Archive for category: The Dividing Line

Played clips from Tim Staples, Shabir Ally, and Patrick Madrid today—in that order, though, amazingly, two of the three had something in common. You’ll just have to listen to find out what it was! Here’s the program.

Last evening on the Dividing Line we had a three-part program; first a call on what Jehovah’s Witnesses believe about salvation; then I read the majority of a two-part talk given by Joseph Fielding McConkie, LDS scholar and son of Mormon Apostle Bruce R. McConkie (noted below); and then a real quick call and a question on why Romans 8:1

Joseph Fielding McConkie is the son of one of the most outspoken Mormon apostles of the twentieth century, Bruce R. McConkie. In 1985 he wrote a book with Robert Millet (same LDS scholar who wrote the Eerdman’s publication we have spoken of in the past) called Sustaining and Defending the Faith. The book remains in print. He is a professor

Today on the Dividing Line we took a call on how to witness to Mormon missionaries, another with the suggestion that I do some DL’s on the Da Vinci Code based on my PowerPoint presentation of it (good idea!), and I also spoke about a New York Times article on abortion, and then discussed Sura 4, Ayah 157 in the

(Here is today’s program, noted below)     Someday I’m going to wrap myself around a light pole somewhere because I’m so amazed at something someone just said in a debate I’m listening to while riding my bike. Yesterday I was listening to the Morey vs. Ally debate while riding, and just about rode right off the bike path when once

Well, we opened the phones for all those folks who would like to refute what I’ve been saying in response to Muslim apologists…and all we got was the sound of crickets chirping! Not a single call. Oh well, so I went over some material from Nadir Ahmed and Sabeel Ahmed presented in debates against Sam Shamoun. Here’s the program.

Finished the Shabir Ally vs. Sam Shamoun debate today on the DL. Heard Shabir make it very clear that he does not feel he has to read the Bible in context–an admission that utterly destroys his credibility and his arguments, to be sure. Started the program with a message to Nadir Ahmed’s followers as well. Here’s the program. Open phones

Though at an odd time, we packed the hour with more reviews of Islamic debates…continuing the Shabir Ally debate, but also looking at some others Sam Shamoun has done that truly make you wonder. Listen in!

Tomorrow we will move the DL from 2pm EDT to 7pm EDT. I’m heading to Tampa on Wednesday, speaking Thursday and Friday in Brandon, flying red-eye back, and then flying to Southern California for a big Reformed Baptist gathering on the Lord’s Day in celebration of the Reformation. I’ll be speaking about six times over the course of this trip

Continued the Sam Shamoun vs. Shabir Ally debate today, and even heard Shabir argue that Revelation 14 informs us that women will not enter into paradise! You have to hear it to believe it. “When Bad Jehovah’s Witness Arguments Get Picked Up by Muslim Apologists.” Sounds like a bad B movie, the stuff of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Anyway, here’s

I forgot to provide the link to last Thursday’s DL. Here it is. We continued the review of the Ally/Shamoun debate on that program, and today as well. Lots of interesting topics addressed. Here is today’s program.

Despite technical difficulties, we pressed on with the DL today, playing the opening sections of the 2000 debate between Christian apologist Sam Shamoun and Muslim apologist Shabir Ally, as noted in the previous blog entry. I began responding to claims made by Ally in the second half hour of the program. This series of DL’s will take some time to

I was riding northbound last Saturday morning listening to a debate which took place a few years ago between our good friend Sam Shamoun and Islamic apologist Shabir Ally. I have been collecting Ally’s on-line materials of late, and had been horrendously frustrated at the men he has chosen to debate. Up until listening to Sam’s debate, I simply hadn’t

Today was pretty much an Open Phones program, and despite it being an hour early, we had plenty of callers to get through the entire hour. We tackled everything from the emergent church movement to Crossan to Dave Hunt to…to…yes, amazingly enough…eschatology! Here’s the program.

Just a quick note. Today is somebody’s birthday (whose name will remain a secret), so we will be moving the DL up an hour so that somebody’s wife can take him to dinner this evening (and no, it is not my birthday). So, instead of 7pm EDT, we will begin at 6pm EDT, 3pm PDT.

Today on the Dividing Line we concluded the three-part series in response to Jack Graham’s anti-Calvinism sermon, and then took calls. Here’s the program.

Today’s DL continued the Radio Free Geneva series in identifying the recent anti-Calvinism sermon of Jack Graham of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Texas as “one of the worst,” and today we hear why with the repeated mis-citation of Titus 2:11 and the mis-citation of Matthew 23:37 as well. Words just disappear right off the page of Scripture when your tradition