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• Who:  Matt Slick vs Anthony Murphy, aka Anthonycatholic,
• Topic:  Are we justified before God by faith alone or by faith and works?
• When: January 8, 2013.  7 pm time MST
• Room:  Catholicism or Christian Debate
• Duration: 1 hour total
• Format:
  • Anthony begins with a 3-minute opening, I respond with three minutes
  • 3 minute back and forth four turns each
    • one person asks a question.  Responder gets a 2-minute response.  Asker gets a 1-minute response.  Then the next question.  Back and for four times.
  • 2-minute cross-talk – can say whatever we want to during those 2 minutes.
  • 33-minute closing

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Formal Debate – I’m challenged to debates by various people at different times on Paltalk.  So, here is a “basic” idea of what I will accept for a formal type of debate.

1. Agreed upon topic
2. Agreed upon time durations, for example…but not limited to…
   1. Five minute open each side
   2. Three-minute response, each side
   3. Q & A period of asking 3 questions each with a 2-minute response and 1-minute counter-response, alternating sides.
   4. Five-minute close.
3. Politeness
4. Address the topic, not the person

Personally, if I am “debating” with someone in a room and I am red dotted (silenced) during a response, then I will leave the room immediately.

Informal Debate

1. Basic politeness
2. Address the issue, not the person
3. No insults
4. No redotting