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Supreme Court, BLM, Thabiti, 2 Cor. 4:4

James White, June 16, 2020, Atheism, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Homosexuality, Pauline Studies, Persecution, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line

Started out with a discussion of the Supreme Court’s redefinition of “sex” from 1964 and the resultant degradation of morality and law in the United States. Then looked at the totalitarian movement of Black Lives Matter, and their promotion of transgenderism. Then we simply had to read through the thread of tweets posted by Thabiti Anyabwile wherein he states “Until

A Program for Muslims on the Textual History of the Qur’an

James White, June 15, 2020, Islam, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism

I actually spent a few minutes at the start to acknowledge the ground-shaking “let’s make Obergefell look small time” absurdity that came forth from Neil Gorsuch and the Supreme Court this morning, but only to say that we would focus upon that tomorrow. The rest of the program (from about seven minutes in as I recall) is addressed to my

Revelation 6, Mohler and the Leftists, James Gets Canceled Again, JK Rowling

James White, June 12, 2020, Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Homosexuality, Persecution, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line

Just an hour today but we crammed a lot in, including looking at a petition to get Albert Mohler fired for daring to say something negative about the Episcopalians (and for not repeating the necessary cultural mantras), Anthony Caputi is “done” with the Dividing Line, and JK Rowling takes on the transgender cabal.

All Lives Matter BECAUSE God is the Creator: Getting the Conversation Right

James White, June 11, 2020, Christian Worldview, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line

Well I imagine the woke folks will be lighting the torches and grabbing the pitchforks (if they can get out of the Autonomous Zone in Seattle anyway) but we just had to deal with the flood of cultural Marxism flowing into the veins of evangelical churches right now. Looked at JD Greear’s comments (hopefully fairly) as well as some others,

Living in Two Worlds, then, A Full Response to a Muslim “Revert”

James White, June 9, 2020, Christian Worldview, Church History, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Gospel/Jesus Studies, Islam, Persecution, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line

Started off with a few minutes discussing the reality that a lot of us are facing: how do you have any sense of “normal” anymore when the future looks to troubled, so difficult? Why even bother talking about theology during a revolution? Well, because Christians have done that for a very long time, actually. So, a few words of encouragement

Responding to the Charge of “Perceived Carelessness” and More on the Social Justice Revolution

James White, June 8, 2020, Christian Worldview, Offense, Persecution, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line

Read, and fully responded to, a rebuke from Christian brothers and sisters based upon an article (which I also read) about the need to do history seriously, without imposing lenses and filters that fundamentally distort it. Addressed a number of issues that came up over the weekend regarding the explosion of social justice revolution in the world, and its inconsistency

Critical Theory, Race, Reconciliation, then Phone Calls on Great Topics

James White, June 5, 2020, Atheism, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Started off reading a comment from Dr. James Lindsay about Critical Race Theory and the concept of “reconciliation,” and followed up with some more discussion on the “woke church.” Then we took calls on such topics as detecting if your church is going down the “woke” path and when you would have to leave, where we have to draw the

Critical Theory Issues in Recent Events, Memes and Screen Shots, Leighton Flowers and Apologetics

James White, June 4, 2020, Atheism, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Post-Evangelicalism, Provisionism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line

A mega edition of the DL today, two full hours, covering tons of current events with the social justice revolutionaries both outside and inside the church for the first 1:10. Last 50 minutes focused on a tweet from Leighton Flowers saying Calvinism and Apologetics do not mix. We listened to and critiqued an on-line exchange on the topic of God’s

Supreme Court and Churches, Remember that Covid Stuff? Hyper-preterism Debate

James White, June 2, 2020, Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Misc, Musings, Persecution, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line

Meandered around a bit today touching on the fact that Rich is French, that “Parler” should probably be pronounced with the French pronunciation (and yes, I have joined Parler, @Eleutheros), that the Supreme Court declining to give an injunction in California, while disappointing, isn’t the end of the world, and some other stuff about the current melt-down in the US.

Jude 4 in Response to a Muslim Question, Deepfakes and God’s Law, Social Justice Stuff

James White, June 1, 2020, Exegesis, Islam, Persecution, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

About half an hour before the program started I saw a question raised by Zakir Hussain, a Muslim apologist, so I spent the first half hour in Jude looking at the context and the manuscript evidence so as to answer the objection/question. Then we looked at the subject of “Deepfakes” and the law of God, focusing on cosmic justice, and

A Surprise Dividing Line! John 6:44-45, John 6:65: Exegesis and Application

James White, May 29, 2020, Church History, Exegesis, Gospel/Jesus Studies, Provisionism, The Dividing Line

Decided to squeeze a DL in today, just an hour in length. John 6:44-45, 65, considered in light of the Provisionist controversy. Enjoy!

Four Open Phone Calls, A Bit on Thinking Clearly About Numbers, Digging into More from Wilson’s Dissertation

James White, May 28, 2020, Church Fathers, Church History, General Apologetics, Provisionism, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line

We opened the phone and took some calls, such as on the canon of the Greek Septuagint, and whether we are in constant sin because we do not love God perfectly. Then we looked at some numbers relating to the current panic relating to the pandemic, and then moved back into the in-depth analysis and refutation of Ken Wilson’s Oxford

Bart Ehrman Stuff, then Valentinian Gnosticism

James White, May 27, 2020, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, General Apologetics, Provisionism, The Dividing Line

Talked a little about a new video from Ancient Paths TV about Bart Ehrman, playing a few clips and making application. Then we gave an introduction to a vitally important variant of Gnosticism in ancient history, Valentinianism. Don’t let the name dissuade you, this is really important stuff! We will take a few calls tomorrow to start off the program,

Lightfoot in Chicago Then A Helpful Introduction to the Gnostic Creation Myth

James White, May 26, 2020, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, General Apologetics, Homosexuality, Provisionism, The Dividing Line

Two main topics today, first, the reality of how much our conversation has changed in the past forty years, illustrated by Mayor Lori Lightfoot in Chicago and the inevitable relationship between her lesbianism and her attitude toward the Christian church. Then we dove into a summary introduction to the Gnostic myth of creation, something we’ve been promising to do for

Four Open Phone Calls, Leighton Flowers Says I Only Use “Biased” Sources

James White, May 22, 2020, Church Fathers, Church History, Exegesis, Mormonism, Musings, Provisionism, The Dividing Line

We started off with four phone calls on various topics from around the country, and then listened to some comments from Leighton Flowers insisting that I never use unbiased sources in my response to Ken Wilson. Then we had a little church history discussion before signing off for the week. About 84 minutes or so.

Caesar’s Gold, Augustine Actual Again

James White, May 21, 2020, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, General Apologetics, Provisionism, Technology, The Dividing Line

Went over why I responded so negatively to the idea of churches accepting federal funding from the recent CARES funny-money “stimulus” at the start of the program. Talked a little about giving my grandkids a “sun show” today using my Meade solar telescope, then moved back into fundamentals of scholarly examination of historical materials, this time looking at a section

A Bit More on James 2, Molinism, More Augustine Actual

James White, May 19, 2020, Church Fathers, Church History, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Open Theism, Pastoral Theology, Personal, Provisionism, The Dividing Line

Today on the program we extended our sympathies to RZIM and the family of Ravi Zacharias. We likewise extended our congratulations to Kofi Abu-Boahen and his wife on the birth of his son Gareth Kwabena. Then we moved back to James 2:14, specifically, and looked closely at the question, “Can that faith save him?” in light of the “free grace”

Paula White and the Bees, Ken Wilson Pumps Up the Dead

James White, May 18, 2020, Church Fathers, Church History, Exegesis, Pastoral Theology, Provisionism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

No, I am not entering a Really Cool Garage Band competition. Today’s 100 minute long DL starts off with ol’ Paula White buzzing around the stage telling us about bees—you just have to watch. Then we look at something OTHER THAN Ken Wilson’s dissertation, this time his views on James 2 and…Augustine! Yes, poor Augustine takes it on the chin

Pope Francis, Dan Barker, Bad Bad Twitter Man, Wilson vs. “Augustine Actual”

James White, May 12, 2020, Atheism, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Offense, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Provisionism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

This will be my only program this week—don’t worry, we have a special guest filling in on Thursday (I have to head out of town quickly). So we went long, a full two hours. Covered a ton of topics from Pope Francis’ call for “believers of all religions” to join in asking God to “help us” with coronavirus, Dan Barker’s

Four Calls and then Overview of Issues in Church History

James White, May 8, 2020, Church Fathers, Church History, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Islam, Mormonism, Provisionism, Reformed Apologetics, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

We took four calls to start the show, and I was so verbose and long-winded that that took us 55 minutes. So much for brevity on my part! The calls were on federal headship and Romans 5, “not My will but Yours” in Luke 22 (esp. as it relates to Oneness theology), Bahnsen vs. Sproul debate, and using presuppositional apologetics

KJV Onlyism, James Snapp Visits St. Catherine’s, Rescuing Isaiah 10 from Leighton Flowers, Ken Wilson Misrepresents Augustine

James White, May 7, 2020, Church History, Exegesis, Provisionism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Well the title says it all! Tomorrow we will open the phones at the top of the hour at 1:30pm EDT and take four callers before moving back into teaching material. Join us then! Also, here is a picture of the reference I read toward the end of the program which is so fully misused by Ken Wilson in his

What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur’an in Audiobook!

James White, May 6, 2020, Islam

So happy to see this has been done and released! Click here to get it on Audible.com!

Ibn al-Qayyim, Pope Francis, John Calvin, Ken Wilson

James White, May 5, 2020, Church History, General Apologetics, Islam, Provisionism, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

Two hour long program today (penance for messing up yesterday) covering an Islamic poem for Christians, Pope Francis talking like a universalist (again), John Calvin on predestination and election, and then a deep dive into Manichaeism and Ken Wilson’s “DUPIED” concept. Enjoy!

Working on Wilson’s Dissertation #4: Abusing Language

James White, May 3, 2020, Church History, Provisionism

Some are wondering why I wish to introduce my audience to a basic, yet accurate, understanding of what such phrases as “Stoic determinism,” “Gnosticism,” and “Manichaeism” mean. The answer is simple. One must understand these concepts to be able to evaluate the thesis, being promoted by Ken Wilson and the Provisionalists, that Reformed theology is nothing but the ancient heresies

On the Church and the State (First Hour), Anderson Cooper and Other Cultural Issues

James White, May 1, 2020, Abortion, Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Homosexuality, Post-Evangelicalism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

I didn’t expect to spend the first hour talking about how the church has responded to the state’s “requests” and then demands, and what we can expect in the future. Then we talked about Anderson Cooper’s son and how the culture is just accepting the revolution’s norms.

The Twitter Mob Doubles Down on Dishonesty, Genesis 50 and Compatibilism

James White, April 30, 2020, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Persecution, Personal, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

The Twitter mob (made up of a diverse group of folks to be sure!) is busy making up new accusations, editing screenshots, and in general doing their best to twist, distort, and downright lie through their keyboards, but the truth is too clear. So after once again demonstrating their lies, we got into more edifying topics such as Genesis 50

Yet Another Twitter Mob Refuted, Romans 5:1: Indicative or Subjunctive?

James White, April 28, 2020, CBGM, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Pauline Studies, Persecution, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

Two major parts to the program today. First about 45 minutes I dealt with the explosion of another Twitter Mob today, stoked by people like Lex_Luther and Paul Flynn, who misrepresented an exchange I had about the role of politics and the reality of mortality in the panic surrounding Covid-19. They were (and are) calling for my burning, or at

Isaiah 10 and God’s Decree, Jonathan Merritt Tickles the Ears of the Elite

James White, April 27, 2020, Christian Worldview, Church History, Exegesis, Provisionism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

A little shorter program today (only 75 minutes!) but diving into God’s decree and Isaiah 10 and its witness to the necessary understanding of compatibilism before moving into a review of Jonathan Merritt’s Atlantic article on “Christian Cruelty in the Face of Covid-19.” The Dividing Line 4/27/2020 Isaiah 10 and God’s Decree, Jonathan Merritt Tickles the Ears of the Elite

Dr. Jason Lisle of the Biblical Science Institute First Hour, Then Pope Frankie the Marxist Earth Day Hippy

James White, April 24, 2020, Christian Worldview, Eastern Orthodoxy, General Apologetics, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Apologetics, Technology, The Dividing Line

Our good friend and brother Dr. Jason Lisle of the Biblical Science Institute joined us for the first hour to talk all things science and the faith, and in the last half hour we talked mainly about Pope Francis’ comments about the earth being upset with us. Also a small amount of discussion regarding Qumran right at the end.

Qumran and the Sovereign God, Athanasius and Context

James White, April 23, 2020, Christian Worldview, Church History, Provisionism, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Did a lot of reading again today, reading from the Thanksgiving Psalms from Qumran, from Isaiah and the Psalter, and then moving on to read from Athanasius’ Against the Arians regarding the Son’s eternal nature. Tomorrow we will be joined by Jason Lisle, so make sure to join us live at 1pm EDT!

Working on Wilson’s Dissertation #3: Irenaeus

James White, April 21, 2020, Church History, Provisionism

One of the key problems in Ken Wilson’s dissertation that strikes the reader immediately is the ease with which assertions are made that are not substantiated by any meaningful argumentation or documentation. And central to the application being made of his work is the phrase, used dozens of times, is his admitted self-created phrase, “Divine Unilateral Predetermination of Individuals’s Eternal

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