Hello and welcome back to Sociology 101.

Today we're going to talk about 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 3.

Now I understand that when you jump onto a YouTube video, some of you are looking

for a direct answer right away here, just jump into the text. And this is not going to be one of

those kind of videos. Sorry, that's what the shorts are for. Sometimes the shorts will make a five,

10 minute video and just goes right to the topic and doesn't do any background

or, you know, all the stuff to get to it. And so I understand when some people open a video,

they're looking for a direct answer to a direct question. And I know that some of you are looking

for that. So this is not that video if that's what you're looking for, unless you want to fast

forward to the point where I get directly into the text.

The reason is, is because I think for people to really understand this issue, you've got to understand some of the background to it.

And there's been some back and forth between me and the director of the Society for Evangelical Armenians, Dr. Brian Abashano, who I have a huge amount of respect

for, by the way, we just happen to disagree on the concept of total inability, the idea that

we are born with this innate incapacity to believe the gospel apart from a work of prevenient

grace, which I guess somehow restores our innate incapacity. It gives us back the ability

to believe divinely inspired truth. I just don't believe we've ever lost the ability to do that.

I don't think that the fall caused us to be incapable, morally speaking, of responding positively

to divine revelation. I just don't think that's a

biblical concept. And so when, when, and a lot of Armenians, they have left the classical

position of Arminius and kind of the ontological problem of the nature of deadness and needing a partial regeneration,

as Roger Olson puts it, they have left that at least. And I'm thankful for that because at

least they're leaving behind that, you know, Augustinian worldview. And they're closer to us in the

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