Archive for category: The Dividing Line

Just a couple of topics today.  Briefly mentioned the promotion of hatred, and maybe even violence, by the HRC; then briefly addressed Walid Shoebat’s odd canon comments (taking an interesting rabbit trail on the Pope’s strange actions and the issue of defining marriage); and finished up reviewing Brian Zahnd’s opening statement on the atonement against Michael Brown. Here is the

Took the time to actually watch all of the opening statement of Brian Zahnd in the debate that took place over the weekend in Kansas City against Michael Brown.  Zahnd has engaged in two debates recently, both demonstrating a near fatal case of ACDS (Anti Calvinist Derangement Syndrome), this time the strain that is symptomatic of the modern Marcionites, something

Today’s guest host John Samson was, for quite some time, a pastor in the “word of faith” movement. On today’s show, John shares something of an insider’s guide, as well as the powerful biblical truths God used to alert him to the gross deception. Here is the YouTube Live link:

Examined and responded to Roger Olson’s rather weak attempt to deflect the charge of Marcionism (found here), and then finally got to at least halfway through Austin Fischer’s opening statement in the recent “Calvinism” debate. I will be in Boulder, Colorado on Thursday, and I am uncertain of what Rich’s plans are, so keep an eye out! Here is the

Oddly, there was a single thread throughout the program today.  Well, mainly.  I was asked to address a tweet by Andy Stanley, and I noted that in fact there was a thread that ran through that subject into the Marcionite doctrine of Roger Olson, Brian Zahnd, etc., all those who want to throw the Hebrew Scriptures out and who want

Took me a little longer than I expected to make it through the last half of Deedat’s horrific “crucifiction” arguments, but we sure did run into some real whoppers on his part as far as simple dishonesty goes.  Then I looked briefly at Paul Williams promoting non-Christian Christianity, then we started looking at the very recent “Calvinist debate,” starting with looking

Tried to reason with Dr. Joe McGee, the Director of the Consolation Association of the Georgia Baptist Convention, on the phone right before the DL started—mistake!  He chose the “I will just keep talking and accusing you of all sorts of things but thanks for calling because I know you are trying to intimidate me which means I’m really somebody

Spent most of the program today listening to Ahmed Deedat and taking apart his horrible arguments against the crucifixion.  We got to the point where we are ready to tackle his thirty arguments against the crucifixion “from the Bible.”  We will discover his arguments have very little to do with any honest or meaningful reading of Scripture at all.

Took a brief look at the “coming out” TV interview with “Christian rock-star” Vicky Beeching (sorry—never heard of her till last year, to be honest—is her music in the Trinity Hymnal?).  Then I played this amazing video of a giggling Sudanese cleric.  Then I demonstrated that I seem to pay more attention to what is actually found in the Muslim

Started off the program talking to Rudolph Boshoff down in Johannesburg via Skype. The connection was pretty iffy, and you have to listen carefully. But we discussed the state of the church in South Africa. I wanted to clarify a point where we had some audio problems…I was referring to one of the sound churches in SA, pastored by brother

Over the weekend Walid and Theodore Shoebat posted a number of items aimed my direction, and though most of what (especially) Walid produced is simply irrelevant (or too childish to respond to), it did provide a basis for a discussion of the centrality of the gospel, the nature of the gospel, and related issues, especially as they have to do

Christian militancy.  Reviving the Inquisition.  Wiping out heretics.  Sound like medievalism?  It is, but sadly, when you regularly encounter the medieval behavior of ISIS and Boko Haram and the like, it is easy to forget Christian teaching and adopt a bit of medievalism in response.  Evidently, that’s what Theodore Shoebat has done.  The son of Walid Shoebat, Theodore has been

We got started at 11am our time, but, our audio was cutting out like never before, so we bailed, and did it again at 1pm, this time using a completely different way of getting the audio to the net.  It worked fine, thankfully.  So we looked at John 6 again, this time as Don Johnson tries to insert synergism into

Discussed a bit more about the amazing use of 1 Cor 15:3 to attempt to overthrow Paul’s entire theology of atonement, then looked at an Arminian article on John 6:44 (which had little to do with the actual text), then a young Southern Baptist Pastor’s “journey out of Calvinism” (which really was no journey at all), followed by Bob Enyart’s

I figured I would go jumbo today, but instead, ended up going a full two hours instead!  Spent quite a while at the start on the First Baptist Church Woodstock/Johnny Hunt/Ergun Caner story, even talking to someone who was there, Horatio of Georgia, considering the real issues this situation illustrates (in particular, the lack of a concern to guard the

Started off looking at this “chart” published at SBCToday and noting that, well, there won’t be much progress in pursuing the truth of these matters as long as one side refuses to accurately represent the other, that’s for sure!  Then I reviewed comments here by Cheryl Schatz regarding John 6:37, and her particular way of undercutting John 6’s testimony to

First Dividing Line back from my time away in New Mexico and Colorado, so there was a lot of “Western Society is really falling apart” material to cover, including California demonstrating that the real intention of the leftists is to destroy marriage en toto (in this instance, the removal of the terms “husband” and “wife”).  Then we took calls, including

Today James comes to us from Evergreen Colorado via Skype. After covering some current events he does a brief debate review of the Open Theism debate from this last Tuesday with Bob Enyart. He even plays a clip from Bob’s show the day after and examines the claim from scripture.

John continues his review with the Preservation of the Saints. We had some serious problems with the original recording so John came in for a redo and here it is.

Continuing on from Dividing Line broadcasts in February, Pastor John Samson fills in for James on the TULIP (doctrines of grace). Today’s subject “Irresistible Grace.”

1. First James announces a July 8 Open Theism debate in Denver with Bob Enyart. He plays some clips from Bob who argues that ‘God can change the future and write a new song.’ 2. A follow up to the ‘Just People’ movie from students at Grand Canyon University that James played last week and commented on. 3. Finally a

Three topics on the show today: 1. ISIS in Iraq and the non response from moderate Muslims. 2. James compares the Roman Catholic view of conversion to  the Protestant one by reviewing this article from first things dot com. 3. Its more of anti calvinist derangement syndrome from the new president of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, Steve Horn. Here is the

Had some brief comments to make on a few other items at the start of the program, then took time to respond to an MDI article on “losing” verses in the Qur’an, then turned to playing clips from the Ten Bruggencate/Dillahunty debate, and finished up starting a response to Max Andrews’ new book on Molinism. Here is the YouTube link:

Over the course of the next few years we will experience a tsunami of compromise and change relating to homosexuality, marriage, and a plethora of related concepts within what was formerly known as evangelicalism.  Holding to a consistently biblical and historical view of sexuality, gender and marriage will become more and more rare, and those who do so will be