Hello and welcome back to Sochiology 101.

We're going to be replying to a video that was just released by Dr. Jordan Cooper, who is a Lutheran on YouTube.

And I don't know a lot about Dr. Cooper except for a debate that I listen to where he is actually defending against limited atonement in a view more that we would hold to with regard to the universal extent of the atonement. And, and I appreciate his perspective on some of those things. In fact, one of the things that I get a little bit confused about when it comes to Lutheranism is how they seem so in support of what we believe with regard to God's provision for all people,

and yet still defend the exegetical commentary of Calvinist in places like Romans 8, 9 and Ephesians 1 and other places.

And to me, it seems very contradictory.

It seems backwards.

But, and I'll just be honest, I don't know a lot about Lutheranism.

In fact, listening to this video, I'm quite convinced that Dr. Cooper knows about as much about traditional Southern

Baptist as I do about Lutheranism. The difference is he did a video about us without doing

very much homework. And to his credit, he does admit that. He does come out and say, I don't have a lot of

time for critiquing all these videos because I have to learn a whole new system of thought.

And I understand that. I get that.

It's difficult to dive in there.

But my advice would be if you don't have the time to do the research, then don't do the video.

Because what you end up doing, in my estimation, is misrepresenting another group of people by putting heretical labels on them.

And I take that a little more seriously than maybe Dr. Cooper does, just putting out a video for thousands of people to see,

and possibly hundreds and thousands more later down the road as your YouTube video grows,

accusing people of something they don't believe.

And I find that to be very irresponsible for a theologian and a fellow brother in Christ to do that to somebody else.

And so I try to be a little bit more careful when I'm understanding, trying to understand another perspective.

And like I've said before, I don't understand a lot about Lutheranism, which is one of the reasons I have not done a video on Lutheranism.

I think it would be you're responsible to do that because I don't know enough in order to take it.

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