NOTE: The following article is a parody.
U.S. – A new report out of Columbia Evangelical Seminary reveals that there is a growing consensus among Church History scholars that James White, ostensibly well-known and respected Calvinist apologist, does not exist.
“The entire data just does not make sense when taken as a whole,” one scholar put it. “After accepting debate after debate with Roman Catholics and losing all of them, one has to wonder why he kept accepting debate offers. If he actually existed, he should have learned how to say ‘no’ at some point.”
One scholar noted the repeats in the manuscript evidence of the purported debate records signaled that the accounts were forgeries rather than authentic. “Every single debate references the same specific arguments and phrases: references to the Jerome Study Bible, questions on the identity of the “Blessed Man,” appeals to common papal controversies of the day, and apocryphal references to a supposed encounter with an interlocutor scholars have identified as Gerald of Matatics. It seems as if one scribe just repeated the same story over and over and just changed the topic for all the different debates.”
Another scholar, after initially stating that Dr. White did not exist, later clarified that while he hoped White did exist, he had scepticism as to the authenticity of the corpus of his work.
When contacted, James White declined to comment, only fuelling continued claims that he does not, in fact, exist.
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