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Debate Report from London, Open Phones, Twitter Questions

James White, May 3, 2019, General Apologetics, Islam, Misc, Pastoral Theology, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Gave a quick debate report from last nights encounter with Adnan Rashid in Selhurst, South London, and then started covering questions provided over Twitter and yes, open phones! I was very pleased with how well the phones worked, in fact, so this means we will be able to focus more upon doing Dividing Lines even when I am traveling overseas

Refuting Bradly Mason’s Critical Theory Diatribe, Interacting on “Cultural Marxism,” Live from London

James White, May 1, 2019, Christian Worldview, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

Did a Zoom based DL from London this evening (given we are using hotel wi-fi, I am pretty impressed with Zoom in comparison to Skype) reviewing the entirety of Bradly Mason’s Twitter diatribe accusing everyone who isn’t a devotee of critical theory of being supporters and promoters of white supremacy. Actually did give a brief summary of the trip to

News About This Week’s Debate

Rich Pierce, April 30, 2019, Islam

Drawing the Lines: Matt Walsh, Serene Jones, Ron Underwood

James White, April 22, 2019, Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Godly Disciplines, Gospel/Jesus Studies, Pastoral Theology, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Did a live DL from London (Westminster) today via Zoom (worked really well!) discussing how we “draw the lines,” using three examples to provide us with some perspective for this challenging discussion. We looked at Matt Walsh, Roman Catholic, who was interviewed on the CrossPolitic program last week. Then we looked at Serene Jones, head of Union Theological Seminary, and

A Few Opening Thoughts then Open Phones

Rich Pierce, April 17, 2019, CBGM, Church History, Pastoral Theology, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Pretty much open phones today with good questions like “Did Augustine really have the gospel?” and “How central is the issue of credobaptism vs. infant baptism?” Last US DL for a few weeks as I will be overseas, but we do intend to sneak a few programs in (probably in the mornings here in the US) as time permits. Here

William Lane Craig and the Basis of Faith, Douglas Beaumont’s Failed Attempt at Redefining John 6:44

James White, April 16, 2019, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Started off responding to this article by William Lane Craig, once again dealing with the relationship between God’s revelation in Scripture and our knowledge, including our knowledge of who Christ was (and is). Craig is the primary source for Andy Stanley’s position, by the way, as you will see. Then we transitioned into a full-on refutation of this article by

Teaching: The History of Trinitarian Theology, Know Reformed Presbyterian Church, Mechanicsville, VA, 4/27/2019

James White, April 13, 2019, Uncategorized

https://youtu.be/xJp_jfT7vEI

Teaching: A Defense of the Deity of Christ, Knox Reformed Presbyterian Church, Mechanicsville, VA, 4/21/2019

James White, April 13, 2019, Uncategorized

https://youtu.be/4yJY8RY5Xb8

Radio Free Geneva: Jesse Morrell Exposed, John 6:44 Excuses Examined

James White, April 11, 2019, Exegesis, Radio Free Geneva, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Decided to fire up a Radio Free Geneva today to go over the pile of heresies and errors propounded by street preacher Jesse Morrell recently down in Texas in a conversation with Pastor Emilio Ramos. Morrell is an open theist/Pelagian/original sin denying/sinless perfectionist, so the combination of errors results in amazing teachings! A useful opportunity to illustrate falsehoods. Then we

City Council Video, Ekemini Uwan and Wicked Whiteness, Radio Free Geneva on Leighton Flowers

James White, April 9, 2019, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Racialism, Radio Free Geneva, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line

Started off with my 3 minute presentation to the Phoenix City Council from last Wednesday, then moved into a pretty full analysis of Ekemini Uwan’s comments at the Sparrow Conference focused on the “wickedness of whiteness.” Looked a lot at the critical theory foundation to her views. Then we fired up the Radio Free Geneva theme and looked at a

Cultural Madness, Atonement Issues, Textual Traditionalism

James White, April 3, 2019, Abortion, CBGM, Christian Worldview, Church History, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Homosexuality, King James Onlyism, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

A morning DL for us here today, the only program for this week. We started with some commentary on current cultural madness and rapid decline, including a grandmother bearing a child for her homosexual son. Then we looked at issues relating to the atonement, first in comments from Taylor Marshall and Timothy Gordon on the Mass, and then from William

“Those Who Hate Me Love Death.” —Godly Wisdom

James White, April 2, 2019, Godly Disciplines, Musings, Pastoral Theology, Theology Matters

The news is filled with stories of the world expressing its hatred toward the faith and its express intention to take away the liberties and freedoms of anyone who will not bow the knee to Caesar (in our day, celebrate homosexuality, profane marriage, admit that women are men and men are women, abuse children, and, of course, murder children in

Upcoming Debates, Tom Buck and Sam Allberry, Steven Anderson and Textual Traditionalism

James White, March 28, 2019, CBGM, Church History, General Apologetics, Homosexuality, King James Onlyism, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

Started off with some exciting news about possible upcoming major debates and pointing folks to the Travel Fund as the most important way of helping us to make this happen. Then we looked at the fall out from the posting of the four-part series of articles by Pastor Tom Buck interacting with materials found on the Living Out website before

Living Out Part 4 – A Call to Immediate Action

Tom Buck, March 28, 2019, Homosexuality

Living Out and a Call to Immediate Action When Paul wrote young pastor Timothy in the church at Ephesus, he reminded him of this sobering reality of ministry: “Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers” (1 Timothy 4:16). As pastors, we must

Living Out Part 3 – Unbiblical Counsel

Tom Buck, March 27, 2019, Homosexuality

The Unbiblical Counsel of Living Out Paul tells the Colossians that they have been saved for the purpose of being presented “holy and blameless and above reproach” before Christ (Col 1:22). This requires, he says, that they “continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in

Living Out Part 2 – A Closer Examination

Tom Buck, March 26, 2019, Homosexuality

A Closer Examination of Living Out In my past experience, many Christians have not demonstrated compassion towards homosexuals and those struggling with same-sex attraction. As I shared in my first article, I found it common for Christians, even pastors, to express ridicule and contempt towards homosexuals rather than love and compassion for them. Therefore, some of the shifts occurring among

Microphone Testing, Living Out, Traditional Textism and the Longer Ending of Mark

James White, March 25, 2019, General Apologetics, Homosexuality, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

Started off with technical issues, to be honest (tried a new microphone that didn’t work out well, yet, anyway), and then eventually discussed Tom Buck’s currently running series of articles on Living Out. Then moved to the Traditional Text position (TR) finishing up with a look at the endings of Mark. We will be back on Thursday of this week. Don’t forget

Living Out Part 1 – The Shift

Tom Buck, March 25, 2019, Homosexuality

The Church’s Shift in Addressing Homosexuality In my seminary days, Dr. Howard Hendricks warned us that the church tends to drift from one extreme to another. He declared that the church tends to be balanced only for a brief moment when it is swinging from one end of the pendulum to the other. I am reminded of this assessment as

Live Dividing Line from Las Vegas with Summer of Sheologians (and the Grandkids)

James White, March 20, 2019, Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Personal, Racialism, The Dividing Line

We did a live program from Las Vegas with Summer Jaeger of Sheologians, together with guest appearances by my grandkids, Janny, Clementine, Waylon and Kadence. We talk feminism and the future and all sorts of things, and discover that I failed completely in having never shown Summer the epic movie Thief in the Night. Here is the YouTube link: Live Video

In Defense of Sound Guys, Oppression and Exegesis, a Bit on Psalm 12 and the Text

James White, March 18, 2019, Christian Worldview, King James Onlyism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line

Regular length show today (60 minutes!) with some material at the start on the difficult life of the church sound guy (thanks to the Babylon Bee). Then we talked about racialism, oppression, and the interpretation of Scripture (with shout outs to Cross Politic and others), and finished up with a few verses people use to try to make certain points

A Steve Hays Face-Plant, Closer Look at Texts like 1 John 3:1, A Tad of Steven Anderson, Four Phone Calls

James White, March 14, 2019, Exegesis, General Apologetics, King James Onlyism, Open Theism, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

Looked at a few topics to start out, including a short hit piece from Steve Hays that missed the mark by a mile. Then we did a little more TC reasoning looking at another claim from the TT’s that doing modern textual criticism is unbiblical, and then moved on to a few more quotes from Steven Anderson in response to

Reviewing Recent Interactions on Line, then Back to Erasmus and the Text

James White, March 12, 2019, Abortion, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, General Apologetics, King James Onlyism, Mormonism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

Went over various interactions with folks regarding social justice and the like, including some Anthony Bradley quotes, at the top of the program (actually had a few comments on developments in Mormonism at the very start), and then switched back to Erasmus and the book of Revelation, then engaging with arguments/accusations made from the textual traditionalists. Finished up watching a

Shepherd’s Conference 2019 Q&A: Mohler, Dever, Duncan, MacArthur, Johnson

James White, March 7, 2019, Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

I had intended to cover more than one topic today. Failed miserably. We spent the first half an hour with Pastor Tom Buck who was at the Q&A session of the Shepherd’s Conference yesterday and was able to give us a first-hand report on his impressions of what took place. Then we played a major portion of the Q&A, interacting

Dr. Anthony Bradley’s Vitriolic Anti-Reformed Baptist Explosion

James White, March 6, 2019, Racialism

This morning in an exchange with Kyle “I am afraid to be in the same room with James White” James Howard, Dr. Anthony Bradley of King’s College (where he teaches theology and, ironically, ethics) truly exposed the attitude he holds toward Reformed Baptists of all kinds. You will note the scare quotes around “reformed” in his comments. I tweeted a

Future Predictions, Social Issues, Refuting Bradly Mason, Erasmus, and Steven Anderson Chapter 3

James White, March 5, 2019, Exegesis, General Apologetics, King James Onlyism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

Caught up with a lot of recent developments in the decline of the West and then started looking at some material from Christian social justice advocates, including a tweet from Beth Moore, and then an article from Bradly Mason. Then we switched gears to the textual issue, looking at Erasmus’ work on the book of Revelation and the reality that

Debate: The Extent of the Atonement: A Brotherly, Biblically-Based Discussion and Disagreement, Michael Brown, 2/27/2019

James White, February 27, 2019, Debate, Exegesis, Pauline Studies, Reformed Apologetics, Theology Matters

Finally got around to getting Dr. Michael Brown on the program to discuss the extent of the atonement. Just over 90 minutes of uncompromising, brotherly, respectful discussion of yet another topic upon which we disagree. Hopefully useful to all—and just wait till you see the explosion of color, too! Remember, this is the last program for the week as I

An Almost Two Hour DL: Sam Allberry’s RZIM Presentation on Transgenderism, the Important Issues in Textual Traditionalism

James White, February 25, 2019, CBGM, Homosexuality, Reformed Apologetics, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Went 115 minutes today, the first hour focusing upon Sam Allberry’s presentation on transgenderism at the RZIM event just a few weeks ago. Then we moved on to look at some of the statements made recently by advocates of Textual Traditionalism (including identifying that moniker as “gutter language” and a “slur”). Lots of discussion of epistemology, Reformed theology, history of

Cultural Observations on the Sexual Revolution, Mormonism, Racialism, and Calls

James White, February 21, 2019, Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Homosexuality, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

Wow, what a mix! Lots of material at the start on true biblical justice, avoiding mobs, how intersectionality eats its own (Martina Navratilova), and the use of the “crisis” to get things done now, even if what you are really doing is just pushing forward your ultimate agenda. Then we took calls on various topics, and then at the end of

Radio Free Geneva: NIFB Arguments Reviewed, the Ecclesiastical Text Movement Examined

James White, February 19, 2019, CBGM, Exegesis, General Apologetics, King James Onlyism, Radio Free Geneva, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

Did a 100 minute Radio Free Geneva today, looking at the arguments from an NIFB pastor in the Philippines first, and then going into a much more in-depth discussion on the issue of the text of the New Testament in response to the ever present Traditionalists in the Reformed camp. Important stuff to consider! Also included a debate invitation/challenge for

A Twitter Convo, David Bernard Podcast on the Trinity, Open Phones

James White, February 14, 2019, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, Mormonism, Oneness Pentecostalism, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line

Began a rainy DL today with an interaction with a Twitter user (@BlackRepublican) regarding the foundational issues of the faith (once again—and one of the calls from our brother Kofi raised the issue again later), and then moved on to a brief interaction with Dr. David Bernard of the UPCI on the Trinity and soteriology (Bernard is the leading theologian

Russell Moore’s Statement, Steven Anderson on KJVOC Chapter 2

James White, February 12, 2019, Church History, Homosexuality, King James Onlyism, Racialism, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

Spent most of our time today examining Dr. Russell Moore’s statement on the Houston Chronicle article, and specifically what he identified as “wrongheaded” and “dangerous” ideas. This required us to revisit Rome’s doctrine of the priesthood and related issues. Then we responded to Steven Anderson’s second video wherein he reviews the second chapter of The King James Only Controversy. 75 minutes.

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