Open Phones and Announcement of New Topic on the LDS Theology

John Samson is back as a guest host on today’s Dividing Line, teaching on the doctrine of justification by faith alone, highlighting Romans chapters 1-4. A clear message on the imputation of Christ’s righteousness. Here is the YouTube link:

Two rather different topics today on the DL, but I went at both of them with some level of passion, to be sure. For the first half of the program I talked directly to Bassam Zawadi and other Islamic apologists on the topic of the Qur’an and its relationship to the Bible. Some may be lost in the discussion, but,

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

Topic: Ruminations on N.T. Wright (aka, “Tom” to those who love and adore him so!). Just a quote to warm you up:  God forgive us, within modernity, when often we as Christians thought that the way to use the Bible to address the world was to abstract large chunky doctrines from the Bible and hurl them at the heads of

The Christian should be passionate about the Trinity, as following Tota Scriptura will inevitablely lead to believing in the Trinity, one being of God in three persons. Most objections to the Trinity confound the categories of being and person, and Jehovah’s Witnesses have a deeply entrenched presupposition of Unitarianism that must ignore texts that demonstrate the deity of Christ.

James asks quiz questions related to apologetics and gives away books to the callers. Questions on Roman Catholicism, Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Oneness Pentecostals.