Today we're going to be talking about John MacArthur's Calvinism actually promoting the very victimhood that he denounces.

Hello and welcome back to Sociology 101. If you've been following things on the blogosphere and on social media, you've seen a lot of to do about social justice and a lot of concerns being bantered back and forth with regard to the social justice movement and things we've got to be careful about. And some of those things, you know, I agree with some of the warnings and I, and I could get into the mix of that.

The problem is, is that when Calvinists bring these critiques, it's hard to take it very seriously if they hold to the theistic, meticulous divine determinism of the Calvinistic worldview under

compatibilism, because ultimately all the things that are being done under the name of social justice are

decreed by God if what they say is true. And it's also very interesting when you really begin to

unpack some of the Calvinist's messages like what we're going to listen to here in just a second

from John MacArthur, they really undermine the very thing that they're condemning.

It is difficult in my estimation to logically understand how someone can condemn that which they

believe their own God sovereignly and unchangeably brought to pass for his own glorification.

In other words, if I believe that God sovereignly and unchangeably brought

about event X, and then I condemned event X as being evil and bad and horrible and that it shouldn't

happen, then what I have done is I have condemned that which I believe my God brought to pass

for his own glory.

And so it would be like, for example, me condemning the crucifixion of Christ and the resurrection

of Christ and the whole redemption through the crucifixion because I would say I condemn

that thing, but I also believe, as Acts chapter four and chapter two indicate, that God is the one

who worked using, not causing, using evil intentions of evil people to like Pilate and like

Judas and others. He used their evil intentions to bring about this evil event for a ultimate good,

but I don't stand around and condemn the fact that the crucifixion and the

resurrection happened. I celebrate that. I wear the cross. I preach the cross. I celebrate and I

tell people about that because that is something that God helped to work to bring about that I

rejoice in because I see his hand in bringing it to pass. Now, if the child is raped down the street,

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