Archive for category: The Dividing Line

We will start off tomorrow with a Mega edition of Radio Free Geneva. Author and pastor John Samson will be joining me to talk about his new book, and then we will continue our examination of Emir Caner’s sermon on Calvinism, which we began reviewing last week. Then we will have a Jumbo edition of Radio Free Damascus on WEDNESDAY

Yes, you read that right. Put together a theme song and everything (hoping for a graphic from Hacim, son of Ramallah, King of Graphics soon). It is our new feature for when we focus on specifically Islamic topics, just as Radio Free Geneva is for when we focus on specifically Reformed topics. But instead of broadcasting from our bunker under

OK, descending can be fun, sure. But once the speedometer passes about 40 mph (about 65km/hour for our non-US readers) I start getting nervous. I’ve hit 48 on a downhill (I-17 southbound into Black Canyon City, the famous “Five Mile Hill”) back in the 90s, and I did tick up to 46.4 on the downhill into Tortilla Flat back in

Had an unusually large number of live listeners today (most of our listeners use the pod-cast/download options) as we did a two hour mega edition Radio Free Geneva. We finished off our response to James McCarthy’s sermon on Calvinism, examining his means of dealing with John 6 and its teaching. Then we moved to the sermon Dr. Emir Caner delivered

Starting at 11am we will go for two solid hours so we can finish off our review of James McCarthy’s sermon (looking at how he attempts to deal with John 6) and then we will launch into a review of Dr. Emir Caner’s sermon from September 18, 2011 at the Monclova Road Baptist Church in Ohio. So join us tomorrow

Basically focused on continuing our review of Diaa Mohamed’s comments in his debate with Samuel Green, and then looked at some more of James McCarthy’s comments against Calvinism. Next week we will hear his understanding of John 6:37-44.

Replied to some interesting e-mails at the start of the program, commented briefly on the continuing Ergun Caner saga (and how many of his defenders have become silent in the face of his tacit admission that we were right all along) and then took calls on a variety of subjects. Good to be back for the DL!

Did a jumbo DL today, dedicated to the ever-remembering Algo for his 50th birthday. Gave a little info on the background of the ancient celebration of Kwanzaa (i.e., started in 1966 as part of a radical black separatist socialist movement—not very ancient at all), took a call on the cultic aspects of KJV Onlyism, then did some more work on

We started a review of James McCarthy’s recent sermon on “Calvinism” on a special pre-Christmas Radio Free Geneva. We will continue our examination in future webcasts!

As I wandered a bit in my commentary (and interaction with the chat channel) I decided not to delve into the Ehrman materials today, but instead finished Diaa Mohamed’s opening statement. Also announced that we will be doing a Radio Free Geneva this coming Thursday, so join us at our regular time!

Started off with a discussion of the passing of Christopher Hitchens, then took a couple of calls in divine foreknowledge and some alleged biblical contradictions.

It’s about that time of the year when we are introduced to creative ways to read our Bible from cover to cover for the next calender year (did you do it this year?). I think this is my fourth year promoting the following reading plan. I would like to suggest that you take each day of next year to contemplate

Above is the first half hour of the program. Following this discussion I moved back into a review of, and response to, both Diaa Mohamed and Bart Ehrman. A total of 90 minutes.

I forgot to blog these videos that I posted of the very lengthy DL engaging the claims of Patrick Navas and David Barron. Enjoy!

We went for 90 minutes today because I just had to take the time to respond to the “Vortex” video posted below. We took the first half hour showing all the errors in this slick pro-Romanist video, and then tackled some more of Diaa Mohamed’s comments before finishing off the last half hour with more examination of Bart Ehrman’s claims

We are reviewing the comments of Diaa Mohamed in his debate with Samuel Green from Sydney the week after my debate with Abdullah Kunde.

We are reviewing and responding to the Wallace/Ehrman debate from 10/1, including a review of my cross-examination period from my debate with Ehrman as well, all with a focus upon the fact that for Ehrman, for the New Testament to be “trustworthy,” we would have to possess the originals. Period. His skepticism is, in fact, completely radical and outside the

I had hoped to get through my response to this video in about an hour or so, but alas, it took the entire two hours of a Mega DL, dedicated to one of our channel rats and ministry supporters, Ralph P., to finish up. So, I will dive into the Ehrman/Wallace debate, and my review of the Samuel Green/Diaa Mohamed

Below I provide original language references and citations that I will be covering in the discussion on the Dividing Line for November 29, 2011. . A) Is. 6:1 ¶ Καὶ ἐγένετο τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ,

Yesterday we did a Jumbo edition of the DL, investing 90 minutes primarily focused upon the exegesis of Philippians 2:5-11, and the real reason we should be thankful at all times. Some might call it an overly long sermon, but I hope those who appreciate textually-based studies will be encouraged, blessed, and edified.

Yes, there WAS a Dividing Line episode today… and you missed it, didn’t you? Well, today Dr. White examined the writings of Patrick Navas a unitarian and countered with the clear teaching of the New Testament regarding the deity of Christ. James starts out responding to anti-trinitarian book by Patrick Navas. He points out how dogmatic Patrick is when he

Weather will delay me a bit getting back home today, so I will need to postpone today’s DL till…well, next week. Since next week is Thanksgiving week, I will try to arrange it to have two DLs early in the week, hopefully longer versions, probably Monday and Tuesday. Hope to see you then! UPDATE: James is on his way in

Answered an e-mail question regarding New Testament textual variants and the comparison to the Qur’an, then took phone calls on various subjects from infra/supralapsarianism to baptismal regeneration. Then David from New Mexico called and filled us in on the Pravda, err, Veritas Seminary apologetics conference in Albuquerque this past weekend, where Ergun Caner spoke with armed police standing by. Could

Back on June 11, 2011, a debate took place in Rochester, New York, on the topic of the Five Points. It was billed as “the Baptists” vs. “the Reformed.” What it was, of course, was Independent Fundamentalist King James Only Dispensationalist Synergists vs. Reformed Theology. I am a Baptist, but there was nothing in these men’s hermeneutics that I could

We finished looking at the eleven Calvinist objections answered in the appendix of Olson’s new book. I noted that I will try to work his book on Arminian theology into my reading/listening/riding schedule over the next few weeks, mainly because I found his attempts to explain God’s relationship to time and the events in time highly problematic. Stay tuned for

We had been hearing about the arrival of Roger Olson’s book, Against Calvinism, for quite some time. It happened to arrive just before I left for Australia, so I did not have time to do much more than review his comments on 1 Timothy 2:4 (here). I have now returned home, so I got his book recorded to mp3 and

What happens when you take the time to read through Roger Olson’s new book? You need to do a Radio Free Geneva! Yes indeed, this afternoon at 4pm tune in for a review of Against Calvinism!

This past weekend I saw a tweet about a brother who had gone to the Veritas National Apologetics Conference at the Costa Mesa Calvary Chapel in California. He wore his own version of the Hadith 2425 t-shirt and went to Ergun Caner’s table in the bookstore. The resultant encounter was narrated today on the Dividing Line as he called in

Join us at the regular time for the Dividing Line today (11am MST) where we will have open phones—so how long the program is depends on the callers! See you then!