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Today we welcomed Pastor Dan Caffese of The Sovereign Grace Bible Church to the Dividing Line. Christians who believe in the Bible, and the God revealed there as good and all powerful, have always faced the challenge, “If God is good and all powerful how can evil still exist in the world?” This video summarizes the Bible’s answer by considering
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So I wandered into a little restaurant/pub type place near my hotel in Sydney this afternoon to grab a bite to eat. I got a notification on my phone about an article posted by my daughter Summer, so I opened it up and began to read. I began co-authoring The Same Sex Controversy when Summer was around eleven years old,
A quick review of Tony Campolo’s continued decline on homosexuality, along with a “Challenge for Christians” Here is the YouTube link:
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I am sitting at the airport waiting to begin my journey to Australia (via LAX—I really do not like LAX) and I note that, to use his own phraseology, I seem to be “living in Yahya Snow’s head.” I do find it somewhat humorous that someone who has been refuted so many times, has had so many of his arguments
Pastor John Samson (kingschurchaz.com) guest hosts once again on today’s Dividing Line, bringing an important teaching on first order and second order doctrines. As the quote attributed to Augustine says, “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; and in all things, charity.” We experienced some audio difficulties during the first two minutes of the show but after that it went well.
I’ll be honest, it would be humorous, if it wasn’t so sad. Muslim apologists in general are fascinated by apostates. You see it on the Deen Show all the time, where some kid who was once a summer intern at a church is touted as a “former Christian minister” and “expert on Christian theology.” Bart Ehrman, apostate par-excellence, is their
I am sure this will give Ijaz Ahmad hives, but my point was that both Jory Micah and Ijaz are suggesting corruption of the Bible, but for very, very different reasons. The focus today is all textual critical, with lots of looking at graphics and considering variants and the like. I confess, it will be hard to just listen to
Finally had the “talk” I’ve been mentioning for a while. I have been asked, repeatedly, about my views on the election, voting, and all the controversy swirling around evangelicals and Donald Trump. So, having finished up the sola scriptura series, it seemed appropriate, as I will be out of town for nearly three weeks, to “have the talk.” About 80% of
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I managed to resist the temptation to do the “politics talk” and finished up the introduction to sola scriptura today in a 90 minute program focusing upon the final sections of Karlo Broussard’s arguments on Catholic Answers Live, and then discussing two more important aspects, “Apostolic Tradition” in the early fathers as well as the issue of the canon. Not easy material
Aside from a few brief comments at the start about a few current events we focused pretty much fully on the sola scriptura series, finally getting to the clip from the debate with Mitch Pacwa and listening to a number of segments from the Catholic Answers Live show with Karlo Broussard. Important information! Here is the YouTube link:
A response to the Muslim Apologetics Podcast, focusing on two common arguments allegedly showing Jesus was “ignorant” and hence could not be God.
Three topics on the program today; for the first 15 minutes or so a quick rejoinder to Jory Micah and her “El Shaddai means ‘one with many breasts'” tweet, then about half an hour in response to Spencer Toy’s article on crossexamined.org, “An Open Question for Presuppositionalists.” Then we got back for the last 45 minutes to our study of
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We continued our series on sola scriptura today, looking at what sola scriptura is and is not. Touched on the issues raised by charismatic claims of “thus says the Lord” a bit as well. We really believe this is an important series, and hope our listeners will find it foundationally edifying. Here is the YouTube link:
Went 135 minutes today (hence the “uber-mega” designation) covering two primary topics: sola scriptura defined and defended against a recent attack upon it by Karlo Broussard of Catholic Answers (first 90 minutes), and then a “live” review of a new video against the deity of Christ from a Muslim perspective (link). A lot of foundational, basic teaching today that we think is
Went almost a full two hours today reading through and responding to Frank Turek’s 9/8 article in defense of Andy Stanley’s comments about the Bible and the resurrection. Much important information on the foundational and fundamental differences between the evidentialist/minimalist approach and a full-orbed biblical apologetic. Here is the YouTube link:
Started off with a brief discussion of the constant problem with Islamic apologetics—the necessary double standard it has to employ to defend the Qur’an on one hand, and attack the Bible on the other. Then we moved back to the Russell Moore/Andy Stanley discussion, once again noting fundamental issues of ecclesiology and Scriptural authority lying at the root of the
James started off today commenting on the sudden death of a young woman, a mother of seven, from Apologia church. He asks for prayer for not only Apologia but specifically for the family. Then he plays a clip from a recent Reasonable Faith podcast regarding Molinism. Finally the fuller portion of Russell Moore’s interview with Andy Stanley where Andy reads
The Calvinism-Arminianism debate is substantially a debate between what is called “synergism” and “monergism.” For those who are new to this debate, the following is a primer on the two perennial branches of theological systems within Christianity. Or to put it another way, there are two very different ways for believers to understand their salvation. The first type is the
James and I will be on the “Apologetics in the Sight of God” Cruise for all of next week. During this time the Alpha and Omega Offices will be closed. Unfortunately, during this time we will not be able to reply to communication or to ship out any orders from the bookstore. We will return on September 19 and will
Over two hours today (someone stop me!), starting with a few miscellaneous items (one of thanks for a gift sent to me, one in response to some Hebrew Israelite camps), and then moving to a section from Dr. Turek’s book. Then we presented a comparison of how Dr. Turek answered the question of evil in a debate with David Silverman, and how
Started off discussing the David Gushee article from a few weeks ago and his very truthful analysis that there is no middle ground on the issue of God’s law for the believing Christian. Too bad Dr. Gushee has chosen to be on the wrong side of that divide! Then we watched an entire section of a video from Israel United
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