DeCalvinizing Acts 13:48

Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

Leighton Flowers

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

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🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, walks through the context of Acts 13 to reveal that the Calvinistic interpretation does not fit within the overall understanding of the scripture.

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0:00.0	When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the Word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.
0:09.0	Acts 1348.
0:11.4	Calvinist understand this verse to mean that God unconditionally selected a particular number of Gentiles before the foundation of the world,
0:19.1	and is irresistibly changing their hearts to cause them to believe the Apostles' teaching.
0:25.6	However, we believe that the Calvinist have brought in some presuppositions that are simply never established in this text.
0:33.6	I have added in the Calvinistic presuppositions to this text and highlighted them so that you can understand their perspective.
0:40.3	It would read like this. When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the Word of the Lord,
0:46.3	and all who were unconditionally appointed by God before the foundation of the world for eternal life believed. The first presupposition that Calvinist read into this text
0:58.0	is that the appointment is made unconditionally,
1:01.0	meaning that their morality is not taken into account,
1:05.0	but also their faith is not taken into account.
1:09.0	The next presupposition that Calvinist add to this text is that the
1:13.3	appointing is done by God unilaterally without any regard to those who are being appointed,
1:20.3	and that this appointment is made arbitrarily before the foundation of the world. Arbitrarily simply means without any regard to the individual being chosen or appointed.
1:33.3	As has been said, a text without a context is a pretext for a proof text.
1:40.3	We first need to take a look at the wider historical context with regard to the nation of Israel in relation to the Gentiles in order to better understand the intention of the authors.
1:53.0	For instance, we see in Acts 186.
1:56.0	They oppose Paul and become abusive when he shook out his clothes in protest and said to them,
2:02.1	speaking of the Israelites, your blood be on your own heads. I'm innocent of it. From now on,
2:07.9	I will go to the Gentiles. A similar parallel is seen in Acts 28, beginning in verse 27, when it says,
2:14.4	For this people's heart, speaking of Israel, has become calloused, and they
2:19.2	hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise, they might see with their
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