The purpose of the Department of Christian Defense is to
proclaim and defend the gospel of Jesus Christ against those who controvert
the essentials of historic biblical faith. Also to provide information to
educate and equip Christians to reasonably and confidently share their faith
with members of non-Christian cults and anyone that denies the fundamental
doctrines of the Christian faith: The doctrine of the ontological Trinity;
one eternal God; Jesus as the eternal God; the physical resurrection
of Jesus Christ, justification through faith alone, Scripture
as the sole infallible authoritative regula fidei ("rule of faith")
for the church, the virgin birth.
The Department of Christian Defense has always, emphasized the
Person, nature, and finished work of the two natured Person Jesus Christ.
All heresies, in some way, shape, or form, redefine the Person of the Son,
Jesus Christ. The first Christological heresy that the church had to deal
with was a denial of His humanity (e.g., Docetic Gnosticism; cf. Col. 2:9; 1
John 4:1-3; 2 John 7). But shortly thereafter and presently virtually all
Christological heresies deny the full deity of Christ and that He is a
distinct Person from His Father and the Holy Spirit. Further, all
non-Christian cults and world-religions either deny (a) ontological
monotheism (i.e., one true eternal God [without beginning]) and/or (b) that
Jesus Christ is the eternal God, coequal coexistent and coeternal
with the Father and the Holy Spirit, that is, the
Tri-Unity of God.
The founder and Director of the Department of Christian Defense,
Dr.
Edward L. Dalcour holds a Master of Apologetics (from Columbia Evangelical Seminary)
and a Ph.D. in Dogmatic Theology from North West University (Potchefstroom
campus, SA). He is a Christian apologist
focusing on the theology and critical analysis of non-Christian cults.
While Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Oneness Pentecostalism (i.e.,
Modalism) have been his primary area of concentration. Throughout the
years, his intensive research and personal experience dialoguing and
interfacing with cult devotees have enabled him to develop witnessing tools
that are greatly efficacious for the Christian church. Dr. Dalcour has
lectured on the subject of apologetics and cult evangelism in churches and
other Christian and secular venues worldwide. He has
been featured on various Christian television networks and radio talk shows.
Dr. Dalcour
has authored the most current and
exegetically treated work on "Oneness theology" entitled, *A Definitive Look
at Oneness Theology: Defending the Tri-Unity of God* (University Press,
2004; you can get here: http://www.christia
Other Publications Authored:
*Question for Jehovah’s Witnesses (Forthcoming, Lighthouse Publication).
*Theological Endorsement, in James R. White, The Potter’s Freedom: A Defense
of the Reformation and a Rebuttal of Norman Geisler’s ‘Chosen but Free’
(Amityville: Calvary Press).
*“Defenders of the Faith,” in Tom Sirotnak’s, Ultimate Warriors (Nashville:
Broadman & Holman).
Unpublished Research
Works and Journals:
[partial]
*Biblical Hermeneutics: Grammatico-Historica
*An Exegetical Examination of John 1:1 and the Watchtower’s, New World
Translation of the Holy Scriptures.
*The Christological Assertions of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, with Exegetical Refutations.
*The Reliability of the New Testament Manuscripts.
*The King James Version: Textual and Translational Disputations.
*The Development of the New Testament Canon.
*An Exegetical Look at John 6:37-40
*The Pre-Existence of the Son.
*The Trinity in the Old Testament.
At present, Dr. Dalcour holds on-going Christian apologetics and cult evangelism classes in Los Angeles, California where he currently resides. For Dr. Dalcour's schedule and location of all apologetic classes please write edward@christiandefense.org
For scheduling information go here: Scheduling Seminars
Their perverse teachings [i.e., Valentinian doctrines i.e., Gnosticism] are cast down and overthrown, and, such as they really are, laid bare and open to view. But in this, the third book I shall adduce proofs from the Scriptures, so that I may come behind in nothing of what thou hast enjoined; yea, that over and above what thou didst reckon upon, thou mayest receive from me the means of combating and vanquishing those who, in whatever manner, are propagating falsehood (Irenaeus bishop of Lyons A Refutation and Overthrow of Knowledge Falsely So-Called [Against Heresies] bk. 3 preface)..
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