May 5, 2005

In this radio debate that includes callers, James White takes a cessationist position arguing that the indwelling of the Spirit happens at conversion, and Bernard, who is a Oneness Pentecostal, argues that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is indicated by tongues. Dr. White draws out the implication that Bernard is unable to see justification as a past event, but

Started off with a solid twenty minutes on the use of lexical sources and, in particular, recognizing the difference between scholarly facts and scholarly interpretation, using the graphics provided immediately below. Then the calls started, and we (expectedly) went over the Caner situation, and the Geisler statement. I told the story of what happened just under a decade ago with

This morning’s regular edition of The Dividing Line should, Lord willing, make its appearance tomorrow, same time. It is physically impossible for only one person to do the program and run the electronics that are located in a different location, so, we will do our best to continue with our Ehrman response, possibly throw in some Ahmed Deedat material, etc.,

Spent the majority of today’s program reviewing recent developments in the rapidly accelerating collapse of morality and ethics in the West, along with the rising totalitarianism of the left.  Looked at a recent episode of The Good Wife and its tackling of religious rights vs. the absolute necessity of redefining marriage, and then read with some horror the words of Frank