July 27, 2006

Pressed forward with our review and response to the King James Only presentation we began on Tuesday, this time getting into the background of the Textus Receptus and the basic circularity of the arguments used in this particular radio program. Also took two useful calls as well.

Went over the opening statements in the Ehrman/Wallace debate from New Orleans. The topic of the integrity of the Bible is the central apologetic issue of our time, and Ehrman’s “400,000 variants, which is more variants than there are words in the NT” argument has become almost ubiquitous. Being able to respond meaningfully and clearly is vital to the Christian

   All our callers today were from Canada, which was sort of odd. Two great calls, and I likewise played, and reviewed, a discussion of John 6:44-45, once again pointing out where sound, consistent exegesis will always lead you to the same conclusions. This will be the last DL before the Biola Debate, so Lord willing, next week on Tuesday I

We had some server problems that got us going a bit late, but we pressed on anyway with a discussion of Roman Catholic priests and a review of some comments on the Eucharist. Here’s the slightly shorted (53 minute) program.

Almost felt like a new season of Dividing Lines with our new website! Had callers the first half hour, including Colonel Leino USMC calling from Okinawa! Then I addressed the Steve Ray/Gary Michuta saga. I mentioned that you might just want to be keeping an eye on the blog over the weekend and on Monday. Who knows that important information

Sorry this took so long! I’m finishing my PowerPoint presentations for tomorrow evening’s debate, and I forgot to blog the DL link. My mistake! Let’s see, discussed the upcoming debate, then played a clip from Fr. Peter Stravinskas illustrating how tradition gets in the way of exegesis, and then we took calls the last half hour. Here’s the program.  I