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Alpha & Omega Ministries
During the April 1998 LDS General
Conference James White made his regular conference appearance. On
Sunday evening he appeared on the radio talk shows of Van Hale
and Richard Hopkins. During the course of Van Hale's show, Dr. William Hamblin
called in to question James about his interpretation of Ps. 82. Because of
the limitations of being able to fully discuss the issue on the radio, Dr. Hamblin wrote to James to discuss the matter
further. While James has posted much of the Hamblin-White correspondence, some of
the letters below are not on the Alpha & Omega Ministries web site. Apparently
James has chosen to not include them. With Dr. Hamblin's permission their
correspondence follows.
This file contains correspondence which
James White refuses to place on his web site. James claims he wants to record to speak for
itself, yet he has the record on his web site, apparently
believing that of deciding for themselves.
Letters Sixty-one
through Seventy-five
Letter Sixty-one
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 14:35:03 -0700
From: James White <orthopodeo@aomin.org>
Subject: Re: unposted letters 2-4 JAMES
Letters 8 and 9 were your attacks upon biblical inerrancy and sufficiency,
mentioned before, and not a part of the Psalm 82 materials.
BILL
Obfuscation! You raised the issue of biblical inerrancy and sufficiency in your
defense of your position on Psalm 82. I was merely responding to your position on
the matter. If the matter was relevant for your argument in favor of elohim = judges
in Ps 82, why is my response not relevant?
JAMES
Letter 10 was what you sent after I posted your reply to my last reply.
BILL
Obfuscation! My reply was not finished. You simply decided to refuse to debate
further, and to not post my full argument. |
Letter Sixty-two
From: James White <orthopodeo@aomin.org>
To: William J. Hamblin <william_hamblin@byu.edu>
Date: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: Unposted Letter 1 At 01:32 PM 6/2/98 -0600, you
wrote:
>>Post what letters you think were a part of this discussion that
>>have not been posted on our web page.
>
>Thanks for your kind offer to post the unposted letters I sent you.
>The first attached as an html file. It is letters 37 to 40 on the SHIELDS
>register.
I have no idea what is causing your confusion, Dr. Hamblin. I have posted the
letters that were exchanged between us on the topic of Psalm 82. You sent me three
letters, two of which were on a different topic (and to which I have not replied), and one
that you wrote after I had already posted your final comments. Hence:
1) If you demand they be posted, it seems you believe that I have, for some reason,
agreed to engage in unlimited e-mail debating with you, on any topic you so choose, for as
long as you choose, for as nasty as you wish to get, and, further, I must post anything
you send to me on any topic whatsoever on our web page. Which means,
2) That you believe you have been made honorary webmaster of our website.
Neither #1 nor #2 logically follows from engaging you in a discussion of Psalm 82 and its
meaning, based upon your call to KTKK radio in April. The address to the SHIELDS page is on our own. If someone wants to read all
the rabbit trails you might wish to present, no matter how interesting they may be, they
can easily do so. We prefer to keep the conversation limited to what we *said* we
were going to discuss at the outset.
James>>> |
Letter Sixty-three
From: James White <orthopodeo@aomin.org>
To: William J. Hamblin <william_hamblin@byu.edu>
Date: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: Distortions At 01:40 PM 6/2/98 -0600, you wrote:
>BILL
>I have a few things to say about your concluding comments, which, for
>some
unknown reason, you did not have the courtesy to forward to me.
>I'm afraid
that you are seriously distorting matters.
>
>JAMES (introduction to correspondence)
>In April of 1998, James White appeared on radio station KTKK in Salt
>Lake
City, Utah. One of the callers to the program was Dr. William
>Hamblin of
Brigham Young University. Dr. Hamblin did not identify
>himself when he
called in,
That's nice, Dr. Hamblin. Steve Mayfield said nothing about it, nor did Van Hale,
and I cannot read Steve Mayfield's mind.
[SHIELDS Editorial note: This is a silly issue. Giving the first name
and city is standard operating procedure for radio talk-shows, as James should know: 1)
James has called into numerous talk shows, 2) James has been a guest on numerous talk
shows, and 3) James hosted his own talk show. Anything else is an exception and is
very rarely done, and usually only when the caller happens to be a well-known public
figure, such as a senator, mayor, etc.]
As to concluding remarks, yes, so? Am I to assume that you cannot provide
concluding remarks on SHIELDS?
>JAMES
>The same material can be found at
>http://www.aomin.org/welcome.html
That is NOT what the page reads. It has the SHIELDS
address there, not ours.
>BILL
>I strongly urge all interested in this correspondence (however few you
>may
be), to consult the SHIELDS archive at this web
address, since
>you have consistently refused to post several of my letters to you.
I have consistently refused to do no such thing. Your demand that anything you write
to me, on any topic, even if it is not related to the exegesis of Psalm 82, is
unreasonable and ridiculous. You may be on break and have all the time in the world,
but *I* am not on break, and *I* do not have all the time in the world to indulge your
desire to argue. I have already put off a number of more important things, wrongly,
just because you seem to think that I signed my name in blood to do some kind of
electronic slug-fest with you. I didn't.
>JAMES
>The discussion ended May 29th, 1998, when Dr. Hamblin, in >responding to the
respectful use of the term "sir," indicated that it was
>his intention to
"get to" James. Given certain standards of civil behavior
>that James has
always attempted to follow, the discussion was ended.
>
>BILL
>Come on, James, lighten up. This feigned indignation is silly. What I
>actually wrote was:
>
>JAMES (old)
>No, sir, it is the literal reading of the Psalm to keep it as one
>literary whole. . . . That, sir, is literal reading.
>BILL (old)
>I note that I have been "sir-ed." How gratifying. That must mean I
am
>getting to you.
I realize you folks at BYU think that everyone else should "take" from you all
whatever you dish out, while, of course, everyone else is held to a completely different
standard. I have received more than sufficient evidence of this over the past few
months. But you wrote it, and my indignation is not feigned, even if you cannot
possibly understand the
grounds for it.
>It is widely noted in certain circles that when you start getting mad,
>you
have a tendency to pepper your criticisms with the ironic use of
>the word
"sir." The same is true of your correspondence with Midgley
>and
Peterson. For example.
>
>But it strikes me, sir, that you are operating on a very strong
>double-standard.
Again, it seems you all were raised differently than I was. I'm sorry you don't
recognize courteous titles.
James>>> |
Letter Sixty-four
From: James White <orthopodeo@aomin.org>
To: William J. Hamblin <william_hamblin@byu.edu>
Date: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: unposted letters 2-4 At 01:38 PM 6/2/98 -0600,
you wrote:
>James,
>
>I am attaching html files for three more letters I sent you which you
>have
not posted. Please let me know if they are unreadable at your
>end, and I will send the
file in whatever format you find most useful.
Letters 8 and 9 were your attacks upon biblical inerrancy and sufficiency, mentioned
before, and not a part of the Psalm 82 materials. Letter 10 was what you sent after
I posted your reply to my last reply. Hence, as I said, I posted the exchange.
You seem to wish to post beyond the topics. You of course are totally free to
post to your heart's content on those websites you control, or that are controlled by
those who support your cause. I am very sorry you have chosen to adopt the use of
Standard Issue BYU Ad-Hominem Argumentation, as without it, the conversation would be
useful. Even as it was, the immediate dismissal of Keil and Delitzsch, and the
reasons used, communicated a fair amount, I believe.
James>>> |
Letter Sixty-five
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 17:16:46 -0600
From: "William J. Hamblin" <william_hamblin@byu.edu>
Subject: Obfuscation forever 1
To: James White <orthopodeo@aomin.org>
Cc: skinny <skinny-l@teleport.com> Date: Tue, 02 Jun
1998 14:04:27 -0700
From: James White <orthopodeo@aomin.org>
Subject: Re: Unposted Letter 1
JAMES
I have no idea what is causing your confusion, Dr. Hamblin. I have posted the
letters that were exchanged between us on the topic of Psalm 82. You sent me three
letters, two of which were on a different topic (and to which I have not replied), and one
that you wrote after I had already posted your final comments. Hence:
BILL
You are confusing me James.
1- The topic is not Ps 82. I initiated the conversation, and I know what the topics
was: it was "Who are the sons of God?"
2- Your fixation on Ps 82 as the only thing we can discuss is in direct
contradiction to your own web page, where you announce:
NEW! BYU Professor William Hamblin engages James White in a
discussion of Psalm 82 and John 10.
Now, if the discussion is really on Ps 82 and Jn 10, why did you
refuse to respond to my exegesis of John 10 on the grounds that it was "off
topic"?
3- One of my three letters you claim are on a "different
topic" was in direct response to an issue you raised about infallibility and
consistency in scripture. If those topics were relevant to your defense of your
position, why is my response not relevant?
4- Who are you to declare what my final comments are? I was not finished.
You simply declared the discussion closed because you were unable to present a
cogent response. Then you refuse to allow me the right to reply to your nonsense?
JAMES
1) If you demand they be posted, it seems you believe that I have, for some reason,
agreed to engage in unlimited e-mail debating with you, on any topic you so choose, for as
long as you choose, for as nasty as you wish to get, and, further, I must post anything
you send to me on any topic whatsoever on our web page.
BILL
This is preposterous. I have told you that I have said what I have to say. I
really have no desire to exchange letters with you any further. I simply want you to
present a full and accurate account of the debate to your readers. The initial
agreement I made with you is that you could post my material on your web site only if you
would agree to post all of my letters without change. You did not object to that
condition when I made it. Either honor your commitment, or don't, but quit this
ridiculous posturing.
JAMES
The address to the SHIELDS page is on our own.
If someone wants to read all the rabbit trails you might wish to present, no matter how
interesting they may be, they can easily do so. We prefer to keep the conversation
limited to what we *said* we were going to discuss at the outset.
BILL
This arguing about the topic is preposterous! Where did *we* say what we were going
to discuss? You have simply unilaterally declared what you will and will not
discuss, and have unilaterally declared the debate finished before I had a full chance to
reply.
At any rate, it is completely obvious that you refuse to post my
letters because:
1- they make you look bad for attempting to suppress my arguments, and
2- you do not do well in the debate.
William J. Hamblin
Associate Professor of History
323 KMB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602-4446
801-378-6469
wh4@email.byu.edu
FAX 801-378-5784 |
Letter Sixty-six
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 17:23:34 -0600
From: "William J. Hamblin" <william_hamblin@byu.edu>
Subject: Obfuscation forever 2
To: James White <orthopodeo@aomin.org>
Cc: skinny <skinny-l@teleport.com> Date: Tue, 02 Jun
1998 14:29:06 -0700
From: James White <orthopodeo@aomin.org>
Subject: Re: Distortions
>BILL (old)
>I strongly urge all interested in this correspondence (however few you
>may
be), to consult the SHIELDS archive at this web
address, since
>you have consistently refused to post several of my letters to you.
JAMES
I have consistently refused to do no such thing. Your demand that anything you write
to me, on any topic, even if it is not related to the exegesis of Psalm 82, is
unreasonable and ridiculous.
BILL
Obfuscation! I am not demanding you put anything I write on any topic on your web
page. I am requesting that you honor your commitment to accurately and completely
post my side of our debate.
JAMES
You may be on break and have all the time in the world, but *I* am not on break, and *I*
do not have all the time in the world to indulge your desire to argue. I have
already put off a number of more important things, wrongly, just because you seem to think
that I signed my name in blood to do some kind of electronic slug-fest with you. I
didn't.
BILL
Obfuscation! The debate is over. I do not wish to debate you any
further. I simply request that you honor your commitment to accurately and
completely post my side of our debate.
William J. Hamblin
Associate Professor of History
323 KMB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602-4446
801-378-6469
wh4@email.byu.edu
FAX 801-378-5784 |
Letter Sixty-seven
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 17:33:07 -0600
From: "William J. Hamblin" <william_hamblin@byu.edu>
Subject: Obfuscation forever 3
To: James White <orthopodeo@aomin.org>
Cc: skinny <skinny-l@teleport.com> Date: Tue, 02 Jun
1998 14:35:03 -0700
From: James White <orthopodeo@aomin.org>
Subject: Re: unposted letters 2-4
JAMES
Letters 8 and 9 were your attacks upon biblical inerrancy and sufficiency, mentioned
before, and not a part of the Psalm 82 materials.
BILL
Obfuscation! You raised the issue of biblical inerrancy and sufficiency in your
defense of your position on Psalm 82. I was merely responding to your position on
the matter. If the matter was relevant for your argument in favor of elohim = judges
in Ps 82, why is my response not relevant?
JAMES
Letter 10 was what you sent after I posted your reply to my last reply.
BILL
Obfuscation! My reply was not finished. You simply decided to refuse to debate
further, and to not post my full argument.
William J. Hamblin
Associate Professor of History
323 KMB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602-4446
801-378-6469
wh4@email.byu.edu
FAX 801-378-5784 |
Letter Sixty-eight
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 17:36:25 -0600
From: "William J. Hamblin" <william_hamblin@byu.edu>
Subject: Am I a liar?
To: James White <orthopodeo@aomin.org>
Cc: skinny <skinny-l@teleport.com> I note that you
again are adding to the debate without sending me your statements, and without giving me a
chance to respond. You wrote:
JAMES
Dr. Hamblin, accusing me of not posting all of his materials and various and sundry other
untruths.
BILL
It is manifestly the case that you did not post all of my materials. What, might I
ask, are the "various and sundry other untruths" I have told?
William J. Hamblin
Associate Professor of History
323 KMB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602-4446
801-378-6469
wh4@email.byu.edu
FAX 801-378-5784 |
Letter Sixty-nine
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 13:14:30 -0600
From: "William J. Hamblin" <william_hamblin@byu.edu>
Subject: Am I a liar?
To: James White <orthopodeo@aomin.org>
Cc: skinny <skinny-l@teleport.com> A few days ago I
sent you this message, to which you didn't respond. You appear to be accusing me of
lying by writing "various and sundry other untruths" about you. If I have
done so, I apologize. I you would send me a list of the specific
"untruths" I have told about you I would be happy to make corrections.
>I note that you again are adding to the
debate without sending me your
>statements, and without giving me a
chance to respond. You wrote:
>
>JAMES
>Dr. Hamblin, accusing me of not posting all of his materials and
>various and sundry other untruths.
>
>BILL
>It is manifestly the case that you did not post all of my materials.
>What, might I ask, are the "various and sundry other untruths"
I have
>told?
>
>
>William J. Hamblin
>Associate Professor of History
>323 KMB
>Brigham Young University
>Provo, UT 84602-4446
>
>801-378-6469
>wh4@email.byu.edu
>FAX 801-378-5784 |
Letter Seventy
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 13:26:58 -0600
From: "William J. Hamblin" <william_hamblin@byu.edu>
Subject: A question
To: James White <orthopodeo@aomin.org>
Cc: skinny <skinny-l@teleport.com> James,
Some time ago I wrote you a note trying to clear up a misunderstanding.
You never
responded. I will optimistically assume that this was because my messages bounced.
In your final summation of our recent debate, you claimed that I have "accus[ed]
[you] of not posting all of [my] materials and various and sundry other untruths."
To me this appears that you are saying I have been lying about you. This is a
serious accusation.
It is quite obvious that you have not posted all of my arguments and letters to you, so
that can hardly be considered one of the unspecified "untruths" I have allegedly
be saying about you. (I would be happy to send you a copy of all my relevent letters
you have refused to post.)
I am concerned that you are claiming that I have written "various and sundry other
untruths" about you. If I have done so, I would very much like to publicly
correct them.
Could you please tell me specifically what are these "various and sundry other
untruths" I have supposedly said about you?
If you are going to publicly make this type of accusation, I feel it
merits some type of substantiation on your part. If you are unable to substantiate
you accusations, perhaps you should remove them from your web page and apologize.
If I have inadvertently said "untruths" about you, I will
be happy to publicly correct the record.
William J. Hamblin
Associate Professor of History
323 KMB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602-4446
801-378-6469
wh4@email.byu.edu
FAX 801-378-5784 |
Letter Seventy-one
From: James White <orthopodeo@aomin.org>
To: William J. Hamblin <william_hamblin@byu.edu>
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: A question At 01:26 PM 6/23/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Some time ago I wrote you a note trying to clear up a >misunderstanding.
You never responded. I will optimistically >assume that this was because my
messages bounced.
No, Dr. Hamblin, I have simply been storing all message from yourself and Dr. Midgley in a
folder. I rarely read more than the first paragraph. I do that with a lot of
mail from those that I have concluded are only seeking unreasoning argument, or are
engaged in merely attempting to cause trouble. While you far excelled your
colleagues in the realm of waiting till the "other shoe fell," eventually, it
did, and your dislike of believing Evangelicals came through with flying colors (i.e.,
believing Evangelicals = "anti-Mormons" in your parlance).
>In your final summation of our recent debate, you claimed that I have
>"accus[ed] [you] of not posting all of [my] materials and various
and
>sundry
other untruths." To me this appears that you are saying I have
>been lying about you.
This is a serious accusation.
The untruths, of course, had to do with your rather emotional response to my last reply in
our correspondence. Such is obvious to anyone reading the materials.
>It is quite obvious that you have not posted all of my arguments and
>letters
to you, so that can hardly be considered one of the
>unspecified "untruths" I
have allegedly be saying about you. (I would
>be happy to send you a copy of
all my relevent letters you have
>refused to post.)
And, of course, this is one of the main reasons I have not wasted further time with this
correspondence. I think the phrase is "beating a dead horse." I have
never, ever said "Anything you send to me, even after the conversation is closed, or
even if it is on issues completely separate from our original conversation, will be posted
to our webpage." Why you would think I have ever said or promised such a thing
is beyond my comprehension. Our conversation *was* posted. The only things I
did not post were 1) two messages wherein you wished to begin a discussion of your
rejection of inerrancy and the sufficiency of Scripture (which, while worthwhile topics,
require a level of sincerity that I was forced to conclude did not exist), and 2) a
message you sent *after* I indicated that your last post would function as the end of the
conversation.
What makes all of this even more humorous (or sad, depending), is
that I have provided the link to the SHIELDS page on
our own----hence, this is nothing but browbeating and a wasting of time---it has nothing
whatsoever to do with actually discussing meaningful issues.
>I am concerned that you are claiming that I have written
"various and
>sundry other untruths" about you. If I have done so, I would very much
>like to publicly correct them. Could you please tell me specifically
>what are these "various and sundry other untruths" I have supposedly
>said about you?
>If you are going to publicly make this type of accusation, I
feel it >merits some type of substantiation on your part. If you are
unable to
>substantiate you accusations, perhaps you should remove them from
>your web page and
apologize.
> If I have inadvertently said "untruths" about you, I
will be happy to
>publicly correct the record.
The meaning of my words is self-evident in the context they are
used. Please be aware that I refuse to waste further time arguing about such inane
issues. I will be more than happy to let the record speak for itself, and I invite
you to do the same thing.
James>>> |
Letter Seventy-two
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 16:32:57 -0600
From: "William J. Hamblin" <william_hamblin@byu.edu>
Subject: Here we go again
To: James White <orthopodeo@aomin.org>
Cc: skinny <skinny-l@teleport.com> Dear James,
BILL (old)
>>Some time ago I wrote you a note trying to clear up a >>misunderstanding.
You never responded. I will optimistically >>assume that this was because my
messages bounced.
JAMES
>No, Dr. Hamblin, I have simply been storing all message from >yourself and
Dr. Midgley in a folder. I rarely read more than the first
>paragraph. I
do that with a lot of mail from those that I have
>concluded are only seeking unreasoning argument, or are engaged in
>merely attempting to cause trouble.
BILL
Quite a remarkable admission on a number of levels.
JAMES
>While you far excelled your colleagues in the realm of waiting
>till the "other shoe fell," eventually, it did, and your dislike of
>believing Evangelicals came through with flying colors (i.e., believing
>Evangelicals = "anti-Mormons" in your parlance).
BILL
This is preposterious! Where did I ever say that believing Evangelicals =
"anti-Mormons." This is simply another manifestation of your dualistic
fundamentalistic world view (e.g. the Bible is either 100% inerrant, or it is not inspired
at all), but has nothing to do with the reality of my position. Why not ask before
making such wild assertions? Quite the contrary, I believe that 99% or more of
Evangelicals are *not* anti-Mormon. I have had many conversations and debates with
Evangelicals who strongly disagree with my understanding of the Gospel, yet are not in any
way anti-Mormons. (Nor, for the record, do I believe that all anti-Mormons are
Evangelicals. There are agnostic anti-Mormons, etc.) In fact, it is apparently
your claim--though incoherently and unclearly expressed--that anyone who disagrees with
your late twentieth century North American fundamentalistic interpretation of Protestant
Christianity is somehow an "anti-Christian." Or did I misunderstand you?
However, according to you, people like yourself, who make their living attacking LDS
Christians, are somehow not--by your wild definition--anti-Mormon. Just how,
precisely, do you define anti-Mormon? Can you name one?
BILL (old)
>It is quite obvious that you have not posted all of my arguments and
>letters
to you, so that can hardly be considered one of the
>unspecified "untruths" I
have allegedly be saying about you. (I would
>be happy to send you a copy of
all my relevent letters you have
>refused to post.)
JAMES
I have never, ever said "Anything you send to me, even after the conversation is
closed, or even if it is on issues completely separate from our original conversation,
will be posted to our webpage." Why you would think I have ever said or
promised such a thing is beyond my comprehension.
BILL
As I have repeatedly informed you (apparently in some of the letters you have refused to
read), I have never asked you to do anything of the sort, nor do I believe you promised to
do so. Mark this well! Please don't make this silly argument again! All
I ask is that you put on your web-site my full arguments in *this particular* debate.
I have agreed the debate is ended. What I have sent you is all I expect to be
posted. There is no open-ended responsibility on your part. But, although I
clearly gave you permission to post my letters *only* on the condition that you posted
them all, you have not done so, all the while claiming to your readers that I have failed
to answer you on substantive issues, all of which I specifically addressed in the
materials you refuse to post on your web page! Many of your readers, if they knew
the full story, might find your behavior in this matter outrageous. I understand, as
a practical matter, why you refuse to post the entire correspondence, but this hardly
justifies your behavior in this matter.
JAMES
Our conversation *was* posted. The only things I did not post were 1) two messages
wherein you wished to begin a discussion of your rejection of inerrancy and the
sufficiency of Scripture (which, while worthwhile topics, require a level of sincerity
that I was forced to conclude did not exist), and 2) a message you sent *after* I
indicated that your last post would function as the end of the conversation.
BILL
I note, for the record, that you are admitting that you haven't posted all of my material.
This, then, is in direct contradiction to your claim of my "accusing [you] of
not posting all of [my] materials and various and sundry other untruths." How
can there be "other" untruths, if the first "untruth" about your
failure to post all the correspondence, is, in fact, true? I note, also, that my two
letters on inerrancy which you refused to post, were, in fact, a response to your
statements on the matter. Why, if your statements are so relevant, are my responses
suddenly inadmissible in your opinion? I note, also, that you are now accusing me of
lacking "sincerity." Do you care to elucidate and clarify this accusation?
(Of course, far be it from me to accuse you of indulging in the dreaded ad hominem
here. You, of course, have never done any such thing. Some readers might think
that your refusal to deal with my understanding of "inerrancy and the sufficiency of
Scripture" on the grounds that I lack the requisite "level of sincerity"
(as judged by you alone) might smack of an ad hominema refusal to deal with my
arguments because I am and insincere person. But, of course, they would be mistaken.
I am, as always, gratified to know that you would never do such a thing.
JAMES
What makes all of this even more humorous (or sad, depending), is that I have provided the
link to the SHIELDS page on our own--hence, this is
nothing but browbeating and a wasting of time---it has nothing whatsoever to do with
actually discussing meaningful issues.
BILL
If you would like to return to a serious discussion of the issues at hand, I would be
delighted to do so. However, you have repeated refused to do so, and I am absolutely
convinced that you will refuse to do so now. I would be delighted if you would prove
me wrong on this matter. I note, again, that you have attempted to change the
topic. In my last letter to you I did not request that you post all of my
arguments. I have given up on that vain effort. Nowhere in my letter do I ask
you to post my letters. I simply asked you what, specifically, are the untruths you
claim I have said about you.
JAMES
>The untruths, of course, had to do with your rather emotional >response to
my last reply in our correspondence. Such is obvious to
>anyone reading the
materials.
BILL
I seem to have missed something again. Could you please refer me to the SHIELDS letter number to which you refer? Or perhaps cut
and paste the offending passage? I note, again, your unfailing use of the claim that
your position is "obvious" while refusing even to cite the passage which you
claim proves your point.
JAMES
>The meaning of my words is self-evident in the context they are >used.
Please be aware that I refuse to waste further time arguing
>about such inane issues. I will be more than happy to let the record
>speak for itself, and I invite you to do the same thing.
BILL
Please help me here. I am offering to correct the record and publicly apologize for
the untruths I supposedly have said about you. But, honestly, I can't figure out
where they are. If these untruths are so "self-evident," and
"obvious" couldn't you at least tell me in which letter the untruths I have
spoken about you are found? Could you not, perhaps, send me a copy of the specific
texts you find offensive? Amazingly, after all your acrobatics in your letter, you
have failed to name a single one. You call me a liar, but will not provide a single
instance where you believe I have lied! This is absolutely outrageous! If you
are going to write me at all on this matter (instead of ignoring my letters), wouldn't the
reasonable response be to simply quote the specific passages in which you I have lied
about you? It would just take a few minutes. Why not do it? (I note,
again, in passing, your insistence that your position is "self-evident."
Aren't you the least be chagrined to use such a ploy after I have exposed it for
what it is in my methodological appendix.)
William J. Hamblin
Associate Professor of History
323 KMB
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602-4446
801-378-6469
wh4@email.byu.edu
FAX 801-378-5784 |
Letter Seventy-three
From: James White <orthopodeo@aomin.org>
To: William J. Hamblin <william_hamblin@byu.edu>
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: Here we go again Dr. Hamblin (and all others to
whom this is always sent anyway):
Please stop sending me messages, forwarding messages you've written
to others, etc. I have said my peace, I have no desire for further argument.
Thank you.
In light of Ephesians 5:15-16, further messages will simply be
returned.
James>>>
[Dr. Hamblin's Note:] The text in question
reads: "See that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the
time, because the days are evil." |
Letter Seventy-four
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 17:06:27 -0600
From: "William J. Hamblin" <william_hamblin@byu.edu>
Subject: Goodbye
To: James White <orthopodeo@aomin.org>
Cc: skinny <skinny-l@teleport.com> -----Original
Message-----
>From: James White <orthopodeo@aomin.org>
>To: William J. Hamblin <william_hamblin@byu.edu>
>Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 4:49 PM
>Subject: Re: Here we go again
>Dr. Hamblin (and all others to whom this is always sent anyway):
>Please stop sending me messages, forwarding messages you've
>written to others, etc. I have said my peace, I have no desire for >further argument.
>Thank you.
>In light of Ephesians 5:15-16, further messages will simply be
>returned.
>James>>>
In light of the following scriptures, I will comply with your
wishes.
Proverbs 10:18
Proverbs 12:15
Proverbs 13:16
Proverbs 23:9
Proverbs 26:5
Proverbs 26:12
Proverbs 27:22
Ecclesiastes 10:3 |
Contents of above referenced scriptures, provided
by Dr. Hamblin:
Proverbs 10:18
He that hideth hatred [with] lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, [is] a fool. Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool [is] right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel [is]
wise.
Proverbs 13:16
Every prudent [man] dealeth with knowledge: but a fool layeth open [his] folly.
Proverbs 23:9
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Proverbs 26:5
Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
Proverbs 26:12
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? [there is] more hope of a fool than of him.
Proverbs 27:22
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not
his foolishness depart from him.
Ecclesiastes 10:3
Yea also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way, his wisdom faileth [him], and he
saith to every one [that] he [is] a fool. |
Letter Seventy-five
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 10:51:55 -0600
From: "William J. Hamblin" <william_hamblin@byu.edu>
Subject: Fw: Rejection?
To: skinny <skinny-l@teleport.com> I sent this to James
White and it bounced.
-----Original Message-----
From: William J. Hamblin (by way of James White <orthopodeo@aomin.org>)
<william_hamblin@byu.edu>
To: william_hamblin@byu.edu <william_hamblin@byu.edu>
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 8:34 PM
Subject: Rejection?
>Have you also put me on your reject letter list?
>William J. Hamblin
>Associate Professor of History
>323 KMB >Brigham Young University
>Provo, UT 84602-4446
>
>801-378-6469
>wh4@email.byu.edu
>FAX 801-378-5784 |
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