Does God Predetermine All Sin?
Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers
Leighton Flowers
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🗓️ 18 February 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, confronts the Calvinist's appeal to the Crucifixion as their proof that God predetermines all moral evil, specifically playing off John Piper's use of Acts 4:27-28 as justification for his deterministic interpretation of the Bible.
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| 0:00.0 | Does God predetermine all moral evil? |
| 0:04.0 | While we as provisionist would say no, leading Calvinistic scholars say yes. |
| 0:10.0 | For instance, here's Dr. John Piper. |
| 0:13.0 | Has God predetermined every tiny detail in the universe, such as dust particles in the air? |
| 0:20.0 | And then I should add here, including all our besetting sins. |
| 0:24.6 | Yes, which means yes, every horrible thing and every sinful thing |
| 0:31.6 | is ultimately governed by God. |
| 0:34.6 | And that's a problem, but the center of the solution to the problem is a choice |
| 0:43.3 | you have to make about the cross. Dr. Piper goes on to make his case using Acts chapter |
| 0:49.8 | 4, verse 27 and 28, which reads, Indeed, Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel |
| 0:57.7 | in the city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed. |
| 1:03.0 | They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. |
| 1:07.8 | The Calvinistic logic goes like this. |
| 1:09.9 | If God predetermined even one event for which |
| 1:12.9 | men are still culpable, then we have no moral ground to object to their claim that God predetermines |
| 1:19.3 | all things while still holding mankind justly responsible for their actions. There are two main |
| 1:26.3 | issues with this logic. |
| 1:28.8 | One, proof that God intends an evil event to happen does not prove that God determines |
| 1:34.8 | all evil events that happen. |
| 1:37.4 | And two, proof that God intends an evil event to happen does not prove that God determines |
| 1:43.4 | the motive or desire of all the parties |
| 1:46.7 | involved in that event. The story of the cross stands out as a unique part of God's good plan |
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