Predestination
Thinking Fellows
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4.8 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Do Lutherans even have a doctrine of predestination? I thought that was the Calvinists? This week, The Fellows discuss predestination, which is a little known or seldom talked about doctrine among Lutherans. Sit back, relax, and grab a drink to find out why predestination is a gift of assurance and not a tool to damn your neighbor.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm the producer, Caleb Keith, and I'm joined by our hosts, Dr. Rod Rosenblatt, Scott Keith, and Adam Francisco. |
| 0:10.0 | Follow these great minds as they answer pressing questions about theology, history, and apologetics. |
| 0:15.0 | This show is brought to you by 1517 The Legacy Project, serving to proclaim the gospel to all people, especially those broken by the church. |
| 0:34.0 | Hello and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. |
| 0:36.9 | We are once again sitting around my old dining |
| 0:40.3 | room table in my garage. We're smoking. I'm doing some drinking. I think Adam might be too. |
| 0:45.5 | Coffee. Coffee, of course. Coffee and protein. |
| 0:49.1 | Had that before I came down. |
| 0:52.2 | Today we're discussing predestination. |
| 0:55.0 | Last week on the show, you listened hopefully to our episode on the will, the bondage |
| 1:01.2 | of the will, the good news that our will is bound, as Dr. Rosenblatt said in his lecture. |
| 1:05.0 | And this week we're following that up with the doctrine of predestination. |
| 1:08.8 | What is it? |
| 1:09.8 | Is there a benefit to teaching this in the church? |
| 1:12.7 | Why do we hold these views? That's coming up today. Again, I'm joined by Dr. Adam Francisco, |
| 1:17.0 | Dr. Rod Rosenblah. And as always with me, have my son, producer, Caleb Keith. |
| 1:23.0 | He, last year in a project that he was working on while he was taking a Latin class did a little translation from Philip Melancton's 1535 Lochi Communes on the Doctrine of Predestination. |
| 1:36.3 | It's not too long, and we were shooting around at the break of whether he should read or not. |
| 1:41.1 | And I think we gave it a thumbs up that he's going to go ahead and read Malankcton's insights on the doctrine of predestination to get us going today. Yeah, so what I'm going to |
| 1:48.8 | read is just the first paragraph. It's his introduction to the section concerning predestination. |
| 1:55.5 | And it goes like this. When it comes to matters of election, the hidden judgment of God is not |
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