Can God Will Something That Doesn’t Happen?

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Does God’s foreknowledge mean that He predetermines everything that happens—including evil? In this video, Dr. Leighton Flowers examines the Calvinistic understanding of God’s foreknowledge and foreordination and asks what happens when those two concepts are treated as essentially the same thing. If everything God foreknows must also be something He sovereignly decreed to occur, what does that mean for murder, abuse, the Holocaust, and other acts of evil? And can God genuinely will for free creatures to make choices that are contrary to His desires? Leighton examines these questions alongside arguments from prominent Calvinists, the biblical distinction between foreknowledge and foreordination, Jesus’ teaching about His sheep in John 10, and the account of David and Saul as an example of God knowing what would happen under circumstances that ultimately never occurred. Does God’s perfect knowledge require exhaustive divine determinism—or can God perfectly know the choices of genuinely free creatures without causing those choices? Learn more about Soteriology 101 and the Provisionist perspective on salvation. Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGF8hc3KWbY Timestamps: 00:00 — Foreknowledge vs. Foreordination: Are They the Same? 01:47 — Does This Make God Predetermine Evil? 03:07 — What Does Jesus Mean by “My Sheep”? 06:26 — The Calvinist Definition of Foreknowledge 07:16 — Are Calvinists Misrepresenting Non-Calvinists? 08:19 — The Problem With Equating Foreknowledge and Predetermination 09:27 — Can God Will Something That Doesn’t Happen? 10:20 — David and Saul: A Biblical Counterexample 11:18 — God’s Will, Human Freedom, and Evil 15:18 — Does Calvinism Make God the Author of Evil? Get your copy of Dr. Flowers new children’s book, LOVE CHOOSES, go here: https:// loom.ly/8I1BNFg To get your copy of Dr. Flowers book, Drawn By Jesus, go here: https://a.co/d/6s767Ey To SUPPORT this broadcast, please click here: https://soteriology101.com/support/ Subscribe to the Soteriology 101 Newsletter here: www.soteriology101.com/newsletter Is Calvinism all Leighton talks about? https://soteriology101.com/2017/09/22/is-calvinism-all-you-talk-about/ DOWNLOAD OUR APP: LINK FOR ANDROIDS: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de... LINK FOR APPLE: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/soterio... Go to www.ridgemax.co for all you software development needs! Show them some love for their support of Soteriology101!!! To ORDER Dr. Flowers Curriculum “Tiptoeing Through Tulip,” please click here: https://soteriology101.com/shop/ To listen to the audio only, be sure to subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or one of the other podcast players found here: https://soteriology101.com/home/ For more about Traditionalism (or Provisionism), please visit www.soteriology101.com Dr. Flowers’ book, “The Potter’s Promise,” can be found here: https://a.co/d/iLKpahj Dr. Flowers’ book, “God’s Provision for All” can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Provision... To engage with other believers cordially join our Facebook group: https://m.facebook.com/groups/1806702... For updates and news, follow us at: www.facebook/Soteriology101 Or @soteriology101 on Twitter Please SHARE on Facebook and Twitter and help spread the word! To learn more about other ministries and teachings from Dr. Flowers, go here: https://soteriology101.com/2017/09/22... To become a Patreon supporter or make a one-time donation: https://soteriology101.com/support/ #LeightonFlowers #Calvinism #Theology