Soteriology 101: Former Calvinistic Professor Discusses Doctrines Of Salvation

In today episode we: Continue the Phil Johnson debate over Twitter by reminding everyone that non-Calvinists, such as myself, may not believe God determines everything, but that doesn't mean we believe God determines nothing.  Calvinists, like Phil Johnson and James White point to examples of God's deterministic activity in the world as if its the smoking gun proving their deterministic premise.    If you witnessed me having to hold down my son in order to give him a shot for diabeties because he was afraid of needles, would you walk away and conclude that Leighton always uses brute stength to over power the will of his son, denying his child any freedom or personhood or independance?  Of course not, yet this is what deterministic Calvnists do with the scriptures.  They take examples of God's interaction within the course of human history and insist this is how God determines everything.  This does nothing except undermine the unique divine nature of such events recorded in scripture.   I quote John MacA