Hello and welcome back to Sochiology 101. As you can see, we are in a new location right now. I'm just using a green screen backdrop. There may be new sounds, different set it settings,

because I'm having some issues with sound, new location, all that kind of stuff.

And so I would appreciate those who are already tuned in. If you could give me a thumbs up

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when we begin to play

from, especially from Tim Keller's podcast. I could not find this on a YouTube video. Otherwise,

I would have played the video form of it, but I do have the audio form of this particular

sermon, which was linked to me on Twitter, where Tim Keller goes through Deuteronomy

Chapter 7 in speaking of the election of Israel.

And then he of course relates that to Calvinistic version of election, i.e. individuals chosen

before the foundation of the world to unilaterally by God be given a gift of faith by which they will certainly and unchangeably believe,

whereas everyone else who is not chosen will certainly and unchangeably, based upon the nature they were born with,

refused to believe, i.e. determinism, theistic determinism. God determines before anyone is born,

whether or not they will go to

heaven or to hell, and therefore human responsibility is hard to, I think it's impossible for

Calvinists to affirm any kind of true human responsibility on that system. Of course, they claim to

believe in human responsibility, but they don't believe people are able to respond,

which I think is contradictory.

They ultimately believe that men are held culpable

mysteriously for what Adam did.

And even what Adam did was decreed sovereignly by God,

unchangeably.

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