Leighton Flowers and Federal Headship

[Sovereign Grace]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1210603022306463745

Here is a little over 8:00 segment where Dr. Flowers flatly denies the need of a supernatural working of the Holy Spirit to be saved.

 

[Sovereign Grace]

Go to about 2:45 and start listening. Dr. Flowers denies the need of a supernatural working of the Holy Spirit to save ppl.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

So what is it that most Calvinists will never admit? Or is this just click-bait? The fellow sometimes appears in my recommended list because I tend to watch videos on the doctrines of grace. I also watch health videos, and content is recommended which will attempt to draw you in with sensational claims. It is very poor form and not what I would expect from someone who wants to be taken seriously as a teacher. Even worse from a Christian teacher.

He supposes that even though we confess this...

I. God from all eternity did by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so as thereby neither is God the author of sin; nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.

and this:

II. Although in relation to the foreknowledge and decree of God, the first cause, all things come to pass immutably and infallibly, yet, by the same providence, he ordereth them to fall out according to the nature of second causes, either necessarily, freely, or contingently.

III. God, in his ordinary providence, maketh use of means, yet is free to work without, above, and against them, at his pleasure.

IV. The almighty power, unsearchable wisdom, and infinite goodness of God, so far manifest themselves in his providence, that it extendeth itself even to the first Fall, and all other sins of angels and men, and that not by a bare permission, but such as hath joined with it a most wise and powerful bounding, and otherwise ordering and governing of them, in a manifold dispensation, to his own holy ends; yet so, as the sinfulness thereof proceedeth only from the creature, and not from God; who being most holy and righteous, neither is nor can be the author or approver of sin.

...we are not willing to admit that we don't really believe any of it and that, by irresistible logic, God cannot be Sovereign and any of the above be true.

 

[MW]

...we are not willing to admit that we don't really believe any of it and that, by irresistible logic, God cannot be Sovereign and any of the above be true.

Calvinism breeds strong convictions. One thing you never tell a Calvinist is what he really believes.