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Issues Relating to the Text of the Bible

Nope, That Was Not a Debate

James White, October 1, 2020, Christian Worldview, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism

For the first ten minutes I was “Twitter distracted” and talked about “dead air nightmares” from my youth. I guess you could say the first hour was loosely connected to the Presidential Food Fight from Tuesday night, while the last 20 minutes was on the actual debates that will take place Friday and Saturday between myself and Dr. Riddle. But

Open Phones on the Dividing Line

James White, September 29, 2020, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Gospel/Jesus Studies, Provisionism, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, Technology, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

For some reason I kept giving really long, in-depth answers to all our callers today, but the questions were worthy of the answers. We looked at the canon of Scripture, the Synoptic gospels and how to deal with conflicts, the consistency of the Old Testament Scriptures, Jesus’ role as Intercessor, and Kevin Thompson and the elect. At the very end

Last Program for a Week—Enjoy!

James White, September 18, 2020, Abortion, General Apologetics, Godly Disciplines, Homosexuality, Islam, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Technology, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Covered a wide range of topics today. Started off with Tim Keller’s tweets regarding voting and abortion, then moved into Anthony Bradley’s assertion that the Puritans would be alt-right racists in 2020. Talked a little about the CDC’s promoting critical race theory, and then read an article by a “former Christian” feeding into the panic from HuffPo. Finished off (starting

The Wrath of the Lamb

James White, September 14, 2020, Church History, Exegesis, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism

Started off with a few minutes in Revelation 6 and how we must first see the importance of a text in its original context. Then we looked at craziness from Hawaii with pandemic-panic lockdowns, the CDC inadvertently admitting masks are all a political ploy, Jemar Tisby’s retweet of BLM, and some updates on the coming debate with Jeffrey Riddle on

An Introduction to Textual Criticism

Chris Whisonant, September 1, 2020, Textual Issues

In 2008, Colin Smith posted a 13-part series as an introduction to textual criticism. I thought that this would be an ideal time to create a post with links to all of those in the series. Hopefully this is edifying and helpful to you! An Introduction to Textual Criticism: Part 1–Introduction An Introduction to Textual Criticism: Part 2–The Writing and

Examination of Key Errors in the Textus Receptus

James White, August 28, 2020, CBGM, Textual Issues, TROnlyism

This is what I was talking about yesterday on the DL but wasn’t sure of the details or if a graphic had been made, etc. Anyway, this Friday Dr. Stephen Boyce and I will look at some of the key texts in the TR that are clearly not the original readings of the authors of the New Testament. Both of

Swimming the Tiber, Hosea 11:1 in the LXX, Frank Turek on Molinism

James White, August 12, 2020, Atheism, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Eastern Orthodoxy, Godly Disciplines, King James Onlyism, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

Spent a good portion of time talking about why people “swim the Tiber” in light of Cameron Bertuzzi’s stating that he is closer than he has ever been to embracing Rome’s claims (though, he says, he is still “far away”). Realized while we were doing the program that this month marks the 30th anniversary of my first public debate which

James Cone’s Children, Then In-Depth on the Immaculate Conception

James White, July 31, 2020, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Eastern Orthodoxy, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

Spent just a few minutes at the start on the video of a black Baptist pastor applying the words of Isaiah 53 to John Lewis, explaining how this is perfectly consistent with Black Liberation Theology as developed by James Cone. Then got into a lengthy church history segment focusing upon the historical development of the Immaculate Conception and why any

Todd White Discovers Spurgeon, Timothy Cho, Free Speech, TR-Onlyism

James White, July 28, 2020, Debate, Misc, Musings, Pastoral Theology, Persecution, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism

Started off with a brief clip from the now famous Todd White sermon from two days ago, then talked a bit about Timothy Cho’s tweets, one on the nuclear family, the other on face masks. I spent a few minutes going over my arguments on the mask mandates in response. Briefly talked about a student kicked out of student government

A Program for Muslims on the Textual History of the Qur’an

James White, June 15, 2020, Islam, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism

I actually spent a few minutes at the start to acknowledge the ground-shaking “let’s make Obergefell look small time” absurdity that came forth from Neil Gorsuch and the Supreme Court this morning, but only to say that we would focus upon that tomorrow. The rest of the program (from about seven minutes in as I recall) is addressed to my

Jude 4 in Response to a Muslim Question, Deepfakes and God’s Law, Social Justice Stuff

James White, June 1, 2020, Exegesis, Islam, Persecution, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

About half an hour before the program started I saw a question raised by Zakir Hussain, a Muslim apologist, so I spent the first half hour in Jude looking at the context and the manuscript evidence so as to answer the objection/question. Then we looked at the subject of “Deepfakes” and the law of God, focusing on cosmic justice, and

Paula White and the Bees, Ken Wilson Pumps Up the Dead

James White, May 18, 2020, Church Fathers, Church History, Exegesis, Pastoral Theology, Provisionism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

No, I am not entering a Really Cool Garage Band competition. Today’s 100 minute long DL starts off with ol’ Paula White buzzing around the stage telling us about bees—you just have to watch. Then we look at something OTHER THAN Ken Wilson’s dissertation, this time his views on James 2 and…Augustine! Yes, poor Augustine takes it on the chin

Four Calls and then Overview of Issues in Church History

James White, May 8, 2020, Church Fathers, Church History, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Islam, Mormonism, Provisionism, Reformed Apologetics, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

We took four calls to start the show, and I was so verbose and long-winded that that took us 55 minutes. So much for brevity on my part! The calls were on federal headship and Romans 5, “not My will but Yours” in Luke 22 (esp. as it relates to Oneness theology), Bahnsen vs. Sproul debate, and using presuppositional apologetics

KJV Onlyism, James Snapp Visits St. Catherine’s, Rescuing Isaiah 10 from Leighton Flowers, Ken Wilson Misrepresents Augustine

James White, May 7, 2020, Church History, Exegesis, Provisionism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Well the title says it all! Tomorrow we will open the phones at the top of the hour at 1:30pm EDT and take four callers before moving back into teaching material. Join us then! Also, here is a picture of the reference I read toward the end of the program which is so fully misused by Ken Wilson in his

Yet Another Twitter Mob Refuted, Romans 5:1: Indicative or Subjunctive?

James White, April 28, 2020, CBGM, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Pauline Studies, Persecution, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

Two major parts to the program today. First about 45 minutes I dealt with the explosion of another Twitter Mob today, stoked by people like Lex_Luther and Paul Flynn, who misrepresented an exchange I had about the role of politics and the reality of mortality in the panic surrounding Covid-19. They were (and are) calling for my burning, or at

Thoughts on the New Legacy Standard Bible Project, Ephesians 2:8-9, and Then Phone Calls

James White, April 2, 2020, CBGM, Church History, Reformed Apologetics, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Talked a bit about the announcement from Master’s that they are going to be putting out (and soon) the Legacy Standard Bible, an update/revision of the (I assume) 1995 NASB. Some thoughts on some of the unique elements of the translation. Then we talked a bit about what the “gift” is in Ephesians 2:8-9, and then took calls on a

Open Phones on the Third Dividing Line of Coronavirus Week #1

James White, March 19, 2020, Christian Worldview, Church History, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Godly Disciplines, Gospel/Jesus Studies, King James Onlyism, Pastoral Theology, Pauline Studies, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

Answered a few questions from listeners on the last show at the start (just realized I forgot to answer one that I will make a note of!) and then went straight to the phones with an amazingly wide variety of calls and topics…a little something for everyone! One call was on Hebrews 3:16 and why it differs between the KJV

A Few Pope Francis Stories, A Bit on Ken Wilson and Augustine, and Open Phones

James White, March 3, 2020, Church History, Eastern Orthodoxy, Islam, Mormonism, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

Ran through some quick discussions of a few topics in the first half hour, and then took calls in the second. Covered a few Francis the Marxist stories, and then looked briefly at Ken Wilson’s anti-Calvinist polemic (dressed up as a work of history), The Foundation of Augustinian-Calvinism. Then pointed folks to a new resource for Qur’an studies, Fadel Soliman’s Bridges’ Translation

Open Phones on the Dividing Line

James White, February 27, 2020, Christian Worldview, Church History, Eastern Orthodoxy, General Apologetics, Gospel/Jesus Studies, Homosexuality, Mormonism, Pauline Studies, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

I wish there was a way for me to easily make notation of all the topics when we do open phones, but alas, I have not mastered that skill. So we talked about Mormonism and textual criticism and inerrancy and even a call about the Christian view of medical intervention for someone who is truly (genetically) intersexed! Also had a

A Jumbo-Mega Edition of the Dividing Line (Two Hours 45 Minutes)

James White, February 18, 2020, CBGM, Church History, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Homosexuality, King James Onlyism, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, TROnlyism

Started off with the D. Wade debacle and the influence of the world’s insanity on “transgenderism.” Then we started a movement to have Francis renamed “Francis the Marxist” (it has a ring do it, I think). Mentioned the ecumenical “Mass” being held in St. Pierre, Calvin’s old haunts, and then got to the real topic of the day. We played

Coming Up on the Dividing Line Today at 3pm EST

James White, February 18, 2020, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

D. Wade is woke, so D. Wade cannot help his son navigate the absurdly wild messages of today’s woke culture. So watch the media fawn all over his “powerful message,” which is actually nothing more than a capitulation and surrender to the self-destruction of gender confusion. A true tragedy. Then, did you hear tax cuts are sinful? Yeah, Pope Francis

A Mixed Bag Including Possible Holiday Discussions with Unbelieving Family Members

James White, December 16, 2019, Abortion, Atheism, Christian Worldview, Federal Vision, General Apologetics, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism

Covered a wide variety of things including a little bit about the miracle of baby August, possible conversations with family members over Christmas regarding the Bible (taking from Sye’s debate with Matt Dillahunty), and a brief discussion of Pope Francis’ comments concerning Mary as co-redemptrix with Christ. We plan on doing programs on Wednesday and Friday as well.

Refuting Jeffrey Riddle on Ephesians 3:9

James White, December 8, 2019, King James Onlyism, Textual Issues, TROnlyism

I would rather post this as a blog article but I have found our software is very averse to special characters (such as the Papyri symbol) so I am skeptical it would work. So here is a link to the PDF of my 27 page refutation and rebuttal of Jeff Riddle’s attempt to defend the TR at Ephesians 3:9. This

Brief Thoughts on the Ehrman/Williams Dialogue and the Licona/Howe Dialogue, Then Open Phones

James White, November 22, 2019, Atheism, Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Pauline Studies, Racialism, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

I guess inerrancy was the theme in looking at just a few portions of the discussion between Peter Williams and Bart Ehrman on Justin Brierley’s Unbelievable program and then Mike Licona’s discussion with Richard Howe. After that we tried to sneak callers in for the last 15 minutes…and ended up going half an hour, so, 75 minutes total.

Bishop Swan’s Racism, Pronouns Matter, Jeffrey Riddle’s Abuse of P46

James White, November 21, 2019, Church History, Exegesis, Homosexuality, Pauline Studies, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, TROnlyism

Started off with the outrageous, racist rants of “His Grace, the Right Reverend Bishop Talbert Wesley Swan II” (straight from his wikipedia page) and his swinging the club of “white supremacy” at anyone or anything, logic, rationality and truth notwithstanding. Then we considered the advice of the left edge of evangelicalism’s fall into the morass of cultural confusion, this time

Gender Care, Text and Canon Conference Reviewed

James White, November 8, 2019, CBGM, Church History, Homosexuality, Reformed Apologetics, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism

Took just a few minutes at the start to talk about a recent court case in which a judge overturned a Trump administration protection of the freedom of conscience amongst medical professionals and institutions and in so doing used yet another NewSpeak term, “Gender Care,” a euphemism for “bodily mutilation.” Then I went over Ephesians 3:9 and the blatant error

Two Refutations: Eric Mason (First Hour), Jeffrey Riddle (Last Half Hour)

James White, November 7, 2019, CBGM, Hebrew Israelism, Islam, King James Onlyism, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Technology, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism

As was needed I responded to the slanderous misuse of a video clip by Eric Mason, author of Woke Church, for the first hour or so today, including the playing of the entire context from the July 26, 2016 Dividing Line from which he took his clip. A wide ranging discussion about the woke church, critical theory, identity politics, and

Gene Kim, Steven Anderson, TRTrads—and a Word to My Fellow Reformed Believers on the Supernatural

James White, November 5, 2019, Exegesis, King James Onlyism, Musings, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Radio Free Geneva, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism

Had some fun with a new video from Gene Kim, played a new RFG intro, looked a little at Steven Anderson and the TRTrads, delving into issues of textual criticism, the transmission of the text, etc. Then for the last 20 minutes or so transitioned into an important discussion about the supernatural and the life of the Bible-believing, sola scriptura

Text and Canon Conference: Initial Thoughts

James White, November 3, 2019, King James Onlyism, Textual Issues, TROnlyism

I have gotten through 4+ hours of the Text and Canon conference from last weekend. A great deal to talk about as time permits, but two things right now: First, to my fellow apologists who do not buy into TROnlyism and who seek to give a defense of the NT against atheists, Muslims, etc., in the public square (something that

New Debate Posted

James White, October 24, 2019, CBGM, Church History, General Apologetics, Islam, Reformed Apologetics, Textual Issues

https://youtu.be/9PCKLWLdQ68

1 Peter 3:15 and then David and Bathsheba

James White, October 9, 2019, CBGM, Exegesis, Pastoral Theology, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Since I had travel problems yesterday I decided to sneak one more program in before I (Lord willing) fly out this afternoon. Talked a little about the textual variant at 1 Peter 3:15 and then moved on to the controversy that has arisen regarding the assertion that one must see David as a “rapist” regarding Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11-12, Psalm

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