Is God Sovereign or do we have Free Will? Yes!
Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers
Leighton Flowers
4.8 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2019
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, responds to Alan Parr, the host of The Beat, who recently released a video contrasting Arminianism and Calvinism (God's sovereignty and man's free will). Alan, though well intending, made some factual errors and will mislead his listeners by use of a fallacy called 'A False Dilemma' (presenting only two options when other better options may be available).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to Sochiology 101. |
| 0:12.0 | Today we're going to respond to a video that has over 41,000 views by a gentleman by the name of Alan Parr called The Beat has over 144,000 subscribers. |
| 0:26.0 | And generally, it's a kind of informational, Christian informational type of video page that |
| 0:33.1 | really is giving answers to hard questions, and he covers a vast array of topics. |
| 0:38.3 | And for the most part, I like what this guy does. |
| 0:40.6 | It gives bite-size answers to hard questions, especially the millennial younger generation |
| 0:45.1 | is going to love this kind of format. |
| 0:47.3 | It's quick, it's fast, it's very attractive. |
| 0:50.3 | He does a good job in producing his stuff. |
| 0:53.0 | And you can see as the question on the screen says, does man have free will or is God's sovereign? |
| 0:58.0 | That question in and of itself makes all of us as provisionists, us who are not Armenians, who are not Calvinist, |
| 1:04.0 | all of us who have been studying and talking about this thing. |
| 1:06.0 | It makes us all just cringe. |
| 1:08.0 | Every single one of us, have you been trained well? |
| 1:10.0 | If you've listened |
| 1:11.1 | well, you know immediately the fallacy that is on the page right now. It is called the false |
| 1:16.0 | dilemma or the false dichotomy. It's when two things are presented as your only two options, |
| 1:21.2 | when a third option is a better option. And of course, we would say that God is sovereign |
| 1:26.8 | and man has free will. |
| 1:29.4 | Sovereignty and free will do not oppose one another because sovereignty does not mean absolute control. |
| 1:35.6 | It never has meant that. |
| 1:36.9 | No dictionary in the world to find sovereign. |
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