Archive for category: General Apologetics

My thanks to Trinity Law School and esp. Lane Chaplin for arranging this evening recently in Southern California.

These days books alleging Biblical contradictions are seemingly seeing a resurgence in popularity. Many of these books, it seems, are recycling old alleged Biblical contradictions – contradictions that Christians answered hundreds of years ago. Yet these books are not presenting the answers, only the alleged contradictions. One is reminded of the words of Arnobius, who died in the 4th century,

Here’s another mp3 that I found recently, currently not available on aomin.org. Around ten years ago, Dr. White appeared on WMCA radio in New York to debate Oneness theologian Dr. David Bernard. The Gift of Tongues: Is it a Necessary Initial Evidence of Salvation? Enjoy!

Some of you are familiar with what has become known (inappropriately) as the Van Til/Clark controversy; dealing with what constitutes God’s knowledge and man’s knowledge. Recently the crew from the Reformed Forum spent some time with Dr. Scott Oliphint (who sat under Van Til and now teaches Apologetics at WTS) and addressed this controversy. Click here to listen. If you

It has been over seven months since I posted this video asking Norman Geisler honest, important questions about the defense he has made of Ergun Caner’s fallacious claims. Seven long months of silence, seven long months of cover-up on the part of the Provost of Veritas Seminary (reminder: “veritas” means “truth” in Latin). The fully refuted, and often sadly shallow

Interview 5 | White and Barcellos from MCTS on Vimeo.

Untitled from MCTS on Vimeo.

I grew up listening to Family Radio, but not by choice. My parents loved the music. Any time we were in the car, chances are that would be the station blaring through the back seat speakers. I suffered through till the invention of the Walkman, when teenage rebellion finally had a way to escape the soft sounds of Family Radio.

Please note the change: Feb. 6th…27 Florence Rd, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland…Dr White will be speaking at the Sunday evening service in Bray Gospel Hall. The sermon will be on “The Potter’s Freedom” Romans 9:9-23. Contact the church for more information (website n/a).

When Dr. White is away I like to go through some of my old cassette tapes and dig out a few tidbits many of you probably have never heard before. Here’s a 1999 interview Dr. White did on Janet Parshall’s show on the topic, The Forgotten Trinity. The Forgotten Trinity Interview 6/16/99 Click here to order Dr. White’s book, The

“Where is God now?” inquires Dr. Bart Ehrman in his 2008 book, God’s Problem. The subtitle goes on to state, “How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question – Why We Suffer.” The further one delves into the book, however, the more one will discover that this claim is substantially inaccurate. One of my friends has done just

Dr. White will be debating “Freedom or Bondage of the Will” with Dr. Steve Blakemore at 6 p.m. CST (that’s 7 p.m. EST and 4 p.m. PST). A live stream of the debate will be available at the usual Dividing Line streams (high quality)(low quality for users with low bandwidth). (see more info about the debate and the debaters here)

   In the previous article we looked at how God can be truly personal, exhibiting all the attributes of true personality–including love–yet without being dependent on His creation. In this, the last part of the series, we shall briefly explore how Van Til saw in man’s quest for ultimate truth an example of the necessity of the triune God of Christianity

I joined Kevin Swanson for a quick discussion of important aspects of apologetics recently, and the program has been posted here.

   The Bible teaches that God is love (e.g., 1 John 4:8). Love is something that needs to be directed toward an object, so in what way does God love? One might say that God loves His creation, and in this way He is able to express love. However, God loves His creation in the same way that a man might

For those who have watched my debate with Dan Barker at the University of Illinois (2009), you will be familiar with the ATP Synthase mechanism that I referred to in my opening presentation. Well here is a video illustrating that incredibly and obviously DESIGNED mechanism. For those with eyes to see and ears to hear, could it be any more

   “PuritanReformed” has posted a critique of my article on Van Til and “God as a Person.” First, I would like to say I appreciate that he took the time to read the article and to respond to it. Dialog and interaction is good and positive–iron sharpens iron, etc. Next, I note that this is a quick response, because I don’t

   As we have seen in the previous article, Van Til, and all apologists of the presuppositional camp, hold that Christian theism is the only theism worth defending. If, as Christians, we believe in the God who is revealed in the pages of the Old and New Testament, we are believing in a very specific God: one who creates, sustains, loves,

Part 2 of the debate that took place on the Jewish Voice Broadcast with James White, Michael Brown v. Joseph Good and Sir. Anthony Buzzard is now online. Click here to watch and listen. Begins at 7 minutes.

   Before digging into Van Til’s teaching on the Trinity and how it applies to his argumentation for the existence of God, it will do us well to review the fundamental principles of Presuppositional Apologetics. Okay, I know you have heard a lot about PA recently, but you know the old teaching addage: the more you hear something, the more likely

Most, if not all of you, are aware of the debate that took place on the Jewish Voice Broadcast with James White, Michael Brown v. Joseph Good and Sir. Anthony Buzzard. If you do not remember, this week the JVB began with Pt. #1 of the debate. You can catch the program here, beginning at 7.36.

   If you have been following the blog over the past month, you will have seen Jamin Hubner’s series of posts on apologetic methodology and particularly on Presuppositional Apologetics. Hopefully, as a result of Jamin’s sterling work, you are all now fully conversant with Presuppositional Apologetics (or the “Transcendental” argument as Van Til preferred to call it) such that you are

Today is October 31, Reformation Sunday, a far more important date to note than the one being celebrated by the world, to be sure. Though no one who awoke on November 1, 1517 had any idea at all that anything of moment had taken place the day before, hindsight is powerful. I will not in this article address the issue

I was pondering a statement I saw this morning from William Lane Craig. It represents the form of apologetics that is based upon non-Reformed theology and soteriology in particular. It is, without a doubt, far more “popular” than the methodology I am committed to. The statement contains truth, but it is placed within a matrix of sub-biblical thinking. Here it

I am listening to yesterday’s Line of Fire radio program with Michael Brown, and he provided some clips from the audio of the debate (we were having an uber-geek contest: he bested me with his cool pen that records audio and other cool stuff, and I had him with my uber-cool iPad connected to the net via my Droid’s 3g

When I get word from the folks at the Jewish Voice Broadcast I will let you know when they plan to air the debate that took place last evening. I teamed up with Dr. Michael Brown in defending the biblical doctrine of the Trinity against Sir Anthony Buzzard, who taught at the Atlanta Bible College for 24 years, and Joseph