Archive for category: The Dividing Line

Unfortunately, the program wasn’t about Ehrman finally taking a stand on the Qur’an (that would be quite the news!).  Instead, I started off with some comments on Ehrman’s new book (I am about halfway through it) and how I hope to use its release as a teaching opportunity to address a wider set of issues.  The kind of arguments in

A jumbo edition of the program today, starting off with a little information on Bart Ehrman’s most recent anti-Christian book and the Christian response to it. Then I played a clip from the just released film, New World Order Bible Versions, a very shallow KJV Only presentation, pointing to a rather ironic element of the film, and finished up reviewing the comments

Caught up on recent Caner developments, along with dealing with the utterly false (though often repeated) claim that Caner “apologized” in 2010.  I went through the entire “apology” and demonstrated that if it is an apology, the word no longer has any real meaning.  Then we moved on to some interesting video clips, such as the Pope’s message to the

A wide ranging, and very challenging, program today.  Started off with the comments of one of the former trustees of Brewton-Parker about his vote for Caner.  Still amazed at the self-inflicted deception down there.  Then moved on to directly (and hopefully graciously) address Shawn McCraney on one particular topic, that being what he said about the Athanasian Creed.  I took

First program back after nearly half a month on the road!  Gave a report on the trip to Ukraine (and stops along the way), then moved on to other issues, including playing clips from David Allen (calling for fairness and accuracy of representation—so I am calling for him to be fair and accurate as well, and withdraw his false “hyper-Calvinism”

We would once again like to thank John Samson for filling in for James over the last two weeks. Today John concludes his TULIP presentation with a focus on the Cross. Here is the YouTube link:

Today John Samson continues his review of the TULIP and focuses on Unconditional Election.

We once again welcome John Samson on today’s Dividing Line. John takes today’s show to walk through the ‘Doctrines of Grace,’ otherwise known as TULIP or the Five Points of Calvinism. At the start of the show John gives a brief update on the events in Kiev Ukraine where Dr. White is currently ministering. Toward the end of the show

We once again welcome John Samson as our substitute host while James travels to Kiev Ukraine. John covered the 5 Solas of the Reformation and took a call about his book “12 What Abouts”

We welcomed John Samson as our first guest host in more than ten years on the show today with a presentation on the Law and the Gospel.

A mega show today. In the first hour Dr. White talks about John 17:6 I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. NKJV In the second hour James completes his review of a sermon by Ergun Caner

Last September I stumbled across an amazing new technology known as YouTube. Ya, I know, I was just a bit late to the party. Well, in the process of setting up a new channel I started reading about ‘monetization.’ This seemed like an interesting idea to me at the time with the only pitfall being that, because advertising is involved,

I wasn’t going to spend nearly the entire program reviewing the Ham/Nye debate, but that’s what I ended up doing.  In the process we figured out the best analogy for Nye’s attitude toward Kentuckians: that of Riker to the Pakleds on Star Trek the Next Generation!  We even played a clip for those who are not familiar with that, uh,

I have received a number of complaints about the audio player that suddenly disappeared from the Dividing Line pages. Well, I discovered that the player was loading the entire program that it was linked to every time the page was hit. Apparently this is the case with robots and whatever else comes by scrolling through our pages. At least this

So we reviewed William Lane Craig’s comments about how the prayers of football fans could influence which world God chose to actuate (even trying to figure that one out will put you in something like a causality loop that will turn your brain to mush and make you a Jerry Seinfeld fan) and then played his comments on his most

I was joined in studio by TurretinFan as we continued our review of the encounter between Paul Helm and William Lane Craig, focusing today especially upon the key problems with Molinism.  Started the program reading from Dr. James Anderson’s recent article asking some probing questions about Molinism as well. Here is the YouTube link:

Went over my trip to Spain, including playing a portion from the atonement debate, and commenting on the whole experience, as well as noting that the wild-and-wacky world of Brewton Parker (a new hit reality series scheduled to run right after Duck Dynasty we’ve heard) intruded on the trip with the appointment of Professor of Church History Rev. Doctor Peter

Started off briefly noting that we will be arranging some shows on Unbelievable on my way back from Kiev next month.  However, this is a completely unbudgeted expense, so if you would like to help make sure those program happen, please stand with us. Then I discussed the upcoming debates on Revelation TV on healing and the atonement.  Went over

Yeah, there’s a combination!  Actually, the first half hour we reviewed some amazing stories about how the secular left pretends to be so inclusive and freedom loving but is in fact utterly demanding of our fidelity and obedience. But then we moved into my review of recent William Lane Craig clips, first from a Sunday School class (where he promoted

Despite a few technical difficulties we managed to get the program going today with our new, “it’s all ours, nobody else can use it!” theme by the brothers of Greylevel, for which I am so very thankful.  Responded to Michael Brown’s comments from The Line of Fire yesterday, looking again at Benny Hinn, and discussing the idea that Hinn has

Here are some items I plan on referring to during today’s Dividing Line (and hence will be relevant as well to the final posting of the program upon its completion.  The first is another clip from Benny Hinn’s “revival” in Kiev, Ukraine.  The best information I can gather is that this took place in 2012.  The second is the document

Enough abbreviations there?  Briefly touched on the Philips, Craig & Dean controversy regarding performing for the SBC this summer (offering a simple question for PC&D to answer); then talked about Benny Hinn and Michael Brown, and finished up playing and responding to comments by Shawn McCraney on Calvinism.  Shawn wrote today and said he’d like to call in so we

Heute sprachen wir mit den Mitarbeitern der Europäisches Bibel Trainings Centrum in Berlin, Deutschland.  Christian Andresen ist der Gründer und Leiter des EBTC. Er wurde von Theo Friesen, Matthias Fröhlich und Thomas Hochstetter trat.  Wir diskutierten über die Arbeit der EBTC und den Status der Kirche in Deutschland und in weiteren europäischen Kontext. Today on the program we interviewed the staff of the European Biblical

Today I was joined by Dr. Michael Kruger, President of Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Dr. Kruger has written numerous books that are high on our “you must read this book” list, such as Canon Revisited and The Question of Canon; he likewise contributed to and edited The Heresy of Orthodoxy and The Early Text of the New Testament.

Had to start off with a little Caner news (specifically, materials from the police report of the criminal complaint Ergun Caner tried to use to stop us from giving our presentation in Lindale last year).  The wave of documentation continues to grow and grow, and the shrill attacks of Caner and his defenders (Lumpkins, Rogers, Penn, et al) only show

Started off with what I thought might be a ten minute devotional—turned into a half hour sermon from 2 Corinthians 4.  Then moved to a relatively brief review of 2013 with some looking forward to 2014.  And finished up (the last 40 minutes—this was a bit over jumbo sized) with a review of the twitter explosion from Ergun Caner and

For the first half hour today we addressed the “marriage equality” argument, playing the comments of a young man, Duncan, at a (very liberal) Jewish synagogue in the North West.  We examined the incoherence of the argument from “equality” and pointed out how especially the younger generation is liable to this kind of argumentation.  Then we switched over to an

Somehow I managed to get through an entire hour on the topic of Christmas and persecution of Christians and…lots of other relevant topics!  Hope you find it useful. Here is the YouTube link: