Who Are You, O Man?

Dr Leighton Flowers, Director of Evangelism and Apologetics for Texas Baptists, briefly explains the false interpretation Calvinists gather from Romans 9.

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[cecilspurlockjr.]

Thank you brother Flowers.. I love you in THE LORD..

[carltonlong]

Thanks sir, I enjoy all of your uploads. God is a God of grace, love, faith, mercy, patience and takes zero pleasure in condemning anyone. We all have a choice.

[MrRogal]

God: "I want everyone to be saved."
Calvinism: "wHo ArE yOu O GoD tO taLk bAcK to MeN?"

[gregjay]

I just don't understand what makes Calvinists deny libertarian free will. The Bible clearly states - you were not willing.

[bigdogboos]

very well said 6:50 - the end. Calvinism has a God of hate and borderline sadistic issues. He gets more glory by destroying the majority of humanity, of which they had no say so? Whaaat, huuuuh? What kind of psycho is that? it's like saying "I'm going to rear 10 children with my wife ... and bless 2 of them and utterly destroy the other 8 for my own glory. Yea that makes so much sense

[Giant_Meteor]

What is rebellion if you are determined by God's will to rebel? If our rebellion is in agreement with his will, then isn't rebellion essentially the same thing as obedience?

[christianchris]

Satan wanted to destroy Job for the sake of winning an argument he had with God, i.e., for Satan's own glory.

Calvinism attributes this Satan's character unto the Almighty and Holy God. We ought to denounce it!

[alexz]

Why do these videos not get more views!?

[chrisamandadeysel]

Talk of patience, God waited 120 years for the wicked to repent while Noah was busy building the ark .

[omnitheus]

It's laughable when a Calvinist fire back 'Who are you oh man..." I must seem disrespectful every time I hear as I just laugh.

[thefrontporchpulpit]

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To choose to Love God, for what has done, love God for what he is doing, and will do.

[JohnQPublic]

We don't talk back to or question GOD we talk back to and question the idiotic doctrines of Reformed Theology.

[EmperrHrde]

What Paul says: "Who are you, o man, to answer back to God?"
What Calvinists hear: "Who are you, o Arminian, to take the implications of Calvinism to their logical conclusion?"

[robanddawnramcharan]

Serious question: Why do Calvinists insist on everybody else endorsing Calvinism?

[jonaha]

I remember seeing a comment on one of Piper's old videos which was most likely written by an atheist. The comment said something like "how can Christians accuse us of nihilism? This is the most nihilistic, anti human worldview". This is heartbreaking, that because of Calvinism, many are being led to believe that our God is a tyrant, a puppet master.

[fabriziom]

Is calvinism is true, he predestined us to be not calvinist LOL

[aidanmcmanus]

WHO ARE YOU O' MAN?
I believe that the emphasis in this passage is on God's right as Creator to do with man as He wills. As God, He has the right or power of the potter over the clay. But, Paul does not deal with how God exercises that power in Rom 9 in terms of whether God just arbitrarily does what He feels like, or whether its based on something He looks for in man. Is it all just arbitrary as the Calvinists seem to read into it? Or, does it depend on something conditional on man's part? ROMANS 9: DOESN'T DEAL WITH THOSE QUESTIONS. The emphasis in Rom.9 is on vindicating God's sovereign right as the Creator to do as He wills. But we need to go to other passages, such as 2 Tim 2: 20-22, to actually answer that question of whether God exercises that power in relation to man's will or not.

MAN'S WILL IS INVOLVED!
The illustration in 2 Timothy is the same as Romans 9, of the Potter over the clay. Except in 2 Timothy 2, emphasis is placed on the will of man, showing that God uses this power as Potter over the clay - in relation to what man does. In v.21, Paul says, "Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself from these things, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work." And so we see, that God uses this power of - the Potter over the clay - in relation to man's will, on what man does, and not on some arbitrary basis as is proposed by some.

TO WHOM WILL GOD SHOW MERCY?
Again, many passages such as these show that man's will is very much involved in whom God will show mercy to.
Proverbs 28:13 ESV -- "Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy."
Isaiah 55: 6-7 NKJV -- "Seek the LORD while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the LORD, And He will have mercy on him; And to our God, For He will abundantly pardon."
Therefore when go to other passages that answer this question as to whom God will show mercy to; they show that it is not arbitrary on God's part, but rather, it is conditioned upon man's will being involved! So, who are you O' man to reply against God?

[nachoooooo]

I like these shorter snippets, very digestible

[tacticalfilmfightingacadem]

James white is wrong because In the verse Christ is talking to Jerusalem (children, its citizens) if he was talking to the leaders about the children of Jerusalem he would have addressed the parents or leaders about actual children.

[mrdandrea]

One point of resolution could be the fact that Satan -- aka, Lucifer -- made a free-will choice to pridefully attempt to overthrow God. Lucifer wasn't created for that purpose, but he was given a component of freedom to choose. In contrast, we will have the nature of Christ in glory, and God has promised that evil will never again enter in.