So am I wrong for thinking that a choice is not for real?

Now am I wrong for thinking we're responsible when we see?

But that's just why it's real.

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. Welcome back to Sotriology 101. You can see I have a guest

with me today. He's back with us, Dr. Eric Hankins, who is the senior pastor at First Baptist Church of

Fairhope in Fairhope, Alabama. Welcome back, Dr. Hankins. Glad to be back. I asked you to be on the program because you wrote, and I don't

mean to give you a big head here, but you wrote one of the best articles I have ever written,

really answering and critiquing the issue of the Calvinistic interpretation of Romans chapter 9 with with regard to the

doctrine of reprobation. So thank you, one, for your work. If you have not, as the listeners,

if you guys have not read this article, I've listed it, linked it on my Soci my sociology 101 blog. It's also on my Facebook page,

and I have re-broadcasted it a couple, I mean, re-tweeted it a couple times, just simply because

this needs to get out there. One thing that the Calvinists are really good at, Erica, if you

haven't noticed, is that they

re-blog and retweet and they sell their leading scholars material really, really well.

And as far as I'm concerned, you're one of our leading scholars on the traditionalist perspective,

and this is a really, really well-written article.

I appreciate your work on this.

I appreciate that. I want to go over it with with you on the program because I know people as they read this, they may have questions. I hope that as Calvinists read this, that they will come

with an open heart and objectivity and really, really examine this.

You kind of tackle this by really focusing on the writings of Wayne Grudom.

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