Archive for category: The Dividing Line

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

Don’t forget the 90 minute exegetical debate today with Dr. Michael Brown, live on the Dividing Line, 10am PDT! That is an hour earlier than the normal Tuesday time slot. There will not be a later program at the regular Thursday slot. No, we will not have time for calls. We will be working hard to get everything into only

So, just who is Robert Price? Well, most of our listeners only know him as the guy Bart Ehrman dissed on the Infidel Guy show. I decided that needed to change, so, I played two portions of the 1999 debate between Price and William Lane Craig on the resurrection. I felt his opening statement, and his rapid-fire answering of at

   A two-part program with no phone calls—not because no one called (two folks did), but because I opened a second tab in Safari and forgot to switch back to the phone control tab, so I did not even see that there were callers! So much for my vaunted infallibility (as if I had ever claimed it!). Anyway, two portions to

   I have an ambitious schedule today as I want to play comments by William Lane Craig and Kevin Harris on the subject of Mormonism and the effort to help them become, well, “more orthodox.” These comments came from the Reasonable Faith podcast of 2/16/2010. This is a classic example of abandoning a biblical paradigm, the apostolic example, and the use

For those interested, we are digitizing old Dividing Line programs from around 2000 and live-streaming them at the regular DL link. Some folks are really enjoying the look back, so feel free to join in! Here’s the link.

Did the DL live from Kansas today, covering a brief update on the Ergun Caner front, reading an e-mail sent to Robert Sungenis and his answer for most of the hour, and the closing with the caller who had called the Pastor’s Perspective show and asked about Ezekiel 36 and the heart of stone and the heart of flesh (if

   Couldn’t let some folks have withdrawals for nearly two weeks (and I wanted to comment on a few things myself!) so we did a special Monday DL today. I started off looking at Ezekiel 36 and 37 and the beautiful presentation of God’s work of regeneration in the New Covenant displayed therein. Then we listened, without interruption, to a nine

Since I will be traveling both Tuesday and Thursday, we will do a special, early edition of the DL tomorrow at 10am MST (9am PST, Noon EST). I did not get a chance to play the “quote the text, quickly move therefrom” response of the men on the Pastor’s Perspective program when someone called in to ask about the heart

   It was a caller-driven show today. I had cued up some Robert Price material, but the calls started early and kept coming. We even took some Skype calls for the first time (the sound quality is amazing!). Covered a very, very wide range of topics, from divorce and remarriage to preparing for apologetics, the meaning of true forgiveness, etc. Something

   Thought I’d share with you what I’m looking at while doing the Dividing Line:

But not quite in that order, thankfully. A lengthy call took up most of the program, focused upon the Caner situation and the need for simple integrity in being honest about what you say in the field of apologetics. A caller at the end shifted the topic to 1 John 5:1. I’m a bit surprised at the responses I have

I mentioned last evening that we are going to be doing some new things on the DL today. First, I will have Twitter up, so you can contact me with your questions at @DrOakley1689. Then, we will be trying to use Skype today as well. Here is the Skype address: dividing.line. That’s how you can get in with your call.

Did a Wednesday morning edition of the DL from London today, starting off with a few brief comments about the “Circle the Wagons, Shoot Anyone Who Moves” attitude of folks like Peter Lumpkins in reference to the Ergun Caner situation (did he really debate Abdul Saleeb—which means “Servant of the Cross”?), reported on the debate Monday evening, and the two

We will be doing one DL this week, tomorrow, Wednesday, at 11am MST (6pm for me here in London!). We will be really pushing the envelope this time: Rich has installed the new webcasting unit, and I will be doing the program via Skype. Hence, we have maximized the possibilities of utter failure! But, we will press forward anyway! I

We didn’t let a little thing like 5,281 miles get in the way of doing the DL today. With the help of Skype (which seems to keep improving in quality), my MacBook Pro, a really decent Internet connection here in London, Rich’s work back at the office, and our faithful King of All Things Internet in Texas (we had server

Started off the program today talking about the upcoming debate with Robert Price, and requesting continued prayers that I would be given my visa to visit London in time for my flight a week from Thursday. I was going to fairly briefly respond to the comments by Brian Brodersen, Chuck Smith, and Don Stewart, but once I played all the

While I was flying to Atlanta on Thursday the hosts of the Pastor’s Perspective radio program, featuring Chuck Smith, received a phone call about election. One of the hosts mentioned yours truly by name, making reference to the following video posted in response to his claim that Calvinism is Christianity without Jesus. He attempts to elucidate his thoughts. Today on

Started off with some of the very interesting comments made on the Catholic Answers Forums, and then moved to the specifics on the Staples debate, including reading the full context of both of the “Protestant” citations Staples offered. Looked at the broader issues of purgatory, and then moved on to some comments made by Dr. Brown on the issue of

Yesterday, on the Dividing Line (DL), Dr. White interacted with Tim Staples’ interesting assertions regarding Mary being the Spouse of the Holy Spirit. After that, Dr. White interacted further with Sir Anthony Buzzard’s essentially Socinian teachings.

Started off the program with an interview with Dr. Joseph Pipa of Greenville Presbyterian Seminary, and followed this with the beginning of an examination of the anti-Trinitarian claims of Anthony Buzzard.

TurretinFan joined me yesterday for an hour-long examination of Tim Staples’ attempt to undermine Reformed objections to purgatory, specifically, his lengthy attack on Calvin’s doctrine of God’s sovereignty and providence found in his 5-CD series, published by Catholic Answers, on purgatory. Though we had much more material we could have covered, we managed to get to the key errors in

Today on the Dividing Line I spent the first half of the program responding to Bryan Cross and Frank Beckwith on the issue of sola scriptura. The fundamental attack upon the sufficiency of Scripture and hence its truly divine character and purpose in Roman Catholicism remains central to any discussion of the issues that separate us. Then I went to

Started off playing the Brit Hume clip and discussing the hypocrisy of the secularists in demanding that Christians remain silent in the public square. Lesson here: free speech dies when secularists rule. Then we moved on to a half hour examination of the text of the Qur’an and the topic of “being subdued,” i.e., humbled, humiliated, and such texts as

Well, OK, it was just a few days ago. But I forgot to blog the program. When that happens, remember, the file name is always consistent! For example, this DL’s URL is http://store.aomin.org/catalogsearch/result/?q=20091231. Next Tuesday’s DL will be http://store.aomin.org/catalogsearch/result/?q=20100105, and so forth. In any case, I started off discussing a bit about Islam and the Christmas day disaster in Detroit