It's time for the Soteriology 101 podcast, where God is most glorified by his love and provision for all people.

Welcome your host, the director of apologetics for Texas Baptists, an adjunct professor of theology, and a local teaching pastor, Dr. Layton Flowers.

Hello, my name is Layton Flowers, the director of apologetics for Texas Baptist. I wanted to respond to a link that was sent to me yesterday. I listened to it on

my drive home, and I wanted to address this from both perspectives, from the non-Calvinistic

traditional perspective, as well as addressing some of the Calvinistic beliefs, because James White here in this particular latest broadcast from the dividing line,

went over a meme that was put up on social media. And of course, this is kind of new to our

generation memes, even Twitter and all these kinds of things. It's even affecting our political process. It's

affecting our theology in some ways. And sometimes obviously meme theology is not the best way

to do theology. And the meme that you're about to see is, admittedly, even from my perspective,

offensive. And I don't think it's probably real healthy to have these kinds of back and forth. Memes can be funny, and I don't think it's probably real healthy to have these kinds of back and forth.

Memes can be funny and I don't, I'm not trying to say somebody sinning by creating a meme or

anything like that. Some of the memes that I've seen out there and I've even shared some

at times just because I thought they were funny. And I take myself and some of these theological jokes less seriously than other people do.

And so sometimes things can come across as more offensively than maybe they're even intended when put out on social media.

But when you start dealing with really motive issues, the death of children or rape or incest or all these horrible kind of heinous things which are really

inerrant questions within the theological debate with regard to theodicy and within the

Calvinism or Armenianism concepts of God's sovereignty and God's control and how did the how did sin

enter the world and who's really responsible for sin, who's responsible for faith

and the lack of thereof, all of those kinds of questions come to play in these theological

discussions. And therefore, when the outset are kind of looking into our theological bubble

where we're having these kind of interversity debates among ourselves, they can be kind of shocked by some of the things

that we throw out there and that sometimes are said among theologians when trying to make a

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