Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
In this episode, Andy Olson of Echo Zoe discusses the Reformation principle of the Glory of God Alone with Bob DeWaay and Eric Douma.
We begin by laying out the solas of the Reformation and discussing how the "alones" end up being about monergism versus synergism. If synergism is true in regard to salvation, then humans doing their part is the key to salvation. We explain why that is. At the time of the Reformation, Luther claimed that humans adding their part to make salvation happen negated the truth that God must get all the glory. We also discuss how the truth of God's foreknowledge relates to this as well as the fact that some today deny God's comprehensive foreknowledge. Open theists deny foreknowledge in order to make God seem more fair, but thereby fail to give Him the glory that the Bible ascribes to Him. God's glory has to do with His "weightiness" which should weight strongly upon all that we do and say. Arminians teach that prevenient grace releases all humans just enough from Adam's sin that they can choose Christ without a special work of grace. We discuss how that doctrine fails to give God all the glory. We also speak about religious history in America in which Charles Finney created a man-centered approach to the gospel which givens no glory to God because it relies only natural cause and effect.
In this episode, Andy Olson of Echo Zoe discusses the Reformation principle of the Glory of God Alone with Bob DeWaay and Eric Douma.
We begin by laying out the solas of the Reformation and discussing how the "alones" end up being about monergism versus synergism. If synergism is true in regard to salvation, then humans doing their part is the key to salvation. We explain why that is. At the time of the Reformation, Luther claimed that humans adding their part to make salvation happen negated the truth that God must get all the glory. We also discuss how the truth of God's foreknowledge relates to this as well as the fact that some today deny God's comprehensive foreknowledge. Open theists deny foreknowledge in order to make God seem more fair, but thereby fail to give Him the glory that the Bible ascribes to Him. God's glory has to do with His "weightiness" which should weight strongly upon all that we do and say. Arminians teach that prevenient grace releases all humans just enough from Adam's sin that they can choose Christ without a special work of grace. We discuss how that doctrine fails to give God all the glory. We also speak about religious history in America in which Charles Finney created a man-centered approach to the gospel which givens no glory to God because it relies only natural cause and effect.
