote an "expert" then I quote an "expert" that disagrees with yours, where have we gotten? Which one of us is right if you have ten experts and I have ten experts, how can we tell which expert is right if we are not experts ourselves?
I don't tolerate arm-chair scholars and I don't know why others entertain people like this. People like this it seems thrive off people trying to disprove their opinions because it gives them an air of authority and validates them doing "research". It would be like if an actual scientist ever debated Kent Hovind and his ascinine theories, it would give him the validation he so desperately wants.
Still I'd like to read this guys full book so I can see the entire arguments that it has, it kills me to know the guy would get my money at this point though.
