Does God Decree Homosexuality?

Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

Leighton Flowers

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

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🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

If a homosexual attempts to justify his behavior by saying, "God made me like this," can the a Calvinist consistently disagree or rebut this point?

Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, confronts the Calvinistic compatibilistic understanding of divine determinism and human responsibility as it relates to homosexuality by looking at Calvinistic Apologist, Dr. James White's, commentary on this topic.

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0:00.0	Does God decree homosexuality? If he does, then how are homosexuals held responsible for doing
0:07.5	exactly what God created them to do? Let's dive in.
0:15.1	Hello and welcome back to Sociology 101.
0:21.6	You know here we don't avoid those hot button topics, those difficult subjects, like the issue of homosexuality.
0:29.6	And did God decree for people to be, some people to be homosexuals and some people to be heterosexual?
0:36.6	Those can be obviously very difficult questions for us to address.
0:41.3	And we've talked about it on this program before in interaction with Dr. James White,
0:46.3	who you all are very familiar with and I debated back three or four years ago now.
0:51.3	This link was sent to me of a video just recently of James White
0:56.4	and Michael Brown, who actually have debated over the issue of predestination, election,
1:01.3	Calvinism, and all those kinds of things on opposite sides. But on this particular debate,
1:05.6	as you'll see here, they are debating on the same side of the issue with regard to homosexuality.
1:12.1	And it was really interesting, two hours and 30 minutes into this debate.
1:15.6	Listen to the question that arises.
1:17.7	Our next question is not directed at any side in particular.
1:21.7	I'll just read it as written.
1:23.9	Given the statement that this is how God made me in regard to homosexuality are you affirming that
1:31.0	you are predestined to this behavior in violation of your own free will and are therefore unable to
1:35.9	make a decision otherwise and since we started over here I think we'll turn right immediately goes
1:41.6	since we started over here I think think we'll do the courtesy.
1:46.0	Now I'll say something that'll get me in more trouble than I've been in the entire time.
1:50.0	I'm not a Calvinist, so I don't know how to respond to that.
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