Archive for category: The Dividing Line

The first thing I said in channel after the DL was over was, “How am I going to remember all those calls when I blog the DL?” Well, I can’t. But we covered a wide, wide range of issues. The lines lit up, and stayed full. Even had one fellow who was going to call about the ending of Mark

Started off with a solid twenty minutes on the use of lexical sources and, in particular, recognizing the difference between scholarly facts and scholarly interpretation, using the graphics provided immediately below. Then the calls started, and we (expectedly) went over the Caner situation, and the Geisler statement. I told the story of what happened just under a decade ago with

I am going to discuss the use of lexical sources in exegesis and apologetics at the beginning of the DL today, and the following graphics will be helpful for those listening live (or those listening later, I suppose!). These are all in reference to the meaning of ζημιόω in 1 Corinthians 3:15.

After announcing the indefinite postponement of the debate with Christopher Hitchens, I also noted the cancellation of the John 10:16 Conference in New York the first weekend in August. Then we went to the phones and covered a wide, wide range of topics from the love of God to election to Mormonism and lots more. Great calls!

As I noted in the previous entry, even well known names are not above engaging in the crassest form of cronyism when it comes to the political machines that predominate in evangelicalism today. Sadly, that same kind of blind political ideology lay behind the seven-sentence Liberty statement released late Friday afternoon. Given that this current chapter in the Caner Scandal

I felt a need to dive into the text of Scripture right from the start to provide biblical parameters for the practice of God-honoring apologetics, and that’s what we did for the first 40 minutes of the program (I hope to post video later). Then we took some excellent calls on important subjects. First call asked about the phraseology of

Took a good call on John 6:37 to start (after going over some of the details for this coming weekend of ministry in the Detroit area) and then spent the rest of the hour reviewing more of the presentation of Sheikh Muhammad Ahmed Awal, my opponent in the two upcoming debates this weekend. Also, I just received word that the

We began the program with a discussion with Hussein Wario. Mr. Wario had called once before, defending Ergun Caner’s claim to have done his Islamic prayers in the boys restroom in high school. I will let the listener draw their own conclusions from our exchange, but it was sad to listen to him refuse to answer direct questions, dodge the

On the DL today I raised a simple question: where is the church in the Ergun Caner Scandal? Why is it that Liberty University is being seen as the final authority in determining “the truth”? We then took a few calls on the same topic. At the end of the program I got a call from a graduate from the

As I mentioned to the all-knowing Algo, I thought about blogging last Thursday’s DL, and evidently, that was enough, since I then did not do so. So, we continued our response to Sheikh Awal, and took one call on the Caner scandal. Here’s the program.

Since I had been given some reason to think Sheikh Awal has been following my reviews, I dove back into my response to his presentations.

I started off the program playing a clip from Glenn Beck. Yes, the LDS Glenn Beck from Fox News Channel. Last week he attempted to make a point by drawing an illustration from how the Dead Sea Scrolls came about after the Council of Nicea. Yeah, not exactly your best source of historical information. Then the calls, all but one

Took one quick call at the top of the hour, then delved into completing Sheikh Awal’s opening statement from his debate in 2009. Covered a good bit of territory in the “how to” of apologetic response, as well as diving a little deeper into John 5.

Before diving back into Sheikh Awal’s opening statement I very briefly responded to yet another “Hey, let’s repeat every tired and silly argument against James White” thread on the Catholic Answers Forums. Also, we went over Norman Geisler’s less than unbiased (and still not really comprehensible) commentary on the Caner scandal. Then spent most of our time responding to Sheikh

Jumped right back into my response to Sheikh Awal’s opening statement from a debate in 2009. Sam Shamoun called in with some excellent Qur’anic insights halfway through the program, and then we took a phone call on atheism, and finished up with a little more from the debate. I hope to post video later today continuing the Awal response.

Today on the DL I took a call at the start and then moved into providing a response to the opening statement of Sheikh Awal from a debate from 2009.

Today on the DL I started off by playing some clips from a debate featuring Sheikh Awal, one of my opponents in Dearborn next month. I went over his claim that portions of the NT were written by Constantine at Nicea, and his claim that the great uncial manuscripts, Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, and Alexandrinus, were written in the twelfth century! This

The first half of our program today comprised a debate report from Clearwater, going over my recollections of the key issues in the discussion with Dr. Robert Price. After the break I briefly commented on the Jennifer Knapp situation, hoping to have the opportunity to produce a video going over her errant biblical claims later this week. Then we went

As of this writing, Mohammad Khan’s YouTube account has been suspended. Thankfully, some of the most important documentation of Ergun Caner’s status as a myth-maker and self-promoter is found elsewhere on YouTube, but I have a feeling those are on “the list” as well. I found out about this live, during the DL today, from Denver. I had been discussing

We went over the entirety of Ergun Caner’s testimony played on Monday’s Focus on the Family broadcast on the program today. Given how this story is moving into a national platform outside of the Christian community, at least there will be documentation that 1) serious and open attempts were made to call for accountability, and 2) the intentions of those

Started off with Matthew Bellisario and some other various stories, moving into a review of William Lane Craig’s recent anti-Reformed comments and his “keep the bar as low as possible” method of evangelism comments on Moody Radio. Then we talked about Dave Hunt’s flipping of Romans 9 on its head. Finally, we took a good bit of time to review

Started off with some discussion of John 6 and a caller on Catholic Answers Live, then moved to a 2006 presentation by Ergun Caner with some new and interesting claims (including his assertion that he learned about America by watching the Dukes of Hazzard while living on the border of Turkey and Iraq: only problem is, that TV series started

We let the callers drive the program today, and that often takes us over a wide spectrum of topics. We discussed George Bryson and Calvary Chapel; Ergun Caner (one of his students called); 1 John 2:2 and ἱλασμός (via a Skype call!); the Apocrypha and online apologetics to Roman Catholics, and more! Something for everyone, as they say.

OK, so we had to go about seven minutes long to cram all of that into one program, but given that there will not be a program on Thursday (I will be spending all Thursday in airports or in the air, heading to Rochester, NY), that was alright. Started off with an exegesis of Romans 4, then reviewed this article

Wow, we covered the gamut today. Started off playing Phil Johnson’s comments on the Warren/Piper controversy that erupted last week, then added a few of my own thoughts, then moved on to Peter Lumpkins being awarded the “lamest attempt to malign” award for his “James White thinks it is dangerous to preach the love of God” silliness. Then we took

I played some of Ehrman’s comments in the debate with Craig Evans, and took calls.

We took the gloves off today a bit, but remained within bounds for brothers in the Lord, as Michael and I debated again on the DL. Accusations of a “schizophrenic God” and “robots” came up, which surprised me a little, but that’s OK, at least we got down to some brass tacks, so to speak, in examining the foundations upon

   Started off reviewing this piece of investigative work that helps to shed a lot of light on Ergun Caner’s claims relating to Arabic as his first language, living in only “majority Muslim countries” prior to coming to the US (must have been when he was two years of age), coming here via “Beirut and Cairo,” all that time he spent

Today kicked off the two-part debate between myself and Michael Brown. I suppose it is the classical Calvinist/Arminian debate, but I prefer the monergism/synergism description myself. In any case, we covered John 6, Romans 8-9, and Ephesians 1 over the course of 90 minutes. It is fast paced with very little break in the action, that’s for sure. Next week