Author Archive for: DrOakley

Started off responding to an e-mail about yesterday’s Radio Free Geneva, and then moved into a quick review of the Mexico City debate featuring William Lane Craig and Richard Dawkins. Then we started taking calls on that topic, and finished with a call on particular redemption.

So what prompted me to do a Radio Free Geneva? Well, first, the clips from the Ankerberg Show with Norman Geisler and his dismissal of the utter refutation of his horrific “farmer and the boys in the swimming pond” illustration (and the misquotation of Matthew 23:37 as well). But after spending the first half hour on that topic, I moved

Today was all caller driven, or I guess, net driven. I answered a Twitter question on Acts 16:31ff first, then Rich read a number of e-mail questions, and then we started taking lots of Skype and regular calls on…well, a wide variety of topics. This is about as close as I’ll ever get to doing my impersonation of a Bible answer guy

Sorry about being so slow in getting these linked! Those who use iTunes get them a lot faster (hint, hint). Anyway, yesterday in a special Wednesday DL we discussed Frank Beckwith at the ETS meetings (we decided “E” now stands for Ecumenical, not Evangelical), and then looked at Jackie Alnor’s take on debates and debating from “Rapture Ready Radio.” Then

Today’s normal DL has been moved to tomorrow. We will be discussing Frank Beckwith’s presentations at ETS (esp. since one of his presentations is on justification), and Rapture Ready Radio’s criticism of debates along with the promotion of Jack Chick instead! Should be interesting. Wednesday at 11am MST.

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

So what do the folks at Biologos and Doug Pagitt have in common? A lot, it turns out, as we discovered on today’s Dividing Line. Started off with a quick report from my teaching in Peru (and my fascinating observation that, as of this point in time on Tuesday afternoon, I have yet to hear a single car horn sounded

The DL starts in less than fifteen minutes, and we can tell by the low number of listeners that you all have played with your clocks again. Remember, the DL is always at 11am MST. 🙂 Important stuff to discuss today!

Sunday is October 31, Reformation Sunday, remembering God’s great work of bringing the light of the gospel to Europe through the Reformation. So to help prepare you for that day I was joined by TurretinFan, and we talked about Francis Turretin, one of those used by God to help systematize and defend the truths of the Reformation. Then I spent

Had a great time on the program today, covering three items: first, reminding folks that we now have the great “Read My Book” debate from 2003 available in mp3 format now, here. Then we reviewed, very briefly, some of Bob Sungenis’ anti-Calvinism arguments from up in Newberg, and then launched into the real reason for the Radio Free Geneva, the

Did you know Calvinism’s emphasis upon God’s divine decree is unbiblical? That it impugns God’s character? Well, you’ve heard all that before, right? I mean, it is like Psalm 33 or Daniel 4 or Ephesians 1 just doesn’t exist in the Bibles carried by folks like Dave Hunt or George Bryson. But William Lane Craig, Philosopher to the Exegetically Challenged,

Went over some material on purgatory at the top of the show, then took calls relevant to the same topic on subjects such as “the eucharist.” A Roman Catholic intensive Dividing Line prior to my trip to Oregon to debate Robert Sungenis.