Radio Free Geneva: Responding to Flame on Romans 9
I tried to stay within an hour (I was doing an interview immediately after the program) but I went a little long. We responded to this thread from Christian rapper Flame on Romans 9 and his movement away from Calvinism. We read the thread, commented, and then went to the text once again, this time using our Flip board. I think it may be the first time we’ve gone over Romans 9 in the new studio. Hope it is helpful! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urKpzJjm448
We took the time today to go back over the controversy that has developed when I asked my debate opponent Saturday afternoon to tell us what one of the key texts on the atonement (and in my opening statement) actually means, and he refused to do so. I played the audio of the exchange, put the text on the screen, and we invested an hour and 15 minutes on the topic (after some introductory topics). Not sure if we will be able to squeeze another show in this week, as I am teaching at GBTS Thursday through Saturday.
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Pastor and author John Samson (www.kingschurchaz.com) returns to guest host today's Dividing Line broadcast and teaches on the urgent need for expository preaching. A high view of Scripture should inevitably mean that God's word is central in the life of the church so that the meaning of the passage is the message of the sermon.
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Pastor Jason Robinson from West Virginia joined us on the program today to offer competing (and conflicting!) interpretations of this key soteriological text. 30 minutes of exegesis then 30 minutes of cross-ex, with ten minutes of closing statements. We developed connection issues during the cross-examination and had to go to the phone to finish things up. Jeff Durbin joined me after the debate to discuss some of the issues raised in the program. Visit the store at https://doctrineandlife.co/
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Took two complete programs to do it, but we finished looking at Zach Lambert's sermon on "Homophobia and Transphobia," getting to the part where the Bible finally was referred to: and twisted into a pretzel. It is truly hard to listen to "progressivists" engage in societal eisegesis, but we sure got our fill in today's 1:50 minute long program.
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Started off with the Pope's comments on 60 Minutes, and then dove into a refutation of Brent Lay's "Two Part Romans" theory (originated in 2013) that is being promoted by Jason Breda in a series of videos. The entire theory is based upon an alleged "ambiguous antecedent" in Romans 1:13, except, there is no such construction there, the antecedent is not ambiguous, and hence the theory is DOA, and needs to be abandoned. An hour and 45 minutes!
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Spent the first hour going over developments over the past few days, including discussions of the Washington Rally with the National Council of Churches, the MLK50 Conference, Martin Luther King’s own professed theology, Thabiti Anyabwile’s imputation of guilt to our grandparents, and finally Kyle J. Howard’s public statement that he would not feel “safe” meeting with me alone “as a black man.” Then we opened the phones with all sorts of calls—none of which were on the topic of the first hour! Visit the store at https://doctrineandlife.co/
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Just opened the phones and covered all sorts of topics like the Trinity, eternal generation of the Son, prayer, Molinism, learning Greek, you name it! Something for everyone! Hope it is useful! Visit the store at https://doctrineandlife.co/
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Today is my granddaughter Janny’s 5th birthday! Yay! Has nothing to do with the show but that’s OK. Went through news stories on such topics as Norway criminalizing private comments that would be “offensive” about transgenderism and the like, and then closed up with a run through of Acts 12 and the myth of neutrality.
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First half hour is on how the Regime's attempt to get rid of gas ovens is, in reality, connected to everything else, including the insanity of thinking four year olds can "choose" their gender. Then we moved into Mormonism and, I will be honest, I just could not stop telling stories from all our thousands of hours of encounters with Mormons over the decades. So, we will continue next week with how to witness to Mormons. Almost 90 minutes.
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