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 to Soteiology 101. Let's dive right in. I've got some

things I want to cover and talk about today. Recently, many of you may have listened to the discourse

I had with Jason Mullet of the Bible Thumping Wingnut Network and Logical Beliefs podcast.

And he and I had kind of a back and forth, a good cordial back and forth.

I'm still fairly convinced that Jason is, and even by his own admission, so I'm not,

I'm not being accusatory here.

I think he has admitted as well that he doesn't understand traditionalism, sociology.

And it's clear by his questions.

It's clear, I think, by his responses thus far, that he just does not follow our way of thinking or our argumentation.

And that's pretty normal.

I mean, when people are first introduced to Calvinism, there's a lot of confusion, typically, a lot of questions that come up. Even Calvinists, who have become Calvinist as adults,

admit that there was confusion and that they didn't understand a lot of things, and it took them

time to kind of begin to grasp the full weight of the system and understand the different nuances

of the different views of compatibilism and all the

different philosophical issues that are contained within that. That's true of any system. Any

system that's new to you, it may come across as confusing or is a little bit, it's hard for me to

follow. And we saw that even from those who responded after the debate with James White, that some people who weren't familiar with my view were confused by some of the things I've said.

And some of the people, of course, who had followed me before were confused by James White and what he said.

And so it depends on where you've come from, your own presuppositions, what you assume to be true, how you understand certain terms, defining of terms.

All of those speak into whether you talk past each other, where you really understand each other.

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