Is Faith Alone & Free Will Incompatible?
Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers
Leighton Flowers
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🗓️ 7 May 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Flowers responds to a Catholic who has a fundamental misunderstanding of the Biblical concept of meritorious works which leads him to erroneously conclude that Protestants are inconsistent to maintain a doctrine of Faith Alone while holding onto the doctrine of Free Will.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Sochiology 101. I'm often accused of only talking about Calvinism. |
| 0:05.9 | And granted, this podcast was started as a result of my dissertation on the rise of Calvinism |
| 0:12.7 | within the Southern Baptist Convention and helping people to understand other robust, |
| 0:17.2 | deep theological answers to the questions regarding predestination and election, |
| 0:22.6 | interpretations of Romans 9, Ephesians 1, John 6, and other passages that are often used by |
| 0:28.0 | Calvinist. As a former Calvinist, that was my study, that was my dissertation. That's been my |
| 0:33.8 | interest, and it's a hot button topic, especially right now in the SBC. As I've told people |
| 0:38.0 | before, I don't talk about the roundness of the earth at home. But if my son shows up and begins |
| 0:45.0 | to try to convince his siblings and my wife that the earth is flat, then guess what daddy is going to |
| 0:50.7 | have to talk about? He's going to have to talk about the roundness of the earth. In the same way, |
| 0:53.7 | I don't necessarily like to talk about free will or all these |
| 0:56.1 | different doctrines. But if within my church family, people begin to come and to say that there's |
| 1:01.2 | no such thing as a doctrine of free will or that God has determined all things and that we really |
| 1:05.6 | don't have a choice that's a real choice, but that it's actually a decreed choice or a choice that's determined |
| 1:13.1 | by God and it's not ultimately determined by us, then guess what that he's going to have to talk |
| 1:17.4 | about? He's going to have to talk about that doctrine that I don't believe is true. And so the |
| 1:22.8 | reason I've talked on Calvinism is because that has been my field of study. However, I have addressed those |
| 1:29.0 | from the Armenian tradition that I disagree with with regard to total inability, for example, |
| 1:34.1 | or maybe the concept of apostasy or the possibility of losing salvation. There are some |
| 1:40.4 | disagreements that I have with other satirological systems that I've engaged with on the blog and here at the podcast. |
| 1:46.6 | There's also been a time or two when I've engaged with Catholics who have had a disagreement with me on this view or that, this point or that point. |
| 1:55.4 | Now, it obviously is buried underneath a lot of the other perspectives that we have with regard to the Calvinism |
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