Did the Early Church Writings Support Monergism?
Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers
Leighton Flowers
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🗓️ 15 July 2020
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Watch this short video demonstrating how James White fails to provide any sources to support his interpretations of the Early Church writings, while we (Provisionists) and Dr. Ken Wilson provide sources (not only from our own theological camp, but unbiased sources from the Reformed tradition) to support our claims...
A longer version of this critique from Dr. Flowers can be found here: https://youtu.be/25OgrKD85ZY
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| 0:00.0 | For all you provisionists that were going, we need to have a debate and you've |
| 0:03.4 | have a debate right now. |
| 0:04.6 | Do you think you'd want to debate this? |
| 0:08.5 | I think you wanted to debate what Diagnitas's, what Mothaitase's view was in writing |
| 0:13.8 | to Diagnetus on these subjects? |
| 0:17.3 | This guy has a reformed anthropology, not a provisionist, not a traditionalist anthropology. |
| 0:29.0 | Who uses that phrase inability? |
| 0:33.9 | Well, it's not the provisionists, and it's not the Armenians, it's not the open theists, |
| 0:42.3 | or even the Pelagians or the semi-Palajians. |
| 0:46.3 | Inability. |
| 0:48.3 | That's a term you hear from them, monogistices. |
| 0:57.2 | Them monogists. |
| 0:58.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:04.1 | This guy's a monogist in the second century. |
| 1:06.8 | He's a monogist. |
| 1:12.5 | And Wilson's dissertation requires them all to be what? |
| 1:14.1 | Synergists. |
| 1:20.1 | I'm just reading you the stuff. |
| 1:24.2 | I'm just translating the original language for you. |
| 1:31.2 | Unbiased sources. That's what I mean by unbiased sources. So he's saying, here's what semi-Palachianism is. By a list of three or four unbiased sources, here's what we say. |
| 1:35.7 | Here's how these two things are different. So therefore, you shouldn't call us a semi-Palajian |
| 1:39.1 | based upon these definitions of your own sources. Okay. And the same point is true when it |
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