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The Hello and welcome back to Sociology 101.

Today we're going to be answering the question, is Calvinism equal to fatalism?

Quit answer right up front?

Not necessarily.

No.

Does Calvinism lead to fatalism? Only if God

determines it to. That's the answer, which is a part of why Calvinism can become so fatalistic.

Because even if fatalism is something that Calvinists want to distance themselves from,

they have to confess that the only

reason anybody would become Calvinistic or fatalistic, either one, is because ultimately,

God theistically determines them to become that way.

And that's part of the problem.

Now, I want you to hear from Calvinists themselves, as many times here on the program, I play Calvinist

for themselves so that you can hear what they say, not just what I say. How many leading Calvinists

out there do that for us? I get accused of misrepresenting Calvinists and all these kinds of things

on Twitter and everything. How many of them are even coming close to trying to represent our perspective in the way that I have tried to represent theirs?

How many of them play us in our own words?

How many of us have them have them on our program like I do?

Have me on their program or vice versa.

They're standing invitations for many of the leading Calvinists out there.

Any of the leading Calvinists that are out there like a MacArthur,

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