R.C. Sproul and Mel Duncan

The DL today was quite eclectic since it was almost totally caller-driven. Calls on the nature of imputation, eis at Acts 2:38, a little something about Mary, and I likewise discussed some threads on the Catholic Answers forums, including one that had just begun about praying the Rosary for me instead of calling in. Ryan L did not call, but

Today we dove into a section of John 10 (with a few interruptions for commentary on the weather outside my unit) and then looked at some elements of Aquinas’ commentary on the same text. Then we read an article that contained hagiography concerning Thomas and considered the kind of thinking that lies behind such perspectives.

Just got back from catching up on cultural events (i.e., Summer and I saw the new Star Wars movie in a morning matinee) and immediately have a bunch of stuff to cover on the DL in a few hours, specifically— Timothy George demonstrates why the “Academy” is leading the largest portion of its adherents and followers astray regarding the gospel,

Bored everyone to tears the first part of the program by discussing two books I read yesterday, one by James D.G. Dunn, the other by McGrath, both on pretty much the same area of study.  Tried to speak about the necessity of demythologizing scholarship.  Included a brief clip of what those books “sound” like while riding.  Then we took two

Started out with Dave Hunt and T.A. McMahon simply massacreing Romans 5:12 and 18 (note the all important material in between got lost); we followed this with a study of Shabir Ally’s comments on Surah 112, and we finished up with a discussion of the Steve Ray “I like inflating numbers to make my points and if you dare say

   Very nice to have the full crew on hand (that amounts to two folks) for the Dividing Line today, and we spent the entire time on phone calls. Discussed sola scriptura and some of my past debates with Patrick Madrid and Gerry Matatics, then discussed a little bit about hyper-preterism and Luke 21, and finally closed with a call on

Continued both the Ehrman and Deedat responses and took a phone call on whether we should write letters to the editor in response to false teachings appearing in publications. Here’s the program.