Famed debater healed of paraplegia

By Milo Haskour —

Before he exploded on the Christian scene with an epic debate takedown of New Ager Billy Carson, Wes Huff was a geek who sifted through ancient Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Sumerian and Akkadian texts of creation accounts and religious documents.

He was born in Multan, Pakistan. His mom was a missionary kid in India. They moved to Jordan for missionary work, then to Goderich, Ontario, Canada.

When he was 11 years old, a flu triggered immunological self-sabotage that destroyed the nerve endings at the base of his spinal cord, a rare disorder called acute transverse myelitis. He woke up unable to feel his legs. Doctors predicted he would never walk.

“I felt angry at God, I was frustrated. I stayed up at night trying to to figure out what exactly was the purpose of it all and arguing with God,” Wes says. “There were nights where I cried myself to sleep because it was just too much.”

Exactly a month after he woke with no feeling from his waist down, he woke up, got out of bed, walked over to his wheelchair. He sat down in the wheelchair. Did that just happen? He looked at his toe and tried to wiggle it. It wiggled. In the hospital, they had poked him with pins in the leg to see if he could feel or react. Nothing.

“It was the doctors who first called it a miracle. They said we have no medical explanation. Nerve endings don’t grow back like that,” Wes says. Also strange: “There was no muscle degradation. There were no side-effects, no atrophy.”

The apparent miracle marked Wes for life. He felt he needed to take full advantage of his restored legs and ran track in high school and college.

Wes attended York University of Toronto, where he got a degree in sociology. The plan was to be a cop.

But when Hindus, Muslims, Mormons, Jehovah Witnesses and others challenged the authenticity of the Bible, he decided to do the cop investigation — the detective work — of becoming a PhD candidate at Wycliff College at the University of Toronto on the origins and authenticity of the New Testament.

Hence, his invitation to debate New Age “Christ consciousness” peddler Billy Carson, who promotes any ancient religious text except the Bible and any ancient cultural belief except Christianity’s. Carson’s book Compendium of the Emerald Tablets expounds the exoteric mysticism of the Atlantean Priest-King Thoth. Found hidden in the Great Pyramid of Giza, the tablets were said to be translated by Michael Doreal, founder of the Brotherhood of the White Temple.

Mark Minard set up the debate on Oct. 18, 2024 on his podcast. As a neighbor and a friend to Carson, Mark contacted Wes a mere 24 hours before the debate to see if he would participate. Fortunately, Wes was familiar with Carson’s content. Carson did not seem to be familiar with Wes’s content.

Right from the get-go, Carson mixed things up, citing the “Sinai Bible” as proof that Jesus was never crucified and had gotten married. Asked to clarify, he realized he meant the “Codex Sinaiticus.” But when Wes pulled out a copy of Codex Sinaiticus and asked where it said such, Carson back-peddled and said he meant to say “The Gospel of Barnabas.”

With patience and respect but with historiographic proofs, Wes proved that the Gospel of Barnabas was a fraud.

And so on. It never got any better for Carson, who tried to move on to mysterious beliefs and supposed wonders of science by other ancient cultures around the world. At every point, Wes humbly dismantled Carson piece by piece.

It was a case of the PhD scholar vs. the entertainer.

People around the world took note. Joe Rogan, who saw the debate and invited Wes on his podcast, said Carson “got caught with his pants down.” Rogan’s recent coming towards Christ seems to trace back to his interview with Wes.

@jamesrademacher7873 writes in the comments of the debate: “I have been an atheist that believed many of Billy’s claims for my entire life. Since the debate I’ve been watching a lot of (Wes’s) content. Wes has single-handedly dismantled my entire world view on the Abrahamic doctrines. Not only do I realize how incorrect I’ve been my entire life, I am beginning to believe the Christians may actually be right about everything. I can’t believe I’m saying that, but its true. Thanks Wes, for shattering my world view and setting me down on a solid foundation.”

A new star apologist was born into the Christian world.

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