July 1, 2003

Took me a little longer than I expected to make it through the last half of Deedat’s horrific “crucifiction” arguments, but we sure did run into some real whoppers on his part as far as simple dishonesty goes.  Then I looked briefly at Paul Williams promoting non-Christian Christianity, then we started looking at the very recent “Calvinist debate,” starting with looking

Tackled some “that Pope Francis is quite the guy” topics at the start today, including the sighting of Rick Warren, paddling about in the Tiber River as well.  Then took calls on various topics such as inerrancy and Tony Campolo. Here is the YouTube link:

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

Spent most of the hour reviewing the excuses rapper Jahaziel posted for denying Christianity (not surprisingly found them wanting), and then looked at an abortion doctor who is “proud” of her “service” as a “Christian.”  Last DL of the year—Lord willing, see you again January 5th!

I really wanted to provide a useful apologetic discussion on the program today, so we started half an hour earlier. I went through some key theological foundations to apologetics from Van Til for the first twenty minutes, then reviewed key elements of the D’Souza/Barker debate. I then finished up with some discussion of Barker’s claims in his book, godless, especially