Is JD Greear a Calvinist or not?

Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

Leighton Flowers

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

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🗓️ 19 March 2018

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Some people seem to be confused about JD Greear's soteriological position. The doctrinal statement from the Acts 29 network that he has affirmed is NOT unclear. His affiliations are not unclear. What other Calvinists have said about him is not unclear. His past sermons on soteriology are not unclear. All of these are clearly revealing that Greear is a Calvinist, so why doesn't he simply let everyone know that while running for the SBC Presidency?

Is he purposefully being unclear for political reasons in the same way some Calvinistic pastors are not clear when being interviewed by a search committee? Let's explore...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Sochiology 101. As you can see on the screen, I've got a guest with us today.
0:05.0	This is Eric Kemp. He is a student, an end-dim student at Talbot School of Theology, there at Biola.
0:12.0	And he is a co-writer with me on one of my latest blog articles regarding J.D. Greer. And he has written several other articles for us.
0:23.9	He also has his own blog at bearded seminarian.wordpress.com. Welcome, Eric, to the program.
0:31.9	Thanks for having me, Dr. Flowers. Well, I appreciate you coming on. And we found each other via the internet several months ago, I guess it's been now,
0:42.2	almost maybe a year ago, has it been.
0:43.9	The one year of the internet.
0:46.0	Well, Eric was coming to my defense with, actually with Armenians.
0:51.1	If I remember correctly, on the first article that I read, you are actually
0:54.9	defending me against some Armenians. Some people think I only critique my Calvinistic brothers,
1:01.0	but the truth is I actually... I might have heard that criticism. You might have heard that. Well,
1:06.6	you did a really good job. You wrote a really good article explaining why I don't hold to total inability.
1:14.7	And there were several Armenians who were having problems with that too. And you did a really good job of explaining our perspective. And I appreciated that. And that's kind of what led to conversations that led to posting some of your articles at Sociology 101.
1:28.2	And so you are a good writer and you're really good at picking apart like individual arguments.
1:39.7	I've noticed that about you.
1:40.7	And so I appreciate that.
1:41.6	So thanks for coming on here and joining us for this discussion. Appreciate that about you. And so I appreciate that. So thanks for coming on here and joining us for this
1:44.3	discussion. Appreciate that. Some people wouldn't say that's a gift. I don't know. You're really good
1:52.8	at arguing. Yeah, you're good. You're good at you're good at you're good at people apart. It's something
1:57.5	that I enjoy doing. I enjoy reading what someone is saying and trying to understand them, trying to understand
2:03.4	exactly what they are saying.
2:05.2	And then explaining, I get that, but, you know, here's where we're coming from.
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