306 Foreknowledge and Free Will 4 (Leighton Flowers Defending Arminianism)

This is part 4 of our Foreknowledge and Free Will series.  Last time Dr. Leighton Flowers of the Soteriology101 podcast laid out his commitment to both God’s complete knowledge of all future events as well as humanity’s ability to freely choose.  Rather than explaining philosophically how that is possible, he suggested that we do not need to know “how” God does something in order to believe “that” he does it.

In this episode, I ask him about one more Calvinistic text, Romans 9, before delving into a number of Open Theism texts to get his exegesis of these interesting passages, including Genesis 6.5; Isaiah 5.3-7; Jeremiah 7.31; and Psalm 106.23.

—— Books ——

• Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius on internet archive  and on amazon
• Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis
• The Potter’s Promise by Leighton Flowers
• God’s Provision for All by Leighton Flowers

—— Links ——

• See other episodes in this series on Foreknowledge and Free Will
• Soteriology101 Podcast: YouTube, RSS, Apple, Stitcher
• YouTube debate: Romans 9, James White vs. Leighton Flowers
• Purchase Flowers’ class, “Tiptoeing through TULIP,” a six-week study on the doctrines of human responsibility and God’s saving grace ($39)
• Check out the affirmations and denials about the provisionalist soteriology