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Follow Up on R. Scott Clark and “Reformed”

James White, November 27, 2009, Reformed Baptist Issues

Well, at least Black Friday isn’t completely boring for all of you who, like me, loathe being on the streets and highways today (I basically hide in the house, ride on the canals, do anything but be out in public). My response to R. Scott Clark’s comments has certainly gotten everyone’s holiday season off to a rousing start! Glad to

R. Scott Clark and “Reformed”

James White, November 26, 2009, Reformed Baptist Issues

I speak often on this blog of the need to be accurate in one’s representation of others. As a sinner living in a fallen world, I fail my own standards, though not on purpose, to be sure. I seek to honor Christ by accurately representing those I oppose in debate, whether I consider the “other side” to be my fellow

Zazzle Sale on Ties

James White, November 26, 2009, Misc

I just noticed that Zazzle is having a $9 off tie sale starting right now. Why should you care? Well, some of you have seen the ties I’ve designed for various debates that have biblical manuscripts or the like on them. For that biblical-geek in your life, might be a great Christmas gift, and $9 off is really good. I

Thanksgiving Miscellaneous

James White, November 26, 2009, Godly Disciplines

May you and yours have a blessed day of thanksgiving and praise. I would especially like to express my thanks today to DK, GM, and CR, all up in Canada, for all they have done. Over the past year all those who have provided assistance for me in my work through the Ministry Resource list have more than ever banished

Further Thoughts on the Manhattan Declaration and a Response to Frank Beckwith

James White, November 25, 2009, Christian Worldview

I returned from a very enjoyable jaunt up and down South Mountain with my wife (on bicycles, of course) to discover that Southern Seminary President Albert Mohler had tweeted a link to my comments on the Manhattan Declaration. I am very thankful Dr. Mohler felt them worthy of notice. I said recently Dr. Mohler is the smartest Southern Baptist alive,

John MacArthur on the Manhattan Declaration.

James White, November 24, 2009, Misc

Well, it’s nice to have company on this. 🙂 The Manhattan Declaration Tuesday, Nov 24, 2009 (By John MacArthur) Here are the main reasons I am not signing the Manhattan Declaration, even though a few men whom I love and respect have already affixed their names to it: • Although I obviously agree with the document’s opposition to same-sex marriage,

On True Unity

James White, November 24, 2009, Misc

I was directed to some comments made regarding the concept of unity and Rome’s constant attack upon the Scriptures and the doctrine of sola scriptura. Someone had made mention of my home church, which is partly what drew my attention. A comment was left by Joey, who said, Your comparison is not well structured. First, you are comparing a single

The Collision of Apologetic Methods

Jeff Downs, November 24, 2009, General Apologetics

I recently read Doug Groothuis’s review of the new film Collision (the debate/discussions between Christopher Hitchens and Doug Wilson). Already knowing that Groothuis does not favor presupposition apologetics, I was still surprised to find this comment in this review: “Those trained in apologetics, will note that Wilson uses the Van Tillian presuppositional method (with some help from C.S. Lewis on

A Sikh/Atheist on Unbelievable, Apologetics Calls

James White, November 24, 2009, The Dividing Line

I played a portion of a debate from Justin Brierley’s Unbelievable program in the UK where the Sikh representative turned out to be part of Dennis McKinsey’s Biblical Errancy group. Then we took calls, including two on the subject of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Made some hopefully helpful comments on the need to be grounded and balanced in studying the cults. Don’t

The Troubling Aspects of the Manhattan Declaration

James White, November 23, 2009, Christian Worldview

Because we honor justice and the common good, we will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in abortions, embryodestructive research, assisted suicide and euthanasia, or any other antilife act; nor will we bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or

Shea Not Willing to Dance to this Particular Piper

TurretinFan, November 23, 2009, Roman Catholicism

Matthew 11:16-17 But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented. Mark Shea seems unhappy (link to his post). He states: Speaking of weird partisanship, here’s

Talk About Convoluted…

James White, November 22, 2009, Reformed Apologetics

I was directed to what must be the most convoluted, complicated, amazing attempt to get around the plain meaning of John 6 I’ve ever seen. You really have to work at producing this kind of complexity in the face of plain teaching. The lengths to which people will go to avoid a sovereign God! If you have time for such

Former Pro-Golfer

James White, November 19, 2009, The Dividing Line

Sorry to be late getting this up. Rich’s laptop, which he uses to do a lot of this stuff, died this morning (motherboard), so we are a little delayed. Yesterday we discussed the great non-event of a former pro-golfer promoting a long-refuted book attacking the deity of Christ, then we took a number of calls on a wide variety of

More on Homosexual Uber-Rights

James White, November 19, 2009, Christian Worldview

I have been saying for years, homosexuals do not want equal rights. They want uber-rights. They want to silence anyone who would identify their sexual perversion as sin. Why? Romans 1 tells you. Suppressing the truth is tiring, and for the homosexual, it is a full-time job. They cannot silence their conscience, but they can try to silence anyone who

Responses to the Deen Show

James White, November 18, 2009, Islam

I have put together a YouTube playlist of the sixteen videos I have done providing response and refutation to what is promoted on The Deen Show. If you have Muslim friends, they might find the following to be of interest.

Golfer Kermit Zarley is Servetus “the Evangelical”?

James White, November 18, 2009, Misc

Steve Noel wrote this morning and identified former professional golfer Kermit Zarley as Servetus the Evangelical. A brief look at his website seems to confirm this, as he has written a few religiously oriented books, and, more importantly, says the following: North Park University’s gregarious New Testament professor, accomplished golfer, and my close friend–Dr. Scot McKnight–a well published author himself,

Why Many Modern American Evangelicals Don’t Like Reformed Baptist Preaching

James White, November 18, 2009, Reformed Baptist Issues

Humanists with a thin coating of religion won’t put up with this for long. Reformed Baptist Churches tend to be between 50 and 350 congregants in size, generally. Here is a contrast. A “church” with 16,000 in attendance. Listen to the message. While I did not add the text to this video, the final verse provided says it all.

Help Us Get the London Debates!

James White, November 17, 2009, Islam

Here’s what happened. Last year another ministry offered to pay for the video taping of the debates I did in London. They had likewise taped the debates in Southern California earlier in the year, and in Durham with Zulfiqar Ali Shah. We have received two of the eight debates (both with Osama Abdullah). However, they took too much on, and

Callers on Reformed Theology

James White, November 17, 2009, The Dividing Line

Talked a bit about upcoming debate possibilities, including my getting in contact with Dr. Michael Brown, and the possibility of having him on the DL, and my being on his program as well. Played a caller objecting to Reformed theology from Dr. Brown’s radio program, then took calls.

An Insight into Ehrman’s Most Recent

James White, November 17, 2009, General Apologetics

Michael Kruger from RTS Charlotte concluded his review of Jesus Interrupted with these words: In the end, Jesus Interrupted can be best summarized as a book filled with ironies. Ironic that it purports to be about unbiased history but rarely presents an opposing viewpoint; ironic that it claims to follow the scholarly consensus but breaks from it so often; ironic

Zakir Naik’s Claims on Muhammad in the Bible

James White, November 16, 2009, Islam

Here is my third and final response to Zakir Naik’s appearance on The Deen Show. What I did was take my opening statement from my debate with Shabir Ally on this topic from London in November of last year, along with my comments on Deuteronomy 18:18 from the preceding debate, and put that audio under the KeyNote slides I used.

Responding to Zakir Naik on the Deen Show, Pt. 2.

James White, November 15, 2009, Misc

Responding to Zakir Naik on the Deen Show, Pt. 1

James White, November 14, 2009, Islam

An Ironically Accurate Description of the Majority of Roman Catholic Apologetics Efforts

James White, November 13, 2009, Roman Catholicism

I say it is ironic because it is provided by…a Roman Catholic. In criticizing “Catholicism: Crisis of Faith,” SDG wrote: In short, the video appears to be aimed at Catholics whose faith is shallow, ill-informed, and unstable, who will not realize that there is anything more to the issues than you have presented here. It seems to seek to make

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We Finished Norman Geisler’s “Sermon” on Calvinism!

James White, November 12, 2009, The Dividing Line

I know it only took me five months, but we finally finished up Norman Geisler’s “Why I’m Not a Five Point Calvinist” sermon, and took a couple of calls as well. I took a few minutes to report on the last few days of my trip to New York as well. Our pre-feed music came from none other than Mylo

From the Mail Bag:

James White, November 11, 2009, Mail Bag

An honest iniquiry about Dr. White’s blog statement: I wanted to illustrate that simply taking the Qur’an as the final authority without recognizing that it is not mubinun, “clear” or “perspicuous,” on so many points (and this is one of the most vital assertions it makes, in denying the atonement of Christ!) leads to irrationality.” How does this claim of

Imam Sayeed

James White, November 10, 2009, The Dividing Line

Started off with a song from our KJV Only friends, via the Amazing Grace Baptist Church KJV, called “Bogus Bible Blues.” What a way to start! Then gave a brief report on Saturday’s encounter with Imam Sayeed, and then dove back into the Geisler sermon, taking one call on God “changing his mind” at the end of the program. More

A Major Ministry Resource Opportunity

James White, November 10, 2009, Misc

Last Saturday evening those in attendance at the dialogue in Queens know that I asked a number of direct questions of Imam Sayeed relating to Surah 4:157. One of the reasons I did so was because I knew there were Muslims in the audience who take a different view of the text, and I wanted to illustrate that simply taking

Jesus in the Bible and the Qur’an Part 3

James White, November 10, 2009, Islam

Jesus in the Bible and the Qur’an Part 2

James White, November 9, 2009, Islam

Update: New rendering that fixed the audio problems YouTube had in converting the video.

Many Thanks to TurretinFan and Steve Hayes

James White, November 8, 2009, Misc

When I landed in NY on Friday evening I found that TurretinFan and Steve Hayes had both responded to our Thursday DL caller, Wes. Steve responded here, and TurretinFan added some comments here. As you saw, TurretinFan had already linked to a rather extensive discussion he had posted a few years ago on the Grounding Objection here. I am thankful

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