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Without Excuse Indeed!

, , Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Reformed Apologetics, Theology Matters

Back when Fesko’s book came out a few years ago I read the early statement out of Westminster (which Van Til contributed to heavily) on the issue of general revelation, natural theology, etc. 15 years ago when I was teaching apologetics at Golden Gate I had my students read the Sproul/Gerstner/Lindsley work on classical apologetics. I used it to point

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The Calvinist Club, Sola Scriptura, Purgatory

, , Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Eastern Orthodoxy, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism

Went almost two hours today but it’s an important program. Started off responding to William Samuel Bruce’s comments about me being a part of the “New Calvinism.” Then we moved into a response to James Fox Higgins on the subject of sola scriptura, its definition and defense (really important). Then following that theme we want back to this video featuring

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Another Potpourri Show!

, , Abortion, Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Mormonism, Musings, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line

Started off with two videos and a little report from the weekend (including my having the awesome honor of baptizing two of my granddaughters, Kadence and Clementine). Then I showed off my new Jeffrey Rice/PTL LXX set and talked about this coming Sunday’s sermon at Apologia on compatibilism. Eventually we made it around to the subject of Mormonism and modifications

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A Remote Dividing Line that Did Not Look Remote

, , Christian Worldview, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Hebrew Israelism, Post-Evangelicalism, Provisionism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line

Felt it would be wise to test our new technology before I do the Apologetics Roundtable tomorrow evening, so we did the program that way and I must say, it turned out well! A little warm (I am set up in the warmest room in my house, well, at least during the summer—surely the coolest for the few weeks of

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The Sudden Clarity of Black Racism (Louis Farrakhan), Then a Response to Jonathan McLatchie on the Noetic Effect of Sin

, , Christian Worldview, Debate, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Hebrew Israelism, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line

Started off looking at a clip showing sincere, clear, plain black supremacy straight from the teachings of Louis Farrakhan, a very well known racist who believes white people are demons. Eventually we transitioned into providing an exegetical response to Jonathan McLatchie’s assertion that there really is no “noetic effect of sin,” a claim he lays out in this article. The

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Open Phones Dividing Line Friday

, , Christian Worldview, Church History, Exegesis, General Apologetics, King James Onlyism, Pauline Studies, Persecution, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

Let’s see what some of the topics were: Sam Gipp and “Antioch manuscripts,” the Church & Culture, Debating the Papacy, Justification and Roman Catholic apologists, how to talk to Christians who have bought into social justice theories, and more!

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Another Potpourri of Topics, Including the Future of Mormonism

, , Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Homosexuality, Mormonism, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line

Covered a lot of topics including Don Lemon’s comments from 2013 (and how I said the exact same thing in 2016), as well as his “Jesus wasn’t perfect” comments from yesterday. Looked at a new X-Ray map of the universe, and finished up looking at the future of Mormonism.

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Catching Up on the Revolution

, , Christian Worldview, Persecution, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Had a pile of articles to catch up with over the weekend since we did a Radio Free Geneva yesterday, including a BLM leader’s open promotion of black supremacy, Seattle’s anti-white rhetoric, and a Christian student kicked out of an allegedly Christian university for observing the obvious. Worldview issues abound as we face the open promotion of Marxist revolution in

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Answering Questions from Friends

, , Christian Worldview, Church History, Exegesis, Open Theism, Pastoral Theology, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Did an hour and forty minutes today answering questions from two friends of mine—but you will find them to be useful questions! A great deal on the topics of how Christians are to respond to changing cultural situations and challenges, and then a solid hour or so on theodicy, God and the existence of evil. I did start off with

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Being Saved, Marxists Everywhere, Graeme Codrington vs. John Piper

, , Christian Worldview, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Homosexuality, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Spent some time talking about 1 Corinthians 1:18 and what “being saved” means in like a KJVOist Nathan Rager’s NIV-tossing comments on the passage, discussed more about Marxism, and finished up looking at comments by Graeme Codrington on John Piper’s affirmation of God’s sovereignty over the CV-19 virus.

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From Claire de Lune to Jonathan Merritt to Rome’s Dogmas About Mary

, , Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, General Apologetics, Homosexuality, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

Went an hour and 45 minutes today because we “covered the waterfront.” Talked about how Twitter is saying the Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel is a dangerous website (could be a technical glitch, could be purposeful), and then discussed how we can have confidence that God’s truth abides with us today. Discussed Jonathan Merritt’s 1 minute video, looked

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Update/Addition to Bostock Decision Commentary, BLM’s Marxist Abuse of Language, Qur’anic Verbs

, , Christian Worldview, Homosexuality, Islam, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line

I forgot to address the presuppositional worldview issue relating to the Bostock decision on Tuesday, so I wanted to touch upon that, and then we transitioned into the play on words that BLM is using to promote Marxism under the guise of a sentence that actually only makes sense within the Christian worldview anyway. Then transitioned into a discussion of

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Supreme Court, BLM, Thabiti, 2 Cor. 4:4

, , Atheism, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Homosexuality, Pauline Studies, Persecution, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line

Started out with a discussion of the Supreme Court’s redefinition of “sex” from 1964 and the resultant degradation of morality and law in the United States. Then looked at the totalitarian movement of Black Lives Matter, and their promotion of transgenderism. Then we simply had to read through the thread of tweets posted by Thabiti Anyabwile wherein he states “Until

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Revelation 6, Mohler and the Leftists, James Gets Canceled Again, JK Rowling

, , Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Homosexuality, Persecution, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line

Just an hour today but we crammed a lot in, including looking at a petition to get Albert Mohler fired for daring to say something negative about the Episcopalians (and for not repeating the necessary cultural mantras), Anthony Caputi is “done” with the Dividing Line, and JK Rowling takes on the transgender cabal.

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All Lives Matter BECAUSE God is the Creator: Getting the Conversation Right

, , Christian Worldview, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line

Well I imagine the woke folks will be lighting the torches and grabbing the pitchforks (if they can get out of the Autonomous Zone in Seattle anyway) but we just had to deal with the flood of cultural Marxism flowing into the veins of evangelical churches right now. Looked at JD Greear’s comments (hopefully fairly) as well as some others,

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Living in Two Worlds, then, A Full Response to a Muslim “Revert”

, , Christian Worldview, Church History, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Gospel/Jesus Studies, Islam, Persecution, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line

Started off with a few minutes discussing the reality that a lot of us are facing: how do you have any sense of “normal” anymore when the future looks to troubled, so difficult? Why even bother talking about theology during a revolution? Well, because Christians have done that for a very long time, actually. So, a few words of encouragement

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Responding to the Charge of “Perceived Carelessness” and More on the Social Justice Revolution

, , Christian Worldview, Offense, Persecution, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line

Read, and fully responded to, a rebuke from Christian brothers and sisters based upon an article (which I also read) about the need to do history seriously, without imposing lenses and filters that fundamentally distort it. Addressed a number of issues that came up over the weekend regarding the explosion of social justice revolution in the world, and its inconsistency

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Critical Theory, Race, Reconciliation, then Phone Calls on Great Topics

, , Atheism, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Started off reading a comment from Dr. James Lindsay about Critical Race Theory and the concept of “reconciliation,” and followed up with some more discussion on the “woke church.” Then we took calls on such topics as detecting if your church is going down the “woke” path and when you would have to leave, where we have to draw the

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Critical Theory Issues in Recent Events, Memes and Screen Shots, Leighton Flowers and Apologetics

, , Atheism, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Post-Evangelicalism, Provisionism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line

A mega edition of the DL today, two full hours, covering tons of current events with the social justice revolutionaries both outside and inside the church for the first 1:10. Last 50 minutes focused on a tweet from Leighton Flowers saying Calvinism and Apologetics do not mix. We listened to and critiqued an on-line exchange on the topic of God’s

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Supreme Court and Churches, Remember that Covid Stuff? Hyper-preterism Debate

, , Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Misc, Musings, Persecution, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line

Meandered around a bit today touching on the fact that Rich is French, that “Parler” should probably be pronounced with the French pronunciation (and yes, I have joined Parler, @Eleutheros), that the Supreme Court declining to give an injunction in California, while disappointing, isn’t the end of the world, and some other stuff about the current melt-down in the US.

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Bart Ehrman Stuff, then Valentinian Gnosticism

, , Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, General Apologetics, Provisionism, The Dividing Line

Talked a little about a new video from Ancient Paths TV about Bart Ehrman, playing a few clips and making application. Then we gave an introduction to a vitally important variant of Gnosticism in ancient history, Valentinianism. Don’t let the name dissuade you, this is really important stuff! We will take a few calls tomorrow to start off the program,

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Lightfoot in Chicago Then A Helpful Introduction to the Gnostic Creation Myth

, , Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, General Apologetics, Homosexuality, Provisionism, The Dividing Line

Two main topics today, first, the reality of how much our conversation has changed in the past forty years, illustrated by Mayor Lori Lightfoot in Chicago and the inevitable relationship between her lesbianism and her attitude toward the Christian church. Then we dove into a summary introduction to the Gnostic myth of creation, something we’ve been promising to do for

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Caesar’s Gold, Augustine Actual Again

, , Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, General Apologetics, Provisionism, Technology, The Dividing Line

Went over why I responded so negatively to the idea of churches accepting federal funding from the recent CARES funny-money “stimulus” at the start of the program. Talked a little about giving my grandkids a “sun show” today using my Meade solar telescope, then moved back into fundamentals of scholarly examination of historical materials, this time looking at a section

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Governmental Authority and the Church

, , Christian Worldview, Church History, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Godly Disciplines, Pastoral Theology, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

We are joined today by our guest host pastor Robb Brunansky of Desert Hills Bible Church in Phoenix Arizona. Do government guidelines require the church to close during a pandemic, and what will you say to Christ at the Final Judgment about how you responded to this crisis? We also cover a video from the EFCA discussing re-opening churches that

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Pope Francis, Dan Barker, Bad Bad Twitter Man, Wilson vs. “Augustine Actual”

, , Atheism, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Offense, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Provisionism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

This will be my only program this week—don’t worry, we have a special guest filling in on Thursday (I have to head out of town quickly). So we went long, a full two hours. Covered a ton of topics from Pope Francis’ call for “believers of all religions” to join in asking God to “help us” with coronavirus, Dan Barker’s

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On the Church and the State (First Hour), Anderson Cooper and Other Cultural Issues

, , Abortion, Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Homosexuality, Post-Evangelicalism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

I didn’t expect to spend the first hour talking about how the church has responded to the state’s “requests” and then demands, and what we can expect in the future. Then we talked about Anderson Cooper’s son and how the culture is just accepting the revolution’s norms.

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The Twitter Mob Doubles Down on Dishonesty, Genesis 50 and Compatibilism

, , Christian Worldview, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Persecution, Personal, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

The Twitter mob (made up of a diverse group of folks to be sure!) is busy making up new accusations, editing screenshots, and in general doing their best to twist, distort, and downright lie through their keyboards, but the truth is too clear. So after once again demonstrating their lies, we got into more edifying topics such as Genesis 50

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Isaiah 10 and God’s Decree, Jonathan Merritt Tickles the Ears of the Elite

, , Christian Worldview, Church History, Exegesis, Provisionism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

A little shorter program today (only 75 minutes!) but diving into God’s decree and Isaiah 10 and its witness to the necessary understanding of compatibilism before moving into a review of Jonathan Merritt’s Atlantic article on “Christian Cruelty in the Face of Covid-19.” The Dividing Line 4/27/2020 Isaiah 10 and God’s Decree, Jonathan Merritt Tickles the Ears of the Elite

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