Prevenient Grace: A discussion with an Arminian brother
Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers
Leighton Flowers
4.8 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2016
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Professor Flowers and Dan Chapa continue their discussion over the topic of Prevenient Grace and the sufficiency of God's revelation through the gospel. Should we accept the notion that God decreed to punish mankind for the sin of Adam by making it such that all would be born in a totally disabled condition from birth? Are fallen men born in a condition that they cannot willingly respond to God's own powerful appeals to be reconciled from the fall unless and until God does some extra work of Grace to make mankind capable? Or is the work of the gospel gracious and powerful enough itself to accomplish the purpose for which it was sent..."so that you may believe and by believing you may have life in his name?" (John 20:31). Let's dive in!
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| 0:00.0 | I think I finally found my hallelujah. |
| 0:05.0 | I've been waiting for this moment all my life. |
| 0:09.0 | Now all my dreams are coming true, yeah. |
| 0:14.0 | I've been waiting for this moment. |
| 0:18.0 | Good to be alive right about now. Good, good, good, good, good to be a lot right about now. |
| 0:24.6 | Good, good, good, good to be a lot right about now. |
| 0:28.6 | Hallelujah, let that face the moon, you say, yeah, it's going to be a lot, proud about now. |
| 0:36.6 | Broadcasting worldwide from the great state of Texas from the academic media center of Soterology 101.com. |
| 0:45.3 | The online university classroom, your campus, your voice, your podcast on demand. |
| 0:52.4 | Welcome now, Professor Layton Flowers. Welcome to Sociology 101. This is |
| 0:59.6 | going to be a great show because we're going to talk of provenient grace. I've got back with me, |
| 1:05.5 | Dan Chappa. He is a member of the Society of Evangelical Armenianism. He is also a traditional Southern Baptist. |
| 1:14.0 | He has a blog where you can find that is traditional Baptist Chronicles.com. |
| 1:20.4 | And we had a previous broadcast over the topic of semi-Pallagianism. |
| 1:25.2 | And I think he made it a really strong case as to how compatibleism, |
| 1:29.5 | if it's consistent, is more semi-Pelagian than Armenianism is. And I think he made a really |
| 1:35.8 | strong case on this blog, one of the reasons I had him on to the program. But he and I have also, on |
| 1:40.7 | the Facebook page for the Society of Evangelical Armenianism, we've had some back and |
| 1:46.1 | forth over the concept of prevenient grace. Now, Dan, before I bring you into the conversation, |
| 1:52.2 | just a brief kind of overview here of my perspective, I've always denied the concept of total |
| 1:59.4 | inability. I've affirmed original sin in the sense that we are born as the Baptist faith and message says. |
| 2:06.1 | Let me actually pull that up under the Article 3 of Man. |
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