Ask NT Wright Anything: Is Salvation for everyone? Predestination, Free Will and Inclusion Theology

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• DA

  @DavidNWalker · 1 year ago

  We are all predestined to be Arminians.

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• SU

  @suzannedebusschere1607 · 1 year ago

  I appreciate how near the end they brought up how in our modern, western perspective, we tend to interpret things to be about us as individuals rather than as parts of God's overall plan for his family as a community.

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• SI

  @SibleySteve · 1 year ago (edited)

  Bird and Wright are 1000% Orthodox trustworthy and good. Please people don’t bring unread and unloving misinformation to this comment section. These men are preaching the gospel and the mystery of the cross. God is love and in God there is no darkness at all. God is light, God is life.  We need to love our neighbor as ourself.

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• CH

  @ChristianSalzillo · 1 year ago

  the argument that Bird begins at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RNpj9RGmCE&amp;t=1360">22:40</a> is phenomenal. Predestination as assurance. &quot;If God has done that, that&apos;s what he planned from all eternity...&quot; Beautiful!

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• TH

  @TheTrinityDelusion · 6 months ago

  No one is predestined to be a child of God. &nbsp;It is the children of God who are predestined for something else.

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• EV

  @evelynbarton6349 · 1 year ago

  I am a recovering Pentecostal,<br>Oklahoma USA &amp; i grew up in an environment of Religious Rollercoaster Anxiety. Thank you &nbsp; N.T. Wright for clarification.

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• KA

  @kateknowles8055 · 1 year ago

  The whole is much, much greater than we were trained to think about. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Love to each presenter and listener, ❤<br>this is why we are here, we are here to listen and listen again.

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• MA

  @matthewsager925 · 1 year ago

  &apos;The point is not God&apos;s purposes FOR us &nbsp;it&apos;s God&apos;s purposes THROUGH us.&apos;

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• SH

  @shelleyhender8537 · 1 year ago

  As per usual, my favourite duo is back ! &nbsp;I truly enjoy how you interact and contribute to the discussion…It is such a nice change from the usual debate, interview or dialogue schedule. &nbsp;Having 2 good mates discuss viewers questions is most certainly REFRESHING…leaving me hopeful they will continue to see the discussions between these brilliant, inspiring &nbsp;professors!<br><br>Love and blessings!🇨🇦xx❤xx🇬🇧

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• BW

  @BWJ123 · 1 year ago

  After reading John Lennox&apos;s book &quot;Determined to believe?&quot; I&apos;m not sure if NT Wright is right about what Paul means &nbsp;about being a castaway. I think, as Lennox appears to put it, backed up by sound biblical texts that a true believer can have an absolute assurance of his/her salvation. I will, though out of respect for NT Wright who I think is also a great scholar, do more research on this. I love Lennox&apos;s explanation here about the difference between Christianity and other religions. &nbsp;&quot;Christian apologist John Lennox tells a story of a time he had completed speaking at a Christian conference in Hungary. As he left the train station, he was strongly led to sit next to two professional men. As the train passed a cemetery filled with crosses the one man asked, “Are there Christians in this country?” Lennox said, “Yes, there are many. I’ve been with them all week!” <br> <br>Since they had a long train ride they asked him to tell them the difference between Christianity and their religion. John drew a wiggly line on the dusty train floor and attempted to sketch the general contours of religion. He said every religion has some of the same features. First, there is an initiation, a birth, or confession at the beginning. Then there is a time of learning from a spiritual leader and/or sacred books. After this there is effort and progress -- often mixed with failure -- in applying religious learning to life (the wiggly line). Finally, the end of religion involves some future judgement, a final exam, or scale of justice to see if you win acceptance and achieve your goal. As he explained these things he drew a door, scholarly hats, a scale, and a final door. The men agreed that their religion and all religions have these features in common. Lennox then said, “Well then, I am not religious.” &nbsp; <br> <br>The men protested, “But you said you were a Christian.” Lennox said, “The Christian message is very different. It does not consist in a merit-based acceptance by God at the final judgement. Christianity teaches something utterly radical at this point. It tells us that we can be accepted at the beginning of the path… a step of commitment to a person, Jesus Christ, that involves believing that he is God incarnate, who has come into the world to give his life as a ransom for our sins, which alienate us from God.” In other words, in Christianity, full acceptance is at the beginning because Jesus has finished the work of salvation on the cross. &nbsp; <br> <br>Lennox then drew a cross in the beginning doorway and explained, “Here is what Jesus said: ‘I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life.’” &nbsp;(John 5:24, NLT). <br> <br>After further explanation there was silence in the carriage for a long time until the one man turned to John and said, “I guess it all depends on who Jesus Christ really is?” &nbsp;Taken from John Lennox &quot;Can science explain everything&quot; but found in other places on utube. <br> <br>John 1:12-13 (NLT), &nbsp;But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. 13 They are reborn—not with a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan, but a birth that comes from God.

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• WO

  @wortzentriert · 2 weeks ago

  N. T. Wright keeps me humble sometimes he is brilliant and sometimes it seems like he can‘t read. If a genius struggles like that what hope is there for us?

• PR

  @ProvisionistPerspective · 1 year ago

  I was predestined to comment here.

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