The Strong Hold of Whiteness? And Some Other Stuff

TurretinFan joined me yesterday for an hour-long examination of Tim Staples’ attempt to undermine Reformed objections to purgatory, specifically, his lengthy attack on Calvin’s doctrine of God’s sovereignty and providence found in his 5-CD series, published by Catholic Answers, on purgatory. Though we had much more material we could have covered, we managed to get to the key errors in

I played portions of the Today Show interview and the Larry King program from last night and gave an overview of the many problems in the Tomb of Jesus story today on the DL. If you know folks who are more likely to listen to something than read something, today’s program might help. Of course, this is all preliminary. I

Started with some brief comments on The Blasphemy Challenge, Brian Flemming, The God Who Wasn’t There, etc., and then went to an eight minute clip of Chuck Smith of Calvary Chapel responding to a phone call on the subject of “Calvinism.” A truly horrific example of complete straw-man argumentation. Then Pierre called in and we once again had to go

Yesterday, on the Dividing Line (DL), Dr. White interacted with Tim Staples’ interesting assertions regarding Mary being the Spouse of the Holy Spirit. After that, Dr. White interacted further with Sir Anthony Buzzard’s essentially Socinian teachings.

Started off responding to an e-mail about yesterday’s Radio Free Geneva, and then moved into a quick review of the Mexico City debate featuring William Lane Craig and Richard Dawkins. Then we started taking calls on that topic, and finished with a call on particular redemption.

Answered an e-mail question regarding New Testament textual variants and the comparison to the Qur’an, then took phone calls on various subjects from infra/supralapsarianism to baptismal regeneration. Then David from New Mexico called and filled us in on the Pravda, err, Veritas Seminary apologetics conference in Albuquerque this past weekend, where Ergun Caner spoke with armed police standing by. Could