If you’ve never heard of Wesley Huff before, don’t feel too bad. I’d never heard of him either, until a few weeks ago. Suddenly, he’s famous because of an impromptu debate he had on a podcast with Billy Carson, founder and CEO of a company called 4BiddenKnowledge and a self-proclaimed expert on “ancient texts and tablets, scriptures, papyrus, and cylinders.” Carson has complained in the past that Christian scholars have refused to debate him but all that changed when his good friend Mark Minard invited young Wesley Huff, a Canadian Bible scholar still working on his PhD on his podcast to debate Billy. Huff accepted the challenge to debate Carson with only 24 hours advance notice to prepare, but he didn’t need more time.  Huff didn’t merely defeat Billy Carson in their debate, he embarrassed him. In fairness, Carson later revealed he had not been feeling well and had been recently hospitalized with pneumonia, even coming near death. Perhaps in hindsight it would have been better had the debate been postponed until Billy felt better, although Billy has refused to debate Huff again now that he’s fully recovered.  Though the conversation went on for roughly two hours, the debate was probably over in the first ten minutes. Huff began by asking Carson a simple question to clarify their individual positions, asking Billy if he was referring to Codex Sinaiticus when he claimed the Sinai Bible did not contain any references to the crucifixion. Carson said yes, and then Huff promptly pulled his own personal copy of Codex Sinaiticus off his bookshelf. … [Read more...]