Am I wrong for questioning what the Calvinists say?

Am I wrong for still that I choose another way?

I ain't trying to do what everybody else doing

Just because everybody doing what they all do

If one thing I know

I reap what I saw

I'm walking down this road of mine

This road that leads me home

So am I on

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an adjunct professor of theology, the director of youth evangelism for Texas Baptists, a local

teaching pastor. Welcome now, Professor Layton Flowers.

Welcome to Sociology 101.

Let's dive right in.

We're going to talk about spiritual deadness.

Now, we've talked about this on the broadcast before, but I want to read an article to you that I wrote for Sociology 101 a while back that I think really unpacks all the different arguments with regard to the Calvinistic understanding of spiritual deadness, because this is probably their number one argument with regard to total

inability, that all mankind are born spiritually dead, therefore they're corpse-like dead, and

thus unable to respond or unable to react in a positive way, I should say, or want to come to God.

They hate God, according to the Calvinist, because of this spiritual deadness.

And I want to read the article to you, and I may stop and make some commentary along the way

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