More on John 6: Why Can't They Come?

Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

Leighton Flowers

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

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🗓️ 4 April 2017

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This is part 2: Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Apologetics for Texas Baptists, respectfully rebuts Pastor Jeff Durbin's Calvinistic interpretation of John 6.

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0:00.0	It's time for the Soteriology 101 podcast, where God is most glorified by his love and provision for all people.
0:09.4	Welcome your host.
0:10.8	The director of apologetics for Texas Baptists, an adjunct professor of theology, and a local teaching pastor.
0:17.9	Dr. Layton Flowers.
0:20.2	This says, no man is able to come to me unless, unless something happens, unless the father
0:24.1	who has sent me draws him, who's the him, the one who had no ability to come, unless the
0:28.4	father.
0:29.1	And of course, we agree that one has to be drawn.
0:32.3	This is what he talks about later in Romans 10, 14.
0:35.8	How will they believe in one whom they've not heard? In other words,
0:38.4	you've got to hear in order to believe, but these people are ever hearing but not perceiving.
0:44.1	Why are they ever hearing but not perceiving? Okay, so if we can both agree, as Romans 10, 14 says,
0:49.5	how will they believe in one whom they've not heard? We agree with that. The implication is if they do hear,
0:55.2	then they may believe. We can hopefully agree with that. That's the implication there. So you're
1:00.4	talking to a group of people who are ever hearing but not perceiving. Okay? That's who he's talking to.
1:07.7	So the question is now, why are they ever hearing and not perceiving? Is it option one?
1:13.6	Because God doesn't really love them. He has rejected them before the foundation of the world
1:17.9	because they are born in a fallen condition according to the decree of God to be incapable of
1:23.6	morally understanding and responding willingly and accepting that appeal.
1:28.6	And so therefore they cannot come to Jesus because God has ultimately rejected them first.
1:33.3	And God has salvifically hated them from before the foundation of the world.
1:36.7	And they are born in a condition they can't do otherwise.
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