Hello, and welcome back to Sociology 101. We were doing a live program this morning because I wanted to answer some questions that have recently come in, especially after my debate with Dr. Stephen Boyce, some of the back and forth that I've had with Dr. Jordan Cooper with regard to plagianism. The belief that men or born are born spiritually dead as interpreted by some means that that means all people are born with this moral or spiritual incapacity to respond even to God's life-giving truth.

So here's the concept.

You're born in a fallen condition, whatever that looks like that's defined differently by different theologians, but you're in a fallen condition. And that condition is such

that you can't respond positively to God's own appeals to be reconciled from that condition.

You follow in it? So for some reason, God sends an appeal that's insufficient for the people who hear it, the lost people who hear it, to be able to respond to it positively.

So what God has to do is he has to pick certain individuals and give them a new nature, a new heart, to make them want to come.

Otherwise, they never would. They are born in a condition that they would

always reject the things of God. That's the concept from the Calvinistic worldview. Now,

the Armenian will sometimes, not all Armenians are the same, just like within Calvinism.

It's not a monolithic group. There are many different forms of Armenianism, just like there's

different forms of Calvinism. But what some Armenians historically have said is, yes, we agree with you, Calvinist.

Yes, they're dead in the moral incapacitated state, but God does some kind of a pervenient working on the nature of the will,

thus causing that dead person to become alive, and therefore they're able to respond

either positively or negatively. So this spiritual awakening that happens to that dead

incapacitated soul is not irresistible unto salvation, but it's just enough to regenerate them

to be able to make a choice as to whether to believe or not to

believe in the gospel. This is what Roger Olson, who is a known Armenian, talks about as a partial

regeneration. Now, that to me seems very convoluted and weird, strange to me. I don't think that

the Bible affords that view. I'm not trying to be disrespectful at all to Dr. Olson, but it seems strange to me. I don't think that the Bible affords that view. I'm not trying to be

disrespectful at all to Dr. Olson, but it seems strange to call somebody alive, but yet still

not born again. You know what I mean? They're partially regenerated. What does that look like?

And where does the Bible ever teach this category? It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. And so it may be just

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