It's time for the Soteriology 101 podcast, where God is most glorified by his love and provision for all people.

Welcome your host, the director of apologetics for Texas Baptists, an adjunct professor of theology, and a local teaching pastor, Dr. Layton Flowers.

Welcome back to Sociology 101. We have with us again,

our guest, Eric Hernandez, who hasn't really left the studio, at least an online studio here with us

on Google Hangouts. But we wanted to keep these somewhat bite-sizeable so that people can

tune in and listen. And so we're picking up from our last

conversation on apologetic methodology and how our theology affects our apologetic methodologies.

And we're listening to the critique being brought by Dr. James White, who is actually playing

a broadcast from Reasonable Faith with William Lane Craig,

of your debate with Sae-Ten-Brewdncake on this issue.

In other words, the debate between apologetics.

And this is really interesting to me because, Eric, by the way, welcome to the show.

I've already welcomed you earlier, but at the same time, this is new to everybody else who's just being welcome.

So welcome.

Thank you for having me.

Here's the interesting thing.

Within the Calvinistic understanding of the world, at least within the compatibilistic philosophical model, how I become a, how I adopt my apologetic methodology is really up to God's

ordained plan, isn't it?

Right, yeah.

In other words, I may freely decide within compatibilism because of my greatest desire

being to be a presuppositional apologist or a Calvinist,

for that matter. It's ultimately whether God has ordained my desires to be such that I would

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