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.
The following video was posted by a 16 year old commenting on the vote on the nature of marriage in North Carolina. You will note it contains no profanity. It is reasoned and clear. And that, of course, is the problem. If this was a young homosexual ranting against Christianity using profanity, or even a middle aged one, like Dan
As announced, we did a special “extra” DL this week, a Radio Free Geneva discussing the aforementioned statement defining “the” traditional Southern Baptist view of the gospel. In other words, we reviewed the very poorly written, confusing, straw-man filled document produced by a group of traditional synergists in the SBC. If you think I am being just a bit harsh,
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
Smell that smoke? It’s coming from the theological straw men lit up by the likes of Emir Caner, Jerry Vines, Paige Patterson, Malcolm Yarnell, and David Allen. The smoke is thick, but the fire is hardly hot. I refer to a newly released statement titled “A Statement of Traditional Southern Baptist Understanding of God’s Plan of Salvation.” I began seeing
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 and has debated the meaning of this text against Jewish rabbis for decades. This monumental text is vitally important in Jewish evangelism, but
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
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
Recently I invested over five hours of airtime to rather fully discuss the claims made by Matthew Vines in a YouTube video presentation defending the concept of “gay Christianity.” His emotionally-laden presentation was not only badly imbalanced from any scholarly perspective, utterly ignoring the counter-arguments and even conflicting pro-homosexual interpretations offered on the same passages, but it was very poorly
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
First, for those who do not listen regularly to Justin Brierley’s Unbelievable radio program (programme in the UK!) I am on the currently featured program which aired this past weekend, debating Dr. David Instone-Brewer from Cambridge on whether Jesus was a Calvinist or not. Someone on Twitter got all bent out of shape by the title (which, of course, I
As you near the beginning of your sixth decade of life on this planet, if you are awake, if you are thinking, if you are looking beyond the mundane facts of existence, you start thinking about not only what you are going to leave behind as a testimony to the grace of Christ given to you in this life, but
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
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
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.
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
Why a Mega? Simple. I listened to this entire presentation this morning out in the gorgeous Arizona early morning, and I think it is a MUST RESPOND presentation. This is a very different approach than you see in Dan Savage, and is far more difficult to respond to for most Christians. Want to do your homework beforehand so as to
James reply’s to Matthew Vines’ “The Gay Debate: The Bible and Homosexuality” YouTube presentation and more.
Think Dan Savage would do a real debate, I mean, one where both sides are equally represented, where he would have to engage in cross-examination, provide serious scholarship, etc.? Think this video will remain on YouTube? Let’s pray toward that end!
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!
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
Had to go for a Mega edition today as I will be flying to Boston on Thursday for the big NoCo video shoot, where I will be carrying water and adjusting lights while the Big Guys, Phil Johnson, Carl Trueman, and Mike Abendroth, do the heavy work. Started off talking religion and politics, Mormonism and the like, and then transitioned,
Here are the links to the series titled “Mormonism 101” that I posted 5 years ago. I hope these articles will be helpful to those dealing with this issue today as well. Mormonism 101: Badly Needed in our Culture Today Mormonism 101: The First Vision Continued Mormonism 101: More on the LDS Scripture’s View of God Mormonism 101 Continued Mormonism
The famous Algo pointed me to a rather lengthy thread in the Catholic Answers Forums today, found here. It is an excellent example of how the constant drumbeat argument of Rome, that sola scriptura leads to differences of belief and practice, etc., but Rome is wonderfully unified, etc., is not a wit short of ludicrous. Here you have faithful Roman
…to pray for the production of this hopefully edifying and corrective video series, taping of which begins a week from today.
I’m speaking about 35 miles from my office this evening, so I need to move the DL up some to give me sufficient travel time. A jumbo edition today beginning with some e-mails, and a review of Bryan Cross’ misrepresentation not only of Reformed theology, but of the biblical witness as well. Join us today on the Dividing Line!
Started off with an e-mail from someone who has bought Rome’s anti-sola scriptura rhetoric hook, line, and sinker, without seeing the inconsistency thereof. Then looked at Bryan Cross’ simplistic misrepresentation of his former faith, looked at Bart Ehrman’s response to Dan Wallace and the Markan fragment find, and finished off with a call on the ordaining of the means as
I think I may get to have some help during the summer with blogging things and…well, just general help, so maybe the DL’s will get blogged regularly! Anyway, yesterday we did a Jumbo edition of the DL, pretty well splitting it in half between a continued review of Emir Caner’s anti-Calvinism sermon (somehow it didn’t get Canerized!) and then continuing
Join us today at 3:30pm MST, 6:30pm EDT, for a Jumbo edition of the Dividing Line! This will take the place of the regular Tuesday edition.
