Tag Archives: James White

Aug 01

Listen to The Dividing Line (James White) 24/7

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Alpha and Omega Ministries - James WhiteThey have been doing this for a while, but if you haven’t heard this yet you should check it out. Alpha & Omega Ministries is streaming old episodes of The Dividing Line on a continual basis, 24/7. You can access these episodes at the following link:

http://stream.aomin.org:8000/dl.m3u (This should open in iTunes or your default media player)

The pages for their webcast is available here:

http://aomin.org/articles/webcast.html

 

Jul 11

In the News (July 11, 2011)

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A Christian Theory of Information

A PDF of Jamin Hubner’s article in Reformed Perspectives Magazine

Is chance “real”? Can it “cause” anything? Can we investigate it “scientifically”?

A new article about an age old question.

Is 1 John 3:5 About the Father or the Son?

A new video from James White. Get ready for some Greek!

 

Jun 08

Sermon Against Predestination on Tomorrow’s Radio Free Geneva

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Radio Free GenevaJames White will deal with the sermon below on tomorrow’s edition of Radio Free Geneva[link]. The show will air at 4pm PDT/7pm EDT. click here to open the live stream in iTunes

The sermon was preached by Pastor Ron Armstrong of Cornerstone Community Church in Wildomar, CA.

 

7 Topics ::: Predestination from Cornerstone Community Church ::: on Vimeo.

Apr 15

mp3: The Dividing Line, April 5th

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Topics include “Harold Camping, atheists and bible thumpers, Abdullah Kunde and a call about sanctification and free will.”

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Mar 30

Book Reviews of Forged, by Bart Ehrman

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Forged, Book Cover

Humbly standing in the shadows cast by the publicity frenzy of Rob Bell’s Love Wins is Bart Ehrman’s new book, Forged: Writing in the Name of God—Why The Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are. I wanted to point you in the direction of some reviews which I believe will benefit you if you are considering reading Ehrman’s Forged.

Nick Norelli:Forged: Writing in the Name of God—Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are

Ehrman has popped out another book on a well-worn scholarly issue at a “layperson’s level” with promises of a future “detailed scholarly monograph that deals with the matter at length.” (10) For now we’ll have to content ourselves with Ehrman’s distillation of modern (i.e., 19th century to present) historical-critical scholarship. The opening chapter introduces us to Ehrman’s major claims, i.e., pseudepigrapha is forgery; forgery is lying; forgery/lying was frowned upon in the ancient world; the Bible (especially the NT) is full of forgeries. We’re also equipped with some definitions (orthonymous = rightly named; homonymous = same named; anonymous = having no name; pseudonymous = falsely named), the most important being Ehrman’s definition of forgery, which is “a writing that claims to be written by someone (a known figure) who did not in fact write it.” (24)

James White: Reviews Forged (and Love Wins) on the Dividing Line

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Michael Licona: Review by Michael R. Licona, March 27, 2011 (PDF)

On March 22, the New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman published his latest iconoclastic book challenging the traditional Christian view. In Forged, Ehrman’s bottom line message is that literary forgeries were plentiful in antiquity, many of which were written by Christians and that approximately 70 percent of the New Testament writings were not written by those to whom they are attributed….

Why is the subject matter of this book important? For years, a significant number of biblical scholars have contended that the traditional authorship of a large portion of the New Testament literature is mistaken. This raises an important question: If, lets say, Peter was not at all involved in writing 2 Peter and the letter was not written until several decades after Peter’s death, should it be included in the New Testament canon and regarded as authoritative to the Christian?

I will try to add more reviews as they come to my RSS feed… To stay up to date follow @EyeApologetics on  Twitter. I will tweet when I update an article.

Mar 29

Reply to Peter Lumpkins: James White is an Adjunct Professor at GGBTS

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I came across a blog which makes a ridiculous claim which I want to refute in this blog post. Peter Lumpkins maintains that Dr. James White is not an adjunct professor at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. To enhance your viewing pleasure I offer you the following video.

In the video I refer to these documents:

These PDFs are currently available for anyone to download (even if you are not a student) at http://www.ggbts.edu/academics/downloads/

Screenshot of ggbts.edu's course syllabi page (3/28/2011)

Peter Lumpkins desires a website which is not controlled by Dr. White to corroborate his bio.

No website info I can find supports James White’s claim he teaches at GGBTS (i.e. website info over which James White has no control). Instead all indications point to the established fact he does not. It is entirely possible the website info at GGBTS is not up to date but barely probable–if probable at all–given the strong affirmation less than a year ago by GGBTS seminary officials that James White would receive no future contracts. If the web info is strangely incorrect, we will keep the public informed via an update here

In response to this I offered the course syllabi above. Golden Gate’s website is frequently NOT up to date. I speak from personal experience as a current MDiv student. I have emailed professors on multiple occasions requesting their course syllabus because it had not been posted in a timely manner on the link above. In every instance, without fail, the professor had submitted their syllabus to the school weeks or months beforehand and the reason it was not available on ggbts.edu was because the site had not been updated. From my experience I, therefore, offer the following (obvious) observation:

  • the professors do not have control over the content on ggbts.edu

This meets Mr. Lumpkins’ qualifications. But I proceed further. My twitter account also contains evidence that James White is an adjunct professor at GGBTS. Again, it is a website “over which James White has no control.” And since you are unable to go back and alter content after  you have posted it (like you can on wordpress, blogger, etc…) this ought to help support my main point:

Class with @DrOakley1689 is on! Textbooks are ordered, vacation days scheduled, fees are paid… THIS IS HAPPENING!! Tue Jan 05 22:02:21 +0000 2010

sitting in room 222 with @DrOakely1689 waiting for class to start… I’m ready to apologeticsize #NewWordAlert Wed Jan 13 16:55:38 +0000 2010

Just saw an Islamic alter call in my Apologetics class. It is one of the most disgusting and vile things I’ve seen in a while #falsereligion Thu Jan 14 23:21:36 +0000 2010

http://twitpic.com/y41qr – The Qur’an is not God’s word Fri Jan 15 00:20:06 +0000 2010

image of James White's Qur'an, from http://twitpic.com/y41qr (posted on 1/15/2010)

this class is SO AWESOME!!!! Fri Jan 15 18:48:45 +0000 2010

http://twitpic.com/y4jqk – My new James White book Fri Jan 15 02:19:07 +0000 2010

Purchased at the GGBTS bookstore, with intent to get a signature!

http://twitpic.com/y4jzd – He signed it!!!!!!! Fri Jan 15 02:20:35 +0000 2010

Signature from a man who, according to Peter Lumpkins, wasn't there!

http://twitpic.com/y98ov – Me and @DrOakley1689 Sat Jan 16 01:04:49 +0000 2010

Myself with Dr. White (1/15/2010)

Class is over :( it was awesome and very helpful and i look forward to continuing to grow as an apologist Sat Jan 16 01:30:06 +0000 2010

Ok, so to recap what we have so far. Peter Lumpkins want’s a website not under Dr. White’s control which says he is an adjunct professor at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. I offer two. First, the GGBTS website with 3 syllabi. Second, my twitter account’s tweets from January 2010. (Technically, I offer three websites, as twitpic.com is a different site than twitter.com). Dr. White has no control over either. I post tweets of my own free will and they were posted looooong before I got it in my mind to reply to Mr. Lumpkins’ absurd assertion.