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Reasonable Faith Podcast

An Atheist Defines Calvinism

Reasonable Faith Podcast

William Lane Craig

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Christianity

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

An atheist professor asks for an evaluation of his understanding of Calvinism.

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0:00.0

I hear a lot about sinners

0:09.0

a lot about sinners don't think that I'll be a sing

0:15.0

But I might go down to the river

0:21.0

Because the way that the sky opens up

0:25.9

So holy, holy holy holy holy holy

0:30.7

Bill the title of this article by Keith Parsons, certainly got my attention, Calvinists needed.

0:38.0

Keith Parsons, I still got to say personally, Bill, that's one of my favorite debates that you've done.

0:43.0

I know you've debated him several times.

0:45.0

4,000 people in Dallas-Fort Worth in that auditorium.

0:49.7

And first debate of yours that I attended, and I just thought it was a rigorous debate. You did such a good job. I anticipated

0:59.3

every objection so I was very proud of myself. But he writes for the secular outpost occasionally and he talks about his students and he is going to be doing a class and he wants to make sure that he has his Calvinism right.

1:20.0

A couple of things on this bill, first of all, a lot of what he addresses here is the current topic on defenders.

1:27.0

Talk about that a little bit.

1:28.0

Well, in my defenders class, we've been talking about the doctrine of sin and now the doctrine of

1:34.4

salvation and this gets into issues of predestination and free will.

1:43.1

Whether or not these are compatible with each other

1:46.2

and how we should understand God's predestination

1:50.6

and human freedom. Bill, the second thing that I want to point out is your modus operandi, your attitude on this,

1:59.0

you resist engaging the multitudes of our Calvinist friends of all stripes who are constantly

2:07.8

wanted to debate these and get you to debate and and things like that and instead it's not that you want to run from the

2:16.4

issues it's just that you don't want to debate other Christians in-house debates

2:21.6

yeah and right the second thing I'd say is that you you just offer

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