Calvinistic Predestination

Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

Leighton Flowers

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🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Dr. Leighton Flowers answers the question, "Is Determinism required if God is truly Omniscient?"
Is the Calvinistic view of exhaustive Predestination (determinism) necessary due to God's omniscience? Let's explore...

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0:00.0	Is determinism required if God is truly omniscient?
0:05.6	In other words, does God's foreknowledge of all things necessarily mean God brings about all things?
0:13.3	On Calvinism, God foreknows everything because he foredains or decrees everything.
0:22.5	Calvinistic pastor John Piper writes,
0:25.9	Now here is the text that connects the prediction of God with the planning or performing of God.
0:32.2	And then he quotes from Isaiah chapter 46 and concludes, quote,
0:37.1	So now we get a window on how God knows the future he knows it
0:43.0	because he plans it and does it he knows it because he plans it and performs it end quote
0:49.7	dr. r c. spruill a well-respected Calvinistic theologian, has said much the same thing.
0:55.4	The time where we all come together is we believe the reason why he knows everything is going to come to pass is because he's ordained everything that's going to come to pass.
1:01.4	Did you hear that?
1:02.7	The reason he knows everything is going to come to pass is because he has foreordained, predetermined, as MacArthur said earlier, everything that comes to pass.
1:13.5	So follow that. You're hearing that. Now, again, I'm always accused of you're making Calvinism
1:19.1	overly deterministic. I'm playing them for themselves. Calvinists do not believe God merely
1:25.0	knows what creatures will freely choose to do and permits it.
1:29.0	They say God decrees or brings about all things that come to pass.
1:35.3	On Calvinism, it isn't just that God manages to turn the evil aspects of our world to good.
1:42.3	It is rather that he himself brings about these evil
1:46.3	aspects for his glory. Dr. Piper also says, quote, God is the only being who is ultimately
1:53.9	self-determining, and is himself ultimately the disposer of all things, including all choices. No human being has free will at any time.
2:06.9	Neither before or after the fall or in heaven are creatures ultimately self-determining.
2:13.3	There are great measures of self-determination, as the Bible often shows, but never is man the
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