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The Pillays of South Africa, Self-Made Energy Crisis, Response to Derrick Brite

, , Church Fathers, Church History, Godly Disciplines, Pastoral Theology, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Thomism

Final Dividing Line of 2022. Asked for prayer for Dennis Pillay and his wife in South Africa as end-of-life issues confront them, that God would give comfort and strength. Spoke a bit about the self-made, completely designed and intentional “energy crisis” around the world, and finished up responding to Derrick Brite on the role of Thomas in defining Christian orthodoxy.

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Shortened Road Trip DL, Response to Andrew Tate Conversion

, , Islam, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Baptist Issues, Road Trip, The Dividing Line, Thomism

Didn’t go quite a full hour today as I mainly interacted with the clip of Zuby interviewing Andrew Tate and his conversion to Islam. Also commented a bit on the Netherlands cracking down on farmers (enjoy the coming famines all due to the climate hoax being used as a political baseball bat) and an amazing tweet from an RB pastor.

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America Tells God to Get Lost/Divine Revelation Cannot be Limited by Men’s Philosophical Systems

, , Christian Worldview, Exegesis, Homosexuality, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Baptist Issues, Road Trip, The Dividing Line, Thomism

First forty minutes we considered what it means for the United States government to directly tell God to get lost, illustrated in the profaning of marriage act passed by the Senate yesterday. Then we looked some more at the series of articles on Matthew 24:36 posted back in October.

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Thanksgiving First Half, Tradition Over Time Second Half

, , Church Fathers, Church History, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

Spent the first half of the program looking at the centrality of thanksgiving as a Christian virtue, attitude, and action, and then looked briefly at a recent convert story, and then a tweet on the perpetual virginity of Mary that led to a whole discussion of how traditions develop and why we must be able to examine them by Scripture.

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Denigrating Marriage, Worldview, Converting to Rome, Compromising Sola Scriptura

, , Abortion, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Debate, Exegesis, Homosexuality, Musings, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

Third DL of the week! We covered a lot of ground from the Senate and marriage to the assertion that if you are a biblicist you will not be able to fight the current cultural fights. Next Monday we will have some special guests in studio.

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Dr. Turek on Calvinism Taking the “Easy” Way, Pope Francis, and Others You’d Never Expect, Say “Go to Thomas!”

, , Church History, Open Theism, Personal, Provisionism, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Thomism

Responded to a brief clip of Dr. Frank Turek talking with Leighton Flowers about Calvinists and evangelism, and then read an article on Pope Francis telling everyone to “go to Thomas.” This led to a lengthy discussion of further developments in the Thomistic Downgrade amongst the Reformed. An hour and 15 minutes.

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John 3:13, Turretin, Pop Thomists

, , Church History, Exegesis, Homosexuality, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

Did about 90 minutes today on a variety of topics but with a bit of a connected theme, digging into the text of John 3:13 as well as looking at Turretin’s discussion of the two natures of Christ. Finished up looking at the amazing behavior of folks on line in response to a new theological journal.

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Mary as Mediatrix in Roman Piety, Comments on Scott Swain’s Experimental Idea from James 1:5

, , Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

We have no way of knowing what we will be doing for the next few days program wise, but we snuck one in today, looking closely at the infamous Marian prayer going around the net (one I was addressing in the early 1990s). Then we looked at Scott Swain’s comments on divine simplicity and James 1:5.

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The Frankfurt Declaration/Responding to Craig Carter

, , Christian Worldview, Church History, Persecution, Reformed Baptist Issues, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

First hour or so I was joined by Pastor Tobias Riemenschneider, one of the framers of the Frankfurt Declaration (Frankfurtdeclaration.com). We discussed the declaration, its purpose and function. Then I responded to Dr. Craig Carter’s inaccurate and unkind comments posted yesterday, once again focusing upon the real issue that is coming out of the development of this “Great Traditionalism.” Nearly

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Ninety Minutes of Biblical Exegesis and Theological Ruminations

, , Christian Worldview, Church History, Exegesis, Godly Disciplines, Reformed Baptist Issues, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

Started off looking closely at Jude 3-5, then moved on to listen to a section of an interview with Carl Trueman, and then brought it all together to respond to the topic of people destroying their credibility by talking about Socinianism.

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Road Trip DL: Passing On the Faith

, , Church History, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Thomism

Started off with something I had not planned on doing, discussing the importance of passing on the Culture of Life, and how this relates to God’s law, the preservation of Scripture, etc. Then looked at some of the zaniness in the “Reformed” world, including R. Scott Clark’s exceptionally hypocritical comments on my response to George Bryson from 2003.

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Road Trip Dividing Line from Denver, Colorado

, , Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Thomism

Started off with a little discussion of the lawless Regimes in the West and where all of that must, inevitably, head. Then I played key sections from a webcast hosted by Joe Thorn with special guest Steve Meister where I am accused of, well, all sorts of things. It is truly a mystery why this is happening, but, we press

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Church History Story Time with Uncle Jimmy: Road Trip Edition (Audio Only)

, , Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Thomism

After a few minutes about the importance of self discipline in the Christian life, I read through three sections from Dr. Nick Needham’s 2000 Years of Christ’s Power series, one dealing with the Robber Synod, one dealing with the Marburg Colloquy, and the last about the death of Chrysostom. Enjoy!

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A Brief Rejoinder

, , Pastoral Theology, Personal, Reformed Baptist Issues, Theology Matters, Thomism

After many months of making reference to my statements (normally as found on the Dividing Line) only by ostensibly humorous sub-tweeting, Dr. Barcellos recently directly addressed me via Twitter. Given the length of the thread, and my desire to have facial expression and tone of voice available (one of the worst problems with Twitter in general), I responded on the

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The Socinians Are Amongst Us! Or Are They?

, , Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Thomism

Today I responded to the “storm of love” of 2022, the past 48 hours of nastiness expressed toward me by a wide range of well known Reformed men. Cutting through the verbiage and emotions, we got to the key issues. Lots of folks are asking, “Why is this happening?” Well, hopefully today’s program will help clarify some things. Enjoy!

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Certainty, the Cost of Abandoning the Created Order, A Silly Dismissal of Presup, and Aquinas on John 10:30

, , Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

Only went an hour today but covered a number of topics including some statements by various “progressive” ministers, a passing dismissal of presuppositionalism that said more than its author intended, and finally a quick look at Aquinas on John 10:27-30.

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A Follow-Up on the Biblical Nature of the Nicene Creed

, , Church Fathers, Church History, Exegesis, Reformed Baptist Issues

In my previous post on the Nicene Creed, I demonstrated that one can profess the Creed without the need to say that “Greek Philosophy is the grounding” for it. In this post, I would like to look back on a previous statement that I made there and then also demonstrate the Son’s co-eternal nature from Scripture. In that post, I

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A Little Skillet, A Lot of Aquinas

, , Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

Started off with a fun story about being Official Theologian for Skillet, then we had to get serious. Looked at John 14:28 for a few minutes, and then had to start responding to the Credo article featuring Dr. VanDrunen. Paused that to work through Aquinas’ commentary on Romans 4:6-8 as an illustration. More to come!

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Calvin and Sadoleto, Reformed Biblicism

, , Church Fathers, Church History, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

Started off telling the story of Calvin and Sadoleto, one of the most important interactions in the early period of the Reformation, and then using Calvin’s response as a spring-board to look at a number of other relevant issues today once again related to sola scriptura, tradition, etc. 90 minutes. We also live-streamed for the first time on Twitch, which,

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Quick Commentary on YouTube Banishment, Once Again on Scriptural Sufficiency

, , Church Fathers, Church History, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Thomism

Well, our first live stream on Rumble, which, honestly, surprised me, but hey—I just flap my jaws, Rich does the tech stuff. So explained a little about what happened yesterday, then went into the key issues found today in the New Scholasticism movement and the comments being made about Scriptural sufficiency, authority, tradition, etc. Truly important stuff!

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WHO Treaty then Church History Is a Bit Messy

, , Church Fathers, Church History, Eastern Orthodoxy, Exegesis, Persecution, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Thomism

Started off with the tremendous danger of the current push to establish a global “pandemic authority” by treaty that would basically (I know this sounds crazy but…it isn’t) made Bill Gate king of the world. Seriously, whether your three year old child would have to be injected with untested, dangerous potions would be decided by someone five thousand miles away

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6th Canon of Nicea, MBTS’s Triggering Book Display Examined

, , Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Eastern Orthodoxy, Personal, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

Had a little bit of tech difficulty at the start, so I am not completely certain how long we went, but we spent the first part of the program going more in depth on the 6th Canon of Nicea in response to Michael Lofton’s amazing response on YouTube. Basically, we documented that Rome dogmatically tells her apologists what to find

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The Decline of Mormonism, John 17:5 and a Lot of Replies to Critics

, , Church Fathers, Church History, Exegesis, Mormonism, Offense, Personal, Reformed Baptist Issues, Road Trip, Roman Catholicism, Simply Silly, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

Since I am in Cedar City, Utah, I started off the program with a discussion of the decline of Mormonism, its reasons, and how we need to be praying to be used of God to bring light to the darkness. Then I had to dive into some of the amazing things being claimed, asserted, and just plain lied about regarding

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