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Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

Response to a Review of John Lennox's Book "Determined to Believe"

Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

Leighton Flowers

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

4.8826 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 178 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Leighton Flowers responds to a review of John Lennox's book "Determined to Believe". 

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0:00.0

All right. Well, welcome to SoTriology 101. We are having a live discussion. I've got a couple of guys already joined in. We put out an invite to several of others there on the Facebook group who could join in as we're going through this. And appreciate Clayton and John jumping on with us. We're going to be responding to an article by James Anderson from the Journal of the Reform Theological Society.

0:43.1

I think it's the name of it, something of that nature.

0:45.5

And we're going to read him in his own words, and then we're going to just kind of pause and respond to some of the things that he's saying.

0:53.3

He's critiquing John Lennox's book

0:55.6

to believe. It's a book that I have highly recommended because I think he does a really good job.

1:02.4

He's one of the few really well-known apologetic scholars that holds to a perspective that's very

1:08.5

similar to mine with regard to his rejection of the concept of total

1:12.9

inability. His maintaining of eternal security are both distinctives that I hold to as a traditionalist

1:20.0

or a provisionist that John Lennox defends as well in this book. And so I appreciate his work.

1:25.9

There's a few things I would have probably taken a different approach on, which we may even get into in this review.

1:31.3

But for the most part, I think he does a really fair job in his evaluation of Calvinism, which he refers to as theistic determinism.

1:40.3

And we'll go through some of that as we go through this review.

1:43.3

I just kind of ask Clayton and John, did you both have a chance? and we'll go through some of that as we go through this review.

1:47.0

I just kind of ask Clayton and John, did you both have a chance just out of curiosity,

1:50.2

not that I expected you to,

1:51.3

because this is kind of a last minute thing

1:52.6

that I just jumped on to invite you guys

1:54.9

to come on and be a part of it.

1:56.1

Did you have a chance to read through the article yet?

2:00.6

Yeah, I did read it through. Okay, great. John, did you have a chance to read through the article yet? Yeah, I did read it through.

2:02.9

Okay, great.

2:03.8

John, did you have a chance?

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