Why Didn't God Create a Universe Where Everyone Believed?

I Don't Have Enough FAITH to Be an ATHEIST

Dr. Frank Turek

Religion & Spirituality, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Is faith in God a personal choice, or is it something God forces on people against their will? Misinterpretations of Romans 9 have led many Calvinists to read this narrative into the Scriptures, but what are they missing, and what does the context of Romans 9 reveal about its intended meaning?Frank revisits the discussion surrounding election issues and God's sovereignty for this midweek podcast. Can you have love without free will? Did God only die for some people? Does God allow us to make some choices but not others? Is there anything that God can't do? And what are some of the bad theological and moral implications of five-point Calvinism? All this and more will be discussed in this eye-opening midweek podcast episode.To view the entire VIDEO PODCAST, be sure to join our CrossExamined private community (https://community.crossexamined.org/). It’s the perfect place to jump into great discussions with like-minded Christians while providing financial support for our ministry.You can also SUPPORT THE PODCAST HERE.Resources mentioned during the episode:Podcast episode with Leighton Flowers: Free Will or Calvinism: Which Should You Choose? (https://crossexamined.org/free-will-or-calvinism-which-should-you-choose-with-dr-leighton-flowers)Leighton Flowers interview: UNMASKING the MYTH of Calvinism in ROMANS 9 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF1-IdO0RaA)YouTube channel: Soteriology 101 with Dr. Leighton Flowers (https://www.youtube.com/@Soteriology101)Debate: Leighton Flowers VS James White - Does John 6:44 Teach Unconditional Election? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8hFJJawS2M)

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0:00.0	Does truth exist?
0:03.0	Because you have faith, does that make this book true?
0:05.0	Does God exist?
0:07.0	So when someone says there is no truth, if you apply the claim to itself, what should you say?
0:13.6	Is that true?
0:15.4	They don't think Christianity's true.
0:18.5	They're talked out of it.
0:20.2	You know why they're talked out of it?
0:22.2	Because they've never been talked into it.
0:24.0	Cross-examining skeptical and apiistic view.
0:28.0	Welcome to cross-examine with Dr. Frank Turrick.
0:32.0	Ladies and gentlemen, last week on this podcast, we were tackling a question from John about
0:38.0	Romans Chapter 9.
0:41.0	And there's much in Romans chapter 9 that many Calvinists try and say, well, man doesn't really have free choice.
0:48.0	God makes all the choices. He, God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy and compassion on whom he wants to have compassion.
0:54.7	And hardened Pharaoh's heart, who are you to talk back to God and all this?
1:00.5	And a lot of Christians go, oh man, that really seems like we don't have any free will and God makes all the choosing, does all the choices.
1:09.0	Now we can't recant, we can't, we don't want to recant we can't we can't go back and go through everything we did for the past 45 minutes in the last program that's 45 minutes long so I'm just going to pick it up where we left
1:26.2	off with a very kind of brief summary we were talking about Romans chapter 9 and I
1:31.6	tried to make the case that Romans chapter 9 is not talking about the election
1:36.8	of individuals to salvation. It's talking about the election of the nation of Israel. So we went through that case and we also
1:47.2	pointed out that several places in the scriptures it talks about that God
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