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.
Well, we set new records for connections to our Real Audio server and had at least 62 people in channel at one point (maybe more when I wasn’t paying attention) during the program today, proving, with overwhelming evidence, that Tom Ascol should be the host of the Dividing Line! But since I haven’t asked Tom to start doing that, I
Well, many thanks to C.S. and T.S. for taking that mess of a correspondence file and typesetting it in PDF format. For those who have struggled to read it, you can now have the entire file in gorgeous PDF format with fully readable fonts and formatting that makes it very clear who is saying what. Click here for the file.
Let me summarize quickly. I will expand upon this on The Dividing Line Tuesday morning when I am joined by Dr. Tom Ascol. 1) I have posted the entirety of the correspondence between myself, Tom Ascol, Ergun Caner, and Emir Caner, that has been written since March on the topic of our debate October 16th. I believe the people of
Provided updates on the Caner debate (discussions on the format/thesis, etc.), progress on setting up the Glasgow debates with Shabir Ally for May of 2007, announced that Tom Ascol will be joining me on the DL next Tuesday morning, and then took calls, the first on Romans 7, the second from a “former believer” who wanted to demonstrate that the
Sorry, but I double booked myself this morning. I will have to move the DL back an hour. I’m on WVNE in Worcester, MA talking about The Da Vinci Code this morning! Completely spaced it! So, I’ll do that, then run in and do the DL! My apologies. I don’t have a secretary! So, for the many time-challenged folks out
With the release of The Da Vinci Code right around the corner, a quick reminder of our resources is in order. For my 20+ part blog series, all in one file, on the book’s many Biblical errors, click here. For the mp3’s of my Auburn University lecture on Da Vinci (and my presentation on the resurrection for the faculty), click
When I was speaking in London earlier this year I played a few sections from The God Who Wasn’t There, the film produced by Brian Flemming. I did so because the work is such an excellent example of leaps of irrationality, confident presentations of falsehoods as facts, and simply bad argumentation—and yet, it is so representative of the kind of
I have the opportunity to be on the drive-time call in talk program on KPXQ tomorrow afternoon, 5-7pm, so we are going to move the DL to the morning time, 11am. Sorry if that messes anything up for anyone, but that’s the wonderful thing about a webcast. You can take advantage of other ministry opportunities as they arise.
Despite a less than happy Real Audio server, we managed to get the DL in today. Those who tried to listen live only got portions of it, but the archive should be fine. I spent the entire hour going over the Ally debate and providing some background. Once we started having technical difficulties I had a little more trouble staying
Once again I wish to thank all the faithful believers who prayed for last night’s event at Biola University in Los Angeles. It was truly a wonderful time. The staff did a great job setting up the event, and I am very thankful to Beau Boyd and the “El Torrito Gang” for all they did to make this happen. I
Just a quick note before I hit the sack. Thank you to everyone who prayed. The Lord blessed greatly. I honestly can’t see how the debate could have gone any better…well, aside from my accidentally turning my tablet pc off for a moment during my rebuttal period anyway. But the response from the students, staff, just about everyone, has been
I’m very focused upon finishing my debate notes, studies, etc., so blogging will have to wait till next week. I deeply appreciate the kind notes from those of you who have written saying you and your church will be praying for the debate Sunday evening. That really means a lot. I am enjoying the role of “underdog,” and am likewise
All our callers today were from Canada, which was sort of odd. Two great calls, and I likewise played, and reviewed, a discussion of John 6:44-45, once again pointing out where sound, consistent exegesis will always lead you to the same conclusions. This will be the last DL before the Biola Debate, so Lord willing, next week on Tuesday I
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Can a Christian truly believe that the New Testament is inspired by God? Or, has it been corrupted and rewritten through the centuries as Muslim apologist Shabir Ally claims? In addition, can the Koran survive under the same standard that Muslims place on the New Testament, as it too, is a work of antiquity? James White and Shabir Ally debate
First, for all the procrastinators on the West Coast who are all of a sudden scrambling to get tickets to the debate this Sunday evening at Biola with Shabir Ally: I put this link up earlier, but not everyone has figured out the deep things of computer searching, so, here it is again: click here to get details and tickets.
Covered a veritable plethora of topics today, making for a rather daedal program (hey, it’s the Word of the Day!). Got everyone in the mood by having another Mylo Hatzenbuhler concert in the pre-feed, including that incredible classic, “Who Let the Hogs Out?” Anyway, having recovered our senses after that, I noted with some humor the attempt of LDS scholar
No, the Caners remain in silent mode. No responses to any e-mails, no response to the previous blog article, Dividing Line discussions, etc. The silent treatment continues. With the Shabir Ally debate this week (you’d think they would both be quite interested in my engaging one of the leading Islamic apologists, given their background, but despite repeatedly referring to this,
Most of my readers are familiar with BaptistFire.com, the conservative Baptist website that is, sadly, likewise rabidly anti-Reformed, grossly one-sided, and anonymous as to who is involved in promulgating its articles. Well, a number of folks have gotten together to launch www.StrangeBaptistFire.com, a website which will debunk the constantly misleading, imbalanced, and often easily refuted materials posted on BaptistFire.com. Now,
James White, I’m not reformed in my theology, but I did want to ask you a sincere question. How do you reconcile God not being omnibenevolent with simplicity. When you claim that God only wants some people to be saved, you are really claiming that God is only partially loving. By doing this, you are destroying God’s simplicity and really
As I promised last week, I continued my response to Dr. Wright on issues relating to the ordo salutis from our debate in Sedalia in the Bible Study hour at PRBC. I only had about 35 minutes or so, so I had to rush a bit, but hopefully this will be useful. Here’s the link to the discussion (streaming/download).
From the mail-bag: FOLLOW-UP on Revisiting the Norman Geisler/Chosen But Free/Potter’s Freedom Issue: Even you said JAmes “Unregenerate man is FULLY CAPABLE of UNDERSTANDING the facts of the Gospel”. If a man is FULLY CAPABLE of UNDERSTANDING then unregenerate man (all men)are FULLY CAPABLE of “listening and learning” from the Father as Jn. 6:45b says. Revisiting the Norman Geisler/Chosen But
I can’t see that our new location would have anything to do with phone calls, but it seems we have really been getting more calls since we moved here. We did today, to be sure. I played a small portion of a debate wherein Shabir Ally commented on the New Testament, but mainly took calls, commented on the Caner situation,
