Guest Dr. Jerry Walls: Does God Love Everyone?
Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers
Leighton Flowers
4.8 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2016
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Flowers interviews Dr. Jerry Walls, Ph.D from Houston Baptist University, about his new book "Does God Love Everyone? The heart of what is wrong with Calvinism" which you can purchase here.
Does God truly love all persons? Most Christians think the obvious answer to this question is, "Yes, of course he does!" Indeed, many Christians would agree that the very heart of the gospel is that God so loved the whole world that he gave his Son to make salvation available for every single person. This book shows that one of the most popular and resurgent theological movements in the contemporary evangelical church--namely, Calvinism--cannot coherently and consistently affirm this vital claim about the love of God. While some Calvinists forthrightly deny that God loves everyone, more commonly Calvinists attempt to affirm the love of God for all persons in terms that are compatible with their doctrines that Christ died only for the elect--those persons God has unconditionally chosen to save. This book shows that the Calvinist attempts to affirm God's love for all persons are fraught with severe philosophical and theological difficulties. Calvinism, then, should be rejected in favor a theology that can forthrightly and consistently affirm the love of God for all persons. Nothing less is at stake than the very heart of the gospel.
Listen to Dr. Flower and Dr. Walls discuss this subject in depth on today's broadcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Am I wrong for questioning what the Calvinists say? |
| 0:08.0 | Am I wrong for still that I choose another way? |
| 0:16.0 | I ain't trying to do what everybody else doing |
| 0:23.0 | Just because everybody doing what they all do |
| 0:27.0 | It's one thing I know |
| 0:29.4 | I reap what I saw |
| 0:31.4 | I'm walking down this road of mine |
| 0:33.7 | This road that leads me home |
| 0:35.2 | So am I on |
| 0:36.3 | Broadcasting worldwide from the great state of Texas from the academic media center of soterology 101.com. |
| 0:44.7 | The online university classroom. Your campus, your voice. Your podcast on demand. |
| 0:51.9 | In-depth theology meant for all. And when we say all, we mean everyone. Your host, |
| 0:58.7 | an adjunct professor of theology, the director of youth evangelism for Texas Baptists, a local |
| 1:04.9 | teaching pastor. Welcome now, Professor Layton Flowers. |
| 1:12.6 | All right, welcome to Soteryology 101. |
| 1:18.8 | I have got a colleague and friend and mentor, and he may not even realize he's a mentor to me, |
| 1:23.9 | but I have been watching his broadcast online and reading his stuff for some time. |
| 1:26.2 | Many of you know Dr. Jerry Walls. |
| 1:28.6 | He is a scholar in residence and professor of philosophy at Houston Baptist University. His primary teaching really focuses on the philosophy of religion, |
| 1:33.4 | ethics, and Christian apologetics. And so it is just an honor to have Dr. Wals with us. Welcome. |
| 1:38.9 | Thank you. Great to be here. Well, I know you have a new book. And the reason I know, |
| 1:43.6 | because I was one of the first people to get a copy of it, I like to brag on. Well, I know you have a new book, and the reason I know, because I was one of the first |
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