February 28, 2006

Covered two primary texts on the program today, Hebrews 7:25 and James 2:14, but I did so in the context of recognizing the difference between a God-centered faith and a man-centered one. I drew illustrations from my debate with Robert Sungenis on the Mass that took place in Utah a number of years ago. An hour of biblical teaching, no

We once again welcome John Samson on today’s Dividing Line. John takes today’s show to walk through the ‘Doctrines of Grace,’ otherwise known as TULIP or the Five Points of Calvinism. At the start of the show John gives a brief update on the events in Kiev Ukraine where Dr. White is currently ministering. Toward the end of the show

Started off with a recap of last weekend’s debates, and then moved to the comments of a former presuppositionalist who swam the Tiber. Always interesting to listen to “converts.” They always expose the real reasons with their comments. I even heard another such convert yesterday claim that she had once believed that there may be only a thousand people, like

I felt it would be helpful to many to comment on the inclusion of very minority readings in the new SBLGNT that was released recently. Specifically, I addressed Bart Ehrman’s two favorite texts, Mark 1:41 and the “angry Jesus,” and Hebrews 2:9, “apart from God.” The SBLGNT includes both barely supported variants in the main text, going against pretty much

Started off with a solid twenty minutes on the use of lexical sources and, in particular, recognizing the difference between scholarly facts and scholarly interpretation, using the graphics provided immediately below. Then the calls started, and we (expectedly) went over the Caner situation, and the Geisler statement. I told the story of what happened just under a decade ago with

A bit of an unusual day on the DL. I played one Tim Staples clip, then we started taking calls on all sorts of subjects, including the one I include in the video below, ending with a good question about the NT’s use of the Septuagint and inerrancy. Once again proving the utterly unique nature of The Dividing Line! Enjoy!