Interview with R.C. Sproul: Handout Apologetics with John Gerstner

[@judyreed7444]

I listened to this on my walk and was amazed how similar Mr. Gerstner and Mr. Sproul sounded. I am grateful they can both be mentors to us still through video. What inspiration!

[@EduardoChaves]

I was quite fortunate to have Gerstner as my professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in 1967-1970... He was also one of my examiners in the Qualifying Exams for my Ph.D. I am now a friend of his son, Jonathan, who presently lives here in Brazil, since he married a Brazilian.

[@benjamincase1427]

When I see Sproul and Gerstner interact with each other, for some reason, it invariably makes me think of the relationship between Elijah and Elisha.

[@Josuefabiann]

Imagine now they are spending time with our Lord now🙌

[@beclear2473]

That is an awesome thought.

[@aszochang4183]

One day i will join with both and ask them how did you spared so much time that you guys read so many books!!

[@BruceC]

Simply delightful and impactful - the prime student and teacher - much passion and truth here

[@AdvocateSpirit]

"It's a pleasure to live again in you" John Gerstner to RC Sproul That ending was so beautiful. You couldn't express how proud you are of someone you mentored in a better way

[@Mikael5732]

I heard that also. How beautiful.

[@YetAnotherYTChannel2023]

yes, that's memorable...

[@delano7685]

You can see how much RC admires this man.

[@YetAnotherYTChannel2023]

precisely, the introduction is hilariously superfluous yet sincere, and the disproval about the introduction is candidly a demonstration of humility

[@brandonfertig]

It’s bizarre how similar they sound. You can tell that RC must have really spent a lot of time around him.

[@Alexkearney]

I came to the comments for this

[@bluegrassgal7856]

The growl? Its part of both of them.

[@josiahbates7936]

The mock debates are hilarious to me because of that😂 great men of faith, they were.

[@colinwyatt-goodall4632]

Also came for this

[@plumberphil5321]

They are both from the same area , if you lived in Pennsylvania you'd understand

[@melinelaurids6071]

Two of the best..now with the Lord.

[@multibombshells]

RC, thank you for sharing Dr. Gerstner to all who watch this clip. ☺️

[@greenline5351]

It's so cool to see where r c. Got some of his mannerisms from. God bless you guys

[@Mikael5732]

I watch this over and over and still , every time I watch this interview, walk away with more on the very knowledge of the sufficiency of Christ.

[@conanlabiche]

rc classics thank you Lord, for rc teaching and preaching

[@abacodominicanadesign9518]

pure gold.

[@rockylosco5596]

Prince of preachers Charles spurgeon and king of theologians dr.john gerstner and storyteller of storytellers rc sproul(I mean that in a right way and no other)

[@Maverickbillion]

Thank you too both of you!!

[@martinvega751]

Hola... queremos estos videos traducidos al español por favooooor, gracias bendiciones!!!!!!

[@SolaScriptura49]

Awesome interview!

[@rocio8851]

I reject Calvinism with all my heart but I loved R.C. Sproul with all my heart.

[@franciscafazzo3460]

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[@psshunreal]

Ask yourself this. Have you arrived at a more intelligent and rational understanding of the scriptures then the men who preach what Calvin preached?

[@rockylosco5596]

Wish I could sit here all day but I got to go make money☹️😀

[@Caleb-xf5yn]

My experience of christianity shows me unequivocally that many do in fact believe apart from any regeneration or requirement of the Holy Spirit's involvement.

[@PreachTheoWord]

I feel like my story is like Dr. Gerstner🤣

[@mountainman78629]

If the mind has to believe it before the heart can accept it and God isn’t going to save anyone without being told, explain Paul’s conversion? He didn’t say, I just realized anything. God knocked him down and a bright light shined on him, blinding him and the Lord said Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? Paul’s response was who are you Lord? He didn’t know who it was but whoever it was, he called Him Lord. No one was witnessing to Paul. In fact to say anything to him at that point would have been suicidal. God doesn’t need us to preach but he tells us to. He and He alone is in charge of the results. We all start out thinking we believed and therefore were saved as a result and Gerstner is right. That misunderstanding of that single issue can blur your whole understanding of scripture. We will never fully understand God because He’s infinite and we aren’t but we have to tweak our understanding of Him constantly as we know Him better. It’s like researching a subject and getting it down and you think 1 down, 99 to go but He got so big in learning 1 little point instead of 99 to go it’s 999 to go. You study something else and instead of 2 down, 999 to go it’s 9999 to go. I’m learning about our God you can see rather quickly Hes so much bigger than we can imagine. It’s why the Bible says His ways are past finding out

[@abellizandro3550]

How can regeneration precede faith?

[@denisethuman1307]

Regeneration must proceed faith, because it is all the work of God that "no one should boast". Ephesians 2:9. Even our faith to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ is a gift of God.

[@denisethuman1307]

We are dead in sin....a person who is spiritually dead can not respond.

[@Mikael5732]

Christ says no one can come to me unless the Father draws him. In man's total depravity he cannot seek God nor have any faith to come to the light unless the Holy Spirit regenerates him and is given faith. Repentance is from God's grace as well.

[@Stanzi18]

It's also correct to say that regeneration is simultaneously corresponding with faith, but it's more helpful to communicate it as faith being preceded by regeneration because it's meant to communicate that an unregenerate heart cannot choose to believe in Jesus. God's calling is not only an offer, but effectual in that it is not merely a possible thing that He's offering, but it is an action that causes an effect.

[@joshuatheo1419]

How can faith precede regeneration? Without the Holy Spirit intervening nobody would believe.

[@Chirhopher]

John Orr over John Owen!.?. Hmmmm

[@franciscafazzo3460]

he seems to deny free justification bcc he then says

[@rockylosco5596]

What is ligoneer anyway?or who?

[@bigal1682]

Ligonier Ministries was founded by R. C. Sproul in the Ligonier Valley, Pennsylvania outside of Pittsburgh in 1971

[@rockylosco5596]

He just said the exact same darn thing about three times in a row?🤨

[@Mikael5732]

What was that?

[@Mikael5732]

What?

[@truth7416]

What view is right? Happy to show you the only view that is right. Here it is! This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all people. 1 Timothy 2 : 3-6 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16 And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’ 38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. 39 This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off-.... Acts 2 :21 The opposite, Anti-Christ Gospel is called the 5 Points of Calvinism! Or Reformed Theology! Or Doctrines of Grace! There is not one false religion (Cult) that is more dangerous than these. Its the most dangerous, because the Calvinists really think they are Christians, defending God! But it is the opposite, they have become an enemy of God and His Love for mankind. Yet some do wake up and turn to Christ. If they didn't, I wouldn't waste my time doing what I do and receiving the abuse! TRUTH IN LOVE

[@KnightFel]

You haven’t shown at all why Reformed theology is anti God or gospel. Just baseless claims.

[@truth7416]

@@KnightFel Little Johnny, God has predestined the minority of people to be saved and go to heaven forever, and He has predestined the majority of people to be eternally damned and burn in the fires of hell. We have no idea, little Johnny, if God has predestined you to be forever damned or forever saved. We love you, little Johnny, but we accept the fact that God might not love you, and that He may have plans to send you to hell for your future sins. If you do find yourself one day burning in hell because He hasn’t elected to save you, just remember that we will always love you, even if God hates you. Take comfort knowing that we are not like God. We will be in heaven forever only because we were unconditionally chosen for salvation before we were born. That would be the only reason that we won’t be in hell with you if you find yourself there. It won’t be because of anything we did. So also take comfort in knowing that. It may not seem fair, but who are we to judge God? So again, if you find yourself in hell, remember that we will always love you as we forever worship the God who loved us but who hated you, the God who sent His Son to die for us but not for you. Please, we ask, don’t let it bother you-if you find yourself in hell-that we love the God who hated you and showed you no mercy. We must accept the fact that God is sovereign, and He does what He pleases. They teach John Calvin, NOT Christianity: God arranges all things by his sovereign counsel, in such a way that individuals are born, who are doomed from the womb to certain death and are to glorify him by their destruction.( John Calvin Institutes of Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 23, Paragraph 6)“ …salvation is freely offered to some while others are barred from access to it.” (John Calvin, Institutes of Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 21, Paragraph 5) God teaches us Christianity: 1 Timothy 2 : 3-6 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all people. John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Calvinists are Calvinists. Christians are Christians. Funny how a system that gets you to hell talks about what it's like! Calvinists believe god created all things, and controls all things, predetermined all things, and made all things exactly the way they are.... thus god also created evil. therefore since calvinists believe god created evil. they are blaspheming against the holy spirit ... the only unforgivable sin. calvinists also believe the only people who will be saved have been predetermined by god. and since calvinists believe god predetermined who will be saved ... they have removed free will - the gift of god to humans, and removed jesus from the equation. since god (according to calvinists) has already determined who will be saved ... (and who will not be saved) ... those who will be saved do not need christ and those who will not be saved cannot come to christ. thus calvinists are not christians. Can a person be saved trusting in something other than Christ Jesus? NO! They are trusting in the hope of election not Christ! Is it possible to be in a reformed church and be saved. Yes but that is in spite of the heresy. They must have put their faith in Christ separately from what is taught. Just like those in the Catholic Cult. There could be baby christians that have no clue what they are sitting under. If they wake up and listen to the Holy Spirit they would run out of the Hive screaming! Calvinism is NOT just another Christian denomination. It is a Cult. A doctrine of demons. Strangely how those in it, defend it to their deaths. That is how Satan, not God blinds them to the truth. But that is their God given right of free will, to do so. Truth in Love

[@KnightFel]

@@truth7416 little Johnny, you still have no idea what you’re talking about. Calvinistic churches teach to trust in Christ and Christ alone by faith alone. Second, who says God predestined a minority of people? This is a made up statistic. If you believe and trust in Christ for your salvation, you’re obviously elect, since you can’t come to Christ unless first drawn by the Father, and He will raise that same person up on the last day. Billions believe in Christ alone by faith alone. Moreover, Christ said many are called, but few are chosen, and few are there that find eternal life on the narrow road. Few still means billions. Try again little Johnny.

[@truth7416]

@@KnightFel Well let the Founder of Reformed 5-Point Calvinism settle that in his own words. Quotes from John Calvin: "God arranges all things by his sovereign counsel, in such a way that individuals are born, who are doomed from the womb to certain death and are to glorify him by their destruction.( John Calvin Institutes of Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 23, Paragraph 6) “…salvation is freely offered to some while others are barred from access to it.” (John Calvin, Institutes of Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 21, Paragraph 5) “We call predestination God’s eternal decree, by which he compacted with himself what he willed to become of each man. For all are not created in equal condition; rather, eternal life is fore-ordained for some, eternal damnation for others.” (John Calvin, Institutes of Christian Religion, Book 3, Chapter 21, Paragraph 5) …some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation; and, accordingly, as each has been created for one or other of those ends, we say that he has been predestined to life or death (Institutes, 3.21.5). God arranges all things by his sovereign counsel, in such a way that individuals are born, who are doomed from the womb to certain death…(Institutes, 3.23.6). See, you have to win the salvation lottery throw of the dice. No point in resisting, god will force you one way or the other, we must be submissive puppets. Isn't calvi-god good? God is God! Calvi-god is Satan! Wake up! Truth in love

[@KnightFel]

@@truth7416 Calvin wasn’t the founder of TULIP. That didn’t come until over 100 years after Calvin. Calvin didn’t even write that much about predestination and election. He mainly wrote on the book of Job. Luther and Augustine wrote WAY more on election and predestination than Calvin did. You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. Brush up on your church history, little Johnny.

[@rockylosco5596]

I figured I’d hear the word “election” somewhere in here,then I realized why,rc sproul is like that,he’s an apologetic teacher,defender of the faith,I never knew that was why but it is,that’s why most of the time he uses that word because it’s center to his apologetics,I’d rather here about salvation and Jesus because that’s what Paul stuck with,Paul never got over being saved that’s why it’s all he talked about,so should we,why does this man growl all the time? Calvinists always put the wagon before the horse ,faith comes first not the other way around,except A MAN REPENT he will perish,God will never never ever repent for you,otherwise folks what’s the point of repentance?😀think about that.

[@davidcharlton2516]

Man is dead in his trespasses and sin. Ephesians 2. Unless a man is born from above he will not see the kingdom of heaven, John 3. A dead man can not repent. A man must be born from above to repent. Dead men can not repent. Romans1:-Romans2:4. will help with understanding, carts and horses and such colloquialism.

[@rockylosco5596]

True ,their is a verse in the Old Testament though that says “the dead speak by faith”think bout that,idk if anyone’s ever realized this but the spiritually dead can speak,although dead ,by faith,,plus Gods given to EVERY man a measure of faith and I don’t think that’s only speaking to the elect ,the elect are only Jews anyway and people have stuck gentiles in there with em😰

[@Mikael5732]

@@rockylosco5596 Wrong, the elect are the believers in Christ. And Paul spoke about election. Christ said no man can come to me unless the Father draws him. Paul spoke of many doctrines.

[@rockylosco5596]

Mike Duke I always struggled with the issue so really all I can do is pick one and hope it’s right because both sides say the same thing and both can be proven from scripture,not saying ur wrong I just don’t know and I been saved 19 years now lol

[@rockylosco5596]

All I can say is if ur saved prior to repentance then except a man repent he will perish doesn’t mean exactly what it says and I know for a fact God means what he says,it depends on how u look at election or the application of that grace to a persons life,I was always taught that u take the measure of faith that Gods given to every man and u simply trust in grace to save you then the moment you believe”which is not a work of course” the moment u believe God quickens u by his spirit,by grace you are saved THROUGH FAITH and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God, u must use faith to be born again but it’s NOT the faith that saves you it’s the grace , see what I’m saying,free will and Calvinism apply grace in two different ways to a persons life and apparently God has used it both ways with repentance being proof of salvation whether before or after being saved,,Arminianism and Calvinism are the two greatest dividers amongst believers ,it’s interesting how Jesus prayed that his children would dwell together in unity I wonder if he had this exact issue in mind?