It's time for the Soterology 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 to Striology 101. Today you're going to be hearing from

Dr. David Allen as he refutes the claims of Dr. James White in regard to the atonement. Many of you

are aware that there was some back and forth on Twitter, well, at least some back. I don't know if

there was some fourth and back,

or there was at least one-way conversations going on, whereas Dr. White was responding to some

of Dr. Allen's tweets with regard to the atonement in his view of the atonement. And James White

had some pretty harsh words to say, calling Dr. Allen's view of the

atonement impersonal, theoretical, unsaving, things that he would never say to those of the

reform tradition who hold to the same view of atonement that Dr. Allen does. I think there's

some inconsistency there. And I also noticed that in his response, Dr. White's

response, if you read this, he doesn't even address the actual point that Dr. Allen brings up here,

which I think is telling. Now, Dr. Allen has written over an 800-page book on the extent of the

atonement that we're going to look at. Many of you know, Dr. Allen,

he's served as a dean of the School of Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

and Fort Worth for over 12 years. He's currently the dean of the school of preaching.

He's a distinguished professor of preaching. He's the, as far as I'm concerned, the leading

proponent with regard to the traditional view of atonement from our particular perspective of traditionalist

sociology. And Dr. White has not been silent, obviously, on his disagreement with traditionalists

over our view of the atonement. Keeping in mind, however, that our view of the atonement is held

by some within the reformed

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