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?

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.

Hello, and welcome back to Sociology 101.

Today we're going to ask the question, is Calvinism good for the church?

Actually, it's not a question I ask.

It's a question that Burke Parsons with Ligonier Ministries, the ministry of R.C. Spruill,

he asked that question, and we're going to play a video clip of him giving a

representation of Armenianism, non-Calvinism that's very typical that we hear Calvinists do

quite regularly when representing us. And it's a misrepresentation, obviously, of us from our

perspective. And I've put out a challenge for people to produce and find a notable

scholarly Calvinist who has on recording a good representation of traditionalists, because I've yet

to find it. In other words, every Calvinist that we have talked to, or we've've played represents us as, you know, God looking

through the quarters of time or getting into DeLorean, as Matt Chandler put it, or traveling into

the future to see who's going to believe.

And you're about to hear a similar kind of representation of us from Burke Parsons.

But then you're going to go on and hear his explanation as to why he believes

Calvinism is good for the church. And we're just going to, you know, unpack that and see if that's

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