Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers

Dr. Flowers welcomes Louis Ruggiero, author of "The God of Calvinism: A Rebuttal of Reformed Theology," on to talk about his debates with James White and Sonny Hernandez. Louis and Leighton point out the clear fault in the Calvinistic reasoning when it comes to the "unregenerate man's inability to please God" as it relates to Cornelius and other biblical characters in scripture. To get a copy of L...

Dr. Leighton Flowers addresses some recent back and forth with Dr. White regarding the Early Church Fathers, and questionable sources regarding Clement of Rome. Dr. Flowers asks not to be used as a "red herring" in the original discussion with Dr. Wilson, but hopes to see the focus on where it needs to be... the facts as presented in Wilson's Oxford Thesis...

Dr. Flowers (and guests) walk through John 6:25 -71 while considering the "work that God requires" for salvation as it relates to faith versus meritorious works of the law...

Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, hosts a discussion on Romans 9 in contrast to the teaching of Doug Wilson. We will be responding to this video by Doug Wilson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrSby... Here is a short video produced by Dr. Flowers going through Rom. 9:13: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZrV... Here is a longer verse by verse exegesi...

Dr. Leighton Flowers of Soteriology 101, responds to a recent broadcast from a Calvinistic friend who tackles the question, "Why speak in parables to prevent the Jews from repenting if they are born totally unable to believe due to their natural condition as addressed in Mark 4?" For more on this topic please visit www.soteriology101.com. To support this ministry please visit www.soteriology101.co...

Dr. Leighton Flowers welcomes a kind Calvinistic brother, Michael Patton, of Credo House Ministries, to discuss our soteriological differences and how to appropriately discuss disagreements with fellow Christians. For more on this topic please visit www.soteriology101.com.

Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, hosts a discussion about Soteriology and answers questions from listeners.

Dr. Leighton Flowers reads the most recent reviews from iTunes and Amazon. And goes over the latest stats for the Soteriology 101 broadcast. Podcast: Over 2,019,000 unique downloads Average of over 5,300 per episode YouTube: Over 3,538,000 views Average of over 10,400 per episode

Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, compares and contrasts Dr. John Lennox's and Dr. James White's interpretation of John 6.

Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, highlights a video produced by Dr. Matt O'Reilly with "Orthodoxy for Everyone" that goes over Romans 9-11. Here is the original video by Dr. O'Reilly: https://youtu.be/sQXSXfXl4kw Please Like and Share his video with others!

Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, refers to leading scholars to get a good working definition of semi-pelagianism so as to clearly demonstrate how Provisionism/Traditional Southern Baptist Theology does not align with it... To read Dr. Adam Harwood's article on the topic please go here: https://soteriology101.com/2020/05/21/is-the-traditional-statemen...

Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, responds to a recent critique offered by Dr. James White against a video produced by William Lane Craig and Reasonable Faith.

Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, is joined by Dr. Tim Stratton of Free Thinking Ministries to talk about Molinism, Calvinism and Provisionism. For more about Dr. Stratton please visit: https://freethinkingministries.com To SUPPORT this broadcast please click here: https://soteriology101.com/support/ To ORDER Dr. Flowers Curriculum "Tiptoeing Through...

Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, walks through an article by at compellingtruth.com on the topic of "spiritual deadness" in order to unpack the biblical usage of the term. Here is a copy of the article from compelling truth: https://www.compellingtruth.org/spiri...   For more go to www.soteriology101.com    

Dr. Jordan Cooper, a Lutheran Pastor, recently produced a video (seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwgxb... ) critiquing Dr. Leighton Flowers' video on total moral inability from birth (seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egxHq... ) Disappointingly, Dr. Cooper does not do his homework on the actual beliefs of Traditional Southern Baptists (ie Provisionists) before producing a video...

Dr. Flowers walks through some videos going over some common Calvinistic arguments and provides a biblical response from a non-Calvinistic (Provisionist) perspective...

Dr. Flowers and guest, Clayton Tyner (Pastor at MetaChurch in San Antonio) walk through a critique offered by Dr. James White on the article titled "The Unwanted Child?" posted at www.soteriology101.com.

Dr. Leighton Flowers responds to a review of John Lennox's book "Determined to Believe". 

In this short 15 min video, Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, confronts the Calvinistic doctrine of Total Inability, the idea that all people are born spiritually blind due to God's sovereign decree and thus have no moral ability to respond positively to God's own gracious appeals to be reconciled. Looking at Paul's own sermon in Acts 28 (when some in...

This is a snippet taken from an earlier broadcast from Dr. Leighton Flowers explaining why Calvinism is on the rise and what can be done to help spread the news of God's love and provision for everyone. For more please visit www.soteriology101.com To watch the video with Ken Wilson on the effects of Augustine on Western Christianity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnOMO...

Dr. Flowers responds to Dr. White's latest critique on the topic of God's use of Assyrians to bring judgement on the rebellious Israelites.   This is the video Dr. White is critiquing: https://youtu.be/2Ee4uCxMm30   This is the original Dividing Line Broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjd1h...    

Dr. Leighton Flowers plays clips from Calvinistic pastor, Dr. John MacArthur, answering the problem of evil (Theodicy) and contrasts it with scholars who advocate for the free will defense, such as Ravi Zacharias, John Lennox, CS Lewis, Lee Strobel and Greg Laurie. This video highlights the distinction between a consistent Calvinistic answer to the problem of evil with that of non-Calvinists (Armi...

Dr. Leighton Flowers, Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, plays a clip from John Piper quoting from CS Lewis about whether or not the Calvinism debate is really important. Dr. Piper walks through the Calvinistic TULIP expressing why he feels it's so important to the Christian faith and Dr. Flowers responds respectfully but firmly from a Provisionist's perspective. Resources:...

Dr. Flowers reads through Augustine's debate with Fortunatus the Manichean prior to Augustine's conversion to compatibilistic determinism in order to demonstrate to Calvinists, like James White, that (1) Manichean doctrine opposed the Early Church's teachings on free will, (2) Manichean did appeal to some of the same texts as Calvinists do to support their views of man's innate inability and (3) t...

Eric Kemp joins Dr. Flowers once again to discuss a recent interaction with James White... Join us for a LIVE discussion with a time for Q&A.