Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

Why the label "Traditionalists?" What is soteriological traditionalism exactly? Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Apologetics for Texas Baptists, answers critics who oppose the label "Traditionalism" by explaining its intention. He also welcomes non-Southern Baptists to join Traditionalists by adopting this label as well, after all that the earliest tradition of the church did in fact affirm the libertarian freedom of the will. For more please visit www.connect316.net or www.soteriology101.com To support this ministry with a one-time gift or to become a regular contributor please visit OUR SUPPORT PAGE. To purchase Dr. Flower’s book, The Potter's Promise: A Biblical Defense of Traditional Soteriology, CLICK HERE. For more articles and resources from Dr. Leighton Flowers please visit www.soteriology101.com

Dr. Leighton Flowers deals with the logical implications of the claims of Theistic Fatalism and Calvinism by responding to a clip from Dr. John Piper. Is Calvinism logically consistent with Fatalism but not the Bible? To support this ministry with a one-time gift or to become a regular contributor please visit OUR SUPPORT PAGE. To purchase Dr. Flower’s book, The Potter's Promise: A Biblical Defense of Traditional Soteriology, CLICK HERE. For more articles and resources from Dr. Leighton Flowers please visit www.soteriology101.com

Drs. Leighton Flowers and Johnathan Pritchett (along with a video from NT Wright) discuss the first century tribal or collectivist culture as it relates to our hermeneutic in approaching controversial passages regarding soteriology. Dr. James Leo Garrett, an esteemed Southern Baptist scholar, wrote of a “Westernized hyper individualization” of certain biblical doctrines: "From Augustine of Hippo to the twentieth century, Western Christianity has tended to interpret the doctrine of election from the perspective of and with regard to individual human beings. During those same centuries the doctrine has been far less emphasized and seldom ever controversial in Eastern Orthodoxy. Is it possible that Augustine and later Calvin, with the help of many others, contributed to a hyper individualization of this doctrine that was hardly warranted …?" Let’s just be honest. We, as American Westerners, do tend to think everything is about us, the individual. We tend to read the text with an ego-centric bent. If someone tells the story of David slaying the giant, we see ourselves as the hero in that story and feel as if it is a lesson is about how we can slay the “giants” in our lives too. However, it’s much more likely that we are better represented by the Israelites hiding in fear while Christ, the actual hero of the story, slays our “giants.” And when we read of God setting certain people apart for noble tasks, we can tend toward a self aggrandizing interpretation of those text by assuming God must have set us, as individuals, apart in a similar manner. For instance, how often have you heard someone quote, “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit” (Jn. 15:16) to prove that they were individually chosen to be effectually saved?   To support this ministry with a one-time gift or to become a regular contributor please visit OUR SUPPORT PAGE.   To purchase Dr. Flower’s book, The Potter's Promise: A Biblical Defense of Traditional Soteriology, CLICK HERE.   For more articles and resources from Dr. Leighton Flowers please visit www.soteriology101.com  

Dr. Leighton Flowers and Dr. Braxton Hunter, President of Trinity Theological Seminary (www.trinitysem.edu), responds to the Doctrine and Devotion Podcast's on Reprobation (double predestination). For more on Dr. Hunter's work visit www.braxtonhunter.com To support this ministry with a one-time gift or to become a regular contributor please visit OUR SUPPORT PAGE.   To purchase Dr. Flower’s book, The Potter's Promise: A Biblical Defense of Traditional Soteriology, CLICK HERE.   For more articles and resources from Dr. Leighton Flowers please visit www.soteriology101.com

Dr. Leighton Flowers has a guest on the program today, Dr. Johnathan Pritchett, Vice President of Academic Affairs for Trinity Seminary, to discuss an article written by a Calvinist over the Westminster Confession's statement on God's sovereignty and man's responsibility.  To support this ministry with a one-time gift or to become a regular contributor please visit OUR SUPPORT PAGE. To purchase Dr. Flower’s book, The Potter's Promise: A Biblical Defense of Traditional Soteriology, CLICK HERE. For more articles and resources from Dr. Leighton Flowers please visit www.soteriology101.com

Dr. Leighton Flowers comments on Paul's Washer's sermon regarding the sinner's prayer and inviting Jesus into our hearts. To support this ministry with a one-time gift or to become a regular contributor please visit OUR SUPPORT PAGE. To purchase Dr. Flower’s book, The Potter's Promise: A Biblical Defense of Traditional Soteriology, CLICK HERE. For more articles and resources from Dr. Leighton Flowers please visit www.soteriology101.com

Dr. Flowers was interviewed on the Young Minds Big Question podcasts where they discussed Open Theism and the nature of God's infinite knowledge.   To support this ministry with a one-time gift or to become a regular contributor please visit OUR SUPPORT PAGE.   To purchase Dr. Flower’s book, The Potter's Promise: A Biblical Defense of Traditional Soteriology, CLICK HERE.   For more articles and resources from Dr. Leighton Flowers please visit www.soteriology101.com

Dr. Flowers explains why a defense of Human Autonomy and Free Will is actually a defense of Divine Holiness. He demonstrates this by contrasting Traditionalism with John Piper's teaching on the origin of evil.  He closes by looking back at his discussion with Jason Mullett of the Bible Thumping Wingnut Network.   To support this ministry with a one-time gift or to become a regular contributor please visit OUR SUPPORT PAGE.   To purchase Dr. Flower’s book, The Potter's Promise: A Biblical Defense of Traditional Soteriology, CLICK HERE.   For more articles and resources from Dr. Leighton Flowers please visit www.soteriology101.com

Dr. Flowers describes how Lydia and Cornelius disprove Calvinism's ordo salutis in response to Dr. Sean Cole. (This is part 2) To support this ministry with a one-time gift or to become a regular contributor please visit OUR SUPPORT PAGE. To purchase Dr. Flower’s book, The Potter's Promise: A Biblical Defense of Traditional Soteriology, CLICK HERE. For more articles and resources from Dr. Leighton Flowers please visit www.soteriology101.com

Dr. Flowers and Jason Mullet, a Calvinist from The Bible Thumping Wingnut group and host of the Logical Beliefs podcast, had a lengthy and cordial discussion over the nature of free will, sovereignty and human responsibility as taught in scripture. To support this ministry with a one-time gift or to become a regular contributor please visit OUR SUPPORT PAGE. To purchase Dr. Flower’s book, The Potter's Promise: A Biblical Defense of Traditional Soteriology, CLICK HERE. For more articles and resources from Dr. Leighton Flowers please visit www.soteriology101.com