Archive for category: Church History

A Non-Road Trip Road Trip DL

James White, November 22, 2023, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

Had to use the mobile studio today even though I am not yet on the road and…didn’t really work out. Had to record it. Mainly a lengthy response to Joshua T. Charles on key and important issues relating to Roman Catholicism, claims of authority, canonicity, etc.

Responding to a Roman Catholic Convert

James White, November 20, 2023, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Provisionism, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

Though I touched briefly on a Soteriology 101 tweet at the end of the show, the vast majority was directed to responding to Joshua T. Charles and his presentation of Newman’s “development hypothesis” as the answer to my Nicea question. A lot is going on in Rome these days, and we need to keep up if we wish to be

On Extra-Biblical Language in the Nicene Creed

Chris Whisonant, November 15, 2023, Church Fathers, Church History

One of the most helpful books for understanding the usage of extra-Biblical words in the Nicene Creed is “A Defense of the Nicene Definition” by Athanasius (who was at the Nicene Council). This post can be seen as a follow up to this post and this post. In those posts, I related how thoroughly Biblical the language of the Nicene

Too Many Topics Today To Remember!

James White, November 14, 2023, Abortion, Christian Worldview, Church History, Debate, Exegesis, Molinism, Provisionism, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Transinsanity

Went for an hour and forty minutes or so and covered a lot of topics, I must confess! Mainly focused on finishing up our response to Jason Breda on John 6 and his confusion about Greek verbs, participles, tenses, you name it. Did that, and then played a clip from Frank Turek claiming Calvinism is contradictory, and then a clip

Dr. Downer Does Reformation Day, and Lots More

James White, October 31, 2023, Church History, Debate, Exegesis, Federal Vision, Homosexuality, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

Started off with the truth about 10/31/1517 (nobody at the time had any idea anything important had happened), which earned me the name “Dr. Downer” from Jeff Durbin last night at church. Then we talked about the recent Synod in Rome and the truly massive implications this has for Roman claims of authority, etc. Then we addressed this article from

Pope Francis, Andy Stanley, and Stephen Wolfe Walk into a Bar….

James White, October 3, 2023, Church History, Godly Disciplines, Homosexuality, Persecution, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Transinsanity

Believe it or not, there really is a connection between all of that, and an important one. And we covered it all on an hour and 45 minute program today that was delayed 15 minutes while Rich ran around with his hair on fire finding a way to get the sound from my laptop to work! But we covered the

Road Trip Dividing Line: California’s Secular Tyranny, Our Response, Some Taylor Marshall Tweets

James White, September 12, 2023, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Eschatology, Homosexuality, Musings, Persecution, Post-Evangelicalism, Road Trip, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Transinsanity

Did the program live on the road from Indianapolis this evening, looking at the amazing secular tyranny in California, then a discussion of the challenges we are all facing as believers in these changing and unique times, and finishing with a look at some Taylor Marshall tweets.

Back on the Road from Albuquerque: Reflections on a Quarter Century of Responding to Homosexual Argumentation

James White, September 6, 2023, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Homosexuality, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

I hot footed it over here to Albuquerque this morning to be on Iron Sharpens Iron with Chris Arnzen, and so I continued the topic (since it was on my mind) on this program. Looked at 1 Cor. 6 and Romans 1 and the entire “Side A/Side B” controversy. Then briefly commented toward the end of Taylor Marshall’s comment about

Continued Response to Trent Horn on the Nature of Scripture, It’s Sufficiency, and Rome’s Claims

James White, August 17, 2023, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

We continued our response to and review of Trent Horn’s video, here, dealing with his attempt to get around the reality that he is personally not in a position to foist a novel definition upon the entire Church, let alone to call it the “death knell” of sola scriptura.

Responding to Trent Horn on Theopneustos, Part I

James White, August 15, 2023, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Exegesis, Pauline Studies, Personal, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

Went just over 90 minutes today. The first quarter hour we talked briefly about dying Bible pages (showed off my recent examples) and the descent of the US into true banana republic status. Then we launched into Trent Horn’s response to me on theopneustos, getting into a wide variety of topics such as church history, lexicography, and the like. We

Jason Wallace and Tobias Riemenschneider Guests: The Watertown Arrests

James White, August 1, 2023, Christian Worldview, Church History, Eastern Orthodoxy, Homosexuality, Persecution, Post-Evangelicalism, The Dividing Line, Transinsanity

Was joined by Pastor Jason Wallace for about forty minutes to talk about the new video he has produced, The Failure of Eastern Orthodoxy. Then Pastor Tobias Riemenschneider joined us from Germany to talk about his new book, Resisting Tyranny. Then I took a while to look at the arrests of Christians outside a sexual perversion event in Watertown, Wisconsin.

The Epistle of Barnabas (~130): Baptism Is By Immersion

Chris Whisonant, August 1, 2023, Baptism, Church Fathers, Church History, Reformed Baptist Issues

Barnabas describes baptism as descending into the water and coming back up out of the water. In one of the earliest known writings of the Christian church, we see clear evidence that the practice of baptism was understood to be by immersion as the normative practice of the Church. It goes against basic exegetical practices when church traditions (such as Presbyterians) who practice sprinkling as the normative mode of baptism eisegete the Scriptures by saying that when Jesus was said to have gone down into the water that it just means he walked out a bit and was then sprinkled and then “came up out of the water”.

Some Voices from the Past, the Importance of Biblicism

James White, July 28, 2023, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Eastern Orthodoxy, Eschatology, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

Other than discussing some upcoming events (such as the debate in Pennsylvania), we took some time to listen to some voices from the past (Chrysostom, Jerome) and think about how things have changed. We also took some time to consider the definition of biblicism in the current controversy.

New Video on Eastern Orthodoxy, Biblicism is “Cultic,” Dale Tuggy States His Position

James White, July 25, 2023, Church History, Debate, Eastern Orthodoxy, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Road Trip, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Unitarianism

Last Road Trip Dividing Line for the July, 2023 trip (only a matter of weeks till we head for Pennsylvania and then G3). Live stream failed us (I have no idea why!). Talked a bit about this new video on Eastern Orthodoxy from Jason Wallace up in Magna, Utah, discussed the assertion that biblicism is “cultic” (and the obvious need

Jumbo Road Trip Edition on Twitter!

James White, July 19, 2023, Church History, Debate, Eschatology, Exegesis, Post-Evangelicalism, Road Trip, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Thomism

So Rich was literally just poking around on Twitter when he stumbled across the “live” set up recently, so today was our first day to live-cast on Twitter. That was what we wanted to do all along, but obviously things are developing at Twitter and so we had to use Facebook (which drove me nuts). But, for as long as

A Nearly Two Hour Road Trip Dividing Line

James White, July 4, 2023, Church Fathers, Church History, Eastern Orthodoxy, Exegesis, Post-Evangelicalism, Road Trip, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Thomism, Transinsanity, Unitarianism

Three major portions of today’s almost two hour program: first, reflections on the celebration of July 4th immediately after the Month of Prideful Rebellion. . Then, we review key statements made by Matthew Barrett, Todd Pruitt, and Carl Trueman on the last

Road Trip DL: 1 Cor 8, the Shema, and Ignatius

James White, June 29, 2023, Church Fathers, Church History, Personal, Road Trip, The Dividing Line, Unitarianism

Made it through a few thunderstorms during the show today focusing on unitarianism, the Christian Shema in 1 Corinthians 8, and the testimony of Ignatius to not only the deity of Christ, but the two natures of Christ as well.

The Problem with the Pope

James White, June 15, 2023, Christian Worldview, Church History, Homosexuality, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Transinsanity

Our main discussion today was based upon Pope Francis’ kind letter to Fr. Martin and the LGBTQ folks meeting tomorrow at Fordham University. What does this letter mean, and where is Rome really going today? The alleged “certainty” that flows from the claim of Papal authority is a two-edged sword that really ends up showing us that Rome’s “constancy” is

From Harari to Barber: Trying to Make Sense of the Fast Moving World Around Us

James White, June 13, 2023, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Homosexuality, Post-Evangelicalism, Provisionism, The Dividing Line, Transinsanity

Talked about a lot of topics again, from Harari’s “AI can write a true Bible” to an atheist saying Augustine inserted the Trinity at the Council of Nicea to transgender insanity and finishing up with developments at the Southern Baptist Convention.

What are We Conserving? What are we Debating?

James White, May 30, 2023, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Homosexuality, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Transinsanity

Started off with some thoughts on Ted Cruz’s tweet about Uganda and Charlie Kirk’s comments about conservatism. What are we supposed to be conserving if such basic, foundational truths as family and marriage are negotiable? Then we looked at an article Catholic Answers published last year in response to the “White Question” and then finished up talking about debates (as

Helping Joe Rogan Know the Truth

James White, May 25, 2023, Atheism, Church History, Debate, Road Trip, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

Some folks were kind enough to link me to examples of Joe Rogan repeat common mythology about how the Bible was collected, the canon, Constantine, etc., so I took the time today to deal with those issues, as well as respond to a number of claims made in one clip as Rogan interviewed Lawrence Krauss, a well known atheist and

Road Trip Dividing Line: It Wasn’t Broke, We Fixed It Anyway

James White, May 18, 2023, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Homosexuality, Personal, Road Trip, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

Ok, so its a bit herky jerky at the start but it clears up after about 20 minutes. – Rich So I was a bit worried when Rich said he was going to do something different–and this time I was right. The first part of the program is, well, sadly, not overly useful. I talked with Pastor Derrick Melton about

The Real Issues With Rome

James White, May 13, 2023, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

I very much appreciated the conversation between George Farmer and Allie Beth Stuckey on the issues between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. I listened to the conversation and wish to offer some thoughts from someone who has spent decades on this topic.

Upcoming Trip, Then Story Time with Grampa Jimmy

James White, April 28, 2023, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Eschatology, Exegesis, Homosexuality, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Road Trip, The Dividing Line, Transinsanity

Talked a bit about the upcoming trip, new new rig and studio, and the fact that HOPEFULLY next Tuesday we will do a live DL from the rig in the new studio AND at the same time auction off a gorgeous Jeffrey Rice LSB rebind (I am told on Twitter it is a “LSB 2 Column in Steel Grey Badalassi

Christian Nationalism, Sacralism, and Christian Maturity

James White, April 18, 2023, Christian Worldview, Church History, Debate, Eschatology, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Tackled the ever so easy, light issues of “White evangelicals,” Christian Nationalism, sacralism, and the recent dust-ups that had Reformed men posting clown-shoe memes about other Reformed men (all causing the angels in heaven to weep, me thinks). Had to do some eschatology and a lot more, but the fact is, it is indeed Christ or chaos, we must witness

Secularism’s Insanity, then Credo’s Promotion of Scholasticism

James White, April 13, 2023, Christian Worldview, Church History, Homosexuality, Persecution, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Thomism

Tale of two programs today as for the first half hour we considered the daily onslaught of secularism’s acidic destruction of Western society and life itself, and then switched gears to consider the newest edition of Credo Magazine and its full-throated promotion of, and defense of, “Reformed Scholasticism.”

Mega-Size DL Response to Mike Riccardi and Derrick Brite

James White, April 11, 2023, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Exegesis, Personal, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

We went for two hours today as I interacted with portions of the first thirty minutes of Dr. Mike Riccardi’s presentation at the Shepherd’s Conference on the Trinity. Many had concluded that I was the target of much of the opening comments in that presentation, so I felt it proper to interact with it and raise the key issues that

Snowed in Road Trip DL!

James White, April 4, 2023, Church Fathers, Church History, Exegesis, Musings, Pastoral Theology, Personal, Road Trip, The Dividing Line

I am still stuck in Salt Lake by this wicked winter storm that has buried me in snow and ice. I will have to be digging out in the morning as I need to get going, but it will be tricky! Anyway, talked a bit about some of the great men I’ve gotten to know in ministry as I got

Responding to Rome Including a Review of Indulgentiarum Doctrina

James White, March 27, 2023, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Homosexuality, Mormonism, Persecution, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, Speaking Engagements, The Dividing Line, Thomism, Uncategorized

Took a few minutes to look at the new Obscurity of Scripture book and its two references to me, which led to a discussion of Jason Stellman, and then on to the document Indulgentiarum Doctrina. Finished up the program with a warning about legislation being introduced in California, Washington, and Minnesota, giving the State the power to take away your

A Multi-Faceted Dividing Line

James White, March 16, 2023, Abortion, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Exegesis, Homosexuality, Pastoral Theology, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Baptist Issues, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, Thomism

Covered a wide variety of things yet again on the program today, so a little something for everyone. Started off with the new Roman Catholic apologetics book against Scripture titled, “The Obscurity of Scripture,” and talked a bit about the obscurity not of Scripture, but of Rome itself. We also spent some time reading through Schaff’s discussion of Pope Honorius.

What the Celebration of Perversity Tells Us, Then, Trent Horn and the Trajectory of Rome

James White, March 6, 2023, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Eastern Orthodoxy, Homosexuality, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

Spent the first portion of the program discussing what the “drag queen” phenomenon tells us about our culture today before shifting to a completely different topic based upon the debate on sola scriptura between Gavin Ortlund and Trent Horn.

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