Is Deadness equal to Total Inability: Rebuttal of James White

Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

Leighton Flowers

Baptist, Atonement, Reformed, Bible, Religion & Spirituality, Calvinism, Biblical, Arminianism, Calvin, Christianity, Christian

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🗓️ 22 February 2017

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Summary

Recently Dr. White took up Dr. Flowers challenge to biblically establish the Calvinistic doctrine of Total Inability. This is Dr. Flowers, albeit lengthy, point by point rebuttal from the scripture.

Notice that Dr. White never does answer the passages that Dr. Flowers brought up in his original challenge. He doesn't even attempt to explain the passages where 'deadness' is clearly not used to connote moral inability.

To read Dr. Flowers article on this topic click here: https://soteriology101.wordpress.com/2016/03/23/dead-wrong/

Transcript

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0:00.0	It's time for the Soteriology 101 podcast, where God is most glorified by his love and provision
0:07.8	for all people. Welcome your host, the director of apologetics for Texas Baptists, and
0:13.9	adjunct professor of theology, and a local teaching pastor, Dr. Layton Flowers. Welcome to Sociology 101. I want to engage again with Dr.
0:26.2	White, who just recently, matter of fact, today addressed my challenge on his dividing in the line program
0:33.7	and went over some of the biblical arguments. And he actually started with a little bit of ad almanem talking about the one string banjo
0:41.5	issue and he talked about an accusation of misrepresentation.
0:45.4	But I'm going to skip over that.
0:46.8	If I have time towards the end, I'll come back to that because I'd really like to focus
0:50.2	just on the strong biblical arguments.
0:52.6	And I don't want to take too much time because there's
0:55.5	so much to cover here. So let's just dive right in. It starts playing a little bit of me. It's playing
1:00.5	me here giving the challenge and then Dr. White diving in. So let's go there. That's what spiritual
1:06.3	deadness is all about. And this just reading onto the text that spiritual deadness must mean the moral
1:12.1	incapacity to respond to God himself is simply assumed by the Calvinist. It's never
1:17.3	biblically established. I challenge James White and the other Calvinist to biblically establish
1:22.2	spiritual deadness as equaling moral incapacitation to respond to God himself. Good luck. It doesn't exist as far as I'm...
1:29.8	Okay, there it is. Good luck. Doesn't exist as far as I'm concerned. All right. Okay. Well, we've been challenged. Let's go to the word, shall we?
1:41.5	Romans chapter 8, beginning at verse 1 therefore there is what oh oh you want you want me to send that over to you as well all right oh that's not easy to do a A card. There. That should have it. Therefore, there is now no condemnation
2:06.4	for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has
2:11.8	freed or set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the law could not do, and notice the use of aduniton, that that idea of dunamis ability, capacity, dunitai is going to appear in a number of these texts we're looking at.
2:30.3	For what the law could not do, weak as it was, dea tastes sarcophos because of the flesh.
2:38.8	God himself, God did himself, in sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh,
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