I thought Driscoll held his own well.  Chopra looked over emotional and irritated and 'snobbish' and that made Driscol look calm and collected while he stated his counter arguements.

  This all so silly.  We know where the devil is....

"The biggest trick Satan ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist". Apt.

That high-pitched scream you hear is the troll under my heel. 

Militant, virulent, boilerplate, fundamentalist leftist political activist Dan Harris asserts:  "I've been covering evangelicals for years now."

Yes, another sworn enemy of evangelicals like Dan Harris who claims to be "covering evangelicals" (i.e., continually producing and featuring attack ads against evangelicals).

I await Dan Harris, ABC and their identically like-minded leftist political activists and political advocacy groups in the Washington/New York press corps to begin to "cover" the pagan left, the atheist left, the feminist left, the earth worshipping left, the race baiting left, the socialist left and the fundamentalist homosexualist left.  Don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen ....

I think Driscoll did an outstanding job. I know very little about the guy but I was impressed. The host tried to barrage him early and he parried every swipe, remaining strong for the duration. The bishop even went over when they were done and ethusiastically complimented him, he may have preacher passion in him yet.

Annie seemed a bit out of place when the discussion became a Hebrew translation freestyle battle. Her initial story was very powerful in my opinion, but they quickly moved to dismiss her claims as just a product of being in a horrible environment, an invented excuse (example of Satan in itself?). That she was still in mega makeup and a rather stylish outfit likely contributed to people judging her harshly, something I'm sure an agenda-driven production staff wouldn't mind one bit.

The classic "we have data, you merely have emotion and blind faith" aura of intellectual superiority was thick in the air. Chopra's evolution rant at the beginning was only one example, another big one was the take-ball-and-go-home attitude level of enlightenment zing which Driscoll later used against him twice I think. Faith is ultimately vulnerable to the "you have no scientific proof" line of attack, but that's its definition. The bishop seemed genuine, so his "go on and keep believing that supreme lie little one" condescension didn't bother me very much.

Driscoll articulated a key point about pride, an area of discussion I think that is vital to the meaning of life. God gives us so much and allows man to reach quite far, but at the end of the day we need to tip our hat to him and bow down. I fear for those who refuse to even entertain such humility and revere man alone for the duration of their lives. Driscoll also gave a solid counter to the argument that Christians are unkind and arrogant for claiming they know the only way to heaven. Jesus said it, not the red-staters.

Lastly, I watched the show on the net (painfully via their POS resetting streaming player), but I heard that the live broadcast was edited down quite a bit. I noticed though that they did play the aggressively female questioner's entire bit on TV, which is par for the course. Emotional Christian getting uppity?  Play in full. Chopra getting owned? Edit.

The show may not have proven the existence of the devil but it did prove the existence of morons on TV.

Chopra argued it's the unhealthy people in the world who need Satan: "Healthy people do not have any need for Satan. Healthy people need to confront their own issues and that all the trouble in the world today is between religious ideologies.

Oh really?

Hitler was a religious ideology?

North Korea is a religious ideology? 

Anything out of the Soviet Union was a religious ideology?

Khmer Rouge (Pol Pot) was a religious ideology? 

And Mao was all about the religious ideology?

The most murderous thugs of all history banished religion and yet managed to kill more people than anyone else in history.

Let's also not forget that it is people who use religion to motivate others to war in order to amass land, natural resources and riches.

Since when did Western Christians get together and decide to purposefully make war in the Middle East because the folks were another religion?

Clue - We don't care that they are Muslims.

What's needed is to excise or marginalize the people that inflame and incite anger and violence using religion.  Let's start with Dan Harris and Chopra.

What this debate called into mind is the NECESSITY OF purging the Christian Church of FALSE DOCTRINE. I realize that this is my "hobby horse" but DANG. A religious debate where the ONLY PERSON who didn't at one time say something COMPLETELY STUPID was the Ex Prostitute, oughtta TELL YOU SOMETHING.!

A remarkable young woman who has obviously been through a lot, came through as perhaps the ONLY one who had actually had an experience with Jesus Christ! That is because not one single thing she said can be biblically questioned. She was smart intelligent and she stuck to the weight of her personal experience which was compelling.  Many of you on this blog call me an extremist because my posts are generally about the exposure of false doctrine. I'm 'Harsh", "Judgmental" and  a whole lot of other stuff I won't repeat. Maybe looking at the MISH MASH of JUNK that came out of the mouths of those who were SUPPOSEDLY versed in the bible will make you re-think that. 

I urge Christians to return to the truth of Scripture, NOT tradition or "this is the way my momma did it"!  Allow me to expose this filth fest for what it was. Carlton Pearson is a false teacher who was ALWAYS A FALSE PREACHER. While he spoke about "speaking in tongues", which he is now somehow dismissing, he NEVER baptized people properly in Jesus' NAME. That's how satan got in! The devil can speak in tongues too! That's why we don't as a rule speak in tongues around those who have not yet received the Holy Ghost because they might have a "mocking" spirit attached to them! But when they are baptized in JESUS NAME a satanic spirit cannot survive the process. This is how satan got a foothold in the Catholic Church, because they don't baptize properly and DON'T clothe themselves in the "garment" (Holy Ghost) that Christ provided for not only our salvation but also our PROTECTION! 

So now Carlton Pearson DISMISSES the entire bible as not being inspired by God when the bible says that it is! So how does he still get called "Bishop"? Because no one is willing to say the truth, that he is an apostate loser who no longer, deserves the title! AND he is ACTIVELY teaching AGAINST the truth of scripture! He says that demons are only in our minds and there is no devil. Well, then what he is REALLY saying is that JESUS WAS CRAZY! Because JESUS certainly cast DEMONS, not figments of imagination, out of people! Jesus certainly spoke about satan and called him by name. Jesus is the one who said, "And I saw satan fall like lightning from heaven!"

We are so LUKE WARM as a nation that we cannot even read the bible for ourselves and decide who is or is not teaching it correctly! Pearson's nonsense was ably countered by Mark Driscoll, who himself, while a bit more serious than Pearson, is ALSO a teacher of false doctrine. I first became interested in Driscoll about a year ago. He started getting a lot of press about his alleged "fundamentalism"  and was heralded as a fundamentalist "hippster", so I checked him out.  Here are some of the areas in which his "doctrine" is false. 

He believes that a Christian once saved is "eternally saved". This is nonsense. While the scriptures do say in reference to us being taken away from Christ by the beguiling of another that , "No man can pluck them from my hand", we are certainly capable of WALKING AWAY. The doctrine of eternal salvation regardless of what the individual does is hogwash, is JUDAS SAVED? Will Judas be in heaven with the other Apostles?Since the names of the twelve apostles are listed on the gates of the heavenly city and Judas is not among them, I would say no! So would the Apostles. After Judas' death, the apostles thought they would select between two candidates to replace him. In doing so they said this about Judas....

Acts 1:24-26 (King James Version)

 24And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, which knowest the hearts of all men, shew whether of these two thou hast chosen,

 25That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.

 26And they gave forth their lots; and the lot fell upon Matthias; and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.

Not only do they say that Judas FELL and went to his own place they also no longer numbered him with the others. Driscolls website is replete with false doctrine. He implys that the gifts of the Spirit have absolutely NO PURPOSE whatsoever since in his words they are "neither essential, nor prove the presence of the Holy Spirit, nor are an indication of deep spiritual experience", causing one to wonder just what the heck they might be for. (http://www.marshillc...) Anyway, I could spend all day dissecting Driscolls multiple false statements concerning Christ on his website, but one thing he said live during the debate stood out. He said that GOD DID NOT CREATE EVIL. He said that when God created Lucifer he was an angel and therefore "good" but after he fell he turned bad and all of the evil in the world came from satan and had NO ORIGIN in God. You would think that a PASTOR of a church would AT LEAST know where the evil he is fighting comes from!

Isaiah 45:7 (King James Version)

 7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

NOTHING that was created was NOT created by God! How sad. Now those of you who wanna call me names might look at this and wonder how a pastor could say this when it is so clearly printed in the Word. The answer is because he is a teacher of FALSE DOCTRINE who DISPARAGES the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, he OBVIOUSLY doesn't HAVE ANY OF THEM! That would be why he cannot remember or even conceive of the breadth and depth of the word when he's just musing. 

That said, he's a decent earnest sort of guy who I liked immensely, I respect his stand for Christ in the face of haters, apostates preachers and godless media. I prayed for him to know the Lord in "spirit and in truth" one day. 

Deepak Chopra's junk was predictably junk but one interesting thing was the anger which he was trying so desperately to hide. 

But my heart went to Annie, the ex-prostitute who told her story in such a heartfelt manner, I pray the Lord bless and keep her also in Spirit and in Truth. 

Looking at this display is the exact reason that I continually exhort you and others to SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES and COMPARE THEM with what your churches might be teaching. Things like baptism and reception of the Holy Spirit are not SMALL THINGS. They are the whole shebang! 

Carlton Pierson is a polished and articulate spokesman but as Elaine said "he's playing for the other team". I commend him for being true to himself but that unfortunately is the essence of heresy. I caught his comments at the end saying of Lobert "she is young in the Lord and she is a prostitute" as a kind of postscript to naivety. I thought gee Carlton, I'll forgive your views, you're a negro. Driscoll did a real good job...  not smart to try and push him off the road.