Archive for category: The Dividing Line

Almost made it through, but not quite. Spent the hour listening to, and commenting on, the exchange from Unbelievable. I will finish it up on Tuesday.

Started off reading a certified letter that was sent to me from Green Bay, Wisconsin. Very insightful. Then discussed George Bryson’s article (noted on the blog earlier), then got into playing the key portions of last Saturday’s Unbelievable program from London, where Justin Brierley had on Bart Ehrman and Mike Licona. Another important examination of how Christian truth can be

Nice to have had internet connectivity during the entirety of the Dividing Line today, that’s for sure. Finished up the Harris rebuttal in the recent (expensive) debate from Notre Dame, then listened to Norman Geisler on a national radio program dodge a clear question focused upon the incoherence of his views of divine sovereignty, and then addressed an e-mail about

Deadcast, i.e., once again, though we had perfect connectivity all weekend, 50 minutes before the program, BOOM, network outages. Rich has spent the past four hours since the program working on stuff, and, for the moment, we are back up and seemingly operational. For now. In any case, started off with the announcement of the 2012 Apologetics Cruise out of

I am starting to think Peter Lumpkins has relatives that work for Cox Communications. We started off with a brief discussion of Harold Camping and what to do with Campingites starting May 22, 2011. Then we looked again at some Silly Atheist Bible Thumper Arguments, managed a whopping 15 more seconds of Abdullah Kunde’s comments from a recent debate (at

Almost canceled the program today (our Internet access went down thirty minutes before the program again), but we got it back and made it through. Talked with Justin about witnessing to LDS missionaries, covered a common argument about the Bible and the Qur’an, took calls on baptism in the early church and a wide variety of other issues, going about

Started off briefly noting Peter Lumpkins’ absence (fully expected of course), then took some quick calls on a wide variety of topics, including a discussion of the high priestly work of Christ and an upcoming debate with atheists. I then moved into reading a large portion of chapter 4 of Love Wins, illustrating the man-centeredness of the Arminian fundamentalism that

Well, the Cox guy comes out, says we should be fixed up, and…boom, five minutes before the DL, once again, we are dead in the water. Thankfully, the Cox guy was just leaving. He can’t find anything wrong here, so this is all in the “main office,” but he isn’t getting anywhere with them, either. Somebody is playing games anyway.

Our ISP is having…issues providing us with consistent internet access. We lost all connectivity about 30 minutes before the DL, but got it back. Then it dropped out five minutes before, so we have called them and they are “sending someone out” (you know how specific that is), so, for now, we are going to try for 3pm our time,

Started off challenging Peter Lumpkins to provide documentation of claims he has been making, and then moved on to important stuff: a quick review of key issues relating to both Love Wins as well as Forged by Bart Ehrman. I hope to provide some foundational and important observations that will be helpful to my fellow believers.

Started off noting that Love does Win…at least, it gets Peter Lumpkins to post reviews of Rob Bell’s book by Anglicans (well, Anglican last time I checked anyway). But we had a very full board of calls, and after a few technical glitches, got to them, including questions about KJV Onlyism, Rome’s abuse of Luke 1:28, Fred Phelps, and the

We are bumping the DL back a day, so, regular Tuesday time (11am MST) on Monday. Yeah, Amazon released Love Wins early, so I’m about half way through that, but…that has nothing at all to do with why we are moving the program. I just needed to clear Tuesday out for something else! So, hope to hear from you as

Another eclectic program today, covering Richard Mouw’s proclamation of Rob Bell as orthodox, a call from Ben the agnostic, a quick review of some comments by Mustafa Arja in a recent debate (looking at his use of Shabir Ally and especially Bart Ehrman), and then a call that took us almost 15 minutes beyond our normal time, a conversation with

Our ISP is having a hard day today. We lose our connectivity every few minutes, and maintain it only erratically. So, that may impact the DL this afternoon. Right now, we, just like the God of Open Theism, do not know what the future holds. So if you try connecting up at 4pm MST and there’s nothing there, you’ll know

Another eclectic program today, starting off with two calls, one on RC Sproul and his opposition to presuppositional apologetics (the call moved quickly to a discussion of the method more than Sproul’s views) and the next from Silly Brit II (aka John Samson) on Jesus’ words about Chorazin and Bethsaida. Then we launched into Rob Bell’s press-release video presentation from

Let’s see, we covered a question on common grace and those who deny there is such a thing; Mark 6 and Jesus “could not” do mighty works in Nazareth due to unbelief; Acts 17:27 and what “groping” for God might mean; refuting the community college atheists and their Osiris/Horus/Dionysus/Attis/Mithra madness; responding to an atheist’s “Questions for Bible Thumpers,” and finally,

Started off with my frustration at the “discernment ministries” of our land that seem to either lack discernment, or a backbone, to stand up and blow the lid off the Great Evangelical Cover-Up (can you say not-so-Veritas Seminary?), and then moved on to e-mail questions. We got into Geek 101 for a while, covering Kindle and iPad stuff, as we

I have duties to attend to at home, so rather than just canceling the DL for Tuesday, we will do it early: 9:30am MST, 11:30am EST, and 3:30am in Sydney, Australia (David Ould was just whining in channel about this). I need to make sure our friends at Liberty know about this, lest they miss anything at all. 🙂

On January 31st I was contacted by a professor in a reformed seminary relating to Mark Siljander’s book, A Deadly Misunderstanding. That happened to be the day I left for London, so I do not recall when, exactly, I purchased the book via Kindle. I know I began listening to it on a 75 mile climbing ride on February 23rd.

Tackled the USA Today article basically telling us all to stop talking about God’s law and what is right and wrong, answered an e-mail about how to handle emotional responses to God’s sovereignty in salvation, and finished off listening to a series of statements by John Hick, philosopher of religion (and opponent to revelational Christianity).

Started off answering questions that have been sent in, including a follow up on Reformed theology from our Muslim inquirer; then took three “regular” calls, and three Skype calls, two of which were from England (I like how the folks calling in from London are often speaking quietly because it is so late at night over there).

Today I spent the entire program answering six questions sent in on the topic of Reformed theology. I hope the answers given are useful and edifying. A few comments at the end about the contrast between these serious questions and some of the looniness currently being seen out on the net.

Started off with a brief correction to a pastor from Brisbane who pretty much got what RB’s believe on election completely backwards in a recent sermon (we listened to an anti-Calvinism sermon he preached a few months ago on a Radio Free Geneva), and then started listening to Abdullah Kunde’s presentation in a recent debate in Australia. Then took calls

Took quite a while to work through a report on my trip to London, Dublin, and Glasgow, and then started to take calls. Ended up with an interesting dialogue between Joseph and Sam Shamoun on the Qur’an, and then, well after the normal stop time, I addressed Peter Lumpkins and others, as promised. Great to be back and to do

Started off with a discussion of some comments from Bassam Zawadi (first half hour), then took calls on a wide variety of topics, including witnessing to Muslims, Qur’anic variations, and whether a parable in Matthew is relevant to particular redemption. Just a reminder: I do not know when we will be able to schedule any DL’s during my trip to

Played the very odd section of a radio program from Detroit where Norman Geisler accused the Reformed of holding to “theological racism” and that we (the Reformed) went “berserk” in response to Chosen But Free, which, we likewise learned, was the first attack upon our beliefs by a “major scholar.” Went from there to a quick review of John Calvin

Yes, I think Norman Geisler’s wild accusations against Reformed theology deserve an RFG. I will also review John Calvin Goes to Berkeley. Join us at 4pm MST!

I invited the Dean and Assistant Dean (who is shorter than the Dean) of the Midwest Center for Theological Studies to join me today on the program. Sam Waldron (Dean) and Richard Barcellos (Assistant Dean) were kind enough to take a full hour out of their day to chat with me. We covered a lot of topics, discussing their work

Mainly relied on callers today to drive the topic, but did report on my time at MCTS (we are going to try to have Sam Waldron and Richard Barcellos on next Tuesday’s program), and thanked some folks who have really done a lot to make the past few weeks special for me, including M.A., V.L., BMcL, and DittoHead. Very thankful

Talked a bit about Ergun Caner speaking at the Jacksonville pastor’s conference, discovered the cleaned up “woops” bio live on the air, discussed the murder of the governor in Pakistan, and then took some calls, first on Galatians 2:16 and “the faithfulness of Jesus” (subjective vs. objective genitives) and another call on Ezekiel 36.

Since I am traveling and lecturing at the Midwest Center for Theological Studies in Kentucky (teaching a Polemics class for MCTS, the Institute for Reformed Baptist Studies, and the Reformed Baptist Seminary), we will attempt to do a Skype-based DL tomorrow at 3pm EST, 1pm MST, noon PST. Join us then!