Soteriology 101: Former Calvinistic Professor Discusses Doctrines Of Salvation

What is the intent of the apostle John in the sixth chapter of his gospel?  Does he teach the Calvinistic doctrine?  Professor Flowers addresses James White's erroneous and short sited interpretation of the hotly contested chapter on today's episode.  Below is a copy of the original blog article from www.soteriology101.com    I remember my hermeneutics professor saying at the beginning of every class: “Text without context is a pretext for proof-text.” Context tells us the history, the setting, the audience and thus helps understand the intention of the author.  The grammar can inform us of what interpretations are allowed, but the author’s intent is best discovered in the overall context. The sixth chapter of John is one of the top three most contested passages in all of scripture regarding the doctrine of salvation (along with Rom. 9 and Eph. 1). So, as students of scripture lets put our hermeneutical training to work and answer the major questions about the context of this hotly contested chapter: 1. Wh