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Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

Calvinism's Non-Free Free Will

Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

Leighton Flowers

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

4.8826 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Leighton Flowers plays a clip from Eli Ayala's broadcast, Revealed Apologetics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0M7v...) in which he interviews Pastor and Author Scott Christensen about the doctrine of Free Will on Calvinism, which is sometimes referred to as "Compatibilism."

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Sochiology 101.

0:13.4

Today we're going to be playing a video from Eli Ayala.

0:17.4

Revealed Apologetics is the name of his broadcast.

0:19.8

I have put a link in the show notes for you to go and listen to the original in its entirety.

0:24.2

That's only fair.

0:25.3

If you want to critique a video, I can't obviously play at all in its entirety because it's a long video.

0:29.5

But I do want you to go subscribe to Eli, get to know Eli.

0:33.2

Eli is a nice guy.

0:34.6

He's a Calvinist and inconsistent one at best, but he is a Calvinist and a friend and a nice guy. He's a Calvinist, an inconsistent one at best, but he is a Calvinist and a friend, and a nice guy overall. And I've appreciated

0:41.3

Eli's involvement with me and his back and forth and engagement with me

0:45.4

over the years. He's having, he has a pastor on the program,

0:49.5

Scott Christensen, which, who has written several books on the subject of free will and Calvinism and those kinds of things.

0:57.9

And so we're going to engage with what I have titled, well, actually what Ken Wilson has titled,

1:03.3

non-free free will, which is what is, that's really what our accusation is against compatibilism.

1:08.5

That compatibilism is a redefinition of what most people think of when they

1:12.9

think of free will, the ability to make a free choice that's not determined by factors beyond your control,

1:17.9

a choice that's not determined by God, in other words, in other words, God doesn't determine what we will determine on

1:23.5

libertarian freedom of the will. On compatibleistic Calvinism, God does determine what you will determine.

1:29.5

God decides what you will decide.

1:31.1

Every decision you make was decided for you by God.

1:33.8

That's really basically all it is.

1:35.8

But they categorize it as free, non-free free will, but it's free.

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