The "Noble Purpose:" A Response to Dr. White and other Calvinists
Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers
Leighton Flowers
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🗓️ 20 May 2015
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Today we play a portion of the Dividing Line with Dr. White, who takes calls from listeners. And I read some quotes from other Calvinists with questions on social media. Professor Flowers answers the question about the purpose for which Israel was elected and questions why Calvinists are making all the fuss about the use of the phrase: "noble cause/purpose?"
Why did God elect Israel? For what purpose? For what cause were they selected? Let's dive in.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're going to talk about the noble purpose for which Israel was set apart and answer some questions from Calvinist. |
| 0:05.9 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:07.4 | Am I wrong for questioning what the Calvinists say? |
| 0:15.0 | Am I wrong for still to choose another way? |
| 0:26.6 | I ain't trying to do what everybody else doing Just cause everybody doing what they all do |
| 0:30.6 | It's one thing I know |
| 0:33.6 | I reap what I saw |
| 0:35.6 | I'm walking down this road of mine, this road that leads me home. |
| 0:39.3 | So am I off? |
| 0:40.3 | Social media is a lot of fun, but it can get aggravating |
| 0:46.3 | just because there are so many different types of people, |
| 0:49.3 | and all of which you approach things a little bit differently, |
| 0:52.3 | and sometimes you can't engage with everyone that you really want to. |
| 0:56.5 | However, recently Apologya radio with Jeff Durbin and his own Facebook page posted the debate, |
| 1:03.2 | along with some insinuations that I did Iso-Jesus while Dr. White did ex-a-Jesus, |
| 1:08.5 | which I, of course, have debated and argued that's just begging the question, because whoever is wrong has done isogesis while Dr. White did exegesis, which I of course debated and argued that's just |
| 1:11.0 | begging the question because whoever is wrong has done isogesis, obviously. And there is a |
| 1:17.2 | difference between a full hermeneutical treatment of a text and simple exegedical commentary |
| 1:24.3 | verse by verse commentary. Dr. White did simple textual verse by verse commentary. |
| 1:29.4 | I applied more of an overall hermeneutical approach where you approach the historical context. |
| 1:34.7 | You inform the listener or the reader about the context around what's happening at that time in Romans |
| 1:42.4 | Chapter 9. And you do that by allowing scripture to interpret scripture, bringing in other texts to |
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