Conversing With A Calvinist: Michael Patton
Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers
Leighton Flowers
4.8 • 826 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2020
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Sochiology 101 live. You can see as I have a guest with me this morning, Michael Patton, welcome to the broadcast. |
| 0:08.0 | Hey, thank you. It's nice to be here. Well, you've got one of those cool radio voices and you got the right equipment because you do broadcasting. Many of you may remember that we've done some responses to Credoel House Ministries with, I think, Brother |
| 0:22.1 | Sam Storms is up there in Oklahoma and up in the northern states from here in Texas. And so we |
| 0:29.9 | appreciate you signing on. And I've said many times in my responses to you, Michael, is that I've |
| 0:35.8 | always appreciated how cordial and ironic you guys are |
| 0:40.6 | with regard to those who disagree with you sociologically. |
| 0:44.1 | And you really do set a good example for how we can have conversations with those who disagree with us. |
| 0:49.6 | In fact, I have quoted from your article quite regularly in response to some other Calvinists who may not be quite so kind with regard to calling Calvinism the gospel. |
| 1:00.7 | And you have an article that really addresses that. |
| 1:03.6 | Do you want to speak on that at all or say anything about that? |
| 1:06.5 | Well, sure. |
| 1:07.2 | I mean, it is. |
| 1:08.3 | It's with every issue, people get passionate about and it gets elevated. |
| 1:13.3 | But this thing really has a lot of particular fire to it for a lot of people, |
| 1:18.5 | especially a lot of my, those people that are on my side, it's very difficult to be associated with Calvinism sometimes |
| 1:29.4 | because of the reputation that is out there about Calvinists. And I understand. I mean, I think I wrote |
| 1:36.0 | an article that it was called, Why I'm not happy to be a Calvinist or something like that. Or |
| 1:41.4 | Calvinists make the worst Calvinist. That was that was it. And, you know, |
| 1:45.3 | in that, it's the same idea. It's just everybody within Calvinism normally has this, |
| 1:50.5 | this attitude about them as if they have got some type of secret piece of the information. |
| 1:55.8 | And you feel very gnostic at sometimes where you're like, you know, is this what we are? Is this, do we have some |
| 2:03.3 | secret information that really requires us to beat down to their people or to feel, to feel |
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