A Few Reflections on Forty Years, John Pavlovitz and the Sin of Homophobia

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.

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.

I continued my review of the Slick/Sungenis discussion, today discussing issues relating to sola scriptura and textual critical issues. We will continue with a discussion of tradition and Scripture on the next DL, which will be Monday afternoon at 4pm.

Started off with some comments on the Fred Phelps cult out of Kansas, took a call on Robert Sungenis appearing on the WHI, and then tackled some more of Shabir Ally’s comments post-debate.

When proclaiming a gospel of salvation by faith alone, this passage in James 2 is often wrongly used in protest as a would-be rebuttal. An exegesis of the passage reveals that its context deals with the difference between right living for believers and hypocritical false faith, not the way one becomes a Christian.