James White, February 13, 2023February 13, 2023, Church Fathers, Musings, Personal, Provisionism, Road Trip, Roman Catholicism, The Dividing Line, Thomism Got started a little late so we didn’t go a full hour but covered some “Tweet theology,” including responding to Leighton Flowers and looking at some Thomas stuff. Also reported on the last few nights in Opelousas (which I mispronounced at the start!), what’s coming up the rest of the week, and provided a tribute to Jeremy Hasty, a dear brother who has been so supportive of our work for years. Enjoy!
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Our ISP is having…issues providing us with consistent internet access. We lost all connectivity about 30 minutes before the DL, but got it back. Then it dropped out five minutes before, so we have called them and they are “sending someone out” (you know how specific that is), so, for now, we are going to try for 3pm our time,

Today we started responding to Leighton Flowers’ attempt to respond to our basic discussion of one simple truth and reality: the Provisionist view of man’s will and God’s grace is completely in line with the Roman Catholic view at the time of the Reformation; that is, Flowers stands firmly with Erasmus against Luther on this topic. This is all about the sufficiency of grace versus the mere necessity of grace. This has been a theme we have discussed for decades. Flowers’ attempt to respond revealed so many important errors and weaknesses in the Provisionist position that we simply could not allow the opportunity to pass. We got about 20 minutes through the 50 minute or so response, so, be ready for another RFG in the near future!
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