Alpha and Omega Ministries is a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. James White, director, is a professor, having taught Greek, Systematic Theology, and various topics in the field of apologetics for numerous schools.
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Road Trip: Debate – Is “Gay Christian” a Biblically Acceptable Identity for Members of Christ’s Church? Gregory Coles, Mid Atlantic Reformation Society, The Future of Christendom 2023 – The Gospel at War, Spooky Nook Sports, Manheim, Pennsylvania, 9/16/2023
James White, , Debate, Homosexuality, Road Triphttps://youtu.be/wZqD2Yp2Ons?si=9aHxu5baq2geQ6mI
Upcoming Debate Thoughts, Jesse Duplantis, Thabiti Anyabwile
James White, , Debate, Homosexuality, Musings, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Road Trip, Speaking Engagements, The Dividing LineSlightly shorter program today as I speak this evening here in PA. Discussed the upcoming debate and relevant issues, played a clip from Jesse Duplantis, and a clip from Thabiti Anyabwile as well.
Road Trip Dividing Line: California’s Secular Tyranny, Our Response, Some Taylor Marshall Tweets
James White, , Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Eschatology, Homosexuality, Musings, Persecution, Post-Evangelicalism, Road Trip, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, TransinsanityDid the program live on the road from Indianapolis this evening, looking at the amazing secular tyranny in California, then a discussion of the challenges we are all facing as believers in these changing and unique times, and finishing with a look at some Taylor Marshall tweets.
Back on the Road from Albuquerque: Reflections on a Quarter Century of Responding to Homosexual Argumentation
James White, , Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Homosexuality, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing LineI hot footed it over here to Albuquerque this morning to be on Iron Sharpens Iron with Chris Arnzen, and so I continued the topic (since it was on my mind) on this program. Looked at 1 Cor. 6 and Romans 1 and the entire “Side A/Side B” controversy. Then briefly commented toward the end of Taylor Marshall’s comment about
A Twitter Theology Dividing Line
James White, , Abortion, Atheism, Christian Worldview, Eschatology, General Apologetics, Homosexuality, Mormonism, Persecution, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Provisionism, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, TransinsanityWrapping up our home stand before I head out next week with a pretty high energy program running through topics brought up on social media. We looked at how Francis is going to update his 2015 encyclical on the environment soon and asked, “If he can’t see the scam of climate change, how can he have much insight at all?”
Pope Francis, “Growth” and “Consolidation,” and Trent Horn
James White, , Homosexuality, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing LineI hope we offered an important discussion today regarding Pope Francis, the direction of the Roman Catholic Church, the impact of leftist ideology, and the vital role of Scripture as an unchanging standard.
90 Minutes of Open Phones on the Dividing Line
James White, , Exegesis, Musings, Pastoral Theology, Pauline Studies, Personal, The Dividing Line, Theology MattersI started off with a few comments on the coming mask mandates, etc. Then, we took quite a variety of questions today from our callers! We discussed head coverings and Michael Heiser’s odd views on 1 Cor. 11; Hebrews 1:10 and its citation of Psalm 102; angels and demons today; how to translate the Greek term θέλω (thelo); and finally
Conclusion of Response to Trent Horn, A Little Rosaria Butterfield
James White, , Homosexuality, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing LineFinished up our response to Trent Horn on the topic of theopneustos, which we began two programs ago. But, I have started reading Rosaria Butterfield’s new book, Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age, which is due to be released on September 12th, and I shared a few quotes and thoughts that are directly relevant to the debate in Manheim, PA,
Continued Response to Trent Horn on the Nature of Scripture, It’s Sufficiency, and Rome’s Claims
James White, , Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing LineWe continued our response to and review of Trent Horn’s video, here, dealing with his attempt to get around the reality that he is personally not in a position to foist a novel definition upon the entire Church, let alone to call it the “death knell” of sola scriptura.
Responding to Trent Horn on Theopneustos, Part I
James White, , Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Exegesis, Pauline Studies, Personal, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing LineWent just over 90 minutes today. The first quarter hour we talked briefly about dying Bible pages (showed off my recent examples) and the descent of the US into true banana republic status. Then we launched into Trent Horn’s response to me on theopneustos, getting into a wide variety of topics such as church history, lexicography, and the like. We
Open Phones on the Dividing Line
James White, , Jehovah's Witnesses, Misc, Mormonism, Personal, Racialism, The Dividing Line, Theology MattersStarted off showing my newly “dyed” Bible texts, following the process laid out by Jeffery Rice in this video, and then took calls on Rushdooney, Alma Allred (Mormonism), recognizing novel and soon to be abandoned ideas in theology, wokeness in the Assemblies of God, and dealing with Jehovah’s Witnesses on the eternality of Jesus. Also, we had one Modalistic caller
Radio Free Geneva: Brian from Faith on Fire and Leighton (Again) on John 6:44
James White, , Debate, Provisionism, Radio Free Geneva, The Dividing LineLooked at two different sets of arguments against Calvinism today, first from Brian of Faith on Fire on YouTube, then back to Leighton Flowers on John 6:44. Enjoy!
Jumbo Dividing Line: Biblicism is the Road to Rome (Steve Meister)? Then Semantic Domains and Much More
James White, , Exegesis, King James Onlyism, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, TROnlyismNinety minutes in the big studio today using the big board to look at some important topics. Started off with a little KJV Only silliness, then a little TR-Only silliness, and then on to comments made by IRBC pastor Steve Meister on Josh Sommer’s program about biblicism being the “road to Rome.” Having corrected that idea, we moved into the
Jason Wallace and Tobias Riemenschneider Guests: The Watertown Arrests
James White, , Christian Worldview, Church History, Eastern Orthodoxy, Homosexuality, Persecution, Post-Evangelicalism, The Dividing Line, TransinsanityWas joined by Pastor Jason Wallace for about forty minutes to talk about the new video he has produced, The Failure of Eastern Orthodoxy. Then Pastor Tobias Riemenschneider joined us from Germany to talk about his new book, Resisting Tyranny. Then I took a while to look at the arrests of Christians outside a sexual perversion event in Watertown, Wisconsin.
Some Voices from the Past, the Importance of Biblicism
James White, , Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Eastern Orthodoxy, Eschatology, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing LineOther than discussing some upcoming events (such as the debate in Pennsylvania), we took some time to listen to some voices from the past (Chrysostom, Jerome) and think about how things have changed. We also took some time to consider the definition of biblicism in the current controversy.
New Video on Eastern Orthodoxy, Biblicism is “Cultic,” Dale Tuggy States His Position
James White, , Church History, Debate, Eastern Orthodoxy, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Road Trip, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, UnitarianismLast Road Trip Dividing Line for the July, 2023 trip (only a matter of weeks till we head for Pennsylvania and then G3). Live stream failed us (I have no idea why!). Talked a bit about this new video on Eastern Orthodoxy from Jason Wallace up in Magna, Utah, discussed the assertion that biblicism is “cultic” (and the obvious need
Our New Dividing Line Search Engine and More
James White, , Eschatology, Homosexuality, Road Trip, Technology, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism, UnitarianismHad a few technical issues today to be sure, but we soldiered on, looking at our new search engine which allows you to look for words and phrases in ALL of the Dividing Lines since 1998! Twenty five years worth (over 2,000 episodes). Pretty amazing stuff. Then we looked at a few comments from ol’ Steve Camp, a few more
Jumbo Road Trip Edition on Twitter!
James White, , Church History, Debate, Eschatology, Exegesis, Post-Evangelicalism, Road Trip, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, ThomismSo Rich was literally just poking around on Twitter when he stumbled across the “live” set up recently, so today was our first day to live-cast on Twitter. That was what we wanted to do all along, but obviously things are developing at Twitter and so we had to use Facebook (which drove me nuts). But, for as long as
A Jumbo Road Trip DL!
James White, , Debate, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Personal, Reformed Apologetics, Road Trip, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, UnitarianismStarted off today’s program talking about upcoming debates. Unfortunately, during the program itself, Chris Arnzen got word that Dr. Brownson will not be pursuing the debate on the 16th of September. However, we have another opponent lined up and will be able to give you information on that in a few days. Spent a while responding to portions of a
A New Low of Depravity, Wolfe on Dever, Anthony Bernabei Exposed
James White, , Abortion, Christian Worldview, Debate, Exegesis, Iglesia Ni Christo, Road Trip, The Dividing Line, Transinsanity, UnitarianismManaged a solid live stream today, thankfully! Started off with an amazing example of “no, we haven’t hit rock bottom quite yet, but man we are digging hard” as far as the evil of man is concerned. Then we looked at Stephen Wolfe’s comments in response to Mark Dever on paedobaptism and a regenerate church membership. Finished up looking at
Road Trip: The Ascension: An Oft Ignored Reality, New City Church, Highlands Ranch, Colorado, 7/12/2023
James White, , Road Triphttps://youtu.be/57KvHTRo2RY?si=WR6VzlJ9PPQ1_9EW
Pravda in Louisville; 1 Peter 3:15 and Isaiah
James White, , Christian Worldview, Exegesis, Homosexuality, Persecution, Post-Evangelicalism, Road Trip, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, TransinsanityThe first 35 minutes or so of today’s program focused on the Miss Universe results in the Netherlands, where a highly unattractive dude beat out some absolutely stunning women, all in the service to the dismantling of the West. Then we looked at pure, unhidden, unapologetic propaganda from an ABC affiliate in Louisville, Kentucky. Then we switched over to an
Dividing Line Short: Follow Up Response to Dale Tuggy
James White, , CBGM, DL Shorts, Road Trip, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, UnitarianismDale Tuggy responded to yesterday’s DL with some brief comments, and complained that I had not responded to his arguments in his article, so in this short program I provide that response, along with some other relevant comments.
Jude 4-5 and Its Testimony to the Deity of Christ
James White, , CBGM, Road Trip, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, UnitarianismI did not feel well today, but I pressed on, because I really wanted to share this study of Jude 5, CBGM, the variant in the text, and the biblical tapestry of phraseology and teaching that consistently testifies to the deity of Christ. Please get a deep seat, take some notes, and enjoy!
A Nearly Two Hour Road Trip Dividing Line
James White, , Church Fathers, Church History, Eastern Orthodoxy, Exegesis, Post-Evangelicalism, Road Trip, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Thomism, Transinsanity, UnitarianismThree major portions of today’s almost two hour program: first, reflections on the celebration of July 4th immediately after the Month of Prideful Rebellion. . Then, we review key statements made by Matthew Barrett, Todd Pruitt, and Carl Trueman on the last
Road Trip DL: 1 Cor 8, the Shema, and Ignatius
James White, , Church Fathers, Church History, Personal, Road Trip, The Dividing Line, UnitarianismMade it through a few thunderstorms during the show today focusing on unitarianism, the Christian Shema in 1 Corinthians 8, and the testimony of Ignatius to not only the deity of Christ, but the two natures of Christ as well.
Road Trip DL from Santa Fe
James White, , Gospel/Jesus Studies, Persecution, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Road Trip, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, UnitarianismHad to record the program today due to the location I am at in Santa Fe (possibly due to weather issues as well, not completely sure). Talked about the Australian legislation being proposed to give the state pretty much full control over speech and how we have taken our eyes off the ball as the totalitarians continue their global march.
Bruce Jenner Is Still Here, Then Leighton Flowers and Colossians 2:12
James White, , Christian Worldview, Homosexuality, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Provisionism, The Dividing Line, TransinsanityStarted off with stories about California and Michigan pressing the woke gender ideology that is a plague upon us all. Then, finally, as promised almost two weeks ago, I got to Leighton Flowers and his “Calvinists cannot answer Colossians 2:12” argument and discovered that in fact it seems it is the Provisionists who have to struggle with that particular text.
Went in the big studio today to talk about Mormonism and the challenges we face today in seeking to witness of the truth to members of the LDS Church. Did a good bit of reminiscing along the path, since the first books I read and studied from the LDS Church were purchased 41 years ago now. Had them in studio
The Problem with the Pope
James White, , Christian Worldview, Church History, Homosexuality, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, TransinsanityOur main discussion today was based upon Pope Francis’ kind letter to Fr. Martin and the LGBTQ folks meeting tomorrow at Fordham University. What does this letter mean, and where is Rome really going today? The alleged “certainty” that flows from the claim of Papal authority is a two-edged sword that really ends up showing us that Rome’s “constancy” is
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