James White, January 6, 2022January 6, 2022, Christian Worldview, Debate, Exegesis, Personal, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters Sorry for those who aren’t overly excited about internal Reformed Baptist issues, but I said a few weeks ago that I would engage Dr. Dolezal’s biblical evidence for the doctrine of divine simplicity (DDS) and today I did so. Went just over an hour and a half, but hope that the discussion was useful.
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James White, January 4, 2022January 4, 2022, Christian Worldview, Debate, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Homosexuality, Molinism, Offense, Pastoral Theology, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Apologetics, Simply Silly, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters I chose to provide two responses on the program today, hoping that both would provide opportunities for teaching and, by refutation, edification of the saints. The first, which took up most of our time, was a response to about ten relevant points (and those were about all) in the 2 hour, 45 minute video posted recently from Tim Stratton and Tyson James responding to my reply to James’ article on Psalm 33. Though there was nothing of substance as to the exegesis of Psalm 33 provided, a few other comments were worthy of response. Both John 6 and Acts 4:27-28 were cited, which is why we did yesterday’s program. Upon completing that marathon, I responded to an ostensible “book review” written by Dr. Jamin Hübner, a former student and friend, published last year. It is a glowing example of “woke penance,” and as such stands as a warning to us all. The A&O truck drivers and uber-long commuters will love this one, as it weighs in at a hefty 2 hours and ten minutes!
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Tomorrow I will be doing responses to critiques so I wanted to start off the year with a more positive presentation based upon going in-depth into the Scriptures, something I know most in our audience really enjoys and benefits from. I would have to deal with these texts in the context of my response tomorrow, so this way we can keep the replies from becoming massively long. Enjoy!
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James White, December 31, 2021December 31, 2021, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Exegesis, Pastoral Theology, Reformed Baptist Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters I was literally on my way to the office to do a remote DL in the old studio, something we have done four or five times now, when I texted Rich and asked, “I know this is crazy but…any way we could use the big studio and the Flip board remotely?” And we made it work! Kudos to Rich! Now if we could just learn to do the DL without the ugly old dumb Scottish guy! So anyway, the topic! Yes, we dove into Exodus 3:14 and did some old-fashioned inter-textual study today at the start, and then moved into a discussion of the simplicity controversy, finishing with playing a segment from a Sinclair Ferguson sermon from (I believe) 2015. If you wish to end 2021 with some deep consideration of important issues, we hope this blesses you! See you in 2022!
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Tags: Aquinas LBCF Simplicity controversy

Went more than 90 minutes today starting off with a warning about the abusive forms of cultic KJVOism out there, looking at the Ruckman-esque behavior of one Cody Zorn, a KJV pastor down in Georgia. Then we did a major shift in direction and did a full hour lecture on theology, Scripture, and how we define our faith. We eventually touched on Calvin, natural theology, and the current controversy over the definition of “divine simplicity.” Another program to keep the A&O truckers happy!
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Psalm 33 Refutation Concluded, Thoughts on Trinitarian Orthodoxy Over Time

In the second part of today’s program I dove into a response Tyson James wrote (James works for Reasonable Faith) more than three years ago to comments I made from Psalm 33 relating to Molinism way back in May of 2014. So we dove back into the topic, and will finish off our response on Thursday’s program.
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Just a matter of days ago the Canadian Parliament UNANIMOUSLY made Romans 1 and 1 Corinthians 6 illegal. Without a single dissenting voice the government outlawed all “conversion therapy.” Religious freedom is dead in Canada, and we all know the leftists in the US want the exact same thing here. I will be joined today by Dr. Joseph Boot, Pastor at Westminster Chapel in Toronto and Founder of Ezra Institute. Dr. Boot is on the frontlines of this battle, and has been speaking out boldly, warning and exhorting the church. The program will air, Lord willing, at 5pm EST. Given the nature of the subject, we will live stream on Odysee rather than YouTube today. Remember that the program is uploaded fully shortly after it airs, and the audio only version will be on SermonAudio almost instantly thereafter.

Dr. Joe Boot of the Ezra Institute in Canada joined me for a powerful hour of discussion about the recently passed bill in Canada, C4, which bans “conversion therapy.” It is, in reality, a ban on any speech or counsel that would assist a person who is seeking to live in accordance with God’s ways who wishes to be delivered from homosexuality or transgenderism. It is a thoroughly theological law based upon rebellion against God. It goes into effect around January 8th, so Dr. Boot and others in Canada are asking all faithful churches to join them in standing against this godless attack upon the faith. Click here to read about Biblical Sexuality Sermon Sunday and how your fellowship can participate! We then took a brief break and came back for the second half (see next blog entry!).
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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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