James White, December 16, 2021December 16, 2021, Christian Worldview, Debate, Molinism, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters Recently Kevin Harris led William Lane Craig through a brief review of our discussion on Calvinism and Molinism on the Reasonable Faith podcast. It presented a great opportunity to highlight once again not only plethora of strawmen being burned with Molinist matches on the Internet these days, but it gave us the opportunity to delve into 1 Corinthians 3 and Isaiah 43 to demonstrate again the richness that comes from biblically based theology over against philosophically based speculations. Get a deep seat, this one goes just over two hours in length! Enjoy!
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James White, December 14, 2021December 14, 2021, Christian Worldview, Church History, Debate, Exegesis, Molinism, Persecution, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters Started off with the great video that came out today, “The Essence of James White,” a wonderfully done little lark from the joke Justin Brierley made during the William Lane Craig discussion. Then we went with all that stuff that you can’t talk about on YouTube, if you know what I mean: you know, the failed vaccines and the Omicron scare, etc. Then we shifted to theology and talked a bit about the discussion on divine simplicity, the role of natural theology, etc., going on in conservative Reformed circles right now. Then we looked at Tim Stratton’s “EDD” argument, the idea that if you believe in “Exhaustive Divine Determinism” then you are left with “a god of deceit” who forces you to believe wrong things and therefore you can never know when you believe true things. We compared this silly philosophical trick with the Biblical perspective. Went just over 90 minutes today!
Tags: 00:00 Essence of James White 09:00 UK Vaccine Passport Legislation 11:00 Omicron Variant 17:00 Natural Immunity 20:45 Dalrymple on Communism 22:00 Will Thomas 33:00 More on the WLC Debate 38:00 Natural Theology and RB’s 42:45 Interacting with Dolezal 54:00 Jordan Cooper Chimes in 63:00 Stratton and James Video

James White, December 9, 2021December 9, 2021, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Molinism, Personal, Provisionism, Reformed Apologetics, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line Well, I really was not trying to make today’s program a pre-view of what is upcoming for my students when teaching Church History and Apologetics, but, we did cover that area. First portion of the program was a bit “in house,” discussing the rise of Thomism in the midst of Reformed Baptists, so that some are accusing myself and Jeff Johnson and Owen Strachan of “heterodoxy” based upon their extremely narrow positions. Then we moved on to responding to arguments made by Tim Stratton and Tyson James, two Molinist proponents, focusing upon Stratton’s reading of a single paragraph from Calvin and the concept of God as “the author of evil.” Pointed argumentation to be sure. An hour and forty-five minutes in length.
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Tags: 00:00 Molinism and In House Chat 01:00 Reformed Baptists and Aquinas 10:15 Josh Sommer 48:00 Molinism Continued

Started off welcoming Dr. Owen Strachan, Provost and Research Professor of Theology at Grace Bible Theological Seminary who announced my appointment as Professor of Church History and Apologetics at the school. I am deeply honored to fulfill this calling in teaching a subject that has been my work for nearly four decades now. I truly pray the Lord will bless GBTS and its work in equipping men to the work of edifying the body of Christ in these challenging times. I had thought we would only have Dr. Strachan on for a few minutes but, I was foolish, and we went a full half hour. So in the last portion I addressed a new paper that appeared today that says what I had predicted weeks ago: the selection pressure that is driving mutations in covid are coming from the leaky, poorly thought out, ineffective “vaccines,” not from the “unvaccinated.”
Tags: 00:00 GBT Seminary 35:30 Fauci’s War on the Unvaccinated

Decided to resurrect the old ScreenFlow program (well, ok, had to upgrade it had been so long) and do a quick response to a video posted by Dr. Stratton. Just barely managed to keep it under 30 minutes! Someday I will really do like a five minute video. Really. Trust me. (Said in Fauci’s voice there). Enjoy!
Tags: Molinism Stratton

First Program on Odysee: Omicron Variants, Scotus Case, TROnlyism Again, Responding to Tim Stratton

James White, November 30, 2021November 30, 2021, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, Godly Disciplines, Homosexuality, Molinism, Pastoral Theology, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters Two topics on the program today. Started off with a discussion of Kristin Kobes du Mez, a professor of history (yay!) and gender studies (seriously?) at Calvin University, that once bastion of Reformed thought that has moved from Reformed to Deformed in just a matter of decades. She wrote the Jesus and John Wayne book, if you are wondering. Then we moved back to the Molinism topic because, well, we have to! Just did the debate and I can guarantee you, all our Molinist friends will be in a frenzy for a while, so I want to make sure the conversations stay centered on what really matters. So get a deep seat and make sure you are ready for all the chatter that will be appearing, especially this coming Friday when the Unbelievable episode airs featuring my discussion with William Lane Craig.
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Did a quick (45 minute) episode today to do a post discussion/debate review of my encounter with William Lane Craig on Justin Brierley’s Unbelievable program that we recorded just today (in fact, the DL aired less than 30 minutes after we concluded). I explained why I had not publicly discussed the upcoming encounter, went over some of the key issues to listen for when it airs (I think on Friday), etc. We plan on being back again tomorrow for a regular episode!
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Tags: 00:00 Unbelievable with WLC

Surviving the Censors, Trip Cancellation, the Roman Papacy

UPDATE! Well, the censors at YouTube finally caught up with us and deleted this program. A few months ago we mirrored all our content to odysee.com, and you can find the link below for that mirrored episode. Now, assuming YouTube does not care about a discussion of “the truth value of subjunctive conditionals that constitute the essence of Middle Knowledge,” it was the far-reaching discussion of vaccine mandates, the Rittenhouse verdict, etc., that finally caused the bots, or some 20-something kid who couldn’t defend his actions if his life depended on it, to bounce the program. Of course, we were “warned” that should we violate their standards again (i.e., continue to speak the truth), we will no longer be able to stream. We have expected this for quite some time, of course, but it is satisfying to know that once they moved against us it was because they well know they cannot refute what was being said. Make sure to download the A&O app, and the Sermon Audio app, so you can keep up once they drop the final hammer and get rid of us.First half hour was on how lies, when they are repeated, take on a life of their own, and destroy everything that is good. Then we listened to William Lane Craig debating Paul Helm and keyed in on the central issue of Molinism, the fact that subjunctive conditionals exist and they do so outside of God’s control. And today we got into more of a theological aspect of seeing how Molinism engages other elements of theology (such as sin, regeneration, etc.).While we try to figure out why Chrome hates the new embed that we are using here is the new link to the video version of the show.
Tags: 00:00 Covid Madness20:00 Rittenhouse Trial 37:00 WLC & Molinism