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 happy Reformation Day. Now, you may be asking,

why in the world would you, a non-Calvinist, be saying, happy Reformation Day? After all,

it's Reformation. That's reform theology, right? I just wrote an article at Stiology 101.com that asked the question,

is the Reformation Day only for five-point Calvinist? You see, many people have thought of the reformed doctrine and theology as being synonymous with Calvinism. But is that true? No. The fact of the matter is that not all reformers

were five-point Calvinists. Many in Western Christianity today have come to think of reform

theology as being the same as five-point Calvinism. But that historically is very inaccurate.

Matter of fact, Roger Olson, who is a known

PhD in the field of sociology and an Armenian scholar, he makes this claim, and I want to read it

to you. He says, one of the major irritants for me and many others about the young restless reform

movement is its leaders and followers' tendency

to identify reformed extremely narrowly as focused on the doctrines of grace, as they call them,

meaning Tulip, T-U-L-I-P.

The movement ought to be called Young Restless Calvinist.

Somehow that just hasn't got the same ring as Young Restless

Reformed, though. The problem is that the leading spokesman for the movement would exclude many more

classically reformed people as not truly, quote, reformed. And yet most of them are not truly

reformed by the standards recognized by the

world communion of reform churches, all of which practice infant baptism. Arminius and the early

remonstrance were historically, theologically reformed. They just disagreed on the narrow definition

of reformed being touted by the likes of

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