I came across a blog which makes a ridiculous claim which I want to refute in this blog post. Peter Lumpkins maintains that Dr. James White is not an adjunct professor at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. To enhance your viewing pleasure I offer you the following video.

In the video I refer to these documents:

• I2231-51 Islam - on GGBTS – on The Apologist
• L3300-51 Apologetics: The Challenge of Secularism, the New Atheists, and Islam - on GGBTS – on The Apologist
• L3315-11 Christian Apologetics - on GGBTS – on The Apologist

These PDFs are currently available for anyone to download (even if you are not a student) at http://www.ggbts.edu/academics/downloads/

Screenshot of ggbts.edu's course syllabi page (3/28/2011)

Peter Lumpkins desires a website which is not controlled by Dr. White to corroborate his bio.

No website info I can find supports James White’s claim he teaches at GGBTS (i.e. website info over which James White has no control). Instead all indications point to the established fact he does not. It is entirely possible the website info at GGBTS is not up to date but barely probable–if probable at all–given the strong affirmation less than a year ago by GGBTS seminary officials that James White would receive no future contracts. If the web info is strangely incorrect, we will keep the public informed via an update here

In response to this I offered the course syllabi above. Golden Gate’s website is frequently NOT up to date. I speak from personal experience as a current MDiv student. I have emailed professors on multiple occasions requesting their course syllabus because it had not been posted in a timely manner on the link above. In every instance, without fail, the professor had submitted their syllabus to the school weeks or months beforehand and the reason it was not available on ggbts.edu was because the site had not been updated. From my experience I, therefore, offer the following (obvious) observation:

• the professors do not have control over the content on ggbts.edu

This meets Mr. Lumpkins’ qualifications. But I proceed further. My twitter account also contains evidence that James White is an adjunct professor at GGBTS. Again, it is a website “over which James White has no control.” And since you are unable to go back and alter content after  you have posted it (like you can on wordpress, blogger, etc…) this ought to help support my main point:

Class with @DrOakley1689 is on! Textbooks are ordered, vacation days scheduled, fees are paid… THIS IS HAPPENING!! Tue Jan 05 22:02:21 +0000 2010

sitting in room 222 with @DrOakely1689 waiting for class to start… I’m ready to apologeticsize #NewWordAlert Wed Jan 13 16:55:38 +0000 2010

Just saw an Islamic alter call in my Apologetics class. It is one of the most disgusting and vile things I’ve seen in a while #falsereligion Thu Jan 14 23:21:36 +0000 2010

http://twitpic.com/y41qr – The Qur’an is not God’s word Fri Jan 15 00:20:06 +0000 2010

image of James White's Qur'an, from http://twitpic.com/y41qr (posted on 1/15/2010)

this class is SO AWESOME!!!! Fri Jan 15 18:48:45 +0000 2010

http://twitpic.com/y4jqk – My new James White book Fri Jan 15 02:19:07 +0000 2010

Purchased at the GGBTS bookstore, with intent to get a signature!

http://twitpic.com/y4jzd – He signed it!!!!!!! Fri Jan 15 02:20:35 +0000 2010

Signature from a man who, according to Peter Lumpkins, wasn't there!

http://twitpic.com/y98ov – Me and @DrOakley1689 Sat Jan 16 01:04:49 +0000 2010

Myself with Dr. White (1/15/2010)

Class is over :( it was awesome and very helpful and i look forward to continuing to grow as an apologist Sat Jan 16 01:30:06 +0000 2010

Ok, so to recap what we have so far. Peter Lumpkins want’s a website not under Dr. White’s control which says he is an adjunct professor at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. I offer two. First, the GGBTS website with 3 syllabi. Second, my twitter account’s tweets from January 2010. (Technically, I offer three websites, as twitpic.com is a different site than twitter.com). Dr. White has no control over either. I post tweets of my own free will and they were posted looooong before I got it in my mind to reply to Mr. Lumpkins’ absurd assertion.