Reviewing "Determined to Believe?" by John Lennox

Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

Leighton Flowers

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🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 122 minutes

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

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to SoTriology 101.
0:10.7	Today we're going to look at the book called Determined to Believe by Dr. John Lennox.
0:17.5	Now many of you may have heard that I already did a kind of a cursory review of the book
0:24.4	some time ago on a Google Hangout, but I haven't done anything here on the podcast in a more
0:29.8	formal manner. And instead of just going through the book and pretty much amending every page of it,
0:35.1	which I do, John Lennox and I are very much lockstep on our interpretation
0:39.6	of Romans 9 and many of the other arguments. He holds to the same views that I hold to that our
0:46.6	Armenian brothers might disagree with with regard to total inability. He does, he does not believe
0:51.5	that we lost the ability to respond to God because we're fallen.
0:55.0	There's no biblical evidence of that as far as either John Lennox or I can tell and others who believe the more traditional or provisionist view.
1:03.0	And so that's one of the reasons I love John Lennox is because he also maintains the view that we hold to as traditionalist with regard to eternal security.
1:10.0	He has a couple of chapters at the end of that book that defend that position from a biblical
1:14.0	perspective. And though I have a lot of friends who disagree with me on some of those issues with
1:18.5	regard to total inability and provenient grace and eternal security, who are even among the
1:24.2	non-Calvinistic camp, it just shows that there are disagreements on both
1:30.1	sides of these issues on other individual matters. But that again demonstrates the very point
1:36.0	that we're contending, that we have free will. The reason there are various views is not because
1:42.2	God has decreed for us to disagree with each other,
1:45.0	but because he's decreed for us to have the freedom of the will to make our own choices,
1:48.8	independently of his desire and will. Otherwise, you've got God ultimately decreying disagreements and
1:54.1	misunderstandings among Christians, which doesn't make a lot of rational sense to think that God
1:59.5	is determining for one of his children to believe X and another lot of rational sense to think that God is is determining for one
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