Sovereignty DeCalvinized
Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers
Leighton Flowers
4.8 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, interacts with a message by Dr. John Piper to contrast the Calvinistic definition of "sovereignty" with that of the Provisionist/Traditionalist.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Is God sovereign? |
| 0:03.0 | Yes, of course he is. |
| 0:06.0 | But what does it mean to call him sovereign? |
| 0:09.0 | Dr. David Allen reminds us that when we're debating with Calvinists, |
| 0:13.0 | sometimes this can get confusing, |
| 0:15.0 | because they have the same vocabulary, |
| 0:18.0 | but oftentimes a very different dictionary. |
| 0:22.5 | Some Calvinists have defined sovereignty to mean that God is ultimately and decisively in control |
| 0:28.1 | of all human decisions. |
| 0:31.2 | For instance, listen to this interview with Dr. John Piper, a well-known Calvinistic pastor. Now, the first way you ask the question, is it an anteimmy or a contradiction or humanly |
| 0:45.3 | inexplicable how God can be absolutely sovereign over all human decisions and those decisions still be responsible, accountable decisions, |
| 0:57.0 | I think that is the one for me anyway, for which I don't have an ultimate answer. |
| 1:07.0 | It doesn't work for me. So I have no final explanation. So at that level, the |
| 1:15.0 | Antenemy that Packer talks about between humans being held accountable for their |
| 1:23.9 | actions, which they absolutely in the Bible clearly are, and God being ultimately, decisively in control of all of those decisions. |
| 1:34.3 | Those are two truths in the Bible. |
| 1:36.3 | I would die for either one of them. |
| 1:38.3 | I don't solve that problem with free will. |
| 1:41.3 | It doesn't provide any explanatory help to me at all, nor do I find it taught in the Bible. |
| 1:48.0 | I'm willing to just live with that mystery. |
| 1:52.0 | In this clip, he defines sovereignty as God being ultimately and decisively in control of all human decisions. |
| 1:59.0 | Now I want you to notice, this is not just about the decision to follow Christ. |
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