Archive for category: The Dividing Line

I managed to get a good bit of ground covered in the Beckwith/George dialogue today, but once again, over and over again, the centrality of the Gospel, and the shallowness of ecumenism, were illustrated. Important interaction that, sadly, isn’t taking place nearly as often as it should in our truth-starved culture.

   Today I began working through the Timothy George/Frank Beckwith dialogue that took place recently. It will take a number of programs to play the entire dialogue and interact with it, but I think it is necessary to do so. There is so much muddled thinking on this issue in our day, and ecumenical dialogues that start with an abandonment of

OK, not quite the plague, but Rich has had this sinus stuff since Monday, and I got it Tuesday. I told him to stay home and rest, and I will take it easy while packing for my trip to Santa Fe. I surely pray I won’t have any problems speaking this weekend at Discern 09! I’m on the “downside” of

A two-part program, basically. In the first half I discussed the debate between TurretinFan and William Albrecht on the topic of the propriety of the use of the phrase “Mother of God” with reference to Mary, and in the second half I took a call that took up the whole half hour on the subject of Mormonism and the Book

Ratzinger on Purgatory, Then Calls on Acts 13:46-48, Islam, and God’s Sovereign Decree.

As the video I posted earlier documents, I took the first quarter of the program to discuss Steven Anderson of “I Hate Barak O’Bama” fame, then took some calls and played more of William Lane Craig’s defense of Arminianism.

Sort of took a walkabout the first part of the program, discussing Australia and…various things. Then we took a call from Harrisburg on exegesis, then, after the break, Michael, a Roman Catholic from California, called, and we spent the rest of the show discussing prayer to Mary and related subjects.

Lot’s of callers and important in-studio guests on this Thursday edition of the Dividing Line. You can also subscribe to the podcast using iTunes with this link. Please keep in mind that Dr. White is now traveling in Australia, his itinerary for the first portion can be found here. Pray for his ministry ‘down under’, that God will strengthen him

   Today we started off talking about how Catholic Answers needs a staff of seventeen people to run their website security (eh?) so they need more donations, too! Sorry, something sounds a bit fishy. Then the phone calls started. The first was on the issue of eternal sonship vs. incarnational sonship, the second on the LDS concept of the Great Apostasy,

Dr. Daniel B. Wallace of Dallas Seminary and the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts joined me for the entire hour on the program today. We covered a tremendous range of topics, from the Ankerberg Show to Dan’s Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts, to Bart Ehrman, textual variants, etc. You really need to keep CSNTM

A wide ranging program for your listening enjoyment and edification today, to be sure. Started off with Tim Staples on purgatory and idulgences; went on to some Gail Riplinger zaniness; took a call on 1 Timothy 2:1-7; finished up going a few minutes over to cover claims made by Shabir Ally in a debate in South Africa recently.

   I am very excited to announce that Dr. Daniel B. Wallace, Professor of New Testament at Dallas Theological Seminary, and the Executive Director of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTM), will be my guest on The Dividing Line this coming Thursday evening. Dr. Wallace’s work in Greek grammar is well known, as he is the author

I started out today on Iron Sharpens Iron doing the third day in a row on the Harold Camping topic. This time we took calls just for me. Mr. Camping’s followers were out in force, and once again, the importance of honoring God’s Word by refusing to force our words into God’s mouth was seen clearly. Here’s the program. Then

A wide variety of topics covered today, including responding to a Roman Catholic comment regarding debates, a call on Harold Camping, and a continuation of our examination of Norman Geisler’s anti-Calvinism sermon.

Today on the DL I was joined by Sam Shamoun and we discussed the story of Zaynab bint Jash and the Qur’an. It is a very important subject in analyzying the Qur’an.

Two very different halves of the program today. First half I went through comments made by Osama Abdullah in a recent exchange with Nabeel Qureshi. I demonstrate that Osama continues to demonstrate his incapacity to present an even semi-credible and coherent argument against Christianity and for Islam. Then after the break “Brother Peter” called in. Evidently he’s written a book

We took a number of great calls yesterday, and I spent most of my time focusing on George Bryson’s continued attempts to get around the exegetical force of John 6:37-45. Bryson has posted a number of claims on web forums and comment sections regarding this issue, and I took the time to start working through one such lengthy presentation. By

Devoted the entire hour to a very useful, controlled, focused discussion of Matthew 16:18-19 and the Papacy with Matthew Bellisario today. I hope you enjoy the exchange!

   I have been informed that Matthew Bellisario will be calling the DL tomorrow to take me up on my challenge to actually address arguments I have made against Roman Catholicism in debate and published works (rather than attempting to twist comments about the mindset of post-World War II New Testament scholarship into arguments against Rome). Maybe something useful can come

   After listening to Tony Campolo talking about John Calvin, and then watching Troy Brooks ramble on about how Sproul, Piper, Calvin, Luther, and I are all headed to hell, I decided it was time to break out the Radio Free Geneva theme. I played some parts of Troy Brooks’ rambling diatribes, then gave a summary of the content of the

Note: for some reason, the audio did not record properly on the video feed, so I had to paste the audio in, and it did not sync up perfectly.

Started off today with a Jerusalem Jones Update, documenting that Steve Ray can’t represent his former faith very well, nor can he understand the Greek text of the New Testament, either (and Marcus Grodi didn’t catch his error). Then Matthew Bellisario called in and wanted to argue about how many “practicing” Catholics were Nazi death camp guards. When I asked

Today we had a number of calls on a wide variety of subjects, but mainly on the Shamsi Ali debate last Thursday evening. I played some material from the debate, and I also played some clips from the Q&A at the Sovereignty of God Conference.

Continued our review of Norman Geisler’s “Why I am Not a Five Point Calvinist” sermon today, but at the beginning we covered another example of the bankruptcy of Roman Catholic apologetics today in the wild-eyed behavior of Matthew Bellisario and others.

We began with a Jerusalem Jones update, listening to Steve Ray once again misrepresent his former faith. This time, though, we provided appropriate intro music! Then we continued listening to Norm Geisler’s “Why I’m Not a Five Point Calvinist” sermon, noting the regular equivocation in his arguments against the Reformed position.

Since Rich is out of town we won’t be posting the programs until he gets back. Please direct all outraged e-mails to Rich. 🙂 We did do the program, though, live, and covered Dr. Craig’s lecture on the “Problem of Evil” delivered at Cambridge a few years ago. You should be able to hear it…next Monday or Tuesday, if you