Unconditional Choice?

Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

Leighton Flowers

Baptist, Atonement, Reformed, Bible, Religion & Spirituality, Calvinism, Biblical, Arminianism, Calvin, Christianity, Christian

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🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, lays out the difference between unconditional salvation and unconditional election. Salvation is not conditioned upon works, but it is conditioned upon faith. What are the implication of this in Provisionism versus Calvinism?

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to SoTriology 101.
0:11.0	Today we're going to look at the topic of unconditional choice and ask the question,
0:15.0	are individuals chosen to be saved for no apparent reason before the world began?
0:19.0	Now when I say no apparent reason, I mean no known reason.
0:22.6	In other words, no revealed reason as to why God chose one person and not another.
0:27.6	I realize that Calvinist will often say that God chooses based upon the kind, good intentions of his will,
0:34.6	or for the praise of his glory, and I have no qualm with that. What I'm talking about
0:38.5	is the fact that we have no idea why God chooses one person instead of another. And is this what
0:46.0	the scripture teaches? I want us to understand this. When we look at our salvation, we do know
0:51.3	that salvation is not conditioned upon your works. In other words, no matter how good
0:58.0	you are, no matter how much you help the poor, no matter how many times you go to church, no matter how
1:03.5	much you refrain from sin in your life, there's no amount of good you're ever going to do
1:09.9	that's going to earn or merit your salvation.
1:12.9	And therefore our salvation is not conditioned upon how good you are or the goodness of your deeds or the works that you do.
1:22.2	And there are many passages of scriptures we could go to that teach us this.
1:26.1	For example, we look in Titus 3, 4, and 5,
1:28.8	it says, but when the kindness and love of God, our Savior, toward man appeared, not by works
1:34.4	of righteousness, which we have done, but according to His mercy, he saved us through the
1:41.1	washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit. We see this in Galatians
1:45.9	21 as well, where Paul writes, I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness comes
1:53.5	through the law, then Christ died needlessly. We also see this in Romans 11, 6. But if it's by grace and it's no longer on basis of works,
2:04.8	rather grace is no longer, otherwise grace is no longer grace. And then probably one of the places
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