Alpha and Omega Ministries Toward a Defense of the Faith

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HomeJames WhiteStatement of FaithWebcastBlogDonateStore Attributes of GodBasic TrainingChurch HistoryHow We Got the BibleReformed TheologyRoman CatholicismMormonismChristian ControversyIslamCulture EthicsGrief LossLearn Greek HebrewCommentariesSystematic TheologyNewsletter SignupContact Us Jemar Tisby, Woke Ideology, then Jeff Riddle s Shocking StatementsThe War on Language: Part 1A Little Covid Madness at the Start, then the Hyper Skepticism of the TR Only Movement in Light of Mark 1:1Pro-life Evangelicals for Biden? The Real Issue with TR OnlyismNope, That Was Not a DebateOpen Phones on the Dividing LinePsalm 82, the Judge of All the EarthLast Program for a Week Enjoy!The Wrath of the LambTons of Important Material Today!The Marian DogmasTop Ten Reasons NOT to Join the Roman Catholic Church James White, August 20, 2007August 26, 2020, Roman Catholicism Last week I received the following e-mail, and I felt it would be best to share my response here on the blog. Dear Mr. White, For someone considering converting to Catholicism, what questions would you put to them in order to dicern whether or not they have examined their...Continue readingJames Cone s Children, Then In-Depth on the Immaculate Conception James White, July 31, 2020August 26, 2020, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Eastern Orthodoxy, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line Spent just a few minutes at the start on the video of a black Baptist pastor applying the words of Isaiah 53 to John Lewis, explaining how this is perfectly consistent with Black Liberation Theology as developed by James Cone. Then got into a lengthy church history segment focusing...Continue readingA Biblical Basis for the Immaculate Conception ? James White, April 29, 1998August 26, 2020, Roman Catholicism Catholic Answers has some interesting ways of grabbing your attention. By placing the beginning paragraph or two of the lead article of their monthly magazine, This Rock, on the very cover of the work, they draw your attention into reading the rest of the article. True to form, the...Continue readingThe Glorious Logic of Sola Ecclesia James White, August 14, 2007August 26, 2020, Roman Catholicism Few topics illustrate the circularity of Roman logic than the Marian dogmas. The more honest Roman Catholic writers admit that when you boil it all down, the Marian dogmas are to be believed because you accept Rome s authority, nothing more. We are the true church, we have apostolic authority,...Continue readingTim Staples and the Marian Dogmas James White, March 29, 2017August 26, 2020, Christian Worldview, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line After some brief comments about some of the insanity in the world at the start, focused the rest of the hour upon the comments made by Tim Staples on yesterday s Catholic Answers Live program where he talked about Mary and her role as co-redemptrix.  Important stuff during this 500th anniversary of...Continue readingThe Audio for the Marian Dogmas Debate has been Posted Rich Pierce, June 2, 2017August 26, 2020, Roman Catholicism Recorded on May 15, 2017 in London: Do the Catholic Church s Teachings on Mary Constitute Authentic Christian Doctrine? James White debates Peter D. Williams at the London Oratory in St. Wilfrid s Hall.Continue readingRelated ArticlesAhmed DeedatRefuting the Shallow Arguments of Zakir Naik James White, December 20, 2012July 17, 2020, Islam As most of you know, Zakir Naik is a wildly popular Islamic speaker in the mode of Ahmed Deedat. Unfortunately, Naik knows better than to debate those who can demonstrate his errors. Which is why he remains so popular, it seems! But he cannot hide his many falsehoods. David...Continue readingZakir Naik Illustrates the Dual Face of Islam When in the Public Square James White, September 20, 2011July 17, 2020, Islam Very interesting contrast from Zakir Naik s own mouth (again illustrating why Naik refuses to debate those who could expose his arguments).Continue readingZakir Naik s Claims on Muhammad in the Bible James White, November 16, 2009July 17, 2020, Islam Here is my third and final response to Zakir Naik s appearance on The Deen Show. What I did was take my opening statement from my debate with Shabir Ally on this topic from London in November of last year, along with my comments on Deuteronomy 18:18 from the preceding...Continue readingRelated ArticlesShabir AllyResponse to Dr. Shabir Ally, Part IV (Conclusion) James White, November 1, 2013November 1, 2013, Exegesis, Islam I hurry to finish my response to the article published by Dr. Shabir Ally shortly after our debate at the University of Pretoria in South Africa in early October.  This is the fourth, and thankfully, final portion of my response.  Dr. Ally continued: James was clearly in a bind....Continue readingRelated ArticlesIslamLast Program for a Week Enjoy! James White, September 18, 2020September 18, 2020, Abortion, General Apologetics, Godly Disciplines, Homosexuality, Islam, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Technology, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters Covered a wide range of topics today. Started off with Tim Keller s tweets regarding voting and abortion, then moved into Anthony Bradley s assertion that the Puritans would be alt-right racists in 2020. Talked a little about the CDC s promoting critical race theory, and then read an article by a...Continue readingAudiobooks for The Forgotten Trinity and What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur an Chris Whisonant, August 24, 2020August 24, 2020, Christian Worldview, Islam, Theology Matters In case you have missed it, audiobook versions have recently been released for these two books by James White. Here are links to them on Audible in the Amazon store, but you should also be able to find them in your favorite audiobook apps. The Forgotten Trinity What Every...Continue readingUpdate/Addition to Bostock Decision Commentary, BLM s Marxist Abuse of Language, Qur anic Verbs James White, June 18, 2020June 18, 2020, Christian Worldview, Homosexuality, Islam, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line I forgot to address the presuppositional worldview issue relating to the Bostock decision on Tuesday, so I wanted to touch upon that, and then we transitioned into the play on words that BLM is using to promote Marxism under the guise of a sentence that actually only makes sense...Continue readingRelated ArticlesKing James OnlyismA Little Covid Madness at the Start, then the Hyper Skepticism of the TR Only Movement in Light of Mark 1:1 James White, October 6, 2020October 6, 2020, Atheism, CBGM, Christian Worldview, King James Onlyism, Post-Evangelicalism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism Read the Great Barrington Declaration and talked a little bit about my hopes that common sense will finally overthrow the tyranny that has entrapped most of the globe, and then completely changed directions and launched into a discussion of the wealth and value of the Greek manuscript tradition in...Continue readingSwimming the Tiber, Hosea 11:1 in the LXX, Frank Turek on Molinism James White, August 12, 2020August 12, 2020, Atheism, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Eastern Orthodoxy, Godly Disciplines, King James Onlyism, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line Spent a good portion of time talking about why people swim the Tiber in light of Cameron Bertuzzi s stating that he is closer than he has ever been to embracing Rome s claims (though, he says, he is still far away ). Realized while we were doing the program that this...Continue readingThe Corona Mask, Transgenderism, Molinistic Soteriology James White, August 11, 2020August 11, 2020, Homosexuality, King James Onlyism, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters Played a fun little ditty called The Corona Mask (sung to The Monster Mash ) and then talked a bit about the global panic we are experiencing. Then transitioned into a discussion of transgenderism based upon a brief conversation between Summer Jaeger of Sheologians and a transgender advocate. Then we...Continue readingRelated ArticlesBible TransmissionConfucianism, Islam, and Christianity One Point of Contrast TurretinFan, March 28, 2016March 28, 2016, Textual Issues Qin Shi Huang (260 210 BC) is the most prominent of the Chinese emperors. He united China through conquest, began the Great Wall of China, and had the Terra Cotta warriors built. He s significant to Confucianism and especially the textual transmission of Confucius works because toward...Continue readingRelated ArticlesAtheismA Little Covid Madness at the Start, then the Hyper Skepticism of the TR Only Movement in Light of Mark 1:1 James White, October 6, 2020October 6, 2020, Atheism, CBGM, Christian Worldview, King James Onlyism, Post-Evangelicalism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism Read the Great Barrington Declaration and talked a little bit about my hopes that common sense will finally overthrow the tyranny that has entrapped most of the globe, and then completely changed directions and launched into a discussion of the wealth and value of the Greek manuscript tradition in...Continue readingPro-life Evangelicals for Biden? The Real Issue with TR Onlyism James White, October 5, 2020October 5, 2020, Atheism, Christian Worldview, Debate, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism Two topics on today s 70 minute program: first, we look at the statement from a group called Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden, and demonstrate that the influence of neo-Marxism upon the Woke Church is truly profound. Then I did a lengthy review of the debate we did this weekend with...Continue readingSwimming the Tiber, Hosea 11:1 in the LXX, Frank Turek on Molinism James White, August 12, 2020August 12, 2020, Atheism, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Eastern Orthodoxy, Godly Disciplines, King James Onlyism, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line Spent a good portion of time talking about why people swim the Tiber in light of Cameron Bertuzzi s stating that he is closer than he has ever been to embracing Rome s claims (though, he says, he is still far away ). Realized while we were doing the program that this...Continue readingRelated ArticlesWhy Do Lives Matter?The Dividing LineJemar Tisby, Woke Ideology, then Jeff Riddle s Shocking Statements James White, October 13, 2020October 13, 2020, Church Fathers, Church History, Exegesis, Homosexuality, Persecution, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters, TROnlyism For the first hour we thought through the conclusion to a presentation from Dr. Jemar Tisby, considering standpoint epistemology, whiteness, etc. Then I looked at the shocking statements I made in the debate with Dr. Riddle on the TR. Ninety minutes. We will do another program, Lord willing, on...Continue readingThe War on Language: Part 1 James White, October 12, 2020October 12, 2020, Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Godly Disciplines, Offense, Pastoral Theology, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters Started a series of responses to the influx of woke ideology, today looking at the need for defining language clearly by listening to some comments from Dr. Tim Keller. Then we moved onto the controversy that erupted last week over comments from Jeff Durbin regarding woke theology at the...Continue readingA Little Covid Madness at the Start, then the Hyper Skepticism of the TR Only Movement in Light of Mark 1:1 James White, October 6, 2020October 6, 2020, Atheism, CBGM, Christian Worldview, King James Onlyism, Post-Evangelicalism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism Read the Great Barrington Declaration and talked a little bit about my hopes that common sense will finally overthrow the tyranny that has entrapped most of the globe, and then completely changed directions and launched into a discussion of the wealth and value of the Greek manuscript tradition in...Continue readingPro-life Evangelicals for Biden? The Real Issue with TR Onlyism James White, October 5, 2020October 5, 2020, Atheism, Christian Worldview, Debate, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism Two topics on today s 70 minute program: first, we look at the statement from a group called Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden, and demonstrate that the influence of neo-Marxism upon the Woke Church is truly profound. Then I did a lengthy review of the debate we did this weekend with...Continue readingNope, That Was Not a Debate James White, October 1, 2020October 1, 2020, Christian Worldview, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism For the first ten minutes I was Twitter distracted and talked about dead air nightmares from my youth. I guess you could say the first hour was loosely connected to the Presidential Food Fight from Tuesday night, while the last 20 minutes was on the actual debates that will...Continue readingOpen Phones on the Dividing Line James White, September 29, 2020September 29, 2020, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Gospel/Jesus Studies, Provisionism, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, Technology, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters For some reason I kept giving really long, in-depth answers to all our callers today, but the questions were worthy of the answers. We looked at the canon of Scripture, the Synoptic gospels and how to deal with conflicts, the consistency of the Old Testament Scriptures, Jesus role as...Continue readingPsalm 82, the Judge of All the Earth James White, September 28, 2020September 28, 2020, Abortion, Christian Worldview, Musings, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, The Dividing Line Started with brief comments on last week and my little adventure at high altitude on Mt. Lemmon in Tucson, and then moved into Psalm 82, looking at its message as the foundation for considering the legacy of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We then made application regarding the current controversy...Continue readingLast Program for a Week Enjoy! James White, September 18, 2020September 18, 2020, Abortion, General Apologetics, Godly Disciplines, Homosexuality, Islam, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Technology, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters Covered a wide range of topics today. Started off with Tim Keller s tweets regarding voting and abortion, then moved into Anthony Bradley s assertion that the Puritans would be alt-right racists in 2020. Talked a little about the CDC s promoting critical race theory, and then read an article by a...Continue readingThe Wrath of the Lamb James White, September 14, 2020September 14, 2020, Church History, Exegesis, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism Started off with a few minutes in Revelation 6 and how we must first see the importance of a text in its original context. Then we looked at craziness from Hawaii with pandemic-panic lockdowns, the CDC inadvertently admitting masks are all a political ploy, Jemar Tisby s retweet of BLM,...Continue readingTons of Important Material Today! James White, September 10, 2020September 10, 2020, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Eastern Orthodoxy, Homosexuality, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line Covered a ton of important stuff today, including the work of the Ministry of Truth in editing and changing history, the jihad of the homosexuals in Cornwall, and a judge saying Grace Community, which has been meeting for weeks in worship, can t. Then we moved to Jerry Walls best...Continue readingSweater Vest Dialogues Chris Whisonant, September 10, 2020September 10, 2020, Christian Worldview, Federal Vision, General Apologetics, Misc, Reformed Apologetics, Resources In December of 2019, James White and Douglas Wilson began a series of dialogues and discussions that they have called The Sweater Vest Dialogues. Links to all of the episodes are below. Hopefully these are edifying for you! Episode I: The Federal Vision, December, 2019. Episode II: The Trinity...Continue readingNebuchadnezzar Knew James White, September 8, 2020September 8, 2020, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, Homosexuality, Persecution, Post-Evangelicalism, Provisionism, Racialism, The Dividing Line First 35 minutes was based on Daniel 4 and what Nebuchadnezzar learned from his animal experience. God is God, we are His creatures, and that is one of the most important truths we can know and live by. Then we looked at the push-back against Pastor Williamson and his...Continue readingUpcoming Discussions and A Few Articles James White, September 3, 2020September 3, 2020, Christian Worldview, Debate, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters Just a reminder, our connection is due to be repaired on 9/11 (ironic, no?), so till then we have been stumbling and mumbling along with little real speed and connectivity. Our apologies! Talked about upcoming debates and discussions along with a few articles of important relevance in regards to...Continue readingIssues About the Viral Panic, then John 6 the Rest of the Story James White, September 1, 2020September 1, 2020, Exegesis, Pastoral Theology, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Provisionism, Racialism, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters First forty-five minutes or so we looked at all sorts of issues relating to the current cultural situation, from Nancy Pelosi showing how the elites make rules for others they do not follow for themselves, to polls about vaccines, and especially the 6% story I posted about here a...Continue readingAn Introduction to Textual Criticism Chris Whisonant, September 1, 2020September 1, 2020, Textual Issues In 2008, Colin Smith posted a 13-part series as an introduction to textual criticism. I thought that this would be an ideal time to create a post with links to all of those in the series. Hopefully this is edifying and helpful to you! An Introduction to Textual Criticism:...Continue readingPlease, Stop With the 6% Story James White, August 31, 2020August 31, 2020, Personal Everyone is repeating it, posting it, running with it. I get it. But people just do not seem to understand how this works. I have been talking about this since March, honestly, I have. You can check the Dividing Line and my social media feeds. I am not a...Continue readingExamination of Key Errors in the Textus Receptus James White, August 28, 2020August 28, 2020, CBGM, Textual Issues, TROnlyism This is what I was talking about yesterday on the DL but wasn t sure of the details or if a graphic had been made, etc. Anyway, this Friday Dr. Stephen Boyce and I will look at some of the key texts in the TR that are clearly not the...Continue readingWe Should Have Just Made This a Radio Free Geneva James White, August 27, 2020August 27, 2020, Abortion, Christian Worldview, Debate, Exegesis, Gospel/Jesus Studies, Pauline Studies, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism Spent some time at the start on the rise of woke religion, Pastor Warnock from Atlanta supporting the evil of abortion, etc., but the majority of the program was focused on key texts relating to election, atonement, and salvation, working through issues raised by a discussion I ve been having...Continue readingJames White s Debates Online Chris Whisonant, August 27, 2020August 28, 2020, Debate One of the new features that we have on this site is a searchable table of the debates of James White that are available online. You can view all of them from the James White page. You can search by debate topic, opponent, or even dates. There are currently...Continue readingEric Mason, Lecrae, Timothy Keller James White, August 25, 2020August 25, 2020, Christian Worldview, Church History, Exegesis, Homosexuality, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line Took the time to look through Eric Mason s comments from this weekend on reparations, then discussed (but did not play because I figured our video would get DMCA d as a result) Lecrae s capitulation on the issue of homosexuality on a secular interview, and finished up talking about sacralism in...Continue readingAudiobooks for The Forgotten Trinity and What Every Christian Needs to Know About the Qur an Chris Whisonant, August 24, 2020August 24, 2020, Christian Worldview, Islam, Theology Matters In case you have missed it, audiobook versions have recently been released for these two books by James White. Here are links to them on Audible in the Amazon store, but you should also be able to find them in your favorite audiobook apps. The Forgotten Trinity What Every...Continue readingA Ton of Topics on Tuesday (Except it is Thursday) James White, August 20, 2020August 20, 2020, The Dividing Line Sorry, had to try to make it rhyme. We had more streaming problems, and in fact, lost the first 30 minutes of the program, started over, and somehow managed to get a lower resolution stream to make it through the YouTube wilderness (we are posting the high quality version...Continue readingRadio Free Geneva: WLC on Romans 9 James White, August 18, 2020August 18, 2020, Provisionism, Radio Free Geneva, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line Had to record due to web issues yet again. We went all the way through William Lane Craig s video about Romans 9, then went through Leighton Flowers video on predestination, and finished up with J.D. Greear s article on fundamentalism (which is just plain confusing).Continue readingSwimming the Tiber, Hosea 11:1 in the LXX, Frank Turek on Molinism James White, August 12, 2020August 12, 2020, Atheism, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Eastern Orthodoxy, Godly Disciplines, King James Onlyism, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Roman Catholicism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line Spent a good portion of time talking about why people swim the Tiber in light of Cameron Bertuzzi s stating that he is closer than he has ever been to embracing Rome s claims (though, he says, he is still far away ). Realized while we were doing the program that this...Continue readingThe Corona Mask, Transgenderism, Molinistic Soteriology James White, August 11, 2020August 11, 2020, Homosexuality, King James Onlyism, Reformed Apologetics, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters Played a fun little ditty called The Corona Mask (sung to The Monster Mash ) and then talked a bit about the global panic we are experiencing. Then transitioned into a discussion of transgenderism based upon a brief conversation between Summer Jaeger of Sheologians and a transgender advocate. Then we...Continue readingA Twitter Based Dividing Line James White, August 7, 2020August 8, 2020, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line Took a bunch of questions mainly from Twitter today on a wide variety of topics, starting off with two on the woke church, racialism, and then moving on to other topics. Maybe you question was covered in here somewhere!Continue readingAble or slave? Then the Broke Woke Church James White, August 6, 2020August 6, 2020, Christian Worldview, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Post-Evangelicalism, Provisionism, Racialism, The Dividing Line Started off listening to a few moments of Leighton Flowers interacting with Jeff Durbin s presentation of total depravity only played a few sentences, honestly, because that was all we needed to do. Dove into the text and let its message speak for itself. Then we looked at statements from Jemar...Continue readingAugustine on Apostolic Tradition Chris Whisonant, August 5, 2020August 5, 2020, Church Fathers, Church History While listening to Dr. White discuss the Marian doctrines the other day, I was reminded of a post that I wrote a couple of years ago. My original post was a longer response to Dr. R. Scott Clark who was, it would appear, attempting to use a quote by...Continue readingWoke Religion with Tim Keller, Fulgentius of Ruspe on the Hypostatic Union James White, August 4, 2020August 4, 2020, Church Fathers, Church History, Eastern Orthodoxy, Exegesis, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters Actually started off with a little bit on how to deconstruct the objective reality of the fact that 2+2=4, then moved on to Tim Keller s article ostensibly pushing back on Critical Theory while actually demonstrating he has been deeply influenced (in a bad way) but it. Then we finished...Continue readingRevolution or Obedience? A Response to Jonathan Leeman s Position Regarding Civil Disobedience Tom Buck, August 4, 2020August 4, 2020, Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Pastoral Theology, Persecution, Theology Matters Before your church follows Jonathan Leeman and 9Marks and begins to restructure your church in compliance to governmental orders this Sunday, hold on! Stop and think with me for a moment. Two weeks ago, Dr. John MacArthur and the elders of Grace Community Church released a statement that they...Continue readingSee All ArticlesTheology MattersA Birdie Told Me James White, October 14, 2020October 14, 2020 Dr. Michael F. Bird is a bright, insightful New Testament scholar with quite the publications list, much of which is useful and helpful. I have been benefitted by his research in a number of areas, primarily in response to particular movements related to Christology, etc. A few years ago...Continue readingRacist Dog Owners James White, September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 P. Andrew Sandlin linked to this article. It may honestly be one of the most miserably stupid things I have read this year, which, given this is 2020, is saying a great deal. It is historically laughable, and there isn t a thimble-full of intelligent reasoning to be found in...Continue readingLawlessness Increases James White, September 7, 2020September 7, 2020 I worked with Pastor Williamson when he was down in Australia. Now he is in Cornwall, UK, and for daring to speak the truth about homosexuality, he and his church are under attack. Given that the police in most countries are far more concerned about making sure you are...Continue readingDusting Off an Old Blog Feed James White, September 5, 2020September 5, 2020 A few years ago I set up a basic blog account, used it for a while, then dropped it, but kept it around. I just wrote what I think is a useful, maybe even important, article, and posted it there. Could have posted it here, I suppose, but I...Continue readingThe Sin Leading to Death James White, August 31, 2020August 30, 2020 Don t all sins lead to death? In one sense, yes, of course, in light of God s holiness and our guilt. But when John is talking to his children in 1 John 5 about sins leading to death and sins not leading to death, he has a specific sin in...Continue readingAtonement Determines the Meaning of the Supper James White, August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 So over the next few weeks you will see some important discussion of sacramentology. I would imagine the appearance of Francis Chan, a TMS graduate, with Hank Hanegraaff, convert to Eastern Orthodoxy (better known formerly as the Bible Answer Man), on his webcast, promoting an Eastern Orthodox view of...Continue readingThe Cross vs. Utopia James White, August 17, 2020August 17, 2020 By now we have all seen the disgusting video of the Portland thug kicking a man unconscious a man already traumatized by being attacked by the mob of criminals (these are not protestors, they are criminals and revolutionaries, enemies of the nation). The cowardly thug, even if he were to...Continue readingPlurality of Elders at Rome James White, August 15, 2020August 15, 2020 I was just noting once again how modern readers who are attempting to shoe-horn their current theologies into the early church abuse those very writings. For example, it is well known amongst fair minded scholars that multiple views of church governance existed in the earliest periods of the church....Continue readingWorldview Center James White, August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 Sometimes a graphic helps. Here is how God designed the universe. All things He made are defined by their relationship to Him. We function rightly when our relationship to all other things is properly aligned by seeing those things as they related to Him, or, to put it another...Continue readingThe Bible of the Early Church James White, August 11, 2020August 11, 2020 Just a quick note about the Bible of the early Church. Just some background information. What is today known as the Hebrew Masoretic Text, which was formalized nearly 1000 years after the birth of Christ, existed, clearly, as one of a few Hebrew textual traditions in Jesus day. There...Continue readingWitnessing ResourcesMormonismRoman CatholicismIslamHow We Got the BibleThe Mormon Law of Eternal Progression James White, August 16, 2008August 27, 2011, Mormonism I spoke on the topic of the eternal law of progression in Mormonism in Anchorage this morning. Here is the video.Continue readingThe 1914 Chronology of Jehovah s Witnesses James White, April 9, 2002August 17, 2018, Jehovah's Witnesses A. Establishing an Ancient Date 1. Fixed Dates 2. King List 3. Cuneiform Tablets 4. Correlation B. Astronomical Data 1. VAT 4956 astronomical observations made during Nebuchadnezzar’ s 37th regnal year 568/67 B. C. Hence, his first regnal year was spring 604 B. C., or, using  Babylonian...Continue readingA Test for the Aaronic Priest James White, September 25, 2000September 25, 2018, Mormonism Are you an Aaronic priest? Possibly you are a Latter- day Saint who believes the priesthood was restored by Joseph Smith in 1829 and that you have been ordained as an Aaronic priest. Possibly you believe that Hebrews 5:4 applies to you: And no man taketh this honor unto...Continue readingLatest DebatesDoes God Forgive the Unrepentant? The Dubious Textual Variant, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing Alan E. Kurschner, April 11, 2017April 11, 2017, Christian Worldview, Godly Disciplines, King James Onlyism, Textual Issues, Theology Matters, Uncategorized A few years back I posted an article explaining the weak textual evidence of Luke 23:34a, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. This week is Good Friday and many sermons will be using this verse, so I think it is appropriate to bring...Continue readingConfucianism, Islam, and Christianity One Point of Contrast TurretinFan, March 28, 2016March 28, 2016, Textual Issues Qin Shi Huang (260 210 BC) is the most prominent of the Chinese emperors. He united China through conquest, began the Great Wall of China, and had the Terra Cotta warriors built. He s significant to Confucianism and especially the textual transmission of Confucius works because toward...Continue readingChris Pinto vs. James White Debate Summarized TurretinFan, December 17, 2013August 23, 2018, King James Onlyism The Chris Pinto vs. James White debate on whether Codex Sinaiticus is a modern forgery can be boiled down to a few considerations. 1) Constantine Simonides claimed that he wrote the document based on collating pre-existing manuscripts, and that his uncle corrected the document. Both sides agree that he...Continue readingRelated ArticlesSola ScripturaAre the Marian Doctrines Authentic Christian Teaching? James White, August 3, 2020August 3, 2020, Church Fathers, Church History, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line Spent over an hour today digging deep into church history in light of the vital importance of sola scriptura. This is the kind of program that won t elicit many loud amens! but will give you a foundation that will last a lifetime. That s important.Continue readingThe Calvinist Club, Sola Scriptura, Purgatory James White, July 23, 2020July 23, 2020, Christian Worldview, Church Fathers, Church History, Debate, Eastern Orthodoxy, Exegesis, General Apologetics, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism Went almost two hours today but it s an important program. Started off responding to William Samuel Bruce s comments about me being a part of the New Calvinism. Then we moved into a response to James Fox Higgins on the subject of sola scriptura, its definition and defense (really important)....Continue readingShattering Catholic Answers Wedge TurretinFan, April 5, 2018April 5, 2018, Roman Catholicism Jesus told his apostles to establish a church, not write a book, or so we are told by many of Rome s apologists. Let s shatter this rather transparent attempt to place a wedge between the Bible and the Church. Here is a simple way to do that, for the next...Continue readingRelated ArticlesChristian WorldviewThe War on Language: Part 1 James White, October 12, 2020October 12, 2020, Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Godly Disciplines, Offense, Pastoral Theology, Personal, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, The Dividing Line, Theology Matters Started a series of responses to the influx of woke ideology, today looking at the need for defining language clearly by listening to some comments from Dr. Tim Keller. Then we moved onto the controversy that erupted last week over comments from Jeff Durbin regarding woke theology at the...Continue readingA Little Covid Madness at the Start, then the Hyper Skepticism of the TR Only Movement in Light of Mark 1:1 James White, October 6, 2020October 6, 2020, Atheism, CBGM, Christian Worldview, King James Onlyism, Post-Evangelicalism, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism Read the Great Barrington Declaration and talked a little bit about my hopes that common sense will finally overthrow the tyranny that has entrapped most of the globe, and then completely changed directions and launched into a discussion of the wealth and value of the Greek manuscript tradition in...Continue readingPro-life Evangelicals for Biden? The Real Issue with TR Onlyism James White, October 5, 2020October 5, 2020, Atheism, Christian Worldview, Debate, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line, TROnlyism Two topics on today s 70 minute program: first, we look at the statement from a group called Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden, and demonstrate that the influence of neo-Marxism upon the Woke Church is truly profound. Then I did a lengthy review of the debate we did this weekend with...Continue readingMore Christian WorldviewRoman CatholicismPurgatory: 1 Corinthians 3 and Tim Staples James White, January 28, 2010September 1, 2020, The Dividing Line Don t hold your breath for the invitation for me to be on Catholic Answers Live to discuss, oh, Does John 6 Teach the Roman Catholic Doctrine of the Eucharist, (I d do it in a heartbeat), but today we had Tim Staples on the program for 90 minutes to debate...Continue readingArt Sippo on 1 Corinthians 3 and Purgatory James White, May 13, 2009June 3, 2020, Roman Catholicism I noted today another fascinating post from Art Sippo, the Catholic lay apologist (and writer of odd pulp fiction stories). Algo had posted a few quotes that demonstrate, as all rational historians recognize, that dogmas like purgatory developed over time, and hence, are not apostolic in origin. Sippo s response...Continue reading1993 Sola Scriptura Debate Review Begins James White, September 2, 2008August 25, 2020, The Dividing Line We began listening to the 1993 San Diego debate on sola scriptura with Roman Catholic apologist Patrick Madrid today. We will continue this review over the course of the next few programs, with the exception of this Thursday when we will be examining the textual variant at Luke 23:34...Continue readingRelated ArticlesThe PapacyOpen Phones Dividing Line Friday James White, July 10, 2020July 10, 2020, Christian Worldview, Church History, Exegesis, General Apologetics, King James Onlyism, Pauline Studies, Persecution, Post-Evangelicalism, Racialism, Reformed Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line Let s see what some of the topics were: Sam Gipp and Antioch manuscripts, the Church Culture, Debating the Papacy, Justification and Roman Catholic apologists, how to talk to Christians who have bought into social justice theories, and more!Continue readingCalled to Cyprian Responding to Anders Historical Error TurretinFan, January 19, 2015August 19, 2018, Roman Catholicism On Catholic Answers, episode #6796, Dr. David Anders makes it sound as though the issue of supremacy of the Roman bishop came up for the first time in the third century, as though Pope Stephen asserted the primacy of the Roman see, and as though the East acquiesced in...Continue readingRelated ArticlesListen on the GoAlpha and Omega Ministries is a Christian apologetics organization based in Phoenix, Arizona. 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