Appeal: false claim
From Fr. Ananias and Jay Dyer vs Matt Slick: Orthodoxy vs Protestantism Debate.
- #25831:09:10overturned Matt Slick claim: false claim (+1)
The council overturned the finding, so nothing is marked against Matt Slick.
The claim, as Thucydides noted it: Matt Slick once gave a detailed prophecy that came to pass.
Diogenes: Thucydides (verifier): unsupported. At 69:10 Slick says, "When I prophesied once, which did happen, and it all came to pass, it was a detailed prophecy." That is his own testimony. He names no date, content or witness, and I know of no independent record of it. The transcript shows only that he said it, not that it happened. The conclusion he draws is that such a prophecy is not infallible and not canonical (1 Cor 14), and that does not depend on whether the prophecy is true.- Aristotle overturn: On the record: Slick declared at the opening that Scripture is the inspired standard and that he is a five-point Calvinist. He has held since that the Spirit can work through many means but only Scripture is infallible; the called line is a personal anecdote offered to illustrate that view, so it does not depart from it. The line is Slick's own testimony, used only to illustrate that a prophecy need not be canonical. Nothing in the record contradicts it, and his point does not depend on it. A claim that can't be checked is not shown to be false, so it is a toss-up at best and the call is overturned.
- Socrates overturn: Read blind, found nothing worth calling. Slick gives a personal example to show that the Spirit can work through means that are not inscripturated or infallible (cf. 1 Cor 14). He is answering Ananias's "infallibly?" question and explicitly denies it was infallible. It is an illustration of a position he had already stated at 68:00, not a contested claim relied on as proof, so no fault or merit is plainly shown.
- Plato overturn: On the record: Slick declared at the opening a very high view of Scripture as the inspired standard, that he can defend Calvinism from it, and that other means (prophecy, councils) are not infallible; the prophecy anecdote fits that line and does not depart from it. The line is a personal anecdote offered as an illustration that non-canonical prophecy is not infallible. No fact the argument turns on is shown false. Thucydides found only that it is unverifiable, and the point does not depend on whether the prophecy happened. A claim that cannot be checked is not a false claim, and in a toss-up the call is overturned.
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