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Today on the Dividing Line: Isaiah 53 with Dr. Michael L. Brown
05/31/2012 - James White
Always a pleasure to have my good friend and brother in the Lord Michael Brown on The Dividing Line (even when we were debating each other!). Today we did a 90 minute program on a topic I have wanted to do for a long time, Isaiah 53. I hope to have this program posted as a stand-alone mp3 for distribution far and wide, not only amongst our Jewish friends but our Muslim friends as well. Michael and I worked through Isaiah 52:13 through the end of chapter 53 based upon the Hebrew text, taking into consideration at a few points the Septuagint and Targums as well. I hope many will listen carefully and be encouraged by this tremendous portion of prophetic Scripture! Here's the program.16:25:45 - Category: The Dividing Line - Link to this article -
Dr. Michael Brown and Isaiah 53 on Tomorrow's Dividing Line!
05/30/2012 - James White
Please join me and my special guest Dr. Michael Brown as we look in-depth, based upon the Hebrew text, at Isaiah 53 and the Suffering Servant. Dr. Brown has recently contributed to a new book on Isaiah 53 (available here), and has debated the meaning of this text against Jewish rabbis for decades. This monumental text is vitally important in Jewish evangelism, but is likewise central to dealing with Islam as well. Make sure to join us for this in-dept analysis of this vital biblical text tomorrow at 5pm EDT.Likewise, please note that immediately prior to this program I will be live (so I've been told) with Janet Mefferd discussing my book, The Same Sex Controversy. If you have Janet live in your area, tune us in. If not, I imagine it will be recorded and aired at a later point.
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Yesterday on a Jumbo Dividing Line
05/30/2012 - James White
Covered three topics yesterday in a jumbo, fast moving edition of the Dividing Line. First, discussed Joshua Lim's "conversion" story promoted by the Called to Confusion boys and identified many of the standard "conversionist blindspot" problems that we have seen over and over again with those who think that jumping into the arms of Romanism will give them the certainty they have come to conclude God's Word and Spirit are incapable of providing, esp. the obvious one: your fallible choice to follow Rome (which is NOT the "only game in town") means that your level of certainty can never rise above the level of your own fallible choice. Welcome to life in a fallen world. Anyway, made some fairly strong observations about Romanism in general, and the ishy-squishy evangelicalism that has decided it is better to partner with Rome and get a few more votes than it is to stand for the purity and power of the Gospel. Then we moved on to the 2008 debate between pro-homosexual activist Harry Knox and Dr. Michael Brown, examining Knox's presentation and presuppositions. Then we finished off with a further examination of Abdullah Kunde's comments in a recent debate in Sydney. Here's the program.17:10:58 - Category: The Dividing Line - Link to this article -
Today on a Jumbo Radio Free Damascus!
05/24/2012 - James White
Got into the debate that took place a few weeks ago "down under" between Abdullah Kunde and Jason Cebalo, a Roman Catholic. Here is the debate:I am dealing almost exclusively with Abdullah's comments, though during the Q&A we will be looking at some of Jason's comments as well. Today was a bit involved, looking a lot at some of the same issues we raised with Abdullah in our debate on the incarnation. Next time we will be looking at the I Am sayings of Jesus, etc.
Next week I will be starting a review of the pro-homosexual arguments of Harry Knox in a debate he did with Michael Brown back in 2008. Also, please note that hopefully sometime over the next two weeks Michael Brown will be joining me, possibly more than once on different topics! Be watching for an announcement on that. Meanwhile, here's today's program.
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"Gay Christianity" Refuted!
05/23/2012 - Rich Pierce
The complete response to Matthew Vines is now available as a single program. Yes its five hours and nine minutes long, (72meg in size), but the world needs to hear this message. We believe this so much that we have decided to make this publicly available to be distributed for free. Share it with your friends and relatives. We've titled it "Gay Christianity" Refuted and only ask that you not change it or sell it. All fair use rules apply for criticism too.You can play it here or right click and download it. All that we ask is that if you are edified by it please consider supporting this work on a regular basis. There is more where that came from Lord willing.
"Gay Christianity" Refuted by James White is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License Based on a work at aomin.org.
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Finally! We Concluded the Matthew Vines Response on Today's Mega Dividing Line
05/22/2012 - James White
Five hours, fifteen minutes. That is how long it took me to review the one hour, five minutes of Matthew Vines' presentation in defense of "gay Christianity." We will be posting, Lord willing, tomorrow, a file containing the entirety of the 5.25 hours of discussion of these key biblical texts, for we truly have been amazed at how many people have written and said that this series especially (together with the Dan Savage response) has been helpful and edifying to them. Watch for that link. For now, today's program included not only the concluding rebuttals to Vines, but a brief review of some comments by gay activist Harry Knox, and a review of a recent appearance by Tony Campolo on a Canadian television broadcast. I also announced that we will be doing a Radio Free Damascus on Thursday, too! Here's the program.And don't forget the WayBack Machine, streaming Dividing Lines from 1998 onward 24/7! You can listen on the Flash Player found here.
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Today on a Mega Edition of the Dividing Line
05/17/2012 - James White
Invested the first hour in continuing my response to Matthew Vines' presentation on homosexuality. We only have about 15 minutes left in his presentation, but, the last 15 minutes contain the most emotionally-charged materials, so I figure we still have a solid 45 minutes to an hour to go. I hope to finish the response next week. Then we will take that material and put it into a single file for download and distribution. The second hour was split between a brief discussion of George Bryson's "The Biblical Doctrines of Grace" presentation and a continuation, and possibly finishing up, my review of Adnan Rashid's debate with Jay Smith in Dublin. Here's the program.And don't forget the WayBack Machine, streaming Dividing Lines from 1998 onward 24/7! You can listen on the Flash Player found here.
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On Today's Dividing Line
05/15/2012 - James White
Today we had a jumbo sized DL (90 minutes) once again focusing upon the exploding discussion of homosexuality in Western culture. Started with a lengthy reading of, and response to, this article by Rachel Held Evans. Then responded briefly to a comment by Hugh Hewitt, then noted a statement in Barack Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope, wherein he identifies Paul's statement on homosexuality in Romans 1:26-27 as an "obscure line" that needs to be interpreted in light of the Sermon on the Mount, and finally examined Chris Matthew's outrageous behavior in an ostensible "interview" of Tony Perkins. Here's the program.And don't forget the WayBack Machine, streaming Dividing Lines from 1998 onward 24/7! You can listen on the Flash Player found here.
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Open Phones and Gay Marriage on Today's Dividing Line
05/09/2012 - James White
There was much to talk about with the North Carolina vote, President Obama becoming the first American President to openly endorse the destruction of a God-given institution, etc. Here's the program.21:44:54 - Category: The Dividing Line - Link to this article -
Yesterday on the Dividing Line: Mega DL Continuing Response to Matthew Vines
05/09/2012 - James White
I was only going to discuss Matthew Vine's "Gay Christian" presentation for the first hour, but since we were in the middle of the biblical discussion, I went ahead and continued, so we did a full two hours on the subject, covering Genesis 19, Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13, and starting into Romans 1. I am hearing from a lot of folks that these programs are helping them in the discussions that are inevitably arising due to the discussion of homosexuality, the redefinition of marriage, etc., in Western culture. Here's the program.Speaking of which, I am sure everyone is noticing that "he who frames the debate wins the debate" being fulfilled this very morning in the media in the US. The passing of Amendment 1 in North Carolina (don't worry, the Federal government will over-turn all these silly, backwards states over time), which affirms and defines marriage in the only logical, rational, historical, moral, ethical, biological, and, of course, Christian way, as the union of one man and one woman, is almost universally being identified as a "banning of gay marriage." Instead of the positive affirmation of serious and thoughtful morality and ethics that is rooted deeply in our history and culture, the main stream media in general has identified the amendment as anti-gay bigotry, etc., never, ever considering the deep bigotry and bias that is inherent in the homosexual movement. The issue is almost always framed in such a way as to paint the moral stance as negative and bigoted, and to put those who would resist the redefinition of marriage on the defensive. It is so obvious and yet the majority of our fellow citizens seem to ignore the reality.
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Tomorrow on the Dividing Line!
05/07/2012 - Tur8infan
Tomorrow, Lord willing, there will be a "Mega" Dividing Line program beginning at 1 p.m. Arizona time (1 p.m. PDT/ 4 p.m. EDT). Matthew Vines, or rather his speech, will be discussed during the first hour of the program.You can stream it live at this link, which is the same link that will let you stream the "way back" feed of old Dividing Line programs when the Dividing Line is not live.
Mr. Vines is welcomed and encouraged to call in at 1-877-753-3341 (Toll Free).
-TurretinFan
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Yesterday on the Dividing Line..
05/04/2012 - Rich Pierce
James reply's to Matthew Vines' "The Gay Debate: The Bible and Homosexuality" YouTube presentation and more.Here's the program
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Yesterday on the Dividing Line: A Program I Could Never Upload to YouTube
05/02/2012 - James White
Sad, isn't it? I would love to post the video from yesterday's point-by-point response to Dan Savage, but we all know in this upside down, morally inverted world, that homosexuals can say anything they want--they can use profanity in High School auditoriums in front of hundreds of students, they can mock students who walk out in offense, and well, the MSM and the culture may shake their head, but they will not suffer for their actions. But if a Christian responds and demonstrates that Dan Savage is significantly less than honest in his argumentation, we all know what will happen to that video. But, we do not post the Dividing Line on YouTube, we have our own server, so at least we can still do that. For now.So I spent the first 45 minutes in response to Dan Savage and also discussing the Ron Brown situation, once again noting the inherent inconsistencies involved in pro-homosexual apologetics. Then we started taking calls. LOTS of calls. At one point every single line in our phone system was filled, and I didn't even think that was possible. But, it was. A couple had to do with the MItt Romney, "Can a Christian vote for a Mormon?" issue, along with lots of other topics. Here's the program.
And don't forget the WayBack Machine, streaming Dividing Lines from 1998 onward 24/7! You can listen on the Flash Player found here.
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Moving the DL to This Afternoon...Jumbo Edition!
05/01/2012 - James White
Going to start the DL today at 3pm MST, 6pm EDT and go for a jumbo edition...probably the same on Thursday, too, as I *might* be on ABN for a debate Thursday night at 8pm EDT (but so far that is not confirmed). Join us then!09:35:55 - Category: The Dividing Line - Link to this article -
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