When welcome back to Sochiology 101. Today we're going to be asking the question,

is risk real? Not only on a free will theology like we hold to here with regard to the fact that we have

the freedom of choice, that our choices matter in the sense that we can affect our futures

and the decisions that we make have consequences versus the more deterministic way of looking at life. And what's interesting about that question

is that even many determinists, Calvinistic determinists, those who believe that God decrees

whatsoever comes to pass in such a way that's even causal. And some, yes, Calvinists do believe

in theistic determinism that all things are brought to pass ultimately

by God's decree. John Piper is one of those theistic determinists. He follows Jonathan Edwards,

who was a theistic determinist. Or if you want to use the word decreedalist now that James White

has invoked that term instead of a decree, he wants to call, I mean, instead of determinism, he wants to call it decreealism.

It's a rose by any other name, smells a sweet.

Well, determinism by any other name is just as deterministic.

It doesn't matter how many names you give it.

It's still the same as it's always been.

And we're going to be looking at that from a question from the Ask Pastor John

broadcast, where he's asked the question about motorcycles. And the question there on the screen are

motorcycles for fools. And he talks about, well, you'll hear what he's going to talk about. I don't

have to tell you. You hear it for yourself. But before we play that and get into this question,

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