307 Foreknowledge and Free Will 5 (Sean Cole Introducing Calvinism)

This is part 5 of our Foreknowledge and Free Will series.  We’ve considered Open Theism and Arminianism and now we are going to begin thinking about Calvinism. This way of conceiving of God’s foreknowledge argues for both exhaustive foreknowledge and meticulous providence. Thus, no one comes to Christ apart from God’s predestination since our natures are so corrupted that we do not have the ability to choose God.

I’m happy to have Dr. Sean Cole as my guest today.  He is the lead pastor at Emanuel Baptist Church in Sterling, Colorado.  He is the host of a podcast called “Understanding Christianity” and he teaches Old Testament and New Testament theology as well as biblical interpretation as an adjunct instructor at Colorado Christian University.  He has a Doctor of Ministry degree in expository preaching from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.  He is the author of Your Identity in the Trinity: Discovering God’s Grace in the Gospel, which came out last April.

In this episode I ask Cole to share about his background and lay out a positive case for his view of foreknowledge and free will.

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• See other episodes in this series on Foreknowledge and Free Will
• Understanding Christianity Podcast
• Check out Cole’s recent debate with Tuggy on the Trinity
• See more about Dr. Cole at seancole.net