Hello and welcome to Sochiology 101.

Today we're going to be talking about the book Providence by John Piper.

It just came in and I've been reading it recently.

I'm a theology nerd.

Yes, I even read 700 page books by people I don't agree with.

And I told you guys I would be doing this.

And he is giving us all kinds of

great information for us to go through. I got to page about 175 over the last couple of days.

And that's where it just came full stop. And you're going to see why, as we go through this,

why it came full stop. Whenever I read on page 175, something

that John Piper said that seems, at least to me, completely inconsistent with what I've heard

him say elsewhere, which is not unusual when it comes to dealing with Calvinism. Calvinism is a

systematic by which there depends upon in some ways,

quandaries of seemingly inconsistent concepts and ideas.

And I'm not trying to be overly mean to our Calvinistic friends.

All of us have mysteries within our particular worldviews,

but I think mysteries are quite a bit different than blatant contradictions.

And as we've argued before, I think there are some blatant contradictions

inherent within the determinism of Calvinism.

And those are the things we're trying to push back on.

And I think sometimes Calvinists borrow from us.

As one of my friends on his blog puts it,

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