Archive for category: Reformed Apologetics

I am in St. Louis, rushing to finish a lengthy presentation on Bart Ehrman’s main arguments against New Testament reliability, but I wanted to VERY quickly link to this article. Here someone (I do not know who, and to be honest, I do not care who–just somebody named “Steve”) demonstrates that rational and fair thinking is not necessarily a part

When I invest time and energy in a particular topic, I truly try to do so for reasons as non-political as possible. And my engagement of TJ316C (The John 3:16 Conference) has been for the very same reasons that motivated me to write The Potter’s Freedom. As a result, I really have not been looking to see what else is

Dr. Jerry Vines preached on John 3:16 at his own conference on the same topic. At one point it seems he attempted to respond to the common objection to his views by asserting that pas ho pisteuwn (πᾶς ὁ πιστεύων) means more than “everyone believing.” Here is an examination and response.

The Q&A section of the John 3:16 Conference was mildly interesting. Thankfully, at least one Calvinist asked a direct, clear question. Noting that David Allen had chosen to spend the vast majority of his time repeating the arguments of Ponter and Byrne (rather than dealing with biblical materials), the question was asked if he would do more than the “read

In a matter of weeks I will be engaging Bart Ehrman on whether textual variation precludes the possibility of inspiration. It will be a vitally important debate, one that I hope will be of tremendous benefit to the entire body of Christ. And though I have no reason to think Dr. Ehrman is spending a lot of time focusing upon

The Pyromaniac himself has weighed in on the John 3:16 Conference allegations that if you don’t believe God is eternally bummed about failing to save those He desires to save you are a hyper-Calvinist. You can read his always well-written blog entry here. Hopefully by now you have gotten to the heart of the issue on this matter: Dr. Allen,

My presentation on the reliability of the New Testament from Durham, North Carolina. Warning! Long one! Might not want to try to watch this without a good connection!

   David Allen is a Dean of the School of Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He spoke at the John 3:16 Conference recently–the “lets circle the wagons and warn everyone about the Calvinists” get-together that was lacking the one thing that truth demands: serious interaction with the other side. Well, serious exegesis likewise was nowhere to be found, too. But

   I noted last evening the irony of my being in London to do four debates on Islam (one on the Trinity and Shirk, one on the Deity of Christ, and a two-parter with Shabir Ally on Jesus and Muhammad in the Bible) and the “John 3:16 Conferenc” in Woodstock, Georgia. As those of you who travel thousands of miles across

Isn’t it ironic? I am in London, England, preparing to do public debates with Islamic apologists, seeking to present and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ and His Lordship, and the Arminians are all gathered at Johnny Hunt’s church to try to convince folks not to listen to the Calvinists. Don’t you find something just a bit ironic in that?

One of Bob Ross’ devotees, a fellow named Stephen Garrett, posted this on his blog today:     How many know of the famous debate that James White had with Bob Wilkins in Oklahoma City on April 22, 2005? How many know that James White tried to defend his “born again before faith” heresy in this debate? Does James sell

   For the documentation on the many errors in Geisler’s response to The Potter’s Freedom, see here.

   I am not sure who has more of my material on YouTube, myself, or Lane Chaplin. But over the past few days Lane has put together a true labor of love. He has taken the Dividing Line I did back in 2006 in response to Caner’s sermon at Thomas Road, and he has grabbed the actual video, splicing the video

   Imagine if every Evangelical pastor started with that premise in the role of God’s grace in our salvation. Imagine if every Evangelical affirmed this with their entire heart. Recently I was listening to a lecture by Dr. Paul Lim on the extent of the atonement. He commented that years ago students approached their grade from the perspective of a zero

   I was sent a scan of an article Jon Modene put in his bulletin recently called “A Partial Calvinist Dictionary.” Since my name appeared in this article, I thought I’d provide a part of the scan. It is so nice to know my contributions have appeared in church bulletins! If you have forgotten Jon Modene, he’s the fellow who went

   Let me begin by noting that I am sure I will probably err in the future and double-post videos here. It is very hard to keep what is scheduled to appear in the future, and what has already appeared in the past, straight. So, I apologize beforehand should I post something more than once!    As far as I can tell,

   Bob Anderson wrote to me today. He was very kind, apologized for the fact that what had been posted on the Steve Gregg forums was taken from another web forum and hence was not appropriately documented, and likewise indicated that he is not associated in any fashion with the University of Maryland. It seems the person who posted this material,

   I suppose it has been pretty obvious for a while now that Bob Ross (not the “pretty flowers” Ross, the other guy) is about as Reformed in his theology as…Joel Osteen, since his blog is titled the “Calvinist Flyswatter.” Ross’ rambling rants (now coming two or three a day) against anything Calvinistic are spinning so far off into the realm

   You know you are really busy when something that took place only a matter of weeks ago seems like it took place long ago. A month ago now we did five programs during which I debated Steve Gregg on the doctrines of grace. Since then, I have debated Jalal Abualrub on the deity of Christ, and a sociologist in northern

This past Sunday I began teaching a course titled “A Biblical Approach to Christian Counterfeits.” The audio (MP3s) for this course will be parked online here (the first class is there now). Keep in mind this is a Sunday School course, not “seminary” level. The class on Acts 17 was done two weeks prior to the beginning of the Counterfeits

   Jerry Vines, Paige Patterson, Steve Lemke, and others. We’ve reviewed their sermons and their lectures many times in the past (search the DL archives). The John 3:16 Conference in November. I note there is no debate scheduled to kick things off! I’m surprised Ergun Caner isn’t coming! I can’t wait to hear if there will be even a whisper about

   Mr. Gregg continues to dwell at his keyboard this evening. He writes,    Dr. White, at the end of the third debate Monday, in the process of trying to bolster his assertion that Acts 13:48 teaches Calvinism, made two significant errors (which I had considered calling him on, but I didn’t want to be nit-picky). First, he misquoted the line from

   The following has been posted by Mr. Gregg: “I feel a need to apologize for Dr. White’s behavior, because I am the one who brought him to our airwaves. I am hoping that, by tomorrow, he will have had time to consider what he did today, and how negatively it reflected on his position-and how it would make any thinking

   One of our channel regulars, Lane, has put all of my PRBC Sunday School lessons on the “Common Objections to Reformed Theology” together in one place and in one accessible format. Given the constant attacks upon the freedom of God in salvation in our day, I hope some will find these useful and encouraging. Thanks to Lane for putting them

   My last comments in the Steve Gregg debate were on Acts 13:48. So, Steve will be replying at the start of today’s program. Last year I addressed this issue fully, providing a lengthy exegesis of the text, examination of the relevant terms, etc. So if you want to be up to full speed even before the program begins, listen to

   I broke out in hives as soon as I scanned the list. I became dizzy, and lost my appetite.    OK, I’m making that up. But the list is very, very…familiar to me. For some odd reason. Maybe because I have debated most of the authors, or, tried? Been threatened with lawsuits by at least one of them (take a wild

   I have canceled the proposed debate in California with Steve Gregg on Calvinism. We will do a series of programs instead. Here is a discussion of the developments that led to this decision. And, I noted this response to Gregg in my comments.

   Steve Gregg’s rhetoric and repetitive avoidance of engaging meaningful Biblical discussion must be contrasted with the following critiques that Dr. White provided last year on the Dividing Line.    I have placed here a collection of all the Dividing Line Radio shows with James White responding to Steve Gregg’s claims and interpretations. If you know anyone who follows Gregg’s teachings, send