Dr. James White. I hope to meet you some day. Until then I will continue to grow in Christ through your teaching. You are a blessing brother.

Transworld Damned sounds like the name of a Metal band.

I'm blessed by your teaching brother James. Keep being a blessing. Watching from Philippines 🇵🇭

That would be the perfect debate question: “Does Jesus intercede for the trans-world damned?” That really is the difference between a theology that is informed by Scriptural exegesis and one that is derived from overriding philosophical commitments. Bad form Dr Stranton. Bad form.

Sigh... Man, I've had a hard few days revisiting the reality of just how hated us reformed folks are.. among Christians. : /

Molinism is first cousin to the multiverse, string theory and the tales of the Brothers Grimm.

Thank you James White for all your great work. You are an amazing defender of the faith.

James, better examples might be Jesus' response to the question about the Galileans whose blood was mingled with their sacrifices to which He added the those killed in the collapse of the tower of Siloam. "Now at the same time there were present some who told him of the Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with that of their sacrifices. And he answering said to them, Think ye that these Galileans were sinners beyond all the Galileans because they suffered such things? No, I say to you, but if ye repent not, ye shall all perish in the same manner. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, think ye that they were debtors beyond all the men who dwell in Jerusalem? No, I say to you, but if ye repent not, ye shall all perish in like manner." The problem with Molinism is that it does not properly account for the natural condition of the human race in Adam. Folks love to quote John 3:16 but have little or no thought of John 3:36 and it's consequences.

Great name for a punk rock band - The Transworld Damned - at The Arm Pit tonight - on stage starts at 11-ish. Otherwise it's absolute rubbish.

These days, the phrase "Trans-World Damned" has a whole new meaning. 😬 Just ask Amanda. Amanda Reconwith.

Molinism is a strange philosophy. It continually denies the sufficiency of scripture because none of this is in the bible and they are trying to go beyond what the text says.

Can't believe that Stratton has a doctorate. Dude does not have a clue.

I think attacking molinism either because it cannot be deduced from Scripture, or that it was never heard of for 1500 years, is weak and basically an admission of defeat. If it is an intellectual model that clarifies and makes sense of certain doctrines, it is a contribution. It would be on the level of Jonathan Edwards' treatise on the freedom of the will. The point is that molinism is conceptually incoherent, since imaginary people either make decisions according to their imaginary disposition, in which case it is still subject to the criticism of Edwardsian compatibilism, or their decisions are arbitrary, i.e. whatever the story-writer or imaginer puts into their time sequence, which is another form of determinism. IOW it does not escape the dialectic of determinism/randomness.

Dr. White, please review the open-theism view as well.

What was the book that James held up?

I for one have never heard of this trans-world damned idea… And i thought it might be one thing, but when Dr. White first said it i thought it was a heavy metal band. I am not sure if I have come to a full knowledge of this trans world yet. :O

I'm still at a loss of what trans world damned means.

Nope I've never heard of "trans world damned" before just now

Never heard of transworld damnes before.

Did Jesus intercede for Judas?

The old no true scotsman trick 8:15

No one has ever heard of this.

Vain philosophy. Obviously, we can't add the word "kinds" or "sorts" or "manners" to the text. If God wanted to say "all kinds of men", then He said "all kinds of men", but He didn't say that. Obviously on one level God's desire is that all would be saved and on another level God longsuffers higher priorities. Does that work philosophically? Who cares? That's what God is expressing to us in Scripture.

All of your cricisms of the hisotoricity of Molinism are irrelevant and fallacious. Those do not matter to the argument as to does it as an overlay make sense of the text in toto.

It is better if Judas had never been born. So in what possible situation (in what world) would it matter for him that he would not be damned? Also Jesus being autotheos is not a biblical term and not mentioned until the 16th century by calvin IIRC. So James white is just being pretentious with his objections.