Started off talking about the passing of Pope Francis, but then connected the topic to the Provisionist denial of the need of the supernatural work of the Spirit of God to bring about spiritual life, showing that in reality, Provisionism has a less biblical anthropology than Rome does.
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An Exegetical Refutation of Art Sippo, Catholic Apologist, on the Subject of the Divine Freedom of God in Salvation as Found in Romans 9
James White, , Roman Catholicism
Art Sippo, a Catholic layman and medical doctor, is well known for his virulent attacks upon “prots” and defenders of the “Deformation,” etc. He has posted an attempt to interpret and explain Paul’s presentation concerning the freedom of God in Romans 9, and though Dr. Sippo will not debate these issues live in public (he seemingly will only debate a
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Crimson Catholic, Calvin, and Real Blasphemy
James White, , Roman Catholicism
TurretinFan, whose RSS feeds seem to be considerably more advanced and useful than mine, noted a comment by Jonathan Prejean (“Crimson Catholic”) that contained the following statements: In my opinion, Calvin’s Institutes is the equivalent of spiritual pornography, worse than anything you hear in 99% of Beatles’ songs, and most people who read it aren’t doing it as an example
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The Birmingham Qur’an, Bart Ehrman, Equal Scales, and the Biblical Text of the London Confession
James White, , Islam, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line
Quite a range of things on a Jumbo (90 minute) DL today: started out on the new Qur’an fragments, the big story while I was away from Phoenix. Discussed Bart Ehrman’s less-than-unbiased commentary, and finished up with a discussion of whether I am violating my own confession of faith by not using the TR. Included some, shall we say, straightforward
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A Word Once Again on Prejean
James White, , Roman Catholicism
I noted that the Crimson Catholic, Jonathan Prejean, has been active, well, everywhere, in the current blogsplosion of “charity” amongst Roman Catholics aimed my direction. One of the common themes is how terrible, horrible James White hung up on saintly Prejean when he called the DL! Further documentation of just how much of a low-life I truly am. However, those
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The Didache, P45, Washingtonianus, and More!
James White, , Christian Worldview, General Apologetics, Roman Catholicism, Technology, Textual Issues, The Dividing Line
Did a jumbo edition today covering a wide variety of topics but eventually focusing on the BBC clip played in our debate in South Africa about the Didache. Read the entire work, and then in the last thirty minutes did some manuscript/papyri stuff that only geeks will enjoy! As I mentioned at the end of the program, I have no
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Well Look at That….
James White, , Roman Catholicism
James Swan has noted a few times the speed with which Dave Armstrong can edit things on his blog when they are shown to be embarrassing. Evidently, Steve Ray is a quick study. When he first posted his blog article dishonestly accusing me of saying Ignatius was a Reformed Baptist (the very thing I had strenuously denied), the title contained
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Luke 23:34 Textual Variant
James White, , The Dividing Line
Sorry to be so slow in getting this linked. I like posting the video with the audio, and it took me all day to get around to uploading the video (I wonder how many will be able to notice why?). In any case, yesterday we had a fairly technical program. Alan Kurschner and I discussed his paper on the textual
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The NRCT (New Reformed Catholic Translation), Coming to a Blog Near You
James White, , Roman Catholicism
Hey, dynamic equivalency is all the rage, and no one wants to be a literalist and actually worry about things like context and word meaning, so the NRCT may well be a big hit. Here’s an example: For Christ did not send me to make people Christians and join them to the new covenant by an external religious act, but