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🗓️ 22 July 2021
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Dr. Leighton Flowers responds to the social media storm created by his meme which represents Calvinists as believing that God chose one person over another before they were born "for no apparent reason." Is this a misrepresentation? If so, why?
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Sociology 101. |
0:20.0 | Today we're going to be talking about the accusation of misrepresentation. |
0:24.9 | Excuse me. I'm already choked up here. |
0:28.8 | There already is a Twitter word going on right now because I posted this meme on Twitter |
0:34.6 | and our favorite interlocutor Calvinistic friend, Dr. James White, retweeted it. |
0:40.0 | And so it's got up the ire of a lot of our Calvinistic friends because they feel that I have |
0:45.8 | completely misrepresented their Calvinism. And I must never have been a Calvinist. |
0:49.8 | And I couldn't possibly understand Calvinism if I would post something so horrible as this is a |
0:54.8 | representation of what they believe. And I get it. I mean, I understand that it is not the most |
1:00.8 | palatable way of putting something. But interestingly enough, I actually adapted this |
1:05.7 | based upon something that James White said in a previous discussion we had years ago. He probably |
1:12.2 | doesn't even remember it. But I was using the phrase for no apparent reason. You know, |
1:17.3 | there's no known reason as to why God chooses one person instead of another, which is just |
1:22.5 | true of Calvinism. That's not me saying that. That's just, that's the claim of the systematic. |
1:28.4 | There is no known or revealed reason as to why God chooses person A instead of person B. |
1:35.6 | There's just not. I mean, that's what Calvinism is stating under the doctrine of unconditional election. |
1:41.1 | But God chooses some people in the secret counsel of his will. Secret means that |
1:46.0 | it's not revealed. It's not apparent. It's not known to us as to why he chooses Bob and not Bill. |
1:51.7 | Bill ends up in hell. Bob ends up in heaven. And we have no reason given to us as to why God chose |
1:57.8 | Bob and not Bill. None. Zero. Zilch. Okay. That's just the claim of the system. Okay. |
2:03.2 | If you don't like it, then leave Calvinism, but don't claim that I don't understand Calvinism because I just state it outright and plain like that. |
2:11.3 | I don't, I don't, I don't understand why there's such a vehement response. |
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