Hello and welcome back to Sociology 101.

All my theology geeks gathering on this Wednesday morning to talk theology.

What I'm going to be doing today is

responding to a episode of Reminent Radio, which is a podcast. I highly recommend, by the way, I've put a

link to the show notes to those guys. If you haven't subscribed to them, you should do so because

they have some great guests on.

They just recently had NT Wright and several other guests that I've really enjoyed listening to their program.

They're doing a great job.

And they had Joel on, who is a, Joel Wevin, who is a Calvinistic pastor.

Seems like a great guy.

Seems like a guy we get along with very well if we knew each other in a personal setting, just like my other Calvinist friends that I have. But he does a good job explaining from

a Calvinistic perspective why it's important logically and probably even theological to accept

the T of Tulip as the foundation for the entire systematic.

We've talked about this before in addressing R.C. Sprole because Spruill makes a big point in

his book, the very well-known, very small, easy to read, explanation, a kind of a primer on Tulip,

where he explains how everything kind of rests or falls

upon the tea of Tulip. And he goes through this long story that he talks about with his students,

where he teaches them the doctrine of total depravity from the Calvinistic perspective.

And then he gets the students to raise their hand to, to acknowledge they all agree with this.

And then he puts the number up in the top corner of the chalkboard there to remind them

as he goes through the rest of the tulip because many of them are going to start

jumping off the bandwagon, so to speak, and he's going to remind them,

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