Archive for category: The Dividing Line

Dr. White discussed Islam and took calls. Here’s the program.

Today on a jumbo length Dividing Line I started off asking for your help to get me to London and South Africa in late September or early October. If you would like to help me get to London for a debate on Roman Catholicism, and then to South Africa for numerous opportunities of teaching, lecturing, but most importantly, to debate

James talks about his trip to Omaha and Tour de Apologia, Jason Collin’s “coming out”, a letter about homosexuality on a blog and even takes calls!

Covered two topics mainly today, with two brief calls interspersed. First played Adam’s call to Steve Gregg. Adam is a Catholic Answers forums user, and, true to form, repeated the ever-growing, and still utterly inane “38,000 Denominations” falsehood within the first fifteen seconds or so. Then we took some calls, and moved on to Adam Harwood’s presentation at the John

Rob Bell appeared on Justin Brierley’s Unbelievable broadcast this past weekend. The first two thirds of the program were unremarkable, but finally they got to asking serious questions of Bell, who did not handle the encounter very well. Aside from needing to download a profanity beep sound (Bell got a little “edgy” when he started pretending to be a victim),

Did not even bother trying to make a transition between the two halves of today’s program. Started off with a discussion of Islam and eventually the reading of a few “hadith Qudsi,” all of which I explained on the program. Then switched over to a response to yesterday’s attempted response by Peter Lumpkins, taking the opportunity to go a little

Did manage to discuss a few other topics at first, including some gay marriage related topics, but spent the majority of the hour looking at this thread from the Catholic Answers Forums, once again illustrating the fact that the folks who regularly frequent such forums just don’t seem to have an overly voracious desire for the truth.

Started off with a little Lumpy news and comment, then moved into the California AB 460 absurdity, a good bit more on that general topic, later threw in some Qur’an discussion, some clips from the Wilson/Sullivan debate, and a bunch of good calls. I was as tired as could be, but hope it is useful anyway!

Due to scheduling issues with both Rich and I, we will try for a Jumbo DL tomorrow at 6:30pm EDT. Note I said try. I have a busy day, but should be able to make it. Join us then! Currently in “the folder” for the program is the single most absurd act by an “elected official” I have ever encountered,

Did a special Jumbo Edition of Radio Free Geneva yesterday, addressing three primary topics: first, the John 3:16 Conference from a few weeks ago; second, Greg Boyd’s attack upon “PSA,” i.e., penal substitutionary atonement (lots of parallels to the arguments Muslims use); and finally, a full review of Peter Lumpkin’s booklet on Calvinism. Don your “Calvin is my Homeboy” t-shirt

Two rather different topics today on the DL, but I went at both of them with some level of passion, to be sure. For the first half of the program I talked directly to Bassam Zawadi and other Islamic apologists on the topic of the Qur’an and its relationship to the Bible. Some may be lost in the discussion, but,

Spent the entire program looking at the current social conversation brought on by the onslaught of rebels against God’s institution of marriage, including some of the odd, capitulating or accommodating responses of evangelicals as well, including one call on the topic. And don’t forget the WayBack Machine, streaming Dividing Lines from 1998 onward 24/7! You can listen on the Flash

Couldn’t exactly avoid the topic of “Marriage Equality” today (a phrase that is so utterly absurd in its meaning that one is left stuttering at its prevalence in society), so we started off there, looking at Ted Olson’s vain attempts to disassociate polygamy (and any number of other perversions of marriage) from his defense of the redefinition of marriage. Then

Just a quick note that today’s DL will be at 4pm MST (7pm EDT). See you then!

Covered a wide variety of topics, starting off with Matthew Vine’s “Reformation Project,” followed by Rome’s willingness to give folks like Biden and Pelosi the “sacrament,” despite their rejection of Rome’s teachings, shortly commented on Candida Moss’ new book (actually finished it on my ride today), and then looked at Michael Patton’s “non-essentials” list as well. Then we took some

Started off with one of the audience questions from the Andrew Sullivan/Doug Wilson debate which so sadly epitomizes the “don’t confuse me with reason, logic, or rationality when it comes to moral or ethical issues—you are still wrong” mindset of so many of our youth today. Then moved on to Rob Bell’s coming out for the profaning of marriage (surprise,

Just had to do a special Dividing Line today after I saw the response I got from folks on Twitter during my series of tweets on the papal election. Of course, the folks who accused me of “slander” and “divisiveness” didn’t find the time to call in to explain their accusations, but we did have some very good calls. But

I was going to get back to the comments made by Zakir Hussain, but the phone kept me busy all hour, which surprised me, since we changed the time and that normally kills the phone calls. But we just ran with it and, as you would expect, covered a wide range of topics, from the “Aramaic Originals” theory to the

Started off with the earth-shaking announcement that Peter Lumpkins has written a book telling us everything we need to know about Calvinism! I am thankful that this multi-millenial discussion will finally be concluded with the publication of this work. Then we discussed some of the developments in the rapidly accelerating cultural decay of the West, then we listened to a

Had to sneak a Dividing Line in despite my travels. Reported on the trip, discussed the Canadian Supreme Court decision limiting the free speech rights of Christians, and then took a quick call on NT Wright. And don’t forget the WayBack Machine, streaming Dividing Lines from 1998 onward 24/7! You can listen on the Flash Player found here.

Going to try to sneak in a DL today at 1pm EST to report on the work in Dublin and take your calls. Hope you all have had a chance to watch the debates now. Would like to hear your thoughts.

Responded to Michael Brown’s Monday edition of The Line of Fire where he played audience clips and had callers on the subject of predestination and election, etc. I really tried to focus in upon the same issues as the Reformation, asking about not just the necessity of grace, but the sufficiency of grace as well. And don’t forget the WayBack

Did a special Radio Free Damascus today (so we can do a Radio Free Geneva tomorrow!). Reviewed some comments from Abdullah al-Andalusi in his debate in Dublin with Samuel Green, and then turned our attention to the outrageous misrepresentation of the Christian faith by Dr. Laurence Brown on a recent episode of the Deen Show.

Gave a brief ministry report on my trip to Charlotte (along with a very brief discussion of the new book by Sami Ameri, more on that later), and then spent most of the time looking at the first cross-ex period where Dr. Brown asked me about God predestining a mother’s child to hell (the old “doomed from the womb” quotation

Started off with just a few comments on the Papal Resignation, and then got back into the NT Wright article. I also noted that I have put a number of Wright books on the Ministry Resource List, and if folks want me to expand my study of Wright and attempt to provide some kind of explanation of his views in

Given I had the privilege to dialogue with NT Wright on his views of justification this morning on Unbelievable with Justin Brierley (I know Justin had to do very, very little talking on today’s program, right Justin?), I started explaining Wright’s position through reading selected portions of his 2011 JETS article. I did not finish the task (there is much

Finished up the “Debacle at Eerdman’s,” listening to the brave young men from IRR doing their best to expose the redefinition of Mormonism by the Mouw/Millet team. Well done, gentlemen—whether Mouw and Millet hear you, God was honored. In any case, finished up the recording of the discussion.

Was joined by our good friend and brother David Ould in studio today as he and his family drive across the good ol’ USofA. Started off with some discussion of the Anglican Communion, the Church of England, and the Episcopalian Church. Then we turned to the MSNBC commentary thanking God for abortion, and this astonishing article, both of which illustrate