Why should I respond? You ignored my response to your original email! I told you: your thesis statement is insane. Absurd. Stupid. No debate teacher on the planet would let it pass. I sent TWO topics back to you. YOU ignored them. You are an extremely dishonest man, Hayden. A deceiver. I just documented it on the Dividing Line, which just finished. I will link to it as soon as it is done processing. I am not sure how any meaningful debate could be set up with you, given your character. It's shocking. But again, I talked about this on the Dividing Line last Thursday. And, since you have chosen this kind of action here, I will now provide the email I sent you that YOU ignored. Text below: James, Thanks for your invite to participate in a moderated debate on your channel. You challenged me to back up the claim that you can’t justify your own standard, so I propose that the debate resolution be: “Protestants Can’t Justify Their Standard” That may be, honestly, the most absurd debate thesis I have ever heard. Part of the amazement of my initial response on line was that such an assertion is so utterly vague and nebulous it could be made to say anything an unscrupulous person would like it to say. There is no "Protestant" church, of course, so there is no definition of this alleged "standard" to begin with. Truly, I am chuckling here. Resolved: The Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthoods Are Necessary for the Existence and Function of the Church of Jesus Christ. You take the affirmative. Resolved: The Triune God of Scripture Has Decreed All Things Unto His Own Glory I take the affirmative. If we do two hours per debate, and do it on a Saturday, say, starting at 5pm, we could get them both done. Early December would be a good time frame. I do not think free cross examination would work with you, given my experience with you in the past. Timed questions would have to suffice. Given that the LDS Church proclaims itself the only church upon the earth with authority given by Christ, the first topic should be a given. The second would give me the opportunity to demonstrate that only the Triune God can answer the big questions of existence, time, knowledge, and meaning, while an exalted man, subject to external forces and principles that themselves have no explanation for their origin is insufficient to answer any of the truly foundational questions. We could do it online, obviously, but since we are local, in person would be better. But that is negotiable. James White