Are you better than your friend who didn't believe the Gospel?

Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

Leighton Flowers

Baptist, Atonement, Reformed, Bible, Religion & Spirituality, Calvinism, Biblical, Arminianism, Calvin, Christianity, Christian

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🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Leighton Flowers responds to one of the most popular arguments used by Calvinists to confront non-Calvinists:

“WHY DID YOU BELIEVE THE GOSPEL, BUT YOUR FRIEND DID NOT? ARE YOU WISER OR SMARTER OR MORE SPIRITUAL OR BETTER TRAINED OR MORE HUMBLE?” -John Piper

We we go over 5 reason this argument fails to support the Calvinistic claims.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Sochiology 101.
0:13.2	One of the most popular questions that Calvinist will ask non-Calvinist is this from John
0:19.7	Piper. Why did you believe the gospel, but your friend did not?
0:23.7	Are you wiser? Are you smarter? Are you more spiritual? Are you better trained? Are you more humble?
0:29.6	It's a very popular argument that we're going to be talking about today. Before we jump into that, I do want to remind you, go to
0:35.1	sociology 101.com, if you haven't, click on the support link if you want to help us spread the news of God's love and provision for all people.
0:41.3	Click on the classroom link to learn more about Trinity Seminary, where you can get a higher theological education.
0:46.0	Many of you may say, Layton, I've heard you talk about this before, and I have.
0:50.0	Many of you know I do longer broadcasts that go over some of these questions, and we have talked about this.
0:54.7	In fact, it's in the appendix of my first book, The Potters Promise, but I am trying to duplicate some of this material into smaller bite-sized pieces for those that want to share them with their Calvinistic friends.
1:06.6	And so this popular question that's often raised is out there.
1:12.0	Matter of fact, it was asked on my last video that I just produced.
1:14.8	And this is a popular question because Calvinists think that they can back people into a corner by asking them, well, you must think you're better if you believe the gospel and they did not.
1:24.3	If it's not because of God's election, i.e. His choice of you before you were ever
1:28.3	created and his effectual grace for you, then it must be some other cause. It must be some other
1:34.8	determination. What is that thing? What is that thing that determined for you to believe?
1:39.8	And your friend did not. You must think that you're wiser. You must think that you're better.
1:43.6	You must boast. You must be proud of're wiser. You must think that you're better. You must boast.
1:44.5	You must be proud of yourself because you actually are the one who caused your salvation
1:49.5	if indeed Calvinism isn't true.
1:52.1	This is the argument oftentimes is brought.
1:54.8	And that's what we're going to be answering in today's article.
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