It's time for the Soteriology 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.

Hello, and welcome back to Sociology 101.

Today we're going to talk about, I think, the most contentious point and the most important

point with regard to the distinction between the traditionalist and the Calvinist.

And that has to do with a concept of total inability.

Many of you who followed the broadcast know this is where I think the linchpin issue

really hangs and falls.

It's on the foundational point.

Even Spruill calls the T, the foundational point of his sociological worldview.

And I agree it hangs or falls on the T.

And we're not talking about just the depravity aspect of the

tea because all of us can affirm that mankind is sinful without necessarily affirming that

mankind is incapable of recognizing that sinfulness and admitting, confessing that sinfulness

in light of God's appeal to be reconciled from that sinfulness, i.e. the gospel-inspired message of God.

And so the concept of being a sinaholic, as we talked about, being addicted to sin, being a

slave to sin, being in bondage to sin, does not prove that one who is in bondage is incapable of

recognizing and admitting that bondage once the law and the gospel is made abundantly clear.

It's through the law.

That's the schoolmaster, helping us to see our need for Christ.

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