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Is Election Unconditional? Post-Debate Analysis with Leighton Flowers

The Freethinking Podcasts

Release Date: 03/03/2026

Dr. Leighton Flowers if  @Soteriology101  joins Dr. Tim Stratton and Josh Klein to discuss his recent debate on Unconditional Election with  @TheApologeticDog  Jeremiah Notier... Did Jeremiah misuse the golden chain? Was the topic actually debated? Were there problems within the debate itself? We cover that and A LOT more in this post-debate analysis!

Full debate: https://www.youtube.com/live/cO0r_ndCQHw?si=S-qynsuBm7z0FYKy

Molinism and the Golden Chain: https://www.freethinkingministries.com/post/molinism-the-golden-chain-of-redemption

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➡️ CHAPTERS⬅️

00:00 Introduction

02:53 Frustrating to Watch

05:03 The Golden Chain and Calvinism

12:47 Major Issues With The Debate: Focus on Romans 8

21:25 It's All Greek to Us

27:08 Certainty Does Not Equal Determinacy

30:55 Is Libertarian Free Will Man-Centered Theology?

41:30 The Jacob and Esau Issue (Supralapsarianism, Infralapsarianism and Molinism)

49:10 A Written Debate?

53:38 Metaphysical Sloppiness and Addressing Jesus' Parable

1:02:34 Leighton's Response to the "Glorification" Conversation

1:08:33 God's Glory Contingent on Creation... and Sin?

1:11:44 Difficult Clarification in Rhetorical Debates

1:16:11 All Means ALL Sometimes but Not Others

1:18:50 Knowing Is Impossible on Calvinism

1:30:41 The Arbitrariness Of Man and the Luck Problem

1:40:35 Back to Jacob and Esau

1:45:43 Yes, Reason CAN Lead Someone to Salvation

1:58:00 Concluding Thoughts

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