Archive for category: The Dividing Line

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:

Michael Brown entered the lion’s den last night, appearing on Piers Morgan’s program to discuss the anti-Christian jihad prompted by the mere expression of Christian sexual ethics and morality.  We spent the first 45 minutes listening to the resultant interview (kudos to Michael for standing firm and giving a great witness) and then spent the last part of the program,

Started off noting the legalization of polygamy in Utah, and considered the fact that the “slippery slope” really wasn’t a slope: it was a cliff, as we had warned.  First twenty minutes on this topic, and then we moved to a recently noted video of Ergun Caner preaching in 2009, which, within a day of it being mentioned on Twitter,

Continued our review of Pastor Steve Gaines’ sermon on election from 9/8/2013 today.  Started off, though, with about 20 minutes on the will of God, the divine decree, and, yes, believe it or not, I managed to sneak in fractal art!  Then I saw that my grand-daughter, Clementine, was watching the show, and her mom, Summer, informed me in our

I had simply wanted to play the debate into the DL feed, but when I saw Chris Pinto’s spin article this morning (the first thing I was appraised of upon arising) I felt it appropriate to respond, which I did for the first about 35 minutes of the program.  Then I played the entire debate.  Enjoy! Here is the YouTube

We decided to lighten the mood today and spoke with musicians Clyde Bauman and Mylo Hatzenbuhler on the show today. After the interview Dr. White commented on some of the changes taking place in the Mormon church and how they will affect the future of the religion of Joseph Smith Jr. Here is the YouTube Live link:

I would have somewhat changed the title on this myself.  Here is the idea from Chris Pinto’s movie:  a 19  year old Greek named Simonides wrote Codex Sinaiticus in late 1839/early 1840.  He did so with some assistance from his uncle.  He used the Moscow Bible and Codex Alexandrinus as his primary sources.  His uncle made corrections.  The codex was

We continued our review of the September 8th sermon by Dr. Steve Gaines, examining whether his simple foreknowledge view can really withstand scrutiny, and also noting the disastrous results of refusing to recognize the difference between the prescriptive will of God and the decretive will of God.  We might be able to finish this sermon off with one more program, as

We had to overcome some technical issues at the start, but still managed to work out getting Voddie Baucham, Shai Linne, and Ivey Conerly together to discuss the recent controversy about Reformed Rap.  Hope everyone will listen and consider carefully, especially since there were points of disagreement or divergence even amongst our panel.  Great time! Here is the YouTube Live

Spent the program today reviewing an article that was just posted on the Caner Scandal and some of the antics of the venerable Peter Lumpkins and Mr. Rogers, all in light of the incredible unanimous election of Ergun Caner as president of a Georgia Baptist college. Here is the YouTube video:

In the first hour James covered a number of current events including: 1. Ben Witherington of Patheos visits the Vatican and meets the Pope. 2. Steven Anderson NWO bible versions trailer and the utilization of archaic language. 3. Textual variants in the Qur’an? Dr. Keith Small reviews the Sana’a palimpsest Qur’anic manuscript. 4. Zelph the white Lamanite? Discussing possible sources

Today I played portions of and responded to, one of the most amazing “soft sells” of Mormonism I have ever heard coming from a professing Latter-day Saint.  On the Issues Etc. program of November 15, 2013, the president of FAIRMormon.org, Scott Gordon, had a discussion with the host on the subject of Mormonism.  It was, to put it mildly, an

OK, not really, but here’s what happened.  I started off with some brief comments on the incredible section in 2 Corinthians 4:3-6, and then I started to respond to a Twitter conversation I had had this morning with a Muslim.  I invited him to watch on YouTube, and he did.  He started to respond, and so we had a conversation