Archive for category: The Dividing Line

Another video has been posted with embarrassing statements from Ergun Caner regarding his fundamental misunderstandings of basic Islamic terminology and concepts. Spent a few minutes at the top of the show reviewing that, then listened to a portion of an Unbelievable radio show from London where a Christian, in speaking to an atheist, offered a horrific presentation of the gospel,

I think that is the longest title to a DL blog entry I’ve ever produced! We started off looking at Robert Sungenis’ comments in response to TurretinFan’s article on the Immaculate Conception debate with Christopher Ferrara. I must say, Dr. Sungenis was very nice to talk to and debate in Santa Fe. He should be commended. But this article left

Sam Shamoun joined me live in studio today. We started off with a discussion of the debate that took place Tuesday evening on the Jewish Voice Broadcast here in Phoenix (Sam was in the audience), and then started taking calls on a wide variety of issues, including one from the ever enigmatic TurretinFan!

Gave a report on this past weekend’s debates in Santa Fe with Robert Sungenis, a little preview of the debate this evening on the Jewish Voice Broadcast where I am teaming up with Michael Brown to defend the Trinity (no, I cannot live stream it, but, of course, it will air on the program in the near future), and then

Started off with a statement on the “Burning Qur’an’s” fiasco, took a call on Oneness Pentecostalism from London, concluded my comments on Marc Ayer’s claims, took more calls, and finished up with part of the cross-examination between myself and Robert Sungenis from our debate on Papal Infallibility in Florida.

Started off with a recap of last weekend’s debates, and then moved to the comments of a former presuppositionalist who swam the Tiber. Always interesting to listen to “converts.” They always expose the real reasons with their comments. I even heard another such convert yesterday claim that she had once believed that there may be only a thousand people, like

Started off noting that Elmer Towns says Ergun Caner’s “punishment” fits the “problem,” then took three calls, one from Estonia relevant to Islam, one on King James Onlyism, one on the nature of hell. All three were very encouraging calls.

Went over Chosen But Free Three on the DL today, looking at the abject failure of Norman Geisler to provide a meaningful or scholarly response to the criticisms of his work that have piled up over the past decade since it first appeared. Took one call on Ephesians 2:8 and wrapped it up!

I returned from Detroit to find the 3rd edition of Chosen But Free waiting for me. I have only had limited time to look over it, but I’ve seen enough to want to review it tomorrow on the DL, and that means…Radio Free Geneva! Join us at 11am to find out about what happened to the horrible Gail Riplingeresque appendix

Started off with some updates on what is coming up over the next few months (please pray for all the debates, and all the travel, and yes, we still need your help to make it all happen) then started taking calls…Skype calls and “regular” calls, even going a bit long. Topics were wide indeed, including a long call on apostasy,

Did a review of four Unbelievable Radio programs to start off the program, discussing presuppositional apologetics, Victor Stenger, and a “liberal” who denied the resurrection of Christ (all programs I listened to this morning while on a 70 mile ride). You can listen to Justin’s program here, but since that airs in London, you can subscribe to the podcast as

Covered two primary texts on the program today, Hebrews 7:25 and James 2:14, but I did so in the context of recognizing the difference between a God-centered faith and a man-centered one. I drew illustrations from my debate with Robert Sungenis on the Mass that took place in Utah a number of years ago. An hour of biblical teaching, no

Since no one else has blogged it yet, here’s the link to today’s podcast. Discussed today: A May recording of Ergun Caner talking about haters. Dr. White also took two calls.

Today we pressed on listening to Robert Sungenis illustrate “sola ecclesia” to the nth degree. You will note I mentioned waiting for the FedEx van to show up. Well, it did, just a few minutes after the program. It brought me a package that I knew was coming, but, I did not know, for certain anyway, what it contained. Some

Started off with a brief discussion about this amazing and sad story about the degradation of our culture. Then moved on to the Veritas “exoneration” of Ergun Caner, and then moved back to the Slick/Sungenis discussion, in particular, on the issue of tradition and Scripture.

I had so many people contact me asking whether what Glenn Beck was saying was classical LDS theology I took the time to go over his comments and compare them with official LDS sources. Result? Who knows? But hopefully it was educational!

I continued my review of the Slick/Sungenis discussion, today discussing issues relating to sola scriptura and textual critical issues. We will continue with a discussion of tradition and Scripture on the next DL, which will be Monday afternoon at 4pm.

I had been contacted by a number of people regarding the encounter between Dr. Robert Sungenis and Matt Slick that aired a week ago Monday, so I started reviewing the program and interacting with the claims that were made. (In fact, I started typing this post, had to stop as I was on Matt’s program for about half an hour,

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