The Free Will Debate in Houston
Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers
Leighton Flowers
4.8 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2017
⏱️ 142 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Leighton Flowers and Dr. Johnathan Pritchett (Traditionalists) debate Dr. Sonny Hernandez and Dr. Theodore Zachariades (Calvinists) over the doctrine of Free Will.
Things become a bit contentious in the CX when Theodore and Sonny disavow the London Baptist Confession's statement on free will (Chapter 9) since prior to the debate Leighton and Johnathan were told they affirmed it. This cause much unnecessary confusion and contention.
On July 18th, an email with all parties copied, Sonny said, "Hey Leighton, The best way to summarize our position would be to review the 1689 London Baptist Confession or the Westminster Confession of Faith (See Free will)." And even after Leighton literally copied and pasted chapter 9 (the one on Free Will) into the email and asking specifically what they affirmed, Sonny wrote back to all parties (including Theodore), "Leighton, what you see in the confession is what we affirm..." Leighton put up a live video on the Soteriology 101 facebook page showing all these emails for his followers to read for themselves.
Things also became unnecessarily heated when Theodore called his opponents "brothers" and then retracted that statement saying they were merely "opponents" and that he wasn't sure they were actual "brothers" due to their view of grace.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, as many of you've heard, we had a debate on free will in Houston. |
| 0:04.5 | Houston, we have a problem. |
| 0:06.5 | Before I play that debate in its entirety, I just can't help but to play this song. |
| 0:13.8 | Sunday morning jumped out of bed and put on my best suit, got in my car and raced like a jet all the way to you. |
| 0:25.6 | Walked in your church with heart in my hand to ask you a question, because I know that you're a Calvinist friend, yeah. |
| 0:38.6 | Can I question your doctrine without any strife? |
| 0:42.3 | Say yes, say yes, because I need to know. |
| 0:45.5 | Say I'll never get your blessing to the day I die. |
| 0:48.9 | Tough luck, my friend, but the answer is no. |
| 0:53.2 | Why you gotta be so rude don't you know i'm christian too why you gotta be so rude |
| 1:02.0 | i'm gonna question you anyway question tulip question you anyway question too live yeah no matter what you say Question to live Yeah, no matter what you say |
| 1:11.6 | Question to live |
| 1:13.6 | Ain't what it ought to be |
| 1:15.6 | Why you gotta be so rude theodore we're all christians some of you |
| 1:34.0 | have asked me why in the world did you debate those two guys um calling you heretics saying |
| 1:41.0 | you don't even believe uh the gospel calling you god-hater and all kinds of other things |
| 1:46.4 | of that nature i i feel like i need to apologize because you know me i typically don't try to give |
| 1:52.9 | um that kind of voice um too much attention um i'm trying to be better at that but but I was misled. I'll be honest with you. I |
| 2:02.1 | talked to Sonny for a couple of hours on the phone prior to our debate, and he came across |
| 2:08.7 | as nice as Sean Cole. He even indicated to me that he did not like the rhetoric. Unnecessary rhetoric is the way you put it, of other Calvinists |
| 2:19.6 | that I'd been dealing with. And he referenced some other Calvinist I had recently dealt with that |
| 2:23.6 | you know. I'm not going to mention it to him because he's expressed some discontent with me |
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