Earliest televised free will Debate: Bob Enyart vs Calvinist Pastor

About this sermon

(If an earlier televised free will debate becomes known to us we'll change the above title.) Bob Enyart and Calvinist pastor Brian Schwertley challenge each other on whether or not God can change, has He decreed everything that happens, and whether your life follows a script completed before you were born. Michigan talk show host John Mangopoulos moderates on his long-running Battle of Ideas. Has it been decided in advance which if any of a person's children will go to heaven or hell? At Bob Enyart Live, we've been told that this debate is even more enjoyable and educational after first watching Bob's Predestination and Free Will Seminar available at https://kgov.com/predestination. Sadly, but predictively, in his first comments, Bob said, "Does the Calvinist deny that God the Son became flesh? I would hope not." In this Bob truly worried that Calvinists, even well known ones, may start denying Christianity's central doctrine, the Incarnation, to defend pagan Greek absolute immutability. Sadly, in 2014 that fear became justified when R.C. Sproul Jr. and Dr. James Write repeatedly denied that God the Son took on a human nature. See https://youtu.be/zLiPpcqSKVQ. Correction: Bob correctly began in his first comment quoting the Bible's passages that say that God does not change. But then in his second comment Bob began by overstating his case when he said that the Bible doesn't use the term immutability. He meant to say that the Bible does not use the term like the pagan Greeks to mean that God cannot change in any way. On DVD: Easier to share with some people, and to help BEL continue broadcasting, and to protect against YouTube's kgov.com/dissing us and silencing us by removing our videos, please consider getting a "hard copy" :) of this debate at https://store.kgov.com/predestination-free-will-debate-dvd-or-video-download.

Topics

• Leadership
• Overcoming Obstacles