Free Will or Calvinism: Which Should You Choose? | with Dr. Leighton Flowers

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

God knows all things, but does His foreknowledge impact our free will? Often a hot button topic amongst Christians, Calvinism focuses heavily on God’s sovereignty, predestination, and election. But does the Calvinist’s view of these terms correctly represent Paul’s use of the words predestination and election?
Join Frank as he sits down with our friend Dr. Leighton Flowers of Soteriology 101 to discuss the core beliefs of Calvinism. Formerly a proponent of Calvinism, Leighton shares the story of his journey into Calvinism and why he eventually chose to abandon it a decade later. In this midweek episode, Leighton gives us insight into the mind of the Calvinist by answering the following:

What does T.U.L.I.P. stand for?

What are the go to passages that Calvinists use as proof-texts?

When did Calvinism enter church history?

How do Calvinists define predestination and election?

What is determinism?

Did the Apostle Paul teach Calvinism?

How do we reconcile God's sovereignty with human responsibility and our free will?

Are you capable of responding positively to the work of God? That is the question!
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0:00.0	Does truth exist?
0:03.3	Because you have faith, does that make this book cool?
0:05.6	Does God exist?
0:07.4	So when someone says there is no truth,
0:09.8	if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say?
0:12.6	Is that true?
0:15.2	They don't think Christianity is true.
0:17.7	They're talked out of it.
0:20.0	You know why they're talked out of it?
0:22.0	Because they've never been talked into it.
0:24.2	Cross-exemining skeptical and atheistic views.
0:27.8	Welcome to Cross-exemining with Dr. Frank Turek.
0:57.8	We're going to talk about this with my friend, Layton Flowers.
1:01.0	Layton, you have an entire ministry related to this topic.
1:05.6	You have Soteriology 101, which is a great YouTube channel
1:09.8	where you cover all these issues.
1:11.2	Give our viewers and our listeners a little background.
1:14.5	How did you even get into this?
1:16.0	Yeah, I was a Calvinist for 10 years.
1:19.0	Slowly came out of Calvinism through study.
1:21.4	Okay.
1:22.2	I ended up writing my dissertation when I was doing my doctoral work
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