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 discussion.
James White continues to explain how Dave Hunt attacks a mere straw man of Reformed Theology, from sloppy use of a concordance to relegating the soteriological golden chain of Romans 8 to a mere special blessing that only some Christians receive. A caller asks about the relationship between the sovereignty of God and temptation.
Dr. White explains how his debate with Richard Hopkins started late, with an opponent that did not understand Reformed Theology or the use of a Greek lexicon very well. The “mainstreaming” of the LDS image leads to less debating and lower quality responses to Dr. White’s book Letter to a Mormon Elder. A caller asks about Roman Catholicism in relation
Since I will be traveling both Tuesday and Thursday, we will do a special, early edition of the DL tomorrow at 10am MST (9am PST, Noon EST). I did not get a chance to play the “quote the text, quickly move therefrom” response of the men on the Pastor’s Perspective program when someone called in to ask about the heart
Since this program was on the same day as the memorial service for an elder at Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church named Dave Crawford, James White soberly discusses the wisdom of knowing the shortness of life, and God’s plan for allowing suffering and grieving in order to minister to others.
James teaches from 1 Peter 3 for how to give a defense in the face of persecution.
Took the whole program to review 2017 and consider a little bit about trends and things to consider for the future. UPDATE: the kind brothers and sisters at Sovereign rushed to get the video I noted about Fritz Erbe posted. Here is the link. Please share it with others! Here is the YouTube link: Live Video Stream The Dividing Line
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
So I guess I didn’t have a real agenda today because I basically just wandered around and rambled a lot. Eventually I pulled up Photos on my Mac and showed pictures from Germany (it was, after all, Reformation Day!), and somehow I then jumped to my Israel pictures and then jumped back to Romans 3:28 and Luther’s translation of that
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