Archive for category: The Dividing Line

Please join me and my special guest Dr. Michael Brown as we look in-depth, based upon the Hebrew text, at Isaiah 53 and the Suffering Servant. Dr. Brown has recently contributed to a new book on Isaiah 53 and has debated the meaning of this text against Jewish rabbis for decades. This monumental text is vitally important in Jewish evangelism, but

Covered three topics yesterday in a jumbo, fast moving edition of the Dividing Line. First, discussed Joshua Lim’s “conversion” story promoted by the Called to Confusion boys and identified many of the standard “conversionist blindspot” problems that we have seen over and over again with those who think that jumping into the arms of Romanism will give them the certainty

Got into the debate that took place a few weeks ago “down under” between Abdullah Kunde and Jason Cebalo, a Roman Catholic. Here is the debate: I am dealing almost exclusively with Abdullah’s comments, though during the Q&A we will be looking at some of Jason’s comments as well. Today was a bit involved, looking a lot at some of

Invested the first hour in continuing my response to Matthew Vines’ presentation on homosexuality. We only have about 15 minutes left in his presentation, but, the last 15 minutes contain the most emotionally-charged materials, so I figure we still have a solid 45 minutes to an hour to go. I hope to finish the response next week. Then we will

Today we had a jumbo sized DL (90 minutes) once again focusing upon the exploding discussion of homosexuality in Western culture. Started with a lengthy reading of, and response to, this article by Rachel Held Evans. Then responded briefly to a comment by Hugh Hewitt, then noted a statement in Barack Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope, wherein he identifies

There was much to talk about with the North Carolina vote, President Obama becoming the first American President to openly endorse the destruction of a God-given institution, etc.

Tomorrow, Lord willing, there will be a “Mega” Dividing Line program beginning at 1 p.m. Arizona time (1 p.m. PDT/ 4 p.m. EDT). Matthew Vines, or rather his speech, will be discussed during the first hour of the program. You can stream it live at this link, which is the same link that will let you stream the “way back”

James reply’s to Matthew Vines’ “The Gay Debate: The Bible and Homosexuality” YouTube presentation and more.

Going to start the DL today at 3pm MST, 6pm EDT and go for a jumbo edition…probably the same on Thursday, too, as I *might* be on ABN for a debate Thursday night at 8pm EDT (but so far that is not confirmed). Join us then!

Sad, isn’t it? I would love to post the video from yesterday’s point-by-point response to Dan Savage, but we all know in this upside down, morally inverted world, that homosexuals can say anything they want–they can use profanity in High School auditoriums in front of hundreds of students, they can mock students who walk out in offense, and well, the

Had to go for a Mega edition today as I will be flying to Boston on Thursday for the big NoCo video shoot, where I will be carrying water and adjusting lights while the Big Guys, Phil Johnson, Carl Trueman, and Mike Abendroth, do the heavy work. Started off talking religion and politics, Mormonism and the like, and then transitioned,

I’m speaking about 35 miles from my office this evening, so I need to move the DL up some to give me sufficient travel time. A jumbo edition today beginning with some e-mails, and a review of Bryan Cross’ misrepresentation not only of Reformed theology, but of the biblical witness as well. Join us today on the Dividing Line!

Started off with an e-mail from someone who has bought Rome’s anti-sola scriptura rhetoric hook, line, and sinker, without seeing the inconsistency thereof. Then looked at Bryan Cross’ simplistic misrepresentation of his former faith, looked at Bart Ehrman’s response to Dan Wallace and the Markan fragment find, and finished off with a call on the ordaining of the means as

I think I may get to have some help during the summer with blogging things and…well, just general help, so maybe the DL’s will get blogged regularly! Anyway, yesterday we did a Jumbo edition of the DL, pretty well splitting it in half between a continued review of Emir Caner’s anti-Calvinism sermon (somehow it didn’t get Canerized!) and then continuing

Join us today at 3:30pm MST, 6:30pm EDT, for a Jumbo edition of the Dividing Line! This will take the place of the regular Tuesday edition.

Either I’m getting old and forgetful (probably), need a secretary (definitely), or I’m way behind on writing a book and that’s all my little brain can keep up with (for certain), but I did not blog any of this week’s programs! Yikes. What’s worse, I told the same story on both programs! Well, let’s hope if I start doing the

Started off with a bit of a discussion about apologetic and cultural presuppositions, and then went to the phones. First caller out of the box was James, a Roman Catholic, who clearly had a particular formulaic approach he has used to attempt to show Protestants the errors of their ways. We went back and forth for 25 minutes, and the

It is a question every generation has to face. Often. Repeatedly. And today, it is a question being brushed under the rug in the service of ecumenism and political power and cultural defense. Does Rome possess the gospel? Many on the far side of the Tiber River have concluded that while Rome gets a few things wrong, they are not

In response to Dr. James White’s comments on whether those in the Roman commmunion and in the LDS church are saved, Paul Owen responded: Mormons do NOT deny that Jesus is the God-man who died for our sins and rose again. They affirm all those points explicitly. And I see no reason to deny that many devoted followers of Christ

ABN just informed me that my opponent can’t make it tonight, so the debate on ABN has been canceled. Hopefully we can reschedule for later in April. So, we will do a Jumbo DL instead, starting at 6:30pm EDT (3:30pm PDT). I will be commenting on this article by C. Michael Patton at the start. Very troubled by it.

Today we took the time to review some issues relating to the various forms of criticism of the Bible prevalent in the West, and how these are used, and quite honestly, abused by Muslims. Then we took some calls as well. Here is a video of the teaching portion of the program prior to taking calls:

Did a Jumbo edition early today, as I fly to Toronto tomorrow, and needed to get in an “extended study session” in the afternoon. Tackled some items relating to the politics in the apologetics realm, then continued my response to Adnan Rashid’s comments in a February debate, and then switched over the Bart Ehrman from October of 2011. Remember, no

I am headed to Toronto on Wednesday, have a lot, and I mean a LOT, to do before I go, so we will be doing an early DL tomorrow, jumbo edition, starting at 9:30am PDT. Plan on hitting some Bart Ehrman and some Adnan Rashid. So join us!

Since I will be doing a live debate on abnsat.com tomorrow evening at 8pm EDT (ironically, on the same topic of our new video, Surah 4:157), we will be moving the DL up half an hour to 3:30pm PDT (6:30pm EDT). Join us then!

After a brief report on ministry in Hawaii, I looked at two examples of why apologetic methodology must be derived from sound biblical exegesis and theology, not the other way around. Specifically, I responded briefly to this article by Paul Copan during the first half of the program. Here is the video of that portion: I noted that others had

We will do the DL live from Phoenix on Tuesday at the regular Thursday time, i.e., 4pm MST, which is now 4pm PDT (thanks to the fact you all messed with your clocks again! I am red-eyeing it home from Hawaii Monday night/Tuesday morning, so, I think I will be a bit more functional for the afternoon time slot than

Yesterday I managed to sneak in a Skype-aided Dividing Line from my room here in Hilo, Hawaii. We discussed a variety of issues, including the Sandra Fluke controversy, the wild-eyed attacks on Kirk Cameron for daring to be a Christian in the United States today, etc. Then we discussed the continuation of the Great Evangelical Coverup with another example of