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A Little AHA, and a Long Review of a Roman Catholic Response on John 6

James White, February 3, 2017, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

Spent a few moments discussing the antics of AHA (which continued through the program) and then played the entirety of a 14 minute response by Bob Sullivan to the “John 5 for Roman Catholics” episode we did a few weeks ago. I had not watched it, so we got to watch it live! Here is the YouTube link:

Report on Ministry in Atlanta, Memphis, and Dallas, as Well as Response to Attacks Upon the Ministry

James White, February 1, 2017, General Apologetics, Islam, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Back in Phoenix after two full weeks of ministry back east and south. Reported on what took place at the G3 Conference in Atlanta, in Memphis, at the Deep South Founder’s Conference, and at the premiere of Unpopular the Movie in Dallas. Had a lot of stories to tell, and that gave the background for a pretty long and hopefully

Accurately Evaluating Debates

James White, January 24, 2017, The Dividing Line

Today on the DL James goes over the debate with Trent Horn as an illustration of how we should seriously track with debates and evaluate them. Here is the YouTube link:

Today’s Dividing Line Errored Out

Rich Pierce, January 21, 2017, The Dividing Line

It is killing me to announce this because we put so much work into making this happen. As many of you already know, the feed for today’s show froze up within the first two minutes. However, the program that we use, (Wirecast), was telling me that the recording was proceeding just fine. So I turned to Twitter and Facebook to

Pre-Debate/Conference Dividing Line

James White, January 16, 2017, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

Spent most of the program talking about the upcoming debate with Trent Horn, Staff Apologist for Catholic Answers, and how I expect the argumentation to go, etc. Then we went over the upcoming events on the trip, including the dialogue with Dr. Yasir Qadhi in the Memphis area, the Deep South Founders Conference, and my stop in Dallas for the

A Potpourri of Topics

James White, January 12, 2017, Abortion, Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Persecution, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

Covered a wide range of topics today, starting with an odd statement by Dr. David Allen about Mother Theresa on Twitter. Then we looked at the Episcopalians in Glasgow having a Muslim woman chant a portion of the Qur’an that denies central Christian doctrine as part of their services. We then looked at how “faith leaders” blessed a Planned Parenthood

John 6 For Roman Catholics

James White, January 10, 2017, Exegesis, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

Today we did a special Dividing Line of nearly two hours in length focusing upon walking through the sixth chapter of John. Roman Catholicism teaches that Jesus taught transubstantiation in this chapter, but a fair reading of the text reveals otherwise. This is a program we hope will be shared with many Roman Catholics. Here is the YouTube link:

Shameless Papist Pretensions Followed by Foundational Issues with Mike Licona

James White, January 5, 2017, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Open Theism, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

A tale of two programs today: I was going to briefly address a Roman Catholic on Twitter and that “briefly” became fifty minutes. But then I switched over to a review of an interview with Dr. Mike Licona for a total of about 1:40 for the program today. Here is the YouTube link:

New Years Thoughts, God’s Decree, the Pope and Mary, ET Stalkers

James White, January 3, 2017, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, Godly Disciplines, Islam, Pastoral Theology, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

90 minute program today with some thoughts from 2 Peter to start off the New Year, then a lengthy discussion of God’s decree, followed by a few items related to Islam and the Ecclesiastical Text folks. Here is the YouTube link:

The Nature of Saving Grace, a Few Textual Variants, End of 2016

James White, December 30, 2016, Exegesis, Pastoral Theology, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

Dragged myself to the studios today and managed a quick program on a few interesting topics that hopefully will edify the saints. Thanks so much for your prayers and support, and we truly look forward to continuing to serve you and proclaim the gospel in 2017! Here is the YouTube link:

The Dividing Line will be LIVE at 3:00pm EST

Rich Pierce, December 30, 2016, The Dividing Line

Live Audio Stream The link below will go LIVE fifteen minutes before the program where the audio feed can be opened in various programs like iTunes (just insert http://stream.aomin.org:8000/dl.m3u into the “Open Stream” box), Windows Media Player, or other MP3 playing software. If you are looking for the next upcoming show be sure to subscribe to the blog as we

The Fullness of Time, America’s Hate Preachers Reviewed

James White, December 22, 2016, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, Homosexuality, Pastoral Theology, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Took a long while to get going (technically and otherwise) but eventually got into Galatians 4:4-5 as an incarnation passage and its meaning to us at this time of the year. Then we moved over to a quick review of a couple of segments of the BBS documentary “America’s Hate Preachers” and what it means to “adorn the doctrine” of

Saving Faith and Two Islamic Videos on a Jumbo Edition of the DL

James White, December 19, 2016, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Islam, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line

Started off with a discussion from the London Baptist Confession of Faith, Chapter 14, on “Saving Faith,” and then moved to a review of two Islamic videos, one critiquing Dr. David Wood, and the other a lecture from Dr. Ali Ataie. A fair amount of discussion of soteriology early on, and trinitarian and incarnational theology toward the latter portions of

Calvary Chapel Split, Incarnation in John 1, More on Morey, Technical Problems

James White, December 15, 2016, The Dividing Line

Sorry about the technical issues today folks. Had some uber geeks in the office recently and, well, geeks play with things. But as I say, if it ain’t broke… Anyway, briefly noted the split amongst Calvary Chapel churches, and then spent some time (interrupted by technical issues) on the prologue of John and the Incarnation, then finished up with a

Bob Morey’s Debate Challenge, Frank Turek and Michael Brown on Reformed Issues

James White, December 13, 2016, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Islam, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Spent a little less than half an hour responding to Dr. Robert Morey’s debate challenge (well, I’ve only been told about it, I haven’t actually seen it), giving some history and once again refocusing upon the real issues. Then we looked at Dr. Frank Turek’s response to a question about free will and predestination, and then moved on to Dr.

Andy Stanley Separates Incarnation and Redemption; Paul Falsely Accused; Tim Staples Reviewed

James White, December 8, 2016, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Islam, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Started off considering Andy Stanley’s claim that Christianity does not stand on how Jesus came into the world, only on the resurrection. Then we looked at Paul’s statements in 1 Thessalonians 4 and 1 Corinthians 9 as a backdrop to considering common accusations against Paul made by Islamic apologists. Then in the second hour we spent a good deal of

Dogmatic Secularism Rises; the Politics of the Southern Baptist Convention

James White, December 5, 2016, Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Started off with a discussion of the rise of secular totalitarianism and its inevitable failure, and then moved on to Dr. Paige Patterson’s comments in the SWBTS chapel from last week. Hopefully helpful for all! Here is the YouTube link:

Radio Free Geneva: The SBC Traditionalists Struggle to Interact

James White, November 30, 2016, Exegesis, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Spent most of our time playing an attempted response from Leighton Flowers to our last program, and then played some more of David Allen’s comments, including some pretty amazing examples of eisegesis and category errors. Numerous head-shaking moments in this one to be sure! I also mentioned we have three over-seas trips scheduled for 2017, so we need your help,

Limited Atonement with David Allen, Ecclesiastical Textism with Robert Truelove

James White, November 28, 2016, Exegesis, Reformed Apologetics, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

First Dividing Line back from a fierce ten day battle with the flu, so we went mega-length, two full hours. First 75 minutes we discussed the atonement and theology in general, starting to listen to comments made by Dr. David Allen of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary wherein he described limited atonement as a “doctrine looking for a text.” It was

Skype Show from Tucson: A Bit on Race, A Bit on Thanksgiving, Then A Lot on ETism

James White, November 17, 2016, Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Pastoral Theology, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

Did a live program from Tucson today via Skype, touching a bit on some of the reactions on the race issue from last time, discussing Thanksgiving a little, and then spending most of the time on a recent FB article promoting Ecclesiastical Textism and more reasons why I find this tradition so very dangerous to Christian apologetics. We plan on

RAAN and Feeling “Safe” Worshipping with “White People”

James White, November 14, 2016, Pastoral Theology, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

I was directed to a podcast from the Reformed African American Network (RAAN) wherein Jemar Tisby, commenting on his feelings after the election, indicated that he did not feel “safe worshipping with white people” on the Lord’s day as a result of the election. I was only going to make a few brief comments—and made a whole lot more than

Post-Election Thoughts and an Ecclesiastical Text Video

James White, November 10, 2016, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Spent the first half hour with a few post-election thoughts, meandering around the landscape, and then played two new “ecclesiastical text” videos and responded to them—as much as I could, given they don’t actually make sufficiently clear claims so as to be able to interact with them. However, the cartoons joining me and Dan Wallace with Bart Ehrman were entertaining,

Quick Report on Australia/New Zealand then Open Phones

James White, November 8, 2016, Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Jehovah's Witnesses, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters

Did a quick report on my trip “down under,” then opened the phones and covered a pretty wide variety of topics from callers for the rest of the hour. And no, I don’t remember all of them. You will have to listen to find out! Here is the YouTube link:

Seven Things the Reformation Gave Us

Rich Pierce, November 3, 2016, The Dividing Line

Pastor John Samson Kings Church of Peoria, Arizona guests hosts once again and shows how western civilization has been positively impacted by the Protestant Reformation. We owe a great debt of gratitude to the men and women of the Reformation whose sacrifices have been instrumental in giving us many of the civil and religious liberties we presently enjoy. Here is

Addressing The Problem of Evil

Rich Pierce, November 1, 2016, Atheism, Pastoral Theology, The Dividing Line

Today we welcomed Pastor Dan Caffese of The Sovereign Grace Bible Church to the Dividing Line. Christians who believe in the Bible, and the God revealed there as good and all powerful, have always faced the challenge, “If God is good and all powerful how can evil still exist in the world?” This video summarizes the Bible’s answer by considering

A Challenge for Christians in the Face of Continued Decline

James White, October 27, 2016, The Dividing Line

A quick review of Tony Campolo’s continued decline on homosexuality, along with a “Challenge for Christians” Here is the YouTube link:

Theological Triage – Maintaining the Unity of the Faith

Rich Pierce, October 20, 2016, Pastoral Theology, The Dividing Line

Pastor John Samson (kingschurchaz.com) guest hosts once again on today’s Dividing Line, bringing an important teaching on first order and second order doctrines. As the quote attributed to Augustine says, “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; and in all things, charity.” We experienced some audio difficulties during the first two minutes of the show but after that it went well.

What Do Jory Micah and Ijaz Ahmad Have in Common? A Textual-Critical Heavy Dividing Line

James White, October 18, 2016, Islam, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line

I am sure this will give Ijaz Ahmad hives, but my point was that both Jory Micah and Ijaz are suggesting corruption of the Bible, but for very, very different reasons. The focus today is all textual critical, with lots of looking at graphics and considering variants and the like. I confess, it will be hard to just listen to

My Thoughts on the State of our Culture and the 2016 Election

James White, October 13, 2016, Christian Worldview, Personal, The Dividing Line

Finally had the “talk” I’ve been mentioning for a while. I have been asked, repeatedly, about my views on the election, voting, and all the controversy swirling around evangelicals and Donald Trump. So, having finished up the sola scriptura series, it seemed appropriate, as I will be out of town for nearly three weeks, to “have the talk.” About 80% of

Conclusion to the Sola Scriptura Series: Apostolic Tradition and Canon Issues

James White, October 10, 2016, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

I managed to resist the temptation to do the “politics talk” and finished up the introduction to sola scriptura today in a 90 minute program focusing upon the final sections of Karlo Broussard’s arguments on Catholic Answers Live, and then discussing two more important aspects, “Apostolic Tradition” in the early fathers as well as the issue of the canon. Not easy material

Sola Scriptura Continued with Interaction with Karlo Broussard of Catholic Answers

James White, October 6, 2016, Exegesis, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line

Aside from a few brief comments at the start about a few current events we focused pretty much fully on the sola scriptura series, finally getting to the clip from the debate with Mitch Pacwa and listening to a number of segments from the Catholic Answers Live show with Karlo Broussard. Important information! Here is the YouTube link:

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