About last week, Biblical scholar and self-styled ‘Christian apologist’ Wesley Huff dropped the massive update that he would be appearing on an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. This made the fans really thrilled, especially after the fact that Huff has been sued for winning a debate. But why is he getting sued for such a trivial thing, and what’s the whole story? Joe Rogan has managed to bring out the entire scoop on JRE #2252.
The Central Canada Director for Apologetics Canada recently won over the internet after completely destroying Billy Carson in a debate about the truth of Christianity – specifically, the question of “whether Christianity is true.” Wes Huff convincingly won the argument. His academic background in theology and apologetics allowed him to constantly contradict and fact-check Billy Carson’s arguments, making the atheist’s lack of preparation and the grasp of the subject apparent.
So, what did Billy Carson do to retaliate? He sued Wesley Huff. As per the atheist, he is suing Wes Huff because the latter used his name and likeness without permission when sharing clips of their debate. This led him to issue a cease-and-desist letter to stop displaying the embarrassing moments from the exchange, also claiming that he was unprepared for it. However, Huff has now debunked this claim as well on social media.
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He said, “He’d been given all of the prerequisites. Like, he knew we were going to go over some of his stuff that he had said about Christianity, that I was going to come in, who I was, what my name was, some of my background. And that part of the conversation was going to be me kind of asking him some clarifying questions and rebutting some of the things that he said.”
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Huff further added, “So, unfortunately, Billy there says he had no idea going in. And, I mean, as Mark said in his video that he released yesterday, he knew what it was going to be, who was going to be involved, and even some of the things that we would be talking about.” Well, it seems like Rogan did a good job of providing Huff with a platform to clear out his side of things. But there was a time Rogan had found himself on the wrong side of the religion debate.
When a pro-Christian UFC fighter called out Joe Rogan
Nate Marquardt, a former UFC star, went off on Joe Rogan after the JRE host made some claims about the Bible. As per Marquardt, Rogan made some rather controversial statements during his appearance on Hot Boxin’ with Mike Tyson by claiming that the Bible lost a lot of its original meaning after it got translated from ancient Hebrew to Latin, then into Greek, and later into English. To prove his point, Rogan took the example of the ‘translate’ button available on Instagram.
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This is why the pro-Christian ex-fighter decided to fact-check Rogan by saying that when the Bible is translated, they do not get translated by machines as Rogan believes, where a simple click of a button might be translating the current one being printed. Instead, they are translated by experts and directly from the original languages.
He said, “I want to say, first of all, this is completely false. This is not how the Bible is translated. This is not how the Bible is transmitted. We translate directly from the original languages.” Nate Marquardt further said the Bible is the foundation of the Christian faith that can and should be trusted by the people. But what do you think? Do you agree with Marquardt? Let us know in the comments.
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