Archive for category: The Dividing Line

Spent the first fifteen minutes discussing the big story in the news today, the utter audacity of a leading military general in the United States—he has morals! We watch those who would deny us the right to say “homosexuality is wrong” writhing in anguish at the continued existence (by God’s grace) of men and women in our society who still

Started out with an e-mail from Francois Bovon demonstrating, very clearly, the exaggerations presented in the tomb book and documentary. Then we took a call on the issue, and moved from there to some more of George Bryson’s lecture against Calvinism, and closed up with some more Shabir Ally on the crucifixion. 

What a wonderful surprise we had yesterday on the program! It was Julie Staples’ birthday. Now, a number of years ago, I and some others tried to sing Happy Birthday for Julie, and the resultant mess was…humorous. We about blew up our phone system. So I put out a call for the world famous Mylo Hatzenbuhler to come to my

I played portions of the Today Show interview and the Larry King program from last night and gave an overview of the many problems in the Tomb of Jesus story today on the DL. If you know folks who are more likely to listen to something than read something, today’s program might help. Of course, this is all preliminary. I

   This is not going to surprise anyone, but I intend to tackle the Tomb controversy tomorrow. They may have the collective ignorance and gullibility of the secular media on their side, but that is not going to stop me from replying. I have found that there are some real questions about the reading of the inscriptions, and I likewise have

Well, evidently, I answered all possible questions on textual criticism, or, bored the world to death with that series, so we moved on to listening, sort of on the fly, to last weekend’s sermon by Johnny Hunt in which he once again did the “here’s the template, we are all going to keep repeating this, without modification, without accuracy, and

Started to wrap things up today on the TC series. Here is the textual data I discussed at the top of the program regarding Mark 1:41 and Bart Ehrman: Greek text: kai. splagcnisqei.j evktei,naj th.n cei/ra auvtou/ h

Yup, you guessed it, continued with the textual criticism seminar. Going to try to start wrapping things up on Tuesday, hopefully taking your calls on textual issues on Thursday. We will see. Started today’s program with a clip from ol’ Texe Marrs, which will appear on the blog soon. 

Pressed on with the textual criticism series on the DL today. I took some time to address the “ecclesiastical text” argument before moving into some more specific variants. We just got started on looking at the NA27 text near the end of the program. Also, I made reference to my disputatio with Douglas Wilson on the issue of textual critical

Here are the links for the documents for the textual criticism series (UBS, UBS2, NA27). Oh, and I will probably mention the SESB for Libronics today as well. Here’s a glorious image of how you can have the full textual data on your computer as well.

Pressed on with our textual criticism series on the DL today. On the fly I decided to update the link provided below, here, and add a scan of Colossians 1:14, which I discussed on the program. Today we mainly covered examples of scribal error and the sources thereof. Enjoy!

Pressed on with our textual criticism series on the DL today. On the fly I decided to update the link provided below, here, and add a scan of Colossians 1:14, which I discussed on the program. Today we mainly covered examples of scribal error and the sources thereof. Enjoy!

I have stayed up late enjoying myself immensely examining the wealth of high quality digital images of Codex Sinaiticus this evening…well, morning. I will be posting some images in the morning to illustrate one of our variants. Anyway, I have two files. The first contains just two pages from the UBS 4th text. The introductory remarks are so diffuse that

Went back to the Craig/Ally debate today to finish up the cross-ex portion and look at little more closely at original sin vs. “actual sin.” Then we went back to the Bryson presentation, and took a call on the textual variant at 1 Timothy 3:16. Also, don’t forget we will start the textual critical series on Thursday with some background

I played sections from Shabir Ally’s debate with William Lane Craig regarding the nature of God. Then I took calls. I will continue with both Ally and the Bryson debate next Tuesday, and remember, next Thursday we start the textual criticism series.

Started off with George Bryson and then took a few calls toward the end of the hour. Also announced that starting next Thursday, 2/1, I will be doing the textual criticism series, including explaining the textual critical symbols in the UBS4 and NA27 texts. Be watching for more details on this series.

Started out with some more comments on gospel presentations, focusing on the fact that we live in a context where pandering to the humanism of our age is one of the primary reasons we have entire churches that are, to put it bluntly, unregenerate in their membership. I contrasted exhorting men and women, boys and girls, to plead for mercy

Well, you can see now what our major announcement was, and I’m truly excited about it. I took the first half hour to make the announcement and play some comments from Shabir on the issue (there are a number of his presentations on the topic available on line at places like YouTube). Then, in the second half hour, I may

Tomorrow morning we will have a very special announcement to make on The Dividing Line. Remember, instead of the normal Thursday time, the DL will be on at 11am MST (1pm EST). We have tremendously exciting news about October’s cruise, so make sure to be listening!

Started off with a discussion of Romans 9 and “prepared for destruction,” and then moved into a brief review of Paul Owen’s “I’m a Calvinist. No, really, I mean it” post on the oxymoronic website. Then in the second half of the program we took calls, the first of which was on critical claims about the Gospel of John.

Started the program off with the wonderful quartet music linked below. As was noted by someone, the Mormons would love that song, too. Anyway, we then read a wonderfully kind e-mail from one of our zealous defenders of Roman Catholicism, and then looked again at some of the official statements Rome has produced in reference to Islam. Then the calls

Mike O’Fallon visited us at our offices so we talked some more about cruise developments and the like to start things off. Then I played sections from Brian Flemming’s The God Who Wasn’t There and noted the horrific argumentation it presents. Also talked a bit about Tim Staples, and fielded a call on NT Wright’s view of justification.

Had “dad duty” today (for my fellow dads who have almost 18 year old daughters—how many parts on a 1994 Probe can you replace before it qualifies as a new car?). Started off thanking Gene Cook for his plug of our cruise on The Narrow Mind and before we could get back to the George Bryson presentation the phones started

Started with some brief comments on The Blasphemy Challenge, Brian Flemming, The God Who Wasn’t There, etc., and then went to an eight minute clip of Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel responding to a phone call on the subject of “Calvinism.” A truly horrific example of complete straw-man argumentation. Then Pierre called in and we once again had to go

We continued with George Bryson and his anti-Calvinist materials, and took a couple of calls. Also played a bit of my cross-examination of Bryson in our debate.

I was sent a link to the…talk Ergun Caner gave at a church Sunday, December 10th. I just can’t bring myself to calling this string of jokes and stories a sermon, I’m sorry. I’ve heard real sermons, and this isn’t one of them. In any case, I played just a few minutes of that, and then answered various e-mail questions

Started off reading the following letter on the air, and inviting its Roman Catholic author to call in. Dear Mr. White, I just want you to know that a professor of a major Catholic university has required all students to buy your book SCRIPTURE ALONE with the purpose of thrashing it to pieces. He is working in conjuction with

Started the program today playing a clip from Patrick Madrid on the nature of ecumenism. Oddly, agreed with pretty much all he had to say in the sense that we both agree that ecumenism, if it is “valid,” should have as its goal conversion. We just disagree on what the conversion is about, or what it is to. Then we

First half hour I played, and interacted, with a clip from George Bryson’s amazing presentation to the Calvary Chapel pastor’s meeting sometime in late 2003 (it was prior to the BAM program with him and the release of his “read my book” book, The Dark Side of Calvinism. Gene Cook and the folks on The Narrow Mind began reviewing it,