Is Leighton Flowers' Soteriology 101 Biblical?
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- Dr. Leighton Flowers, professor at Trinity Seminary, and son of the guy who started
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- See You at the Pole, calls his ministry Soteriology 101. Soteriology is the study of salvation, and 101 implies that these are salvation basics.
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- But Flowers' emphasis is less on soteriology, and more on being anti -Calvinist.
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- Look at the logo. Is Calvinism correct? In the statement of faith on his website, the entire preamble is about disavowing
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- Calvinism. Soteriology isn't mentioned until the fourth paragraph. Article 1 is on the gospel, and it's rather vague.
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- Yes, the gospel is the good news of salvation through Jesus Christ. But salvation how?
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- John 3 .16, Whosoever believes in him will not perish, but have eternal life.
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- Come on, this is Soteriology 101. Article 1 also says we deny that only a select few are capable of responding to the gospel.
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- Well, that's not even Calvinism, which teaches what the Bible says, that no one is capable of coming to Jesus unless it is granted him by the
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- Father. John 6 .65. In Article 2, the statement says that each person's sin alone brings the wrath of a holy
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- God. But that's not what the Bible says. Romans 5 .12 says, Sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned.
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- Flowers' entire stick is to be anti -Calvinist, which he calls Soteriology 101.
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- But at the end of the day, Flowers understands neither Calvinism nor the basic biblical doctrines of salvation.
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- Romans 8 .30 says that those whom God predestined, he also called. And those whom he called, he also justified.
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- And those whom he justified, he also glorified. That's Soteriology 101, when we understand the text.